Archive - Jul 2, 2012
Lois A. Ball, 69, of Decatur, passed away at 12:12 a.m. on Saturday, June 30, 2012, at her residence.
She was born on July 4, 1942, in Allen County, to the late Ralph I. and Esta B. (Trader) Otis.
She married Jesse P. Ball on January 1, 1959; he died on February 14, 1988.
She was a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Decatur. Lois operated her own local cleaning service.
Calvin E. Beitler, 86, of Berne, died on Sunday.
Arrangements are pending at Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home.
Melvin G. Bixler, 86, of Berne, died this morning.
Arrangements are pending at Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home.
Betty J. Boggs, 83, a resident of rural Churubusco and mother of Decatur resident Deena (Arthur) Sloffer, passed away at 8:40 p.m. on Wednesday, June 27, 2012, at the family residence in Green Township following an extended illness.
Mrs. Boggs was born in Smith Township in Whitley County on May 14, 1929, the daughter of Orlando and Lela N. (Shlater) Geiger. She spent her formative years in the Churubusco-area and graduated from Churubusco High School in 1947.
"It's not real terrible now; I'd say comparable to that storm we had three or four years ago," Decatur Street/Sanitation Superintendent Jeremy Gilbert said at noon Sunday of the ongoing cleanup following a storm which popped up amid high heat and humidity around 3 p.m. Friday, blowing through Decatur and Adams County and creating widespread damage.
No serious injuries were reported.
By
J Swygart, Joe Spaulding
Indiana & Michigan Power website this morning showed more than 1,000 Adams County homes remained without electricity.
The Friday afternoon storm damaged trees and downed power lines as it moved through the area and interrupted electric service for over 118,000 I&M customers in the region. Early today, 48,000 homes in Allen County remained without service. In Wells County, 500 residences were still in the dark and more than 300 Jay County homes were without electrical service.
Herman E. Fosnaugh, 95, of Berne, died on Saturday at Swiss Village.
Among survivors are two sons, Corwin (Ann) Fosnaugh of Berne and Jerry (Pat) Fosnaugh, of Fort Wayne; and a daughter, Donna (Robert) Bockover of Riverside, California.
Visitation will be from 3-8 p.m. today in the Swiss Village Chapel. Funeral services are Tuesday at Trinity United Methodist Church.
Burial will be in MRE Cemetery, Berne.
A Sunday evening car-buggy mishap on U.S. 27 at 10:38 p.m. just north of the Adams-Jay County line resulted in two occupants of the buggy being airlifted to Parkview Hospital with severe injuries.
The Adams County Sheriff's Department reported this morning that Richard A. Romine, 32, Portland, was northbound on U.S. 27 when he came upon a northbound Amish buggy operated by Raymond A. Girod, 19, rural Geneva.
