Local Obituaries for Connersville, IN.
Pauline Parker
Mar 30, 2018
Pauline Parker, 95 of Liberty died Friday, March 30, 2018 at Fayette Regional Health System. An Owsley County Kentucky native, Pauline was born January 12, 1923 to Ralph and Clara Brewer Wilson and graduated from Owsley County High School. For fifteen years, Pauline was employed in the food service department at Miami University, Oxford. On August 29, 1975, she married...
Janet Dorene Paxson
Mar 25, 2018
Janet Dorene Paxson, 86, of Connersville, died March 25, 2018 at Premier Health of Connersville. Born in Henry County, Indiana on May 24, 1931 to Clyde and Halcyon Raffensdarger Williams. Janet married David L. Paxson on August 13, 1967. She was a member of Central Christian Church and was employed at the Golay Community Center in Cambridge City, Indiana. No...
Emmaline Mabel Dudley
Mar 25, 2018
Connersville native, Emmaline M. Dudley, 91, died Sunday evening, March 25, 2018, at Highpoint Health. Emmaline was the daughter of Charles E. and Velma N. Kuhn Jessop, born August 26, 1926. In 1941, she graduated from Connersville High School. She grew up traveling with her family to area fairs to sell the renowned Jessop’s Butterscotch Corn. For over 38 years,...
William M. "Bill" Cooper
Mar 20, 2018
William Cooper was born in Morgan County, Kentucky on October 12, 1928. He was preceded in death by his wife Ava Caroline (Carol) McClanahan, both parents, a grandson, 3 sisters, 3 brothers and a son-in-law. He leaves to cherish his memory five children: Sharon Clark, Mary Etta Cooper Sizemore (Carl), David Cooper, Ruth Cooper Hawkins (Hoover) and Daniel Cooper; 13...
Mona June Mcfarland
Mar 20, 2018
Fayette County native, Mona J. McFarland, 85, died Tuesday, March 20, 2018, at Fayette Regional Health Hospital. Mona was the daughter of Gail and Murriel Ailes Harsh, born June 17, 1932. In 1950, she graduated from Connersville High School. She was married at Central Christian Church on October 22, 1950 to Dennis L. McFarland who died April 14, 2001. Mona...
Alberta Marie Prifogle
Mar 19, 2018
Former business owner, Alberta Marie Prifogle, 80, of Connersville, died Monday, March 19, 2018 at Heritage House of Connersville. A Connersville native, Alberta was born April 15, 1937 to Ernest and Ruth McCrady Jones and attended Connersville area schools. On September 1, 1956 Alberta married Zane B. Prifogle. Together they had owned and operated Prifogle Repair Service since 1982 and...
Amanda Ervin
Mar 15, 2018
Amanda M. Ervin, 60, of Connersville, died Thursday, March 15, 2018, at her residence. Amanda was born October 3, 1957 in Connersville, the eighth of eleven children of Bernard and Aldythe Flythe Risch and attended Connersville area schools. She had been employed at Creative Fixtures, Hudson House Restaurant and Fayette Federal Savings and Loan. Most recently, she was co-owner and...
James S. "Jack" Gilland
Mar 10, 2018
James S. “Jack” Gilland, 98, of Connersville, passed away Saturday morning, March 10, 2018, at Caroleton Manor Nursing Home where he had resided since April 2016. Jack was born in Dayton, Ohio, January 28, 1920, the only child of Stewart Henry and Reva Alverda Brown Gilland and moved to Connersville at an early age to live with his grandmother, Minnie...
William Dale Corn
Mar 8, 2018
William Dale Corn, 71, of Connersville died March 8, 2018 at Reid Health. On April 12, 1946, Dale was born to William Hubert and Leslie Williams Corn in Tonasket, Washington. He graduated from Randolph Southern High School in Lynn, Indiana and married the former, Carole Franklin on November 12, 1965 at Edwards Memorial United Methodist Church, Liberty. Dale honorably served...
Oscar W. Stephen
Mar 6, 2018
Oscar W. Stephen, 97, of Connersville, died Tuesday morning, March 6, 2018, at Heritage House of Connersville. A Connersville native born January 28, 1921, Oscar was one of six children of Noah R. and Opal Rowe Stephen. He was a 1939 graduate of Harrisburg High School. Oscar was married July 9, 1942 to the former Josephine Kibby who died in...
