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Elijah James Walters
The family of Elijah James Walters, 19, mourns his passing. Born August 2, 1987 at Dugger to Marty Joseph Walters and Brenda Lynn Ashburn. Entered into rest March 2, 2007 surrounded by family.
His memory will be cherished by fiancée, Jerica Harbaugh; father, Marty Walters; step-father, Keith Ashburn; brother, Jeremiah Walters; grandparents, Richard Baker, Dawn & Barry Miller; aunts, Debra Coleman, Venus Hollifield, Penny Berry; uncles, Tod Coleman, Mike Baker, Charles Berry; cousins, Tod Coleman, Bud Coleman, Patty Riordan, Kelly Rice, Bill LaRoche, Michelle Baker, Mike Baker, Amanda House, Steven Hollifield, Amber Hollifield, Starla Criss, Shane Baker and several second cousins.
He will be reunited in the presence of our Heavenly Father with mother, Brenda Ashburn and grandmother, Jo Etta Baker.
Funeral service will be conducted 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at Lighthouse Church of God, 1049 Northeast A Street, Linton, with pastors Monty Goodman officiating. Interment to follow at Fairview cemetery. Friends may call from 10:00 a.m. until the time of the service at the church. Memorial contributions may be made to the church.
Jeff Cravens
February 9, 2007
Jeff Cravens, 47, of Jasonville, died Friday due to complications of a recent surgery. Jeff served honorably in the US Navy and was permanently disabled as a result of his service.
He is survived by a daughter, Christina Cravens of Florida and his life-partner, Debra Cox of Jasonville. The family elected cremation and will hold a memorial service at a later date.
Marcus Ashba
The family of Marcus Ashba mourns his passing. Born August 16, 1958 to Opal and Jack Ashba at Anderson, Indiana. Entered into rest September 30, 2006, surrounded by family.
He was the loving husband of Meg Ashba; devoted father to Zechariah, Elijah, Josiah, Isaiah, Brianna, Olivia Ashba; His memory will be cherished by mother, Opal Ashba; brother, Andrew Ashba; sister, Cheryl Saylor.
He will be reunited in the presence of our Heavenly Father with his dad, Jack Ashba.
He was formerly employed at General Electric and worshipped at Genesis Church of Bloomington.
Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 3, 2006, at Genesis Church, 801 East SR 45/46 (Bypass) Bloomington, with pastor Dave Woodcock officiating. Interment to follow at Valhalla cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at the church.
Bradley R.E. Dugan
September 17, 2006
Brad Dugan was the youngest of five children, and his mom, Cheryl Moore, said if he'd been born first she would have had 16 more. "He was a joy from day one, " she said.
Bradley R.E. Dugan was born June 24, 1982, in the Midwest; but he grew up in Florida. Good thing, too, because he was a water baby. "He swam before he could walk, " Cheryl said. "He loved the water."
Cheryl learned early on, too, that her boy was good with his hands. She got him a puzzle one day, but thought it might be too difficult for her 18-month-old son to tackle. "Before I could turn around, he'd put it together and asked me for another one, " Cheryl said.
As he got older, Brad started fixing things around the house - radios, stereos, you name it. When the dishwasher was on the fritz, he told his mom he could fix it. "He pulls it out, and the next thing I know, he had it working, " Cheryl said. "He was 8 years old."
In 1998, Brad moved to Bloomington, where his Mom worked as a nurse.
Brad was always respectful of his elders, and Cheryl thought that attitude, combined with his family's background in nursing and elder care, led her son into working at Meadowood Retirement Community, where he had been dining room supervisor and coordinator of special functions since 2004.
As supervisor, Brad handled all the hiring and training of the wait staff of 35 to 40 people, mostly college and high school students.
"He was an amazing young man, " said Susan Bookout, executive director of Meadowood. "You never saw him get ruffled or flustered. He had a calming presence on the whole 230 residents here … and all of them had interactions with Brad over the years."
Alex Hobbs, director of food services at Meadowood, was Brad's mentor for the past several years. "He was an incredible individual, " Alex said. "Brad commanded a certain attention - people gravitated to him in a positive way."
Brad worked while going to school at Indiana University. He was a student in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs, set to graduate in December. But his life was cut short.
Brad was killed Sunday in a motorcycle accident.
Alex said that for many of the residents at Meadowood, it's like they've lost a grandchild.
Cheryl has lost her only son. And she can tell you she is at peace with this awful, terrible loss, because this child of hers never failed to hug her and kiss her goodbye. Never failed to tell her he loved her.
