Bonnie L. Kinsey
Mar 19, 2013
Bonnie L. Kinsey, 55, of Bluffton, died at 7:34 a.m. Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at the Bluffton Regional Medical Center. She was born Sept. 19, 1957, in Adams County, to Richard Kiser and Donna Diane (Faus) Scott. She married Bruce Kinsey on June 22, 2009 in Fort Wayne; her husband survives. Other survivors include her mother and stepfather, Sil Scott...
Janet N. Steffen
Mar 11, 2013
Janet N. Steffen, 77, of Bluffton, passed away at 12:25 a.m. Monday, March 11, 2013 at Christian Care Retirement Community. Born in Portland on Aug. 17, 1935 to Ora and Anna Lee (Moorman) Bubp, she married Raymond W. Steffen on May 10, 1980 in Bluffton; he passed away on Feb. 22, 2001. She was a waitress at the Snug Restaurant...
Thomas A. Hullinger
Mar 10, 2013
Thomas A. Hullinger, 54, of Fort Wayne, passed away at 5:54 a.m. Sunday, March 10, 2013, at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne. Born in Bluffton on Jan. 16, 1959 to Robert K. and Jane A. (Jacobs) Hullinger Sr., he graduated from Bluffton High School in 1977 and served in the U.S. Navy during the Persian Gulf War. He was...
Thomas A. Freiburger Jr.
Mar 7, 2013
Thomas A. Freiburger Jr., 52, of Ossian, died at 3:45 a.m. Thursday, March 7, 2013, at his residence. Mr. Freiburger had been employed at Tuthill Pumps in Fort Wayne for 29 years, working as a supervisor. He was a 1979 graduate of Wayne High School in Fort Wayne. He was a member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church in rural Yoder....
Heath D. Bumgarner
Mar 3, 2013
Heath D. Bumgarner, 18, a resident of rural Uniondale, died at 5:15 p.m. Sunday at Lutheran Hospital. He was a senior at Norwell High School, attending the Anthis Career Center in Fort Wayne. He had been accepted to attend Ohio Technical College in Cleveland, Ohio. He became a certified welder as a junior in high school and placed first in...
Carolyn J. Bracht
Feb 28, 2013
Carolyn J. Bracht, 72, of Bluffton, died at 7:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at the Bluffton Regional Medical Center. She died after a 46-year battle with multiple sclerosis. She was born June 2, 1940, in Petroleum, to Wayne K. Davis and Eva A. Ripple Davis. Carolyn was a homemaker and had resided at Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation-Meadowvale for 29...
Jack Schoeff
Feb 13, 2013
Jack E. Schoeff, 80, of rural Bluffton, passed away at 6:58 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at Meadowvale Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born on July 22, 1932, in Greentown to Floyd and Eugenia (Chism) Schoeff, he married Jayne E. Cobbum on Aug. 30, 1985, in Elizabethtown, Ky.; she survives. He was a 1950 graduate of Portland High School, where he...
Arden L. Hamilton
Feb 12, 2013
Arden L. Hamilton, 80, of Bluffton, passed away at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at Heritage Pointe in Warren. Born in Wells County on May 17, 1932 to Otto L. and Marie (Brown) Hamilton, he married Joann Marshall on Aug. 5, 1985 in Crossville, Tenn.; she survives. He was a 1950 graduate of Chester Center High School, where he...
Lura M. Baublet
Feb 12, 2013
Lura M. Baublet, 88, of Bluffton, passed away at 2 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013 at Meadowvale Health & Rehabilitation Center. Born in Marion on Dec. 23, 1924 to Guy Henry and LaTressie (Sailors) Comstock, she married Carl E. Baublet on May 2, 1943 in South Whitley; he passed away Dec. 1, 1999. A 1943 graduate of South Whitley High...
Marilyn J Minnich
Feb 4, 2013
Marilyn J. Minnich, 80, formerly of Bluffton, died at 8:40 a.m. Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, at Heritage Pointe in Warren. Born Oct. 7, 1932, in Bluffton to Charles and Bertha (Graden) Maddux, she married Floyd L. Minnich on Dec. 25, 1951, in Bluffton; he survives. A 1950 graduate of Bluffton High School, she worked for Indiana Bell Telephone for eight...
