Newspapers of early January often brought recaps of the previous year's events.
The following deaths were gleaned from a recap of 1943 published in the Muncie (Indiana) Evening Press, 1 January 1944.
Original list was chronological. Displayed here alphabetically for quicker reference.
| LAST | FIRST | MONTH | DAY | YEAR | CAUSE |
|---|
| Ash | Wilbert | 5 | 25 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Ball | Frank C | 3 | 19 | 1943 | |
| Beard | Lee O | 9 | | 1943 | |
| Belt | Hobert | 5 | 1 | 1943 | vehicle accident |
| Bohlinger | Robert | 5 | 17 | 1943 | suicide |
| Booker | Veneree | 11 | 30 | 1943 | burned |
| Boyd | Lulu May | 10 | 29 | 1943 | train |
| Brady | Charles | 10 | 2 | 1943 | suicide |
| Broadwater | Mark | 3 | 17 | 1943 | |
| Buck | Earl Thurman | 3 | 22 | 1943 | accident |
| Butterfield | Elmer J | 1 | 2 | 1943 | |
| Calark | Roy L | 3 | 21 | 1943 | vehicle accident |
| Caldwell | Naomi | 1 | | 1943 | burns |
| Cavanaugh | David | 12 | 13 | 1943 | fire |
| Cecil | Katherine F | 9 | | 1943 | |
| Corluss | David | 12 | 16 | 1943 | car accident |
| DeHority | William H | 9 | 20 | 1943 | |
| Dishner | Paul | 9 | 6 | 1943 | gunshot |
| Dyke | George W | 6 | 13 | 1943 | in Florida |
| Eubank | William | 1 | 31 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Fields | Mary Ann Neal | 1 | 14 | 1943 | burns |
| Fleming | Lowell "Bud" | 8 | 18 | 1943 | accident |
| Fowler | Benjamin | 3 | 10 | 1943 | |
| Frank | Ralph | 6 | 7 | 1943 | possible suicide |
| Gibson | John Will | 2 | 24 | 1943 | |
| Gilinsky | Casper | 2 | 15 | 1943 | |
| Gottlob | Anna | 2 | 18 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Greene | Kenneth Herbert | 6 | 20 | 1943 | drowned |
| Greene | Phillip Arthur | 6 | 20 | 1943 | drowned |
| Gregory | Typherd | 10 | 12 | 1943 | |
| Hagerty | Guy I (Maj) | 3 | 6 | 1943 | |
| Hankinson | Ellsworth (Pvt) | 12 | 25 | 1943 | asphyxiation |
| Hill | Frank E (Dr) | 7 | 15 | 1943 | |
| Holliday | Laura Josephine | 2 | 6 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Holman | Harry | 3 | 15 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Hooker | Jimmy | 1 | 16 | 1943 | burns |
| Hutzel | Max H | 2 | 10 | 1943 | |
| Jackson | Emma | 8 | 22 | 1943 | |
| Johnson | Clara | 4 | 13 | 1943 | burned |
| Kaiser | Fred C | 9 | 12 | 1943 | |
| Lancaster | George | 8 | 9 | 1943 | killed by train car |
| LeMay | Lola | 10 | | 1943 | gas |
| LeMay | Marion | 10 | | 1943 | gas |
| Lutz | James R | 1 | 23 | 1943 | hit by car |
| McCormick | A G | 10 | | 1943 | |
| McCormick | Ora N | 1 | | 1943 | |
| McKnight | Mary Ann Neal | 10 | 11 | 1943 | car train crash |
| Morris | Clifford D | 7 | 5 | 1943 | drowned |
| Nicodemus | Paul | 6 | 30 | 1943 | electrocuted |
| Oeschle | Betty | 3 | 20 | 1943 | suffocation |
| Oland | Robert E | 10 | 23 | 1943 | |
| Puckett | Fred | 7 | 8 | 1943 | |
| Rench | Samuel Anderson | 12 | 8 | 1943 | hit by car |
| Robenzine | Ross | 7 | 17 | 1943 | struck with axe |
| Shinn | Lois | 10 | | 1943 | |
| Staggs | 3 Children | 10 | 14 | 1943 | fire |
| Staggs | Alonzo | 10 | 15 | 1943 | fire |
| Thompson | Isaac M | 9 | | 1943 | train |
| Turpin | Lacy T | 2 | | 1943 | |
| West | Dent O | 12 | 1 | 1943 | car accident |
| White | Maxine | 12 | 25 | 1943 | asphyxiation |
| Wilson | Ira | 10 | 16 | 1943 | car accident |
| Wysor | Jennie Kemper | 10 | 25 | 1943 | |
| Zimmerman | H J | 3 | 14 | 1943 | |