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Bertha Arno Buchs

Bertha Arno Buchs

Dec 14, 2004

Bertha Arno Buchs, age 91, a lifelong resident of Edgerton, Ohio, died Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at Parkview Nursing Center, Edgerton, Ohio, where she had been a resident the past three years. Mrs. Buchs worked at several area factories and the former Perry's Restaurant. She was also a homemaker and a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Edgerton, Ohio....

Alvin J. Zielke

Alvin J. Zielke

Dec 11, 2004

Alvin J. Zielke, age 83, of Edon, Ohio, died Saturday, December 11, 2004, in his home. Mr. Zielke was a purchasing agent for The Aro Corporation, retiring in 1983. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and served in both World War II and Korea. He was a member of the Bryan First Church of Christ and...

Walter D. Bennett

Walter D. Bennett

Dec 8, 2004

Walter D. Bennett, age 71, of rural Montpelier, Ohio, died at 8:41 a.m. on Wednesday, December 8, 2004, shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Montpelier, Ohio. Mr. Bennett was a lifelong farmer and was also employed by Simpson Industries in Edon for thirty-eight years, where he was the union shop steward for many years. He was...

Betty J. Armitage

Betty J. Armitage

Dec 6, 2004

Betty J. Armitage, age 77, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 2:15 p.m., Monday, December 6, 2004 in the home of her son in Hicksville, Ohio after a brief illness. Mrs. Armitage was employed as an assembler at Edgerton Metal Products and also had worked at Fleetwood Industries and Air-Way Manufacturing in Edgerton prior to her retirement. Betty J. Armitage was...

Donald E. Miller

Donald E. Miller

Dec 6, 2004

Donald E. Miller, age 63, of Montpelier, Ohio, and a former lifelong resident of Defiance, Ohio, died on Monday, December 6, 2004, at Medical College of Ohio Hospital, Toledo, Ohio, after suffering a stroke on Thanksgiving Day. Mr. Miller was a laborer for Johns Manville in Defiance for forty-four years, retiring in January 2004. He was a member of the...

Freeda A. Russell

Freeda A. Russell

Dec 2, 2004

Freeda A. Russell, 62 years, of Bryan, Ohio, and a former lifelong resident of Ney, Ohio, died at 8:20 a.m. Thursday, December 2, 2004 at Community Health and Wellness Centers-Bryan, Ohio after a brief battle with cancer. Mrs. Russell was a lifelong homemaker. She was a member of the True Word Tabernacle in Bluffton, Ohio. Freeda A. Russell was born...

Edward W. Bigger

Edward W. Bigger

Nov 26, 2004

Edward W. Bigger, age 80, of Edgerton, Ohio, died Friday, November 26, 2004, at Parkview Nursing Center, Edgerton, Ohio, where he was a resident for the past week. Mr. Bigger was a WW II Army Veteran. He was a crane operator for the former New York Central Railroad and also for several salvage yards in the area, retiring in 1986....

Donald J. Tumilty

Donald J. Tumilty

Nov 24, 2004

Donald J. Tumilty, age 75, of Bryan, Ohio, and originally from Lincoln, Illinois, died at 7:50 p.m. on Wednesday, November 24, 2004, at Community Health and Wellness Centers, Montpelier, Ohio. A graduate of Lincoln, Illinois High School, Donald was an Air Force Veteran of the Korean War, attaining the rank of Staff Sargent. Mr. Tumilty was an Operations Manager for...

Larry U. Devers

Larry U. Devers

Nov 22, 2004

Larry U. Devers, 64 years, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 7:09 a.m. Monday, November 22, 2004 at the Dilworth Center of Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Montpelier, Ohio. An Air Force Veteran, Mr. Devers was a tool and die maker for the former Aro Corporation for over 28 years, retiring in 1989. Mr. Devers memberships include the Bryan Eagles Aerie...

Vidal R. Rivera

Vidal R. Rivera

Nov 21, 2004

DATELINE: BRYAN, OHIO VIDAL R. RIVERA Vidal R. Rivera, age 76, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:40 a.m. on Sunday, November 21, 2004, at his residence after a brief illness. Mr. Rivera was a lifelong resident of the Bryan area. He attended the Melbern United Methodist Church. Vidal was a machinist for the General Motors Foundry in Defiance, Ohio, for...

