Death of Elyria Foundry molder Peter Gnizak at 79
Peter G Gnizak 79 of Elyria died Tuesday after gardening incident. Retired Elyria Foundry molder he worked 45 years retiring in 1976. Survived by wife Mary two children and several relatives. Visitation today 2 4 and 7 9 pm Dicken Funeral Home Elyria. Funeral Friday 11 am St John Lutheran Church Elyria. Burial Ridge Hill Memorial Park Lorain. Memorials to Murray Ridge or St John Lutheran.
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Peter G. Gnizak
Elyria
Vermilion
Lorain
Elyria Foundry
St. John Lutheran Church
Slovak Sokol of
American Association of Retired Persons
Joseph
Steve
Christina Kruppa
Mary Skrjnar
Dicken Funeral Home
Middle Ave
Ronald C. Welsh
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Murray Ridge Adult Center
Ganobsik
Julia Stolarik
Helen Butchko
John J. Gluvna
Broadway
St. Ann Lodge
Holy Trinity Altar and Rosary Society
Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Leonard Bacik
Calvary Cemetery
Johnson Moses V, Jr
Mamie Johnson
West
Ruby Johnson
Patricia Johnson
Sharon Johnson
Wilma Comer
Letha Williams
Mary Gay
Christopher
James
Moses T. JM
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Brookdale Cemetery
Amherst
Nada Rose Skinner
Martha Aurilla Lantz
Deborah Ella Jackson
Ela Lantz
Edward A
John Paul Jones
Washington, D.C
Mary Dalizel
Martha Marsh
Barbara Lyons
Marquette
Mich
Blake N
Blake Lantz
Park Lantz
Hempel Funeral Home
Cleveland Ave
Amherst Veterans Military Honor Guard
Jeffrey Smale
Victory Baptist Temple Church
Elmwood Cemetery
Lorain Community Hospital and Health Center
Brucker and Kishler Funeral Home
North 21St St
Newark
Hospice
Licking County
American Cancer Society
Arthur J. Kohler
Lakewood
Lakewood Hospital
Cleveland
Lorain County
West Side
Kohler
West End Laundry Company
Bendix-Westinghouse
Marie Reyes
Pamela Poole
Charlotte Kish
Francis
Lucille Kohler
Dorothy Fields
Helen
Michigan
Rita
Rena Lara
Miss
Gates
Jefferson Junior
Brown Fin-Tube
Mr. Johnson
Robert. Johnson
Grafton
Mary Hendrix
Viola Mans
Rosetta Bryant
Lansing
M.C. Johnson
Sylvester
Floyd
Elmo
Kent
Sam Tucker
Lyons
Moses Johnson Sr
Daisy Johnson
Josephine McDermott
St. John & West Shore Hospital
Lehigh
Iowa
McDermott
C. H. Merthe Company
Gold Star Mothers
Royal Neighbors
Joseph Callahan
St. Jude Catholic Church
Amherst veteran Clyde Lantz dies after long illness
Clyde R. Lantz 65 of Amherst a Navy veteran and former Ohio Truck Plant supervisor died at home after a 10 month illness. He served on USS Pompon and USS Peto earning Asiatic Pacific and Submarine Combat medals. Survived by wife Phylis and children, services set in Lorain and Amherst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clyde “Bucko
Richard Lantz
Amherst
LaGrange
North Ridgeville
Ohio Truck
Avon Lake
Navy
Pompon
Peto
Japan
Mr. Lantz
Phylis Lavon
Oberla
Clyde Richard Jr
Frank William
Pamela Fay Glavana
Alvina Ray Goldsmith
Birth Announcements from St John and West Shore
Birth notices list a series of newborns by family and location from July 11 to July 22. Families include Arendash Sheffield Village LeBlanc North Ridgeville Cotton Elyria Horvath Avon Esposito North Ridgeville Perhacs Rocky River Draudt Cleveland Mathews SULY Fordyce Whaley Cleveland Boyce Sheffield Lake Weishner Sheffield Lake Palmer North Olmsted Hanna Lakewood Janicek Avon Lake Loy West Par sons Elyria War Elyria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron
Sherri Arendash
Sheffield Village
Jay
Lisa LeBlanc
North Ridgeville
Tyler
Laura Cotton
Elyria
Sam
Kathy Hanna
Lakewood
Tony
Pam Janicek
Avon Lake
Terry
Pam Loy
Westlake
Ridgeville man guilty of attempted murder
A Lorain County jury found 29 year old David P. Pasters of Maddock Road North Ridgeville guilty of attempted murder for the June 1989 shooting attempt on his ex-wife’s boyfriend in Elyria. He was also found guilty of having a gun while committing a crime and faces sentencing. The jury acquitted him on two counts of felonious assault.
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Elyria
North Ridgeville
David P. Pasters
Maddock Rd
Lorain County
Pasters
Second Street
First National Bank
Suit seeks 5 million in Rt. 58 crash case against Welkers
Lorain County judge allows three civil suits arising from a September 1988 crash that killed three Ohio Wesleyan University students to specify a 5 million judgment. Defendants include Sheri Welker and her father Stanley Welker. Welker pleaded guilty to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and vehicular homicide and was released after serving eight months of a 15 year sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Lorain County
Ohio Wesleyan University
Lorain County Common Pleas Court
Sheri Welker
South Amherst
Stanley Welker
Welker
Kathleen Champney
Kosma J. Glavas
Estranged husband arrested after burglary at Elyria home
Police arrested 31 year old Bobby D Calloway after he reportedly broke into a Portia Court residence while a woman armed with a hammer barricaded herself in a bedroom. He faces aggravated burglary criminal trespassing and criminal damaging charges and awaits arraignment in Elyria Municipal Court. A Lorain two year old girl was hit by a car on 20th Street and treated for contusions after running into the street. driver Norman Fye 47 was involved.
