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Call 812-523-8903 Or Stop By Today! HE RIBUNE tribtown.com Norma Jean Crane SEYMOUR Norma Jean Crane, 82, of Seymour, passed away Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, at Seymour Place. Born March 1, 1933, in Seymour, she was the daughter of Marcus V. and Anna B. Flick Eglen, both of whom preceded her in death.

On July 28, 1951, in Seymour, she married Donald J. Crane, who preceded her in death Nov. 27, 1998. Norma was a member of First United Methodist Church. She enjoyed singing and sang in the church choir.

She organized all of her class reunions for the Shields High School Class of 1951. She loved traveling to Gatlinburg and Florida. She had a dog named Luci that she loved like a child. Survivors include three grandchildren, Marc J. (Christy) Crane, Rebecca L.

(Buck) Black and Matthew N. (Lindy) Robinson; a great-grandson, Ethan Crane; a daughter-in-law, Linda (Evan) Tatlock; a son-in-law, Lee Robinson; and several nieces and nephews. Besides her husband and parents, she was preceded in death by her children, Angela Robinson and Michael Don Crane; a sister, Maxine Lewis; a brother, Clarence Edward Eglen; and an infant brother, Eugene Eglen. The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Voss Chapel with the Rev.

Sandy Cooper officiating. Burial will be at Riverview Cemetery. Friends and family may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. until time of service Friday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church choir or the Association. Mildred Marth SEATAC, Wash. Mildred Annette Marth, 100, died peacefully in her sleep on the morning of Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015, at SeaTac, Washington. Born Nov.

18, 1914, in Crothersville, she was the daughter of George Washington Scifres and Nellie Patrick Scifres, both of whom preceded her in death. Her mother and baby brother, Kenneth, both died during the flu epidemic of 1918. On June 17, 1949, at her Aunt house in Crothersville, she married Thomas J. Marth who also preceded her in death. She was raised by family friends who later adopted her (the Brown family) after her father entered the U.S.

Army during World War I. When her father returned from the war, he married Mable Owens. She then went back to live with her father and a new loving mother. She soon became a big sister to Helen and Roweta. Mildred graduated from Shields High School and went to Indiana University School of Nursing after working a short time in a shoe factory.

Her father was a medic during the war which had piqued her interest in medicine. In 1942, she continued her education at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1947, she completed her education at Indiana University with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, majoring in public health and education. She decided to enter the U.S. Army Air Corps as first lieutenant in January 1943 to help with the war effort.

After enlisting, she was sent to Bowman Field in Louisville, Kentucky, to enter the first class for flight nurses. Her training at Bowman Field consisted of classes in the School of Air Evacuation and Air Evacuation of Patients programs along with parachute training. After training at Bowman Field, she was assigned to Edmonton, Alberta, where she began serving as a flight nurse bringing back wounded troops from the Pacific Theater. While attending a wedding reception in Edmonton, Alberta, she met her future husband. They corresponded throughout the war and during the beginning of the rebuilding of Germany where he had been stationed.

After their wedding, the couple moved to Miami where he enrolled at the University of Miami, studying for his Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering. She worked at several hospitals and did public health work as a registered nurse until he graduated. After his graduation, they moved to Denver to search for new jobs and start raising a family. Upon arriving in Denver, they both were hired on the first day of their job searches. He was hired by the city of Denver while she was hired by Denver Visiting Nurse Association.

Mildred worked for various hospitals and did public health nursing, finishing her career as a charge nurse in nursing homes about 1975. While in Denver, Mildred who had become Mickey to her dad, Millie to her friends and to her husband had two beautiful children, Stephen Christian Marth in 1953 and Mary Elaine Marth Thomas in 1956. Both of her children survive. After raising her children while living in Castle Rock, Colorado, Atlanta, southern California and Seattle, Millie and Thomas enjoyed their retirement years living at their home in Castle Rock during the summers and at their home in Federal Way, Washington, during the winters. Millie cared for her husband after he developed progressive dementia which began in 1997.

She took care of him until she was no longer able to properly handle the increasing responsibilities of his health care in late 1998. Thomas died May 25, 1999, in Burien, Washington. Millie lived at home in Burien on her own until she was 99 years old. After a fall, she had to have caregivers during the day to help her, and in 2014 she required 24-hour help. In the spring of 2015, yet another fall caused her to break her pelvis which required rehab for a month.

