Charlotte Jean Romanic, Greencastle, IN

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Charlotte Jean Romanic, 80, of Greencastle, passed away Saturday, February 11, 2023. She was born February 28, 1942 to George and Fern Cannon. She grew up in Rosedale, Indiana and later moved to Chicago, IL where she graduated High School.

Her early years were spent helping her parents on a potato farm, true to her Irish heritage. To this day, she hated sweet potatoes! Upon graduation, while working various jobs, she met the love of her life, Roger Romanic - married in 1963, early years together were spent in Chicago, IL. While in Chicago, she and Roger became Bible students and she was baptized as one of Jehovah’s Witnesses in April 1965. They returned to the Brazil area in the early 1970’s where she ran the Colonial Bread Store in Brazil. In 1978, they bought a farm in rural Greencastle, as they wanted to raise hogs and have more space for their horse, Ed. She loved life on the farm and raising hogs and chickens. She also enjoyed the space to have a garden and to have produce to can.

Her hobbies included mushroom hunting in the Spring, tending to a gigantic garden and fishing in the Summer, snow-skiing in the Winter, and brewing and enjoying craft beers all year long. They never had children, but they had many four-legged family members and with living in the country, took in many stray dogs. If you were a dog in the Romanic household, you knew you would have a good life and had it made! Their earliest dogs were a pair of black Great Danes, Panther and Mariah, which were each the size of a small horse, and house dogs. Glass in the windows rattled as they announced a visitor’s arrival. Needless to say, there was never a home intruder under their watch! She and Roger also enjoyed European travel and had many stories to share about their travels abroad. Later on, she had a small group of girl-friends that traveled together in the U.S., and these were affectionately known as “The Golden Girls”.

She was an active member of the Greencastle Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and, since the beginning of the Pandemic, carried out her ministry in the form of letter writing – sometimes writing as many as 100 letters a month.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Shirley Fisher; her best friend, Annetta Young in 2007; and her husband on April 13th, 2002.

She is survived by her beloved dog Rascal; friends Carol and Tim, Dan, Wanda, and Betty; close friends Mike and Paula Frattini; and best friend, “sister-chick”, and care-taker, Sondra Whitesell, and husband Tom; and life-long friends, surrogate children, and care-takers Troy Young (Marcy), and Tonya Young Swearingen (Jeff).

Her ”family” would like to thank Putnam County Hospital and Hickory Creek at Sunset Rehab Facility for their extraordinary care and support of her in recent weeks. Her final care has been entrusted to Samaritan Funeral Home. Arrangements and services are private.