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...
Robert Lee Gilliom
Jan 5, 2013
Robert L. "Bob" Gilliom, 83, of Ossian, passed away at 5:40 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home in Fort Wayne. Born in Wells County on Oct. 14, 1929, to Raymond J. and Nora Grace (Robart) Gilliom, he married Joyce Ann Felts on Oct. 27, 1950, in Bluffton; she survives. He was a 1947 graduate of...
Mack F. Stewart
Jan 3, 2013
Mack F. Stewart, 75, of Bluffton, passed away at 3:46 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Stewart was a retired 42-year employee of Sterling Casting. He had a ifetime of motor repair and drag racing. "He was a simple man with love for his family." He was born Dec. 13, 1937, in Scott County,...
Lois M. Martin
Jan 1, 2013
Lois M. Martin, 81, of Bluffton,died Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, at Bluffton Regional Medical Center. She was born Jan. 10, 1931, in Huntington, to Clell H. Myers and Leetu A. Lawrence Myers. She married Robert L. Martin in Marion July 12, 1968; he preceded her in death June 5, 2006. She was an inspector at Kitco Manufacturing for 25 years....
Janet K. Fahl
Dec 27, 2012
Janet K. Fahl, 73, Bluffton, passed away at 10:50 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at River Terrace Estates. Born in Bluffton on April 23, 1939, to Charles L. Wilson and Margaret I. (McFarren) Hughes, she was a 1957 graduate of Bluffton High School and a member of the First Church of Christ in Bluffton. Survivors include a daughter, Michelle Richard...
Mary Ann Lucabaugh
Dec 26, 2012
Mary Ann Lucabaugh, 95, passed away at 4:58 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at Christian Care Retirement Community. Born in Bluffton on March 4, 1917, to John N. and Ida (Newcomet) Schreiber, she married Omer L. Lucabaugh on Aug. 18, 1937 in Bluffton; he died Sept. 16, 2002 She was a homemaker and was also employed at Kitco Corp. for...
Walter H. Aeschliman
Dec 25, 2012
Walter H. Aeschliman, 91, Bluffton, died at 10:40 p.m.on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012 at Christian Care Retirement Community. Born on June 18, 1921 in Wells County to Samuel and Minnie Gilliom) Aeschliman, he married Imogene R.Bucher on Jan. 18, 1944 in LaCrosse, Ind.; she died July 26, 2003. A graduate of Bluffton High School in 1939, he was a veteran,...
Charleen Ford
Dec 24, 2012
Charleen "Charlie" Ford, 91, rural Bluffton, passed away at 12:55 p.m. Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at Woodcrest Nursing Center in Decatur. Born in Mt. Vernon, Ill. on Mar. 27, 1921 to Charles and Lena (Highsmith) Ford, she married Harold K. Ford on Apr. 7, 1939 in Paducah, Ky.; he died Jan. 14, 2003. She was a member of the First...
Ursula M. Reich
Dec 24, 2012
Ursula M. Reich, 89, formerly of rural Bluffton, passed away at 2:10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 24, 2012 at Geneva Village in Geneva, Ohio. Born on March 13, 1923 in East Prussia, Germany to Otto and Bertha(Petukat) Dudde, she married Bruno E. Reich on May 14, 1948 in the East Zone, Woez, Germany; he died Dec. 19, 1984. She was a...
Edwin C. Rodenbeck
Dec 23, 2012
Edwin C. Rodenbeck, 87, of Bluffton, passed away Sunday evening, December 23, 2012, at Christian Care Retirement Community in Bluffton. Visitation will be Thursday, December 27, 2012, from 2:00 until 8:00 P.M. at Goodwin Memorial Chapel. Services will be Friday, at Calvary Lutheran Church, at 3:00 P.M., with one hour of visitation prior to the service at the church. Pastor...
Irene J. Steffen
Dec 8, 2012
Irene J. Steffen, 93, Bluffton, died at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 at Bluffton Regional Medical Center. Born in Wells County on Aug. 12, 1919 to Levi and Mary (Heyerly) Frauhiger, she married Glennes E. Steffen on Mar. 5, 1950 in Bluffton; he died May 25, 1985. She was a homemaker and a member of the Apostolic Christian Church....
Robert E. Pence
Dec 8, 2012
Robert E. Pence, 73, of Fort Wayne, passed away at his residence, Saturday morning, December 8, 2012. Mr. Pence was born on July 1, 1939, in Ft. Wayne, IN, to Herman E. and Allene E. (Baumgartner) Pence; both parents preceded him in death. A 1957 graduate of Bluffton High School, Bob served in the United States Air Force from 1962...
Eleanor Ruth Rice
Dec 4, 2012
Eleanor Ruth Rice, 93, of Wamego, Kansas passed away due to respiratory failure Tuesday, December 4, 2012 at the Wamego City Hospital, in Wamego, Kansas. Eleanor was born April 18, 1919, in Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of James C. and Lilian (Doty) Woolley. She attended schools in Wichita, graduating from Wichita State University in 1940 and later attending Ball State,...
Mary E. Moynihan
Nov 30, 2012
Mary E. Moynihan, 97, of Fort Wayne, died at 4:35 a.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2012, at Woodview Health Center in Fort Wayne. She was born in Bluffton Sept. 12, 1915, to John C. and Elizabeth Effinger Moynihan. She is survived by three cousins, Marcie (Jim) Hunter of Bluffton, Mary Ann Aldin of Fort Wayne and Sister Jeanette Lester, St. Mary...
Mary G. Williams
Nov 27, 2012
Mary G. Williams, 100, formerly of Bluffton, died at 2;10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2012, at Heritage Pointe in Warren. She was born Oct. 8, 1912, in Bluffton, to Victor Grosjean and Elizabeth (Eddington) Grosjean. She married Clarence L. Williams in Bluffton, Dec. 19, 1948; he preceded her in death, Oct. 24, 1998. A 1930 graduate of P.A. Allen High...
