Obituaries

Donald E. Chambers
Mar 31, 2003
Donald E. Chambers, 74, LaPorte, died at 7:39 p.m. Monday (March 31, 2003) at LaPorte Hospital. A private family service will be at Bethany Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Dennis Meyer officiating. Cremation has taken place. There will be no visitation. Cutler Funeral Home handled the arrangements. Mr. Chambers was born May 14, 1928, in Niles, Mich., to Charles and...

Helen Jahns
Mar 31, 2003
Helen Jahns, 83, LaPorte, died at 11:40 p.m. Monday (March 31, 2003) at LaPorte Hospital. A private family service will be held at the Cutler Funeral Home with the Rev. Victor Frohne. Burial will be in Pine Lake Cemetery. There is no visitation. Mrs. Jahns was born Dec. 23, 1919, in LaPorte, to Joseph and Elizabeth (Schmitz) Foutz. On June...

Donald E. Menke
Mar 29, 2003
Donald E. Menke, 65, LaPorte, died at 12:10 p.m. Saturday (March 29, 2003) at LaPorte Hospital. A private family service is planned, with burial in Door Village Cemetery. Cutler Funeral Home, LaPorte, is handling the arrangements. Mr. Menke was born Aug. 3, 1937, in Pinola, Ind., to William E. and Mary M. (Liscomb) Menke. On Oct. 8, 1955, in Michigan...

Mr. Orba Richard Jenkins Jr
Mar 21, 2003
Mr. Orba Richard Jenkins Jr., 73 of 502 Highland Ave., Michigan City, died Friday, March 21, 2003, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Anthony Memorial Health Centers. He was born Oct. 11, 1929, in Madison, Ind. to Orba Richard Sr. and Goldie (Coker) Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins worked for Steigers Hardware, Kubics Hardware, Garr Hardware and had retired from Sanlo Manufacturing after...

Edward Lee Brooks
Mar 19, 2003
Edward Lee Brooks, 71, LaPorte, died at 11:16 a.m. Wednesday (March 19, 2003) at St. Joseph Medical Center, South Bend, of natural causes. The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Cutler Funeral Home, LaPorte, with the Rev. Doug Hadley officiating. Cremation will follow the service. Burial will be in Pine Lake Cemetery. Visitation is from 2 to 7...

Edgar Carl Gustafson
Dec 10, 2002
Edgar Carl Gustafson, 92, Phoenix, died Dec. 10, 2002, at his home. His cremains will be buried at a graveside service at 11 a.m. Monday in Pine Lake Cemetery, LaPorte. Cutler Funeral Home is handling local arrangements. He was born June 19, 1910, in LaPorte, to William and Hedvig (Larson) Gustafson. His first wife, Laura, died in Phoenix in 1971....

Eleanor M. Withee
Dec 31, 1969
Eleanor M. Withee, 80, of 303 Wile St., died at 2:20 p.m. Tuesday in LaPorte Hospital of natural causes. Survivors include a daughter, Pamela Barber-Steele of LaPorte; and two sons, Thomas of Riverview, Mich., and Dan of LaPorte. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Friday in First United Methodist Church Chapel, where friends may call one hour before services....
Geneva Jeanette (Henley) Gurley
Feb 5, 1921
Jeanette Gurley, age 84, passed away peacefully at home in Michigan City, IN on February 5, 2021 with her son by her side and the support of her children each and every day of her passage.
Jeanette was born Geneva Jeanette Henley on March 3, 1936 in Tracy City, TN to Thomas and Cora May (Pearson) Henley, the fourth of six...
Baby Boy Greyson Douglas Owens
Baby Boy Greyson Douglas Owens, expected October 30, 2020, was born June 20, 2020 at 7:21 p.m. (EST) at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth.
Greyson was born to Douglas Mink and Meghan Owens.
Surviving Greyson are his father, Douglas Mink; mother, Meghan Owens; uncles, Damian Owens and Isaiah Owens; aunt, Harlie Ricci; maternal grandmother,...
Irvin Percy Tanksley
Irvin Percy Tanksley, 81, of Walkerton, passed away on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at La Porte Hospital. Irvin was born in Alabama on July 26, 1937 to Price and Lucy (Chaney) Tanksley.
On November 7, 1953 in Alabama, he married Betty Jean Roan who preceded him in death in 2005. Surviving are his children, Phillip (Shelly) Tanksley...
Arthur "Art" Eugene Schrader
Arthur “Art” Eugene Schrader, 82, of Stillwell was called home to plow the fields of heaven. Born March 9th, 1937 at his childhood home in Stillwell to Fred and Florence (Matt) Schrader, God called him home on February 26th, 2019 from Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. At the age of eight, he began his life as a hard worker peddling...

Edwin & Eva Woodson
Edwin Hamilton Woodson, 77, of La Porte, went to be with the Lord on Friday, November 10, 2017 at Fountainview Terrace.
Edwin was born in Frankfort, KY, on July 15, 1940 to John David and Grace (Abbott) Woodson.
In 1962 he married Eva Pauline Oaks. The couple had two sons, Dean Woodson of La Porte,...
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