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Elyria
Portia Court
Bobby D. Calloway
Elyria Municipal Court
Lorain
Kayla Scaff
Herbert Drive
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Health Center
Norman Fye
Washington Ave
20Th St
Avon Lake appoints Elek Postmaster in steady career rise
Avon Lake Elek, a 15 year postal service veteran born in Lorain, has been named Postmaster. He began as a Lorain distribution clerk in 1975 and later became manager of mailing requirements in 1987. He resides at 151 Brookvalley Dr with his wife Janet and two sons aged 14 and 18.
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Avon Lake
Elyria
Michael Elek
Elek
Lorain
Brookvalley Dr
Janet
Safeway Driving School faces car safety complaint
Former instructor Cathy Butcher alleges Safeway Driving School used cars with bad brakes and other problems. State Patrol investigation is ongoing and expected to wrap up soon. Operator Rick Keesee disputes claims, noting past brake adjustments and decades of safety focus.
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Elyria
Safeway
Cathy Butcher
State Highway Patrol
Forrest Freeman
Massillon
Rick Keesee
Butcher
Local service members report for duty and training
Navy Airman Recruit Matthias C. Keck and Air Force Sgt. Graig S. Jones report for duty at Norfolk Virginia and Onizuka California. Airman Jeffrey R. Herchler g raduates Chanute Illinois. Army National Guard 2nd Lt. Edward Ty completes armor officer basic at Fort Knox Kentucky. Cadet Shawn R. Hick finishes ROTC training at Vanderbert California. Several others graduate or complete courses at Lowry, Sheppard, Wright State, Vandenberg, and Fort Devens with assignments in Lorain Elyria Bay Village Vermilion Berea and West Germany.
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Navy
Matthias C. Keck
Charles Keck
Lakewood
Norfolk
B. Air Force
Graig S. Jones
Robert
Betty Jane Jonas
Lorain
Onizuka Air Force Base
Calif
Jones
Jeffrey R. Herchler
Roger Herchler
Vermilion
U.S. Air Force
Chanute Air Force Base
Ill
Kurt &. Webelhorst
Bail Webelhorst
North Ridgeville
Sheppart Air Force Base
Texas
Army National Guard
Edward
Ty, Sheldon
Nadene Sheldon
Sheffield Lake
U.S. Army Armor School
Fort Knox
Shawn R. Hick
E. Roger
Susan Hick
Bay Village
Vanderbert Air Force Base
Hick
University of Michigan
Samuel Aponte
Marco Aponte
Lowry Air Force Base
Colo
West
501St Transportation Company
West Germany
Marine Pvt
Daniel A. Leatherwood
Pearl Golobich
Marine Corps
Marine Lance
Daniel A. Breda
Ronald
Barbara Breda
Berea
Craig S. Markut
Marcella
Stephen Markut
Fort Devens
Mass
Cult killings tied to midwest gospel group near Cleveland
Five members were bound gagged and shot at Alice the Kirtland farm about 30 miles east of Cleveland and dumped in a common grave. The Averys from Madison Township were cult members but less devoted. Mrs Lundgren testified she learned of a planned sacrifice but did not participate. She claimed her husband often threatened her and carried a loaded gun.
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Kirtland Farm
Cleveland
Averys
Madison Township
Lundgren
West Virginia
Missouri
Deborah Olivarez
Correction: Caption misstated dog photo owner
A front page photo caption incorrectly named the driver as David Portman owner of Bevans Landscape Supplies on Leona Street. Portman says he owns Modern Look Landscaping, not Bevans, clarifying the mistaken attribution.
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David Portman
Bevans Landscape Supplies
Leona Street
Portman
Modern Look Landscaping
Bevans
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Mary
Nee Skienar
David
Nancy
Dren
George
Margaret Brence
Anna Rokovan
Vera Andrewski
Theresa Gadgosh
Richmond
Ind
Clyde R. Lantz
Lantz
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Eagles Club of
Lorain Speedway
Margaret Ganobsik
Nee Stolarik
Anchor Lodge
Slovakia
Kenneth
Loretta Sandrew
Ruth Griggs
Lorain Community Hospital
Curtis-Scheuffler Funeral Home
Second St
Fred Wachsman
Cincinnati
Rockwell International
Norwood Masonic Lodge
Dorothy
Nee Molesworth
Lori Mills
Canal Winchester
Patricia Barnett
Michelle
Columbus
Harry
Brinkman Dress Funeral Home
Detroit Ave
Riverside Cemetery
Johnson Services
Moses V. Johnson Jr
Donald Newson
Johnson
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Carter
W. Bridge St
Hixson, Tenn
Richard
Dundalk
Bauer- Laubenthal-Wainwright Funeral Home
Chestnut Ridge
St. John and West Shore
Suly
Frank
Bonnie Horvath
Avon
Peter
Beverly Esposito
Don
Karen Perhacs
Rocky River
Laura Draudt
John and
Dianne Mathews
David Fordyce
Christine Whaley
Augustine Boyce
Jeffrey
Kathleen Weishner
Laurie Palmer
North Olmsted
Margaret Parsons
Karen War
Ridgeville
Rt. 58
Joseph Turner
Broadway Ave
Hopkins
Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Linda Timmer
Alice
the Law Firm
Savoy & Bilancini
Terrence J. Kenneally
Savoy, Bilancini, Flanagan & Kenneally
Third Street
Ohio
Old
Detroit Road
Jerome
Savoy Darrel
Bilancini
Patrick Flanagan
Lorain Cleve
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