Obituaries

Feb 13, 2011

Services for Dorothy Kathleen Dague, 87, will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Metea Baptist Church. She passed away Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at her home near Grass Creek surrounded by family. She was born Sept. 3, 1923, in Cass County to Claude and Bertha (Guy) Hamon. She graduated from Metea High School in 1941. She married Joseph W. Dague...

Feb 13, 2011

Judith A. Larimore, 70, Logansport, died at 2:20 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at St. Vincent Hospital Indianapolis. Born Feb. 10, 1941, in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of James A. and Margaret M. Groff Dougherty. She was married Sept. 1, 1961, in Faith Lutheran Church to Larry E. “Buck” Larimore. Judith retired in February of 1997 from Grissom Air...

Feb 5, 2011

Carolyn M. Walker, 76, died peacefully at Saint Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis on Saturday, February 5, 2011. She was surrounded and comforted by family. Born August 7, 1934, in Logansport, she was the daughter of Fred and Martha Hardt. As a young girl growing up on Michigan Avenue, she was proud to be a Horney Creek Marine, as well as...

Feb 5, 2011

Richard Allen Fiedler, 75, died at 6:45 PM Saturday February 5, 2011 at his residence in Fort Wayne. Born June 21, 1935 in Logansport, he was the son of Ernest and Euna Lewis Fiedler. He was married July 23, 1966 in Galveston, Indiana to Dee Ann Garbert who survives. Rich was very active in Boy Scouts, he also received the...

Jan 30, 2011

Betty J. Hoff, 89, Lucerne, died at 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, 2011, at Hickory Creek Nursing Home, Rochester. Born Oct. 13, 1921, in Cass County, she was the daughter of Claude Hamon and Bertha Guy. She was married July 20, 1937, in Kokomo, to Richard Dean Hoff, who preceded in death Oct. 1, 1992. Mrs. Hoff worked for Hart-Schafner-Marx...

Jan 26, 2011

Ruth M. Macklen, 104, Logansport, died at 12:28 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, at Miller’s Merry Manor. Born May 12, 1906, in Burnettsville, she was the daughter of Leroy and Annie Wirick Liston. She was married June 11, 1924, in Logansport, to Joseph Macklen, who preceded in death Dec. 3, 1943. Ruth worked as a title researcher for the BMV...

Jan 23, 2011

James L. Guy, 69, Logansport, died at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011, at his residence. Born May 22, 1941, in Cass County, he was the son of James Delton and Amanda Luella Smith Guy. He was married April 30, 1960, in the home of the Rev. Virden Graham, to Carmen K. Strasser, who survives. He worked eight years for...

Jan 22, 2011

PERU — DeWitt “Jay” Stuart, 88, Peru, died at 10:33 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011, at his residence. Born in Cass County on April 29, 1922, he was the son of DeWitt Stuart Sr. Mary Margaret Sheetz Stuart. On Jan. 8, 1965, he married Mary Catherine Selleck in Logansport. He retired from Arone Hardware in 2010 after eight years of...

Jan 18, 2011

William Dale “Hooker” Pottenger, 85, Macy, died at 5:03 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, in Chase Center. Born April 5, 1925, in Miami County, he was the son of Charles and Marie Clingenpeel Pottenger. He retired from Exide Battery Corporation. He was a member of Perrysburg Baptist Church, was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in World War II...

Jan 12, 2011

E. Dean Arven, 93, Logansport, died at 5:32 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at Howard Regional Health System in Kokomo. Born Feb. 27, 1917, in Fulton County, he was the son of Orval and Lenora Fry Arven. His first marriage was on Sept. 4, 1941, in Rochester, to Dixie L. Harvey, who preceded in death on March 15, 2000. His...

Jan 10, 2011

John F. Rhoades, 87, Logansport, died at 1:23 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Community Hospital North, Indianapolis.John F. Rhoades, 87, Logansport, died at 1:23 a.m. Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Community Hospital North, Indianapolis. Born Jan. 25, 1923, in Cass County, he was the son of John Lester Rhoades and Bernice Anderson. He was married April 3, 1943, in...

Jan 7, 2011

Robert L. “Moldy” Molden Jr., 67, O’Fallon, Ill., formerly of Logansport, died at 1:50 a.m. Friday, Jan. 7, 2011, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis. Born May 24, 1943, in Peru, he was the son of Robert L. Molden Sr. and Lula B. Smith. He was married May 24, 1986, in Logansport, to Ruby A. Sanders. Bob was formerly employed at...

Dec 31, 2010

Theresa A. Crume, 37, Logansport, passed away at 12:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. Born Jan. 19, 1973, in Kokomo, she was the daughter of Marvin Forrester and Lois Williams. On May 9, 1999, in Delphi, she married Jeremy J. Crume, who survives. Crume was a homemaker. Also surviving are sons, William Forrester and...

Dec 23, 2010

Judith M. Beall, 90, Logansport, died at 8:50 a.m., Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, in Yellow Rose Unit of Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis. Born March 25, 1920, in Walton, she was the daughter of Wilbur Bechdol and Esther Asbaugh. She was married on Nov. 11, 1940, in Walton, to Charles E. Beall, who preceded in death Dec. 26, 1975. A homemaker and...

Dec 22, 2010

Connie S. Phillips, 58, Royal Center, died at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, in her residence. Born Feb. 6, 1952, in Logansport, she was the daughter of Marion Wallace and Esther Catherine Bickett Beecher. She was married June 12, 1971, in Royal Center, to Ken A. Phillips. She was a special education teacher in Buckland, Alaska. Connie loved her...

Dec 17, 2010

Maxine Tharp, 62, Logansport, died at 3:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, in her residence. Born March 5, 1948, in Harlan, Ky., she was the daughter of Cecil and Arlene Mason Webb. She was married in 1972 in Logansport to Royce K. Tharp. Maxine retired from General Tire after 34 years of service. Mrs. Tharp enjoyed reading, watching TV and...

Dec 14, 2010

Lewis L. Glassburn, 78, Walton, died at 3:29 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, in Logansport Memorial Hospital. Born Feb. 17, 1932, in Miami County, he was the son of Ray H. and Mae Baker Glassburn. He was married Aug. 5, 1951, in Miami Baptist Church at Adamsboro to Doris J. Read. Lewis retired in 2001 as an equipment operator for...

Dec 13, 2010

John David “Dave” Houk, 76, passed away at 9 p.m. Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Mishawaka. He was born April 11, 1934, in Logansport, to Edward P. and Florence Minneman Houk. Dave received his elementary education at Daniel Webster and St. Vincent schools in Logansport. Following the death of his mother, Dave attended and graduated...

Dec 13, 2010

Dec 10, 2010

Roger Lee Lough Sr., 65, Logansport, died at 5:05 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, at St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana in Indianapolis. The son of Betty L. Lough and stepfather Carl Testerman, he was born Dec. 26, 1944, in Cleveland. He worked in a plastic molding foundry in Ohio. Roger was a Navy veteran of Vietnam. He was a...