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Cynthia J. Fisher
Cynthia J. Fisher, 47, 1246 Etna Ave., died at 1:15 a.m. Tuesday (Feb. 1, 2000) at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne.
Mrs. Fisher was employed as a clerk with JCPenney from 1996 until May 1999. Prior to that she worked with her family at Eagle Excavating. She was a member of the Mt. Etna United Methodist Church. She was a lifetime resident of Huntington, graduating from Huntington North High School in 1971.
She was born Nov. 12, 1952, in Huntington to James Hedrick and Patricia Cross Hedrick. Her parents survive and live in Huntington. She married Michael D. Fisher Oct. 2, 1994, in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Her husband survives.
Also surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Shane (Candace) Foust, Huntington; a brother, Greg Hedrick, Huntington; Mrs. David (Pamela) Thrift, Warren; and one grandson.
Calling is 2-8 p.m. Thursday at the Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 W. Park Dr., where funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday. Gerald Moreland will officiate.
Graveside services and burial will take place at the Mt. Etna Cemetery
at a later date.
Preferred memorials are to Cancer Services for Huntington County, PO Box 51, Huntington, IN 46750, or to the Scott Foust College Fund in care of the Bailey-Love Mortuary.
John B. Kay
Dr. John B. Kay, 57, former chief of staff at Huntington Memorial Hospital, died Wednesday morning at the hospital.
Janet Whitacre, director of community relations at HMH, said Dr. Kay served as the hospital’s emergency room physician Tuesday night and went to the physician’s sleeping quarters for a nap. He died peacefully in his sleep, she said.
“He was filling in at the emergency room,” said Dr. R. B. Peare, Kay’s longtime partner in Family Practice Associates, 1255 Engle St. “He went in to go to sleep at 3:30 (a.m.), and he was gone when they went to wake him up at 7 a.m.”
Kay began his association at the hospital Oct. 31, 1974, and had just completed his third rotation as the hospital’s chief of staff. He first served in that position in 1974, again in 1985 and 1986, and most recently from 1997 through 1999.
His contributions to the hospital were many, and included the planning for HMH’s new campus on Huntington’s northeast side that is scheduled to open next April, said Kent McCoy, president of HMH.
“He was a major force in the development of the new hospital,” McCoy said.
Peare agreed.
“It’s a shame he won’t be able to visualize it when it’s completed,” Peare said.
McCoy said he was stunned by the suddenness of Dr. Kay’s death and that his feelings were “hard to put into words (because) ... John touched so many lives here at the hospital.
“The community lost a wonderful doctor, the family lost a really great father, and the hospital lost a real supporter,” McCoy said.
McCoy noted that Kay was one of only three doctors who still delivered babies at Huntington Memorial Hospital. “His patients just loved him, and so did we,” McCoy said.
Kay graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1967 and was certified in family practice in February 1975. He was active in the Parkview Health Systems and had been appointed to the Physicians Operations Council, a team designing the company’s management.
Peare said Kay’s fill-in service in the emergency room was typical of the man. He described him as a “workaholic,” balancing his busy practice and his work as the hospital’s chief of staff.
“He really grabbed hold of a big swath of life and tried to do everything,” Peare said.
Asked if Kay’s passing will leave a gap in the Huntington County medical community, Peare was succinct.
“You bet it will,” he said.
Kay leaves a wife, seven children, and several grandchildren.
Arrangements are pending at the Hart Funeral Home.
Gerald B. Smith
Gerald B. Smith, 83, 7515 Winchester Rd., Fort Wayne, died at 1:45 p.m. Monday (Jan. 31, 2000) at Riverbend Healthcare in Fort Wayne. He was a former resident of Toledo, Ohio, and Huntington.
Mr. Smith was a truck driver with Hettricks Manufacturing and also had driven for Cofer Brothers. He was a member the Harvest Lane United Brethren Church, Toledo.
He was born Jan. 17, 1917, in Huntington to Chester Ray Smith and Edna W. Heaston Smith. He married Naomi E. Rittenhouse June 1, 1937, in Muncie. His wife survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Randy Smith, Toledo, and Ronald Smith, Roswell, Ga.; five daughters, Carol Dinius and Karen Payne, both of Huntington, Sonja Tabbert, Toledo, Cheryl Miller, Fort Wayne, and Candy Wajer, Clinton Township, Mich.; two brothers, Leo Smith and Elois Smith, both of Huntington; a sister, Marjorie Caley, Huntington; two half brothers, Delbert Smith, Van Wert, Ohio, and Carlos Smith, Oldsboro, N.C.; a half sister, Janet Garretson, Huntington; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, Hugo Burdette Smith; two brothers, Fred “Peanut” Smith and Richard Smith; and a half sister, Joyce Worthington.
