Stories from Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Anna Lee Hamlin, age 80, Switz City, passed Saturday, Jan. 30, at the Lyons Health and Living Center. Born March 20, 1935 in Bloomfield, Anna was the daughter of Charles and Rosanna Parsons Blackmore. Graduating from Switz City High School as valedictorian of the Class of 1952, Anna later obtained her Associates Degree from Vincennes University. On March 6, 1953, Anna married Willard Rex Hamlin in Bloomfield...

Warren "Buzz" Blackburn, 89, passed away peacefully on February 1. He was born in Royal Oak Michigan on Oct. 25,1926 to Madge and Herbert Blackburn. He grew up in Linton where he met Dorothy "Louise" Peltier. They were married on Dec. 25,1951. He served as a Seaman1st Class in the Navy and attended Radio Naval Training School where he studied sending and receiving of messages in International code. ...