JESSE A.’JACK’ SANDERS

Name: JESSE A.'JACK' SANDERS

Entry Date: 43

Exit Date: 45

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Status: D: 10/31/2002

Annapolis, 1942

Auburn, 1981

“(This obituary from the Auburn Evening Star)

Jesse ‘Jack’ Sanders, 85, died Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 2:30 a.m., at the Laurel of DeKalb nursing home in Butler, Indiana.

Jack was born 17 April 1917, in Nashville, Tenn., to Dr. Jesse A. Sanders and Mary B. (Bright) Sanders. He married Helen J. Blevins on 25 July 1953, in Connorsville, Indiana. Helen survives.

Jack served as mayor of Auburn, Indiana, from 1976 to 1984. He graduated from Auburn High School in 1934 where he was the senior class president, and then graduated from Indiana University in 1938.

Jack served in the U.S. Navy during WWII from 1942 to 1946. Initially assigned to the USS Maryland, he went on to pilot PB4Y “”Liberators”” in the South Pacific. Among other awards, Jack was a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross. He retired after 26 years in the USNR.

Jack was a golf professional at Greenhurst Country Club in Auburn and the owner of the Auburn Recreation Center bowling alley. He served as director of the Peoples Bancorp.

Jack was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Auburn, the Youth for Christ golf benefit committee, Greenhurst Country Club, Sugar Mill Country Club, the Masonic Temple, Mizpah Flying Shriners, Cedar Creek Shrine Club, Auburn Lions Club, Loyal Order of Moose, Elks Club, Elks National Bowling Association, the American Legion, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Phi Kappa Psi, and the Indiana University Intrafraternity Council.

He served on the Auburn Board of Zoning Appeals, the Auburn Planning Commission, United Fund of DeKalb County, and the DeKalb County Democratic Central Committee.

Also surviving are two daughters and sons-in-law, Jeri and Herb Hillabrand of Wheaton, Illinois, and Terry and Scott Swim of Indianapolis; a son and daughter-in-law, Jeff and Robin Sanders of Zionsville,; and seven grandchildren, Chelsea and Alex Hillabrand, Justin, Jennifer, Jessica, and Joseph Swim and Peter Sanders.

Jack was preceded in death by two sisters, Barbara Oren and Virginia Croxton.

Services were held in St. Marks Lutheran Church of Auburn. The Rev. Ken Conrad and the Rev. Stephen K. Kummernus officiated. Burial was in Woodlawn cemetery.”