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Obituaries
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Carol S. Quinn
PULSE
Carol Sue Quinn, 68, formerly of Wabash, Indiana, died
Tuesday, March 3, at Country Side Meadows in Avon, Indiana.
Services are pending at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, Wabash.
Robert Cowger
Services for Robert J. “Bob” Cowger, 70, LaFontaine, Indiana are 3 p.m. Friday, March 6, 2015 at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Ave., Wabash.
Friends may call one hour prior to the service.
Earl C. Wilcox
Earl C. Wilcox, 89,
of rural Urbana, Indiana, died at 6:31 p.m.,
Monday, March 2,
2015 at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne. He
was born July 3, 1925
in Wabash, Indiana to
Harry Raymond and
Hilda Marie (Urschel) Wilcox.
Earl was a 1943 graduate
of Urbana High School. He
married Dolores Dorcus Mae
Collins in Greenfield, Indiana on February 14, 1948;
she died June 12, 2012. He
was a retired farmer and
self-employed auto mechanic. Earl was a member of St.
Paul’s County Line Church,
a 60 year member of the
Hanna Masonic Lodge #61
F&AM, and the Order of the
Easter Star both of Wabash.
He enjoyed woodworking
and loved being a grandpa.
He is survived by 2 children, Lynn (Cheryl) Wilcox of Lagro, Indiana, and
Denise (Jerald) Dilsaver of
Urbana, 7 grandchildren,
Stacey (Michael) Meredith
of North Manchester, Indiana, Jennifer (Jeremy) Hess
of Fort Wayne, Kelly
Weitzel of Andrews,
Indiana,
Joshua
(Kayla) Dilsaver of
Urbana,
Christopher Wilcox of Wabash, Kari (Travis)
Stockton of North
Manchester,
and
Lisa Wilcox of Huntington, Indiana, sister, Eva
Satchwill of Urbana, and 6
great-grandchildren. He was
also preceded in death by his
parents.
Funeral services will be
10 a.m. Friday, March 6,
2015 at Grandstaff-Hentgen
Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash,
with Pastor Conrad Thompson officiating.
Burial will be in Memorial Lawns Cemetery, Wabash. Friends may call 4-7
p.m. Thursday, at the funeral
home with Masonic services
at 7 p.m.
Preferred memorials are St.
Paul’s County Line Church
or Wabash-Miami Home
Healthcare and Hospice.
The memorial guest book
for Earl may be signed at
www.grandstaff-hentgen.
com.
CELEBRATE
faces may change, the policies and procedures may
change, but one thing remains the same - Head Start
is here to change lives for
the better.
“The children and families
who have gone through the
doors of the Area Five Head
Start program for the past
25 years have been prepared
for public school and public
life.”
The program in Wabash
will be celebrating Head
Start’s 50th birthday at an
event on Monday, May 18
with children, parents and
lots of activities.
Open recruitment days for
enrollment will also be held
April 24 and May 1 at the
Head Start site, located at
105 Olive St., and at Manchester Intermediate School
in Laketon for those who
live in North Manchester
and Laketon.
The hours are from 9 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Parents do not need
an appointment on those
days and should bring their
child’s shot records, official
birth certificate and proof of
their income for the past 12
months.
More information about
the local Head Start program
can be found at areafive.
com, or at the national website, www.nhsa.org.
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48 percent.
“These are huge gains
and the elementary schools
are thrilled that our children come to them ready to
learn.”
Lisa Sarll, local Head Start
teacher, said the biggest way
a child transforms throughout their time in her classroom is by gaining self-help
skills and independence.
“So many times at the beginning of the year a child
comes into my room and has
no clue what to do as far as
hanging up a coat, backpack,
putting folders away, washing hands, etc., just those
basic skills.
“Now, about three-fourths
of the way through the year
the students are doing those
things on their own.
“It is through learning
some self-help skills that
the child gains some confidence and then is ready to
learn and succeed in an academic setting... the impact
the program gives to each
student is the independence
and self-confidence that
they gain throughout the
year.”
“When all is said and
done,” added Hatten, “the
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and salad for $6 Friday
March, 6, starting at 5 p.m.
Carry-out available by calling 260-563-3017.
On Saturday evening the
Men will be serving Fish
Dinner with French fries
and slaw for $7, 5-7:30
p.m. Carry-out available by
calling 563-3017.
Guenin to be honored
The LaFontaine Order of
the Eastern Star will hold
an open house for Marguerite Guenin for her 75 years
of service to the order from
2-4 p.m. Sunday, March 8,
at the LaFontaine Masonic
Temple on Wabash Avenue
in LaFontaine.
Clubhouse to
host luncheon
The monthly luncheon
for the Wabash Women’s
Clubhouse will be held at
noon Tuesday, March 10.
The program will be “Take a
royal tour of London,” with
Lois Vanmeter.
Reservations are due
Friday, March 6, to Mary
DeLauter, 563-1420, or
Carol McDonald, 563-2331.
