Crystal J. Mounsey
Mar 28, 2013
Crystal J. Mounsey, 78, of Bluffton, passed away at 1:34 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Mounsey had been the secretary to the vice president of Franklin Electric and also served as the manager of the credit unon at Franklin Electric. She was a 1952 graduate of Petroleum High School and a member of...
L. Kay Roberts
Mar 28, 2013
L. Kay Roberts, 74, of Markle, passed away at 11:32 p.m. Thursday, March 28, 2013 at his residence. Born in Wells County on June 24, 1938, to Francis Earl and Jennie Kathryn (Maddux) Roberts, he married Karen Kay Bender on July 23, 1960, at St. Marks Lutheran Church in Uniondale. His wife survives. Mr. Roberts graduated from East Rockcreek High...
Virginia M. Nelson
Mar 25, 2013
Virginia M. Nelson, 78, of Bluffton, died at 7:20 a.m. Monday, March 25, 2013 at her residence. Born in Minneapolis, Minn. on Feb. 15, 1935 to Wright E. and Marguerite (Duxbury) Dent, she married David E. Nelson on Jan. 2, 1954 in Racine, Wisc.; he died July 20, 1981. Other survivors include a son, David W. Nelson of Bluffton; a...
Betty J. Mayer
Mar 25, 2013
Betty J. Mayer, 87, formerly of Bluffton, passed away at 5:55 p.m. Monday, March 25, 2013 at Swiss Village in Berne. Born on Dec. 5, 1925, in Ossian to Charles and Beaulah (Folk) Osborn, she married Russell L. Mayer Sr. on Oct. 3, 1942, in Bluffton; he died Oct. 5, 1993. She was a homemaker and also worked at Kitco...
G. Robert Studabaker
Mar 23, 2013
Robert Studabaker, 91, rural Bluffton, passed away at 1:40 p.m. Saturday, March 23, 2013 at Christian Care Retirement Community. Born in Wells County on March 16, 1922 to Clinton and Grace (Warner) Studabaker, he married Emma W. Hollenbaugh on April 14, 1946 in Bluffton; she passed away Sept. 30, 2008. He was a lifelong farmer. Survivors include a brother,Hugh Studabaker...
Ivan L. Beer
Mar 20, 2013
Ivan L. Beer, 74, of Bluffton, died at 5:24 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at Ossian Health Care and Rehabilitation. Mr. Beer had been employed at International Harvester and at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. He had been a truck driver. He was the owner and operator of Ivan's Carpet Cleaning. He was a 1956 graduate of Bluffton High School...
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...
