Howard County Indiana Veteran Obituary Index
May 2002

The following list is an index to obituaries of Howard County area military veterans printed in the Kokomo Tribune in May 2002.

For more information about an obituary, Search the Tribune website or contact the
Genealogy & Local History Services at the Kokomo-Howard County Public Library.

Howard County Obituaries

Obit Date	Name				Birth			Death		Service
02 May 2002	Claude E. Hendrix		25 Oct 1926		30 Apr 2002	US Navy: WWI and Korea
02 May 2002	Carlos D. Ryan Sr. 		21 Apr 1921		30 Apr 2002	US Army: WWII (Pearl Harbor survivor)
03 May 2002	Richard Miller			19 Nov 1934		1 May 2002	US Army: peacetime
04 May 2002	Clifford LaMar Hammer		3 Mar 1938		1 May 2002	US Air Force: 1956-1960
06 May 2002	Earl K. Hoover			8 Dec 1922		5 May 2002	US Army Air Force: WWII (Major)
06 May 2002	Richard Ault			10 Dec 1934		4 May 2002	US Marine Corps: 1957-1960
07 May 2002	Francis C. Venters		3 Dec 1939		5 May 2002	US Air Force: Vietnam
09 May 2002	Orlando Rodriquez Avila	 	11 Dec 1946		5 May 2002	US Army: Vietnam (2 Purple Heart medals)
10 May 2002	Rufus Crowder			14 Apr 1924		8 May 2002	US Navy
10 May 2002	Robert W. Hodson		2 Oct 1934		8 May 2002	US Navy for 20 years (Sea Bees)
11 May 2002	Donald B. Switzer		23 May 1921		9 May 2002	US Army: WWII (P.O.W 1944-45)
12 May 2002	Joseph F. Caldwell		[age 78]		29 Apr 2002	served in WWII
13 May 2002	Richard A. Mann			2 Oct 1939		11 May 2002	US Navy: 1957-1961
14 May 2002	Richard E. Clark		19 Oct 1926		13 May 2002	US Navy: WWII (U.S.S. Portland)
14 May 2002	Raymond E. Fivecoate		7 Dec 1921		11 May 2002	US Navy: WWII
14 May 2002	Jerry L. Taylor			5 Aug 1947		13 May 2002	US Navy: 1968
15 May 2002	Sam E. Covey			22 Jul 1926		14 May 2002	US Army: WWII
16 May 2002	Marvin Delano Fielder		25 Oct 1935		12 May 2002	US Air Force
16 May 2002	Silas Delbert Head		13 Aug 1933		15 May 2002	US Air Force: 1952-1972
16 May 2002	Orla Martin Jr.			6 Jul 1927		11 May 2002	US Navy
16 May 2002	Robert Lee Walden		1 Sep 1944		13 May 2002	US Marine Corps: Vietnam (Purple Heart medal)
17 May 2002	Edward L. Medlen		1 Apr 1938		15 May 2002	US Air Force: 1956-1962
18 May 2002	William Allen Goudy		5 Nov 1931		16 May 2002	US Air Force: Korea
19 May 2002	Kenneth E. Webster		5 Aug 1928		17 May 2002	US Army: WWII
21 May 2002	Lawrence E. Collingsworth	16 Jan 1948		19 May 2002	served in Vietnam
21 May 2002	Thomas R. Reed			2 Jan 1955		19 May 2002	US Army (Germany)
22 May 2002	Katherine Louise Hannon		12 Jun 1920		21 May 2002	US Army Air Corps
23 May 2002	Brian K. Carter			5 Feb 1959		15 May 2002	US Army
24 May 2002	Benjamin W. Franklin		13 Jan 1916		19 May 2002	US Army: WWII (1943-1945)
25 May 2002	Glen Marshall Cass		5 May 1920		22 May 2002	US Army: WWII (84th Infantry)
25 May 2002	L. Rae Russell			22 Nov 1926		23 May 2002	US Navy: WWII
26 May 2002	Robert Stephen Sr.		7 May 1951		23 May 2002	US Air Force: Vietnam (POW)
26 May 2002	Gerald Dean "Jerry" Raber	30 May 1937		25 May 2002	US Army: Staff Sergeant
26 May 2002	James R. Bowman			30 Sep 1931		24 May 2002	US Army: Korea (Corporal)
27 May 2002	James S. Carrico		17 Dec 1943		25 May 2002	US Air Force
27 May 2002	Dale Albert Britton		10 Apr 1943		24 May 2002	US Navy: Vietnam (Seebee with 40th Battalion)
28 May 2002	Charles E. "Bunky" Taylor	28 May 1928		26 May 2002	US Army: Korea (1951-1954)
29 May 2002	Steven A. Huff			26 Jan 1944		27 May 2002	US Air Force: Strategic Air Command
30 May 2002	George E. Ahnert		13 Dec 1916		29 May 2002	US Army: WWII (Philippines)