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Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 6

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ST: Local state I A 'j AZV AV V' A I I Xf 'Cr i Journal and Courier Saturday April 6 1991 21 1 zJ 11 i 1 'T 4 4 a 1UW Deaths Mark McCracken 85 few minutes ist Church a charter member and injureded $80 of the United Telephone Co for 42 years retiring in 1970 relay some information and while talking to him looked again for her son noticed the door was open and Bronson was Engquist said she ran out of the apartment and building and saw a long haired white man carrying her son away She said the man walked several yards then dropped tier son She said tiie man had the same hair style as the man who reportedly attempted to the 12 year outdoors more and their parents observing more traffic may be contributing to a heightened sense of alert In incident Joy Engquist 21 said she was taking her son to the basement laundry Ardannle in Lafayette She survives Mr Kelly was a 32nd degree Mason with Masonic Lodge 492 in Lafayette he was a member of Murat Shrine and 'Scottish Rite both in Indianapolis and Elks Lodge 143 He was a musician and he had a big band during the Also surviving are two daugh ters Mrs Garth (Colleen) Clark of Columbia Md and Mrs David (Diane) Johnson of Phoenix Ariz' and a son Thomas Kelly of Woodland Hills Calif Glenn A Smith 61 Ball Glass retiree MONTICELLO Glenn A Smith 61 of 309 Norway Road died unexpectedly Thursday eve ning in his home He retired because of ill health in 1985 from Ball Glass in Dolton Ill after working there 18 years Born on Aug 10 1929 in Win chester Tenn he had camped at the Norway Campground since 1972 and moved to the Monticello area 36 years ago from Gary He married JoEtta Aliff Holcomb on Robert Kelly 73 retired housing executive ham radio operator Robert Kellv 73 for merly of 1830 of Bringhurst died at 6:43 pm Summit Drive Thursday in the Brethren Home at WL died at 6 lora where he had lived the past pm riday in two years Regency Place Mr McCracken was born June Mr Kelly 12 1905 at Bringhurst He mar formerly was an ried Esther Sering on June 7 1928 executive with in South Bend and she died Nov National Homes 13 1976 and New Cen He graduated from Bringhurst tury Homes High School and was an employee Born on April ops I me rural electrics cannot ab sorb that kind of Jontz said He said rural counties such as ntnwH vaiiuu auu muvc wcic 9 hit hardest by the storm and they she survives are the ones which can least af Mr Telfer was a member of ford the cleanup i Stidham United Methodist Church So far 26 counties have been and an avid bowler declared eligible for federal dis Also surviving is a daughter aster funds Connie Grisham of Los Angeles ort Wayne area rocked by reports of child abduction Ralph Telfer 75 farmer postal retiree Ralph Blanchard Telfer 75 of 3960 County Road 200 died at 12:55 pm riday at Home Hospital Uh TaKaW tlfAO A rAHVWAH worked for the post office before 1964 County 26 19l5 in Brook Wcoo? ston he graduated from Brookston ticeno ti0 brothers Mitchell School and attended Purdue Te TTntltAHAtflt AW Hua UA VlllWidllJ 1VI IWU jvaio AIC married Evelyn Benedict on June 10 1938 in Newington Conn and Robert Kelly 1017 ItA lixrArl most of his life in mis area He Mr McCracken was a member gra dilated from West Lafayette of the Bringhurst United Method High School and attended Purdue ist Church a charter member and University He married Katherine past president of the lora Rotary Ardapple on Nov 10 1941 Club and a member and past master or me Bnngnurst masonic Lodge He also was an avid ham radio operator Surviving are two sons Jerry McCracken of Route 5 Monticello and Jim McCracken of Bring hurst 4 By The Associated Press ORT WAYNE ort Wayne and Allen County detectives said riday that reports of attempted child abductions are creating a sense of panic in the community A 1Qwam1Iia11 TSVkwi WeamA Kam was reported snatched from his clothes in a dryer anarhnant ae chn fallrpH When me phone rang iIZu She talked for a I occasionally checking on her