HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA OBITS
Kokomo Daily Dispatch Thursday, June 10, 1926 page 1
JOHN DEAN, 79, DIED SUDDENLY
  John W. Dean, seventy-nine, a resident of Howard county for thirty-five years but more recently of Wabash, died at 3:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon of heart trouble at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Hancock at the county infirmary.   Mr. Dean had come to visit his daughter and was taken ill Tuesday evening.
  Funeral services will be held at the Main Street Christian church Friday afternoon at two o'clock, the Rev. A. W. Havens and the Rev. M. H. Garrard in charge.   Ritualistic services will be conducted at the church by the G. A. R. and the Masonic order will be in charge at Crown Point cemetery where burial will take place.
  The other children surviving are:   William A. Dean and M. E. Yager of Wabash, J. W. Dean, Jr., of Kokomo, Mrs. Pearl Shockley of Greentown and Mrs. Frank DeVore of Kokomo.   A son, Boynton Dean is deceased.   The wife died several years ago.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)
The Kokomo Daily Tribune Wednesday March 5, 1919 page 2
ELIZABETH DEAN DIES
PASSES AWAY AT AGE OF 70 AT HOWARD TOWNSHIP HOME
Husband and Several Children Survive - Was a Woman Esteemed By All Who Knew Her.
  Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Dean, aged 70 years, wife of James W. Dean of Howard township, died this morning at 5 o'clock, of a complication of diseases.   She is survived by the husband and several children.   The funeral will be held Friday morning at 11 o'clock from the Main street Christian church.   The services will be conducted by the Rev. J. H. Mavity, pastor of the South Side Christian church, assisted by the Rev. D. H. Shields.   Burial will be in Crown Point cemetery.   Mrs. Dean was born September 21, 1848.   She was a member of the Christian church.
    Mrs. Dean was widely known and recognized by all acquaintances as a woman of exalted traits of character and real goodness.   As a wife and mother and as a neighbor and friend she measured up to the finest standards.   She was an inspiration to all the circle that surrounded her and she leaves behind her a name that will long be held in loving remembrance in the neighborhood in which she lived so worthily and served so well.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)
The Kokomo Daily Tribune Thursday, March 6, 1919
Funeral of Mrs. Sarah Dean
  The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Dean will be held at 11 o'clock Friday morning at the Main Street Christian church, conducted by the Rev. A. W Havens, assisted by David H. Shields.   Burial will follow at Crown Point cemetery.
(Contributed by Marguerette Powell)
Eagle Publications, Macomb, IL, November 14, 2002
Lawrence Pierce, 97, Kokomo, Ind. formerly of Clinton, passes away Nov. 2, 2002 at 11:50 a.m. at the Sycamore Village Health care, Kokomo, Ind.
He was born May 1, 1905 in Huntsville {Schuyler County, IL} the son of Millard F. and Candace (Moore) Pierce. He married Maurine Miller on Aug. 16, 1932 in Canton, Mo. She passed away Dec. 31, 1995.
Survivors include: one daughter, Judith Lumbert, Kokomo, Ind.; one son-in-law, Ganesha Visweswaran, Fresno, Calif.; four grandchildren, Rebecka Gillum, Carmel, Ind., Rani Visweswaran, El Sobrante, Calif., Kamala Visweswaran, Austin, Texas and Raja Visweswaran, Fresno, Calif.; one great great granddaughter, Jackie Gillum, Carmel. He was preceded in death by his wife, one daughter, one brother and three sisters.
He was a member of the United Methodist Church. He was a retired teacher after 44 years of service. He was a member of the retired teachers Association, a member of the Clinton Kiwanis, member of East Ill Department of Aging, Friendship Center Board McLean and DeWitt Regional School Trustee.
Funeral services were held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002 at 10 a.m. at the Calvert Funeral Home in Clinton, with Ed Bacon officiating. Burial was in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Clinton. Memorials may be made to Wapella Christian Church or Alzheimer Research Foundation
(Contributed by Sara Hemp).
DIES AT AGE OF 108-Kokomo, Ind., December 2-At the age of 108 years, Martha Gammons, a mulatto woman, has been declared to be sane in the Howard county circuit court, after having been declared a person of unsound mind a year ago. She has been put in possession of property valued at $3,000. Proof of the woman's age was introduced in the court. [The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta Georgia Dec 3 1910]
(Contributed by Shauna Williams)
Name of Deceased: Jenetta F. Wright
County Name: Howard State: IN  Newspaper: Pharos-Tribune
Submitters Name: Angi Turnpaugh
Obit: KOKOMO  Services for Jenetta F. Wright, 83, Kokomo, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Ellers Mortuary, 3400 S. Webster St., Kokomo. She died at 6:43 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2008, in Windsor Estates Health Care Center, Kokomo. Born on July 23, 1924, in Mattoon, Ill., she was the daughter of Alphus and Nellie Sparling Carlisle. She was married on Feb. 27, 1941, in Mattoon, Ill., to Glenn R. Wright. Jenetta was a nurses aid at Windsor Estates. She was a member of the Salvation Army, loved to read, do needle work and spend time with her grandchildren. Survivors include her sons, James Wright and Paula Myers, Kokomo, Russell Wright and wife, Melinda, Fort Wayne; daughters, Barbara Murphy, Kokomo, and Kitty Hood, Kokomo; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews; and Elsie Carpenter, her sister at heart. Her parents; husband; three daughters, Glenda Kay Wright, Pam Wright, Nellie Cook; four brothers; and four sisters all preceded in death. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Rev. Logan Sparling will officiate. Burial will be in North Union Cemetery, Kokomo.
Kokomo, IN. Dec. 7, 1896.
William R. Phillips, the hotel clerk who died suddenly at Huntington last Fri., will be brought here for internment tomorrow. He was the youngest son of the late T.C. Phillips, familiar and for 20 years editor of the Kokomo Tribune. Phillips was a printer, 33 yrs old, At Huntington, where he was engaged as a hotel clerk, it is not known, that he was related to the Kokomo family. For a number of years he was employed in the government printing office in Washington.
KOKOMO Ind. July 26 1920
Jesse Werley Osborn, a life prisoner from Howard County, died at the Michigan City Penitentiary Sunday night. Osborn was sentenced April 24, 1908 for the murder of his sweetheart, fairy McClain Miller, which had occured in Kokomo on april 7. Repeated attempts to secure parole have been thwarted by the parents of his victim. Osborn was 46 years of age.

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