Donald W. Greve, Sr., 83, a resident of Blue Lake near Churubusco, died at 9:35 p. m. on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, at the Provena Sacred Heart Home in Avilla. He had been a patient there for the past two years.
Mr. Greve was born in Fort Wayne on September 20, 1926, a son of Edward B. and Nora A. [Sutton] Greve, and spent his formative years there. As a young man he served in the U. S. Navy during World War II, and was married on November 2, 1946 to Susie Irene Ackerman. He had lived at his home at Blue Lake since 1954.
Employed as a truck driver for Old Fort Supply in Fort Wayne, he retired from there in 1985 after 25 years.
He was a member of the Gilbert Davis American Legion Post 157 in Churubusco and the Churubusco Veteran’s of Foreign Wars Turtle Post 3846. He was instrumental in starting the annual Blue Lake fireworks, and in his leisure time enjoyed fishing and Churubusco Eagle and Notre Dame Fighting Irish football.
