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  Banks of the Wabash Festival kicks off

  The 2013 Banks of the Wabash Festival, scheduled May 23 through June 1 in Fairbanks Park, celebrates 40 years along the banks of the Wabash River, 30 under the sponsorship of the Terre Haute Parks and Recreation Department.

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  Pioneers think counterintuitively. Where others see widespread apathy, they focus on the possibility for progress. In a way, the 2013 Year of the River celebration began in the 1970s.

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January 3, 2013

Mary Belle ‘Doy’ Wilson

---- ---- The Tribune Star Thu Jan 03, 2013, 05:00 AM EST

PARIS, IL — Mary Belle “Doy” Wilson, 93, of Paris, passed away at 12:30 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, in Paris Healthcare Center.

She was a 1938 graduate of Paris High School. Mrs. Wilson was a secretary at the A.S.C.S. office and also was employed by West Side Variety Store, Godding Shoe Factory, Ben Franklin Store and U.O. Colson & Company. She was a member of the Rural Mail Carriers Auxiliary and the former Trinity United Methodist Church.

Mary Belle was born Nov. 15, 1919, in Logan, Ill., to the late James and Florence (Scott) Payne. She married Elmer W. “Woody” Wilson, June 5, 1938, in Paris, and he passed away June 10, 2007.

Survivors include a daughter, Kathryn Jean “Jeanie” Coonce, and her husband, Donald, of Paris; a son, Jack A. Wilson of Paris; two grandchildren: Donna Coonce of Charleston, Ill., and Donnie Coonce of Paris; two great-grandchildren: Brianna Coonce of Paris, and Bryant Coonce of Sidell, Ill.; one great-great-grandson, Ayden Scott Noonan of Paris; one sister, Bonnie Koontz of Glenview, Ill.; one cousin, Anna Manger of Carriere, Miss.; two special friends: Julia Miller of Charleston and Rory Steidl of Lerna, Ill.; a brother-in-law, Max Wilson of Paris; four sisters-in-law: Daisy Whittenberg of Canyon, Texas, Maxine Riley of Wewoka, Okla., Helen Payne of Paris, Barbara Wilson of Terre Haute, and several nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her son, Donald Scott Wilson, her sister, Winifred Rhoads, and her brothers, Frank Payne and Scott Payne.

Private graveside services will be today, Jan. 3, 2013, in Edgar Cemetery, with Pastor David Laborde officiating. Burial will be in Edgar Cemetery. Visitation is private. Memorials may be made to Community Bible Church or the charity of the donor’s choice. Stewart and Carroll Funeral Home assisted with the arrangements. For more information and online condolences please go to:

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• Mary Elizabeth Jameson

  Mary Elizabeth Jameson, 87, of Buchanan, Tenn., formerly of Terre Haute, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Murray Calloway County Hospital, in Murray, Ky.

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• Betty Cox Swiger

  Betty Cox Swiger, 69, of Terre Haute, passed away May 20, 2013, in Union Hospital’s emergency room.

  May 23, 2013 1 Photo  

• Grace Eleanor Branam

  Grace Eleanor Branam, 102, of Terre Haute, passed into the arms of her Savior and waiting loved ones at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2013, surrounded by family.

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• Geraldine (Jerry) Fell

  Jerry Fell, 93, of Jupiter, Fla., passed away on May 15, 2013, at Jupiter Medical Center.

  May 23, 2013  

• Jack D. Wilburn

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• Robert H. Phillips

  Robert H. Phillips, 78, of Terre Haute, former local educator, passed away on April 27, 2013 at Union Hospital, from complications of heart disease and diabetes.

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• Grace Eleanor Branam

  Grace Eleanor Branam, 102, of Terre Haute, passed into the arms of her Savior and waiting loved ones at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 19, 2013, surrounded by family.

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• Nancy L. (Combs) Rabago

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