Debby Dann
Feb 22, 2018
ALBANY – Debby "Mimi" Dann, age 68, Albany, died Thursday February 22, 2018 at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital following an illness. Born July 27, 1949 in Elwood, she grew up in Albany and graduated from Albany High School with the class of 1967. She was the office manager at Shideler Spray for over twenty years and had also...
Florene "Flo" Lowe
Feb 21, 2018
ALBANY – Florene "Flo" Lowe, age 82, Albany, died Wednesday February 21, 2018 at home following an extended illness. Born May 2, 1935 in Norma, TN, she grew up there and graduated from Norma High School. She lived in Dunkirk for several years before moving back to Tennessee and in 2007 moved to Albany. Flo was a homemaker and...
Maxine (Stoner) Clark
Feb 4, 2018
ALBANY – Maxine (Stoner) Clark, age 95, formerly of Albany, died Sunday February 4, 2018 at St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis. Born Oct. 10, 1922 in Jay County, she grew up in Randolph County and was a 1940 graduate of Green Township High School. She worked for several years at Ball Stores and Jewel Shop, retiring in 2006 after working...
Jack "Boots" Goodman
Jan 28, 2018
SELMA – Jack "Boots" Goodman, age 72, Selma, died Sunday January 28, 2018 at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital from a sudden medical condition. Born in Co-op, Kentucky on November 14, 1945, he grew up in Albany and was a 1964 graduate of Albany High School. He was a U.S. Marine Corps. Veteran of the Vietnam War and a...
Richard H. "Rich" Garringer
Jan 26, 2018
RIDGEVILLE – Richard H. "Rich" Garringer, age 54, Ridgeville, died unexpectedly January 26, 2018 at home from natural causes. Born in Muncie on February 11, 1963, he was a lifelong resident of Randolph County and a 1981 graduate of Monroe Central High School. Rich worked for Ardagh in Winchester for the past twenty-three years as a machine operator in...
Letha Henry
Jan 25, 2018
REDKEY – Letha Henry, age 88, formerly of Redkey, died Thursday January 25, 2018 at Albany Health Care & Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness. Born in Dunkirk on May 27, 1929, she was the daughter of Don Virgil Henry and Alice (Overla) Henry. She attended Redkey High School and worked at Jay Garment in Portland for thirty years...
Bernie Schlosser
Jan 21, 2018
ALBANY – Bernie Schlosser, 84, Albany, died Sunday January 21, 2018 at IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Portland on October 7, 1933, he grew up in Portland, graduated from Portland High School in 1951, and later moved to Albany where he resided most of his life. He worked in the tool & die...
Chuck Richey
Jan 21, 2018
ALBANY – Chuck Richey, age 66, Albany, died Sunday January 21, 2018 at Golden Living Center, Muncie, following an extended illness. Born in Portland on August 5, 1951, he grew up in Albany and was a 1969 graduate of Albany High School. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam era, having served in South Korea. He was...
Richard Pursifull
Jan 11, 2018
Richard Pursifull, age 58, of rural Dunkirk, died January 11, 2018 at his home in Delaware County from natural causes. There will be no public calling hours or funeral ceremony.
John Richard Hare
Jan 11, 2018
DUNKIRK – John Richard Hare, 86, Dunkirk, died Thursday January 11, 2018 at home. Born in Dunkirk on Sept. 21, 1931, he was the son of Harry Carl Hare and Josephine Elizabeth (Goodman) Hare. John was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and was a member of American Legion Post 227, Dunkirk, where he was Past Commander,...
Judith E. Stanley
Jan 1, 2018
Former Albany resident Judith E. Stanley, age 78, passed away January 1, 2018 at Banner Desert Hospital in Mesa, Arizona after being admitted one week earlier for COPD exacerbation. Born in Saginaw, Michigan Judith lived most of her adult years in Muncie and Albany. Judith was a retired nurse; she and her husband, Jack, were members of Moose Lodge...
Carolyn S. Miller
Dec 31, 2017
ALBANY – Carolyn S. Miller, 79, Albany, died Sunday December 31, 2017 at home following an extended illness. Born in Muncie on January 18, 1938, she attended Royerton High School and worked at Coca-Cola, Indiana Glass, and Warner Gear. She was a homemaker and former Clerk-Treasurer for the Town of Albany. She also assisted with Boy Scout Troop 37...
Pollie R. Hibbard
Dec 23, 2017
ROYERTON – Pollie R. Hibbard, 84, Royerton, died Saturday December 23, 2017 at home following an illness. Born Nov. 12, 1933 in Hestand, Kentucky, she grew up there and moved to Indiana near the age of sixteen. She worked at Ball State University in dining services and housekeeping for a total of eighteen years before retiring in 1997. Pollie...
Lorena Mae (Eads) Bullock
Dec 14, 2017
DUNKIRK – Lorena Mae (Eads) Bullock, 83, Dunkirk, died Thursday December 14, 2017 at Miller's Merry Manor. Born April 8, 1934 in Henry County, Indiana, she was a 1952 graduate of Green Township High School. Lorena worked for thirty years at CVS in Dunkirk before retiring in 2013. She attended Redkey United Methodist Church and enjoyed leading songs for...
Jack Haisley
Dec 10, 2017
FARMLAND – Jack Haisley, longtime Randolph County resident, died Sunday December 10, 2017 at Albany Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. He was 101 years of age. Born and raised in Grant County on January 27, 1916, he was a self-employed farmer who farmed in Randolph and Jay County for many years. He was a member of Anthony Lodge No....
A. Donabelle (Fishback) Cortner
Dec 8, 2017
ALBANY – A. Donabelle Cortner, 94, Albany, died Friday December 8, 2017 at Albany Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. Born in Blackford County on October 10, 1923, she graduated from Royerton High School in 1941 and attended Indiana Business College. She retired at age 80 from Beebe Title Co. (now Indiana Title Co.), Muncie, where she was a land...
Harold "Mus" Sheller
Dec 7, 2017
ALBANY – Harold "Mus" Sheller, 93, Albany, died Thursday December 7, 2017 at home following an illness. Born in Delaware County on May 4, 1924, he graduated from Albany High School in 1942. He was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII and a life member of American Legion Post 167, Albany, AmVets, Hartford City, and D.A.V., Muncie. Over the...
Roberta Stephen
Dec 5, 2017
DUNKIRK – Roberta Stephen, age 77, Dunkirk, died Tuesday December 5, 2017 at Lutheran Hospital following an illness. Born in Jay County on April 29, 1940, she attended school in Portland and Pennville. She retired from Saint Gobain Containers (now Ardagh), Dunkirk, after working there thirty-eight years. Roberta enjoyed traveling, watching & feeding hummingbirds, and tending to her flowers....
Scott Marienau
Dec 1, 2017
RIDGEVILLE – Scott Marienau, age 60, rural Ridgeville resident, died Friday December 1, 2017 at home surrounded by family following an illness. Born in Waterloo, Iowa on January 16, 1957, he grew up in the Royerton area and joined the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam era. He spent fourteen years serving his country and afterwards worked in a...
Wm. Harold Smith
Dec 1, 2017
DUNKIRK – Wm. Harold Smith, 89, rural Dunkirk resident died Friday December 1, 2017 at home following an extended illness. Born in Delaware County on June 19, 1928, he was raised by his foster parents, Arthur & Maxine Campbell. Harold graduated from Dunkirk High School in 1945 and received two Masters Degrees from Ball State University in both Chemistry...