His lesson to his family and to all of us is this - make sure everybody you care about knows you love them.
Robert E. Lake
We are celebrating the life of Robert Bob Elmer Lake. He was a son, father, husband, grandfather, and uncle as well as a unique businessman.
He was born on February 19, 1943 in Bloomington, Indiana to Elmer Elsworth Lake and Hazel Woods Lake. He grew up in Monroe County and attended school in Bloomington and Stinesville. He worked for RCA, GE, Pepsi Company and owned several businesses including restaurants, car repair shops, muffler shops, and rental properties and retired after running his own successful used car lot business after 31 years. He greatly enjoyed spending time with his family and playing cards for hours with his children and grandchildren. He attended and considered his home church the Stinesville Church of the Nazarene. We will miss him greatly but we know It is well. Special thanks to the Stinesville Church of the Nazarene, Dr. David Joyce and associates, and the hospice care nurses.
He peacefully went to celebrate in heaven on June 9, 2011 while at his home surrounded by his family. He is survived by his wife Barbara J. (Flynn) Lake; children, Bobby Dean Lake of Indianapolis, Penny Duncan Lake of Ellettsville, Faron M. Lake and his spouse Kris Barger Lake of Bloomington; grandchildren, Heather Duncan (23) of Mo, Meghan Lake (22) of Ellettsville, Dustin Duncan (21) USMC stationed in Afghanistan and his spouse Andrea Duncan (19) of NC, Kennedy Lake (16) of Bloomington; sister-in-law, Olive Lake of Stinesville; brother-in-law, Robert Harbour of Lelia Lake, TX; great grandchildren, Resean Roddy (50 of MO and a great grandchild to be born in January 2012; several nieces and a nephew; aunt, Darcus Barrow and husband Robert of Unionville. He is also survived by his crazy cat, Sassy, who only liked him.
He was preceded in death by his parents; siblings, Carolyn Trisler, Iris Harbour and Donald Lake.
Funeral services will be held at Chandler Funeral Home in Ellettsville on Monday, June 13, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. with Reverend Rudy Lee officiating the service. Pallbearers are Aaron Brown, Ivan Deckard, Ralph Barger, Zach Flynn, Rick Belcher and Dana Kern. Visitation will be held on Sunday, June 12, 2011 from 2-6 at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of IU Health, Bloomington Hospital.
Wesley W. Ratliff Jr.
Wesley W. Ratliff Jr. died August 30 at his residence in Bloomington.
He was born September 21, 1925, in Knightstown, Indiana, and graduated from Knightstown High School. He served in the Pacific during WWII from 1943 to 1945 with the U.S. Navy. He attended Ball State University and graduated from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1950.
He began practicing law in 1950 with his parents, Wesley W. Ratliff Sr. and Ruth Ratliff, who were both attorneys. He was elected judge of the Henry County Circuit Court in 1962, succeeding his father, who died in 1961. He served there for 17 years before being named to the Indiana Court of Appeals in 1980. He served as Chief Judge of the court from 1987 until his retirement in 1992. He continued to work as a Senior Judge with the Indiana Court of Appeals until the time of his death.
He was married
in 1947 to Mildred Brown. He continued to live in Knightstown until 1987, when he moved to Bloomington. In Knightstown, he was an active member of Bethel Presbyterian Church, Kiwanis, and the Henry County Bar Association. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington and Central Lions Club.
He is survived by his wife and three children, Marilyn Ratliff (Tom Crum) of Evansville, Kathy Forbes (David) of Valparaiso, and Wesley III (Mary Burch) of Bloomington; a sister, Chris Mahlum (Don) of Havre, Montana; and 6 grandchildren, Sam Crum (Stef), Katie Bettencourt (AJ), Emily Forbes, Sarabeth Pollom (John), Amy Ratliff and Michael Ratliff.
Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, September 2, at First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington with graveside services in Glen Cove cemetery in Knightstown at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. Memorial contributions may be made to the Wesley W. Ratliff Scholarship Fund at Valparaiso University School of Law or to First Presbyterian Church in Bloomington.
Lynton Keith Caldwell
Lynton Keith Caldwell, 92, one of the twentieth century's most distinguished scholars in the fields of environmental policy, law, science, and administration, died on Tuesday, August 15, at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. At the time of his death he was Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. During the 1960s he was virtually a lone voice in his work to establish environmental policy for the environment because such a holistic and interdisciplinary approach to the solving of environmental problems did not then exist. In 1962 his groundbreaking article "Environment: A New Focus for Public Policy?" published in Public Administration Review launched what would develop into a new subfield of public policy studies. In 1972 he was the catalyst for the founding of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) at Indiana University, Bloomington. Although he officially retired in 1984 he continued until 1990 an active program of scholarly research, lecturing, writing, and mentoring students around the world. His last book, "The National Environmental Act: An Agenda for the Future, " was published in 1988.
