Obituaries

Montgomery, Tippecanoe & Benton County Obituaries

Norman Snoddy

Norman Snoddy

Sep 7, 2010

Norman P. Snoddy 81, of Lafayette, died at Clarian Arnett Hospital 12:48 AM Tuesday September 7, 2010. Mr. Snoddy was born at Sullivan, IN. September 17, 1928, the son of the late Harry and Geneva Smith Snoddy. He was a graduate of Clinton (IN) High School in 1947, and the International Barber School in 1955. His marriage was to...

Brian Snoddy

Brian Snoddy

Sep 7, 2010

Brian K. Snoddy, 51, of Lafayette, died at his residence Tuesday September 7, 2010. Mr. Snoddy had been in failing health the past year. He was born in Lafayette September 7, 1959, the son of Donna L. (Doughty) Snoddy and the late Robert L. Snoddy. He was a graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High School, and received his associate degree...

Savannah Ross

Savannah Ross

Sep 4, 2010

Savannah Cheyanne Rosemarie Ross, 10, of Crawfordsville, died at St. Clare Medical Center in Crawfordsville Saturday afternoon, September 4, 2010. Savannah was born in Lafayette June 24, 2000, to Steven W. Ross of Linden, and Iris A. Marcum of Crawfordsville. She had just entered the 5th grade at Sommer Elementary School in Crawfordsville, where she was a member of...

Floyd Rasmussen

Floyd Rasmussen

Sep 3, 2010

Floyd R. Rasmussen, 84, of Oxford, IN. died at the Illiana VA Medical Center in Danville, IL. Friday evening September 3, 2010. He was born in Oxford September 23, 1925, the son of the late Henry and Rosa Cook Rasmussen, and attended Oxford High School. Mr. Rasmussen married Donna M. Gilbert at Oxford June 5, 1948 and she survives....

Mahlon Eberhard

Mahlon Eberhard

Aug 23, 2010

Mahlon O. "Cookie" Eberhard, 75, of Lafayette, died at his residence 7:00 PM Monday August 23, 2010 following a brief illness. He was born in Monon, IN. June 14, 1935, the son of the late William and Hildur Anderson Eberhard, and was a graduate of Monon (IN) High School. Mr. Eberhard married N. Jean Wittenauer at Dunnington, IN., January...

Raquel Chavez

Raquel Chavez

Aug 18, 2010

Raquel Chavez, 9, of Lafayette, died at Riley Children's Hospital in Indianapolis Wednesday August 18, 2010 at 12:02 AM of heart complications. Raquel was born in Chicago, IL. August 24, 2000, the daughter of Adrian and Leticia Chavez. She was a member St. Boniface Catholic Church, and would have been in the third grade at Glen Acres Elementary School...

Ruth Kent

Ruth Kent

Aug 16, 2010

Ruth Barron Kent, 96, of Lafayette, and formerly of Marshall, MO., died at Mulberry Health & Retirement Community 8:32 PM Monday August 16, 2010. She was born near Marshall, Mo. in Saline County October 6, 1913, the daughter of the late George Arthur and Emma Jane Wingfield Barron, and was a graduate of Marshall (MO.) High School. Ruth married...

Janice Leuck

Janice Leuck

Aug 15, 2010

Janice S. Leuck, 49, of Lafayette, died at the Willows Nursing Center in Valparaiso, IN. 4:15 PM Sunday August 15, 2010, where she had been a patient since July. She had been in ill health since 2003. Janice was born in Lafayette August 22, 1960, the daughter of the late Arthur and Clara Schluttenhofer Leuck, and was a 1978...

Catherine Gordon

Catherine Gordon

Aug 14, 2010

Catherine V. Gordon, 95, of Lafayette, died at Clarian Arnett Hospital 1:34 PM Saturday August 14, 2010. She was born August 6, 1915, in Lafayette, IN. to the late George and Esther Kurtz Vaughan, and had resided in the Tippecanoe and Benton county areas most all of her life, and was a graduate of St. Francis High School in...

Mary Buscoe

Mary Buscoe

Aug 14, 2010

Mary Ellen Buscoe, 77, of Lafayette and formerly of South Bend, Indiana, died at Rosewalk Village in Lafayette 4:26 PM Saturday August 14, 2010. Born February 2, 1933 in South Bend, Indiana, the daughter of the late John and Lillian Smith Schultz, she had resided in Lafayette the past 5 months. She married Raymond J. Buscoe in South Bend...