Please bring items for
Friends in Service Here
(F.I.S.H.).
Legion to host
holiday warm-up
The Sons of the American
Legion will host a meal open
to the public from 4-7 p.m.
March 14, at the American
Legion Post 286, North
Manchester. Menu includes
pork tenderloins, fries and
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Fish fry to
benefit mission trips
The LaFontaine United
Methodist Church’s All-YouCan-Eat Fish & Tenderloin
Fry by Dan’s Fish Fry, Inc.
will take place from 4-7 p.m.
Saturday, March 14, at the
LaFontaine Lions Community Building, 103 W. Branson
St. Menu is the entrees,
green beans with bacon,
coleslaw, applesauce,
bread/margarine, coffee,
tea, lemonade and water.
Carry-out orders are available, along with a free-will
donation at the dessert table.
Tickets are $8.50 (advance;
Feb. 15-March 13) and $9
(at the door) for adults, $4.50
and $5 for 6-12-year-olds
and free for five and younger.
Information or advance tickets are available from church
members, the church office
(765-981-4021) or Dave
Bates (765-660-1469).
Proceeds are dedicated to
the church’s youth and Honduras 2015 mission trips.
Grief support
group to meet
Wabash-Miami Home
Health Care & Hospice will
provide a free grief support
group from 3:30-5 p.m.
Monday, March 16. The
meeting will be held in the
conference room next to
the cafeteria at Parkview
Wabash Hospital.
Meetings usually last
BUSINESS
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and the rest for merchandise in the front.
On the main floor, there
will also be a gazebo made
by Church’s husband, she
said.
The studio will be in the
back of the main floor,
where Church will continue to make art as she’s
done for years, while the
section near the front door
will have collections of
toys with pieces of art in
between groups.
“We’ll put in spotlights
so we can have a little gallery between the walls of
toys,” she added. “In be-
tween each toy shelf there
will be a piece of art for
sale. Hopefully, I’ll get
other artists in so it’s not
just my stuff.”
Church also plans to
have monthly roundtable
art/toy workshops for children as a way to extend
her love of art and to bring
children and families into
the store.
The toys, Church noted,
are high-quality, some being hand-crafted in Germany and being eco-friendly
or organic.
The store’s name comes
from Wabash’s black
squirrels, something the
Reston, Virginia, native
isn’t used to.
Church had never seen
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The American Red Cross
has announced that there
will be a blood drive from
noon - 6 p.m. Tuesday,
March 17, at First United
Methodist Church, 110 N.
Cass St., Wabash.
To make an appointment
to give blood, download
the Red Cross Blood Donor
App, visit redcrossblood.
org or call 1-800-RED
CROSS (1-800-733-2767).
Purdue Extension
offering education day
Grant County Purdue
Extension, in cooperation
with Grant County Extension Homemakers, will offer
three educational sessions
during a “Consumer Education Day” at Marion Public Library, Meeting Room
B, on Thursday, March 26.
The 9 a.m. class is “Getting
Our Hearts Right,” learning
three keys to a better relationship; at 10 a.m., there’s
“Living Clutter Free,” learning
how to better manage time,
resources and rid your life
them before meeting her
in-laws for the first time in
Wabash and she was taken
aback. It also makes for an
easy, identifiable logo, she
said.
In the meantime, Church
will man the ship herself,
but plans to hire an upcoming Wabash County
high school graduate for
the summer, before he or
she goes to college in the
fall.
She plans for Saturday,
Purdue
Extension to host
food safety training
The Purdue University
Cooperative Extension will
host a two-day class with
exam for ServSafe Manager Certification. The classes
are from 6-8 p.m. Monday,
March 30, and 8:30 a.m.
- 3 p.m. Tuesday, March
31, at the Wabash County
Courthouse, 2nd floor, 1 W.
Hill St., Wabash.
Cost is $150, which
includes books, instruction and exam. Deadline
to register is March 17. A
$25 late registration fee will
be included if not by then.
Class size is limited.
For questions, call 260563-0661, ext. 1243, and
speak with Teresa Witkoske,
twitkoske@purdue.edu.
DivorceCare to meet
DivorceCare, a 13-week
DVD series, features some
of the nation’s foremost
Christian experts on topics
concerning divorce and
recovery.
It meets 6:30-8:30 p.m.
each Tuesday in Room 112
at Friends Church.
Group leaders and members meet for dinner at 5:30
p.m. at Ugalde’s.
April 25, to be the Black
Squirrel’s grand opening,
but it could come sooner.
Toys have already begun
to arrive at the business,
but more are still to come.
The products are from the
New York Toy Fair, which
welcomed 13,000 toy and
youth entertainment buyers from nearly 100 countries last month, its website said. Church advised
she ordered $5,000 worth
of toys while attending.
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and 11 a.m., “Healthy Protein
Choices,” learning about the
benefits of eating a variety of
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All sessions are free and
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The first part is for education with the remainder set
aside as a time for sharing.
The support group helps
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