The Mail-Journal, Volume 28, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 31 May 1989 — Page 3

Obituaries

Willis R. Sand Willis R. Sand, 81, Grace Village, died at 10:30 am. Wednesday, May 24, 1989. in Mason Health Care Center, Warsaw. Born February 12, 1908, in Elkhart, he was the son of Robert M. and Beatrice Card Sand. On December 31,1928, in Warsaw, he married Lois K. Cluen, who died November?, 1987. After 35 years of employment, he retired from DePuy in 1975. A veteran of World War 11, he was a member of American Legion John C. Peterson Post 49. Mr Sand was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Warsaw. His survivors include two sons. Judge Richard W. Sand and Donald A. Sand, both of Warsaw; one daughter, Mrs. James (Marlenel Snyder. San Dimas. Calif.; one sister, Mrs. Bert (Mary L.) Metterling, Syracuse; 11 grandchildren; and 15 greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Saturday. May 27, in Chamness Funeral Home. Warsaw. with Rev. J. Robert Fields, pastor of Trinity United

Hospital notes

Goshen TUESDAY. MAY 23 Admissions Mary A. Carroll, r 2 box 58. Syracuse Mabel H. Tusing, r 2 box 170, Milford THURSDAY. MAY 25 Admissions Lois Rees. 431 1 2 Huntington St.. Syracuse Frederic Beer, r 2 box 166. Milford Dismissals Mabel Hattie Tusing. r 2 box 170. Milford FRIDAY. MAY 26 Admissions Charles Beck. Lakeland Loving Care Center, Milfbrd Ruth Gillis, r 5 box 447, Syracuse Laura J. McClintic, 621 S. Main, Syracuse Sharon Ringler.«r 6 box 173, Syracuse Dismissals Anna I. Bess, r 2 box 6. Milford SATURDAY. MAY 27 Admissions William L. Kinsey, Lakeland Loving Care Center. Milford <. Dismissals Bertha E. Tom, r 2 box 465A, Leesburg SUNDAY. MAY 28 Dismissals Lois E Rees. 431'2 N. Huntington St., Syracuse MONDAY. MAY 29 Dismissals Frederic R. Beer, r 2 box 166. Milford Sharon A. Ringler, r 6 box 173, Syracuse

It happened ... in Syracuse

10 YEARS AGO, MAY 31. 1979 "Memories: Yesterday s, Today’s. Tomorrow's," is the theme for this year’s Wawasee Flotilla Festival set to begin on Saturday. June 30. The theme opens up many possibilities for boat decorations in the flotilla parade. Thought of the "good old days," the excitement of today and hopes for tomorrow promise to provide an endless variety of floats The Syracuse Town Board held a special meeting Tuesday evening in which Phillip Schnelker of Fort Wayne presented information needed to file for a federal state government grant. Milford woman in fair condition A Milford woman is in fair condition in Elkhart Hospital with chest fractures and other injuries she suffered in a two-car collision in Concord Township Saturday, May 27, at 4:12 pm. Maureen E. Auer. 29. Milford, was driving south on CR 13 when Laura L Baldwin. 18 . 56835 Ramblewood Lane, Elkhart, driving a 1983 Honda Civic, was traveling west on CR 26 and disregarded a stop sign at CR 13 and struck Auer’s vehicle After the collision, the Baldwin vehicle struck a fire hydrant and the Auer auto struck a speed limit sign and rolled over Baldwin complained of minor injury Elkhart County Cpl Perry investigated and set damage at more than $12,500

Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery. Susan V. Neary Susan V. Neary, 46, r 1, Leesburg, died at 4 p.m. Thursday, May 25, 1989, in her home, following an illness of five years. Born July 1, 1942, in Chicago. 111., she was the daughter of Edward and Tillie Kusich Chartrand. On November 10,1962, she married Josh Neary; he survives. A resident of the Leesburg area for 54 years, Mrs. Neary was a homemaker. She was a member of the St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church, Syracuse. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, Pino Neary, at home; one sister, Mrs Robert (Georgene) Oganovich, Chicago; and one brother. Edward Chartrand, Joliet, 111. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 30, in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Chicago, with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery, Calumet City. 111. Titus Funeral Home, Warsaw, was in charge of local arrangements.