Caldwell, always known familiarly as "Keith, " is perhaps best known as a principal architect of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the first act of its kind in the world, signed into law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970. Now often referred to as the "Magna Carta" of environmental law, NEPA has been emulated, in one form or another, by more than one hundred other countries, and many states have also established "mini NEPAs." Caldwell is also credited as being the "inventor" of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), the action-forcing provision of NEPA. Following many decades of largely uncontrolled pollution of waters, soils, and air, and growing public outcry about rapid environmental deterioration, the passage of NEPA started off a decade of new congressional activity in the 1970s that resulted in the establishment of, among other important environmental legislation, Earth Day, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Clean Air Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Toxic Substances Control Act.
Caldwell earned his undergraduate degree in English at the University of Chicago in 1934, his Masters degree at Harvard in History and Government in 1938, and his doctorate degree in political science at the University of Chicago in 1943. In 1997, he was awarded an honorary LLD from Western Michigan University. In 1940, at the start of his distinguished career, he was named executive secretary of Indiana University's South Bend-Mishawaka Extension Center. From 1944-1947 he was director of research and publications for The Council of State Governments in Chicago. In 1947 he was appointed professor of political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Until 1954, in a joint program sponsored by Syracuse University and the University of New York, he held the position of resident counselor and coordinator of a Masters Program in public administration for civil servants that, in the post WWII era, was extended to include visiting students from many overseas countries. In 1952 and 1953 he was part of U.N. sponsored missions in public administration in Colombia, the Philippines, and Japan. His next one-year U.N. appointment was as co-Director of the Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East in Ankara, Turkey. Indiana University then appointed him director of the Institute of Training for Public Service and Coordinator of Indonesian and Thailand Public Administration Programs. By the time of his retirement, further appointments, research and lecture tours and vacations had enabled him to visit nearly one hundred countries around the world as well as every state in the union. In 1956, after a year as visiting professor of government at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to Bloomington as Professor of Government at Indiana University, where he remained until his retirement.
During his career, Caldwell served on the faculties of the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, the University of Oklahoma, Syracuse University, and the University of California at Berkeley, and had shorter appointments at some 80 other collegiate institutions both within the U.S. and overseas. His services to the public included the U.S. Senate, UNESCO, the UN, the Departments of Commerce, Energy, Defense, and Interior, and the National Institutes of Health. Although not a scientist by profession, his expertise in political science and environmental affairs led him to work closely with several important scientific bodies including the National Research Council's National Commission on Materials Policy, the Sea Grant Advisory Board, the Science Advisory Board of the International Joint Commission, the Pacific Science Congress, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). He also served on the editorial boards of numerous prestigious scientific and professional journals. A lover of nature, bird watching, and botany from an early age, he was a founding member of the South Bend, Indiana chapter of the Audubon Society, and of both the first local chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in New York, and the Conservancy's Indiana Chapter. He served on the Board of Governors of TNC from 1959 to 1965.
After 1962, he changed the main focus of his career towards protecting the quality of the human environment. The many awards he received in this connection included the William E. Mosher Award (1964), the Marshall E. Dimock Award of the American Society for Public Administration (1981), the John M. Gaus Award from the American Political Science Association and the National Environmental Quality Award from the Natural Resources Council of America (1997). In 1991, he was named one of the United Nations Environmental Program's (UNEP) Global 500 for distinguished environmental services, and in 2001 he was the recipient of Indiana University's Distinguished Service Award.
He was also a prodigious writer and author during his lifetime, publishing more than 200 articles and monographs and twelve books with translations in 19 languages. His first book, "The Administrative Theories of Hamilton and Jefferson" (1944), is in its third reprint. Other books include "In Defense of Earth" (1972); "Science and the National Environmental Policy Act" (1982); "International Environmental Policy" (3rd rev. ed. 1996), "Biocracy: Public Policy and the Life Sciences" (1987), and "Between Two Worlds: Science, the Environmental Movement, and Policy Choice" (1990).
Caldwell leaves behind him his wife of 65 years, Helen, two married
children, Edwin Lee Caldwell and his wife, Pauline, of Bloomington and Elaine Caldwell and her husband, Philip, of Salt Lake City, a sister, Dorothy Caldwell Walcher of Springfield, MO, two grandsons, one great-granddaughter and two nieces.
