Lynne Hatter

She was born on July 12, 1937 in Silver City, Nevada.

After later moving to Michigan, Lynne graduated from Marshall High School in 1955, before moving to Chicago, Illinois. There she did some singing and worked in fine dining and real estate. She loved hanging out at Jazz clubs, watching the Bears at Soldier Field and dancing in the streets with her husband and his Greek friends. She transformed houses into homes for her family across the Midwest, and then settled for a period outside Louisville, Kentucky, where she and her husband cared for and raced harness horses.

Lynne loved to read, study anthropology, and garden. She also loved playing and listening to music, as well as caring for her family and a never-ending stream of cats and dogs. As a volunteer, she read for youngsters in the community. She would never miss an opportunity to scour antique shops and auctions for interesting trinkets, and thoroughly enjoyed the wildlife that gathered outside her lakeside home in Angola, Indiana.

She retired from the Budd Company, working in Clinton, Michigan (as the first-ever female dock foreman), and later in Shelbyville, Kentucky.

Most of all, Lynne loved her family. Survivors include her daughters, Betsy Miller of Angola, Indiana, Julie Collier (Rodger Hettinger) of Churubusco, Indiana, and Suzanne Raphael (Tika Gulick) of Ossining, New York; grandchildren, Loren Collier and Ethan Collier; sisters, Susan (Lyn) Turner of White Cloud, Michigan, and Julie (Mark) Edwards of Traverse City, Michigan; sisters-in-law, Nancy Chapman of Marshall, Michigan, Mary Peek of Marshall, Michigan, and Sally Tipton of Battle Creek, Michigan; plus many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Fred Edwin Stamp, mother, Mary Berniece (Stephens) Chapman, step-father, Dale Chapman; brothers, Fred Chapman, Steve Chapman, and Wayne Chapman, and by her husband Elden Hatter.

Visitation will be held from 12 pm until 2 pm Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at Beams Funeral Home, Fremont, Indiana. Funeral Services will follow at 2 pm.

Memorial donations in her memory may be directed in care of the Community Humane Shelter of Steuben County, P.O. Box 204, Angola, Indiana 46703.