KCH MONDAY, MAY 22 Dismissals Kimberly J. Martin, North Webster TUESDAY, MAY 23 Admissions O. James Conner, Leesburg Dorothy A. Dye, Leesburg Allen R. Graber, North Webster Jennifer R. Likens. North Webster WEDNESDAY. MAY 24 Dismissals O James Conner. Leesburg THURSDAY. MAY 25 Dismissals Dorothy A. Dye, Leesburg EMS The Syracuse Emergency Medical Service made the following ambulance runs this past ' week: Donald Martin. 95, Miller's Merry Manor. Syracuse, was transported from Goshen Hospital to the healthcare facility on Tuesday. May 23. at 12.56 p.m. Evelyn Jones. 67. 813 Medusa St., Syracuse, was not transported to a hospital after the EMS was called to her home at 3:04 p.m., Wednesday, May 14. The EMS was called to the ac- « cess road at Augsburgers at 8:56 p.m.. Wednesday. Jerry Weaver. 46. 10016 Edison Road, Osceola. Jason Kramer, 18, r 1, Leesburg, and Drake Sladky. 18. r 1 box 213 North Webster, were not transported to a hospital. Dorothy Smith, 91, Miller’s Merry Manor, Syracuse, was transported from Goshen

Schnelker has a small business which is currently working with the town of Warsaw and Kendallville with sewage problems. The Rekamemoh Club of Syracuse met at Sara Cox's home on May 23. Doreen Darr opened the meeting and pledges were said by Cherie Martindale and Marcia Taylor. Chuck and Betty Myers are at their home at 300 South Front Street, arriving Friday after spending winter months at their Santa Barbara, Calif., home. The Peffley family is calling it the First Annual Peffley FishOff, and it occurred Saturday morning on Syracuse Lake. In one fishing boat were Bill and Marsha Zimmer, of Huntington and Rick and Melinda Pinney of Syracuse, and in the other was Jay and Lucille Peffley of Syracuse Lake and Bob and Jerry Peffley of Goslfen. 20 YEARS AGO. MAY 28. 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Eli Lilly of Indianapolis arrived Tuesday at the Lilly cottage at Lake Wawasee to spend the summer Mrs. Ray Wogoman and Mrs S.F Betes. Lake Wawasee. called on Mrs Estelle Swartz at Syracuse on Tuesday. Maytime flowers and Maypoles very attractively decorated the dinner tables and set the mood for the festive spring party of the Syracuse Ladies Os the Round Table. The dinner party was held at Foo and Faye’s at Syracuse. Bob Burkholder has converted his former uptown drug store building into a youth recreation room Bob still ’iolds a three-year

Lester Myrick Lester Myrick, 84, Fairmount, 111., died at 2:58 p.m. Friday, May 19, 1989, in Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, 111. He was the father of Carl Myrick, Syracuse. Born October 2, 1904, in Elizabethtown, he was the son of George and Lillie Belle Sperling Myrick. On December 8, 1924, in St. Joseph, 111., he married lea Byrd; she survives. He retired in 1965 after farming for George and Keith Jones, and had worked for Cast-Diel Hardware, Fairmount. Surviving in addition to his wife and son are two other sons. Bill Myrick, Carthage, and Gayle Myrick, Fairmount; three daughters, Dorothy Dausman, Rochester, Doris Harmer, Mishawaka, and Barbara Biggerstaff, Fairmount; 18 grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday, May 22. in Carrington Funeral Home, Fairmount, with Rev. Mike Roberts officiating. Burial was in GAR Cemetery. Homer, 111.

