INWELLS-L Archives

Archiver > INWELLS > 2004-01 > 1075003992


From:
Subject: [INWELLS] News-Banner Obituaries, September 8-11, 2001
Date: 24 Jan 2004 21:13:12 -0700


This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.

Surnames: Menso, Price, Wilson, Jernigan, Frank, Orr, Schriver
Classification: Obituary

Message Board URL:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ui.2ADI/2857

Message Board Post:

Obituaries courtesy of News-Banner Publications, posted with permission.

Sept. 8, 2001


Mary Menso — Rites Pending
Mary Menso of 1012 Sherwood Drive died Friday morning at her home. She was the widow of Edward D. Menso, who died in May of 1996. She is survived by two sons and a daughter.
Rites are pending at Goodwin Memorial Chapel.



Sept. 10, 2001

Mary M. Menso, 76
Mary M. Menso, 76, a photographer and painter, died at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at her residence at 1012 Sherwood Dr.. in Bluffton.
A homemaker, she attended the St. Joseph Catholic Church.
She was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., to Francis and Anna Heinrich Hawkins. Her marriage at Jackson, Mich., on Dec. 20, 1952 was to Edward Menso, who died May 28, 1996.
Mrs. Menso had resided in Bluffton since 1964. She was the last of her family.
Surviving are a daughter, Sherry Anne Menso of Oakland, Calif.; two sons, Ed J. Menso of Chicago and James F. Menso of Phoenix, Ariz.; and three grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Goodwin Memorial Chapel, where visitation hours will be Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m. Father Larry Kramer will officiate and burial will be in Six Mile Cemetery.
Memorials to the Diabetes and Heart Associations.


Lester E. Price, 63
A graveside service was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. today at Historic Woodlawn Cemetery in Montpelier for Lester E. Price, 63, who died Sept. 1 at his residence in Bullhead City, Ariz.
Visitation hours were today from 12 noon to 3 p.m. at Glancy Funeral Home, Walker Chapel, in Montpelier.
Mr. Price was an electrician most of his lifetime and worked out of the IBEW Local 873 at Kokomo. He moved from the Montpelier area to Arizona three years ago.
He formerly attended the First United Methodist Church in Montpelier and attended Montpelier High School.
Mr. Price was an armed forces veteran, serving in both the U.S. Army and the U.S. Navy until his discharge in 1957. He was born in Blackford County Aug. 20. 1938 to Dorsey LaVaughn and Wilda Hughes Price. The mother, now Wilda Shiner, resides in Warren.
Surviving also his wife, the former Aneta Jean King, to whom he was married in Michigan on April 19, 1969; four daughters, Nelva Richardson of Copperas Cove, Ariz., Christina Weaver of Santa Fe, N.M., Leslie Hughes of Muncie and Bonnie Price of Phoenix, Ariz.; a son Timothy E. Price of Tucson, Ariz.; three brothers, John of Huntington, Dorsey of Poneto and David of Bullhead City, Ariz.; and several grandchildren. A daughter, Wilda Coaffy, is deceased.
Performing the graveside rites at Montpelier will be Rev. Joe Haney.



Winston Wilson, 80
Winston Wilson, 80, of Murray, Ky., formerly of Fort Wayne, died at 2:45 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at Murray-Calloway County Hospital in Murray.
He was retired from Dana Corp. in Fort Wayne and was a member of Sugar Creek Baptist Church in Murray.
He was born in Lee County, Va., Jan. 4, 1921 to Loran J. and Pearl Wynn Wilson. His marriage on Oct. 30, 1941 was to Myrtle Anglin, who survives. Other survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Ronald (Linda) Kaehr of Springfield, Ohio, and Mrs. ! Ronald (Sharon) LeBlanc of Cheyenne, Wyo.; a brother, Bernard C. Wilson, of Stone Mountain, Ga.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A graveside service will be held at Oak Lawn Cemetery in Ossian at 3 p.m. Tuesday.
Visitation hours at J.H. Churchill Funeral Home in Murray, Ky., were held Sunday and a funeral service was conducted there at 11 a.m. today with Dr. Allan Beane and Rev. William B. Miller officiating.
Memorials to the church or to the hospital at Murray, Ky.



