Holiday Memorial Service and Tree Lighting
The holiday season presents a unique opportunity to honor a friend or memorialize a departed loved one with a symbolic light glowing brightly on our Holiday Memorial Tree.
Your tax-deductible gift will not only place a ceremonial light on the tree but will help fund our services for terminally ill patients and compassionate support for their families.
For each gift, acknowledgments will be sent to you and the family of the person(s) being remembered.
Please join us for our 38th annual Holiday Memorial Service and Tree Lighting Sunday, November 19, 2023, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Street Train Station, 221 W. Baker St., in downtown Fort Wayne. Attendees will receive a commemorative gift to take home to remember this event. Please RSVP to reserve your seat and gift. Please note that space and gifts are limited.
Please reserve your memorial light. Please note that purchases after November 1 will not be able to be recognized in the printed program for the event.
- $35 for one light on the Memorial Tree
- $60 for two lights on the Memorial Tree
- $100 for one light on the Memorial Tree and the engraving of the person’s name in the Memorial Tree Book
- $1,000 for a Perpetuity Gift (Your loved one will be remembered every year with a light and the engraving of his or her name in the Memorial Tree Book.)
In Memory Of:
| Jo Anne Adams, Donald Adamas, Linda Adams Bauer, and Mary T. Adams |
| James D. Alderman |
| Marie Allen |
| Michael D. Anderson |
| Gordon H. Anspach |
| Marc William Bailey |
| Ron Bailey |
| Bob and Betty Baker |
| Dave Baker |
| Lynn Baker |
| Robert L. Baker |
| Vickie Jean Baker |
| Frank Ballard |
| Charlene Balyeat |
| Roy E. Bandor |
| Ralph E. Banter |
| Patricia A. Barney |
| Arthur Baron |
| Eldeana M. Baron |
| Henry J. Baron |
| Joel Barron |
| George H. Bartling |
| Charlotte Bash |
| Jim Baughman |
| Keith Baumgartner |
| John P. Baute |
| John M. Behrendt |
| Tom Behrns |
| Bruce Betz |
| Cathy Bewak |
| T. Gene Bissell |
| Thomas Blackburn |
| Rita Blair |
| Ron Blakley |
| Nancy M. Blakley |
| Miriam M. Blanks |
| Allan E. Bloom |
| Don Bollheimer, MD |
| Steve Bollier |
| Lee Bosler |
| Bob Bradfield |
| Herbert M. Branning |
| Joyce A. Branning |
| Mike Branning |
| Charles Breiner |
| Florence Breiner |
| Scott Breiner |
| James Brock |
| Angie Brooks |
| Carol Brooks |
| Ervin and Mary Brunner |
| Jack Brunson |
| Lorraine Brunson |
| Gertrude Buckhart |
| Elmer Buhr |
| Vera Buhr |
| Raymond C. Bultemeyer |
| Dorothy and Donald Bumgardner |
| Millicent Burgess |
| Ann M. Burke |
| Christopher Burke |
| Frank Burke |
| Gary Burke |
| Michael Burke |
| Norman F. Burkhalter |
| Phyllis N. Burkhalter |
| David L. Burns |
| James L. Burrows |
| Kaemon M. Burton |
| Ronald Busch |