William Elston

William Elston

Aug 1, 2010

William D. "Bill" Elston, 89 of West Lafayette died 11:56am Sunday, August 1, 2010 at his residence. He was born July 25, 1921 in Monon, IN to the late Edward & Elsie Strong Elston. He attended school in Monon. He was a U.S. Army veteran and served in 358th Infantry Regiment during WWII from 1942-43. On October 25, 1942...

Lloyd Mettes

Lloyd Mettes

Jul 30, 2010

Lloyd Quenton Mettes, 87, of Oxford, IN. and Atlanta, MO. Passed away on July 30, 2010 at St. Elizabeth Central in Lafayette, IN. after a short illness. He was born November 2, 1922 in the Healy Settlement of Macon County, MO., the second of five children of Joseph Bernard and Jewell Goldiette Roberts Mettes. Lloyd was baptized at St....

James Gretencord, Jr

James Gretencord, Jr

Jul 29, 2010

James M. "Jim" Gretencord, Jr., 52, of Fowler, died Wednesday July 29, 2010 at St. Elizabeth Central Emergency Room in Lafayette of an apparent aortic aneurysm. Jim was born in Lafayette October 11, 1957, the son of James E. and Janet M. Demiere Gretencord, Sr. He was a life- long resident of Benton County, and a graduate of Benton...

Vivian Shepherd

Vivian Shepherd

Jul 29, 2010

Vivian L. Shepherd, 90, of Lafayette, died at St. Mary's Healthcare Center in Lafayette 10:05 PM Thursday July 29, 2010 where she had been a patient the past 2 years. Velma was born at Alamo, Indiana September 20, 1919, the daughter of the late Charles and Flossie Bowman Fruits. She had resided in Tippecanoe County since 1940, moving here...

Velma Clements

Velma Clements

Jul 27, 2010

Velma O. Clements, 81, of Waynetown, died at St. Clare Medical Center Emergency Room at Crawfordsville 10:51 PM Tuesday July 27, 2010. Velma was born January 11, 1929 at St. Francisville, IL. the daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Alta Shaner Edgin. She attended St. Francisville, IL. schools, and had resided in Waynetown since 1971, moving there from...

Kathy White

Kathy White

Jul 17, 2010

Kathy A. White, 63, of Lafayette, died at her residence 7:00 PM Saturday July 17, 2010. She was born July 8, 1947 in Lafayette to Virginia Helen Harrer Aper and the late William Walter Aper, and attended Lafayette Jefferson High School. Kathy married Donald Edward White in Lafayette June 23, 1972, and he preceded her in death May 12,...

Eleanor Mclaughlin

Eleanor Mclaughlin

Jul 14, 2010

Eleanor T. McLaughlin, 84, of West Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth Central Hospital 7:05 PM Wednesday July 14, 2010, where she had been a patient for the past 6 days. Eleanor was born June 24, 1926 in Scranton, PA., the daughter of the late Francis A. and Leona M. Neave Trethewey. She was a graduate of Syracuse University, receiving...

Ermil Spurgeon

Ermil Spurgeon

Jul 13, 2010

Ermil M. Spurgeon, 93, of Linden, IN. formerly of Monon, IN. died at the Ben Hur Nursing Home in Crawfordsville, IN. 1:10 AM Tuesday July 13, 2010. Born at Wolcott, IN. August 14, 1916, the daughter of the late James T. and Margaret E. Armstrong Lilly, she attended Wolcott schools and had lived in Monon most of her life,...

John Jones

John Jones

Jun 29, 2010

J. Michael "Mike" Jones, 56, of West Lafayette, died at St. Elizabeth Central 11:20 PM Tuesday June 29, 2010. Mike was born in Indianapolis November 10, 1953 to John Paul and Patricia Ann Wright Jones. He was a graduate of Hamilton Southeastern High School and received his Bachelors degree from Purdue University in management. Mike married Elizabeth A. "Beth"...

Helen Doyle

Helen Doyle

Jun 25, 2010

Helen E. Doyle, 90, of Lafayette, died at her residence 11:35 AM Friday June 25, 2010. Helen was born in Lafayette July 5, 1919, the daughter of the late Henry W. and Mary Grace Halpin Gagen. She was a graduate of St. Francis High School in 1937, and had worked as a secretary and bookkeeper for the Coca-Cola Bottling...