Billy Royce Ashby Sr., 60, of 746 Monroe St., Elkhart, Ind., and formerly of Nappanee, Ind., died at 6:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, at his residence of natural causes. He had been in ill health since 2006. He was born July 12, 1952, in Earl, Ark., to Richard Frank and Annie Mae Linville Ashby. …read more.