Obituaries
Ligonier, IN. Obituaries
Local Obituaries for families in Ligonier and Noble County, IN.
Gloria Glee Iden
May 1, 2011
Gloria Glee Iden, age 88, Kimmell, Indiana died at 5:00 PM at North Ridge Village in Albion on Sunday, May 1, 2011. She was born on March 12, 1923. She graduated from Cromwell High School in 1941 and was the valedictorian of the class. On March 25, 1944 she married Junior D. Iden who is deceased. She was a...
Robert Allen Noe
May 1, 2011
Robert Allen Noe, 78, passed away Sunday, May 1, 2011, at Elkhart General Hospital. He was born on August 24, 1932, in Kimmell, IN to Claude R. and Luella L. (Thatcher) Noe. He was the eighth child of ten. He grew up happily on his parents’ farm in Kimmell, IN. He enlisted in the Army in 1951 and spent...
Albert Lee Wells
Apr 26, 2011
Albert Lee Wells, age 67, of Goshen, IN passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:30 PM in his residence as the result of natural causes. He was born January 26, 1944 in Pekin, KY to Wilbur & Imogene (Phillips) Wells. On May 16, 1964 he married Carol E. Manning. He retired from the RV industry in...
Shirley L. Smith
Apr 25, 2011
Shirley L. Smith, age 73, of Ligonier passed away April 25, 2011 at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne following a brief illness. She was born on April 18, 1938 to Harry & Myrtle (Walburn) Altimus in Kendallville, IN. On June 16, 1956 she married Danny B. Smith in Green Center, IN. She graduated from Albion High School in 1956....
Gerald Lee "Jerry" Waldron
Apr 24, 2011
Gerald Lee “Jerry” Waldron, age 68, of Ligonier passed away on April 24, 2011 at 9 PM in his residence following a courageous battle with cancer. He was the son of Bette (Pratt) Smith & Carnie Lewis Waldron. He was born on October 16, 1942 in Kendallville, IN. He married Charlotte Coffelt on October 21, 1967 in Ligonier, IN....
Sharon Sue Garber
Apr 18, 2011
Sharon Sue Garber, age 58, of Goshen, IN passed away Monday April 18, 2011 following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on December 25, 1952 in Chicago, IL and was the daughter of Henry and Dorothy (Wagner) Anderson. On April 18, 1998 she married Leonard Garber, he preceded her in death June 29, 2006. She worked for...
Everett P. Baker
Apr 15, 2011
KIMMELL — Everett P. Baker, age 95, of Kimmell passed away Friday April 15, 2011 at Millers Merry Manor in Syracuse. He was born on October 24, 1915 to U.S. & Mary (Stephenson) Baker. In May of 1939 he married Lucille Beezley, she passed away June 27, 2003. Everett was a well known area farmer and farmed well into...
May Marlene Mann
Apr 11, 2011
May Marlene Mann, age 75, of Cromwell, IN passed away on April 11, 2011 at her residence following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born on November 11, 1935 in Walkerton, IN to Samuel & Gladys (Stankey) Tener. On June 2, 1955 she married David Donald Mann. He preceded her in death on October 5, 1992. Mrs. Mann...
Maureen O. Black
Apr 10, 2011
Maureen O. Black, age 93, of Albion passed away on Sunday, April 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM at Northridge Village in Albion. She was born on June 18, 1917 to Roy & Leta (Trittipo) Olinghouse in Ligonier, IN. On January 21, 1945 in Ligonier she married John Black at the Ligonier Presbyterian Church. He preceded her into heaven March...
Shirley Swartz
Apr 6, 2011
Shirley Swartz, age 73, of Ligonier, IN passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 11:02 PM at Goshen Hospital after an extended battle with cancer. She was born on July 23, 1937 to Ozro Leon Hutchings & Alma (Petree) Hutchings-Gunter in Noble County. On February 17, 1956 she married Ronald Swartz. He survives. Mrs. Swartz was a dedicated...
