Stories from Sunday, January 22, 2012

Cassel Grubb died on Jan. 1, 2012. He was born in Palmyra, Pa., on July 23, 1923 and was the son of Pennsylvania Germans, William M. Grubb and Alva Cassel Grubb. On Dec. 26, 1948 he married Bernice Flanagan, his wife of 63 years, in Highland Park, Ill., and she survives...

Barbara Ann Davis, 70, of Roachdale, passed away at her residence on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. She was born on Oct. 19, 1941 at Barnard to Vitus M. and Susie Clements Clemens. She married Alvin Victor Davis on May 5, 1989 and he passed away on Aug. 17, 1997. She was a homemaker...

Infant Rylee Mackenzi Wood, three-week-old daughter of Rebecca "Becky" McCarty and Ethan Wood, passed away on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. Rylee was born on Dec. 31, 2011 in Danville. Survivors include her parents; a big brother, Ryan Plessinger; grandparents, Lynda McCarty, David McCarty, Tracie Gibson and Charles Wood; and her aunts, Katie McCarty, Sarah McCarty, Chastine Shillings, and Brittni Grimes...

Kathryn S. Nickell, 97, of Coatesville, passed away Saturday, Jan. 21 in the Mill Pond Health Care Facility in Greencastle. Born Oct. 14, 1914 in Putnam County, she was the daughter of Joseph Rhea Sullivan and Emma E. (Newman) Sullivan. She married Frank Nickell and he preceded her in death...

Mildred L. "Millie" Edwards, 89, of Indianapolis, passed away on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. She was born Nov. 19, 1922 in Greencastle to Clifford and Dorothy (Stewart) Monnett. She is survived by her daughters, Nancy (Brian) Haymond and Judy (Jerry) White; daughter-in-law Elizabeth Edwards; grandchildren Kristy, Stephanie, Nick, Steve and Bradley; three great-grandchildren and granddogs. ...

Richard Warren Mishler, age 50, of Greencastle, went home to be with the Lord Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 at the Putnam County Hospital. Born Feb. 6, 1961 in Greencastle, he was the son of Warren E. and Betty N. (Rollins) Mishler, and a 1979 graduate of Greencastle High School...

Clara Newgent, 97, Crawfordsville, died Friday at Whitlock House. Born Feb. 8, 1914 at Salem, Wis., she was the daughter of William and Clara (Malzahn) Bruenning. She had been a buyer for G.C. Murphy's. She was educated in Salem (Wis.) schools. She was preceded in death by husbands Barney Fossum, Melvin Coffman and Clyde Newgent...

Sharon Sue King, 70, Greencastle, passed away on Sunday, Jan. 22. Services are pending at Bittles and Hurt Funeral Home, Greencastle.

Two Greencastle Township precincts whose polling places had been at the Putnam County Annex have found new homes. When the Putnam County Commissioners voted to close the Annex last year, they set the date for mid-November in part so it did not affect last year's municipal elections...