Nancy Lavon Cripe, 71, of Bluffton, died Saturday morning, Sept. 9, 2023, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. Nancy was born in Columbia City on Aug. 3, 1952, to Forrest M. and Eleanor (Woolley) Barney. She married Daniel W. Cripe in Fort Wayne on July 19, 1980; he survives. In addition to her husband, Nancy…