| Barbara Parks Butler |
| James T. Byrnes |
| Lester and Vilena Carey |
| Curtis and Vernice Chandler |
| Karen J. Chaney |
| Betsy Chapman |
| Irene and Robert Chard |
| MaryLou Chard and Lee Chard |
| Angela Chasey |
| Billy H. Chittum |
| Billy Chittum |
| Paul Clendenen |
| Earl L. Clester |
| Pearl Combs |
| Remington Oliver Conrad |
| Dennis Coplen |
| Nellie Courtney |
| Audrey E. Craig |
| Gary L. Craig |
| Gary Joe Craig |
| Linda S. Craig |
| Mark Creech |
| Patricia Eileen Creighton |
| Margaret R. Crosby |
| Deloris Culbertson |
| Virgil Culbertson |
| Barbara Curran |
| Judith Dafforn |
| George Dailey |
| Afrodhiti Danusis |
| Warren C. “Dick” Darnell |
| Phillip L. Dean |
| Joe Deeter |
| Edward P. and Evelyn M. Derheimer |
| Marilou Derheimer |
| Ross Derheimer |
| Jim DeSelm |
| Edison DeWitt |
| John Tite and Thomas Dikeolakos |
| Sophie Diwis |
| Diana Dominique Douglas |
| Rita M. and Charles L. Dressler |
| Koreen Drum |
| Marjorie Duecker |
| R. Sheldon Duecker |
| Edward Duehmig |
| Donald D. Duesler |
| Ethel Elaine Duesler |
| Thomas Duesler |
| Joan K. Eichler |
| Keith Eiden |
| Jeremy Elder |
| Lillian Embick |
| Larry Embree |
| Robert Engelmann |
| Kathy Ervin |
| Ron Everett |
| David Elliot Fairweather |
| Nora Farley |
| Robert Farley |
| Evelyn Fawley |
| Philip K. Fawley |
| Dr. James M. Fazzaro |
| Jeff Fike |
| Elmer U. Fink |
| Robert “Steve” Finley |
| John (Jack) Flaig |
| Donna Flesher |
| Dorothy and Lowell Folk |
| Janet Ford |
| Frances Perez and Luz (Sonny) Perez, Jr. |
| Helen Frantz |
| Lloyd Frantz |
| Richard G. Frantz |
| Marjorie C. Frazier |
| William “Bill” K. Frazier |
| Edna Freck |
| John D. Frederick |
| Virginia Ann Frederick |
| Della L. Fuelling |
| Charlene A. Fuhrman |
| James A. Fuhrman |
| John Ross Gastineau |
| Don Gerig |
| Vicki L. Gerig |
| Linda Kaye Gibson |
| Jenny L. Gillie |
| Trudy and Bob Gevers and Dan Michnay |
| Ruth N. Gongaware |
| Stanley G. Gongaware |
| Barbara C. Goodnough |
| Caroline W. Gordon |
| Terry Gratz |
| Nick Grawcock |
| Sarah Gray |
| Rita Grieze |
| Eugene E. Grillo |
| James Grossman |
| Virginia Grossman |
| Odilia Guzman |
| Roy Hahn |
| Joseph C. Hardenbrook |
| Joe Hardenbrook |
| Terry Hardison |
| Elizabeth Harshman |
| Walter and Dorothy Hart |
| Toby Hatch |
| Robert Hayden |
| Linda Hazen |
| Earl Hedges |
| Ivy Hedges |
| Eugene Heidenreich |
| Jrma Heidenreich |
| Bill Heidenreich |
| Willis Heidenreich |
| Deb Henline |
| Maria Henry |
| Carole Hensel |
| Mary F. Herber |
| Philip E. Hermann |
| Larry Wayne Hill |
| Nancy Hill |
| Wendy Hill |
| Mary M. Hinman |
| Norman J. Hinman |
| Muriel Hinton |
| Richard H. Hinton |
| Walter and Mika Nommay and Jeff Hogson |
| Dora J. Hoelle |
| Dr. Arthur F. Hoffman |
| Barbara and Kevin Hofman |
| Helen J. Hoke |
