Powell G. Widner
Jan 29, 2013
Powell G. Widner, 86, of Goshen, died Tuesday evening, January 29, 2013, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, where he had been since Monday. He was born in Goshen Sept. 30, 1926 to Powell H. and Ruth A. (Gunther) Widner. He married Barbara L. Rohn July 1, 1950 in Goshen. She survives along with a son, David (Janet) Widner, of...
G.B. Bruncz
Jan 29, 2013
G.B. Bruncz, 57, of Goshen, died Tuesday evening, January 29, 2013, at Eastlake Nursing and Rehabilitation, Elkhart. He had been ill since June 2012. He was born January 28, 1956 in Elkhart to L. Gene and Barbara (Postma) Bruncz. He is survived by his mother, Barbara Bruncz of Goshen, and a brother, Gordon G. (Charity) Bruncz of Huntsville, Alabama....
Ima Overholt
Jan 29, 2013
Ima Overholt, 92, of Millersburg, Ohio and formerly of Goshen, died early Tuesday morning, January 29, 2013, at Walnut Hills Nursing Home, Walnut Creek, Ohio. She was born November 16, 1920 in Kokomo to Dan and Lizzie (Sommer) Hershberger. She married Homer A. Overholt October 12, 1940 in Kokomo. He died April 13, 1998. She is survived by four...
James Curtis Barber
Jan 29, 2013
James Curtis Barber, 76, of Goshen, died Tuesday, January 29, 2013, at Elkhart General Hospital. He was born March 9, 1936 in San Francisco, California, to James Frank and Eunice (Otwell) Barber, Jr. He married Sandra Vander Werf, June 23, 1979 in Goshen. She survives. Also surviving are two children, Lynn Barber of Las Vegas, Nevada, and Greg Barber...
Naomi Winter
Jan 29, 2013
Naomi E. Winter, 96, of Goshen, died Tuesday evening, January 29, 2013, at Greencroft HealthCare, Goshen. She was born May 18, 1916 in New Carlisle, Ohio, to Elmer D. and Ruth H. (Lutz) Mast. She married Chester B. Winter, June 27, 1940 in Elkhart. He preceded her in death in 1985. She is survived by her children, Jane (John)...
Ernest Chupp
Jan 28, 2013
Ernest Chupp 97, of Goshen died Monday night, January 28, 2013 at Greencroft Healthcare. He was born Nov. 29, 1915 in Elkhart County to Henry and Fannie (Weirick) Chupp. On January 15, 1939 he married Elsie Miller. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Delbert L. (Janice) Chupp, of Elkhart, Ron M. (MaryColette) Chupp, of Jim Thorpe, Pa.; five...
Nancy L. Yoder
Jan 26, 2013
Nancy L. Yoder 68, of Goshen, died Saturday January 26, 2013, at her home after an 18 month illness. She was born March 2, 1944 in Nappanee to Thomas and Pearl (Adams) Pletcher. On May 2, 1970 she married Romayne Yoder. He survives. Also surviving are three children; a daughter, Tonya (Allan) Ross, of Warsaw; two sons, Kirt (Melinda)...
Donald "Skip" Bickel
Jan 26, 2013
Donald "Skip" Bickel, 60, of Edwardsburg, Michigan, passed away Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013 while with his family, following a year long battle with cancer. He was born March 23, 1952 to Max and Margaret (Girten) Bickel. Skip is survived by his wife Jane (Weldy) and daughter, Jessica Dallas of St. Augustine, Florida. Also surviving are sister, Rebecca Bonham of...
Timothy Andrew Giddens
Jan 25, 2013
Timothy A. Giddens , 55, of Goshen, passed away peacefully Friday, January 25, 2013, at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis. Tim was born March 15, 1957 in Franklin, to Howard R. and Wanda J. Giddens. Tim spent most of his youth in Taipei, Taiwan where his father worked for Eli Lilly. He graduated in 1975 from Columbus North High School and...
Phyllis C. Piper
Jan 23, 2013
Mrs. Phyllis C. Piper 85, of North Webster, died Wednesday afternoon, January 23, 2013, at the home of her daughter, Jane. She was born August 26, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois, to Albert and Marie (Flanders) Clark. On July 5, 1946, she married Edgar Glen Piper in Independence, Kan. He died in 2005. She is survived by three daughters, Jane...
