Doris Eleanor Kesler

Doris Eleanor Kesler

Doris Kesler, 92, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2014, of natural causes at her home on Winona Lake. On Dec. 18, 1922, she was born in Warsaw, to Arden and Pauline (Wood) Kincaide. She was united in...

Devert Jacobs

Devert Jacobs

Devert Jacobs, 58, of Cromwell, passed away on Dec. 26, 2014, at his home. He was born May 1, 1956, in Kott County, Ky., to Frank and Lydia (Slone) Jacobs. He is survived by his companion of 34...

John Schmalzried

John Schmalzried

John Schmalzried, 62, North Manchester, died at 4 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 in his residence. He was born October 18, 1952 in Wabash, to John C. & Peggy (Stewart) Schmalzried. He graduated from...

Dora M. Stewart

Dora M. Stewart

Dora M. Stewart, 91, died on Friday, Dec. 26, 2014, at Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth. Born in Baltimore, Md., on July 18, 1923, she was a daughter of Charles and Julia Alder. Stewart married...

Josephine Blue

Josephine Blue

Josephine Blue, 86, Warsaw, formerly of Santa Ana, Calif., Argos and Rochester, died at 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 25, 2014, in Kosciusko Community Hospital, Warsaw. She was born on April 7, 1928, in...

Frederick R ‘Fred’ Mock

Frederick R ‘Fred’ Mock

Frederick R. “Fred” Mock, 75, of Syracuse, passed away at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014 at his home. He was born on March 8, 1939 in North Webster, to Wayne & Arlene L. (Green) Mock. On March...

Don Riggs

Don Riggs

Don Riggs. 83, served the Lord Jesus Christ as pastor, evangelist, church statesman, missionary spokesman, loving husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather until passing on Dec. 16. He...

Betty I. Ginther

Betty I. Ginther

Betty I. Ginther, 84, of Rochester passed away at 4:54 p.m. Dec. 16, 2014, at her residence. On April 9, 1930, Betty was born in Kewanna to Gilbert K. and Ollie Harris White. Growing up she shared...

Reba J. Pfledderer

Reba J. Pfledderer

Reba J. Pfledderer, 69, of Rochester passed away at 7:19 PM, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2014, at Wabash County Hospital. Pfledderer was born in Guymon, Okla., on July 7, 1945, to Gladys Bargsley. She is...

Evelyn Alice Shafter

Evelyn Alice Shafter

Evelyn Alice Shafter, 92, of Warren, passed away at 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, at Heritage Pointe Retirement Home, Warren. Born on June 19, 1922 in Ellingson, South Dakota, she was the...

Harry P. Chalk

Harry P. Chalk

Harry P. Chalk, 84, of Columbia City, died at 5:50 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 at his home. He was born August 1, 1930 in Champaign, Ill., a son of Joseph and Lena (McLaughlin) Chalk. As a young...

Carolyn Ann Stidham

Carolyn Ann Stidham

Carolyn Ann Stidham, 65, of Columbia City, died unexpectedly of natural causes at 3:55 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. She was born Jan. 12, 1949, in Warsaw, a daughter of Roy Elmer and Ruth Joan...

Gerald Anthony Rugs

Gerald Anthony Rugs, 83, of Warsaw, passed away at 4:50 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, at Kosciusko Community Hospital of Warsaw. He was born on December 14, 1930 in Chicago, Ill., to Anthony Rugs and...

Eldon E. Schweisberger

Eldon E. Schweisberger, 84, of Bremen passed away Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at Elkhart Hospice House. Schweisberger was born on May 1, 1930, in Wyatt to Ray and Marie (Kaser) Schweisberger. He...

Michael Allen West

Michael Allen West, 73, 10554 N. Grove Road, Milford, died at 3 a.m. Nov. 20, 2014, at his home, following a 1 1/2-year fight with cancer. West was born Sept. 4, 1941, in Warsaw, to Arthur S. and...

Mary L. Powell

Mary L. Powell

Mary L. Powell, 91, formerly of Peru, passed away at 9 a.m. Friday, Nov. 21, 2014, at Grace Village Healthcare, Winona Lake. Born March 8, 1923 in Peru, she was the daughter of Floyd and Lois Judy...

Nelson R. Stutsman

Nelson R. Stutsman

Nelson R. Stutsman Sr., 82, Elkhart, died 8:10 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, at IU Health Goshen Hospital. He was born March 6, 1932 in Goshen to Ralph & May (Miller) Stutsman. He married...

Donald F. Lewis

Donald F. Lewis

Donald F. Lewis, 99, of Columbia City, died at 2:55 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, at Parkview Regional Medical Center where he was admitted on Tuesday. He was born April 12, 1915, in Clarence, Ill., a...

Elizabeth L. McManama

Elizabeth L. McManama

Elizabeth L. McManama, 94, a former resident of the Larwill and South Whitley communities, died at 10 am Monday, Nov. 17, 2014, in The Oaks. She was born in Washington, Township, Whitley County, a...