Local Obituaries for Families in Salem, IN

May 4, 2014

Mrs. Vonda L. Smith age 74 of Salem passed away Sunday, May 4 at her home.

Mrs. Smith was born January 16, 1940 in Crawford County, Indiana the daughter of Harry C. and Goldie Goodson Hollen.  She was a retired employee of Smith Cabinet Company and Washington County Memorial...

Apr 29, 2014

Mrs. Manilla E. Maudlin age 93 of Salem passed away Tuesday, April 29 at Autumn Woods Health Campus in New Albany.

Mrs. Maudlin was born July 22, 1920 in Salem the daughter of Charles and Belva Naugle Tatlock.  She was retired from Salem Title Company.  She was a member...

Apr 28, 2014

Mr. Donald R. Brading age 62 of Pekin passed away Monday, April 28 at Floyd Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Brading was born July 26, 1951 in Salem the son of Leon and Edith Reynolds Brading.  He was retired from the Indiana and Kentucky Carpenters Union.  He was a Christian.

Apr 24, 2014

Mrs. Mildred E. Farmer age 94 of Salem passed away Thursday, April 24 at Salem Crossing.

Mrs. Farmer was born February 28, 1920 in Washington County, Indiana the daughter of Floyd and Mabel Chastain Myers.  She was a retired employee of the Washington County Veteran’s Service Office.  She was...

Apr 21, 2014

Mr. Ralph Cole “Axle” age 55 of Pekin passed away Monday, April 21 at Floyd Memorial Hospital. He spent most of his life in Marshall, Illinois and moved to Indiana in 2004.

Axle was born October 15, 1958 in Norfolk, Virginia the son of Kenneth and Ellen Cole.  He...

Apr 19, 2014

Mrs. Jane T. Suyemasa age 91 of Salem passed away Saturday, April 19 at Floyd Memorial Hospital.

Mrs. Suyemasa was born June 4, 1922 in Hollister, California.

She was preceded in death by her husband:  George Suyemasa, a daughter:  Lynn Cauffman, and a...

Apr 18, 2014

Mr. Jerry E. Newlon age 53 of Salem passed away Friday, April 18 at 3:05PM.

Mr. Newlon was born July 23, 1960 in Salem the son of Edmund R. and Mary Crotty Newlon.  Jerry grew up in Salem and graduated from Salem High School in 1978.  He completed a...

Apr 16, 2014

Mrs. Eleanor Jane Thixton age 85 of Sellersburg passed away Wednesday, April 16 at Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany.

Mrs. Thixton was born June 21, 1928 in Washington County, Indiana the daughter of Osborne and Isalene  Beswick Purlee.  She was a former employee of Ferraloy and  retired after...

Apr 9, 2014

William Thomas “Willy T” Burnett III age 21 of Pekin passed away Wednesday, April 9 in an accident on Highway 60 in Campbellsburg.

Willy was born March 20, 1993 in Salem the son of William Thomas Burnett Jr. and Susan Dyke Burnett.  He was a member of Local #795,...

Apr 7, 2014

Mrs. Anna May Black age 88 of Salem passed away Monday, April 7 at 10:00AM at her home.

Mrs. Black was born December 23, 1925 in Floyd County, Indiana the daughter of Hobart and Lillian Epperson Van Meter.  She was a retired employee of Brown Insurance and Dr. Crouch’s...

Apr 3, 2014

Mr. Frederick Louis Baynes age 90 of Salem passed away Thursday, April 3 at Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany.

Mr. Baynes was born September 28, 1923 in Washington County, Indiana the son of Fred and Leafa Payne Baynes.  He was a retired commercial carpenter.  Mr. Baynes was a...

Mar 29, 2014

Mr. Robert D. Hogan age 82 of Pekin passed away Saturday, March 29 at 4:55PM at Floyd Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Hogan was born December 18, 1931 in Orange County, Indiana the son of Amos and Pearl Mead Hogan.  He was a retired self employed truck driver.  He was a...

Mar 29, 2014

Mr. Raymond M. “Corky” Hunt Jr. age 69 of Salem passed away Saturday, March 29 at Norton Hospital in Louisville.

Mr. Hunt was born February 17, 1945 in Tell City, Indiana the son of Raymond M. Hunt Sr. and Emily Beams Hunt.  He was a Navy and Army veteran...

Mar 29, 2014

Mr. Stacy R. Goode age 40 of Salem passed away Saturday, March 29 at his home.

Mr. Goode was born February 23, 1974 in Louisville, Kentucky the son of Larry Goode and Janet Faulkner.  He was a former employee of Spartan Staffing and had worked for various factories including...

Mar 22, 2014

Mrs. Waneta F. Simpson age 86 of Salem passed away Saturday, March 22 at 7:10PM at The Villages at Historic Silvercrest in New Albany.

Mrs. Simpson was born October 21, 1927 in Washington County the daughter of Roy Edward and Monta Thompson Hinds.  She was a homemaker, a member of First Christian Church of Salem and Fort...

Mar 15, 2014

Craig Jonathan Dodds entered into Heaven Saturday, March 15, 2014.  He was born in Salem, Indiana on July 20, 1965.  Craig graduated from Salem High School in 1983 and Vincennes University.  From there he moved to Pensacola, Florida and worked at Eglin Air Force Base before coming back to Salem in the late 1990’s and moving to Bloomington, Indiana...

Mar 13, 2014

Mr. Nolan L. Emery age 60 of Pekin passed away Thursday, March 13 at his home.

Mr. Emery was born November 12, 1953 in Borden the son of Frank Thomas and Marie Jean Goss Emery.  He was a former employee of Deaton Manufacturing and Miller’s Hardwoods.  He attended Tabernacle of God in Pekin.

He was...

Mar 12, 2014

Mrs. Violet Loraine Baird age 92 of Inverness, Florida, formerly of Salem, passed away Wednesday, March 12 in Florida.

Mrs. Baird was born June 22, 1921 in Salem the daughter of Silas and Clara Guthrie Zink.  She was co-owner/operator of Baird Home Corporation.  She was a member of First Baptist Church of Floral City.

Violet...

Mar 12, 2014

Mrs. Naomi Florene Dickmeyer age 84 of Salem passed away Wednesday, March 12 at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis.

Mrs. Dickmeyer was born September 23, 1929 in Pulaski County, Kentucky the daughter of Bruce and Agnes Bastin Anderson.  She and her husband owned and operated Ralph Dickmeyer Soil Service and Dickmeyer Farms.  She was a member of...

Mar 10, 2014

Mr. Porter Alvin Becraft age 78 of Pekin passed away Monday, March 10 at his home.

Mr. Becraft was born September 28, 1935 in Preston, Kentucky the son of Earl and Kathleen Riffitt Becraft.  He spent his childhood and young adulthood in Indiana.  He met and married Delores Motsinger and to this union six children were born. ...