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Yandel Haines
ROCKPORT, Ind. — Yandel Haines, 77, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, of cancer at his home.
He retired as a carpenter in 1987 and was a member of the Carpenters Union Local 549. He was a member of the Rockport/Ohio Township Volunteer Fire Department for 42 years.
He was a World War II Army veteran and member of the Owensboro Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 696.
Surviving are his wife of 50 years, Julia; two sons, Denny of Rockport and Tom of Evansville; a sister, Jamie James of Louden, Tenn.; five grandchildren, Leisa Price, Missy, Jeff and Jason Haines and Lori Henson; two great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Boultinghouse Funeral Home, with burial in Sunset Hill cemetery.
Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and from 8 a.m. to service time at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Spencer County Hospice.
Jerry Ratliff Jr.
POSEYVILLE, Ind. — Jerry W. Ratliff Jr., 35, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, of injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
He had worked for Standard Laboratories, since 1989.
He was a member of the Model Car Club.
Surviving are a daughter, Madison Ratliff at home; a son, Dustin K. Koenig at home; his parents, Debbie and Jerry W. Ratliff Sr. of Lexington, N.C.; two sisters, Angela McCoy of Minnie, Ky., and Regina Prater of Lawrence County, Ky.; and his grandfather, Raymond Gibson.
Services and burial are pending.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Pierre Funeral Home.
Stanley Fischer
TELL CITY, Ind. — Stanley J. Fischer, 79, died Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at St. Mary’s Medical Center in Evansville.
He was founder and president of Fischer’s Furniture & Appliance Co., Fischer’s Tru-Flame Gas Co. Inc., Fischer’s Stock Farms and Fischer’s Rental.
He developed Fischer’s Cedar Crest Lake.
He was a World War II Army veteran and member of American Legion Post 213.
He was a member of St. Paul’s Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus 1172 and an honorary member of the American Red Cross.
Surviving are six daughters, Janet Veeck, Betty Hagedorn, Diann Williams and Teresa Lutgring, all of Tell City, Donna McNulty of Paducah, Ky., and Sharon Little of Broken Arrow, Okla.; two sons, Jerry and Richard, both of Tell City; two brothers, Randall and Leroy, both of Tell City; 20 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Pauline (Kuntz).
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Paul Catholic Church, with burial in St. Mary’s cemetery, with military rites.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m., and from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Zoercher-Gillick Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church or American Red Cross.
Erline Belwood
Erline L. (Reiter) Belwood, 77, of Evansville, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, of pneumonia at Deaconess Hospital.
She was a 1939 graduate of Central High School.
She and her late husband, William, who died in February, had traveled through most of the United Sates in a motor home.
She was a charter member of St. Theresa Catholic Church and enjoyed reading and quilting.
Surviving are four daughters, Patricia Johnson, Jenny Bunker, Linda Frankenberger and Karen Denton, all of Evansville; a son Michael of Evansville; a sister, Mary Lou Pickett of Evansville; 12 grandchildren, Vikki Francis, Stephen Johnson, Tad Bunker, Tara Blastick, Tracy Greene, Melissa Young, Daryl Frankenberger, Karrie Wicks, Kandas Denton and Matthew, Emily and Mary Belwood; and seven great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Browning Funeral Home, continuing at 10:30 a.m. at St. Theresa Catholic Church, the Rev. Ted Tempel officiating, with burial in St. Joseph cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Clifford Kasinger
Clifford Leroy Kasin-ger, 72, of Evansville, died Friday, Oct. 8, 1999, of heart failure at Deaconess Hospital.
He retired from Geiger Moving & Storage Co. and had been a Teamster.
He was a Navy veteran.
Surviving are seven daughters, Connie Williams, Vickie Vessel, Rhonda Collins, Debra Ghormley, Toni Maroni and Cindy Kasinger, all of Evansville, and Sheryl LaMar of Eckerty, Ind.; two sons, George and Jeff, both of Evansville; four sisters, Delores Vogel, Rilla Jean Boyd, Emma Jean Koerber, and Betty Sue Richardt all of Evansville; two brothers, Terry Kasinger of Evansville and Budric Kasinger of Florida; 18 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
His wife, Dorothy, died in 1990.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Alexander Funeral Home West Chapel, the Rev. Eugene Main officiating, with burial in Park Lawn cemetery, with military rites.
Friends may call from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to service time at the funeral home.
John Ferstel
John Henry Ferstel, 75, of Newburgh, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, at his home.
