Monte David Ice

Monte David Ice passed away at his Fort Wayne residence on Friday, August 23, 2024, at age of 74, after battling pancreatic cancer. He was born February 21,1950 in Anderson, Indiana to the late George and Olza (Blakey) Ice. He was an honor student of the 1968 Anderson High School class. He earned degrees from Ivy Tech, Ball State and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He retired after 31 and a half years of employment with the state of Indiana. He was employed at the former Fort Wayne State Developmental Center as a behavioral clinician for some twenty-two years, in Indiana, the Department of Correction-Juvenile Division for one year, and as a vocational rehabilitation counselor, and later area supervisor for eight and a half years with Indiana Vocational Rehabilitation Services. His professional career included working with developmentally disabled individuals, persons with mental health issues and assisting persons with various disabilities in obtaining gainful employment. He held several part-time positions over the years including being a computer operator at St. Joseph Hospital and Waterfield Mortgage Company, and being a pharmaceutical courier for Omnicare and Grandview pharmacies. He was also a part-time behavior consultant. As Monte had paternal and maternal ancestors who emigrated from Europe over three hundred years ago, his family had interactions and friendships with noted persons in American colonial history. His paternal Dutch and Scotch ancestors were involved with activities as frontier settlers in western Virginia (now northern West Virginia). These included both hostile and peaceful interactions with Delaware and Shawnee native tribes. Activities included constructing and manning stockade forts for settler refuge during tribal uprisings and operating trading posts that served both settler and tribal patrons. The frontiersmen they personally knew included Daniel Boone and Christopher Gist. The later twice saved George Washington’s life prior to the American Revolution. Washington acknowledged in his personal diaries that he conversed with members of the Ice family on Saturday, September 25, 1784, about possible expansions of the waterways in Virginia into extensive canals, as the Ice family operated a ferry on the Cheat River. His maternal Blakey and Churchill ancestors emigrated from England in the 1670s and 1680s and established plantations on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Middlesex County, Virginia near Chesapeake Bay. These ancestors interacted with and intermarried with several historical colonial families in Virginia. His Churchill ancestors later were one of the twelve founding families of Louisville, Kentucky in the 1780s and owned property on which Churchill Downs was established. Surviving family members include wife Belinda Villegas Ice, former wife Joan Terry Ice of Fort

Wayne, son Christopher Ice of Charlottesville, Virginia, daughter Camille Ice of Fort Wayne, sister Belinda (Dan) Flickinger of Anderson, nephew Daniel (Mary) Flickinger, as well as grandniece and grandnephew Vivienne and Joseph of Indianapolis, niece Susan (Seung Chul) Hong, as well as grandnephew and grandniece Ian and Lia of Chicago. Several cousins live in Indiana, Kentucky and Florida. There are several in-laws that live in the Philippines, as well as brother-in-law and sister-in-law Crispas Villegas (George) Bailey of Los Angeles and Mila Villegas (PierLuigi) Parolini in northern Italy. Special thanks to Dr. Nattam and numerous other physicians and staff of Lutheran Health Network and the numerous prayer groups organized during his illness. Visitation will take place from 10:00 am – 12:00 noon on Friday, August 30, 2024 at Divine Mercy Funeral Home, 3500 Lake Ave., Fort Wayne, IN, where a rosary will be recited at10:30 am. A funeral mass will follow the visitation at 12:30 pm at Queen of Angels Catholic Church, 1500 W. State Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN 46808

Donations

Memorial contributions in honor of Monte David Ice, may be made at Cancer Center of Northeastern Indiana and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, or the donor’s choice.