Obituaries
Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County , IN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County
Loretta H. Ruff
Dec 30, 2003
Loretta H. Ruff, 92, an area resident most of her life, living on Woodbury Drive, died at 9:45 p.m. on Tuesday, December 30, 2003, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth.Born in Toledo, Ohio, on July 12, 1911, Loretta was the daughter of Arthur and Minnie Thayer Handy. She attended Plymouth High School.On February 11, 1930, in South Bend, Ind.,...
Manferd Houghton
Dec 28, 2003
The piano at Garden Court West may not sound the same. It will not hear the likes again of the ragtime and honky tonk music of the country boy who tickled the ivories so joyously.Manferd Houghton, Jr., 86, an area native who never had a lesson and who was a regular entertainer for the folks at the Nutrition Centers around...
James “Dennis” Elliott
Dec 26, 2003
Dennis Elliott, 59, a lifetime Plymouth resident, living at 805 Baker St., River Park since 1996, died in St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, at 10:27 a.m. on Friday, December 26, 2003. Dennis has endured cancer related illnesses since January of 1996.Born in Plymouth on September 22, 1944, Dennis was the son of James E. and Violet G. Fear Elliott.He...
Agnes L. Mayse
Dec 26, 2003
Agnes L. Mayse, 90, a resident of Pilgrim Manor, 222 Parkview Drive, since April of 1999, died there of natural causes at 9:50 p.m., on Friday, December 26, 2003. Agnes was formerly from the Kokomo area and had lived in Plymouth since 1938, most recently on Thayer St.Born in New London, Ind., on September 30, 1913, Agnes was the daughter...
Dorothy M. Trump
Dec 23, 2003
Dorothy M. Trump, 15633 Redwood Road, Culver, died of natural causes in Plymouth’s Pilgrim Manor at 7:10 p.m. on Tuesday, December 23, 2003. She was 88 years old.Born in Newton County, Indiana, Dorothy was the daughter of Frank G. and Turla McKee Henderson. She graduated from Morocco High School in 1933.On January 5, 1952, in Plymouth’s First United Methodist Church,...
Jennie M. Morlock
Dec 22, 2003
Jennie M. Morlock, a Plymouth area resident all of her life, having recently celebrated her 89th birthday, died of natural causes at 2:31 a.m. on Monday, December 22, 2003, in the Pilgrim Manor Nursing Center, Plymouth. Her loving daughter, Joy Davenport was by her side.Born on December 5, 1914, in Plymouth, Jennie was the daughter of Rollie and Mary Nunemaker...
Agnes C. Dixon
Dec 22, 2003
Agnes C. Dixon, 84, a lifetime area resident, living at 7480 Plymouth-LaPorte Trail, died in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, following an illness, at 8:22 p.m. on Monday, December 22, 2003.Agnes was born in Flora, Ind., on October 31, 1919. She was the daughter of Roy and Julia Luse. She attended Plymouth schools.She and Cecil Dixon were married in...
Gail Jean Miller
Dec 17, 2003
Gail Jean Miller, 57, of 12206 W. County Line Road, Plymouth, died at 8:05 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, 2003, after a courageous four- year battle with ovarian cancer. Gail died at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Angela G. and Brian Smith. She had lived in Marshall County for the past 26 years, coming from Norway, Michigan.Born November...
Ina R. Dickson
Dec 16, 2003
Ina R. Dickson, 65, 311 Indiana Ave., Plymouth, a resident since 1965, coming from Lawrenceburg, Ind., died at 9:13 a.m. on Tuesday, December 16, 2003, in Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth, following a brief, but courageous battle with cancer.Born in Lawrenceburg on October 28, 1938, Ina was the daughter of Raymond C. and Norma Swango Trester. She attended Lawrenceburg High School.For...
Frank D. Howard
Dec 15, 2003
Franklin D. “Frank” Howard, 71, of 10145 Quince Road Plymouth, died at 5:50 a.m. Monday, December 15, 2003 in the Bremen Health Care where he has resided since August 2001. Frank died of natural causes due in part to his diagnosis of Alzheimers.Born in Alger, Ohio, on November 7, 1932, he was the son of Goebel and Victoria Fletcher Howard....
