Stories from Tuesday, December 6, 2016

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Wesley W. Wilson, coordinator of Archives and Special Collections at DePauw University, will give a presentation at the Putnam County Museum on Wednesday, Dec. 7, beginning at 7 p.m. Getting started with genealogy can often mean locating resources to use in the research. Many family history materials are available right here in Putnam County at the DePauw Archives...

Heaven received a beautiful angel on Dec. 1, 2016. Brenda Kay Williams, 57, of Greencastle, passed away in her home surrounded by her family. Brenda was born Jan. 11, 1959 to Floyd and Shirley Freeman, who survive. Brenda married Kevin Williams on June 30, 1977 and they had one daughter together...

Edythe E. Benedix Schendel, 99, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 at Asbury Towers Retirement Community in Greencastle, where she had resided for 15 years. She was born April 23, 1917 in La Moure, N.D., to Ernest and Theressa Josephine Benedix. On May 13, 1938 she was married at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa, to V. Kenneth Schendel of Milwaukee, Wis., and who died June 10, 2001...

A chili supper is set for Friday, Dec. 9 in the SPHS lobby during the South Putnam vs. Greencastle varsity girls’ and boys’ games. Serving is scheduled for 4-9 p.m. The cost is $5 for chili and all the fixings. Proceeds will go to the SPHS Quarterback Club...

County Jail Twelve people were booked in the Putnam County Jail recently. Monday • At 10:05 p.m. Matthew R. Tiller, 33, Mooresville, was lodged at the jail on a Morgan County warrant. • At 4:18 p.m. Graylon Dwight Bell, 50, Terre Haute, was arrested on a court order...

The events of the past few minutes coursed through John Anderson’s mind like the hellish nightmare that it was. He had been assigned to set up chairs on the ship’s main deck for the Sunday morning worship service. His brother Jake and many others were still sound asleep below deck on a serene Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor...

BRAZIL -- The city’s fire chief says investigation continues into what caused the fire at a Mechanic Street home that left three dead, including two children. The three — 18-year-old Raven Elizabeth Rose (Stewart) Tedder, her daughter 4-month-old Zoiey Alaweigh Jane Tedder and her brother 4-year-old Shyloi Leeland Dale Stewart — were all pronounced dead at St. ...

Dec. 7, 1941 -- a date that will live in infamy as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt so eloquently stated -- has hit the 75-year anniversary mark today. And as the survivors of that day dwindle by the year, Pearl Harbor remains the defining moment for generations of older Americans. Just as the Kennedy Assassination was to the Baby Boomers and the 9/11 attack has been to the current generation...

CLOVERDALE — A chance encounter at the Putnam County Fair led to Indiana Sen. Rod Bray eating lunch with some Cloverdale Elementary School students on Tuesday. In July, Sen. Bray (R-Martinsville) was visiting some of his District 37 constituents at the Putnam County Fair when he stopped for a meal at Cajun Billy’s Catering food stand...