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- OBITUARY - Plain Dealer, Wabash (IN) - Saturday, December 8, 2001
Theodore Eilts, 73, 208 W. Hill St., died at 4:28 a.m., Dec. 7, 2001, at AmeriCare Living Center. He was born on Feb. 27, 1928, in Lowell, to Edward and Bertha (Goepp) Eilts. He married E. Gaye Hunter in Columbia City on Sept. 25, 1954; she survives.
Mr. Eilts was a 1946 graduate of Laketon High School and attended one year of college at Florida Southern and three years at Manchester College. He owned and operated Ted Eilts Trenching Service, Wabash, for 53 years. He was a mushroom hunter, an avid fisherman, horseman, trapper, outdoorsman and environmentalist. He invented children's games, enjoyed playing cards and played basketball for 30 years. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, North Manchester.
A veteran of the U.S. Army, he served in both World War II and the Korean War. He was in the 101st paratroopers during the Korean War and was voted for and received the Most Outstanding Basketball Player award during that war in occupied Japan. He as a member of the Wabash VFW Post 286 and the Wabash American Legion Post No.15.
Surviving are two sons, Lt. Col. Ted B. (Lori Lynn) Eilts, Natchitoches, La., and Timothy (Virginia) Eilts, Wabash; one daughter, Mrs. Bill (Lori) Rushin, Greenwood; five brothers, John A. Eilts, Craig, Colo., August H. Eilts, Hopedale, Ill., Edwin R. Eilts, Peru, Donald B. Eilts, Laketon, and Henry E. Eilts, Wabash; one sister, Martha M. Reinhart, Aurora, Colo.; six grandchildren, Emma Eilts, Timothy Eilts, and Stephen Eilts, all of Wabash, Sarah Eilts and Hunter Eilts, both of Natchitoches, La., and Lauren Rushin, Greenwood. One daughter, Nea K. Eilts, and a sister, Minnie Freeman, are deceased.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Grandstaff-Hentgen Manchester Ave. Chapel, with Pastor J.P. Freeman officiating. Burial will be in Falls Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. at the chapel. Preferred memorials are to the Congregational Christian Church, North Manchester.
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1928 - 2001 (73 years)
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