| Homer E. Hoke |
| Brittney Hoobler Martz |
| LeeAnna Hoover |
| Timothy S. Horstmeyer |
| George and Pauline Hughes |
| Louis Hurley |
| Phil Hurley |
| Evelyn M. Jacobs |
| Kandyce Jacobs |
| Ralph James |
| Thomas F. Jesse |
| John and Flora Snyder |
| F. D. Johnson |
| Julia Johnson |
| Mary Kay Johnson |
| Nealie Marie Johnson |
| Sandra L. Johnson |
| Thelma E. Johnson |
| Nellie Karnof |
| Patricia Keeran |
| Lee Keeterle |
| Margaret Keller |
| Robert T Kelly, Sr and Bettina F Kelly |
| Joye Kerns |
| Hugh Kessler |
| Jean “Mona” Dunne and Karen Kiess |
| LaMar L. Kilmer |
| Mary and Jim Klug and Bobby Mead |
| Mike Kinder, JR |
| Jean Kinsey |
| Richard Knotts |
| Dorothy Knuth |
| Douglas Knuth |
| John J. Kortenber |
| Mary Catherine Kortenber |
| Leah Louise Krish |
| Lee Kuhns |
| Joanna Lacey |
| Betty Lambert |
| Joan Patricia Landis |
| Helen Preece Larmore |
| Joseph Fletcher Larmore |
| Bob Lau |
| Melvin E. Lawler |
| Stephen H. Leacock |
| Rebecca LeFavour Brankle |
| Charles Lehner |
| Rita Lehner |
| Dennis Leininger |
| Annette K. Levy |
| Katherine Liby |
| William Liby |
| Anthony Lillo |
| Marie D. Liner |
| Robert E. Liner |
| Love ones who have passed due to COVID |
| Max A. Litke |
| Alex Luderman |
| Brenda Mann |
| Herbert Mann |
| Kathryn Mann |
| Troy Mann |
| Stacy D. Manon |
| Sharron L. Martin |
| Ruth Ann Maxson |
| David W. Mayhew |
| Arlin McAfee |
| Darwin McAfee |
| SFC (Ret.) Marion L. McCarty |
| John “Tim” McCaulay |
| Del McClain |
| Fred Thomas McClish |
| Harold and Aileen McComb |
| Judy McKinley |
| Judith E. McKinley |
| John Mechling |
| Yanaliese Janet Ava Medina |
| Judith Mettert |
| Tony Milewski |
| Sandra Milholland |
| Hugo Miller |
| Jennifer MIller |
| Robert (Bob) Miller |
| Sherry Miller |
| Thomas Miller |
| Don E. Miller, MD |
| Teresa M. Mitchell |
| Christopher Todd Mitoraj |
| Donna H. Mock |
| Deane Modricker |
| Elizabeth Moldt |
| Tracy Lynn Montagu |
| Edward Moore |
| Nancy Moore |
| Clara Moreno |
| David Moreno |
| Walter and Joan Moring |
| Clyde Moser |
| Eva Motz |
| Leslie Paul Motz |
| Marilyn Heidenreich Murphy |
| Peggy F. Murphy |
| Richard V. Smith |
| Nancy J. Tiger – Loving Mom and Grandma |
| Mariel W. Neff |
| John Nelson |
| Stephen Neuhaus |
| Nick and Millie Nicol |
| Judy Niezer |
| Rosemary Niezer |
| Robert P. Norton |
| Roger Notestine |
| Evelyn Notestine |
| John B. Notestine, Jr. |
| Mary Louise Nowak |
| Ted J. Nowak |
| John W. Ohneck |
| Bill Osterholt |
| Vicky Ostemeyer |
| Dan Paris |
| Patricia Parker |
| Alva E. Parkins |
| Alberta I. Peggins |
| Mondie Peggins, Jr. |
| Kyelee A. Pennington |
| James and Mable Pettibone |
| Larry Piety |
| Raymond W Henry and Valerie Plunkett |
| Betty Poitras |
| Betty Pomeroy |
| David Pomeroy |
| Victor B. Porter |
| Loren Pound |
