Area Obituaries

Colleen B. Burris, 88, passed away at Hillside Manor Nursing Home in Washington on October 20, 2017 at 9:20 p.m.  She was born in Washington on March 19, 1928 to Gus and Lillian (Brewer)

Ambrose P. “Hootie” Dant, age 83, of Washington, passed away October 22, 2017 at 3:25 p.m. at Deaconess Gateway Hospital in Evansville. He was born on March 16, 1934 in Cannelburg to Beldas R.

Jean Ellis, 89, of Loogootee, passed away at 7:47 p.m. Saturday, October 21, 2017 at Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center. She was born January 12, 1928 in Loogootee, Indiana to the late Earl

Steven Eugene Bledsoe, 51, of Loogootee, passed away on Friday October 20, 2017 at his residence surrounded by family. He was born on April 9, 1966 in Washington, Indiana to Norma Kay Lannan Hughes

Jane Keith-Lee, 80, of Plainville, IN, went to her Heavenly Home on October 17, 2017 from Deaconess Gateway Hospital.

James “Jim” L. Browning, 83, of Washington, passed away Oct. 19, 2017, at 3:40 a.m. at Daviess Community Hospital.

R. L. Wade, of Washington, IN, went to her Heavenly Home on October 18, 2017. She was born in Pittsburg, KS to DeLafayette and Ellen Alfreda (Wort) Smith. On August 10, 1962 she married the late