Cory A. Price
4/6/1988 - 4/28/2005
Cory A. Price, 17
Cory A. Price, 17, of
Pennville, died Thursday, April 28, following a one-vehicle accident south
of Pennville.
He was a sophomore at Jay County High School where he
participated in a work-study program and was in his eighth year of 4-H
showing rabbits in Jay and Blackford Counties. He belonged to the Pennville
Boy Scouts where he was working on his Eagle Scout badge. His hobbies
included coon hunting, fishing, motors and Nascar racing. He was also active
in the Pennville Little League as he was growing up.
Born April 6,
1988, in Bluffton, to Rodney A. and Jacqueline M. Cullen Price, his father
works at Pretzels Inc. in Bluffton. Both parents survive.
Additional
survivors include one brother, Matthew Price; a sister, Megan Price; his
grandparents, Jack and Donna Cullen of Portland, and Loren and Inis Price of
rural Dunkirk; and several aunts and uncles.
Funeral services will be
at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church of Pennville.
Calling hours are from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday at the Pennville Chapel of the
Williamson & Spencer Funeral Home and one hour prior to services at the
church. Burial will follow at the Gravel Hill Cemetery.
Preferred
memorials to the family.
Obituaries courtesy of
News-Banner Publications. Posted with permission.
Saturday, April 30,
2005
Contributed by Karin King
Buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery
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Cory Allen Price
4/6/1988 –
4/28/2005
Cory was a true country boy. He & his dog,
Runner, loved going out and chasing coons, he showed rabbits at 4-H in
both Jay & Blackford Counties', he LOVED taking things apart and putting
(or sometimes trying to put) them back together again, and was an
exceptional fisherman. If it had to do with mud, girls, fishing or
hunting Cory was usually in the middle of it, or trying his hardest to
talk his mom or dad into letting him be in the middle of it. Cory was
absolutely girl crazy and was sure he was gonna marry Gretchen Willson
someday, the Redneck Woman song he always said "that was his kind of
girl". More often than not you would hear his mom yelling "CORY!" and
his dad laughing when a pretty girl walked by because all of his
attention went straight to that girl! Cory knew and told more jokes than
any person I had ever met. Sometimes Cory's excitement over making
something work got the better of him. One of those times earned him the
nickname sparkplug!
One evening Cory & his cousin Zach were
going to Zach's house to get his hunting stuff so they could go out with
Cory's dad Rodney and on the way back for some reason Zach's car got off
the side of the road on a soft edge and they lost control. Both boys had
their seatbelts on, but the car spun and landed into a grove of trees.
Both Cory & Zach died that night.
This world was a better place
with Cory in it and we will never know why God needed him so soon. The
one thing I am sure of is the memory of the sound of his laughter is one
of the things about him we all miss the most, that and his VERY ornery
grin.
Cory was awarded the Eagle Scout award posthumously which
ia a very rare event. He was and always will be an exceptional, unique
guy with an outlook on life that we would all benefit from having.
Inscription: Son of Rodney & Jackie, brother of
Matt & Megan
Find A Grave Memorial #
18420757
Contributed by Jakesangel