Monday, September 22nd, 2014
Adella Henke
Adella B. Schmidt Schlater Henke, 98, formerly of Fort Loramie, passed away of natural causes Sept. 20, 2014, at the Versailles Health Care Center, Versailles, where she had been a resident since 2004.
She was born Aug. 21, 1916, in Yorkshire, to John J. and Elizabeth M. Sturwold Schmidt. On June 1, 1938, at St. Nicholas Catholic Church, Osgood, she married August A. Schlater, who died Nov. 11, 1957. On Oct. 18, 1958, she married Julius H. Henke at St. Michael Catholic Church, Fort Loramie, and he died June 17, 1991.
Surviving are a daughter, Diane E. (Daryl) Plessinger, Versailles; two grandsons, Jesse (Heather) Plessinger, Cincinnati, and Joshua (Emily) Plessinger, Versailles; five great-grandchildren, Cayley, Joshua, Jessa, Maria and Joseph Plessinger; a sister, Henrietta (Sam) Doseck, Fort Loramie; two sisters-in-law, Marie Schmidt, Vandalia, and Viola Schmidt, Yorkshire; numerous nieces and nephews; and dear friends of the family, Donald, Desiree and Dalton Brogaard, Coldwater.
Also deceased are three brothers, Lawrence (Ruth) Schmidt, Leo Schmidt and Raymond Schmidt, and numerous brothers- and sisters-in-law from the Schlater and Henke families.
She was a homemaker and attended St. Michael Catholic Church. She also had been a member of St. Ann's Ladies Sodality, Shelby County Right to Life, Name of the North (Widows & Widowers Club), and the Fort Loramie ladies euchre club and was past president of St. Michael's Catholic Ladies of Columbia. She also was a founding member of Walk-Up Country Club and Henke's Lake (Fenners).
Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Michael Catholic Church, Fort Loramie, the Rev. Steven Shoup officiating. Burial will follow at St. Michael's Cemetery.
Calling is 4-8 p.m. Thursday and 9-10 a.m. Friday at Gehret Funeral Home, Fort Loramie.
Memorials may be made to the St. Michael Church Building Fund or Shelby County Right to Life.
Condolences may be expressed at www.gehretfuneralhome.com.
