Rebecca Phend of South Whitley was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, July 7.

Ken “Hawkeye” Locke was one of three veterans honored as Veteran of the Month by Kosciusko County Commissioners in June. 

Larry Hollar Sr. of Warsaw was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, June 23.

Garry Ringler, Syracuse, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting June 9. 

From left, County Auditor Michelle Puckett and Commissioner Vice-President Bob Conley. InkFreeNews photo by Lasca Randels. WARSAW — Suzie Light, chief executive officer of the Kosciusko County Community Foundation; and Stephanie Overbey, associate director at the Foundation, attended the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Feb. 4, to provide an update related to the Giving Indiana Funds …read more.

WARSAW — Silver Lake resident Terry Baker was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Feb. 4. Baker was born in Warsaw on Feb. 7, 1950, to Wilbur and Cora Baker.  He enlisted in the army immediately following his graduation from Warsaw High School in 1968. Once Baker received …read more.

WARSAW — Stephen Conrad was born in Kendallville Nov. 13, 1949. His family moved to Syracuse in 1961, and Conrad graduated from Syracuse High School in 1968. Conrad was drafted into the Army in the summer of 1969 but chose to join the Navy instead. He reported for duty Aug. 8, 1969.  He attended boot …read more.

WARSAW — Lawrence Bernard Gross, Pierceton, was honored as the Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Dec. 10.  Gross was born Aug. 19, 1923, in Pierceton, to Earl and Katie. He was the fourth of seven children, which included six boys and one girl. Five of the boys went on the …read more.

WARSAW — William Miller, Warsaw, was recognized as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Nov. 12.  Miller was born Dec. 1, 1965, in Columbia City, to Lloyd and Barbara Miller. Due to Miller’s father’s job, the family moved back and forth between Arizona and Indiana.  In 1985, at the age of …read more.

WARSAW  — Tom Prickett, Syracuse, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 29.  Prickett was born in Nappanee in 1934. He graduated from Syracuse High School in 1952 and was drafted into the Army in September 1956.  After completing basic training at Fort Hood, Texas, he …read more.

WARSAW — Charles “Chuck” Brower was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Sept. 3. Brower was born in 1926 to Victor and Lela Brower of Dowagiac, Mich. The family moved to Indiana and lived in the Pierceton and North Webster area. Brower is the fifth son out of …read more.

WARSAW — Rory Eugene Zimpelman, Warsaw, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting Tuesday, Aug. 20. Zimpelman, the son of Randy and Elizabeth Zimpelman, was born in 1982 and grew up in the Akron area. He attended Tippecanoe Valley Middle School, and graduated from North Miami High School in 2002.  …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw resident Robert “Bob” Swanson was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, July 9.  Swanson was born July 19, 1931. He grew up in the Atwood area and graduated from Atwood High School in 1950.  At the age of 18, he owned and operated a Standard …read more.

WARSAW — Joel Robert Light, Warsaw, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, May 14.  Light was born in Warsaw to Bob and Vivian. He graduated from Warsaw Community High School in 1966.  Light married his high school sweetheart, Cindy Bayne, in December 1967. Shortly after the young …read more.

WARSAW — Warsaw resident Harold Rex Wildman, known by most as “Rex,” was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting Tuesday, April 16.  “It’s a bit of a bittersweet morning for the Wildman family,” Kosciusko Veteran Affairs Officer Rich Maron told those in attendance prior to presenting Wildman with a plaque. …read more.

WARSAW — John Kimpel, Warsaw, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, March 5.  Kimpel was born in August 1946 to Lowell and Kathleen Kimpel of Milford. He graduated from Kendallville High school in 1963, majoring in mechanical engineering. He then obtained an associate degree in drafting and …read more.

WARSAW — Gale Danner, Warsaw, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Feb. 5. Danner was born in Warsaw in July of 1947 to Lorin and Betty (Symons) Danner. He grew up in the Pierceton area and graduated from Pierceton High School. In February 1967 Danner enlisted in …read more.

