Visitation will be from 3 – 7 p.m. Friday, June 30, 2017 at Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Indiana. Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 1, 2017 at Bailey-Love Mortuary with Doug Shaw officiating. There will be one hour of visitation prior to the service. Burial will be in Lancaster Cemetery in Huntington County.
Preferred memorials are to Northview Church of Christ, in care of Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Indiana, 46750.
Lenore was born on February 2, 1921 in Roanoke, the daughter of Guy and Thelma (Bowman) Brindle. She graduated from Jackson Township High School in 1939 and married Simon Dale Lahr on January 1, 1940 in Roanoke; he preceded her in death on June 26, 1983. She worked at Huntington Memorial Hospital for 30 years as a nurse aid and was the first female bus driver in Huntington County, driving for 30 years. She was a homemaker and farmer, still driving the tractor and working ground at age 90. She was a member of Northview Church of Christ and belonged to Kil So Quah Homemakers Club for 50 years. She loved to create all kinds of hand crafts.
Survivors include two daughters, LaDona Irene Lahr and Linda (Michael) Putman, a son, Larry (Regeanna) Lahr, and two daughters-in-law, Marilyn Lahr and Beth Lahr, all of Roanoke; a sister – Mary (Paul) Young of Ossian; 21 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and eight step-great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, two sons, Nolan Lahr and Eldon Lahr, and a sister, Arnola Williams.
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