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Duke Camp (11/18/09)
Duke Camp, 52, Seelyville, died Nov. 16, 2009, at Union Hospital, Terre Haute. He was born June 20, 1957, in Arkansas. He lived in the Clay City area for several years and graduated from Clay City High School with the class of 1977. Following high school, he attended Olivet Nazarene University. ...

Edith I. Smith (11/17/09)
Edith I. Smith, 86, Brazil, died Nov. 17, 2009, at Community North Hospital, Indianapolis. She was born Aug. 25, 1923, in Clay County, the daughter of Grant and Estella Purcell Nicoson. She attended Wools grade school and Staunton High School. On April 9, 1946, she married Charles L. Smith...

Erlene Mary Cooper (11/16/09)
Erlene Mary Cooper, 65, died at 11:30 p.m., Nov. 13, 2009, at St. Vincent Clay Hospital, Brazil. She was born Feb. 2, 1944, in Mariah Hill, Ind., a daughter of Robert and Morina Miller Schaefer. She married James Cooper on Jan. 11, 1974, in Huntingburg, Ind...

Morgan Elizabeth King (11/15/09)

Betty J. Slack (11/15/09)
Betty J. Slack, 77, Brazil, died Nov. 15, 2009, at her residence following a brief illness. She was born in Lewis Township, June 13, 1932, the daughter of Harold Fred "Ted" and Mildred N. (Wilkins) Neal. Betty attended Brazil High School through her junior year and graduated from Reelsville High School in 1950. She married Raymond L. Williams Nov. 16, 1950. He passed away Feb. 20, 1965...

Gilbert Royer (11/13/09)
Gilbert Royer, 86, Cory, died Nov. 12, 2009, in Union Hospital, Terre Haute. He was born July 23, 1923, in Clay County, the son of Wayne and Carrie Wellman Royer. Gib graduated from Cory High School. He married Mary Gard July 24, 1943. Shortly before their marriage, he joined the United States Army Air Force where he served during World War II. ...

Marjorie L. Kittle (11/11/09)
Marjorie L. Kittle, 97, Clay City, died Nov. 10, 2009, at Union Hospital. She was born in Clay City, July 28, 1912, to Frank and Ruth (Johnson) Edmondson. Marjorie married Israel "Curley" Kittle May 4, 1935. She spent her life raising and caring for her family. Marjorie was a lifetime member of New Hope Baptist Church. She was currently serving as the oldest member of the church. The church was built on her grandfather Johnson's property...

Gaylord H. Stewart (11/10/09)
Gaylord H. Stewart, 74, Knightsville, died Nov. 9, 2009, at St. Vincent Clay Hospital. He was born may 24, 1935, in Illinois, the son of Jesse and Eva VanLandingham Stewart. As a young man, he worked on the railroad and then later drove a dump truck for the zinc mill in Greencastle...

Ellen Jean Green (11/05/09)
Ellen Jean Green, 54, formerly of West Terre Haute, and Brazil, and currently of Terre Haute, passed away at Terre Haute Regional Hospital, Nov. 3, 2009, at 6:43 p.m., following a long battle with Muscular Dystrophy. She was born in Brazil, Sept. 8, 1955, to John William "Bill" and Doris Evelyn (Bond) Green...

David Raab (11/03/09)
David Raab, Warrenton, Mo., died Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009, at the age of 69, after a short battle with cancer. He was the loving husband of Chris Raab (nee: Moudy), dear son of the late Ralph and Olive Raab, devoted father of John (Susan) Raab, Amy (Jeff) Kaiser, and Jill (Matt) Smith, proud Pawpaw of Josephine and Jennette Raab and Caroline, Catherine and Jack Kaiser, dear brother of John Raab and the late Rosetta Brown, dear uncle, cousin and friend...

Raymond Wesley Corey (11/02/09)
Raymond Wesley Corey, 54, Bloomfield, formerly of Terre Haute, passed away on Oct. 31, 2009, in Clay County. He was born in Terre Haute to James W. Corey and Bernice Weil Corey on Sept. 18, 1955. Ray was a former member of Union Christian Church. He worked at FedEx Ground and Home Delivery for 16 years...

Doris Ellen Girton (11/01/09)
Doris Ellen Girton, 91, Brazil, died Sunday morning, Nov. 1, 2009, at her residence. She was born Aug. 9, 1918, in Brazil, as the daughter of George W. and Bertha Doan LaBier. She graduated from Brazil High School and attended secretary school at ISU...