WARSAW — Richard B. Higgins, Warsaw, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 8. Higgins was born on Jan. 18, 1926, to Forrest and Marion Higgins. He grew up on the family farm outside of Silver Lake. He attended Franklin School, later graduating from Burkett High School. Although …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Max Charles Leiter, Sidney, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Nov. 13.  Leiter was born in 1922 to Flossie (Johnson) and Charles Leiter in Jackson Township near Sidney. As a youth, he worked on the family farm. In his free time, Leiter spent time in …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — County Auditor Michelle Puckett asked commissioners to approve changes to the Kosciusko County Grant Policy at the Kosciusko commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Nov. 13. If approved, Puckett said the new policy would be effective starting today. “The big change in this is that the departments asking for a grant will have more accountability …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Paul Wright, Winona Lake, was honored as the veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Oct. 2.  Wright was born in Dowagiac, Mich. on Oct. 14, 1946, to John and Ione Wright. He lived in Union, Mich. until going to college at Tristate. He attended Tristate for one year …read more.

SYRACUSE — Forrest V. Lewis, Syracuse, was honored as the veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Sept. 4. Lewis was born Aug. 31, 1922, to Tillman and Lillawah Lewis in Savoy, Ill. His siblings include one brother and two sisters.  He graduated in Sibley, Ill. in 1940 and worked on his …read more.

WARSAW —  Richard White, Warsaw, was honored as the August veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Aug. 7. White was born in Hammond and grew up in Roann. He graduated from Northfield High School in Wabash County in 1965.  In 1967, White was drafted into the U.S. Army. He …read more.

WARSAW — John Henry “Jack” Anglin, Clunette, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, July 24.  Anglin was born on North Lake Street in Warsaw on Nov. 21, 1921, the youngest of eight boys and one girl born to Washington and Grace Anglin of the Millwood area, …read more.

KOSCIUSKO —  Richard Allen Irwin, Etna Green, was honored as the June veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting Tuesday, June 26. After Veteran Affairs Officer Rich Maron read Irwin’s bio, Maron and the commissioners presented Irwin with a plaque.  Irwin was born May 10, 1948, to Dale and Arlene Irwin in Warsaw. …read more.

WARSAW — Jerome Keener, Pierceton, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, May 1.  Keener was born March 22, 1949, in the McDonald Hospital in Warsaw. He has lived in Pierceton his entire life. Keener has one sister and three brothers.  He graduated from Pierceton High School …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Warsaw resident Paul Grossnickle was recognized as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, April 3.  For over fifty years, Grossnickle was known in northern Indiana for providing the gift of vision through his optometry practice. Few patients, however, knew that their optometrist was once a 20-year-old fighter pilot …read more.

WARSAW — Thomas Kinch, Warsaw, was honored as the March Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, March 6. Kinch, the son of Gene and Donna Kinch, was born and raised in Warsaw. After graduating from Warsaw Community High School in 1965, he attended the International Business School in Fort …read more.

WARSAW — Charles F. Green was born on April 25, 1931 in the upstairs bedroom of a farmhouse in Fulton County, near Talma. Green went by the nickname “Sonny” and said that even his report cards in school identified him by that name. He grew up in the Talma area and attended Talma school, graduating …read more.

SYRACUSE — Norman Metzler, Syracuse, was honored as the January veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 9. Metzler, the son of Ray and Goldie Metzler, was born and raised in Nappanee. After graduation, Metzler attended aircraft technical school in Chicago, Ill. for six months. From there, he was employed …read more.

PIERCETON — Clifford D. Linn, 90, Pierceton, was honored as veteran of the month today at the Kosciusko County commissioners Dec. 12 meeting. Linn was born and raised in Pierceton. His mother, Trilby, was a stay-at-home mom, and his father, Alfred, worked as a section hand for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Linn grew up with two older …read more.