Cecil Paul Louis Schmeltz
Dec 13, 2003
Cecil Paul Louis Schmeltz, 88, formerly of Walkerton, Indiana died of natural causes in the Bremen Healthcare Center, 316 Woodies Lane, Bremen, Ind., at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 13, 2003.Cecil, born on February 4, 1915, in Walkerton, Ind., was the son of Lewis Andrew and Dora Bell Hulinger Schmeltz.He attended Tyner High School.On December 31, 1937, in South Bend,...
Robert L. Verhaeghe
Dec 10, 2003
Former Marshall County resident, 23-year-old Robert L. Verhaeghe, living at 914 Golf View, South Bend, Ind., for the past three years, died as the result of an automobile accident on Miami Road near Roosevelt, Wednesday morning December 10, 2003.On June 14, 1980, in Bremen, Robert was born the son of Richard W. and Trudy L. Corl Verhaeghe.Active in the F.F.A.,...
Dixie Lattimer Miller
Dec 9, 2003
Dixie Lattimer Miller, 91, 805 Baker St., Plymouth, died in Miller’s Merry Manor of natural causes at 12:15 a.m. on Tuesday, December 9, 2003. She had been a Plymouth resident for the past fifty years, wintering in Sebring, Fla., for a number of years.Born in Dorchester, Ill., on August 16, 1912, Dixie was the daughter of John M. and Lillian...
Clara Biehl Bonander
Dec 6, 2003
Clara Biehl Bonander, 91, died at 10:30 p.m. at her residence, 4837 West Shore Drive, Lake of the Woods, Bremen, Ind., on Saturday, December 6, 2003. She had moved to Marshall County in 1999, from Chicago, where she had lived for the previous 78 years. Prior to living in Chicago, Clara had lived in Georgetown, Ill., for five years. Born...
Vivian F. Slater
Dec 4, 2003
Vivian F. Slater, 77, a lifetime Marshall County resident, living in Inwood for the past ten years, died suddenly of natural causes, in her home, 9885 Hawthorn Rd., Plymouth, at 11:01 a.m., on Thursday, December 4, 2003.Vivian had a generous and caring spirit who will be missed by family and friends alike.Born in Bremen on Christmas Day of 1925, Vivian...
Earl Lee Houin
Dec 3, 2003
Lifetime Marshall County resident, Earl Lee Houin, 57, died at his 12th Road residence, at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, December 3, 2003, following a courageous battle with cancer.Earl died, as he had wished, at home in the company of his devoted family and with Hospice care.Born in Argos on November 28, 1946, Earl was the son of Leo R. and...
Carl R. Lehiy
Dec 3, 2003
Carl R. Lehiy, 71, of 12594 Upas Rd, Plymouth, died at 6:42 a.m. Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at Saint Joseph Regional Medcal Center, Plymouth, following a lengthy illness. Carl had been an area resident all of his life.Born in Hamlet on August 25, 1932, Carl was the son of Carl and Esther Magarrell Lehiy.Carl attended school in Grovertown. He served...
F. Hayden Patz
Nov 28, 2003
F. Hayden Patz, 81, died following a lengthy illness at his residence on Sunnyside Drive, Plymouth, at 12:15 a.m., Friday , November 28, 2003, under the loving care of his family and hospice. Hayden had been a Plymouth resident since 1953.Born on October 4, 1922, in Lowell, Ind., Hayden was the son of Frank and Lyvah Hayden Patz.He was a...
Madeline H. Saballus
Nov 28, 2003
Madeline H. Saballus, 95 of 9601 Union Road died Friday November 28, 2003 at 7:47 P.M. in the Catherine Kasper Nursing Home, Donaldson, IndianaMadeline was born on March 4, 1908 in Herrin, Illinois. She retired in 1975 as Registered Nurse.She is survived by one daughter and three sons, Rosemary Doughtery, Springfield, Ill, Ronald Saballus, Plano, Ill, Donald Saballus, Evanston, Ill.,...
Nettie L. Caldwell
Nov 26, 2003
Nettie L. Caldwell, 68, of 9976 16th Road, Argos, died at 4:20 a.m on Wednesday, November 26, 2003, following a long illness, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, Ind.The daughter of Robert M. and Dora A. Conrad Vernon, Nettie was born on May 15, 1935, in Nashville, Tennessee. When she was a child, Nettie’s family moved to South Bend,...
