Betty Jean (Thomas) Tirb Obituary Posted: 31 Dec 1998 12:00PM GMT Classification: Obituary Edited: 23 Jun 2001 3:50PM GMT Surnames: TIRB, THOMAS "Obituary courtesy of the News-Banner Publications, posted with permission." Bluffton News Banner, December 30, 1998 Betty T. Tirb, 60, of Fort Wayne, mother of Bluffton's Snug Restaurant manager Richard S. Tirb, died Dec. 28 at Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. A former resident of Detroit, Mich., where she was born on May 4, 1938, Mrs. Tirb had lived in Fort Wayne the past three years. Surviving are three sons, Richard S. Tirb of Fort Wayne, Glenn Tirb Jr. of Denver, Colo., and David L. Brooks of Ocilla, Ga.; three sisters, Elaine Jedele of Stryker, Ohio, Patricia Rutherford of Tecumseh, Mich., and Nancy Kies of Moscow, Mich.; a brother, Bill Thomas of California; and 11 grandchildren. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Klaehn, Fahl & Melton Funeral Homes Wayne Street Chapel, where calling hours are today from 2 to 5 p.m. Burial will be in Concordia Cemetery Gardens. Memorials to the American Diabetes Association or to Trinity English Lutheran Church.