Harold K. Larsen

July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.

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Harold K. Larsen, 93, died at 1 a.m. June 1, 2009, in Grace Village Health Care, Winona Lake, where he resided.

He was born Aug. 27, 1915, in Oak Park, Ill., to Harry and Helen Klein Larsen. On June 3, 1939, he married Helen Scott, who died in 1988. He remarried on May 6, 1989, to Doris Donnelley, who survives in Carmel.

Living in Kosciusko County since 2003, he was a mechanical engineer, retiring from R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Crawfordsville. He was a member of Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, Crawfordsville; Kiwanis; and SPEBSQSA, a barbershop singers' organization. He was a 1938 Purdue University graduate.

Also surviving are three daughters, Elizabeth (and spouse Larry) Kinsey and Terri (and spouse Jim) Goebel, all of Warsaw, and Linda Hoover, Winona Lake; a son, John (and spouse Nancy, New Palestine) Larsen, Gosport; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a sister, Grace Nickerson, Elgin, Ill.; and a brother, Ralph Larsen, Oak Park, Ill. He was preceded in death by a son, a grandson and a sister.

Services will be held Monday with Dr. John Van Nuys officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville.

Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, Warsaw, is in charge of arrangements.

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Memorials to Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, 307 S. Washington St., Crawfordsville, IN 47993.

Condolences may be sent to www.redpathfruthfuneralhome.com[[In-content Ad]]

Harold K. Larsen, 93, died at 1 a.m. June 1, 2009, in Grace Village Health Care, Winona Lake, where he resided.

He was born Aug. 27, 1915, in Oak Park, Ill., to Harry and Helen Klein Larsen. On June 3, 1939, he married Helen Scott, who died in 1988. He remarried on May 6, 1989, to Doris Donnelley, who survives in Carmel.

Living in Kosciusko County since 2003, he was a mechanical engineer, retiring from R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Crawfordsville. He was a member of Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, Crawfordsville; Kiwanis; and SPEBSQSA, a barbershop singers' organization. He was a 1938 Purdue University graduate.

Also surviving are three daughters, Elizabeth (and spouse Larry) Kinsey and Terri (and spouse Jim) Goebel, all of Warsaw, and Linda Hoover, Winona Lake; a son, John (and spouse Nancy, New Palestine) Larsen, Gosport; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; a sister, Grace Nickerson, Elgin, Ill.; and a brother, Ralph Larsen, Oak Park, Ill. He was preceded in death by a son, a grandson and a sister.

Services will be held Monday with Dr. John Van Nuys officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville.

Redpath-Fruth Funeral Home, Warsaw, is in charge of arrangements.

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Memorials to Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church, 307 S. Washington St., Crawfordsville, IN 47993.

Condolences may be sent to www.redpathfruthfuneralhome.com[[In-content Ad]]
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