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Mary J.
Eikelberner Trapp
December 16, 1928 – December 20, 2025
Mary J. Eikelberner Trapp, 97, formerly of Camden, passed away Saturday-December 20, 2025, at 12:25am, at St. Elizabeth Healthcare Center in Delphi. Mary was born on December 16, 1928, in Royal Center, to the late Ray & Docia Brady Eikelberner. Mary married Hershel John Trapp at the Market St. Methodist Church in Logansport, on April 11, 1953, and John preceded her in death on May 14, 1998. Mary graduated from Logansport High School in 1946. She worked for the Bell Telephone Co., from 1946 to 1953. She then was a homemaker and helped her husband on their farm near Camden. Mary was an active member with the Camden United Methodist Church and involved with the United Methodist Women's group. She also participated in the Aim High Home Ec Club for many years. She was a 50-year member and Past Worthy Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star in Camden. She was an avid reader, enjoyed working crossword puzzles, always put out a big garden for her family and neighbors to enjoy, and kept her house looking just right with her many flower gardens she had around their farm. Mary was involved with the Carroll County Cancer Association for many years and was a die-hard Purdue University sports fan. Holding season tickets to basketball games for many years. Family was everything to Mary. She dearly loved her children and grandchildren and extended family so much and loved being with them for any occasion. Surviving: daughter-Debra & James O'Bryan of Ft. Wayne, son-Larry J. Trapp of Camden, daughter-Cathy & Terry Berkshire of Flora, daughter-Lori & Kirk Schwarzkopf of Camden, 8 grandchildren & 15 great grandchildren survive. Preceded in death by a granddaughter Wendy Ward, 3 stepsisters Kathryn Herd, Lucille Sanders, & Ilene Brown, 3 stepbrothers Joseph & William Eikelberner, & Joe Cotner, and her sister-in-law Carolyn Edging. Services: Visitation will be Saturday from 11am until her funeral service at 2pm at Abbott Funeral Home, Inc., Delphi. Rev. Ed Selvidge & Rev. Dan Gottschalk officiating. Burial at Musselman Cemetery, Camden. Memorial contributions may be made to the Carroll Co. Cancer Assoc., or the Jackson Township Library, envelopes available at the funeral home. To view her obit or send an online condolence to the family, visit: www.abbottfuneralhome.com
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