Jolene K. Reiff

December 27, 2024 at 4:32 p.m.


NORTH MANCHESTER – Jolene K. Reiff, 89, of North Manchester, died at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, at Timbercrest Healthcare Center, in North Manchester.  
She was born on Dec. 7, 1935, in Warsaw, to John and Marie Morris Kerlin.
Jolene was a 1953 graduate of Silver Lake High School. She married Richard Reiff at the Silver Lake Methodist Church on June 15, 1957; he died Sept. 21, 2001. Jolene was a bank teller at Indiana Lawrence Bank and First Financial Bank in North Manchester. She was a member of the Liberty Mills Community Church, the North Manchester Business Professional Women and the Psi Iota Xi Sorority of North Manchester. Jolene enjoyed working crafts.
She is survived by her daughter, Rebecca "Becky" (Michael) Murphy; granddaughter, Sydney Marie McQuern; stepgrandchildren, Christopher Murphy and Dorothy (Jacob) Brundage; and stepgreat-granddaughter, Annalise Brundage, all of Fayetteville, Ga. She was also preceded in death by her parents.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 at Timbercrest Chapel, 2201 East St., North Manchester, with Chaplain Karen Eberly officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester. Friends may call 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Timbercrest. Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Bender Chapel, 207 W. Main St., North Manchester.
Preferred memorials are Wabash County Cancer Society or the Honeywell Foundation.
The memorial guest book for Jolene may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.

NORTH MANCHESTER – Jolene K. Reiff, 89, of North Manchester, died at 4:45 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024, at Timbercrest Healthcare Center, in North Manchester.  
She was born on Dec. 7, 1935, in Warsaw, to John and Marie Morris Kerlin.
Jolene was a 1953 graduate of Silver Lake High School. She married Richard Reiff at the Silver Lake Methodist Church on June 15, 1957; he died Sept. 21, 2001. Jolene was a bank teller at Indiana Lawrence Bank and First Financial Bank in North Manchester. She was a member of the Liberty Mills Community Church, the North Manchester Business Professional Women and the Psi Iota Xi Sorority of North Manchester. Jolene enjoyed working crafts.
She is survived by her daughter, Rebecca "Becky" (Michael) Murphy; granddaughter, Sydney Marie McQuern; stepgrandchildren, Christopher Murphy and Dorothy (Jacob) Brundage; and stepgreat-granddaughter, Annalise Brundage, all of Fayetteville, Ga. She was also preceded in death by her parents.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31 at Timbercrest Chapel, 2201 East St., North Manchester, with Chaplain Karen Eberly officiating. Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, North Manchester. Friends may call 10 to 11 a.m. Tuesday at Timbercrest. Arrangements by Grandstaff-Hentgen Bender Chapel, 207 W. Main St., North Manchester.
Preferred memorials are Wabash County Cancer Society or the Honeywell Foundation.
The memorial guest book for Jolene may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.

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