Beth Loraine Cooper, 75, North Manchester, passed away on Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester. The daughter of John W. and Grace K. (Thompson) Moyer, Beth was born on Dec. 12, 1941 in Rochester. Beth graduated from Laketon High School in 1959. Always maintaining … Read More
Dona Darling was born Aug. 17, 1923, in New Carlisle, Ohio. Her parents were Isaac and Ella (Heher) Studebaker. She was the next to youngest of seven children and also the last to survive. She attended grade and high school at North Manchester, graduating from Chester Township School … Read More
Ray Shepherd, 69, North Manchester, died at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, in Peabody Healthcare Center from complications of Lewy Body Dementia. He was born March 15, 1948 in Gunlock, Ky. to Oakie and Lynda (Bailey) Shepherd. On April 12, 1978, he married Jeanie Sue Purvis. She … Read More
Anita Nell Hensley, 85, North Manchester, died at 8:30 a.m., Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, at Peabody Health Care Center in North Manchester. She was born Dec. 25, 1931 in High Splint, Kentucky to James R. Bryant and Lola (Price) Bryant Garson. Anita married Delmer Lee Hensley, Sr., on … Read More
Shirley Younker Wilcox, 88, North Manchester, passed away on Sept. 11, 2017, at Peabody Retirement Community, North Manchester. Mrs. Wilcox was born in 1929 in Chicago, to Edna Mae (Burrous) and Dr. Frank T. Younker, who was interning there. The family moved to Bremen, and later moved at … Read More
Rozella M. Bechtold, 93, North Manchester, Ind. died at 6:50 a.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2017 in Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester. She was born December 7, 1923 in Huntington County to John I. and Anna Marie (Rickert) Bechtold. She graduated from Chester High School in 1941. She helped … Read More
Max M. Putman, 77, formerly of Washington Township, Whitley County, died at 3:47 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017 at Peabody Home, North Manchester after a year long battle with cancer. He was born Sept. 29, 1939 in Whitley County, Indiana a son of Paul and Bessie I. (Pequignot) … Read More
Phyllis L. Barger, 68, North Manchester, passed away at 4:35 a.m. on Sept 4, 2017 at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester, Indiana. Born in Norfolk, Va. on March 8, 1949, Phyllis was the daughter of Guy and Wilma (Iliff) Hurraw. On the first day of June in 1968 … Read More
Franklin M. Geiser, 94, North Manchester, passed away Sept. 2, 2017 at Kosciusko Community Hospital, Warsaw. Son of George F. and Mina M. (Mote) Geiser, Frank was born on Jan. 27, 1923 in Lake Odessa, Mich. On Jan. 20, 1952 Frank married Lois Martin. The two were married … Read More
Ronald H. Rider Jr., 88, of North Manchester, died at 10:55 a.m., Sept. 2, 2017 at Peabody Retirement Community in North Manchester. He was born May 1, 1929 in Fort Wayne to Ronald H Sr., and Ethel L. (Dennin) Rider. Ronald was a Corporal in the US Army … Read More