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Betty I. Boan

Betty I. Boan, 81, died Thursday, Jan. 22, 2009, at the home of her son in Van Buren Township, Grant County, IN.

Mrs. Boan had lived in Washington Township at the Grant-Blackford county line, IN, for many years. She had worked at OK Modern Dry Cleaners in Bluffton and was a homemaker and a farmer. She had attended Petroleum High School and was a member of the Oak Chapel United Methodist Church in Grant County.

She was born Dec. 11, 1927, in Darke County, OH, to Marion and Nellie Stump Sutton. She married Walter Boan on Jan. 20, 1963, at the Nazarene Church in Van Buren.

Survivors include a son, Ronald Eugene Boan, of Marion; two brothers, Robert Sutton, of Winchester, and Donald Sutton, of Portland; three sisters, Norma Garrison and Bertha Twigg, both of Bluffton, and Martha Christian, of Coldwater, OH; and two granddaughters, Jackie Boan and Jacy Boan, both of Marion.

A funeral service was held at Walker & Glancy Funeral Home, Montpelier, on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009, with Rev. Gene Betts officiating. Interment was at Balsey Cemetery in Washington Township, Blackford County.

Online condolences may be sent through www.glancyfuneralhomes.com.