OBITUARIES
Rev. Jerome ‘Jerry’ Hoskins
NORTH MANCHESTER – The Rev. Jerome "Jerry" Hoskins, born on Sept. 30, 1944, in Bell County, Ky., to Morris Neal and Nellie Hampton Hoskins, passed away on Jan. 3, 2025, at Parkview Whitley Hospital in Columbia City.
Jeffrey ‘Jeff’ W. Harding
Jeffrey “Jeff” W. Harding, 72, Warsaw, died Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025.
Loretta B. Veenstra
Loretta B. Veenstra, 84, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at Peabody Retirement Community in North Manchester.
Martha Lee Ault
Martha Lee Neff Ault passed away peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital in Warsaw, Indiana, at the age of 97.
Clell Rowe
Clell Rowe, of Silver Lake, went home to be with his Lord and reunited with his loving wife at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, at the age of 90.
Lawrence Lee ‘Boomer’ Priser
Lawrence Lee "Boomer" Priser, of Leesburg, peacefully passed away on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2025, at Majestic Care of West Allen in Fort Wayne at the age of 81.
Orpha Jean Beatty Strube
Orpha Jean Beatty Strube, age 97, went home to be with her Lord on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at her home in Leesburg.
Marianne Smith
Marianne Smith, 88, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, at Grace Village Health Care in Winona Lake.
Karen Roberts Sare
NORTH MANCHESTER – Karen Roberts Sare, 71, North Manchester, died Nov. 10, 2024.
Paul G. Mangun
MENTONE – Paul G. Mangun, 74, of rural Mentone, died at 5:10 p.m. Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, at Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital of Warsaw.
Steven A. Lozier
Steven A. Lozier, 71, peacefully passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024, at Grace Village Retirement Community in Winona Lake.
Sandra J. Julian
Sandra J. Julian, 84, of North Webster, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025, at Parkview of Kosciusko.
Michael James Huntine
COLUMBIA CITY – Michael James Huntine, 35, Warsaw, died at 12:48 p.m. Tuesday Dec. 31, 2024.
Martha Lee Ault
Martha Lee Neff Ault, 97, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024, at Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital in Warsaw.