son temoon but me abductor dropped She men called her husband to ure mvj cMira uuvi nuj me woman said The report came nine days after a 12 year old girl reported being nearly dragged into a car by a man And it occurred in a com munity where me unsolved ab duction slayings of two young girls in me past three years remain fresh in minds have a certain amount of panic entered into the air up here and I think that may have something to do with all the at old girl last week she said said Lt Ed Tutwiler of a composite drawing of that the Allen County Sheriffs De suspect was published last week partment and spurred a series of reports by Sgt Damion Moring a detective children and adults who said they with me ort Wayne Police De either were approached by partment said the warmer strange men or saw suspicious weather with children playing people in their neighborhoods I Jontz urges more federal stoim cleanup aid By The Associated Press Gov Evan Bayh said me ice INDIANAPOLIS Rep Jim storm March 12 and 13 caused the Jontz Ind asked me federal deaths of seven people injured government riday to increase me several others and caused $80 share it will pay of million in damage to power lines cleanup from a devastating ice of utility companies and rural co storm to 100 percent The ederal Emergency Man agement Agency announced ear lier mat it will pay 75 percent of repair and cleanup costs In a letter to the agency Jontz said me federal decision unfairly penalizes consumers of rural ele ctric cooperatives He asked the federal government to pay me en tire cleanup bill Tenn Qiirvivintf hie uha a etoru MAW MAW ston he graduated from Brookston ti two brothers Mitchell lwu uruuicra xuiiuncu William Smith of Harvey Ill and six sisters Mercey Riddle and Eliza Riddle bom of Tullahoma Hazel Wilson of Manchester Tenn Myrtle Eddie of Redkey and Olabelle Willman and Vilena Johnson bom of Scottsburg Ala Service and burial will be Mon day in Monticello BRINGHURST Mark McCracken 85 a lifelong resident nit Drive Thursday in me Brethren Home at died at 6 lora where he had lived the past Mr McCracken was born June Margery Anderson 67 retired RMC employee ATTICA Margery Beavers Anderson 67 of 402 Union St died at 11:15 pm Thursday in St Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center Lafayette She had been ill six months Mrs Anderson was a life resi dent of Attica and was born here Aug 29 1923 She graduated from Attica High School in 1941 and she worked as a cutter and tester at Radio Materials Corp from 1954 until 1980 She attended ree Methodist Church in Attica She married Paul Anderson in Attica on March 14 1942 He sur vives Also surviving are two daugh ters Mrs Ralph (Marilyn Sue) Cross and Mrs James (Janice) Laoe bom of Attica three sons Paul Michael Anderson and James Anderson bom of Attica and Danny Anderson of Marshall and a sister Mrs Norma Jean Good man of Brookston Paul Underhill 80 ex Indiana Gas worker Paul Underhill 80 a former Lafayette resident was found dead in his home at 2241 Jef ferson St Kokomo Thursday apparently of a heart attack He had been in failing health for me past three years Mr Underhill worked for In diana Gas as a meter repairman until 1954 Later he did odd main tenance jobs Born on Aug 28 1910 in Col burn he grew up and was ed ucated in Lafayette He lived in Lafayette and me Chicago area before moving to Kokomo 15 years ago He married lorence Mori nskey in Lafayette in 1932 She died Jan 6 1971 Surviving are a daughter Mrs Barbara Workman of Greentown a son Max Underhill of Citrus Grove Calif three brothers Wayne Underhill and George Underhill bom of Lafay ette and Donald Underhill of In dianapolis and a sister Gw endolyn DeVault of Rensselaer Pauline Greenwood 88 owned service station ATTICA Pauline Green wood 88 of 501 Washington St died at 8:05 pm' Thursday in Community Hospital William sport She had been ill two weeks Born in Liberty Township on Dec 30 1902 she had lived in Williamsport and West Lebanon before moving to Attica in 1970 She attended Broadie School in Warren County She married Earl Greenwood in West Lebanon on April 