Obituaries

Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries

Lela Tagg

Lela Tagg

Apr 29, 2010

Lela K. Tagg, 70, of Oxford, IN. died at Regency Place at Greenfield, IN. Thursday April 29, 2010 where she had been a patient since February. Born July 29, 1939 in Benton County, IN. the daughter of the late Ralph and Louise Goddard Cyr, she graduated from Fowler High School. She married Jack Ray Tagg in Oxford June 8,...

Helen Cochran

Helen Cochran

Apr 23, 2010

Helen May (Max)Cochran, 94 of Oxford died 5:15 pm Friday, April 23, 2010 at Rosewalk Village. She was born May 23, 1915 to the late Jay Max and Flora Moore. On November 23, 1935 she married Keith L. Cochran and he preceded her in death in 1994. Helen was a graduate of Oxford High School and Lafayette Business College....

Dana Gonser

Dana Gonser

Apr 15, 2010

Sgt. Dana A. Gonser, 40, of Fowler, died Thursday April 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis, IN. as a result of injuries sustained in a car-motorcycle accident in Fowler earlier on Thursday. He was born October 17, 1969 in Billings, MT., the son of James E. and Cynthia L. Jacobson Gonser, and had resided in...

Matthew Shelton

Matthew Shelton

Apr 15, 2010

Matthew Lanthus Shelton, 29, of Lafayette, died at his residence Thursday April 15, 2010. He was born in Lafayette June 24, 1981, the son of Paul Steven and Claire L. Dworak Shelton, and was a graduate of Harrison High School as well as the Culinary School of the Colorado Art Institute in Denver, CO. Matthew was employed as a...

Charles Layden

Charles Layden

Apr 9, 2010

Charles E. "Chuck" Layden, 91, of Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital 10:30 AM Friday April 9, 2010, where he had been a patient the past week. Born May 7, 1918,in West Point, Indiana the son of the late Michael J. and Estella Louise Griffin Layden, he was a graduate of Clarks Hill High School and attended Purdue...

Elizabeth Shields

Elizabeth Shields

Mar 30, 2010

Elizabeth Louise Shields, 80, of Lafayette, formerly of Ambia, IN. died at 9:15 AM in Regency Place Tuesday March 30, 2010 where she had been a patient the past 8 days. Born September 29, 1929 in Ambia, IN. the daughter of the late Lewis N. and Minnie Huckelberry Metzinger, she had resided in Lafayette for 62 years. She was...

Katherine Horn

Katherine Horn

Mar 30, 2010

Katherine Louise Horn, 54, of Montgomery Village, MD. Died at her residence Tuesday March 30, 2010. She was born in West Lafayette December 23, 1955, the daughter of the late Edward and Emma Byers Horn. Mrs. Horn was a graduate of Brownsburg, Indiana High School, received her B.S. from Ball State University and her MBA from Indiana University. Her...

Niel Kluszczynski

Niel Kluszczynski

Mar 30, 2010

Niel T. Kluszczynski, Sr.55, of Crawfordsville, IN. died in the emergency room of St. Clare Hospital in Crawfordsville 5:39 AM Tuesday March 30, 2010 of an apparent heart attack. He was born in South Bend, Indiana January 8, 1955, the son of Priscilla Horvath Kluszczynski and the late Casimar Kluszczynski. Mr. Kluszczynski attended Riley High School and Ivy Tech...

Patricia Beck

Patricia Beck

Mar 30, 2010

Patricia Aline Beck, 77, died Tuesday March 30, 2010 at Rosewalk Village. She had formerly resided at Friendship House for many years. She was born August 18, 1932 in Brookhaven, Mississippi, and lived in Ohio while a nun, and then resided in Indiana until her death. Miss beck was preceded in death by her adoptive parents, Florence Neely Beck...

Kenneth Chester

Kenneth Chester

Mar 25, 2010

Kenneth Robert Chester, 88, of Lafayette died 2:15 pm Thursday, March 25, 2010 at Regency Place. He was born January 28, 1922 in Newtown, IN to the late Ernest Campell Chester & Essie Marie Haniford. He was a 1940 graduate of Newton High School. On May 7, 1949 he married Constance Ann "Connie" Van Hook in Newtown and she...