Hospital to the healthcare facility at 1:50p.m., Thursday, May 25. The EMS was called to the uptown parking lot at 4:53 p.m., Thursday. Doug Chaney, 12, r 4 box 398, Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital. The EMS was called to Oak Street and the Syracuse-Milford Road at 3:25 p.m., on Friday. Not transported to a hospital were Marie Halsey. 23. r 1 box 438. Cromwell; Theda Smith, 12, 701 E. Pittsburg. Syracuse, Rosie Smith, 15, 701 E. Pittsburg St., Syracuse, and Mary J. Lorton,, 25.604 N. Hiawatha, Syracuse. Charles Wahlgren, 19, 436 Dolan, Syracuse, and Pam Pippenger, 43. r 4 box 34, Turtle Bay, Syracuse, were taken to Goshen Hospital on Friday after the EMS was called to 706 S. Huntington at 5:09p.m. Sarah Baker, six, 407 South Lake St., Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital on Friday, after the EMS was called to 406 S. Lake Street at 6:31 p.m. Phillip Graff, eight, 431 North Huntington Street, Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital after the EMS was called to his home at 8:07 p.m., Friday. Cindy Wine. 27, r 4 box 333, Syracuse, was not taken to a hospital by the EMS after she came to the fire station at 11:05 p.m., Friday. Ben Hoffman. 14, r 2 box 908, Cromwell and David Pogue, 46, r 2 box 908, Cromwell, were not taken to a hospital after the EMS was called to Old Road 13A and Rainbow at 4 p.m., Saturday, May 27. The EMS did not take Donald Robinson, 67, r 1 box 114A, Syracuse, to a hospital after they were call to his home at 7:01

lease on the building, and when he closed out his drug store, he had a problem of what to do with the building. It’s been repainted and spruced up for a real fine recreation room. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Dalton of Indianapolis spent the week end at Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Mrs. Mabel E. Dutterer has returned to her home on r 2 Syracuse after spending the winter at Holiday. Fla. Something of a record was established by H.M. (“Jack") and Florence Pennington when they announced they would open their Kale Island (at the channel) root beer stand for another year.

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Alkie England Alkie England, 80, r 2, Claypool, died at 12:10 a.m. Monday, May 29, 1989, in Kosciusko Community Hospital. Born November 24, 1908, in Prestonsburg, Ky., she was the daughter of Johnnie and Railtie Poe. In 1926, in Prestonsburg, she married George England, who died in 1965. A Kosciusko County resident since moving from Prestonsburg in 1942, Mrs. England was a homemaker. She was a member of Pentecostal Lighthouse Church. Her survivors include fours ons, Gene England, North Webster, James England, California, George England, Jr., Claypool, and Elmer England, Warsaw; 19 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Three sons preceded her in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 1, in Pentecostal Lighthouse Church, Warsaw, with Rev. Albert Whitaker, pastor of the church, and Rev Chad Burkhart officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery, Claypool. McHatton-Sadler Funeral Home, Warsaw, is in charge of arrangements.

p.m., Saturday Dee Stiver, 74, 7 Rose Lane, Syracuse, was taken to Goshen Hospital after he came to the fire station at 11:28 p.m., Saturday. Births LEMBERG. lan Ward Mr. and Mrs. James (Georgia) Lemberg. Lake Wawasee, r 2 box 286, Syracuse, are the parents of a son, lan Ward, born at 8 a.m. Friday, May 5, 1989, in Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne. He weighed seven pounds, nine ounces, and measured 20' 2 inches in length lan Ward has a brother. Elliott James, five years old. Maternal grandparents are Dr. Gerald Ward, Garrett, and the late Paula Ward. Paternal grandparents are Harry and Janet Lemberg. Syracuse. BROWN, Christopher Vane Mr. and Mrs. Doug (Marilyn) Brown, r 1 box 948, Milford, are the parents of a son. Christopher Vane, born at 1:22 a.m. Sunday. May 14. 1989, in Goshen Hospital. He weighed nine pounds, 4'2 ounces, and measured 21 3 4 inches in length. Christopher Vane has a brother, Drew Douglas, three years old. Maternal grandparents are Farish Howard, Nappanee, and the late Lillian Holcomb. Paternal grandparents are Halbert and Mary Brown. Syracuse, and Jean Brown, also of Syracuse. Maternal great-grandmother is Josephine Howell, Auxier, Ky. REES, Abigail Ellen Mr. and Mrs. Alun (Lois) Rees. 431'2 N. Huntington St.. Syracuse, are the parents of a

