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The Whitley County Historical Society has brought such noteworthy historical figures as President Lincoln and Jefferson Davis back from the past, and they have done it again, in the person of former President Theodore Roosevelt.
Wednesday evening’s meeting concluded with reenactor Gib Young doing a portrayal of Teddy complete with top hat and pince-nez glasses perched on his nose.
Chuck Jones introduced Roosevelt giving an idea about the time that he lived, specifically the year 1915.
Andy LeRoy Kintzel, 26, died Tuesday, March 29, 2011, in Fort Wayne.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Saturday at Feller & Clark Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, with Todd Steere officiating. Calling will be from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday prior to the service at the funeral home.
Memorials may be directed to the family in care of Christi Cossait. To send condolences, visit www.fellerandclark.com.
Lenora O. Mowrey, 85, of Indianapolis, passed away Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at Community Hospital North, Indianapolis. Born Oct. 29, 1925 in Indianapolis, she was a daughter of Arthur Howard and Elva Ernestine (Wirsching) Wigent. She was the widow of Lyle LaMar Mowrey.
Survivors include her daughter, Kathleen A. Schultz; son, Cris A. Mowrey; and sister, Betty Douglas.
Funeral service is at 2 p.m. Friday at McCordsville United Methodist Church, McCordsville. Graveside funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Union Township Cemetery, Coesse.
COLUMBIA CITY — Not very many people can say that receiving news of an accident involving their car while parked in a parking lot could turn out to be a good thing, but Columbia City High School senior Trevor Maggart can.
As a surprise on Wednesday afternoon The Whitley County Community Foundation announced that Maggart has been named the 2011 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar from Whitley County.
The full-ride scholarship has been presented each year since 1998 to at least one Whitley County student and in addition to covering the cost of tuition includes a stipend for books.
INDIANAPOLIS — When the cold temperatures start to set in and fall sports are back in 2011, the postseason will have a drastically different look for much of Whitley County’s local high school teams.
Wednesday, the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) released a new two-year sectional alignments for all of the class sports.
FORT WAYNE — By way of the mercy rule, Whitko baseball needed just five innings Wednesday to record its first win of the season.
The Wildcats hit the road to Fort Wayne Paul Harding in search of a win after falling to class 3A No. 1 New Haven Monday.
Behind a three-hit pitching performance from sophomore Wyatt Wolf, Whitko found an 11-0 victory over the Hawks.
HUNTINGTON — A night after opening the season with a 5-3 win at home, Whitko softball hit the road for its next challenge in a young but undefeated season.
The trip took the Lady Wildcats to Huntington North and sent them home with a tough 2-1 loss.
Whitko saw a late 1-0 lead in the fifth inning fade over the final two innings to the Lady Vikings.
After four scoreless innings of play, Whitko struck first in the top of the fifth inning.
SOUTH WHITLEY — Whitko boys’ basketball leading scorer Logan Irwin has gone all season known as a leading scorer in northern Indiana. All-Star selection committees recognized that when Irwin was named a North Junior All-Star.
Irwin was one of six players across northern Indiana selected to play the senior all-stars on June 6 at a to-be-announced site.
Irwin became Whitko’s all-time leading scorer this season with 1,556 points and is on pace to become a 2,000-point scorer upon graduation.
March 30th
COLUMBIA CITY — Linbeth Doggendorf’s voice was barely audible as she gushed about the daughter she lost more than a year ago.
Her testimony could barely be heard in a courtroom with bad acoustics, compounded by her soft-spoken nature and muffled further by the sobs of friends and family.
“It’s turned our world upside down,” she said. “Nothing is the same. Everything’s not right anymore.”
COLUMBIA CITY — A second arrest was made this week in connection with the explosion of a suspected meth lab in a rural Whitley County mobile home park that killed a woman in December of last year.
Joshua B. Angus, 25, of Fort Wayne was arrested and charged Monday with four counts stemming from the Dec. 3, 2010 explosion that killed 24-year-old Alecia Stine at Miami Village Trailer Park on Old Trail Road east of Columbia City.
A second man, Wade Burns, was charged in February.
