Obituaries
Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County , IN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County
Marguerite M. Wilke
Jul 22, 2005
A resident of Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home, Plymouth, Marguerite M. Wilke, 78, died there of natural causes, at 6:35 a.m. Friday, July 22, 2005. She was a former resident of the Mayflower Care Center.Marguerite was born the daughter of Walter and Cleo (Schidet) Scallan on February 2, 1927 in Olney, Texas. Moving to Indiana she was a graduate of Indianapolis...
Sr. Anne Fox, P.H.J.C.
Jul 21, 2005
Sr. Anne Fox, 88, died at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, July 21, 2005 in the Catherine Kasper Life Center, Donaldson, Indiana, where she has resided since November of last year.Sister was born in Chicago, Ill., on March 26, 1917, the daughter of Louis N. and Anna Mueller Fox.On June 25, 1937 she entered the convent and professed her first vows on...
Pamela Sue Dietl
Jul 19, 2005
Pamela Sue Dietl, a lifetime resident of Marshall County, died, following a long illness, at 9:22 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, 2005.Pam died at her residence, 14526 W. 14th B Road, Plymouth, under the loving care of her family and the Marshall County Hospice. She was 53 years old.Born on June 28, 1952, Pam was the daughter of Cleto and...
Benjamin M. Carter
Jul 16, 2005
Benjamin Michael Carter died at his residence, 1208 Rosemare Court, Goshen, Ind., at 3:53 p.m. on Saturday, July 16, 2005.Ben was 24 years-old.He was born in Goshen, the son of Patrick Joseph and Marilyn Kay ( Nordman) Carter on June 16, 1981.A graduate of the American Home School program, he had worked for the past six years at Industrial Graphics...
Lavon A. “Charlie” Dunn
Jul 15, 2005
In failing health for the past several years, Lavon A. “Charlie” Dunn, 86 died at 5:19 p.m. Friday in the emergency room of St. Joseph Regional Medical Center – Plymouth Campus. Known to many in the Marshall County farming community over the past 55 years, he specialized in sheep. Born in Star City, Indiana on Christmas Eve of 1918, he...
Earle Jansma
Jul 15, 2005
Earle Jansma, 77, of 12129 11th Road, died of natural causes in Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth, at 1:34 a.m. on Friday, July 15, 2005. Earle was born in Hammond, Ind., on July 11, 1928. He was the son of Peter and Delia VanWeeldon Jansma. He graduated from Hammond High School.Earle served in the United States Army.On September 9, 2000, Earle...
Elsie N. Henderson
Jul 11, 2005
Elsie N. Henderson, a former resident of Pilgrim Manor, Plymouth, died of natural causes at 6:15 p.m. on Monday, July 11, 2005, in Americare Living Center of Anderson, Ind., where she had lived since November of 2004. Elsie was 90 years old.She had previously lived in Hammond, Ind., from 1935 until 1966 and in Rochester, Ind., from 1966 until she...
Maurene E. Moore
Jul 9, 2005
A love story that began over 81 years ago has ended. For now…Their faithfulness to each other and their enduring love through good and bad times brought them many wonderful years together here on earth. Their Christian love for each other will be forever sealed in the presence of the Almighty. Maurene E. Moore, the devoted wife of Lowell A....
Sr. Richard Mehal, P.H.J.C.
Jul 6, 2005
Sister Richard Mehal, 86, died at 5:27 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, 2005, in the Catherine Kasper Home, Donaldson, Indiana, where she had been a resident since her retirement in 2000.She was born in Dunlo, Pennsylvania, on November 19, 1918, the daughter of George and Mary Singel Mehal.Sister Richard was a dedicated elementary school teacher from 1940 until her retirement....
Richard “Dick” Wilson
Jul 3, 2005
Richard H. “Dick” Wilson, 73, a Plymouth resident for the past 31 years, died, following a lengthy illness, at 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 3, 2005. Dick died at his home on Woodbury Drive, under the loving care of his family, the Marshall County Hospice, and his beloved cat, “Lily.”Dick was born in Marion, Ind., on April 19, 1932. He...