Calling is 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Deal-Robbins & Van Gilder Funeral Home, Huntington Chapel, 338 E. Washington St., where funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday. Rev. Raymond Waldfogel and Chaplain Ian Yorston will officiate.
Burial will be at the Lancaster Cemetery.
Preferred memorials are to any United Brethren Church.
Richard E. Bailey
Richard E. Bailey, 75, Columbia City, died at 4:20 a.m. Monday (June 12, 2000) at the Veterans Administration Northern Indiana Health Care System, Fort Wayne.
Mr. Bailey retired in 1990 from B.F. Goodrich, Fort Wayne, where he was service manager for 10 years. He had previously owned Bailey Marathon in Huntington. He served with the Marines during World War II and was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2689 and American Legion Post 85, both in Huntington.
He was born July 27, 1924, in Monument City, to Jim and Alma Eckelbarger Bailey. He married Betty Pickens in 1942 in Los Angeles, Calif.; his wife died March 25, 1989.
Surviving are a son, Rodney W. Bailey, Huntington; a sister, Mrs. Chuck (Bonnie) Harrell, Huntington; three grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
There are no calling hours. Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the Monument City Cemetery. Members of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2689 will perform military rites.
Memorial contributions may be made to Home Health Care and Hospice, 240 S. Jefferson St., Suite C, Huntington IN 46750.
The Bailey-Love Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
Gladys I. Powell
Gladys Isabelle Powell, 94, a resident of the Community Care Center in Wabash, died at the home at 4:25 p.m. Tuesday (June 13, 2000).
Mrs. Powell, a former resident of Lagro, worked as a cook at Lagro and Southwood High Schools for 25 years, retiring in 1976. She and her husband also farmed. She was a60-year member of the Lincolnville United Methodist Church and was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 90, Wabash.
She was born Feb. 17, 1906 in Sanilac County, Mich., a daughter of John Ford and Anna Diem Ford. She married Wayne Powell Aug. 15, 1932; he died Nov. 19, 1977.
Surviving are two sisters, Ann M. Julian, Westland, Mich., and Wilhelmina F. Loranger, Dearborn, Mich.
She was preceded in death by a son, a brother, and five sisters.
Calling is 2-8 p.m. Thursday at the Grandstaff-Hentgen Manchester Avenue Chapel, 1177 Manchester Ave., Wabash. An Eastern Star service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with funeral services there at 2 p.m. Friday. Rev. Melissa Rice will officiate. Burial will be at the Lagro cemetery.
Lynn N. Crabbs
Lynn N. Crabbs, 57, 50 Castle Hill Dr., Roanoke, died at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday (June 13, 2000) at the Hospice Home of Northeast Indiana, Fort Wayne.
Arrangements are pending at the Roanoke Memorial Chapel.
Rev. David H. Fosselman, C.S.C.
Rev. David H. Fosselman, 82, a resident of the Holy Cross House, Notre Dame, died Sunday (June 11, 2000).
He was born Dec. 24, 1917, in Huntington, a son of Charles F. and Nora M. Brown Fosselman.
After graduating from St. Mary’s Grade School in Huntington, he entered the Holy Cross Seminary, Notre Dame, in 1931, as a freshman in the high school program. He graduated in 1934 and spent a year at the University of Notre Dame before entering the Holy Cross novitiate in 1935. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1939 and continued his theological studies for four years at Holy Cross College in Washington, D.C.
Father Fosselman made his perpetual profession of religious vows on Aug. 16, 1936, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 24, 1943, at Sacred Heart Church, Notre Dame.
After he was ordained, Father Fosselman taught for a year at Holy Cross Seminary, Notre Dame, then entered the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. He was awarded a master’s degree in social work in 1947 and a doctorate in sociology in 1950. He then taught at the University of Portland in Portland, Ore., from 1950 to 1965.
From 1965 to 1971, Father Fosselman served with the West Coast Holy Cross Mission Band in San Jose, Calif. During that time, he also served as chaplain of the Newman Club at San Jose State College.
He was director of the Youth Services Bureau of White County, Indiana, from 1971 to 1975 and was a clinical social worker at the Wabash Valley Hospital Mental Health Center, West Lafayette, from 1975 to 1990.
Failing health prompted Father Fosselman to move to the Holy Cross House, Notre Dame, in 1991. While he lived there, he served as auxiliary chaplain at Grissom Air Force Base, Peru, and provided psychosocial assessment of people involved in annulment proceedings for the Diocese of Lafayette.
He is survived by his brother, Rev. Robert Fosselman, Huntington, and his sister, Beatrice Cox, Monticello.
Calling hours begin at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Moreau Seminary, Notre Dame, with a wake service at 7:30 p.m. The funeral Mass of the Resurrection will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Notre Dame. Burial will be at the Community Cemetery, Notre Dame.
The Kaniewski Funeral Homes, South Bend, is in charge of arrangements.