  WARSAW — Claude Shepherd, Warsaw, was honored as the November Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Nov. 14. Shepherd was born in Kentucky. His family moved to Indiana when he was age 2 or 3. Shepherd’s family lived in the Silver Lake area. Shepherd turned 18 on Aug. …read more.

WARSAW — Earl Leroy Evans, 92, Warsaw, was honored as the October veteran of the month at the Kosciusko Commissioners meeting held Tuesday, Oct. 3. Evans was born in Warsaw. He grew up with his nine siblings on their family farm, four and a half miles southeast of Warsaw. Evans attended school in Claypool. In …read more.

WARSAW — The Kosciusko County Commissioners honored a U.S. Navy veteran as their Veteran of the Month at the Sept. 5 meeting. When David Edward Read, Warsaw, entered the military recruitment office in December 1943 his intentions were to enlist in the U.S. Army. Read was living in Iowa at the time, born to Martin and …read more.

WARSAW — William Kretsch, Warsaw, was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County commissioners meeting on Tuesday, August 8. Kretsch, who grew up in Warsaw, said high school was hard for him. During his junior year he job-shadowed an air force recruiter. “I had a feeling that’s where I was going to …read more.

WARSAW — John J. Rinker, Syracuse, was honored as the July veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County commissioners meeting Tuesday, July 11. Born Aug. 8, 1931 in Cowen, Indiana to Lossie and Mae, he was one of seven children. The family moved to Riverwood where his father began building wooden boats out of …read more.

SILVER LAKE — James Leon Frieden, Silver Lake, was chosen as the May Veteran of the Month and honored at the Kosciusko County commissioner meeting Tuesday, May 2. Frieden was born Sept. 18, 1925 in a small farmhouse in Wabash County to Henry and Anna Frieden. After graduating from Chester High School, North Manchester, in …read more.

WARSAW – Charles F. Hartman, Warsaw, known to his friends as “Bub,” is the April Veteran of the Month He was born Sept. 3, 1938 to Fred and Charlene Hartman at Murphy Medical Center, Warsaw. Hartman grew up in Warsaw and attended Warsaw Community High School. After graduating high school, he worked several odd jobs …read more.

KOSCIUSKO — Donald E. Ring, Claypool, was honored as the March 2017 veteran of the month at the Kosciusko commissioners meeting held Tuesday, March 7. Rich Maron, veteran affairs officer, presented Ring with a plaque. Ring was born in Warsaw in 1925. He grew up in Claypool, attending school there through 12th grade. During his school …read more.

WARSAW — Carl E. Ritchison, Warsaw, was honored as Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21. Ritchison entered the Army in 1952. He attended basic training at Camp Atterbury in Indiana and then was sent to Ft. Lewis, Washington to await shipment to Korea. Ritchison was sent to …read more.

  WARSAW — Philip David Beer was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko commissioner meeting today, Jan. 10. Beer, also known as “Phil” or “Flip”, was born May 1, 1930 in Milford to Theo and Naoma Beer. Beer and his six siblings were raised on a farm three miles west of Milford. …read more.

  KOSCIUSKO — James Smith was honored as veteran of the month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting yesterday, Tuesday, Dec. 13. Smith was born and raised in Warsaw. He graduated from Warsaw Community High School in 2000. Smith enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserves as a senior in high school. He decided to enlist …read more.

WARSAW — Lifelong Warsaw resident Gary VanKirk was named November Veteran of the Month Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting. VanKirk joined the Navy in 1964 in the midst of the Vietnam War. He started his training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois before going to submarine school in New …read more.

WARSAW — Malcolm Williams was awarded the title of Veteran of the Month at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Malcolm Willliams was born in Howard County on Aug. 7, 1919. When Williams was five, his mother died, leaving him and his three siblings. When his father remarried, his new wife brought …read more.

KOSCIUSKO COUNTY — The veteran for the month of August was honored today at the Kosciusko County Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, Aug. 9. Don Locke was born at 729. N. Lake St., Warsaw, on March 6, 1921. He graduated from North Webster High School and when he was 21 began working in Speedway at Allison …read more.