it being their 22nd successive year of operation there. Mrs. Robert Insley, Syracuse, had as luncheon guests Tuesday. Cecil Coy, Mrs. Bessie Bushong. Mrs. Phillip Leonard, and Mrs Estelle Swartz. 30 YEARS AGO, MAY 28. 1959 Relatives and friends of the forty-six graduates of Syracuse High School packed the school auditorium to overflowing Thursday night. One of the largest senior classes in the history of the school received diplomas in a commencement program reported to be most impressive, entertaining and inspirational.

Violet M. Gaugler Violet M. Gaugler. 80, Dayton, Ohio, died on Thursday, May 25, 1989, in Fountain view Place of Goshen. Born January 2, 1909, in Dayton, she was the daughter of Walter and Estelle Bushing Merkle. She was married to Richard S. Gaugler, who died July 25,1970. Mrs. Gaugler was a homemaker and was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church, Syracuse. She also was a member of Progressive Mother’s Club Alumni, Dayton, and Dayton Woman’s Club and College Club. Her survivors are one daughter Sue Gaugler, Dayton; and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Louis Erhart, and a niece, Mary Lou Erhart, both of Dayton; and a nephew, Mark Erhart, Milwaukee. Wis. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 30, in Routsong Funeral Home, Dayton, with Pastor Russell Morgan, pastor of First Lutheran Church, Dayton, officiating. Burial was in Woodland Cemetery, Dayton. Memorials may be given to American Heart Association or American Cancer Society.

daughter, Abigail Ellen, born at 2:26a.m. Friday, May 26,1989. in Goshen Hospital. She weighed six pounds, 14 ounces, and measured 204 inches in length. Abigail Ellen is the couple’s first child. Maternal grandparents are Keith and Donna Johnson. Tipton. lowa. Paternal grandparents are Les Rees, Toledo, Ohio, and Olga Martinez. Phoenix, Ariz. Maternal great-grandmother is Nellie Johnson, Osceola. lowa.

We woOld like to thank everyone for the cards, calls, visits, food and prayers during the hospital stay and passing of our loved one. Oliver Haab. A special thanks to Dr. Strycker, Dr. John Hawkins, Milford EMS, Goshen Hospital ICU staff. Apostolic Christian Church ministers and those taking part m the services. May God bless each of you. Emma Haab Alvin & Carol Haab & Children Glen & Mary Ann Gutwein & Children

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NO ONE INJURED — No one was injured when two cars collided at Oak Street and the Syracuse-Milford Road, Friday. May 26, at 3:25 p.m., in Syracuse. Failure to yield the right of way has been listed as the primary contributing circumstance in the accident. Marie Halsey, 23, Cromwell, told police she was traveling south on Oak Street in her 1987 Chevrolet Cavalier and pulled up to the stop sign at the SyracuseMilford Road. She said a school bus was blocking her view prior to turning left onto the county road into the path of a 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass driven by Mary Jane Lorton, 25, Syracuse, who was traveling west on the Syracuse-Milford Road. Damage to the Cavalier, shown in the top photo, was estimated up to $5,000 and up to $2,500 to the Oldsmobile, shown to the left. (Photo by Deb P atterson)

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