Stories from Sunday, May 22, 2011

Patricia Ann "Patty" Michael, 55, of Greencastle passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2011. She was born on Feb. 13, 1956 in Greencastle to Charles Edward Michael and Mary Ann Guthrie Michael. Patty was a 1974 graduate of South Putnam High School and attended Bob Jones University. She was a member of Grace Community Church in Indianapolis and had been employed at Barrett and Stokely in Indianapolis, at Meijer as a cake decorator and at Wheeler Mission Ministries...

Wilma M. Holt, 81, Brazil, died Friday, May 20, 2011 at 11:30 p.m. at Union Hospital. She was born March 16, 1930 in Clay County the daughter of John Bemis and Ollie Lanham Bemis. In 1945, she married William Donald Holt. He preceded her in death on Nov. 7, 1990...

Dorothy J. Branneman, 92, Cloverdale, passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2011 at St. Vincent Hospice in Indianapolis. She was born on July 24, 1918 at Greencastle and was the daughter of the late Theodore Cortie and Olive Nettie (O'Neal) Harcourt...

Abraham L. Lewis, 78, of Greencastle, passed away on Friday, May 20, 2011. He was born on March 29, 1933, in Greencastle to Louisa Ellen Chunn Lewis and Jonathan Orlando Lewis. Mr. Lewis served his country in the U.S. Army as a cook. He retired from General Motors after 31 years of service as a welder...

Ila L. "Bunny" Hammond, 72, of Greencastle, passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2011. She was born on Jan. 5, 1939 in Millington, Ill. to Charles W. McPherson and Zena Hackler McPherson. Mrs. Hammond had been employed at Branagin Oil Company as the office manager, and served as the house mother at Pi Beta Phi for 10 years...