May 5, 2015

Mr. Donald Deane Brown, 77, Crawfordsville, passed away Tuesday, May 5th, at 9:15 PM, in the Wellbrooke of Crawfordsville. He was born June 1, 1937, in Elmdale, to Charles H. and Inus M. (Haire) Brown. He married Martha J. Grimes on March 2nd, 1963, in New Market. She survives.

Mr. Brown in retired in 1999...

May 3, 2015

Evelyn Marie Hendricks, 85, of North Fort Myers, Florida, and formerly of Lafayette, Crawfordsville and Henry County, Indiana went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, May 3, 2015 in Florida. Evelyn was born February 25, 1930 in Henry County, the daughter of Kermit and Corrine C. (nee Sweigart) McLain. She attended Cadiz High School before she married...

Apr 28, 2015

Mr. James Lee "Jim" Lewis, 78, New Market, passed away Tuesday, April 28th, at 6:45 PM, in the Lane House Nursing Home. He was born December 18th, 1936, in Rosedale, Indiana, to George Harold and Thelma (Kelsheimer) Lewis. He married Marilyn Louise Beaty in June 24th, 1955, in Terre Haute. She survives.

Mr. Lewis worked...

Apr 25, 2015

Mr. Russell Alva Sarver, 90, Crawfordsville, passed away Saturday, April 25th, at 9:20 PM in the Williamsburg Healthcare. He was born January 14th, 1925, in Montgomery County, to Earl Clarkson and Eva Ethel (Keller) Sarver. He married Virginia Ruth Stultz on January 24th, 1946, in Indianapolis. She survives.

Mr. Sarver retired as an Assistant Folder...

Apr 23, 2015

Carl W. Downen, 99, passed away April 23, 2015 at Ben Hur Nursing Home.

He was born Feb. 7, 1916 on a farm near Shelburn, Indiana, to Ceryl B. and Ethel (Ford) Downen. He attended a 1-room school in Hymera for 2 years. He was a graduate of Sullivan High School and Purdue University School...

Apr 23, 2015

Mrs. Esther Louise Schulthes passed away April 23rd, at Wellbrooke of Crawfordsville. She was born June 1, 1926m in Urbana, Illinois. She was the oldest child of Robert William Patrick and Esther Harding Patrick. She graduated from Ellettsville High School in 1944.

Esther "Patty" worked at the Pentagon during WWII. She married Wes July 19,...

Apr 23, 2015

Mrs. Helen C. Ball, 87, Crawfordsville, passed away Thursday, April 23rd, at 7:40 PM, in the Lane House Nursing Home. She was born December 21st, 1927, in Crawfordsville, to Bailey and Artie (Fulp) Duncan. She married Edsel Ball who preceded her in death.

Mrs. Ball retired in 1987 from Culver Union Hospital, where she had...

Apr 22, 2015

Mr. Alan Grimes, 70, Crawfordsville, passed away unexpectedly Wednesday at 2:39 PM in the Franciscan St. Elizabeth Crawfordsville Hospital. He was born May 7th, 1944, in F. to Willis E. and Mary Elizabeth (Keefe) Grimes. He married Carol Demaree on December 31st, 2003 in Crawfordsville. She survives.

Mr. Grimes retired as a Traffic Manager from...

Apr 21, 2015

Mr. Kenneth James "Kenny" Thompson, 80, Crawfordsville, passed away Tuesday, April 21st, at 2:35 PM, in the Franciscan St. Elizabeth Crawfordsville Hospital. He was born May 31st, 1934, in Greenwood, Indiana, to William H. and Eunice (Logsdon) Thompson. He first married Rebecca Louise Land who preceded him in death. He later married Marjorie L. Shelton on August...

Apr 19, 2015

Mrs. Carolyn Sue Nicholls, 67, Darlington, passed away Sunday, April 19th, at 7:21 PM, in the Witham Memorial Hospital, Lebanon. She was born December 20th, 1947, in Crawfordsville, to Leland, Sr. and Elsie Lucille (Geiger) Axsom. She married Rodney H. "Nick" Nicholls on June 20th, 1987, in Crawfordsville. He survives.