C. Clark Bromley Jr.
Apr 4, 2011
C. Clark Bromley Jr., age 80, of Ligonier, passed away on Monday, April 4, 2011 at 12:00 AM at his residence after an extended illness. He was born on July 11, 1930 to Charles Clark and Hellen (Heberling) Bromley in Denver, CO. On January 18, 1990 he married Kathy Mickols. Mr. Bromley served his country honorably in the United...
Jim J. Vanlaecke
Apr 1, 2011
Jim J. VanLaecke, age 58, of Elkhart, IN passed away unexpectedly on April 1, 2011 at his residence. He was born on April 30, 1952 in Augsburg, Germany to Josephine & Julius VanLaecke. On July 17, 1998 he married Tamara Shackle. Mr. Vanlaecke previously lived in Jacksonville, NC where he worked for the Jacksonville Police Department. He later resided...
Martin Pena
Apr 1, 2011
Martin Pena, age 89, of Ligonier passed away at his residence on April 1, 2011 at 1:48 PM. Mr. Pena was born on December 1, 1921 in Sabinas, Hidalgo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico to Martin & Guadalupe (Rodriguez) Pena. On January 1, 1966 he married Aurora Rodriguez. Mr. Pena moved to Noble County in 1973 coming from Mexico. He retired...
Rosa M Whetstone
Mar 25, 2011
Rosa M. (Eash) Whetstone, age 90, of Topeka, IN passed away at 4:17 PM on Friday, March 25, 2011. She was born on January 22, 1921 in LaGrange County, IN to Menno and Sarah (Lambright) Eash. On January 31, 1946 she married John S. Whetstone. She is Survived by her husband John; 2 sons, Glen (Alma) Whetstone of Topeka,...
Patricia A Mclallin
Mar 24, 2011
Patricia A. McLallin, 86, of Ligonier, Ind., passed away on Thursday, March 24, 2011, at 6:30 p.m. in Northridge Village, Albion, Ind. She was born on March 10, 1925, in Kendallville, Ind., to Paul Eugene and Leone Castor (Richards) Warford. She married Gerald W. McLallin on June 20, 1943. He preceded her in death in 2008. She was a...
Billy L. Johnson
Mar 23, 2011
Billy L. Johnson, age 64, of Ligonier passed away at Avalon Village in Ligonier on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 5:58 AM following an extended illness. Mr. Johnson was born on November 23, 1946 to Charles E. & Effie (Brown) Johnson in Wolf Lake, IN. He was a lifetime area resident. Mr. Johnson worked for Starcraft in Goshen for...
Justin Gamblin
Mar 2, 2011
Justin Gamblin, age 22, of Lafayette, formerly of Ligonier, passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 6:30 AM as the result of a house fire in Lafayette. Justin was born on September 29, 1988 in Goshen, IN. He was a lifetime area resident and a 2007 graduate of West Noble High School. Justin was a fulltime student...
David Wilson Allen
Feb 26, 2011
David Wilson Allen, 78, of Indianapolis died Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, at St. Frances Hospital in Beech Grove. Mr. Allen had lived in Ligonier prior to moving to Indianapolis in 1996. He was a member of the Goshen Apostolic Pentecostal Church. Mr. Allen was born Dec. 30, 1932, in Van Wert, Ohio, to Wilson ‘‘Bill’’ and Martha Geraldine ‘‘Gerry’’...
Amanda Schrock
Feb 23, 2011
Amanda Schrock, 90, of Topeka died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011, at Parkview LaGrange Hospital. Mrs. Schrock was a lifetime Topeka resident. She was born Sept. 3, 1920, in Topeka to Henry and Emma (Bontrager) Beechy. She married Jacob A. Schrock on Oct. 15, 1940. He died Oct. 18, 2003. Surviving are her children, Susie (Sam) Schrock of Arthur, Ill.,...
Harry W. Hart
Feb 22, 2011
Harry W. Hart, age 70, of Cromwell, IN, formerly of Syracuse, IN, passed away unexpectedly Tuesday, February 22, 2011 as the result of an automobile accident. He was born on October 7, 1940 to Wesley and Wilhelamine (Strong) Hart in Norfolk, NE. On June 7, 1969 he married Michele Miller. Growing up in Omaha, NE he joined the United...
