Dorothy E. “Dottie” Force, 86, of Wabash, Indiana, died at 2:23 pm, Thursday, October 27, 2016 at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. She was born August 10, 1930 in Defiance County, Ohio to Milton and Wilhelmina (Schroeder) Haase.
Dottie graduated from Sherwood-Delaware High School in Sherwood, Ohio in 1948. She married Wallace B. Force, Jr. in Angola, Indiana on September 26, 1959; he died October 19, 2006. She was a homemaker, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and a member and former officer in Church Women United, all of Wabash. She was a huge Ohio State football and New York Yankees baseball fan. She loved attending her grandkids sporting events.
She is survived by her four children, Bill (Deb) Daugherty of Bryan, Ohio, Jana (Mark) Melton of Huntington, Indiana, Tami (Tim) Lane and Lisa Tyson, both of Wabash; nine grandchildren, David Daugherty of Defiance, Andrea (Greg) Sims of Bryan, Christina (Aaron Krugman) Melton of Louisville, Kentucky, Wendy Lane of Middlebury, Indiana, Jennifer Lane of LaFontaine, Indiana, Gregory (Kamy) Lane of Noblesville, Indiana, Megan (Craig) Sheely of LaFontaine, Dawn Webb of Wabash, and Jonathon (Meghan) Tyson of Winter Haven, Florida; and 13 great grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, and one sister.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1500 S. Wabash Street, Wabash, with Dr. Kent Young officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Ney, Ohio. Friends may call 4-7 p.m., Tuesday, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash.
Preferred memorial is Trinity Lutheran Church of Wabash.
The memorial guest book for Dottie may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.
Dottie graduated from Sherwood-Delaware High School in Sherwood, Ohio in 1948. She married Wallace B. Force, Jr. in Angola, Indiana on September 26, 1959; he died October 19, 2006. She was a homemaker, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and a member and former officer in Church Women United, all of Wabash. She was a huge Ohio State football and New York Yankees baseball fan. She loved attending her grandkids sporting events.
She is survived by her four children, Bill (Deb) Daugherty of Bryan, Ohio, Jana (Mark) Melton of Huntington, Indiana, Tami (Tim) Lane and Lisa Tyson, both of Wabash; nine grandchildren, David Daugherty of Defiance, Andrea (Greg) Sims of Bryan, Christina (Aaron Krugman) Melton of Louisville, Kentucky, Wendy Lane of Middlebury, Indiana, Jennifer Lane of LaFontaine, Indiana, Gregory (Kamy) Lane of Noblesville, Indiana, Megan (Craig) Sheely of LaFontaine, Dawn Webb of Wabash, and Jonathon (Meghan) Tyson of Winter Haven, Florida; and 13 great grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, and one sister.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Wednesday, November 2, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1500 S. Wabash Street, Wabash, with Dr. Kent Young officiating. Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Ney, Ohio. Friends may call 4-7 p.m., Tuesday, at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service, 1241 Manchester Avenue, Wabash.
Preferred memorial is Trinity Lutheran Church of Wabash.
The memorial guest book for Dottie may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.