Mae Jordan Dies Teacher and Mother of Five
Mae Jordan 40 of Wilberforce formerly Middletown died at Middletown Hospital after seven weeks illness. She earned her education degree commuting between Middletown and Wilberforce and worked at Jefferson Elementary. Surviving husband Arthur and five children plus multiple relatives. Services Saturday at Sharonville Methodist Church with burial in West Chester Cemetery.
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Mae Jordan
Wilberforce
Middletown
Middletown Hospital
Central State
Jordan
Jefferson Elementary School
Dayton
Central State Alumni Association
Dayton Association of Classroom Teachers
Wilberforce Property Owners Association
Central State Professional Women’s Club
Walter Sorrell Sr. dies at 61 in Middletown
Walter Sorrell Sr. 61 of 807 Eaton Ave. died 11 10 p.m. yesterday at Middletown Hospital after a stay since March 16. He spent 33 years as a machinist at Manchester Machine Co. Survived by wife Mollie two daughters Betty Weiner and Janice Sorrell four sons Robert Walter Jr Virgil and Ross a sister ten brothers and 11 grandchildren. Services at 2 p.m. Saturday at McCoy Lefler Funeral Home with Rev. Edwin Bobbitt. burial in North Cemetery Monroe. Friends may call Friday 3–5 and 7–9 p.m. Memorials to Middletown Butler Unit of the American Cancer Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter
Red) Sorrell Sr
Eaton Ave
Middletown Hospital
Sorrell
Manchester Machine Co
Menifee County
Mollie
Betty Weiner
Sherman Park
Calif
Janice Sorrell
Middletown
Robert
el Paso
Tex
Walter Jr
Virgil
Ross
Leonard May
Lebanon
Edwin Bobbitt
North Cemetery
Monroe
Middletown Butler Unit
American Cancer Society
William F. Bishop 72 Dies in Ohio Area Services Set
William F. Bishop 72 of Main ville dies Tuesday at Bethesda Hospital Cincinnati. Services 2 p.m. tomorrow at Oswald Memorial Home. Burial Maineville Cemetery. Friends may call today 4 to 9 p.m. Survived by wife Lucille and brothers Charles and Hallie of Covington Ky.
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Lebanon
William F. Bishop
Maineville
Oswald
Bishop
Bethesda Hospital
Cincinnati
Lucille
Charles
Hallie
Covington
James Fair 72 Dies After Heart Attack in Ohio
James Robert Fair 72 of West Chester died on arrival at Mercy Hospital Hamilton after a heart attack. Survived by wife Elizabeth, eight daughters, four sons, and several relatives in Indiana West Chester Pleasant Plain Norwood Lucas Blue Ash Foster and other towns.
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James Fair
Lebanon
James Robert Fair
West Chester
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Elizabeth
Thomas
Indiana
Donald
Gerald
Robert
Margie Sibey
Fosters
Ann Bahr
Pleasant Plain
Eilene Upton
Norwood
Jean Lautenslager
Blue Ash
Janette Strassell
Lucas
Mary Adams
Barbara Bowen
Fire incidents and false alarms reported in Middletown
Fire department logs list multiple calls from yesterday and today in Middletown including fires at 2401 Christel Ave caused by nearby trash burning with $250 damage, medical renders for Sarah Harris 40, William Piersall Jr. 1, and Addie Pelfrey 51, plus several false alarms and a backfire at 912 Lincoln St involving Ulysses Hunter.
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N. Main St
Sarah Harris
Middletown Hospital
Tytus Avenue
Jackson Street
William Piersall Jr
Middletown Rt
Eighth Avenue
Main Street
Christel Ave
Thomas S. Lerch
Catalpa Drive
Addie Pelfrey
Clark Street
Columbia Avenue
Lincoln St
Ulysses Hunter
Loner Arrives After 27-Hour Atlantic Crossing
Peter Rose reached Yarmouth Nova Scotia after a 27 hour voyage from Swan Island Maine in his 23 foot sloop Odd Times the first leg of a 3500 mile Atlantic crossing.
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Yarmouth
N.S
Peter Rose
Swan Island
Maine
Mound Builder's Council to Organize 3rd District
The Mound Builder's Area Council Scouts meet at 7 30 tonight in the Gates Room of Franklin National Bank to form a third district covering Franklin Clearcreek Wayne and Massie Townships in Warren County. President Harry Holiday notes the district will expand membership and ease workload by adding a district executive as soon as possible with nominating chair Harry Bedford leading the slate.
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Mound Builder's Area Council
Boy Scouts of America
Gates
Franklin National Bank
Harry Holiday
Franklin
Clearcreek
Wayne
Massie
Warren County
Holiday
Fort Ancient
Pokey
Griffith
Harry Bedford
Bernard Baughn
E. H. Bindley
James Gross
Robert Zachman
Marvin Hollingshead
Police Briefs Highlight Local Thefts and Vandalism
DAVID SMALLWOOD, 23, of 27 Oxford State Road, arrested on four warrants for false pretenses after allegedly buying merchandise over 220 dollars on a suspended credit card at Klontz Service Station on S Main and Rt 73. A 10 year old boy was arrested for turning in a false fire alarm at S Main and Eighth Ave. LEON TAYLOR, 710 Tenth Ave., reports a sweeper valued at 50 dollars stolen from his car behind a S Main Street department store. Vandals threw rocks and broke a window in a door valued at 70 dollars at Hoover Ball on Atco Ave yesterday.
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David Smallwood
Oxford State Road
Klontz
S. Main Street
S. Main St
Eighth Avenue
Leon Taylor
Tenth Ave
Hoover Ball
Atco Avenue
Escapees Recaptured in Franklin County Jail Break
One of four men who escaped from the Franklin County Jail Tuesday night was captured Wednesday night at an East Side motel. Thomas D. Deal, 23, of Columbus, surrendered without a fight. Harry F. Winters, 51, of Cincinnati, remained at large early today.
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Columbus, Ohio
Franklin County
East Side
Thomas D. Deal
Columbus
Harry F. Winters
Cincinnati
Dayton Native Billy Strayhorn Dead at 51
William Thomas Strayhorn known as Billy or Swee Pea died Wednesday at the Hospital for Joint Diseases at age 51. The Dayton Ohio native helped compose and arrange many Duke Ellington works including Take the A Train Chelsea Bridge and Lus Life. He never married and is survived by two sisters Georgia Conaway and Lillian Denis and three brothers James John and Theodore Ellington who were planning to fly to New York to arrange funeral details.
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New York
William Thomas Strayhorn
Pittsburgh
Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
Ellington
Strayhorn
Billy
Swee’Pea
Lus Life
Chelsea Bridge
Lena Horne
Dayton
Ohio
Georgia Conaway
Lillian Denis
James
John
Theodore Ellington
Reno
Nev
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West Chester Cemetery
Butler County
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Oxford
Bethel Ame
Laura Urban
Bath
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Marshall- Smith
Alfred Munz
Lawn Ave
Klaus-Weigel
Louis Dabbelt
Heaton St
St. Stephen’s Church
Mae Jordan Goal
Walter Sorrell Sr
William Bishop
Dodds Monuments
Verity
14Th Ave
Woodside Cemetery
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Tussy
Mound Builder’s Council
Franklin Township
Cucistan Brown’s Carpet CO
Glenn Brown
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