Vicie Lin Mounts

Vicie Lin Mounts of Van Wert went to be with the Lord at 10:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, 2013, after a brief illness with cancer and a powerful fight against it.

She was born April 18, 1959, in Decatur, Ind., the daughter of the late Victor and Mary (Shinn) Lautzenheiser. On March 6, 1990, she married her high school sweetheart, Michael D. Mounts, who survives in Van Wert.

She is also survived by her two daughters, Denise Ann Young of Payne and Jennifer Lin Nagel of Van Wert; a son, Michael Leonard Mounts of Angola, Ind.; and an exchange student, Leticia Do Amaral Richter of Brazil, who the family all loved and Vicie also thought of, and loved, as a daughter; also four beautiful grandchildren, Olivia young, Makenna Nagel, Payton Nagel and Landon Nagel; two brothers, Ronnie (Margaret) Lautzenheiser of Convoy, and Roy (Doris) Lautzenheiser of Rockford; two sisters, Joyce (Dave) Amstutz of Plano, Texas, and Lana Lautzenheiser of Van Wert; and her in-laws, James and Carol Mounts of Van Wert.

Four sisters, Beverly Linnemeyer, Bonnie Couts, Janet McConn and Emma Ross; a brother, James Lautzenheiser; a nephew, Nathan McConn; and one niece, Amy Ross, also preceded her in death.

Vicie was employed by Vancrest Health Care Center, which she considered her second home, for 22 years as a CNA and nurse.

Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 13, 2013, at Cowan & Son Funeral Home in Van Wert, with the Rev. Randy Bevington officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery in Ohio City.

Calling hours are from 2-8 p.m. Friday, April 12.

Preferred memorials: To her family.