Obituaries
Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County , IN Obituaries
Local obituaries for Plymouth, Indiana and Marshall County
Evelyn J. Davis
Sep 24, 2004
Evelyn J. Davis, Klinger Ave., Plymouth, an area resident most of her life, died of natural causes in Miller’s Merry Manor at 2:35 a.m. on Thursday, September 24, 2004. She was 88 years old.Born in Bristol, Ind., on August 1, 1916, Evelyn was the daughter of Albert and Josephine Campbell Drake. She graduated from Tyner High School with the class...
Irene Thornburg
Sep 22, 2004
Irene Thornburg, 73, a Plymouth resident since she was 14-years-old, coming from Chicago, died at 11:30 a.m. in the Catherine Kasper Life Center, Donaldson, Ind., on Wednesday, September 22, 2004. Irene had fought a courageous battle with cancer.She was born, the daughter of Samuel and Eva Klymus Sobinski, in Chicago, Ill., on October 8, 1930. She graduated from West High...
Howard E. Mitchell
Sep 17, 2004
Howard E. Mitchell, 80, of 433 E. 18th St., Rochester, Ind., died following an illness, at 11:50 p.m. on Friday, September 17, 2004, in the Life Care Center of Rochester.Born in Mishawaka, Ind., on December 11, 1923, Howard was the son of William H. and Eva A. Stroup Mitchell. He attended Plymouth’s Washington Elementary School and moved to the Rochester...
Raymond J. Bender
Sep 17, 2004
Raymond “Ray” J. Bender, 77, a resident of Country Place Apartments, 1420 W. Madison St., died of natural causes in Pilgrim Manor Nursing Home, at 3:30 a.m. on Friday, September 17, 2004.Born in Plymouth, Ind., on January 27, 1927, Ray was the son of Charley and Mildred Hagenbush Bender. A member of the Plymouth High School class of 1945, he...
B. Dean Rice
Sep 13, 2004
B. Dean Rice, 82, of Garfield St., Osceola, died at 2:55 pm Sunday, September 12, 2004, at the Hospice House of St. Joseph County, following a cancer related illness.Born in Pulaski County on May 25, 1922, Dean was the son of Cecil Harold and Dora Bell Rex Rice, Sr. He attended schools in Anderson, Indiana.Dean and Nadine O. Wallace were...
Ernest Ellsworth Emmons
Sep 11, 2004
Ernest Ellsworth Emmons, 85, Oak Road, Plymouth, died suddenly of natural causes, at 10:24 a.m. on Saturday, September 11, 2004, in St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth after becoming ill at his home.Ernie had been a Marshall County resident since 1951.He had a love of family and a zest for life that will long be remembered.He was born in LaPaz,...
Margaret A. Irwin
Sep 9, 2004
Margaret A. Irwin, Union Road, Donaldson, died of natural causes at the Catherine Kasper Nursing Home, Donaldson, Ind., on September 9, 2004.An area resident most of her life, she was 94 years old .Born in a log house in West Township on July 22, 1910, Margaret was the daughter of Albert and Dora Scheetz Furry. She went to Roberts School...
August Vervynckt
Sep 8, 2004
August Vervynckt, 81, Redwood Rd., died of natural causes in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, South Bend, at 1:10 p.m. on Wednesday, September 8, 2004. For the past two years he has resided at the Catherine Kasper Life Center, Donaldson.Family was the center of August’s life. He enjoyed his grandchildren, their sporting events and their various accomplishments and attended whenever...
Eugene O. Thornburg
Sep 7, 2004
Eugene O. “Gene” Thornburg, 75, of 11819 Queen Road, a Plymouth area resident most of his life, died unexpectedly of natural causes, in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, at 2:36 p.m. on Tuesday, September 7, 2004.Gene was born in Walkerton, Ind., on August 2, 1929, the son of Homer O. and Ethel Hilterbrand Thornburg. He graduated from West High...
Deborah L. Johnson
Sep 6, 2004
Deborah L. “Debbie” Johnson, of 209 Maryland St., North Judson, Ind., died at 2:18 am on Monday, September 6, 2004. Debbie, 48, died at her residence under the loving care of her family and hospice.Born on April 28, 1956 in Knox, Ind., Debbie was the daughter of Bill Miller, Sr. and Lounette Clark Back.After receiving her G.E.D., she received an...