William H. Taylor

William H. Taylor

Nov 18, 2004

William H. Taylor, Jr., age 70, of rural Montpelier, Ohio, died at 4:16 a.m., Thursday, November 18, 2004, in his home. Mr. Taylor was a machinst and had been employed by Challenge-Cook, The Aro Corporation, JBM Tool & Die and ITT in Archbold during his working career. He was also a 1952 graduate of Edon High School and was a...

Tony Vitek

Tony Vitek

Nov 17, 2004

Tony Vitek, 78 years, of Montpelier, Ohio, and formerly of Bryan, Ohio, died Wednesday, November 17, 2004, in his residence. An Army veteran of WWII, Tony was employed by Central Transport as Terminal Manager and Dispatcher for over 30 years, retiring in 1985. Tony was also an auctioneer for the Carlin Company, retiring in 2002. He was a member of...

Edward "Bud" L. Mansfield

Edward "Bud" L. Mansfield

Nov 16, 2004

Edward L. “Bud” Mansfield, age 80, of Bryan, Ohio and formerly of Morenci, Michigan, died at 2:23 p.m. Tuesday, November 16, 2004 at Harborside Healthcare of Northwest Ohio in Bryan after and extended illness. Mr. Mansfield was a mechanic with Tedrow Wrecking and Salvage for twenty-six years prior to his retirement in 1982. Edward L. Mansfield was born June 3,...

Cletus C. "Hinie" Cape

Cletus C. "Hinie" Cape

Nov 16, 2004

The angels came down and took Edgerton Bulldog fan Cletus C. "Hinie" Cape, age 89, to heaven to be with his loving wife, Virginia, on Tuesday, November 16, 2004, at 8:50 a.m. at Parkview Nursing Center in Edgerton, where he was a resident. Mr. Cape was a farmer and also was employed by Edgerton Manufacturing for twelve years prior to...

Eunice I. Reasor

Eunice I. Reasor

Nov 5, 2004

Eunice I. Reasor, age 62, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 11:35 a.m., Friday, November 5, 2004 in her residence after a brief illness. Mrs. Reasor was a graduate of Edon High School. She began her working career as an assembler for the former Beam - Stream Company in Montpelier, Ohio. She had also worked at Hillside Country Manor and most...

Ruth Doris Bostater

Ruth Doris Bostater

Oct 26, 2004

Ruth D. Bostater, age 73, of rural Bryan, died Tuesday, October 26, 2004, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana, while undergoing surgery. She was a telephone operator for the former General Telephone Company for over 30 years, retiring in 1986. She was a member of the Farmer United Methodist Church and the Farmer American Legion Ladies Auxiliary. Ruth D. Bostater...

LaVerna M. Watson

LaVerna M. Watson

Oct 23, 2004

LaVerna M. Watson, age 91, of Fishers, Indiana, and formerly of Defiance, Ohio, died Saturday, October 23, 2004, at Riverwalk Village in Noblesville, Indiana, where she was a resident, after an extended illness. Mrs. Watson was a homemaker and was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Defiance, Ohio. LaVerna M. Watson was born January 21, 1913, in Blakeslee,...

Gerald L. Mock

Gerald L. Mock

Oct 23, 2004

Gerald L. Mock, age 65, of Montpelier, Ohio, died Saturday, October 23, 2004, at Lutheran Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana, after a sudden illness. Mr. Mock was employed by Bard Manufacturing in Bryan, Ohio, for over 30 years, retiring in 2001. Mr. Mock served our country in the United States Army from 1958 to 1960. Gerald L. Mock was born on...

Mary E. Snyder

Mary E. Snyder

Oct 21, 2004

Mary E. Snyder, age 75, of rural Edon, Ohio and a former lifelong Bryan, Ohio resident, died at 1:15 a.m. Thursday, October 21, 2004 in the residence of her son, near Edon. Mrs. Snyder was a receiving clerk at the former Carroll-Ames Hardware Store for 23 years, retiring in 1996. She was a member of the Edon United Methodist Church,...

Harold E. Freed

Harold E. Freed

Oct 5, 2004

Harold E. Freed, age 81, of rural Montpelier, Ohio, died at 3:29 p.m., on Tuesday, October 5, 2004, at the Dilworth Center of Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers of Williams County in Montpelier after an extended illness. Mr. Freed was a truck driver for Kuehman Foods for twenty-seven years, beginning in 1941 until the company closed. He was a warehouse...

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