Obituaries

Charles Cordon Norton, age 93, of Three Rivers, went to be with his Lord peacefully surrounded by his loving family on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at Three Rivers Health. Charles was born on Feb. 12, 1919 on his family farm at Harwood Lake, Cass. Co., MI. the son of Leonard C. and Hazel (Ferguson) Norton. Charles has been a life …

Jasen T. Hendrickson, 26, of High Springs, Fla., died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in High Springs. He was a native of Colon, a graduate of Colon High School class of 2004. He was a cabinetmaker at Hunter Marine in Alachua, Fla., an avid fisherman and a University of Michigan fan. He loved his …

June Rachel Wolf, age 87, of Sturgis, passed away early Sunday morning, Jan. 6, 2013, at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo. She was born April 30, 1925, in Sherman Township, at the family home, a daughter of the late Henry and Marjorie (Daniels) Geark. Mrs. Wolf resided in Sturgis since 1950, coming from Constantine. On May 26, 1943, she married …

Reva I. Bostetter, 94, of Howe, Ind., passed away Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013, at Miller’s Merry Manor in LaGrange, Ind. She was born June 11, 1918, in Mancelona, a daughter of the late Jesse and Mildred (Blentlinger) Huffman. Reva moved to the Sturgis area in 1950 and then in June of 1986 moved to South Twin Lake, Ind., and moved …

Debbie (Hart) Luyet, age 50, a young lady who had a true love of travel and a goal of traveling around the world of Prescott, Ariz., and a former Centreville resident, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, at a hospice residence in Prescott, following a short battle with cancer. She was born July 8, 1962, a daughter of the late Roger …

Duane C. Fenner, 75, passed away Nov. 24, 2012, at Tidewell Hospice in Port Charlotte, Fla. He was born June 19, 1937, in Branch County to Homer Fenner and Eva French Fenner. Duane moved to Port Charlotte from Colon on Oct. 1, 1965. On Sept. 12, 1959, he married Bessie Pesti from Colon. He graduated from Colon High School in …

Brian Paul Presdorf, 43, of Michigan City, Ind., died Jan. 3, 2013, at his residence. He was born on Feb. 19, 1969, in LaGrange, Ind., to Wayne and Cheryl (Marker) Presdorf. He recently worked as a maintenance technician in a paperboard factory in Michigan City, Ind. He is survived by his mother Cheryl (Marker) Voelker and step-father Ron Voelker of …

Stephen Edward Burnham, age 40, of Three Rivers, passed away Saturday, January 5, 2013, following a long illness, at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He was born December 15, 1972 in Sturgis, a son of Dennis and Sally (Cobbs) Burnham. In his younger years he lived in Arizona and Utah, and came back to Michigan and has resided in Three …

Richard “Dick” William Sampson, after a valiant battle with pneumonia, succumbed on January 2nd, 2013. He was born in Ironwood, MI, June 15, 1921 the son of James and Frances (Hudy) Sampson. He attended Gogebic Community College and Michigan Tech to study Electrical Engineering before joining the Army Air Corps in 1941, where he was stationed in Italy with the …

William S. Bontrager, 74, died Tuesday at Greencroft Healthcare in Goshen, Ind. He was born April 21, 1938, to Samuel and Fannie (Bontrager) Bontrager in Centreville. On June 20, 1965, he married Wilma K. Golden in Mexico, Mo. She died June 8, 1995. He is survived by two daughters, Joyce K. Stamper of Elkhart, Ind., and Barbara Knight of Goshen; …