Archive - Obituary
May 23rd, 2011
Levi D.J. Schwartz, 77, of rural Berne, died Sunday in Adams Memorial Hospital.
He was born to Joe E. and Dehlia Schwartz Schwartz.
Berdella Liechty, 73, of Berne, died today in Adams Memorial Hospital.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home, Berne.
May 20th
Norman Van "Norm" Miller, 72, of Convoy, Ohio, went to be with the Lord on May 18, 2011. He died at Select Specialty Hospital in Fort Wayne.
Norm was born on March 25, 1939, in Van Wert County, Ohio. He was the son of Van and Pearl (Fisk) Miller and stepmother Helen F. Miller.
On October 31, 1964, he married Arlene Arens.
Norm was a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church in Decatur.
Richard A. “Dick” Roudebush, 65, of Decatur, formerly of Fort Pierce, Florida, died unexpectedly in Adams Memorial Hospital's emergency room on Wednesday, May 18, 2011.
He was born on February 8, 1946, in Decatur to the late James H. Roudebush and Audrey A. (Velez) Lee.
Ted Swoveland, 75, of Berne, died Thursday in Chalet Village Nursing Home.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Yager-Kirchhofer Funeral Home, Berne.
May 19th
Veda L. Edlund, 87, of Decatur, passed away on Tuesday, May 17, 2011, at Adams Memorial Hospital in Decatur.
Born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, she grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota; lived most of her married life in Michigan; and moved to Indiana after the death of her husband in 1973.
She was a homemaker and educator.
While in Fort Wayne, she worked for 10 years with the Brookside-Parkerdale Association neighborhood watch.
Mrs. R. Madeleine Youse Houk, 93, of Decatur, died on May 17, 2011, at Adams Memorial Hospital.
She was born on August 22, 1917, in Monroeville to Dwight and Olga Brown Youse of Hoagland, where she was reared and educated.
She married Robert C. Houk on July 21, 1943; he passed away in May of 1999.
Norman V. Miller, 72, of Decatur, died Wednesday in St. Joseph Hospital at Fort Wayne.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Haggard-Sefton and Hirschy Funeral Home, Decatur.
Richard A. Roudebush, 65, of Decatur, died Wednesday at Adams Memorial Hospital.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Haggard-Sefton and Hirschy Funeral Home, Decatur.
May 18th
The obituary notice in Tuesday's edition incorrectly listed the wrong middle initial for Rhonda E. Higginbotham, 51, of Fort Wayne, who died on Sunday.
