Columbia City, IN. Obituaries
Max L. Hilligoss
Feb 12, 2020
Max L. Hilligoss, 102, of South Whitley, IN passed away Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at Heritage of Huntington. Born on June 12, 1917 in Huntington County, he was the son of Arthur G. and Dorothy M. (Marshall) Hilligoss. He played basketball and baseball while attending Clear Creek High School and graduated with the Class of 1935. On February...
Maxine Eatherton
Feb 11, 2020
Maxine Joan (Corbin) Eatherton, 93, of Columbia City, Indiana stepped into eternity Tuesday morning, February 11, 2020. Born September 13, 1926, she was the older twin born to Alva Perry and Ruby Camilla (Kennedy) Corbin of Wharton, Ohio, Wyandot County. Her twin brother Max Junior Corbin preceded her in death. She graduated from the Wharton High School with...
Lucille Welch
Feb 11, 2020
Lucille (Crick) (Peterson) Welch, 97, formerly of Kimmell, passed away at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday, February 11, 2020 at Lutheran Life Villages, Fort Wayne. Born March 9, 1922 in Fort Wayne, she was the daughter of Fernando and Lucinda (VanAuman) Crick. She graduated from Elmhurst High School with the Class of 1940. Wanting to serve her country and help...
Karen Wolf
Feb 10, 2020
Karen Wolf, 80, of Larwill, Indiana, passed away at 2:22 p.m. Monday, February 10, 2020 at Parkview Regional Medical Center. Born on October 4, 1939 in Whitley County, she was the daughter of Jess and Madge (Sharp) Mathias. She grew up on her family's farm and graduated from Larwill High School with the Class of 1957. On February...
Carole Saari
Feb 9, 2020
Carole Saari, age 72, passed away at 6:22 pm Sunday, February 9, 2020 at Parkview Whitley Hospital in Columbia City, Indiana. She was born in the state of Washington on February 2, 1948. Carole spent her career as a traveling nurse and retired from Parkview Regional Medical Center as a surgical nurse. She is survived by her son...
H. June Brock
Feb 8, 2020
Bold, outspoken, loving, and loyal are just a few ways to describe H. June Brock. Several events which occurred in 1921 include New York Yankee pitcher Babe Ruth sets new home run record, Wonder Bread is sold nationally for the first time, Betty Crocker was developed to help with cooking questions, and on May 31, 1921, Reid and...
Erma I. Buckles
Feb 4, 2020
Erma I. Buckles, 100, of Columbia City, IN passed away at 1:25 a.m. Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at Miller's at Oak Pointe. Born September 2, 1919 in Noble County, she was the daughter of Owen E. and Florence I. (Moroney) Fought. She graduated from Albion High School with the Class of 1937. On July 2, 1937, she married...
Clarence L. Soest
Feb 3, 2020
Clarence L. Soest, age 94, of Fort Wayne, IN, passed away at 3:45 am on Monday, February 3, 2020 at Hearth of Sycamore Village, Fort Wayne. Born on October 3, 1925 in Fort Wayne, he was the son of Clarence F. and Mary (Fuchshuber) Soest. Clarence attended South Side High School and graduated with the Class of 1944....
William Stephen "Steve" McMillen
Feb 1, 2020
William Stephen "Steve" McMillen, 74, of Columbus, Ohio, died at 12:34 a.m. on Saturday, February 1, 2020. Born on November 24, 1945, in Crossville, Tennessee, he was the son of Gordon A. and Barbara (Resor) McMillen. At the time of his birth, the McMillen family was living in Tennessee while Steve's father worked on the Manhattan Project, an...
Ralph W. Anderson
Jan 30, 2020
Dedicated, intelligent, accepting and professional were just a few ways Ralph Anderson's family could describe such a wonderful man. He was competitive but humble and quiet about winning. He had a great sense of humor, was not one to judge others and easy to talk with. You could go to Ralph with a problem and he was great...
Henry Whiteman
Jan 29, 2020
Henry Whiteman Jr., 76, of Fort Wayne, passed away Wednesday, January 29, 2020 at Parkview Regional Medical Center. Born on July 9, 1943, he was the son of Henry "Hank" L., Sr. and Ruth Leon Whiteman. He worked on a farm in Whitley County and is survived by his sister, Linda Whiteman and brother, Robert "Dean" Whiteman. Funeral...
Dennis L. Judd
Jan 28, 2020
Dennis L. Judd, 71, of Columbia City, IN passed away unexpectedly of natural causes Tuesday morning, January 28, 2020 at his home. Born on February 24, 1948 in Columbia City, he was the oldest son of Glen and Evelyn (Hartman) Judd. As he attended Marshall Middle School, he loved sports and took care of the school's score books,...
Kathleen A. Marker
Jan 28, 2020
Kathleen A. Marker, 67, of Fort Wayne, IN passed away at 11:34 p.m. Tuesday, January 28, 2020 at her daughter's home. Born July 2, 1952 in Fort Wayne, she was the daughter of John and Darlene (Bradshaw) Fey. She grew up in Whitley County, attended Thorncreek School and graduated from Columbia City Joint High School with the Class...
Joan Weigold
Jan 27, 2020
Strong, funny and adventurous were a few ways Joan Weigold's family could describe her. She was an intelligent gal who had a feisty side to her and was fearless. Joan lived her life to its fullest and experienced many wonderful things including a loving family and being able to travel around the world and teaching others in several...
Norma J. Bolinger
Jan 22, 2020
In 1932, most Americans were struggling as they entered the third year of the Great Depression. The Ford Motor Corp. produced the Model Y automobile, the first parking meter was developed, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) aired their first public television program. Families at...
Martha M. Essex
Jan 20, 2020
Martha M. Essex, 92, of Columbia City, IN, passed away at 2:08 p.m. Monday, January 20, 2020 at her home. Born February 3, 1927 in Fort Wayne, she was the daughter of Fred W. and Marie (Rough) Busche. She attended Fort Wayne Community Schools and on August 6, 1950 she married Lester Essex. In 1953, she and Lester...
Mabel A. Clark
Jan 17, 2020
Mabel A. Clark, 82, of Fort Wayne, passed away at 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 17, 2020 at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home. Born on August 7, 1937 in Fort Wayne, she was the daughter of Thomas A. and Lillian (Groerian) Clark. Mabel grew up in Fort Wayne and graduated from Elmhurst High School with the Class of 1955....
Betty Scott
Jan 13, 2020
Betty Scott, age 90, of Fort Wayne, IN, and formerly of Columbia City, passed away at 12:30 am on Monday, January 13, 2020 at Byron Health Center, Fort Wayne. Born on March 28, 1929, in Basin, WY, she was the daughter of Willis and Elva (Zehr) Gilmore. Betty attended Pettisville High School in Pettisville, OH and graduated with...
Joel G. Moss
Jan 11, 2020
Joel Moss (he always answered the phone with his full name) was one of those personalities that was larger than life. He teased everyone - wait staff in restaurants, check-out clerks, telemarketers, his employees, essentially everyone. When dining out, he held his cup up in the air when he needed more coffee and pointed to it with a...
Dakota Messmann
Jan 6, 2020
Dakota "Cody" Lee Messmann, 23, of Columbia City, Indiana, passed away Monday morning, January 6, 2020 from injuries sustained in a car accident. Born December 28, 1996 at Whitley Memorial Hospital, he was the son of Chuck Lucarelli and Nicole Messman-Green. As a boy, Dakota enjoyed playing video games, shooting air soft guns and playing with ERTL Farm...
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