23 1921 They operated a Standard Oil sta tion in West Lebanon from 1920 to 1945 He died June 8 1969 Mrs Greenwood was a member 1 of Locust Grove United Memodist Church and Warren County Senior Citizens and had been a member of West Lebanon Order of Eastern Star Chapter 162 for more than 60 years Survivors include a son Donald Greenwood of Attica a brother red Marsh of rural La fayette and two sisters Mrs Louise Hicks of West Lafayette and Mrs Richard (Vera) Lewis of Kissimmee la 1 Deaths Elsewhere i 1 Harry Montgomery 81 trailblazer for AP By The Associated Press GREENWICH Conn Harry Montgomery who as deputy general manager helped guide The Associated Press through a gen eration of innovation and growth died Thursday of lung cancer at age 81 Montgomery joined me Inter national News Service in New York in 1930 Earlier he was a reporter for the Detroit Times and Detroit ree Press He was hired by me AP in 1937 in New York was a Nieman ellow at Harvard in 1940 41 and returned to me news service to take charge of its foreign re port for morning newspapers during World War II WWW" ABM JM i UM '''MBMMBMWiBBBIIKAram list's or the record Police and ire Calls Many police calls are reports of what people have told officials The reports do not necessarily reflect the final status of Investigations Tippecanoe County 8:06 am riday Lafayette Police Department Burglary at Instant Wheels 1181 Sagamore Parkway Garage door forced Taken: $2135 8:28 am riday LPD Burglary at Durgan Elementary School 1840 18th St Taken: two video cassette recorders and a television Value: $1150 Births Home Hospital April 4 rank rancis and Julie Brooks Lafay ette a son Mike Long and Melissa Burke Lafay etteason Julia uentes Lafayette a son Donald Jr and Kristi Hileman Rey nolds a son James A Kober and Donna Harris Kober rankfort a son Bill and Deana Poynter Newtown a daughter Mike and Lee Ann Snyder Lafayette a son Divorces Hwa Chun Ueng and Peter Ueng William Tully and Carolyn Tully Brenda Kerst and Stephen Kerst Kimberly Hooper and Billy Hooper Terry Uster and Glenda A Lister Marriage Licenses Kenneth Schofield 21 622 27th St and Tricia ording 18 622 27th St Robert Cohen 3061 917 Pheasant Run Drive and Beverly Griffiths 22 3061 917 Pheasant Run Drive Brian Hensell 21 3306 Pebble Court and Angela Myers 21 3306 Pebble Court Robert Jubera 32 Merrillville and Michelle Motuliak 26 703 Courtland Ave James A Whislter 21 3170 215 Pheasant Run Drive and Julia Manus 2131 70 2 1 5 Pheasant Run Drive Randy Saylor 30 2330 Yeager Road WL and Cherish A Campbell 21 2330 Yeager Road WL Donald Lucas 22 1600 Dearborn St and Cynthia Ross 21 1600 Dearborn St Robert Bell 24 692 Northchester Lane and Sharon Rainey 24 692 Northchester Lane Benny Gibson 52 1002 29th St and Linda Reynolds 39 1002 29th St Staff Reports' uneral Notices 4 Blackboard Beat BILL BANNON PAUL UNDERHILL In Lafayette 1104 Columbia St 742 7873 By Darcy Chang? Journal and Courier Miami Elementary School student Justin Bryant interviews Tippecanoe County Court judge Greg Donat during a Leamlngsphere project on careers Elementary school program sets students on career track HAHN uneral Homes CRAIN Armyn BASS Agnes Carden KELLY Robert ADMPHONE: 742 1 1 31 By LYNNE JUNG Journal and Courier Eleven year old Beverly Scott turned on me video camera as Justin Bryant 9 his eyes spar kling and his cheeks flushed began to interview a real judge Justin asked Judge Greg Donat of Tippecanoe County Court 1 whether he liked his job Donat replied that he liked it a lot be cause rewarding After me interview Justin a little calmer said Donat was a nice guy liked me he said thinking about being a police officer but after today maybe I might be a Justin and 81 other students in Learningsphere 2008 this week were learning about careers in business finance law journalism and community service Learningsphere located in Miami Elementary School is a nroeram to prepare students in grades one through five to live in said the Leamingsphere careers the 21st century It was launched week is different from such pro two years ago by the Lafayette grams at other schools