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June 16, 2010

Andres, Carl J. ‘Jerry,' DDS, MSD

67; of Indianapolis

A funeral Mass for Carl J. “Jerry” Andres, DDS, MSD, 67, of Indianapolis, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, June 19, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 8310 St. John Road, Floyds Knobs. He died June 16, 2010.  

He was born Oct. 16, 1942, in Starlight, to Marcella and Carl Andres. He married Ida Kerstiens on Aug. 31, 1963. Jerry graduated from the Indiana School of Dentistry in 1966 and then signed up for a tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force. Carl served 20 years in the Air Force and retired as a Colonel. While in the Air Force, he completed his M.S.D. in Dentistry at Indiana University in Indianapolis and a Maxillofacial Prosthetics Fellowship at the MD Anderson Medical Center in Houston, Texas. He had a second 20-year career as a tenured professor in the Indiana University School of Dentistry, where he served as the Director of the Graduate Prosthodontics and Maxillofacial Prosthetics program. Jerry had a life of service to others. He completed six trips to perform dental services on Native American reservations and volunteered at the Gennesaret Free Dental Clinic. He served as a Cub Master, Scout Master, District Commissioner, and District Vice-Commissioner in the Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was actively involved with several professional organizations, including the American Board of Prosthodontics, American Dental Association, American Academy of Maxillofacial Prosthetics, American College of Prosthodontics, American Academy of Fixed Prosthodontics, Academy of Prosthodontics, Indianapolis District Dental Society and John F. Johnston Society. He served on the editorial review board for the International Journal of Prosthodontics, Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Journal of Dental Materials and Journal of Prosthodontics. Jerry had many hobbies. A farmer at heart, he loved gardening. He was an avid woodworker and applied his dental skills to wildlife carvings. He enjoyed fishing and boating.

Survivors include his wife, Ida; children, David Andres of Ft. Worth, Texas, Duane Andres and his wife, Kiran, of Schaumburg, Ill., Dawn Hostetler and her husband, Joe, of Brownsburg, and Daniel Andres and his wife, Melissa, of Carmel; 12 grandchildren; brothers, Joe and Marlin Andres and his wife, Vicki; and sisters, Janet Regan and her husband, Dan, Virginia Balmer, Joyce Young and her husband, John, Jackie Colin and her husband, Mike, Judy Sullivan, Gina Cox and her husband, Mike, Connie Missi and her husband, Tim, and Shelly Cox and her husband, Tim.  

He was preceded in death by his parents, his sister, Marcia Andres, and brother-in-law, Rick Sullivan.  

Visitation will be at Kraft Funeral Service, Spring Street Chapel, New Albany, from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday

In lieu of flowers, the family requests expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Carl and Ida Andres Scholarship Fund at the Indiana University School of Dentistry or a charity of the donor’s choice.  

Online condolences may be made at kraftfuneralservices.com. 

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