Chelse B. Slemp
Aug 20, 2004
Chelse B. Slemp, 75, died in Miller’s Merry Manor, Plymouth at 6:05 a.m. on Friday, August 20, 2004, following complications from a series of strokes. Formerly of South Bend, he had been a longtime resident of 20655 W. 9th Road, Plymouth.Born on August 14, 1929 in Jonesville, Virginia; he was the son Echol J. and Ora Mae Crumley Slemp. He...
Robert William Relos
Aug 8, 2004
Robert William Relos, 46, 11066 Forest Drive, Plymouth, died on August 8, 2004, at his mother’s residence on McLiver St., following a long and courageous battle with cancer.He will be very much missed. His family was his life and he loved and was loved by them all.Born on September 20, 1957, in South Bend, Ind., Bob was the son of...
Patricia A. Scarberry
Aug 8, 2004
Patricia A. “Pat” Scarberry, 72, died, following a prolonged illness, at her home, 233 E. Lake Ave., Plymouth, at 12:20 a.m. on Sunday, August 8, 2004. Pat had lived in Plymouth for 49 years, moving here in 1955, from Ashland, Ohio.The daughter of Carl and Catherine Morgan Chambers, Pat was born in Urbana, Ohio, on December 10, 1931. she attended...
Sergeant Patrick W. Strickland
Aug 6, 2004
TAPSThanks and praise. For our days,‘Neath the sun. Neath the stars.‘ Neath the sky.As we go, This we know.God is nigh.Sergeant Patrick “Pat” Wayne Strickland, 19008 6B Road, Plymouth, died at 8:10 p.m. on Friday, August 6, 2004, in Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne, Ind., as a result of an automobile accident. Pat was 26 years old.Born the son of Bo...
Richard “Dick” Wenino
Jul 30, 2004
Lifetime Plymouth resident, Richard C. “Dick” Wenino, 77, 1105 N. Michigan St., Plymouth, died in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, at 12:15 a.m. on Friday, July 30, 2004.A 1946 graduate of Plymouth High School, Dick was born in Chicago, Ill., on February 4, 1927. He was the son of Harry E. and Marie Elizabeth Dehner Wenino.During World War II,...
Leo R. Houin
Jul 28, 2004
Leo R. Houin, 80, died at 7:03 a.m. on Wednesday, July 28, 2004, following several years of a courageous battle against cancer. Leo died in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth. He had lived at 11386 Sunnylane Drive since 1991, in the Forest Hills subdivision that he developed.Born on his family’s Plymouth homestead on June 9, 1924, Leo was the...
Willard E. Hand
Jul 25, 2004
A Marshall County resident all of his life, Willard E. “Bill” Hand, 86, died, at his residence, 12333 S.R. 17, Plymouth, Ind., following an illness, at 7:10 a.m., on Sunday, July 25, 2004.Born in Bourbon, Ind., on October 14, 1917, Bill was the son of William E. and Mary E. Hand-Shumaker. He attended Bremen schools.On the 27th of October, 1935,...
Marjorie Ann Weeks
Jul 24, 2004
Marj Weeks, 82, formerly of Plymouth, Indiana, passed away Saturday July 24, 2004 at Midland House 3940 E. 56th St. Indianapolis, Indiana 46220. Born Jane Dryden Maloney on February 6, 1922, in Detroit, Michigan, to Louise (Dryden) Bixby and Arthur (Don) Maloney of South Bend, Marj graduated from Riley High School in South Bend in 1940. She attended Kalamazoo College...
Patricia Sue (Jung) Cook
Jul 24, 2004
Patricia “Pat” (Jung) Cook, 1011 N. Center Street, Plymouth, died in Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth, following an extended illness, at 8:15 a.m., on Saturday, July 24, 2004. She was 69 years old and had lived most of her life in Marshall County.Pat was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on February 1, 1935. She was the daughter of H.E.G....
Harvey Gaines, Jr.
Jul 22, 2004
Harvey Gaines, Jr., a lifetime Plymouth area resident died at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, July 22, 2004, in the Plymouth Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where he had been a patient for one week.The son of Harvey and Elizabeth E. Watkins Gaines, Sr., Harvey was born on May 22, 1932, in Plymouth. He attended Plymouth schools.Harvey was a tree trimmer, known to...