James Anderson Work, Iii
Jan 22, 2013
James Anderson Work, III, 97, of Goshen, died Tuesday morning, January 22, 2013, at IU Health Goshen Hospital. James was born June 19, 1915, in Elkhart, where he lived most of his life. He was the son of Dr. James A. and Mrs. Bess (Middleton) Work, Jr. He was a 1932 graduate of Elkhart High School. He attended DePauw...
Bette Sponseller
Jan 21, 2013
Bette M. Sponseller 90, of Elkhart, died Monday morning, January 21, 2013 at Miller's Merry Manor, Syracuse. She was born March 30, 1922, in Cass County, Michigan, to Bert and Orpha (Meadows) Leist. On June 22, 1940, she married Robert E. Sponseller in Milford. He died October 14, 1984. She is survived by a daughter, Jean Sponseller of Creston,...
Richard Culin
Jan 21, 2013
Richard W. Culin, 80, of Akron, Ohio, died early Monday morning, January 21, 2013 at Rockynol Retirement Center. He was born March 28, 1932 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Clarence Culin and Edythe G. (Wissinger) Culin Thomas. He is survived by his brother-in-law, Dusan "Duke"; a niece, Shelley and a nephew, Mike Joksimovic; and his best friend of fifty years,...
Randall Robert Hostetler
Jan 19, 2013
Randall Robert Hostetler, 58, of Middlebury, died at his home Saturday afternoon, January 19, 2013. He had been ill the past three and a half years with leukemia. He was born in Goshen October 29, 1954 to LeRoy and Carolyn (Breniser) Hostetler of Middlebury. He married Karla Gardner, October 1, 1978 at Koontz Lake Missionary Church. She survives along...
Lois Ardell Ramseyer
Jan 19, 2013
Lois A. Ramseyer, 94, of Goshen, was the 6th child born to Allen W. and Anna Inez (Shupe) Kuhns on January 5, 1919 at Harper, Kansas. Her first three months were spent in the nursery at Bethel Hospital, Newton, Kansas, while her mother was recuperating from pneumonia. The family moved to LaJunta, Colorado in 1919. She was baptized at...
Ann Keener Gingrich
Jan 18, 2013
Ann Keener Gingrich, 81, of Goshen, passed away Friday evening, January 18, 2013, at her home. She was born April 15, 1931 in Little Britain, Pennsylvania to Clayton and Martha (Gish) Keener. She married Paul Musser Gingrich August 11, 1951 in Mechanic Grove, Pennsylvania. He survives. Also surviving are four sons, Larry P. (Sheila Kline) Gingrich of Birdsboro, Pennsylvania.;...
David E. Stahly
Jan 17, 2013
David E. Stahly, 71, of Goshen and Syracuse, died at his home Thursday afternoon, January 17, 2013. He had been ill since August. He was born October 11, 1941 in Bluffton to Albert Merle and Lois (Gilliom) Stahly. He married Karen Susanna Good June 12, 1965 in Fort Wayne. She survives along with a son, Brian (Sonja) Stahly of...
Joyce Catherine Lebold
Jan 17, 2013
Joyce C. Lebold, 85, of Goshen, died Thursday evening, January 17, 2013, at The Maples at Waterford Crossing where she had been several months. She was born October 21, 1927 in New Paris to Dallas and Nellie (Howard) Rohrer. She married Harold Schrock June 1, 1946 in Millersburg. He died April 16, 1992. On May 13, 1999 she married...
Sylvia Ethel Martin
Jan 16, 2013
Sylvia Ethel Schrock Martin, 88, of Goshen, died Wednesday, January 16, 2013, at Greencroft Healthcare. She was born July 11, 1924 on a farm on County Road 9 in rural Goshen, to William Metzler and Mary Ethel (Van Scoik) Schrock. She married Dale Ernest Martin August 21, 1949 at the Dunlap Evangelical United Brethren Church. He preceded her in...
Miriam K. Swartley
Jan 16, 2013
Miriam Swartley, 97, of Goshen, died peacefully Wednesday morning, January 16, 2013, surrounded by many of her family. She was born in Mainland, Pennsylvania, December 5, 1915 to Allen M. and Mattie Kulp Landis. On October 23, 1943 she married G. Merrill Swartley at the home of her parents with her brother, Abram Landis officiating. After marriage she joined...
