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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, photography and mixed-media sculpture; for over two decades his work was regularly entered in juried art shows across the area, including the current 48th Elkhart Juried Regional Art Show, and he was a long-time member of the St. Joe Valley Watercolor Society (he also owned and operated City Paper & Painting for over thirty years, and worked crew and performed with the Mishawaka Civic Theater). No birth or raising tie is stated in his obituary record and none is claimed: he is the checklist's present scene made personal — a working artist of regional record, resident here at death, named with his as-of date. One earlier thread is recorded so it is not inflated: John Roncz, carried in the famous-people file as an aerodynamicist, sold his own paintings through local galleries before engineering and was a childhood concert-level violinist and pianist; he is not carried as an artist of record.