Obituaries
Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County , IN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County
Bessie Nolin
Nov 30, 2004
Bessie Louella Ronk Nolin, 84, a Plymouth area resident most of her life, died at 7:32 p.m. on Tuesday, November 30, 2004, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth.She will be remembered as a devoted mother and grandmother who loved every one of her 15 grandchildren, four step-grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren.Born in Camden, Ind., on February 7, 1920,...
Kenneth C. Horn Sr.
Nov 29, 2004
Kenneth “Kenny” C. Horn, Sr., 74, living at 13280 W. 4B Rd., Plymouth, died, following an extended illness, in Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind. at 12:30 a.m. on Monday, November 29, 2004.Kenny lived his whole life in Plymouth, Ind. In addition to proudly serving his country, he was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He will be missed by them all.Born...
Helen M. Murphy
Nov 29, 2004
Helen Marie Murphy, 75, formerly of Plymouth, died Nov. 29 at Southfield Village, in South Bend, following an extended illness.She was born on April 20, 1929, to John Edward and Bertha Ellen (Hasley) Davis in the township of Newport, Ohio where she lived most of her youth. As a teenager, she moved to Culver, Ind., to live with her brother...
Lura M. Holderman
Nov 29, 2004
Lura M. Holderman, 73, in failing health the past several years, died at 8:04 p.m. on Monday, November 29, 2004, at her residence, 14389 Maple Rd., Argos, where she had lived for over 35 years.Lura was born at the Plymouth home of her parents, Roy E. and Ruth E. Bowdy Ringer, on July 27, 1931. She graduated from Plymouth High...
Hazel L. Crabb
Nov 28, 2004
Hazel L. Crabb, 89, a long-time resident of Argos, died of natural causes in the Brown County Health and Living Community where she had been living, at 10:30 p.m., Sunday, November 28, 2004.A loving friend, mother and grandmother, Hazel will be remembered and missed.Born in Bremen on March 2, 1915, Hazel was the daughter of Fredrick and Caroline Grimm Renas....
Vernon L. “Dusty” Gardner
Nov 27, 2004
Vernon L. “Dusty” Gardner, 78, a lifetime Marshall County resident living at 4710 Deborah Lane, Plymouth, since 1962, has died. Vern died at 4:40 a.m. on Saturday, November 27, 2004, in Pilgrim Manor Care Center, Plymouth. He suffered from a cancer-related illness and was a victim of Alzheimer’s Disease for the past year.Born in Argos, Ind., on September 9, 1926,...
B. Elaine Clayton
Nov 26, 2004
B. Elaine Clayton, 71, a resident of Miller’s Merry Manor, 600 Oakhill Ave., Plymouth, for the past 20 years, died there of natural causes at 11:20 a.m. on Friday, November 26, 2004.Elaine was born in Plymouth on April 25, 1933. She was the daughter of George R. and D. Ethel Pearish Clayton. She attended Plymouth schools.A homemaker, she was an...
Irene May Stone
Nov 24, 2004
IRENE MAY STONEMay 3, 1919 – November 24, 2004Irene May Stone, 85, 14535 Lincoln Highway, Plymouth, died in the Pilgrim Manor Nursing Center, at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, November 24, 2004.Irene’s main focus in her life was her family and her church. She was a charter member of the Sunrise Chapel.Born in Bronson, Michigan on May 3, 1919, Irene was...
Kathy K. Collins
Nov 22, 2004
In loving memory of Kathy K. Collins, 46, of New Orleans, Louisiana. Born and raised in Plymouth, Kathy was a free-spirit who loved people and enjoyed life. Her beautiful smile will be missed by all who knew and loved her.Left to cherish her memory is a son Casey and granddaughter Madison of Louisiana. Her mother Louella Powell of Plymouth. One...
Cleo Garrison
Nov 20, 2004
Cleo L. Garrison, 84, died of natural causes in her home at 9358 State Road 17, Plymouth, Ind., at 10:03 a.m. on Saturday, November 20, 2004.Born in Culver, Ind., on February 11, 1920, Cleo was the daughter of Clinton M. and Grace B. Keller Short. She graduated from Culver High School.On January 13, 1940, in Knox, Cleo and Chester Garrison...
