Stories from Sunday, December 28, 2014

July 3, 1927 - Dec. 27, 2014 Shirley F. Patrick, 87, Cloverdale, passed away on December 27, 2014 at Asbury Towers Retirement Community in Greencastle. She was born on July 3, 1927 in Clayton, Indiana and was the daughter of the late Archie Patrick and Garnet (Vermillion) Patrick...

Dec. 13, 1925-Dec. 27, 2014 Mildred Harwood, 89 of Crawfordsville passed away peacefully Saturday at Whitlock Place surrounded by her family. She was born December 13, 1925 to Howard Clifton and Pearl June Shanklin Redmon. Mildred graduated from Waynetown High School. She had worked at Raybestos, RR Donnelly and as a kitchen supervisor at Ben Hur Home. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall Jehovah's Witness in Crawfordsville. She loved flowers, dancing and traveling...

Jan. 15, 1945-Dec. 22, 2014 Nancy Marie Gilmore, 69, of Greencastle and formerly of Gerlaw, Ill., went to sing praises with her Lord and Savior on Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. Nancy was born on Jan. 15, 1945 in Galesburg, Ill., to John Darauld Swinger and Gladys Irene Keifer Swinger...

MONROVIA--To finish the first half of the 2014-15 season, the Cloverdale girls' basketball team traveled to Monrovia for the four-team Bulldog Holiday Classic Saturday morning and evening. The Clovers dispatched Edinburgh in the morning 52-42 but found the hosts too much to handle in the finals, losing 43-23...

TERRE HAUTE--The Cloverdale boys' basketball team fell in the second round, of the 2014 Wabash Valley Classic to Terre Haute North, 57-48, on Terre Haute South's Pat Rady Court. South hosts the annual tournament and named the court after Rady, who coached there for 24 years before switching to Cloverdale...

It has been quite a busy 2014 for the Putnam County Hospital Cancer Center. The Outreach Program, under the direction of Sarah Barnes, RN, has provided the community with several preventive screens and early cancer detection opportunities, when the treatment is the most optimal...

INDIANAPOLIS--For the last time in 2014, South Putnam and Cloverdale's wrestling squads competed Saturday morning as both teams took part in the Ben Davis Giant Duals. Holes in both line-ups prevented either team from having the success they were looking for as the Eagles went 2-3 as a team while the Clovers fell in all five rounds...

The Greater Greencastle Chamber of Commerce has scheduled its 2015 annual dinner for Saturday, Jan. 24 at the DePauw University Indoor Tennis and Track Facility. The evening will begin with a social hour, which is sponsored by Duke Energy, from 6-7:30 p.m...

It's a honey of an idea Bob Gruener has come up with. Gruener is the driving force behind creation of a Putnam County beekeepers association, and already there is a swarm of interest. Promoting the idea by word of mouth thus far, Gruener said he already has more than two dozen people interested in forming the group...

FILLMORE -- The Fillmore Community Volunteer Fire Department got an early Christmas present recently after nearly 30 years of planning. On Tuesday, Dec. 23, department officials gathered with several other parties to break ground on a new fire station. The project has been a long time coming, as the department purchased the land for the new project in 1985...