Obituaries
Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries

Mary Dice
May 9, 2011
Mary Kathryn (Mary K.) Dice, 87, passed May 9, 2011, in Lehigh Acres, FL. She was born December 4, 1923 to Bloice and Esther (Ehnen) Barner, Monon, IN. She was a long time winter resident of Lehigh Acres and moved there permanently in 2003. She was active in the United Methodist Churches, where she lived, including local activities and...
Ada Gagen
May 9, 2011
Ada J. Gagen, 95, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and formerly of Lafayette, died Monday May 9, 2011 at the Agape Healthcare Center in Myrtle Beach. She was born December 26, 1915 in Fowler, IN, the daughter of the late Gerald P. and Leah Patnaude Doyle and was a graduate of St. Francis Girl's High School in Lafayette in...
Shirley Stanfield
May 7, 2011
Shirley Anne Stanfield, 82, of Lafayette, died at her residence 5:30 AM Saturday May 7, 2011. Mrs. Stanfield had been ill the past two and a half years. She was born in Evanston, Illinois, the daughter of the late Jacob and Ruth L. Walters Huber, Jr. and was a 1947 graduate of Evanston,( IL.) High School. Her marriage was...
Ruth Sturgeon
May 3, 2011
Ruth O. Sturgeon, 92, of Oxford, IN. died at Westminster Village in West Lafayette 9:25 PM Tuesday May 3, 2011 where she had resided since October 1997. She was born in Fowler, IN. September 14, 1918, the daughter of the late Frank and Olive Mae Conner Nesbitt. Her marriage was to Alva R. Sturgeon at Fowler, IN. November 27,...
Bradley Hayden
May 2, 2011
Bradley D. Hayden, 30, of Lafayette, died at Indiana University Health, Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis 8:45 AM Monday May 2, 2011. He was born in Lafayette February 6, 1981, the son of Gary and Pamela Longer Kiser, who survive and reside in Lafayette. He married Amanda L. Griswold in Battle Ground, IN. October 24, 1998, and she survives. He...
Rev. Bennett Howse
Apr 23, 2011
Rev. Bennett L. Howse, 103, of Lewis, IN. , formerly of Terre Haute, IN. and most recently of Lafayette, IN. died at Mulberry Health and Retirement Center in Mulberry, IN. 6:36 AM Saturday April 23, 2011. He had resided the past six and a half years with his son, Pastor Les Lee, of Lafayette. Rev. Howse was born in...

Dean Rainwater
Apr 19, 2011
Dean C. Rainwater, 73, of Rossville, IL. , and formerly of Talbot, IN. died at Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, IL. Tuesday April 19, at 5:05 AM. Mr. Rainwater was born August 6, 1937 in Slate Branch, Kentucky, the son of the late Virgil and Gertie Lafauee Rainwater, and attended Slate Branch, Kentucky Schools. He married Delores M. Payne...
Maryella Bower
Apr 15, 2011
Maryella Bower, 89, of Lafayette, IN. died at Rosewalk Village in Lafayette 11:05 PM Friday April 15, 2011 where she had been a patient for the past 7 years. Mrs. Bower was born in Lafayette January 15, 1922, the daughter of the late Joseph and Margaret Hicks Hatke, and was a lifelong Lafayette resident, attending St. Boniface Grade School...
Ortha Irvin
Apr 1, 2011
Ortha Irvin, 95, of Linden, IN. died at Regency Place Healthcare in Lafayette, IN. 10:30 PM Friday April 1, 2011. Mrs. Irvin was born in Tompkinsville, KY. August 28, 1915, the daughter of the late William Albert and Joan Kingery Daniels, and attended Mudlick, Kentucky schools. She married Lawrence E. Irvin at Tompkinsville, Kentucky October 28, 1929 and he...
John Mclaughlin
Mar 29, 2011
Professor Emeritus John F. McLaughlin, 83, of West Lafayette, died at University Place 10:00 PM Tuesday March 29, 2011. Mr. McLaughlin was born in New York City, New York September 21, 1927 the son of the late William and Anne Goodwin McLaughlin. He was a 1944 graduate of Stuyvesant High School in New York City, and served in the...
Loretta Zink
Mar 29, 2011
Loretta K. Zink, age 78, of Oxford, IN. died at Indiana University Health, Lafayette 12:58 AM Tuesday March 29, 2011. She had been a patient at Rosewalk Village in Lafayette the past 2 years. She was born in Pine Township, Benton County, IN. February 17, 1933, the daughter of the late Joseph and Dorothy Halsema Zink, and was a...
William Aschenberg
Mar 27, 2011
William G. "Bud" Aschenberg, 87, of Lafayette, died at St. Anthony's Healthcare in Lafayette 6:30 AM Sunday March 27, 2011 where he had resided the past 2 and a half years. Mr. Aschenberg was born in Lafayette January 1, 1924, the son of the late Maurice and Helen Dienhart Aschenberg, and was a graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High School...
Mary Goad
Mar 23, 2011
Mary R. Goad, 84, of Lafayette, died at Indiana University Health, Lafayette, IN. at 11:08 PM Wednesday March 23, 2011. Mrs. Goad was born August 15, 1926 in Jasper County, IN. the daughter of the late Frank and Anna Farrell Shide and was a 1944 graduate of Rensselaer, IN. High School. She married Ralph E. Goad at Rensselaer November...

