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1976 – 2021 · post-Vietnam service deaths, tested
The Defense Casualty Analysis System-derived public list of Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Dawn deaths through 12 September 2011 was searched for Lakeville and for every St. Joseph County home town: the county's only Indiana home-of-record death in that list is TSgt Ryan A. Balmer of Mishawaka, killed near Kirkuk, Iraq, 5 June 2007 — Mishawaka's man, carried in Mishawaka's file, whose Legion post was renamed for him. Index searches of the Iraq–Afghanistan fallen and of the Military Times Honor the Fallen record return no Lakeville, Indiana case at all; the returns are Lakeville, Minnesota, and Lakeville, Massachusetts, and are refused as such. No post-Vietnam, pre-2001 service death — the 1991 Gulf War included — attributed to Lakeville was found either; those two tails (1976–2000, and September 2011–2021) rest on index-strength negatives, and the settler that raises them to file strength — a Defense Casualty Analysis System extract filtered on home of record LAKEVILLE, IN — is named's note.
One attribution conflict in the county's later-war record is printed whole so it is never tidied into the wrong town. Navy Hospitalman Benjamin D. Rast, killed in Afghanistan 6 April 2011, stands in the Defense Department's own release and its derived lists with home of record Niles, Berrien County, Michigan; Indiana's own memorial record carries him as South Bend — his father lived in South Bend, and he is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Mishawaka. Neither attribution is Lakeville or Union Township. He is filed here, at pointer size, precisely so that no later pass mistakes him for an Indiana home-of-record case or moves him into a town neither record gives him.