Nov 21, 2020

Jack L Baker, 83, North Manchester, Indiana, formerly of Fort Wayne, Indiana, passed away on November 21, 2020 at Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester. Jack was born just east of North Manchester on November 19, 1937 to the late John L. and Ruby V. (Westafer) Baker. The fifth oldest of eight children, Jack loved the times he and his...

Nov 20, 2020

Eileen Little, 99, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 20, 2020 at Wabash County Hospital. She was born in Kosciusko County on May 15, 1921 to Walter and Ruby (Ulrey) Metzger. She married Norman Little on March 15, 1942 and they were able to spend seventy years together before his death on July 26, 2012. Eileen was a...

Nov 17, 2020

Garland L. Wilcox, 90, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 17, 2020 at Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester. Born on September 19, 1930 in Wabash County, Indiana, Garland was the son of the late Ernest and Amelia (Rickert) Wilcox.  He was one of nine children, raised on the family farm near Urbana, Indiana.

Garland served in...

Nov 16, 2020

Elaine Marilyn Blocher, 85, North Manchester passed away November 16, 2020 at Majestic Care West Allen, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Elaine was born to Olin and Gladys (Minnich) Royer on January 15, 1935 in Dayton, Ohio.

She graduated from Cleveland Heights High School, Cleveland Heights, Ohio in 1953. During high school, Elaine played trombone in both band and...

Nov 14, 2020

Bonnie Louise Kreider, 94, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 14, 2020 at Parkview Hospital in Wabash, Indiana. She was born in Servia, Indiana, on January 23, 1926, to Floyd and Vallie (Partridge) Ulrey. She was a lifelong Wabash County resident.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her four brothers, Milo, Wallace,...

Nov 12, 2020

Edna Mae Swisher, 82, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 12, 2020 at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester. The daughter of Clarence H. and Flora (Jones) Bradley, Edna was born in Searcy, Arkansas, on June 19, 1938.

Edna attended Kokomo High School. At the age of seventeen, she married the love of her life, Walter “Bud”...

Nov 11, 2020

Kenneth R. Fingerle, 99, Woodbury, Tennessee, formerly of North Manchester, Indiana, passed away peacefully at his daughter’s home on November 11, 2020. Born on November 21, 1920 in Flint, Michigan, Kenneth is the son of the late Daniel A. and Anna Maude (Miller) Fingerle.

On January 15, 1944 Kenneth married Anna Mae Blocher. The two were wed...

Nov 11, 2020

Gene A. Michel, 82, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 11, 2020 at Parkview Hospital Randallia, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Gene was born on May 18, 1938 in Wabash County, Indiana, to Fremont and Mary E. (Gahl) Michel.

Upon graduating from Manchester High School in 1958, Gene volunteered his time in the Indiana National Guard for six...

Nov 9, 2020

Jack Nickels, 78, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 9, 2020 at his home. One of twelve children, Jack was born to the late Willie and Polly (Maynard) Nickels on April 25, 1942 in Pilgrim, Kentucky.

When Jack was 21, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served on the USS Enterprise. After being honorably...

Nov 8, 2020

Austin Lee Morris, 26, Peru, Indiana, passed away November 8, 2020 at his home. Austin was born in Peru, Indiana, on May 2, 1994 to Donald Morris and Susie Spriggs.

Austin graduated from Peru High School in 2012, where he played football and wrestled.  Austin also loved watching basketball, especially when Kobe Bryant was playing and also...

Nov 7, 2020

Clarence E. “Sonny” Houser, 85, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 7, 2020 at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester, Indiana. The son of Clarence W. and Juanita L. (Johnson) Houser, Sonny was born on November 14, 1934 in Huntington County, Indiana.

During his time at Chester High School, Sonny was an accomplished member of the basketball...

Nov 6, 2020

Betty Lou Heckard Lisby, 82, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on November 6, 2020 at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester. Betty was born to the late Kenneth and Fern (Clifton) Stanley on October 4, 1938 in Sweetser, Indiana.

On October 9, 1954 Betty married William L. Heckard. During their twenty years of marriage they had two children,...

Oct 29, 2020

William “Bill” L. Morris, 68, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away at his home on October 29, 2020. Bill was born in Dayton, Ohio, on March 12, 1952 to the late Victor and Vivian (Tannruether) Morris.

Bill graduated from Valley View High School in 1970 and Manchester College in 1975. During his younger years, Bill raced motocross. He...

Oct 26, 2020

Donna Marie Ihnen, 79, of Brooksville, Florida and North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on October 26, 2020 at her home in Florida.  Born in Wynne, Arkansas on July 1, 1941, Donna was one of Donald Howard and Audrey Lephine (Williams) Ragle's five children.

On May 10, 1990, Donna married Ronald Ihned. For many years Donna worked as...

Oct 25, 2020

Leanna Johnson, 96, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away on October 25, 2020 at Peabody Healthcare Center, North Manchester. One of five children, Leanna was born on May 13, 1924 in Wabash County, Indiana, to the late Sherman A. and Iva A. (Montel) Rhoades.

Leanna started school in Sidney, Indiana, but graduated from Chester High School in 1942....

Oct 23, 2020

Ann L. Curtis, 76, Wabash, Indiana, formerly of North Manchester, Indiana, passed away October 23, 2020 at Miller’s Merry Manor East, Wabash, Indiana. Born January 29, 1944, in Beloit, Wisconsin, Ann was the daughter of the late Donald R. and Katherine (Hoover) Spicer.

Ann spent the first part of her life in Beloit, Wisconsin, where she graduated...

Oct 21, 2020

Naomi L. Floor, 96, Fort Wayne, Indiana, formerly of Silver Lake, Indiana, passed away at Lutheran Life Villages-Village at Anthony Boulevard, Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 21, 2020. The last surviving child of Wilfred W. and Ina May (Price) Oldfather, Naomi was born April 19, 1924 in Wabash County, Indiana.

After graduating from Laketon High School in...

Oct 17, 2020

Ken D. Burton, 67, North Manchester, Indiana, passed away at his home on October 17, 2020 in the early morning. Born in Wabash, Indiana, on January 30, 1953, Ken was one of two sons born to Paul and Maxine (Emerick) Burton.

Ken graduated from Manchester High School in 1971. It was less than three years later he...

Oct 15, 2020

Shelley Ann (Hartley) Lambert, 55, North Webster, Indiana, formerly of North Manchester, passed away October 15, 2020 in Roann, Indiana. Shelley was born to James and Connie (Cline) Hartley in Hartford City, Indiana on August 29, 1965.

Shelley graduated from Tippecanoe Valley High School in 1984. She loved to mushroom hunt, fish, and doing other activities outside,...

Oct 14, 2020

Harold L. Fawley, 90, North Manchester passed away October 14, 2020 at his residence. Harold was born March 11, 1930 in Warsaw, Indiana to Clifford and Artie (Good) Fawley.

Harold graduated from Laketon High School in 1949. The next year, he married Joan Ringenberg on November 17, 1950. The two were wed for fifty-two years before her...