Donations can be made to the following:
The Lynton K. Caldwell professorship at I.U. Foundation;
The Nature Conservancy;
The Sycamore Land Trust;
Bloomington Hospital Home Health and Hospice.
The Caldwell family would like to say a special thank you to all the caregivers at Home Instead who provided such loving care to Dr. Caldwell during the last three years of his life, and to the Hospice for the thoughtful end of life assistance provided by its staff.
Orville Lee Bertram
Orville Lee Bertram of Bloomington passed away at Monroe Hospital on Saturday, April 30, 2011 at the age of 75.
He was born on October 14, 1935 in Muncie, Indiana into the home of Isaac Newtonand Minnie Belle (Jaynes) Bertram. Lee had an entrepreneurial spirit and owned and operated many businesses. He worked at High Speed Tire and was co-owner for several years of the Village Inn in Ellettsville and Lee n Inas in Bloomington and Tennessee and former owner of Melicks Florist in Spencer. Lee and his companion of 37 years, Ina Lentz, enjoyed traveling throughout the country but especially enjoyed Las Vegas and Florida. In his spare time he thoroughly enjoyed playing bingo at the American Legion, the AMVETS, and the Moose in Bloomington.
He was preceded in death by his parents; companion, Ina Lentz on Dec. 7, 2010; sisters, Lola Beatrice and Mildred Patricia; brothers, Oliver Eugene, David Castle, Raymond Tasso, and James Horace and step-son, Derrick Cooper.
Lee is survived by his loving daughter, Michelle Rogers and her fianc, Dave Lyle of Freedom; step-children, Carmen Sturgeon, Deloris (Wayne) Jones, Charlotte (Wayne) Slahor, Tom (Linda) Lentz, and Beverly Lentz; grandchildren, Dillan, Ashley, Sabrina, Heather, Dean, Terre, Tyler, John, Jennifer, Rachel, Scott, Travis, Brad, Brian, Shelly, and Holly; and numerous great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 7:00 p.m. at Chandler Funeral Home in Ellettsville. Inurnment will be private at Chambersville cemetery. Friends may visit with the family on Thursday from 4:00 until time of services at the funeral home.
Karen Joyce (Pfaff) Loesch
Karen Joyce (Pfaff) Loesch, 56, of Bloomington, died Friday evening at Bloomington Hospital.
Born May 4, 1950 in Monroe County, she was the daughter of Delmar O. and Mary A. Pfaff.
She was a very loving mother and grandmother and will be greatly missed. She believed in Jesus Christ and prayer.
Survivors include her mother, Mary A. Pfaff of Bloomington; three daughters, Crystal Mace, Donna Evans and husband Rick, Bonnie Cordell and husband Roger “Peanut”, all of Bloomington; one brother, D. Glenn Pfaff and wife Linda of Martinsville; six sisters, Bonnie Austin and husband Hugh, of Jamestown, KY, Mary D. Sutton, Marcie Allen, and Martha Minnick, all of Bloomington, Thelma Myers of Tucson, AZ, and Angeline Bower of Pensacola, FL.
Also survived by six grandchildren, Harley Harding, Caleb Mobley, Hanna Evans and Scottie, Jade and Matthew Cordell, all of Bloomington, and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her father Delmar O. Pfaff and brother, Samuel E. Pfaff of California.
Funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, June 28, at Friendship Separate Baptist Church, 2710 Leonard Springs Road, with Pastor Robert Clendening officiating. Burial will follow at Payne cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 12:00 p.m. until time of service.
Gary W. (Waldo) Walden
The family of Gary W. (Waldo) Walden mourns his passing. Born September 9, 1951 to Willie L. Walden and Mary Joe (Manley) Walden in Owen County, Indiana. Entered into rest June 18, 2006 at his residence.
His memory will be cherished by: Leah & Paul Strain; Jonathan & Rachel Barcus; Brady & Tammy Walden; Bob & Rita & Pam Miller; Tony & Kristi & Megan & Taylor & Ryan Walden.
Predeceased by both parents and infant sister Tina Marie Walden.
He was a hard worker with numerous jobs, and as he said, “I am a jack of all trades, and master of none!” They included Butcher, Pool Painter, Tower Climber, Factory Worker, Mechanic, Custodian, Coach, and Landscaper… This was his life.
Graveside funeral service will be conducted 3:30 p.m. Wednesday June 21, 2006 at Chambersville cemetery. Paul Strain will deliver the eulogy and lead the family in prayer.
Online condolences can be expressed to the bereaved family.