Laverta May Schwartz
Jan 30, 2013
LaVerta M. Schwartz, 85, of Bluffton, passed away at 5:05 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at River Terrace Estates. Born in Jonesboro on June 3,1927, to Floyd and Nora (Froh) Oldfield, she married Hershel A. Schwartz on July 1, 1946, in Zanesville. Her husband survives. A housewife, she graduated from Lafayette Central High School in 1945 and was a member...
Carole J. Isch
Jan 11, 2013
Carole J. Isch, 72, rural Bluffton, passed away at 1:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Swiss Village in Berne. She had been battling cancer since April of 2005. Born in Wells County, she graduated from Berne French High School in 1958. She was a homemaker, secretary at Riverside Warehouse for many years and a mail clerk at Caylor-Nickel for...
Aldine Moser
Jan 10, 2013
Aldine Moser, 101, of Bluffton, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, at Christian Care Retirement Community. Born in Adams County on Sept. 12, 1911, to Jacob and Fannie (Reinhard) Kaehr, she married Harold A. Moser on Sept. 12, 1936, in Bluffton; he died Dec. 15, 1976. She was a housewife and a member of the Apostolic Christian Church. Survivors...
M. Louise Stultz
Jan 9, 2013
M. Louise Stutlz, 83, of Bluffton, died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013 at Ossian Health & Rehabilitation Center. Born on June 30, 1929, in Norton, Va. to Noah and Mary (Gilmer) Gilly, she married Charles Jay Stultz on Apr. 4, 1946, in Fort Wayne; he died in Oct., 1983. She is survived by a son, Richard Stultz of...
Mark A. Kaehr
Jan 9, 2013
Mark A. Kaehr, age 57, of Bluffton, passed away Wednesday morning, January 9th, 2013, at 4:05 a.m., at Mayo Hospital, in Jacksonville, FL, while awaiting a heart transplant. Mark was born in Wells County, on June 20, 1955, to Phillip G. and Gloria S. (Timmons) Kaehr. His mother still survives in Bluffton. He married Renee A. Bebout on November 12,...
Sharlee Mae Klefeker
Jan 8, 2013
Sharlee Mae Klefeker, 80, of Bluffton, died at 5:45 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Bluffton Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Klefeker had been employed at Wayne Metal Products, the Caylor-Nickel Clinic, and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. She also served as an administrative assistant for the Wells County Area Plan Commission, retiring in 1997. She was a member of...
Robert R. Graham
Jan 8, 2013
Robert R. Graham, 83, of Bluffton, passed away at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Born in Linn Grove on May 2, 1929 to Ted R. and Mary M. (Taylor) Graham, he married Betty Lou Faus on Oct. 28, 1949 in Kokomo; she died July 30, 2010. Mr. Graham retired in 1991 from Food...
Robert C. Aschliman
Jan 8, 2013
Robert C. Aschliman, 89, of Bluffton, died at 4:40 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2013, at the Christian Care Retirement Community. Mr. Aschliman worked for National Oil and Gas Co. for 21 years, from 1958 to 1979. He was an Army veteran of World War II, serving from 1943 to 1946. He was a member of the Apostolic Christian Church. He...
Jan P. Bertsch
Jan 7, 2013
Jan P. Bertsch, 64, of Berne, died at 2:55 p.m. Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur. She was a 1966 graduate of Rockcreek High School. She had been employed at the Berne Community Market, retiring in 2011. She loved spending time with her grandchildren, sewing and making clothes, gardening, playing the piano, and solving jigsaw puzzles....
Maurice C. Gase
Jan 5, 2013
Maurice C. Gase, 79, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at the Markle Health and Rehabilitation facility. Mr. Gase was born Dec. 24, 1933, at Decatur, to Anthony Gase and Edna Miller Gase. He married Barbara Rife June 12, 1993, in Las Vegas, Nev.; she preceded him in death Jan. 11, 2010. Survivors include two daughters, Christine A. (Michael) Ferguson of...
