Phyllis L. Luke
Feb 19, 2016
Phyllis L. Luke, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio, died peacefully at 10:10 A.M. on Friday, February 19, 2016, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan. Mrs. Luke was a homemaker and a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Bryan, where she was also a member of the Shamrock Circle. She had worked at K-Mart and the Sport Shop. Phyllis was...
Joseph A. Bost
Feb 16, 2016
Joseph Anthony Bost, age 72, of Bryan, Ohio, and recently of Cedar Park, Texas, passed on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at New Hope Manor. Mr. Bost retired from General Motors in Defiance after 26 years of service. He later worked as a security guard at Defiance College and drove cars for Integrity Motors. Joseph was a US Navy veteran and...
Suzanne M. (Manon) Kimmel
Feb 14, 2016
Suzanne M. (Manon) Kimmel, age 68, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 3:29 P.M. on Sunday, February 14, 2016, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was a patient. Mrs. Kimmel was a 1965 graduate of Bryan High School and received her associate degree from Ivy Tech in Fort Wayne as a dietician. She was employed by...
Normagene Andres
Feb 14, 2016
Normagene Andres, age 87, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:05 A.M. on Sunday, February 14, 2016, at the University of Toledo Medical College, where she was a patient, after a brief illness. Mrs. Andres was salutatorian of the 1946 Stryker High School graduating class and worked alongside her husband on their dairy farm for forty-five years. She was a member...
Richard "Shorty" E. Fritch
Feb 13, 2016
Richard E. “Shorty” Fritch, age 87, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 5:13 A.M. on Saturday, February 13, 2016, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was patient. Mr. Fritch was a 1947 graduate of Edgerton High School, where he was class president. He had been employed by Day and Day Oil in Edgerton, which later became ARCO, and...
Marilyn "Joanne" Adair
Feb 12, 2016
Marilyn “Joanne” Adair, age 89, of Paulding, Ohio, and formerly of Sherwood, Ohio, died at 9:26 A.M. on Friday, February 12, 2016, at the Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice, near Defiance, Ohio. Mrs. Adair was a homemaker. Marilyn was born on January 14, 1927, in Jackson, Michigan. She married Vaughn K. Adair on November 7, 1946, and he preceded her...
Jack D. Sutton
Feb 9, 2016
Jack D. Sutton, age 89, of Edon, Ohio, died at 7:15 A.M. on Tuesday, February, 9, 2016, at Betz Nursing Home, in Auburn, Indiana, after an extended illness. Mr. Sutton was a1945 graduate of Metz, Indiana, High School and was a lifelong farmer. He was employed by Modernair in Angola, Indiana, and transferred to The Aro Corporation in Bryan, Ohio,...
Clarence H. Wuebben
Feb 9, 2016
Clarence H. Wuebben, age 93, of Edon, Ohio, died at 7:05 A.M. on Tuesday, February 9, 2016, at Commuity Hospitals and Wellness Center in Bryan, where he was a patient. Mr. Wuebben was a veteran of the United States Army, serving during World War II. He was employed by the Edon Farmers Co-op in the Feed Mill and Seed Plant...
Marilyn M. Herman
Feb 7, 2016
Marilyn M. Herman, age 77, of rural Edgerton, Ohio, died at 2:39 A.M. on Sunday, February 7, 2016, in her home, surrounded by her family, after an extended illness. Mrs. Herman was a 1956 graduate of Edgerton High School and graduated from the Mercy School of Nursing as a Registered Nurse. She was employed as a surgical nurse at Williams...
Connie J. Courtney
Feb 6, 2016
Connie J. Courtney, age 67, of Springfield, Ohio, peacefully went home to be with the Lord, Saturday morning, February 6, 2016. She was born in Bryan, Ohio, on April 19, 1948, the daughter of Darrell E. and Kathryn Betty (Shinabarger) Thorp. She was a 1966 graduate of Bryan High School and attended Bowling Green State University, majoring in early childhood...
Tommie Nichols
Feb 4, 2016
Tommie Nichols, age 69, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 1:40 P.M. on Thursday, February 4, 2016, at St. Joseph Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient, after an extended illness. Mr. Nichols was employed by Edgerton Manufacturing until the plant closed and then by Dietrich Industries until his retirement. He was member of the Butler, Indiana,...
Michael T. Huffman
Feb 3, 2016
Michael T. Huffman, age 51, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 10:43 A.M. on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Huffman had been employed as a dishwasher at Myro’s Pizza for the past few years and had previously worked at Sauder Manufacturing. Michael was a self-proclaimed American Picker. He enjoyed traveling to auctions...
Doris Callender Flowers
Feb 3, 2016
Doris Callender Flowers, age 94, passed to her eternal home on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, in Hicksville, Ohio, where she had been a resident of Hickory Creek of Hicksville. She was born on August 18, 1921, to Glen E. and Vesta (Brown) Callender in Edgerton, Ohio. She was a 1939 graduate of Edgerton High School. She married Milton J. Flowers...
Doran R. Hitt
Feb 3, 2016
Doran R. Hitt, age 82, of Stryker, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at his home. Doran was a graduate of Bryan High School and a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving in Germany during the Korean War. He worked at the former Holabird company, retired from The Aro Corporation after more than 30 years of service and...
James A. Baker
Feb 2, 2016
James A. Baker, age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:22 P.M. on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at Community Hospitals of Williams County-Bryan following a brief illness. Mr. Baker worked in warehousing for GM in Los Angeles, for 25 years. He was a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving in Japan from 1951-1955. James A. Baker was born...
Vernon "Ray" Babb
Feb 2, 2016
Vernon "Ray" Babb, age 76, of Bryan, Ohio, and also a twenty-year resident of Saugatuck, Michigan, died on Tuesday, February 2, 2016, in his home after a brief illness. Mr. Babb was a 1959 graduate of Bryan High School and had operated several businesses throughout his work career, including Edon Auto Salvage, Northway Auto Sales, and Babb Trucking, which he...
Edward D. Kline
Feb 1, 2016
Edward D. Kline, age 75, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:00 P.M. on Monday, February 1, 2016, at Evergreen Manor Nursing Center, in Montpelier Ohio, where he was resident. Mr. Kline was a lifelong farmer and was a veteran of the United States Army, serving in Vietnam. He had also been employed by the Butler Fertilizer Plant until it closed...
Norman Lawrence Arnett
Jan 31, 2016
Norm Arnett of Columbus, Ohio, was three weeks into rehabilitation following a brain hemorrhage, when his heart stopped. He was 78. He grew up in the picturesque, small town of Bryan, in northwest Ohio, in the 1940s and 1950s. His parents are Nelson Park Arnett and Leona Tadsen. His grandmother, Clara Elizabeth Arnett, raised him, surrounded by a loving cast...
Lynn E. Kundard
Jan 30, 2016
Lynn E. Kundard, age 58, of Edon, Ohio, died at 4:15 P.M. on Saturday, January 30, 2016, at Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient after a brief illness. A lifelong resident of Edon, Mr. Kundard was a 1975 graduate of Edon High School. He was currently employed by Harger’s Meats and Catering in Angola,...
John L. Fackler
Jan 29, 2016
John L. Fackler, age 71, of Bryan, Ohio, and formerly a long-time resident of Hudson, Michigan, died at 12:15 P.M. on Friday, January 29, 2016, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan. Mr. Fackler was a veteran of the United States Army and had been employed at Metalloy Die Cast in Hudson until his retirement. He...