Elkhart High School Class of 1961
1st Row: Jack Turnock, John Paston, unknown, Steve Davis, Wayne Hostetler, unknown, Dan Wagner, Dick Dehayes, unknown 2nd Row: Jerry Bremer, Phil Nusbaum, Frank Walker,Mike Lehman, Ricky Aherns, unknown, unknown, Bill Hollar, Merrill Smith, Cornelius Miller 3rd Row: unknown, unknown, unknown, Harold Leer, Ron Tharp, Ron Null, Charles Mapes, Bill Landoc, Bob Silcott, unknown, Tim…
1961 Classmate Steve Hardy passed away on Monday, January 24, 2011 in Pueblo, Colorado. Steve is survived by his children, Eli Hardy, Holly ( David ) Waller, and Phebe ( Greg ) Golden , five grandchildren, Dylan, Chandler, Peyton, Natalie, and Hayden, and siblings, Mike ( Marta) Hardy, Tom Hardy , and Char…
1961 class member Lee R. Jesse of Nappanee passed away on December 15, 2010 at Elkhart General Hospital. Lee graduated from Ball State University with a BS degree and Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management with a B.I. M. degree. He worked for various organizations such as NIBCO as Canadian sales and marketing manager ; the Purdue…
Class of 1961 graduate Sharon "Sherry" Fisher Baldwin died Wednesday in her home in Elkhart. She is survived by her husband Terry B. Baldwin whom she married on September 29, 2001 in Goshen. She is also survived by three children, Joddi ( Ronald) Thompson of Elkhart, Julie K.L. Foreman of Lexington, Kentucky and…
EHS 1961 classmate David Dvorkin’s latest novel, Time and the Soldier, is now available as a Kindle ebook via Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Time-and-the-Soldier-ebook/dp/B0047T7E36/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1287530937&sr=1-6 It’s also available in other formats on other sites.; but Amazon is the "biggie". David currently resides in Denver, Colorado and also has a website http://www.dvorkin.com and a Blog http://eyeblister.blogspot.com If…
Congratulations are in order for Myron and Hannah (Regnier) Rose and Dave and Phyllis ( Pauley ) Dygert. Both have recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The following write-ups appeared in The Elkhart Truth.
The Class of 1961 – and 1959 – has been invited to attend a mixer for the Class of 1960. Friday, August 20th, 2010 – Mixer party at High Dive Pavilion, 500 E. Beardsley St. This will be from 6:30 PM until 11:00 PM. Classmates from both ’59 and ’61 are invited to attend…
EHS 1961 class member Laurali Chester Smith passed away August 10, 2010 after a brief illness. After graduating from EHS, Laurali graduated from North Central College in Naperville, IL in 1965 with a degree in secondary education but put off a career in teaching to raise her children. She was an instructor for…
EHS Class of 1961 reunion committee recently toured the Lerner Theatre which is under construction. For those of you who are not up-to-date on Elkhart happenings, the Lerner Theatre is the old Elco plus the addition of land on the corner of Franklin and Main …and it is being restored into a…
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Class of 1961 member Richard A. Pedler passed away on June 23, 2010. Richard attended Purdue University and graduated from Bethel College with a degree in social work in 2006. He served with the First Infantry Division in Lai Khe, South Vietnam from 1968-1969. Rich was president and co-founder of Recovery Journey, an addictions…