Obituaries

Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries

Eloice Koekenberg

Eloice Koekenberg

Dec 31, 2011

Eloice E. (Barner) Koekenberg, 84, of Monon died 1:25pm Saturday, December 31, 2011 at I.U. Health-Arnett Hospital surrounded by her loving family. She was born May 14, 1927 near Monon, IN to Bloice & Esther (Ehnen) Barner. She was a 1945 graduate of Monon High School. On December 29, 1946 she married Emil Koekenberg at the Frankfort United Methodist...

Helen Dehahn

Helen Dehahn

Dec 26, 2011

Helen Vaughan DeHahn, 97, died on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 3:30pm. Helen was born in Lafayette, Indiana on January 17, 1914, the daughter of George V. Vaughan and Esther Kurtz Vaughan. She married John Charles DeHahn at St. Charles Catholic Church in Otterbein on June 1, 1936 and he preceded her in death on August 10, 1967. Helen...

Kenneth Irvin

Kenneth Irvin

Dec 24, 2011

Kenneth R. Irvin, 74, of Lafayette, IN. died at his residence 5:15 AM Saturday December 24, 2011. Kenneth was born in Mt. Hermon, KY. Ocotber 6, 1937 the son of the late Lawrence and Ortha Daniels Irvin, and was a graduate of Coal Creek High School in Montgomery County, IN. He married his wife of 36 years, Kathleen C....

Ernest Garrett

Ernest Garrett

Dec 23, 2011

Ernest D. "Ernie" Garrett. 70, was called home unexpectedly on December 23, 2011. He had been in St. Elizabeth East since December 14, being treated for pneumonia and complications. He was born in Lafayette IN. January 4, 1941, the son of the late Ledmon E. and Pauline Norrod Garrett. Ernie graduated from Dayton, IN. High School and had lived...

Helen Meluch

Helen Meluch

Dec 18, 2011

Helen M. Meluch, 92, of Lafayette, IN. died at Cumberland Pointe Healthcare Center in West Lafayette, IN. 6:08 PM Sunday December 18, 2011 where she had been a patient the past 3 weeks. Helen was born in Pricedale, PA. June 24, 1919, the daughter of the late Peter and Eva Furtak Rusyniak, and was a graduate of Pricedale High...

Genevieve Parsons

Genevieve Parsons

Dec 15, 2011

Mai Genevieve KIooz-Parsons was born January 30, 1924 in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of Theodore and Florence (Gebhardt) Klooz. Much of her childhhood was spent living on Wildcat Creek near Barton's Beach, years which fostered a lifelong love of wildlife. It was on the Wildcat where she met John Robert Parsons. They were married May 6, 1942, just before...

Garry Guthridge

Garry Guthridge

Dec 5, 2011

Garry A. Guthridge, 76, of Indianapolis and formerly of Fowler, Indiana, died December 5, 2011. He was born May 30, 1935 in Swanington, Indiana to Esther B. (Scott) Guthridge and Emmett O. Guthridge. Garry was a graduate of Fowler High School, and Purdue University where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Speech. While in college, Garry played clarinet in...

Mary German

Mary German

Dec 5, 2011

Mary Elnor German, widow of Willis "Bill" German and mother of F. William "Bill" German, passed away December 5, 2011 after a short illness. Mary was born October 25, 1920 to Maude (Tyndall) and Claude Shumate in Lafayette, IN. She graduated in 1939 from Clarks Hill High School, where she excelled in scholastics and played basketball. Mary and Bill...

Mildred Swim

Mildred Swim

Dec 3, 2011

Mildred I. Swim, 93, of Lafayette and formerly of Oxford, IN. died at her residence 3:14 PM Saturday December 3, 2011. Mildred was born at Kingman, IN. March 13, 1918, the daughter of the late Lee and Clara Thompson Dotson, and attended Kingman schools. She married Russell C. Swim at Bloomingdale, IN. June 19, 1937, and he preceded her...

Jacob Popejoy

Jacob Popejoy

Nov 26, 2011

Jacob Lance Popejoy, 26, of Lafayette, IN. went to be with his Heavenly Father on Saturday November 26, 2011. Jacob was born on March 28, 1985 in Logansport, IN. to James L. and Jenny L. (Maxson) Popejoy. He was a 2003 graduate of McCutcheon High School. He attended Good Shepherd Baptist Church. Following high school, he worked with his...

