Funeral services were held over the weekend for Gary Lin Calhoun.

Calhoun, 70, passed away March 5. He was born in 1952 in Rochester and grew up in Argos, graduating in 1970.

He met his wife, Ginger, while attending Indiana State. The couple returned to Argos where Calhoun worked for Gates and Calhoun Chevrolet and later Don Calhoun Chevrolet in Plymouth.

While working full time, Gary Calhoun attended Valparaiso School of Law full time. He was one of four to qualify to take the bar exam and the only one to pass at the end of his second year, one year prior to his graduation from Valparaiso School of Law.

In 1984, Calhoun was the first student at Valparaiso Law School to sit as a trial court judge for the Argos Town Court while still attending law school. After graduating he took a job at the Indiana Court of Appeals clerking for Judge William Conover while still continuing to serve as a trial court judge in Argos.  From 1986 to 1988 he was a judicial law clerk of the United States Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Indiana.

From 1988 to 1993, Calhoun worked at a Fort Wayne law firm.

In 1993, he was appointed Kosciusko Circuit Court Judge by Governor Evan Bayh. Needing to reside in the county, the Calhouns built a home on Lake Tippecanoe. He served in that position until 1995.

From 1995 until his retirement, Gary served as supervising attorney for UAW legal services in Kokomo.