because School Corp me teachers try to incorporate The program does not em technology into the program 7 phasize grade levels so students of just having the kids erades one throush three are to what someone does we a a 4 ANDERSON Margery Visitation 6 9 pm Sunday at Maus neral Home Attica Service in Maus Chapel Monday at 2 pm the Rev Harvey Langie officiating Interment Riv erside Cemetery Attica Surviving 10 grandchildren 2 great grandchildren Preceded in death by a sister 2 broth ers Memorials may be made Heart und GREENWOOD Pauline Visitation at Maus uneral Home Attica 6 9 pm today with Order of Eastern Star rites 8 pm uneral in Maus Chapel Sunday 2 pm the Rev Don Williams i cemetery surviving 2 granacnJren Edward Greenwood Donna Jean Liptrap 2 great grandchildren Donald Green wood John Earf Liptrap Memorials to Warren County Senior Citizens KELLY Robert riends may calf 1 hour prior to service at 11 am Monday in Soller Baker West Lafayette Chapel the Rev Dr Jack SneKgrove officiating Entombment Tip pecanoe Memory Gardens Mausoleum Eight grandchildren survive Two broth ers a sister preceded in death Memo rials to American Heart Association American Diabetic Association or charity of choice This is a weekly special report about what's happening in Lafayette area classrooms If you have suggestions for stories please call our education reporter Lynne Jung at (317) 423 5511 or send information to her at the Journal and Courier 217 Sixth St Lafayette IN 47901 ningsphere teachers are known as learning guides Lorie Sparks one of the guides SOLLEIQSAKER unend Homes Inc Obituary Line 742 1161 Chapel TINSLEY Rev Benjamin WH LAMB William TELER Ralph Lafayette Chapel McCracken Mark riends may call 5 9 pm Sunday Baker uneral Home Hora with Masonic ser vice at 5 pm Service there 10 am Monday the Rev Larry DeVos officiating Intennent Maple Lawn Cemetery Surviv ing 6 grandchildren 9 great grandchildren 2 stepgrandchildren Pre ceded in death by 2 brothers Memorials to Bringhurst United Methodist Church SMITH Glenn A MiHer Voorhls uneral Home Monticello TELER Ralph Memorial service 2 pm Sunday at Stid ham United Methodist Church the Rev Roy Laudermilk officiating Three grand children 1 great grandchild survive Memorials to Cancer Society Soller Baker funeral directors in charge for Reiling Teder Withered said this was the first time he addressed ffrade schnnl students was surprised that the Stu Officiating Interment West Lebanon aents especially the younger ones asked so many good ques Reiling said had a great After hearing Reiling speak Sarah Casto 8 said he made her understand what being a lawyer is all about always thought a lawver would be in the courthouse all the time but you have to read a lot of books in an Sarah said Tony Turner 12 an inter mediate student said all the speakers this week emphasized getting good grades and going to college learned from them that you have to be able to read write get good grades and go to college to be a lawyer or to start a busi he said Other speakers who Darticioated in careers week: Jim Andrew Henry PoorHomeworks Gordon Kingma Lafayette Chambers of Commerce Dana Smith Lafay ette Savings Bank Sara Schwarz Hernan Lawson Bob KriebeVr TAitmioY Dai called and also have them do interviews Purdue Exponent Jim Smythe students in' grades three through write articles' take pictures and United Way of Greater Lafay five are called do Sparks said ette and Phyllis Myer Com four? Lear Bob Reiling a business lawyer munity Health Clinic 'I? I nt I 764 4418 PAULINE GREENWOOD MARGERY BEAVERS ANDERSON IUN(tM JEANNETTE BRYANT KROON MARY ALICE PEARSON MOORE JOHN WALKER LORENCE IRENE MORRIS PARKER UNERAL HOME ATTICA IN 47918 People who know you People you can rely on UNDERHILL Paul riends may call at Hahn uneral Home 1104 Columbia St 4 8 pm Sunday Service in Hahn Chapel 10:30 am Monday Brother Bill Spirk OM offici ating Interment St Boniface Cemetery Seven grandchildren 8 great grandchildren survive Two brothers pre ceded in death 822 Ninth St Laftyette IN 742 7382 cWaiK a craw nasi i.

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