Obituaries
Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County , IN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County
Sr. Jerome Hagen P.H.J.C.
Jan 12, 2004
Sister Jerome Hagen, PHJC, of St. Henry Convent, Chicago, Ill., died on Monday, January 12, 2004 in the St. Francis Hospital, Evanston, Illinois. Sister Jerome celebrated her 85th birthday on Sunday, January 11th.The daughter of Henry and Cecilia Huelsmann Hagen, Sister Jerome was born in Breese, Ill., on January 11, 1919.She entered the convent on September 27, 1937, and professed...
Ruth L. Kennedy
Jan 10, 2004
Ruth L. Kennedy, 86, of 14637, died of natural causes at 6:06 p.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2004, in the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth.Born in Lakeville, Ind., on September 23, 1917, Ruth was the daughter of John and Alma Miller Smith. She attended Lakeville High School.On June 10, 1937, Ruth and Lewis Kennedy were married by Father Eberlee...
Dr. Clark Mcclure
Jan 10, 2004
Dr. Clark ‘Mac’ McClure, M.D., 81, a longtime physician in Knox, Ind., died of heart failure at his home, 5100 North Ocean Blvd.,33308, at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2004. Mac died with his wife, Carolyn Kizer McClure, several family members and hospice nurses at his side.A graduate of Bloomington, Ind., High School, Mac graduated from Indiana University and...
Tommie E. Samuels
Jan 6, 2004
Tommie E. Samuels, a lifetime area resident, living at 20759 W. 11A Road, Plymouth, died, following an illness, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, at 9:29 a.m. on Tuesday, January 6, 2004. Tommie was 68 years old.He was born in Plymouth, the son of Evert “Jack” and Goldia Gross Samuels, on October 8, 1935. He attended West High School...
Robert E. “Bob” Pendergast
Jan 6, 2004
Robert E. “Bob” Pendergast of 10200 Pretty Lake Trail, Plymouth, Ind. passed away on January 6, 2004 at Miller’s Merry Manor in Culver, Ind. after enduring an extended illness. He lived in Plymouth since 1956.Bob was born on March 3, 1924 in Brockton, Massachusetts where he grew up as the first of two sons of Edward and Arlene (Johnson) Pendergast.He...
Roland F. Carr
Jan 5, 2004
Lifetime area resident Roland F. Carr, 69, died at his residence, 213 Pierce St., Plymouth, at 10:48 p.m. on Monday, January 5, 2004. Roland died, following an illness, under the loving care of his family and the Starke County Hospice.He was born on October 30, 1934, in Rochester, Ind., the son of Lester H. and Effie C. Burkett Carr. He...
Gladys M. Dodson
Dec 31, 2003
Gladys Marie Dodson, 84, formerly of 805 Baker St. in River Park, died at 5:55 p.m. on Wednesday, December 31, 2003, in St. Anthony Memorial Hospital, in Michigan City, Indiana. Gladys was born on August 29, 1919, in Sheldon, Ill., the daughter of Charles and Ruth Hendress Coughenour. She grew up in Iroquois County and graduated from Watseka, Ill. High...
Floyd A. Morlock
Dec 30, 2003
Lifetime area resident Floyd A. Morlock, 91, died of natural causes in Pilgrim Manor Nursing Center, Plymouth, at 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday, December 30, 2003. Floyd had resided on W. 9th Road, Plymouth, for many years..Born in West Township, on March 9, 1912, Floyd was the son of Howard and Ethel Ringer Morlock. He attended West Township school.On February 13,...
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.,...
