Obituaries
Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries
Jessie Mangus
Jul 24, 2012
JESSIE MANGUS Jessie Marie Mangus, age 77, passed away in Hospice care at 8:55 a.m., Tuesday, July 24, 2012, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee where she had resided with her eldest daughter the previous four and a half years. Born in Science Hill Kentucky on February 11, 1935, to Clarence and Mildred Dorn, Jessie was the oldest of eight children...
Venita Kantz
Jul 20, 2012
Venita Maryellen Kantz, 77, of Richlands, NC and formerly of Lafayette, IN and Hudson, OH, died at the residence of her daughter, Sheryl Kelly in Hudson, OH, Friday evening July 20, 2012. Mrs. Kantz was born in Gary, IN. May 29, 1935, the daughter of the late Louis Guy and Louise Balmes Woodley, Sr. and was a graduate of...
Ruby Carlson
Jul 17, 2012
Ruby Alice Carlson, 91, of Oxford, IN. died at Cumberland Pointe Healthcare Center in West Lafayette, IN. Tuesday July 17, 2012 at 9:05 PM. where she had been a resident since 2005. Ruby was born in Nancy, Kentucky April 11, 1921, the daughter of the late Chester and Rhoda Wilson Rainwater, and was a 1939 graduate of Oxford High...
Mary Thornbury
Jul 14, 2012
Mary Virginia (Klinker) Thornbury, 70, of Punta Gorda, Florida, died at St. Anthony's Healthcare Center 9:30 AM Saturday July 14, 2012 where she had been a patient the past 2 months. Mary was born in Lafayette at St. Elizabeth Hospital August 17, 1941, the youngest of 7 brothers and sisters to the late Fredric and Ottilia Sondgerath Klinker. She...
Terry Lewis
Jul 14, 2012
Terry L. Lewis, 51, of Lafayette, died at his residence 6:20 PM Saturday July 14, 2012, lovingly surrounded by his family and friends. Terry was born October 26, 1960 in Decatur, Illinois to Larry and Joan Deardorff Lewis, who reside in Pana, Illinois. He was a 1978 graduate of Mt. Zion High School in Mt. Zion, IL. and was...
James Goodwine
Jul 14, 2012
Boswell - James "Malcolm" Goodwine, 94, died July 14, 2012 at IU Arnett Hospital. The son of Coburn and Pearl (Walls) Goodwine, Malcolm was born on a farm in Warren County on November 17, 1917 with help from a doctor that arrived by horse and buggy. In his early years Malcolm helped out on the farm plowing fields with...

John Weaver
Jun 21, 2012
John R. Weaver, 80, of Oxford, IN. died at the Ibdiana Veterans Home, West Lafayette, IN. 8:40 PM Thursday June 21, 2012 where he had resided since 2009. John was born in Oxford, IN. July 18, 1931, the son of the late Henry and Edna Hoggard Weaver and was a graduate of Oxford High School and attended Purdue University....
Donald Crowe
Jun 17, 2012
Donald Joseph Crowe, 84, of Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth East 1:26 AM Sunday June 17, 2012 where he had been a patient since Wednesday. Mr. Crowe had been in failing health the past 6 months. Donald was born in Lafayette July 2, 1927, the son of the late Charles and Mae Carberry Crowe, and was a graduate of...
Fortunate Draft
Jun 13, 2012
Fortunate M. Draft, 90, of West Lafayette, IN. and formerly of Florida and New York, died at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital Emergency Room 3:11 PM Wednesday June 13, 2012. Mrs. Draft and resided at University Place in West Lafayette the past 6 years. She was born in Brooklyn, New York March 16, 1922, the daughter of the late Anthony...
Nancy Motuliak
Jun 2, 2012
Nancy L. Motuliak, 74, of Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth Hospital East in Lafayette 6:25 AM Saturday June 2, 2012 where she had been a patient for the past 3 days. Nancy was born in Winamac, IN. August 14, 1937, the daughter of the late Herman Henry and Leona Pearl Smith Rausch, and had resided in Lafayette since 1955....