Bertha B. Jernigan, 69
A graveside service was conducted at 11 a.m. today for Bertha B. Jernigan, 69, of Spring Lake, N.C., who died Friday, Sept. 7, at Womack Army Medical Center.
Adcock Funeral Home at Spring Lake was in charge of arrangements and Rev. John R. Woodard Jr. officiated at the rites at Riverside Memorial Gardens at Spring Lake. Visitation hours were Sunday.
Surviving Mrs. Jernigan are her husband, Thomas Edison Jernigan; two sons, Terry L. of Spring Lake and Thomas H. of Hope Mills, N.C.; five sisters, Betty R. Combs, Donna K. Lewis and Geraldine S. Kinsey, all of Bluffton, Ind., Thelma J. Nelund of Muskegon, Mich., and Lois L. Pence of Lafayette, Ga.; a brother, Richard C. Betz of Muskegon, Mich.; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.



Rita C. Frank, 81
A registered nurse, Rita C. Frank, of Fort Wayne, died at 8:52 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne.
She was associated as a nurse with Dr. Harry Salon for 18 years and with St. Joseph Hospital for 10 years.
A resident of Fort Wayne since 1954, Mrs. Frank was a member of St. Vincent’s DePaul Catholic Church.
She was born in Lima, Ohio, June 12, 1920 and was married in Fort Wayne on Nov. 23, 1952 to George E. Frank, who died Feb. 23, 1999.
Surviving are four daughters, Judith Doan, Rosemarie Shaw and Maureen D. Davis, all of Fort Wayne, and Pamela Getz of LaGrange; a stepdaughter, Cecilia Bryan of British Columbia, Canada; and a sister, Mary Louise Boyer of Wapakoneta, Ohio.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Vincent’s Catholic Church and burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery.
Calling hours will be Tuesday at D.O. McComb & Sons Lake Avenue Funeral Home and Wednesday at the church for one hour prior to services.
Memorials to masses at the church.



Jean Orr, 77
Jean Orr, 77, formerly of Bryant, died at 4:14 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at her residence on Lake Tippecanoe at Leesburg.
She was a nurse at Jay County Hospital in Portland for 14 years and was personnel secretary at CTS in Berne for 27 years, retiring in 1991,
She was a member of the Asbury United Methodist Church at Portland and membership secretary of the Bryant Alumni Association.
Mrs. Orr was born in Jay County Jan, 4, 1924 to Lewis Andrew and Ada Zuralda Luttman Judy. Her marriage on May 2, 1943 was to John A. Orr, who died in 1993.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Dave (Lynn) Beer of Fort Wayne and Barbara Cross of Leesburg; a brother, George Judy of Winter Haven, Fla.; a sister, Frances Terrill of Tucson, Ariz.; three grandchildren; two stepgrandsons; four great-grandchildren; and six stepgreat-grandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Portland and interment will be in Gravel Hill Cemetery at Bryant.
Calling hours at Downing Funeral Home in Geneva will be Wednesday from 2 to 8 p.m. and at the church Thursday for one hour prior to services.
Memorials to the church, to Associated Churches Weekday Religious Education in Fort Wayne or to North Webster United Methodist Church Library Resource Center.


Sept. 11, 2001

Dorothy Ellen Schriver, 83
Mother of three sons residing in the Montpelier area, Dorothy Ellen Schriver, 83, of Grafton, Ohio, died Sunday, Sept. 9, after a short illness.
She was the wife of Henry Schriver to whom she was married in 1938. The couple observed a 63rd wedding anniversary in June. The two had spent their entire married life on a farm in Grafton Township, Lorain County, near Belden, Ohio.
Mrs. Schriver was a school teacher. She served for 40 years as a 4-H advisor and in the 1980s and 1990s was a commissioner for the Lorain County Metro Parks System. She was a volunteer counselor in Elyria, Ohio, in the 1990s in a family assistance program.
She was a member of the Belden United Methodist Church and active in community organizations,including two Farm Bureau Councils. She had traveled throughout the United States as well as England, East Africa, India, Japan and Taiwan.
Mrs. Schriver was born near Perry, Ohio, Sept. 20, 1917 to Thomas and Anna Langshaw.
Surviving are 12 children, including the Montpelier area sons, Jim, Paul and Randy. Other children are Carol Carpenter, Sally Kocher, Ellen Stephenson, Bill, Don, Larry, Ted, Ken, and Hiro Shibuya, who joined the family as an exchange student from Japan.
There also are 40 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Because her body will be given for medical education, there will be no funeral service.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. (EST) Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Belden United Methodist Church, where visitation will be for two hours prior to the service.
Memorials to the Lorain County 4-H Endowment Fund, or to the charity of the donor’s choice.


This thread: