Obituaries
Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries
William Bird
Oct 24, 2012
William L. Bird, 83, Fowler resident and retired Benton County educator, passed away Wednesday afternoon on October 24, 2012. Bill was born in Wabash, IN. on September 1, 1929 to Francis and Alice Bird. He graduated from Wabash High School and went on to have a distinguished education, graduating from Manchaster College with a BS degree. He went on...
George Usher
Oct 21, 2012
George G. Usher, 74, of Lafayette, died at Indiana University Arnett Hospital in Lafayette at 12:37 AM Sunday October 21, 2012 where he had been a patient since Tuesday. He had been in failing health the past 6 months. George was born in Glendale, Ohio July 2, 1938, the son of the late Carroll G. and Mabel Bertram Usher....
Judith Peterson
Sep 29, 2012
Judith Peterson, 75, of Lafayette passed away peacefully at home Saturday, September 29, 2012. Judith was born July 10, l937 in Lafayette. She was the daughter of Armin and Virginia (Perdue) Richard. She attended St. Boniface grade school and graduated from St. Francis High school and attended Purdue University. She married J. Edward Peterson on August 30, 1958 at...
Betty Goodwine
Sep 23, 2012
Betty Maureen Goodwine of Boswell died Sunday September 23, 2012 in Lafayette. She was born May 16, 1926 and grew up in Hoopeston, IL. There she met her husband, Malcolm Goodwine at a bowling alley. They were married March 5, 1946 and began farming near Boswell. Betty would help with fieldwork and caring for farm animals. As a mother...
Thelma Graves
Aug 31, 2012
Thelma L. Graves, 89, of Ambia, IN. died at Green Hill Manor in Fowler, IN. 7:38 AM Friday August 31, 2012 where she had been a resident the past 5 years. Thelma was born in Adolphus, KY. December 29, 1922, the daughter of the late Herschel Harrison and K Wygal Hinton. She married Harold Leon Graves in Kentucky April...
Marilyn Wagner
Aug 24, 2012
Marilyn Ann Wagner, 77, of Lafayette, died at her residence 10:28 AM Friday August 24, 2012. Marilyn was born in Lafayette January 3, 1935, the daughter of the late Charles Monroe and Anna Dorothy Burkhouse Daily, and was a 1953 graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High School. She served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean Conflict from 1953...
David Riley
Aug 15, 2012
David E. Riley, 70, of Oxford, IN. died at St. Elizabeth East Hospital in Lafayette 8:59 AM Wednesday August 15, 2012 where he had been a patient 2 days. David was born in Watseka, IL. February 25, 1942, the son of the late John William and Myrtle Irene Wesner Riley. He attended school in Morocco, IN. and had resided...
Margaret Hubertz
Aug 15, 2012
Margaret A. Hubertz, 94, of Winamac, IN. and formerly of Lafayette, died at Pulaski Memorial Hospital in Winamac, IN. 10:22 PM Wednesday August 15, 2012 where she had been a patient the past 3 days. She had moved to Knox, IN. to reside with her daughter, Catherine, and had most recently resided at Hickory Creek Health Care Center in...
Eleanor Roebuck
Aug 10, 2012
Eleanor C. Roebuck, 84, of West Lafayette, IN. died at St. Elizabeth East Medical Center in Lafayette 11:16 AM Friday August 10, 2012 shortly after admission. Eleanor was born in Manilla, IN. May 29, 1928, the daughter of the late Ova and Dora Mull Cassidy. HSe was a graduate of Manilla High School, and was a graduate of Methodist...
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...
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