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GAP-W10-BMV-2 SETTLED FOR 1969–1992 · THE OBITUARY RECORD
The banked leg could name no branch manager in any record it reached; the obituary record names one, with a twenty-three-year tenure. Myrna R. Daube of Walkerton (born November 15, 1924; died March 6, 2016) was, by her obituary published in the Pilot News of Plymouth, "the manager of the Walkerton License Branch from 1969 to 1992," and the branch under her had "the reputation as being the friendly license branch in St. Joseph County." The same record carries the detail that fits the patronage era's own accounting culture: she "was always proud of her perfect record with the State Board of Accounts." The obituary is a family's record, printed here at that strength — but its dates interlock with this section's own frame at both ends. Her tenure begins in 1969, inside the county-patronage decades the leg prints, and it ends in 1992, the year of Governor Bayh's state assumption of the license branches: the last patronage-era manager this record names is the manager whose service closes with the patronage system itself. The alignment is printed as alignment, not causation. Daube's Walkerton was wider than the branch — the obituary also seats her on the Walkerton Public Library Board and the Lincoln Township Advisory Board, and in a fifty-year membership in the Order of the Eastern Star — and the branch she ran for twenty-three years is the institution this section follows. What remains open under GAP-W10-BMV-2 is the earlier succession: no manager before 1969, and none between her 1992 retirement and the branch's final decades, is named in any record reached; the gap stands for those years, with the same settlers.
Principal sources: obituary of Myrna R. Daube, The Pilot News (Plymouth), published March 8–9, 2016 (read whole, via the Legacy record); this section's banked frame (the 1992 state assumption, Tribune, December 18, 1992).