MONTPELIER — James Melvin Herring, 85, Warsaw, formerly of Keystone, passed away at 7:05 p.m. Thursday, June 21, 2018, at Bridgewater Centre, Hartford City.
He was born on Thursday, April 13, 1933, in Van Buren. Mr. Herring currently lived in Warsaw and had formerly lived in Keystone and Ruskin, Fla. The Herring family also had a home on Irish Lake in Kosciusko County for many years. He attended Chester Center High School.
He was the former member and fire chief of the Chester Township Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Indiana Volunteer Firemen's Association. He was a member of New Beginnings Church, Atwood.
He retired in 1980 from General Motors (CPC) in Marion as a general foreman; he started work in 1956 as the 13th person to be hired. He was a member of the United Auto Workers Union and Sympathy Club. He was a former Wells County Sheriff deputy, a member of the Red Cross-React- Insert and the Civil Defense in Wells & Blackford counties, Montpelier Masonic Lodge #600 F&AM, and the Scottish Rite Valley of Fort Wayne.
Loving survivors include his daughter, Tina Herring (Tom) Wooten; sons, Larry (wife Karen) Herring, Keystone, and Terry (wife Jane Ann) Herring, Montpelier; sister, Carolyn Nelson, Warsaw; grandchildren: Melissa K. Borror, Mark Herring, Jillian Warner, Jordan Kovach, Brandon Karbach and Mia Sindelar; and 10 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his father, Paul Gerald Herring; mother, Minnie Furman Herring; son, Gary "Butch" Herring; brother, Paul David Herring; sister, Katie Reff; and grandchildren, Matt Herring and Todd Herring.
Family and friends may gather to share and remember at Walker & Glancy Funeral Home, 109 W. Windsor St., Montpelier, from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, June 24. A Masonic service will be at 5:45 p.m. Sunday.
A service to celebrate his life will be at Walker & Glancy Funeral Home at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 24, with Pastor Steve Sutton officiating.
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Memorials to Blackford County Community Foundation, 121 N. High St. Hartford City, IN 47348.
Condolences may be made at www.glancyfuneralhomes.com.