Upon completing that rehab, she moved to a loving, supportive, caring adult family home in SeaTac, where she lived the remainder of her life. Other survivors include five grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. Besides her parents, brother and husband, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Helen Bernice Waldkoetter and Roweta Kay Smith. The funeral mass was conducted at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Burien.

She was buried at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Washington, with military honors. Penney Marie Martin UNION CITY, OHIO Penney Marie Martin, 71, of Union City, Ohio, formerly of Jennings County, died at 2:59 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015, at Ball Memorial Hospital in Muncie. Survivors include her son, Ivan (Cindy) Waltermire of Butlerville; two daughters, Candy (Brian) Nunley of Union City, Ohio, and Loretta (Leon) Kreutzjans of North Vernon; a sister, Peggy Sietz of Snowflake, Arizona; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Vernon Cemetery. Dove-Sharp and Rudicel Funeral Home and Cremation Services in North Vernon handled the arrangements. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. Martha Louise Motsinger THORNTON, Colo.

Martha Louise Motsinger, 92, of Thornton, Colorado, formerly of Seymour, died Monday, Oct. 5, 2015, at Villas at Sunny Acres nursing facility. Arrangements are pending at Burkholder Funeral Chapel in Seymour. Seymour Norma Jean Crane, 82 Elsewhere Mildred Annette Marth, 100 Penney Marie Martin, 71 Martha Louise Motsinger, 92 CRANE MARTH TRIBTOWN.COM GET BREAKING NEWS BRIEFS STATE Report: Farm deaths increase in 2014 to 25 WEST LAFAYETTE Statistics from Purdue University show an increase in farm fatalities in Indiana last year. The school released data Wednesday from its 2014 Indiana Farm Fatality Summary.

It said there were 25 farm-related deaths in Indiana last year up from 18 from the previous year. Even though there was an increase the Agricultural Safety and Health Program said a downward trend continues since 1970. Experts said likely because of a decline in the number people working on farms. Police investigating death of IU student BLOOMINGTON Police are investigating the death of an Indiana University student whose body was found in a lake four days after he was reported missing. The body of 20-year- old Joseph Smedley was found late Friday in Griffy Lake, a few miles north of the campus.

Bloomington Police Captain Joe Qualters says investigators still are trying to determine how Smedley ended up there. His sister, Vivian Brown said she received a text from Smedley saying he was leaving the country. OSIA OZNIACKA AND RIAN ELLEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore. The deadly shooting last week at an Oregon community college has an eerie parallel with the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School that killed 20 pupils and six adult staff members in 2012. Like Adam Lanza, the gunman in the Connecticut massacre, Christopher Harper-Mercer was living a mostly solitary life with a mom who shared his fascination with firearms.

Both stories illustrate the struggles parents face caring for a deeply troubled child, struggles that can inadvertently lead to a volatile outcome made easier by ready access to weaponry. you begin to bring guns into the home environment where you have that dangerous cocktail of behavior, pretty said Mary Ellen a former FBI profiler who directs George Mason forensic science program. Harper-Mercer bears similarities to other school shooters: a young male focused on mass lethality and carrying out the killings in a military-like mission destined to end in the own death, said. He was a loner in his 20s like James Holmes, who killed 12 people in a cinema in Aurora, Colorado, in 2012; Jared Loughner, who seriously wounded Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six in Tucson, Arizona, in 2011; and Elliot Rodger, who killed six people near the University of California, Santa Barbara, campus last year.

Like Rodger, he left behind a note that complained about not having a girlfriend. Both mothers were longtime gun enthusiasts, not uncommon in many parts of America where gun ownership is prevalent and encouraged. The two mothers amassed weapons and took their sons to shooting ranges, according to the investigation into the Sandy Hook shooting and the Daily Breeze newspaper in Torrance, California, where Harper lived for years with her son. Mother-son bond over guns links school shootings THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Douglas County Deputy Sheriff Greg Kennerly, left, and Oregon State Trooper Tom Willis stand guard Saturday outside the apartment building where alleged Umpqua Community College gunman Chris Harper Mercer lived with his mother in Roseburg, Ore..