FROM AUDREE SEIBEL LEWIS' CARD FILE, CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY OF 
STEUBEN COUNTY, ANGOLA, INDIANA.  PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPER 
JANUARY 9, 1980

LOREN BLAINE POWERS, 21 Nov 1942 - 03 Jan 1980

   Services for Loren Blaine Powers, 37, of 2827 Westbrook Drive, 
Fort Wayne, formerly of Pleasant Lake, were conducted at 2 p.m. 
Sunday, January 6, in the Weicht Funeral Home, Angola.
   The Reverend Russell Brayton, pastor of the Pleasant Lake 
Baptist Church, officiated at the rites.  Interment followed in 
Pleasant Lake Cemetery.
   Powers was found dead Thursday, January 3, apparently overcome 
by exhaust fumes while working on his car in a rented storage space 
on Huguenard Road, Fort Wayne.  Coroner Dr. Roland C. Ahlbrand 
ruled Powers had been dead about a week before his body was 
discovered about noon Thursday.
   Powers was born November 21, 1942, at Pleasant Lake, the son of 
Leo and Esther L. (Huffman) Powers.  He had been employed at a 
restaurant in Fort Wayne.
   Surviving in addition to his parents are a daughter, Lori, of 
Fort Wayne; four brothers, Rolin Powers, of Fort Wayne; Galen 
Powers, of Bethesda, Maryland; Elten Powers, of Syracuse and Elden 
Powers, LaGrange; three sisters, Marilyn Penick and Marcia Silberg, 
both of Pleasant Lake, and Maribeth Green, of Angola.

ADDITONAL INFORMATION:

   Loren Blaine Powers, 21 Nov 1942 - 03 Jan 1980, was the son of 
Leo Powers, 31 Dec 1903 - 10 Nov 1980, and Esther L. (Huffman) 
Powers, 07 Feb 1904 - 04 Dec 1992.

Leo Powers obituary, published 12 Nov 1980, Audree Seibel Lewis' 
card file, Carnegie Public Library of Steuben County, Angola, 
Indiana.
Social Security Death Index - Leo Powers and Esther Powers.
Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net