Jeffery J. Cygert
Jun 28, 2005
Jeffery J. “Jeff” Cygert, of Roosevelt Rd., Walkerton, died from complications of congestive heart failure in the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, June 28, 2005.He was a 32 year old man devoted to his family and faith in his Almighty Father. Born in South Bend, Indiana on February 10, 1973, Jeff is the son of Alan...
Mary Louise Hiester
Jun 27, 2005
Mary Louise Hiester, 91, of W. Adams St., Plymouth, died at 12:25 a.m. on Monday, June 27, 2005 in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth.Mary, a lifetime Plymouth resident, was born on October 4, 1913, the daughter of Fred and Ida Snyder John, Sr. She graduated from Plymouth High School.On August 27, 1939, in Plymouth, Mary and Robert “Bob” Hiester...
Evelyn B. Gurthet
Jun 26, 2005
Evelyn B. Gurthet, 85, of 303 Baker Street passed away at 7:20 am on Sunday June 26, 2005 in Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home, Plymouth, Indiana.Evelyn was born on October 10, 1919 in Marshall County, Indiana to Homer and Verda Rinkenberg Stoneburner.On March 29, 1943 in Florence, South Carolina she was married to Lawrence “Don” Gurthet, Don passed away on February...
Robert W. “Bobby” Kizer
Jun 25, 2005
Purdue University has lost a great fan with the passing of young Robert W. “Bobby” Kizer. Bobby a resident of 10369 Pretty Lake Trail for most of his life, died of natural causes on Saturday morning June 25, 2005.The 26 year old son of Robert M. and Virginia N. (Stephens) Kizer, he was born April 28, 1979 in Indianapolis, Indiana....
Lola I. Hess
Jun 22, 2005
Lola I. Hess, 84, a Garden Court East resident at 501 Pennsylvania Ave, Plymouth, IN. Formerly of Charleston, South Carolina, she died at 1:50 p.m. on Wednesday June 22, 2005 in Bremen Community Hospital, Bremen, Indiana, following an illness.Born the daughter of Ora Herbert and Mazie Dyer Stephens in Milroy, Indiana on April 1, 1921.Lola was married in Richmond, Indiana...
Kenneth F. Clark, Ii
Jun 21, 2005
Kenneth F. “BAM” Clark II, 28, 22251 Tyler Road, Lakeville, Indiana, died at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 21, 2005 in Indiana University Hospital, Indianapolis, IN, after a long and courageous battle with cancer. BAM had been an area resident most of his life.Born in Kankakee, IL., on July 13, 1976, BAM graduated from High School in Chillicothe, OH.He had...
John W. Musser
Jun 17, 2005
John W. Musser, 81, 222 Parkview St., Plymouth, had lived in Marshall County since January 17, 2004, coming from Noble County. John went to be with the Lord at 10:10 p.m. on Friday, June 17, 2005, in the Pilgrim Manor Nursing Center, Plymouth. He had suffered from lung cancer for a year and a half.Born in Wawaka, Ind., on July...
Richard Alan Jones
Jun 15, 2005
Richard Alan “Rick” Jones, with his supportive family and friends to comfort him, ended his enduring battle with Huntington’s Disease, at 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. Rick, of 7382 S.R. 17, Plymouth, died in the genuine care of Miller’s Merry Manor, Culver where he had made his home for nearly the past two years. He loved and experienced...
John F. Ruff
Jun 15, 2005
John F. Ruff, 93, a lifetime Marshall County resident, died of natural causes Wednesday morning, June 15, 2005. John died on the family homestead where he was born and spent his life working the ground, 7293 Plymouth-LaPorte Trail, Plymouth. He was born July 23, 1911, the son of Charles W. and Ella Glass Ruff.As a child he attended the old...
Treva I. Ritenour
Jun 12, 2005
Treva I. Ritenour, 89, of 15715 N. Michigan Rd., Argos, died of natural causes in Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth, at 12:50 p.m. on Sunday, June 12, 2005.Born the daughter of George Allen and Florence M. Knepper Eizinger on February 27, 1916, in Tippecanoe, Ind., Treva graduated from Tippecanoe High School with the class of 1934.Treva and Andrew H. Ritenour were...