Florence Buss
Mar 22, 2011
Florence Marie Buss, 84, of Indianapolis and formerly of Lafayette, died at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis 5:10 AM Tuesday March 22, 2011. Mrs. Buss was born in Jeanerette, Louisiana October 8, 1926, the daughter of the late Dewey and Lillian Landry Migues, and was a graduate of Jeanerette, Louisiana High School. She had worked as a secretary for...
Mary Handy
Mar 22, 2011
Mary Ellen Handy, 81 of Fowler, IN. died at her residence 9:00 PM Tuesday March 22, 2011. Mrs. Handy was born in Danville, IL. November 4, 1929, the daughter of the late Samuel and Edna Snyder Jessup, and was a graduate of Center Township High School in Fowler. She married James A. Handy at Fowler, IN. November 17, 1957,...
Thomas Devero
Mar 19, 2011
Thomas J. Devero, 82, of West Lafayette and formerly of Knox, Indiana, died at the Indiana Veterans Home, West Lafayette, IN. 2:43 AM Saturday March 19, 2011 where he had resided since April 22, 1986. Mr. Devero was born in Chicago, IL. February 21, 1929, the son of the late Thomas Anthony and Viola Glenn Devero and was a...
Freda Swim
Mar 16, 2011
Freda "Maxine" Swim, 91, of Ft. Wayne, and formerly of Oxford, IN. died at the Lutheran Life Village in Ft. Wayne , IN. Wednesday March 16, 2011. Mrs. Swim had lived in the Oxford area 57 years before moving to the Ft. Wayne area in 1998. She was born in Kingman, IN. September 13, 1919, the daughter of the...
Deanna Hall
Mar 11, 2011
Deanna K. Hall, 67, of Linden, IN. died at Seaton Specialty Hospital in Lafayette 9:45 AM Friday March 11, 2001 where she had been a patient since December. She was born in Crawfordsville, IN. April 15, 1943, the daughter of the late Otto Dallas and Dorothea Mary Cook McLaughlin, and was a graduate of Indianapolis Manuel High School. She...
Elizabeth Pilotte
Mar 8, 2011
Elizabeth J. "Betty" Gerlach Pilotte, 85, of Lafayette, died at Rosewalk Village Healthcare Center in Lafayette 7:45 AM Tuesday March 8, 2011. She had been residing at Rosewalk Commons since April 2010. Mrs. Pilotte was born in Warren County, Indiana April 18, 1925, the daughter of the late Aaron and Sylvia Mehaffey Martin, and attended Williamport High School. She...
Mary Steenhoven
Mar 3, 2011
Mary Virginia Steenhoven, 78, of Elmore, Ohio, formerly of West Lafayette, died in the Comfort Care Unit of Lake Park Nursing Facility in Sylvania, Ohio 5:51 PM Thursday March 3, 2011. Mrs. Steenhoven had been residing with her daughter in Elmore, Ohio since November 14, 2009. She was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, July 24, 1932, the daughter of the...
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