Louise Lamb

Louise Lamb

Mar 22, 2010

Louise Bumbleburg Lamb, 93, of Georgetown, TX died 8:45 pm Monday, March 22, 2010 at Scott White Hospital in Round Rock, TX. She was born October 20, 1916 in Lafayette, IN to Theodore D. Bumbleburg & Mary V. Riehle. She graduated St. Lawrence Grade School and St. Francis High School. She worked as a secretary for Ross Gear, Duncan...

Margaret Biesecker

Margaret Biesecker

Mar 19, 2010

Margaret Ellis Clark Biesecker, 97, of West Lafayette, formerly of rural Lafayette, died at the residence of her daughter, Patricia Storms 7:00 A.M. Friday March 19, 2010. Born August 13, 1912, the daughter of the late Wilson Green and Addie May Ellis Clark in Lafayette, she was a life- long area resident. Mrs. Biesecker attended Gladdens Corner School, and...

Mary Runda

Mary Runda

Mar 14, 2010

Mary S. Runda, 93, of Lafayette, died at Cumberland Pointe Healthcare Center in West Lafayette Sunday March 14, 2010 at 12:50 A.M. where she had resided the past 8 years. Born in Lafayette, Indiana August 28, 1916, the daughter of the late William and Frances Kochert Smith, she was a life- long Lafayette resident. Mrs. Runda attended Wea and...

Phyliss Downing

Phyliss Downing

Mar 9, 2010

Phyliss Downing, 74 Phyliss Downing, 74, of Meridian, Miss., formerly of Lafayette, IN. died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, at the Fisher House in Meridian. Born March 11, 1935, in Marion, IN. she was the daughter of the late Francis and Naomi McLain Shaver. She moved to Fairmount, where she lived with her foster parents, the late Stanley and Lenore...

Robert Vick

Robert Vick

Mar 7, 2010

Robert R. Vick, 45, of Lafayette, died at Clarian-Arnett Hospital 4:51 P.M. Sunday March 7, 2010, where he had been a patient since February 26. Born May 10, 1964, the son of Roland G. and Loretta Ellison Vick, he was a life- long Lafayette resident and graduate of McCutcheon High School. He enjoyed reading comics, action figures and activities...

Lavern Wagoner

Lavern Wagoner

Mar 4, 2010

LaVern "Vernie" Wagoner, 96, of Pine Village, died at his residence 8:00 A.M. Thursday March 4, 2010 unexpectedly. Born December 18, 1913, near Independence in Warren County, IN, the son of the late Alpha and Ida Harper Wagoner, he was a 1932 graduate of Pine Village High School. He married Wilma Sturgeon at Oxford, IN. June 3, 1939, and...

Virgina Linton

Virgina Linton

Feb 28, 2010

Virginia R. Linton, 84, of Crawfordsville, IN. died at her residence 5:15 PM Sunday February 28, 2010. Born in Danville, IL. July 3, 1925, the daughter of the late Charles and Cora Lewis Sweet, she was raised on a farm near Danville, and moved to Covington, IN. in 1937, where she graduated from Covington High School and was a...

`Larry Fairfield, Sr

`Larry Fairfield, Sr

Feb 27, 2010

Larry E. Fairfield, Sr., 61, of New Richmond, IN. formerly of Linden, IN. died at Clarian Arnett Hospital in Lafayette, IN. Saturday February 27, 2010 at 10:38 P.M. Born in Crawfordsville, IN. September 17, 1948, the son of Joseph Fairfield and the late Ann Durham Fairfield, he attended Thorntown, IN. schools. He married Janice L. Moore in Crawfordsville October...

Charles Green

Charles Green

Feb 24, 2010

Charles R. Green, 67, of Fowler, died at St. Elizabeth Central Medical Center in Lafayette at 6:53 P.M. Wednesday February 24, 2010 shortly after admission. Mr. Green had been in failing health the past 5 years. He was born in Lafayette September 6, 1942 the son of the late Clarence and Eva German Green, and attended Fowler schools, and...

Charles Link

Charles Link

Feb 21, 2010

Charles Henry Link, (Col. Ret. U.S. Air Force) 90, of West Lafayette, died 2:25 P.M. Sunday February 21, 2010 at University Place, where he had resided the past 5 years. Born December 4, 1919, the son of the late August Henry and Phoebe Fisher Link, he was a graduate of Williamsport, IN. High School. Col. Link married Florence L....

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