NORTH MANCHESTER - Elsie "Ruth" Ebey, 93, of Timbercrest, North Manchester, died at 11 p.m. Dec. 11, 2009, in Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester.
NORTH MANCHESTER – Mary Elizabeth Young, 93, of North Manchester, died at 8:15 p.m. April 17, 2011, in Timbercrest Healthcare Center, North Manchester.
Harris G. Wright, 81, died March 16, 2011, in Sebring, Fla. He was born March 22, 1929, in Fort Wayne, to Olin E. and Alice Lavonne Harris Wright. On June 2, 1949, he married his high school sweetheart, Marjorie L. Bauer, who survives.
Devon Earl Love, 82, of Warsaw, died at 11 p.m. July 20, 2011, in Mason Health and Rehabilitation Center, Warsaw. He was born Dec. 27, 1928, in Akron, to Russell and Martha Becraft Love. On Sept. 6, 1951, in Mishawaka, he married Marjorie Plotner, who survives in Warsaw.
NEW CASTLE – Gertrude G. Canaday, 77, of New Castle, died July 9, 2011, in Henry County Hospital. She was born Aug. 9, 1933, in Warsaw, to John and Mildred Kelly Wiltrout. She married Frank Canaday, who died in 2003.
ROCHESTER – John L. O’Connor Jr., 74, of 3762 W. Old 30, Warsaw, and formerly of Rochester, died at 7:40 p.m. July 5, 2011, in Kosciusko Community Hospital, Warsaw. He was born June 17, 1937, in Rochester, to Everett and Bertha McGee Ashelman.
NAPPANEE - Wayne Eldon Slabaugh, 79, of 602 N. Williams, Nappanee, died at 3:05 a.m. Dec. 9, 2010, in his residence. He was ill for the last four months.
James Edward Poe, 90, of Warsaw, died at 6:45 p.m. July 11, 2011, in Mason Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, Warsaw. He was born Feb. 6, 1921, in Grant County, to Alva L. and Catherine Cousins Poe. He married Rosey Lucille Carpenter in 1941, who died in 1982. In 1986, he married Ruby Frazier, who preceded him in death. In 2005, in Warsaw, he married Opal Reynolds, who survives.
BOURBON – Phyllis I. Stiver, 87, of Bourbon, passed away at 9:25 a.m. Aug. 18, 2011, in Miller’s Merry Manor Nursing Home, Culver, after a brief illness.