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Artists — Lakeville
What it has is a musician the nation knows, born on its ground; a farmer who wrote and pictured the town's history out of her own collection; and a painter who worked and showed across the region for twenty years and died a resident in the autumn of 2026. That is the town's artists record at its true size, and it is not a small one for 879 people.
The musician: Dick Grove
Born here · 1927–1998
The town's one artist of national record is a composer, and his instrument was the classroom as much as the keyboard. Dick Grove's full entry stands in the famous-people file; his artist's record is this: a working jazz pianist…
The town's own historian: Jeanne Geyer
Resident here · the book undated in every catalog reached
A Lakeville farmer whose pictorial history is the town's memory of itself — and whose book no catalog dates. Jeanne Geyer, a Lakeville resident and farmer who with her husband Russell built their home and barn on Kenilworth Road…
The county's pictorial historian: Franklin N. Sheneman II
Of the county, not of the town · 2004
His book carries Lakeville whole — as one of three towns, on a county tie, printed as a county tie. Franklin N. Sheneman II's Southern St. Joseph County (Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, 2004; ISBN 978-0-7385-3292-9), with over 200 vintage images of Lakeville, North Liberty and Walkerton, is the published pictorial record this town shares with its two southern neighbours. No carrier found states that Sheneman was born, raised, schooled or resident in Lakeville itself, and none is claimed: he enters this section as an author about this ground at county scale, and a later Arcadia listing under the same title and author (ISBN 9781467113809), apparently a modern-era companion volume running from the 1960s, is flagged's note for the books work to separate — the two volumes are not merged here.
The working painter: James D. Colanese
Resident here at death · d. 23 October 2026
Twenty years of juried shows across the region, from a Lakeville address — the present scene, dated. James D. Colanese, who died on 23 October 2026 aged 77, "of Lakeville, Indiana," was a dedicated artist in watercolors, pencil…
The classes with no carrier
Sweeps run November 2026
Tested negatives — the checklist run whole, the empty shelves named. Run against Lakeville and Union Township, the artists checklist returns: no founding academic artist — no art department or school was founded here for one to…
The banked artists file works the town's makers and excludes, expressly, another Lakeville's post-office mural. The checklist's commissioned-art item — a stained-glass or mural commission in a Lakeville church or public building — was never tested on this town's own buildings. This addendum runs the test congregation by congregation and building by building.
Stained glass and murals: the commission test
Tested November 2026 · the banked religion file's church-by-church pass; the open web record of the town's congregations and public…
No stained-glass commission and no mural commission is named for any church or public building in Lakeville in any carrier reached — the test prints its negatives building by building, so the absence is a finding and not a…