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March 17th, 2011
Donald Barkley, 81, of Decatur, died Wednesday in Adams Memorial Hospital.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Zwick and Jahn Funeral Home, Decatur.
Tony R. “Moss” Beery, 58, of Decatur, died at his residence on March 15, 2011.
Tony was born on September 22, 1952, in Decatur to the late Marvin L. and Leona L. (Boley) Beery.
Tony retired on January 3, 2011, from Bunge North America.
He was a member of American Legion Post 43 and Moose 1311, both in Decatur, and served in the United States Army Reserve.
Margaret O. Kuhn, 103, formerly of Decatur, died at 9:05 a.m. Wednesday in Christian Care Center at Bluffton.
She was born on October 28, 1907, in Willshire, Ohio to John M. and Jennie F. Hileman Byer.
She married Carl J. Kuhn on June 16, 1935 in Huntington, Indiana; he passed away on August 20, 1993.
Ivan L. Nevil, 72, of Geneva, who served as Indiana's State Fire Marshall and was a member of the Geneva Fire Department for more than 50 years, died Wednesday in Lutheran Hospital at Fort Wayne.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Downing and Glancy Funeral Home, Geneva.
Evelyn E. Roth, 93, of Hudson, Indiana, died Tuesday.
She was born in Berne on August 29, 1917, to John and Gladys Farlow Ludy.
Among survivors are a son, Alan R. Roth of Auburn.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Backesto Cemetery of rural Berne. There is no visitation. Funeral arrangements were by Johnson Funeral Home at Hudson.
March 16th
"It was time," stated Bellmont football coach Rick Burkhalter, who turned in his resignation Tuesday afternoon after two years as head coach and eight years as an assistant.
"If they have teaching openings, and can fill that with a football coach, then that's what they need to do," said Burkhalter, who took the reins for the 2009 season along with Greg Meyer, who then stepped back as an assistant head coach for 2010.
Five members of the state finals Bellmont wrestling team were honored recently for more than athletic achievement as two were placed on the first team Academic All-State and three more were honorable mention All-State.
Ryley Hankenson, the 171-pound wrestler for the Braves, joined fellow senior and 152-pound wrestler Will Busse on the Academic first team.
A policy which has unofficially been in effect was made official on Tuesday night by Decatur City Council: E-waste (electronic devices) will no longer be collected by the city during regular trash collections. And the ban extends to heavy trash pickups.
With the first of two heavy trash collections this year due to come up the first week of April, Mayor John Schultz reminded council of new federal regulations which went into effect on January 1, banning electronic devices from landfills.
Adams County Sheriff Shane Rekeweg says he's making progress in settling financial accounts with Adams Memorial Hospital over medical bills incurred by inmates at the county jail.
Rekeweg told the March meeting of the Adams County Council that the overall hospital bill for inmates was almost $100,000, but has been whittled down to $36,000.
William Howard Michaels, 73, of rural Decatur, passed away on Sunday, March 13, in the intensive care unit of Parkview Hospital at Fort Wayne.
He was born in Decatur on November 12, 1937, to Marion Michaels and Alice Gerber Michaels.
