Burglars Loot VFW Hall and Local Crimes Report
Burglars broke into the VFW Hall at 140 Milan Ave stealing two Amico radios and cigarettes while leaving via a bathroom window. Separately, Bill Jones of 136 Whittlesey Ave faced intoxication charges and threats with a knife toward a woman’s children. The Norwalk Mayor's Court listed several fines and bond forfeitures for local offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Milan Ave
Amico
Bill Jones
Whittlesey Ave
Ruth A. Beaven
Jones
Wakeman Library Trustees Announce New Board Members
The Friends of Wakeman Community Library name four new board appointments Historian Mrs Don Watson Ways and Means Mrs Patrick Schmidt Professional advisor Mrs Blaine Hurst and interior supervisor Mrs Cal Canfield. Also named are President Mrs William Stoll Secretary Mrs Edward Buck and Treasurer Mrs Louis Kovacs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakeman
Friends of the Wakeman Community Library
Don Watson
Ways and Means
Patrick Schmidt
Blaine Hurst
Cal Canfield
William Stoll
Edward Buck
Louis Kovacs
Friends of the Library
Florence Nestor
Wakeman Webelos
Nestor
Service News: Barnett Arrives in Vietnam and Sell to Ohio Base
Spec 4 Richard Barnett, son of Carl Barnett of Norwalk, deployed to Cam Ranh Bay Vietnam with the 606th Ordnance Co as crane operator. He previously served in Germany where his wife Carol Chaffee and daughter Heather joined him. Sergeant John J. Sell arrives at Lockbourne AFB Ohio as aircraft mechanic in Tactical Air Command. Police report: Mary Ann Reichert’s car window crank damaged on Christie Ave. Western Reserve booster drive sets record membership. Gary Pigman reports two stolen tow chains valued at 50 dollars from his garage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Barnett
Carl Barnett
Corwin St
Norwalk
United States Army
Cam Rhon Bay
Vietnam
606Th Ordnance Co
Barnett
Germany
Carol Chaffee
Heather
Arthur Chaffee
Columbus
Uss
Air Force
John J. Sell
Robert L. Sell
Park Ave
Willard
Lockbourne Afb
Ohio
Sell
Tactical Air Command
Mary Ann Reichert
South Norwalk Road
Christie Ave
Gary T. Pigman
Fruen St
Pigman
Obscene Graffiti Reported at Parke Residence
Mrs. B. Harry Parke of 157 Woodlawn Ave. told police Saturday someone wrote obscenities on her garage Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. Harry Parke
Woodlawn Ave
Oberlin College to enroll 100 new students in February 1971
A 16-year-old Amherst youth injured Sunday riding a motorcycle at Laylin Road track. Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital treated James Burgess and released him. Mrs Effie Isele Clyde, former Norwalk resident, died at 88 in Clyde. funeral set for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. burial in Clyde McPherson Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New London
Penn Central Railroad
Russell Werle
Cleveland
Fisher- Titus Memorial Hospital
Werle
Amherst
Laylin Road
James Burgess
Oberlin
Oberlin College
Effie Isele Clyde
Norwalk
Effie Isele
Clyde
Mitchell Buxter
McPherson’s
Lewis
Obituaries for Ellen Wagner Loretta Dempsey and Lester Thudium
Obituaries note Ellen L. Wagner 72 of 32 Jefferson St died at Shady Lane Home after a year long illness. Surviving children include Robert and four daughters with 17 grandchildren. Burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Also listed is Loretta L. Dempsey 78 of 130 N Hester St who died at Hospital after five months illness. Survivors include son John and seven grandchildren. Funeral details given for Dempsey at St. Mary's Church. Lester E. Thudium 73 of rural New London died Sunday night at New London Hospital after brief illness. He leaves a son, two daughters, nine grandchildren, a twin sister, and a brother. Funeral at Eastman Funeral Home with burial in Grove Street Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen L. Wagner
Jefferson St
Huron County
Shady Lane
Norwalk
Wagner
William
VFW
Robert
Loretta L. Dempsey
N. Hester St
Sandusky Memorial Hospital
Dempsey
Forest City
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Altar and Rosary Society
Daughters of Isabella
Joseph Dempsey
John
Albuquerque
N.M
Florence Dempsey
Jean Dempsey
Ferris
Margaret) Johnson
Darrell
Joan) Baldwin
Heaston-Hile
Thomas E. Reynolds
St. Mary’s Cemetery
New London Hospital
Wood County
New London
First United Methodist Church
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Mayor’s Court
Louis W. Pepsold
Evanston
Ill
Arline W. Flew
Dennis McKain
Doris Burtscher
Milan
Helen L. Pool
Newton St
Richard K. Hilaman
William H. McConnell
N. Prospect
Richard R. Crow
Sherwin-Williams Co
Lake Erie Central
National Association of Accountants
McGarvey’s
Vermilion
Crow
Alphonse J. Baltes
Benedict Ave
Thomas V. Carleton
Baltes
Heidelberg College
Tiffin
Ken Corbus
Jack Gilligan
Harold Seeberger
Heidelberg
Gilligan
Seneca County
Seeberger
Agnes L. Rich
Avhorse
Gerald E. Runkle
Route 162
Harlan C. Huestis
Rome- Greenwich Road
London
Firelands
Ammo
Apo San Francisco
Collins
Western Reserve
King Jameson
Julie Fitzgerald
Monroeville
Arthur Davis
Berlin Heights
Robert Mason
Kenneth Clawson
Terry Groff
Greenwich
John Long
Gerald Huffman
Shereen Salmons
Richard Salmons
Dennis Cole
Russell Street
Baby
Thomas Peckham Jr
James Hartman
Ke Chie
Terry
RT. 250 North
Lester E. Thudium
the Pizza House
Uniroyal
Alexander Smith
USE Perfected
W. Main ST
Penferted
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