Phyllis Brown

Phyllis Brown

Nov 22, 2011

Phyllis J. (Barcus) Brown, 79, of Lafayette, died at Franciscan Health, St. Elizabeth Central 7:06 AM Tuesday November 22, 2011. Phyllis was born June 11, 1932 in Monticello, IN. the daughter of the late Harold and Marjorie Dilling Barcus. She moved to Lafayette in 1941, where she resided until her death. She married Louis W. Brown on July 30,...

Anna Dadacz

Anna Dadacz

Nov 20, 2011

Anna R. Dadacz, 84, of Oxford, IN. died at her residence 9:30 PM Sunday November 20, 2011. Anna was born in Bryn, Stanislawow, Poland December 28, 1926, the daughter of the late Jan and Antonina Maskak Paszkiewicz and attended school in Poland. She married Stefan Dadacz at Camp Augustdorf, Germany, a prisoner of war camp March 23, 1946, and...

Elhadi Tantan

Elhadi Tantan

Nov 19, 2011

Elhadi Tantan, 66, of Lafayette, IN. died at his residence in Lafayette 2:40 PM Saturday November 19, 2011. He and his wife had recently moved to Lafayette from Omaha, Nebraska. Elhadi was born January 21, 1945 in Meknes, Morocco the son of the late Mohammed Tantan and Fatima Alami Naaroussi. He married Rabia Rahim at Meknes, Morocco in 1974,...

Richard Merritt

Richard Merritt

Nov 11, 2011

Richard E. Merritt, 69, of Lafayette, died at his residence suddenly and unexpectedly of an apparent heart attack at his residence 6:10 PM Friday November 11, 2011. Richard was born in Indianapolis, IN. August 3, 1942, the son of the late John S. and Dorothy G. Hess Merritt. He was a graduate of Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis,...

Bonnie Jewell

Bonnie Jewell

Nov 9, 2011

Bonnie I. Jewell, 59, of Oxford, IN. died at Franciscan Health, St. Elizabeth East in Lafayette 7:20 PM Wednesday Nov. 9, 2011, following a brief illness. Bonnie was born in Portland, IN. October 17, 1952, the daughter of the late Archie and Sarah Ireland Irvin, and was one of 21 children. She married Jerry Jewell June 2, 1973, and...

James Ph.D

James Ph.D

Nov 7, 2011

James W. Barany August 24, 1930 - November 7, 2011 James W. Barany, Ph.D. (Jim) died on November 7, 2011 at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital in Lafayette, Indiana. Jim was born August 24, 1930 in South Bend, Indiana. He attended High School at Marmion Academy in Aurora, IL and graduated from Notre Dame University in 1953 with a Bachelor...

Herman Kamp

Herman Kamp

Nov 4, 2011

Herman Richard Kamp, age 85, of Lafayette died peacefully on November 4, 2011 at home from complications of cancer. Born on December 14, 1925, in Lafayette, he graduated from Lafayette Jefferson High School and then attended business school at Purdue University where he graduated in 1948. He was an active member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Mr. Kamp enlisted...

David Neibert

David Neibert

Oct 31, 2011

David Kenneth Neibert, 72, of Lafayette, died at 2:45 a.m., Monday, October 31, 2011, at St. Elizabeth East after a short illness. He was born July 31, 1939, to Jacob Kenneth and Dorothy (Kuenle) Neibert in Dayton, Ohio. He married Jean Ann O'Connor on August 26, 1961, in Lafayette at St. Boniface. She died January 21, 1991. He moved...

Charles Coffman

Charles Coffman

Oct 27, 2011

Charles S. Coffman, 86, of Lafayette, died at Franciscan Health, St. Elizabeth East Medical Center in Lafayette 12:03 AM Thursday October 27, 2011 where he had been a patient for the past 2 weeks. He was born near Otterbein, IN. in Benton County, IN. December 11, 1924, the son of the late Samuel and Icie Pearl Wilkinson Coffman. Mr....

Hedy Peterson

Hedy Peterson

Oct 26, 2011

Hedy Lou Peterson, 60, of Berkley, CA. and formerly of Oxford, IN. died at her residence in Berkley Wednesday October 26, 2011. Hedy was born in Lafayette, IN. May 4, 1951, the daughter of Margaret Peercy Peterson Hay and the late William Robert Peterson. She was a graduate of Benton Central High School and attended Purdue University. Hedy had...