Stories from Wednesday, March 12, 2014

County Jail A number of people were booked into the Putnam County Sheriff's Department recently. At 2 p.m. Friday, Landon James Patterson, 22, Greencastle, was arrested for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. At 6:30 p.m. Sean Patrick McClamroch, 34, Waveland, was charged with nonsupport of a dependent...

Terry Charles Yeagley, 74, of Greencastle, passed away Saturday, March 8, 2014 at Terre Haute Regional Hospital. Terry was born to Ward and Anne Yeagley on Dec. 13, 1939. He was a graduate of Hebron High School. He was a veteran of the United States Army, journeyman printer, former teacher at Arsenal Technical High School, and worked many years in retail...

Robert G. (Bob) Larkin, 91, of Plainfield, passed away on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Born on Oct. 9, 1922 in Greencastle, he was the son of Vernie and Vanita (Collins) Larkin. He married Mary Carolyn Wren on Sept. 23, 1945 in Greencastle and she preceded him in death on Dec. 12, 2009...

Melody Ann Truesdale, 56, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Born Oct. 19, 1957 in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of Robert Weir Thompson and Alice Pauline Palmer. Melody had worked with comprehensive services in housekeeping at the Green Acres Residence Home...

DANVILLE -- A Heritage Lake man already serving a 99-year sentence for child molesting will not face trial for the same charges in Hendricks County. However, it has nothing to do with his presumed innocence. David L. Williams, 39, is currently incarcerated in Pendleton Correctional Facility for 12 felony convictions in Putnam County relating to the molestation of a young female relative when the girl was between six and eight years old...

Yes, temperatures really did reach 70 degrees Tuesday as Putnam County and central Indiana were teased by a harbinger of spring before being rudely snapped back to reality by another dose of snow and cold on Wednesday morning that turned the vegetation in front of the house at Market and Columbia streets into a late-winter wonderland. However, take heart, Hoosiers, spring officially begins one week from Thursday...

Cary Robin Wood "R. Wood," 58, of Greencastle, passed away on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Born March 6, 1956 in Greencastle, he was the son of William Alva and Karen (Birt) Wood. He married Donna J. (Cundiff) Wood on Oct. 26, 1978, and she survives. Cary had worked at Dixie Chopper for three years and previously worked at Lobdell Emory for more than 28 years...