Thomas Steven Day
Mar 5, 2018
Thomas S. “Tommy” Day, 49, of San Diego, California and Connersville native, died Monday, March 5, 2018, at his residence. Tommy was the son of William Eugene and Virginia Reece Day, born April 20, 1968. He attended Connersville High School and was a member of the Trinity Praise and Worship Center. He was a hard worker and had been employed...
Bernice Ross
Mar 5, 2018
Bernice Ross, 72, of Connersville, died Monday, March 5, 2018 at Premier Healthcare, East. Bernice was born November 30, 1945 in Richmond, Kentucky to Raymond and Ruby Reece Marcum. She received salvation at Youth Haven Bible Camp and graduated from Lee County High School in 1963. On May 27, 1963 she married Paul C. Ross, who died June 22, 2007....
Claude Pope Jr.
Mar 4, 2018
Claude Pope, Jr., 94, of Connersville died from a broken heart, Sunday night, March 4, 2018 at Fayette Regional Health System. Claude was born July 1, 1923 in Cynthiana, Kentucky to Claude, Sr. and Effie Banfield Pope. After graduating from Brownsville High School in 1941, Claude was inducted in the United States Army Air Corp where he honorably served in...
Mary Ellen Bever
Mar 4, 2018
Mary Ellen Bever, 80, of the Orange community, died Sunday, March 4, 2018 surrounded by her children at Flat Rock River Lodge in Rushville where she had resided for a short time. Mary Ellen was born in Fayette County, January 7, 1938 to Kenneth and Hallie Cooper Hauger. She graduated from Fairview High School with the Class of 1956 and...
Eugene Reece
Feb 24, 2018
Eugene Reece 74, went to heaven a shouting on Saturday, February 24th, 2018 with his loving wife by his side in their home in Wayne County. He was born on May 29th, 1943, in the area of Heidelburg in Lee County, Kentucky to the late Fred Sr. and Della Mays Reece. Eugene joined the US Navy in 1960 having served...
Dr. Millard Edward Hays
Feb 24, 2018
Dr. Millard Edward Hays, DVM, 92, passed away peacefully on February 24, 2018 in Noblesville, Indiana. He lived most of his life near Liberty, Indiana with his wife, Trois. He was born July 20, 1925 in the Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. His parents, Bina (Sweeney), Cecil Hays and sister, Kathleen Cotter moved to the family farm in Union...
Charles A. Thurman
Feb 17, 2018
Elder Charles A. Thurman, 88, died Saturday evening, February 17, 2018, at Fayette Regional Health System. Charles was a Connersville native, born December 22, 1929, to James and Sarah Alice Mize Thurman. He attended Connersville High School and had completed trade school classes. From 1946 to 1949, Charles served as a private in the U.S. Army Air Force based in...
Cara Jo Montgomery
Feb 17, 2018
Liberty, Indiana Cara Jo Montgomery, 11, of Brownsville, died Saturday, February 17, 2018 at Indiana University Health North in Carmel. The youngest daughter of Mark and Carla Mann Montgomery, Cara was born at Reid Hospital in Richmond on March 23, 2006. She attended preschool at College Corner Elementary School and was currently enrolled in sixth grade at Hoosier Academy Virtual...
Keith D. Geis
Feb 15, 2018
Local business owner, Keith D. Geis, 58, of Connersville died Thursday, February 15, 2018 at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital. A Connersville native, Keith was born October 10, 1959 to Robert W. and Joella Ayers Geis and was a 1978 graduate of Connersville High School. He owned and operated their family business, Triangle Heating and Cooling. Keith was a dedicated member...
Susie Ingold
Feb 11, 2018
Susan Fay Ingold, 56 of Connersville, died Sunday, February 11, 2018 at her residence. Susie was born in Connersville, May 2, 1961 to Owen and Barbara Ellen Rowe Gabbard and attended area schools including Connersville High School. The majority of her adult life, she resided in Florida; moving home six years ago to be near her family. For thirty years,...
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