Allen County Amateur Radio Technical Society

In Memory

We would like to remember the following locals hams
who have joined the rank of Silent Keys.
They will be in our memories and logbooks forever.

Call Name Date of passing Age Other W9FMF Art Johnson       W9FMJ Van Bowman       W9JGY Charles Gray     born 10/1931 W9JRR Bob Stone     born 7/1915 W9JSM Bob Bernhardt     born 5/1922 W9MDC Charlie Miser       W9REW Paul Miller       K9YRS Jack Fisher between 94 & 04   born 5/1927 W9HO Leo Yoder between 05 & 10   born 2/1905 W9PRO Hap Norton between 77 & 87   born 5/1923 W9PWZ Ed Hildabrand between 9 3 & 03   born 7/1916 W9EKN Glenn J. Bechtold  5/29/65 53   W9INX Ed Rehberg 7/1/70     WA9SDO Chuck Guinup                             (founding member of ACARTS) 1/1/75     K9FZX Annabel Thomson  6/4/83 66   N9EV Everett K. Leitch  10/15/85 68   W9PMT Bob Witte 6/18/90 78   KA9GZK William C. "Bill" Thomson Jr 10/27/90 73   W9KLS Phillip E. Lemmon  1/25/92 84   KA9JJB Mary R. Callahan  9/23/92 70   W9PIN Earl F. Bohling  5/5/95 90   N9ONY Eugene L. Vogely  4/17/97 67   W9MGV Eldon "Don" Wood 2/17/98 73   KA9STX John A. Arter   8/13/98 79   W9ESK Herbert R. Weaver  9/21/98 68   KA9IHA John (Bob) Capin 12/1/98 75   N9SYE Bill Jones Sr 12/3/98 67   N9EBK Doris L. Smith  2/19/99 69   N9DWU John Tripcony  3/8/99 76   N9GSP Rose Polk-Waters ~ 8/99 72   W9MPW Gilbert Vollink 8/10/99 77   W9FPK William R. "Bill" Schane  9/17/99 70   W9PEP Roland "Rollie" Mitchell ~ 10/99     WB9HNL John "Koontz" Melching 12/1/99 85   KA9VBS Lois A. O’ Neil  1/6/00 73   W9YGY E. William "Bill" Easterday 4/22/00 70   N9MFO James Weldon 9/13/00 79   KB9DV Carl Vinyard 10/30/00 78   N9MKB Cliff Shrieve II 11/1/00 48   NG9M Raymond O'Neil 8/15/01 78   WA9EZP Irene Kennedy 9/19/01 84   W6RDJ John B. Harmon 10/20/01 84   W9GHA (WB9SDP) Robert "Bob" Bontempo 11/25/01 60   KB9HIO Mary "Rose" Rose 3/16/02 81   WA9ALY Homer Evans 5/28/02 79   N9UBB Marian "Mimi" Girod 6/22/02 48   W9LE Lew Kester 7/30/02 83   NG9K Lewis "Vern" Heck 8/30/02 88   KB9UBS Robert G. Mosher 9/26/02 57   N9FNV Eugene F. Morr 10/27/02 84   KC9ML Larrie Gould ~ 1/03 54   WB9DAE Clarence "Bill" Hessler 1/5/03 84   WB9JJN John Rinehart 1/16/03 91   K9CR Cliff Riley 3/26/03 65   WB9BEZ/N9OJ John Stiltner 5/1/03 70   W9JJX Al Moore 6/6/03 85   W9JOQ Ray Yeranko 8/1/03 89   WB9ULN Charlie Willer 1/27/04 49   WB9UYT Gary Reece 2/16/04 65   W9TDU Charles Cook 2/21/04 90   W9KFT James Norton 3/6/04 79   WA9RJN Steve Loeschner 3/17/04 53   K9KI Ray Cronin 4/26/04 67   N9XPB Bob Hire 6/3/04 66   WD9HII Bill Hall 6/23/04 69   WB9KEP Jerry Schuster ~ 8/04 76   KA9FFT Dave Smith 11/2/04 67   KB9JBR Carole Streeter 11/14/04 66   KA9TCT Irv Weigel 12/25/04 72   N9NRL John P. "Jack" Moran 6/21/05 78   K9DNN Mel Stuart 6/26/05 79   K9RKA Bill Trulock 7/3/05 64   K9AWA Roland Brown ~ 8/05 76   W9RJR Larry Hutchinson ~ 8/05 66   KB9JVK Shirley Miller 11/26/05 70   K9KKD Hal Hunt 1/1/06 78   WD9FAQ Al Waters 1/12/06 58   K9JMT Walter Johnson 1/25/06 90   WA9YOF Jack Druckemiller 4/6/06 83   WE9G Max A. Kimble 6/5/06 84   N9DOQ Albert L. Volz 6/28/06 76   W9TC Ted Clifton 9/27/06 96   W1QWW (ex W9FXV) Arnold Fountain 7/1/07 80   N9KXL Glenn W. Wilson 8/13/07 81   W9FJT Bob Sievers 9/7/07 90   K9EBZ John G. Smith 10/19/07 78   N9NRO Carl Rittenhouse 12/19/07 65   KE9T Bill Thomas 12/23/07 81   K9LSB Jack Forbing 2/29/08 63   KC9EEC Brian Thornhill 11/8/08 51   N9AVR Walt Wood 12/27/08 72   AA9NL Ernie Blazer ~ 6/09     W9FWI Jack Carter 7/17/09 80   N9NAI Bill Meints 9/14/09 73   N9UKF Jeffrey Patterson 10/29/09 51   N9VXV Wayne Pinckney 2/4/10     N9DCA Michael Murphy 9/4/10 56   W9BTZ John Marty 9/11/10 67   WB9PUJ Dick Bokern 9/14/10 80   KG9GW Harold McBride 10/20/10 89   WB9UZA Victor Guess 11/19/10 67   N9QYP John Whitney 2/24/11 85   KC9KTG (XYL WB9YBI) Renee Thomas 4/16/11 45   WA1URA Frank Moore 4/21/11 74   W9RRB Richard Byers 7/23/11 75   KA9LTV Victor Berko 7/31/11 63   WA9RRY Melvin "Dean" Whitesel 9/3/11     N9IOV Donna White 10/26/11 66   W9JBD Gene Williams 11/1/11 71 (see note 1) N9FNK William Harrington 12/25/11 66

Note 1: Gene was the founder of the Murphy Repeater on 94 for many years here in Fort Wayne.

If I have missed anyone, or if there are any errors, I apologize,
and would appreciate getting the correct or additional information,
to keep this listing up to date.

wb8hqs(at)arrl.net