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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, 2022, at 5 p.m. at the Baker Street Train Station, 221 W. Baker St., in downtown Fort Wayne. Attendees will receive a small ornament to commemorate this special event. Please RSVP to reserve your seat and ornament. Please note that space and ornaments 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 Honor Of:

  • Carlotte Bash
  • Faye Finley
  • George and Mary Harker
  • Dawn Hendricks
  • Brian H. Joest
  • Donna Kessler
  • Raymond and Odelle Michalak
  • Frances Evelyn Parrett
  • Carol Ann Puls
  • James and Rose Ryan
  • Craig Tallent
  • Vivian Watts

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