$712,050.50, NO SIGNATURE YET: PARTIES TENDER PARTIAL AGREED JUDGMENT IN ROSE CITY CIVIL SUIT

$712,050.50 is the number Joshua and Charity Silvers have agreed to owe Rose City Funerals LLC. The figure sits in a tendered partial agreed judgment filed with the Henry County clerk on September 28, 2026, at 4:11 p.m.; the docket shows September 29. The tendered copy is unsigned; the judge's approval line and date are blank. The Henry County Clerk's Office checked and told Obitley on October 2 that the judgment is still awaiting the judge's signature. Tendered means the parties filed the document with the clerk, where it sits until the judge signs. The case is Rose City Funerals LLC v. Joshua Silvers, Charity Silvers, Shyann Vermillion, and Lisa Black, No. 33C02-2411-CT-000061, in Henry Circuit Court 2, Indiana.

THE MATH

The components add up exactly. Principal is $195,528.93. The judgment lists $391,057.86 in treble damages, twice the actual loss, which brings the damages subtotal to three times the principal, $586,586.79. Interest accrued at 8% through March 15, 2026 adds $39,130.96. Attorney fees through January 31, 2026 add $86,332.75. The tender states the total as "$712,050.50, plus continuing 8% interest and continuing attorney fees." For comparison, the civil total is more than four times the $170,984.27 in criminal restitution ordered on September 17, 2026.

WHAT RESOLVES, WHAT SURVIVES

The tender resolves Counts I through X against Joshua and Charity Silvers, jointly and severally. Jointly and severally means both spouses owe the whole amount, and Rose City Funerals can collect all of it from either one. The document recites that Joshua engaged in, and Charity benefited from, acts constituting the pleaded offenses. It also recites that Charity engaged in fraudulent transfer of the inherited property with "actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud collection efforts."

Count XI, the fraudulent-transfer count, remains unresolved. It survives, along with both prejudgment attachments, against Joshua, Charity, Shyann Vermillion, and Lisa Black. A prejudgment attachment is a court order that locks up property before trial so it cannot be sold or given away. The docket shows one granted against the Silvers property on February 6, 2026 and another against the inherited property on February 27, 2026. A second amended complaint had added Count XI on December 22, 2025, naming all four defendants.

THE INHERITED ACRE

Exhibit 1 attaches the recorded instruments behind that count. Randy J. Koger died in 2023, leaving his two children, Shyann Vermillion and Charity Silvers, as the only heirs. No probate was opened. Under IC 29-1-7-15.1, title vested indefeasibly in the sisters as tenants in common, per a Title Passage Affidavit recorded as instrument 202505759. The same day, the sisters executed a quit claim deed, instrument 202505758, conveying the property for no consideration. Recipients were Shyann Vermillion and Lisa Black, Charity's mother, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship. Henry County's recorder stamped both instruments on September 26, 2025, at 1:14 p.m., ten months after the suit was filed on November 13, 2024. The roughly one-acre parcel sits at 3091 E. US Highway 36 in New Castle. In the judgment's characterization, Charity transferred her interest to her mother after being sued.

THE CRIMINAL CASE

Joshua Silvers, 46, pleaded guilty to felony theft on September 17, 2026 and was sentenced the same day to 2,190 days of home detention, with $170,984.27 in restitution payable over 54 months. Obitley reported the plea, and the preneed trust thefts behind it, on September 21.

WHAT COMES NEXT

The tender carries an Indiana Trial Rule 54(B) direction, a finding of no just reason for delay. Rule 54(B) lets a court make part of a case final and enforceable while the remaining count continues. If the court enters the judgment as tendered, the $712,050.50 becomes final and enforceable while Count XI proceeds against all four defendants. The case record lists Robert S. Daniels and Jacqueline N. Richard of DeFur Voran LLP for the plaintiff, and Christopher L. Isom of Brand & Morelock for Joshua and Charity Silvers. The record on file ends with the judge's approval line blank. The Henry County Clerk's Office checked and told Obitley on October 2 that the judgment is still awaiting the judge's signature.

*Sources: Tender of Partial Agreed Judgment Against Defendants and Exhibit 1, case No. 33C02-2411-CT-000061, Henry Circuit Court 2, filed September 28, 2026, received from the Henry County Clerk's Office on October 2, 2026; Henry County clerk correspondence, October 2, 2026 (judgment still awaiting the judge's signature); Obitley, "Six Years at Home, $170,984 to Repay: Rose City Part Owner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Preneed Trust Money," September 21, 2026.*