VIRGINIA CHAMBERS has lived in Tipton County all her life. She graduated from Sharpsville High School, obtained a B.S. in Elementary Education from Ball State University, and an M.S. in Elementary Education from Indiana University. She taught grades four and five at Sharpsville for 18 years, and fourth grade at Tri Central for 16 years. She retired in the spring of 1999. She has been married to Wendell Chambers 39 years. They have one son, Wade, and one granddaughter, Emily, who both live in California. Virginia volunteered 1994 through 2011 for the Tipton County Foundation, serving on the Capital Funds, Grand Making, Lilly, and Wooldridge Scholarship Selection committees, the Board of Directors and Board chairwoman. Her memberships include Indiana Retired Teachers, Delta Kappa Gamma, Sharpsville Methodist Church, and of course TCHS.


REBA HOWERY has lived in Tipton County all her life and is a Tipton High School graduate. She currently serves on
the TCHS board as treasurer. She has also volunteered for TCHS many years and now enters data from court records into
the computer database, currently marriage licenses and applications from 1844 through the early 1930s.
MICHAEL B. KELLEY was born and raised in Prairie Township in Tipton County. Except for three years spent in the Army and one year in Viet Nam, he has lived in Tipton County his entire life. Mike continued the family farming tradition until he retired in 2011. He continues to be co-director of Kelley Agricultural Historical Museum at the corner of U.S. 31 and CR 550N, where his Kelley grandparents lived. He and Linda Sue Dawson Kelley have been married 49 years and have two children—son Chris and daughter Heather. Mike says Tipton County agriculture is an interesting and important part of his life and feels that the TCHS museum represents a “wonderful part of Tipton County agricultural history.” He has served on the TCHS board of directors for three years.

GAE MATCHETTE has been a TCHS board member, representing Liberty Township, since 2011 and secretary since 2012.
She is a graduate of Tri-Central High School. for which she is currently a bus aide, and the Boyd School of Travel. Gae serves
on the Present Jail Committee. She served on the Tipton Parks Birthday Committee in 2014. She also is involved in the
restoration of Pioneer Cemeteries in Tipton County and takes care of the 5 Pioneer Cemeteries in Liberty Township. Gae also volunteers in the events and helps promote TCHS any way she can. Gae and her husband, Gene, have two children and two grandchildren .
ESTHER McMATH came to Tipton in 1963 as a junior high beginning math teacher. After retiring 30 years later, she became involved in TCHS and served as president for 10 years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors and as a volunteer, she is involved in genealogy and clips newspaper articles, marriage and birthday announcements, and obituaries. Esther and her husband, Bob, have two sons, Ray and Bill, who live in North and South Carolina. She is a 50-year member of Sigma Delta Pi, a local teacher sorority for which she serves as treasurer. She also belongs to the Tipton County Retired Teachers, and serves as Community Service Chairman. In addition, Esther was an election board inspector for 15 years and a Sunday school teacher for Trinity Wesleyal Church, where she also teaches summer Bible study.


KARLA MULLINS
GEORGE OGDEN is a lifelong Tipton County resident, graduating from Tipton High School in 1955. He joined the U.S. Navy in 1957 and served four years, including service served aboard the USS Regulas, AKA 90, and Japan, Manila, ComServPac in Oahu, Hawaii for two years, and was in Hawaii when it became the 50th state of the union. After working seven and a half years for Westinghouse Corp. in Muncie, George joined the Tipton Fire Department, where he served 23 years, including eight years as chief. He also worked for Maxey New Homes Construction. He retired in 1992. Since then, he served on the Tipton City Council for 12 years and as Tipton mayor for four years. He currently works at Ace Hardware, Tipton. George and his wife, Eulah Mae, married in 1961. They have four children, 12 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. The Ogdens are members of the Ash Street Wesleyan Church, where George has served as Sunday School Superintendent and teacher for thirty-plus years. Besides his membership in TCHS, he also has been a member of the Lions Club for 12 years.
JEFF ORBAUGH is a 1961 graduate of Ball State University, majoring in Education and lettering in baseball and basketball. He is retired from Delco in Kokomo, where he worked 35 years in sales, traveling internationally. Besides his membership in TCHS, Jeff belongs to Kempton Methodist Church, where he is on the board of director and is a lay leader and teacher. He and his wife, Ramona, have been married 56 years. They have two sons, Chris and Cam, and five grandchildren, Chandler and twin sister MacKenzie, Hogan, Haydon and Matthew. His interests are history, athletics, government, Indianapolis Colts, Chicago Cubs, and all Tipton High School sports .