Vashti T. Bottorff
Nov 17, 2004
Vashti T. Bottorff, just 35 days shy of her 93rd birthday, died of natural causes at 1:55 a.m. in the Catherine Kasper Life Center, Donaldson, on Wednesday, November 17, 2004. Vashti, a 24-year resident of Garden Courts East, was a lifetime area resident.A Deaconess in the Blissville Church of the Brethren since 1935, her life revolved around her church and...
Preston “Gene” Morris
Nov 13, 2004
Preston E. “Gene” Morris, 72, of Lincoln Highway West in Plymouth, Indiana, passed away on Saturday, November 13th, in the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend after a heroic battle with cancer. A lifetime Plymouth resident, Gene was born on December 9, 1931 in Plymouth to Preston E. and Edith M. (Shirley) Morris. He was a graduate of West...
Harold W. Suter
Nov 10, 2004
Harold W. Suter, 86, a Plymouth resident most of his lifetime, died unexpectedly of natural causes in the Emergency Room of Home Hospital in Lafayette, Ind. Harold, living in the Rosewalk Commons Assisted Living, Lafayette, for the past six years died at 7:17 p.m. on Wednesday, November 10, 2004.He was born at home in Bremen, Ind., the son of Walter...
Irene Vieweg
Nov 8, 2004
Irene Vieweg, 89, 1409 W. Jefferson St., the first recipient of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce’s “ Volunteer of the Year,” died of natural causes at 2 p.m. on Monday, November 8, 2004, in Miller’s Merry Manor.Born in Whiting, Ind. to Stanley and Helen Gajewski Gronowski on October 13, 1915, Irene graduated from Whiting High School in 1933. She sang...
Dorothy Gene Huff
Nov 2, 2004
Community leader and teacher, Dorothy Gene Huff, 88, formerly of 120 South Liberty St., Plymouth, died of natural causes in Plymouth’s Miller’s Merry Manor at 12:05 p.m. on Tuesday, November 2, 2004.Born in Wheatland, Ind., on March 11, 1916, she was the daughter of Richard Frederick and Emma Jane Zimmerman Ringham. Her father was a school principal and later a...
Barbra Post
Oct 30, 2004
Barbra Post, 89, a Plymouth resident from 1952 until her husband’s death in 1995, died following an extended illness at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, October 30, 2004, in the Appling Convalescent Center, Baxley, Ga., where she had been a resident for 1 1/2 years.Born in Amsterdam, Holland, on July 6, 1915, Barbra was the daughter of Wilhelmus and Anna Neeltje...
Sister M. Gabriel Giesken
Oct 28, 2004
Sister Gabriel Giesken, 91, died at 3:40 a.m. in the Catherine Kasper Home, Donaldson, Ind., on October 28, 2004.She was born in Miller City, Ohio on May 5, 1913, the daughter of Frank J. and Anna Vincke Giesken.A Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ, Sister Gabriel entered the convent on August 11, 1932, and professed her first vows on June 25,...
Marjorie L. Ladig
Oct 27, 2004
Marjorie L. Ladig, 71, of Knox, Ind., died in Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind., at 2:10 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27, 2004. A resident of Knox since 1988, coming from Chicago, she died due to an occupational accident at her workplace.Marjorie was born at home in Plymouth on August 30, 1933. She was the daughter of George William Sr. and...
Rev. Jean F. Mccan
Oct 26, 2004
The Rev. Jean Franklin McCan, 76, died at 10 p.m. of natural causes in his residence, the United Methodist parsonage in Hamlet, Ind., on Tuesday, October 26, 2004. Born at home in Plymouth on May 5, 1928, Jean was the son of John Donald and Edith Ellen Freese McCan. He graduated from West High School with the class of 1946....
Florence I. Thomas
Oct 26, 2004
Florence I. Thomas, 91, died of natural causes at 9:35 a.m. on Tuesday, October 26, 2004, in Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth, where she had been a resident since February, 2003.Born in her family’s Plymouth home, the current location of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, on August 18, 1913, Florence was the daughter of A. Ray and Elma Thompson Welborn.She was...