| Donald E. Poyser |
| Patricia A. Presnell |
| George E. Quinn |
| Greta Louise Quinn |
| Richard Ramsey |
| Audrey Relue |
| Donald Relue |
| Molly Rennaker |
| Mary Lou Rethlake and Cheryl Rethlake |
| James Rickner |
| Duane Russell Riley |
| Kay S. Roberts |
| Penny Rodriguez |
| Richard R. Rondot |
| Samuel W. Rose |
| Kent J. Roudebush |
| Junaita Ruble |
| Ed Runion and Bill Runion |
| Fritz Ruoff |
| Doris Rupel |
| Jim and Rose Ryan |
| Thomas W. Sappenfield |
| Aubrey Mildred Sarrazin |
| Mary Ann Satek |
| Robin Schannep Spangle |
| Lawrence and Betty Schooley |
| Cecelia Schoppman |
| Dorothy Schoppman |
| Fred D. Schoppman |
| Jeanne Schouweiler |
| Nancy J. Schuch |
| Samuel J. Schuch III |
| Kandyce K Jacobs and Evelyn M Schultz |
| Albert Schumm |
| Mary Schumm |
| Owen Scofield |
| Susie Seidel |
| Margaret A. “Bay” Seifert |
| R. Paul and Bay Seifert |
| Walter “Wally” Seward |
| Gayle Shaffer |
| Norma E. Shaffer, RN |
| James R. Sheley |
| John Shelton |
| Gene and Lucille Shew |
| Rosie Shew |
| Charles Shuman |
| Wilma Shuman |
| Elizabeth Shuster |
| Anita Sigl |
| Gladys H. Simmmons |
| John P. Simmons |
| Rosie Simon |
| William T. Sindelar |
| Karen Sleighter |
| Bob Slocum |
| Beverly Kay Slone |
| Glen Smith |
| Judith Smith |
| Tracy Allen Smith |
| Jim Snider |
| Lucy Snyder |
| Marlene Sparrow |
| Hattie Springer |
| Helen C. Springer |
| Ralph M. Springer |
| Orel and Ellen Sprunger |
| Mary Alice Steinacker |
| Paul Steiner |
| Carolyn Stemen |
| Frannie Stephenson |
| Jim Sternberger |
| Patricia J. Stevens |
| Michael H. Kinder Jr. and Cheryl Steward |
| James and Nancy Stirn |
| John and Dorothy Stolte |
| Ruth Stoner |
| Thomas Stoner |
| Marry Ellen Strack |
| Thomas Strong-Hevel |
| Ruth Ann Swint |
| Tamara Tatman |
| Floyd Teusch |
| Bernard Tew |
| Lorraine L. Tew |
| Edie Nevers and Theresa Lomont |
| Pauline M. Thimlar |
| Wilma Thomas |
| David D. Thompson |
| James Franklin Thompson |
| Darrell and Gladys Thompson, Sr, |
| Tina Trahin Crocker and Edie Nevers |
| Daniel J. Tirpak |
| John Tite |
| Linda Towsley |
| Jennifer Tritch |
| Glen E. Trumball |
| Lon Tuin |
| Sue E. Turnpaugh |
| Søren Urberg |
| Robert Vachon, Jr. |
| Betty Verhest |
| Anthony Vince |
| Edward D. Von Guten |
| Harriet Jackson and Bill Voors |
| Annette (Walters) Bowman |
| Mary Ward |
| Wendy O’Bryan Ward |
| Tim and Eleanor Warner |
| Mary Warner and Gerry Moser |
| Gilbert Wendt |
| Betty J. Werling |
| William L. Werling |
| Jim Western |
| Shirley Whitney |
| Marcia Widdifield |
| Phyllis Wilkie |
| Mke Willems |
| Samuel D and Marjorie L Wine |
| Donald Wyss and Leona Frauenfelder |
| Jane Zachman |
| Anthony “Tony” Zakhi |
| Ralph E. and Madgelene Zeider |
| Dorothy Zieg |
| Beverly A. Zollinger |
| Erwin and Bev Zollinger |
| Evelyn L. Zuber |