Continuously serving Kosciusko County since 1854
The head of Warsaw's Ivy Tech campus will be leaving the state institution soon and returning to his roots - Grace College.
Five generations met recently in the home of Mark and Melanie Vanlaningham, Leesburg. They were: great-grandmother, Helen Maxwell, Warsaw; great-great-grandmother, Rosa Bechdolt, Delphi; Benjamin Vanlaningham, Leesburg; mother, Melanie Vanlaningham, Leesburg; grandmother, Karen Swinger, Warsaw.
Pfs. Buddy Pettit, son of Rev. and Mrs. Raymond W. Pettit, Winona Lake, proved his talents as a Calypso singer on the "Ed Sullivan Show" last Sunday. Buddy appeared with The Jamaicans, a five-man group from Fort Meade, Md. The Jamaicans placed third in the Army's national talent contest. Buddy, who served as night policeman during the Youth for Christ conference at Winona earlier in the summer, arrived home on a 14-day leave.
After 30 years Ira Rothenberger, widely known funeral director of North Webster, is retiring from business while in good health. For the past three score years he has possessed the confidence of his community and the surrounding territories, and has achieved a background which has made him a friend to many people throughout the county.
