Carolyn G. Springer, 90, of rural Bluffton, and formerly of Waynedale, died Wednesday morning, July 5, 2023, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Carolyn was born in Fort Wayne on May 15, 1933, to Elmer Earl and Helen (Gocke) Reed. She married Richard W. Hanes in Fort Wayne on Oct. 15, 1949. He preceded her…