He was a farmer.
Surviving are three sisters, Irene Limberger of Evansville, and Beatrice Duchworth and Helen Simpson, both of Newburgh.
Graveside services will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday in St. John’s cemetery, the Rev. Tom Scholl officiating.
There will be no visitation at Simpson Meyer Funeral Home.
Paul McDaniels
Paul E. “Coach Mac” McDaniels, 81, of Evansville, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999, at the Evansville Protestant Home.
He had been a welder in the coal mines in the Winslow, Ind., area, and was a vocational teacher and football and baseball coach at North High School for 28 years, retiring in 1984.
He was a World War II Navy veteran.
He was a member of Crossroads Christian Church of Evansville, the Masonic Lodge of Winslow and Hadi Shrine of Evansville.
Surviving are a son, Wayne of Newburgh; two grandchildren, Lori Goforth of Inwood, W.Va.; and Bradley of La Grange, Ky.; and two great-grandchildren.
His wife, Myrl (Burlingame), died in 1993.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Alexander Funeral Home East Chapel, Chaplain Charles Doughty officiating, with entombment in Alexander Memorial Park Mausoleum, with military rites.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 9 a.m. to service time at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Deaconess Ohio Valley Hospice Care or Visiting Nurse Association.
Lorena Sorensen
Lorena (Covey) Porter Sorensen, 70, of Evansville, died Friday, Oct. 8, 1999, of cancer at the home of her daughter, Debbie Fehrenbacher in St. Philip, Ind.
She had worked at Sears Roebuck and Co. for 15 years and Deaconess Hospital in patient transport.
Also surviving are three sisters, June Wallace of Anton, Texas, Mildred Chilton of Evansville and Dorothy Trainer of Fitchburg, Mass.; five brothers, Charles Covey of Lafayette, Ind., Darrell and Raymond Covey, both of Evansville, Rolland Covey of Fowler, Ind., and Melvin Covey of Tiro, Ohio; and five grandchildren, Andrea, Melissa and Traci Fehrenbacher and Bryan and Brandon Porter.
Her husband, Leo, died in 1994, and a son, Gregory Porter, died in 1998.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Pierre Funeral Home, the Revs. Janice Akers-Du Bois and Raymond Brenner officiating, with burial in Sunset Memorial Park cemetery.
Friends may call from 1 to 8 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to service time at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Deaconess Ohio Valley Hospice or Mater Dei/Memorial Capital Campaign.
Howard Roush
Howard H. Roush, 65, of Gallipolis, Ohio, father of Charmaine Sanford of Evansville, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1999, of a heart attack in Greensburg, Pa.
He had worked for the Bell Telephone Co. for 18 years, retired from the American Electric Power Co. in 1998 after 26 years and was working for the Maridan Construction Co. in Huntington, W. Va., as a field consultant.
He was a Navy veteran of the Korean War and served in the Navy Reserve.
He was a member and past president of the Chrisney (Ind.) Lions Club and was instrumental in the organization of the Lions Club in Rockport, Ind.
Also surviving are his wife, Naomi (Wise); a daughter, Scarlet Drayer of Nashville, Tenn.; two sons, Ronnie of Shorewood, Ill., and Marty of Ovett, Miss.; a sister, Carolyn Erickson of Perrysburg, Ohio; a brother, Joe of Cheshire, Ohio; and four grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cremeens Funeral Chapel in Gallipolis, the Rev. Alfred Holley officiating, with burial in the Pine Street cemetery, with military rites.
Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Viola Schorr
Viola Schorr, 91, of Evansville, died Friday, Oct. 8, 1999, at St. Mary’s Health Care Services/Welborn Campus.
She was a member of the Zion United Church of Christ-Lippe and former member of Bethlehem United Church of Christ and member of the Quilters Club.
Surviving are three daughters, Virginia Litteral-Birdsong of Roswell, Md., Eleanor McRae of Poseyville, Ind., and Ruby Ostermann of Mount Vernon, Ind.; a son, Paul M. of Mount Vernon; a sister, Marie Buente of Darmstadt, Ind.; two brothers, Gilbert and Raymond Happe, both of Evansville; 14 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
Her husband, Paul H., died in 1992, after 60 years of marriage.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Zion United Church of Christ-Lippe in Mount Vernon, , the Rev. Kenneth Scherry officiating, with burial in the church cemetery.
Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Alexander Funeral Home North Chapel and from noon to service time at the church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the church.