Rose Anthrop
May 23, 2012
Rose Frances Anthrop, 94, of West Lafayette, died at 3:00p.m. Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at St. Elizabeth Hospital. She was born September 23, 1917 in Montmorenci to the late Cornelius and Mary (Robrock) Vanderkolk. She attended St. Lawrence School and graduated from St. Francis High School in 1935. Her marriage was to Gerry J. Anthrop at St. Lawrence Church...
Karen Grimes
May 22, 2012
Karen Sue Grimes, 66, of Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth East Hospital 2:48 PM Tuesday May 22, 2012. Karen was born in Lafayette September 1, 1945, the daughter of Mary Francis Calhoon Wray and the late Delbert Wray. She attended Delphi, IN High School, and had been a bus driver for the Lafayette School Corporation, transporting special needs students,...
James Francis
May 21, 2012
James A. Francis, 52, of Oxford, IN. died at his residence 10:20 AM Monday May 21, 2012. He had been in ill health with cancer since 2010. James was born in Fowler, IN. to Marjorie Bennett Francis and the late John E. Francis. He was a graduate of Benton Central High School, and had worked as a machinist at...
Carolyn Fiddler
May 20, 2012
Carolyn Jean Fiddler, 76, of New Richmond, IN. died at her residence Sunday moring May 20, 2012. Carolyn was born in Indianapolis, IN. October 6, 1935, the daughter of the late Ralph and Helen Snipes Minton. She was a graduate of St. Mary's High School and St. Vincent's School of Nursing, both in Indianapolis. Carolyn married Donald E. Fiddler...
Anna Dale
May 10, 2012
Anna Margaret Clark Dale (Amy), age 86, of West Lafayette, IN, passed away the morning of May 10, 2012. Amy was born in Staunton, VA, on Aug 16, 1925, to Anna Margaret Murphy Clark and Morrison MacDowell Clark. She was married to Robert F. Dale on Oct 28, 1949. Amy was raised in Chevy Chase, MD, the daughter of...
Irene Anderson
Apr 23, 2012
Irene M. Anderson, 87, of Lafayette, died at Woodland Manor Healthcare Center in Attica, IN. 8:15 AM Monday April 23, 2012, where she had been a patient since November of 2011. Irene was born in Lafayette, IN. February 1, 1925, the daughter of the late Claude J. and Minnie Kahl Wright, and was a graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High...
Irene Anderson
Apr 23, 2012
Irene M. Anderson, 87, of Lafayette, died at Woodland Manor Healthcare Center in Attica, IN. 8:15 AM Monday April 23, 2012, where she had been a patient since November of 2011. Irene was born in Lafayette, IN. February 1, 1925, the daughter of the late Claude J. and Minnie Kahl Wright, and was a graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High...
Richard Ward
Apr 22, 2012
Richard Harold "Dick" Ward ...They are not lost who find the light of sun and stars and God... On this day, we lovingly send our husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather to meet with his heavenly father. Richard Harold Ward, 92, left this earth on April 22, 2012 in Lafayette, Indiana. He was a man of faith and we will...
Gerald Brouwer
Apr 15, 2012
Gerald D. Brouwer, 67, of Lafayette, died at Indiana University Arnett Hospital 3:45 PM Sunday April 15, 2011, where he had been a patient since Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. Gerald was born in Lafayette February 27, 1945, the son of the late Charles Lewis and Ruth F. Klaverenga Brouwer, and was a 1964 graduate of Lafayette...
Heather Barnard
Apr 14, 2012
Heather Lyn Barnard died in her residence unexpectedly on her 41st birthday Saturday April 14, 2012. Heather graduated from West Lafayette High School in 1989. She attended Ball State University and graduated from Ivy Tech, where she was on the Dean's list. She was employed as a medical transcriptionist. Heather is survived by her son, Brandon; a daughter, Amanda;...
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