Mrs. Nicholls had done factory...

Apr 19, 2015

Mary Ellen (Callihan) DeMotte, age 87, of Kingman passed away at 2:26 am on Sunday, April 19, 2015 at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Conkling KY on November 2, 1927 to the late William and Tish (Marshall) Callihan.

In 1948 in Newport KY she married the love of her life,...

Apr 15, 2015

Vera M. Demoret, 84, of Crawfordsville, died during the night in her home on Wednesday, April 15.

She was a 1948 graduate of New Richmond High School and worked for a time at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company where she met Donald Demoret to whom she was later married. She also assisted her husband...

Apr 15, 2015

Mr. Jack Wesley Walker, age 86, of Greencastle passed away at St. Vincent Seton specialty Hospital in Indianapolis, IN. on Wednesday April 15, 2015. Jack was born on March 31, 1929 at Crawfordsville, IN. the son of Jack Ernest and Edith Marie Pierce Walker. He grew up in the Waynetown area and graduated from Waynetown High School in 1947 before...

Apr 13, 2015

Debbie Jane (McClamroch) Keffer, 57, of New Ross, passed away Monday, April 13, 2015.

Born on January 25, 1958 in Crawfordsville, she was the daughter of Merle and Velma (Cromer).

On December 19, 1981 in Crawfordsville, she married Dan Keffer, who survives.

A graduate of Crawfordsville High School, Debbie earned a...

Apr 10, 2015

Mary Jane (Denny) Nixon of Danville, IL and formerly of Kingman, IN passed away April 10, 2015 at St. Vincent Hospice in Indianapolis.

She was a pioneer of open heart surgery in 1965 at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio at a time when there were only 3 hospitals in the United States performing them. By...

Apr 10, 2015

Mrs. Mildred Elaine Woten, age 78, of Waynetown passed away at 1;40 am Friday April 10th at IU Health Arnett Hospital, Lafayette, In. Mildred was born at Potomac, Illinois on Frebruary 16, 1937 the daughter of Carroll Hershel and Ethel Blanche Talbbott Rhodes. After moving to Crawfordsville as a child she graduated from Crawfordsville, High School. Mildred married Marion H....

Apr 8, 2015

Jane (Gunnison) Beaman, age 92, of Covington passed away at 11:55pm on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at Provena United Samaritans Medical Center in Danville, IL. She was born in Brazil, IN on January 9, 1923 to the late Paul N and Gertrude May (Turner) Gunnison.

She graduated from Brazil High School in 1940 and graduated...

Apr 3, 2015

Tyler Mathew Reeves, age 17, of Crawfordsville passed away at 2:29pm on April 3, 2015 at Franciscan St. Elizabeth Hospital - Crawfordsville. He was born in Crawfordsville on June 23, 1997 to Craig and Lora (Alexander) Reeves.

Tyler was a junior at Crawfordsville High School and a member of the Crawfordsville First United Methodist Church....

Apr 2, 2015

Mrs. Alice Louise Ridge, age 74 of Waynetown, passed away on Wednesday April 2, 2015 at IU Health Arnett Hospital in Lafayette, IN. Alice was born on September 4, 1940 at Sterling, IN., the daughter of Troy and Mattie (nee Groce) Carr. She attended school in Sterling, IN and Newtown, IN. She attended church at Waynetown Christian Church and had...

Mar 31, 2015

Mrs. Nancy (Flock) Lewis, 78, of Crawfordsville, passed away at 5:05 AM March 31st, 2015, at St. Mary Healthcare, Lafayette. She was born March 20th, 1937, in Bloomingdale, Indiana, to Carson and Flora (Trimble) Flock. She married Dave Lewis on June 15th, 1957, in the Bloomingdale Friends Church. He survives.

Mrs. Lewis was a 1955...