Vivian Mathis Smith (11/01/09)
Vivian Mathis Smith, 94, Rockville, died at 5:45 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009, at Cloverleaf Healthcare in Knightsville. She was born May 27, 1915, in Benwood, Ind., in Clay County, as the daughter of Samuel and Zeta Wilson Tucker. She graduated from Van Buren High School with the class of 1934. She was a member of the Christian Science Church and Order of Eastern Star, Chapter 8, District 8...

Jane Elizabeth Holmes (10/30/09)
Jane Elizabeth Holmes, 73, Speedway, passed away Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009. She was born Nov. 22, 1935, in Brazil, the daughter of Oliver and Mary Coltharp. Mrs. Holmes was a graduate of Van Buren High School in Clay County, and was a buyer for Community Hospital East for 37 years...

Ross Mosteller (10/30/09)
Ross Mosteller, 93, Brazil, passed away Oct. 28, 2009. He was born Nov. 5, 1915, in Parke County, Ind., to Homer and Ethel (Sexton) Mosteller. Ross bought and sold scrap metal for a living. In his free time, he enjoyed hunting, being outdoors, spending time with his family and working...

Michele Lynn Tucker (10/29/09)
Michele Lynn Tucker, 33, passed away Oct. 12, 2009, at her home in Salt Lake City, Utah. She served full-time as a Technical Sergeant in the 151st Communications Flight in the Utah Air National Guard, where she served several tours overseas during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars...

Robert Glenn Estes (10/29/09)
Robert Glenn Estes, 70, Plainfield, formerly of Brazil, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Indianapolis. He was born Feb. 14, 1939, in Brazil, as the son of Everett and Della Mae Murphy Estes Sr. He graduated from Brazil High School and served in the U.S. Army...

Helen Evelyn Ashby (10/29/09)
Helen Evelyn Ashby, 86, Brazil, died Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, in Indianapolis. She was born April 10, 1923, in Dana, as the daughter of Oscar and Anna Garrigus Fortune. She married Takuma "Tony" Richard Ashby, who survives her. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother Oscar "Bud" Fortune Jr...

Virginia L. Bullerdick (10/28/09)
Virginia L. Bullerdick, 82, Brazil, died Oct. 27, 2009, at 7:40 p.m., at St. Vincent Clay Hospital. She was born on Oct. 14, 1927, in Reelsville, the daughter of Luther and Fialty (Condor) Girton who have preceded her in death. On Dec. 12, 1952, she married Harmon Bullerdick in Covington, Ind. He preceded her in death on Feb. 20, 1997...

Lewis T. Phillips (10/28/09)
Lewis T. Phillips, 88, Brazil, passed away Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 27, 2009, in his home. He was born Jan. 4, 1921, in Brazil, to George and Hazel Phillips. He was a United States Air Force veteran who retired from being a pilot in the Air Force, and also retired from working at the Federal Prison in earlier years...

Ruby Fern Hatcher (10/27/09)
Ruby Fern Hatcher, 82, Brownsburg, Ind., formerly of Brazil, died at 9:50 a.m., Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, at Brownsburg Meadows. She was born March 28, 1927, Hudson, Ill., as the daughter of George and Mabel Carpenter Arbuckle. She had worked as a waitress and at Mallory Corp. She had attended Carbon Baptist Church...

Leora Sue Smith (10/27/09)
Leora Sue Smith, born to Ethel Godfrey and William Phillip Hinote, in Hymera, Ind., on April 6, 1916. She passed away at 5:30 p.m., Oct. 25, 2009. Sue lost her mother at age 3 and was raised by her beloved father on the family farm south of Center Point, for the first eight years of her life...

Kathleen Sue "Kakie" Curtis (10/22/09)
Kathleen Sue "Kakie" Curtis, 56, Terre Haute, passed away Oct. 22, 2009, in St. Vincent Hospital, Indianapolis. She was born in Zanesville, Ohio, on Dec. 17, 1952, to August Lewis Stemm and Cora Watkins Stemm. She was a member of the Why Me Breast Cancer Support Group and enjoyed going to Camp Bluebird and she also loved to travel, was an avid reader, and spending holidays and outings with family...

Roy Frederick Hunter (10/22/09)
Roy Frederick Hunter, 80, Brazil, died at 6 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 22, 2009, at his residence. He was born Sept. 10, 1929, in Brazil, as the son of Roy W. and Susan Mishler Hunter. He graduated from Brazil High School with the class of 1948 and on Sept. 9, 1950, he married the former Martha Jane Morgan...