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Nilah J. Kohls

Nilah Joyce Kohls, 80, of Huntington, IN, died Thursday, March 21, 2019, at Hickory Creek at Huntington.           

Mrs. Kohls was a 1956 graduate of Fort Wayne North Side High School.  She was a homemaker and a farmer’s wife.  She was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne.

Mrs. Kohls was born Dec. 22, 1938, in Fort Wayne to Niles and Lola L. Kurtz Castator.  She married Alfred Kohls on Jan. 26, 1957, and he survives.

Additional survivors are two sons, Larry Kohls, of Huntington, and Luke (Natalee) Kohls, of Roanoke; two daughters, Pauline (Greg) Zimmerman, of Hicksville, OH, and Penny Notestine, of Andrews; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Dean Notestine.

Calling is Monday, March 25, 2019, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at McElhaney-Hart Funeral Home, 715 N. Jefferson St., Huntington. A funeral service will immediately follow at 3 p.m. at the4 funeral home, with Rev. Chris Thurow officiating. Burial will be at Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery, Huntington, IN.

Memorials are to Hickory Creek at Huntington, in care of McElhaney-Hart Funeral Home, 715 N. Jefferson Street, Huntington, IN 46750.