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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1981
Page
10
Multiple death notices and funeral details for area residents including Anna Carrick, Rev Lorenzo Walker, Anna Swartz, Althea Fischer, Deborah Coats, Demetrio Aguayo, Lorraine Bohr, Cecelia Griesmer, Rocky Luzada, Herbert Howard, Antonia Salaz, Robert Clifford, Johnnie Gibson and others. Details cover birthplaces, survivors, service times, funeral homes, and burial sites in Elyria Lorain Vermilion and Lorain areas.
Richard N Spademan 53 of Avon Lake survived by wife Mary parents Mr and Mrs Charles Spademan two sons Richard W Robert A and Ronald D one sister and one brother friends may call today 2 4 and 7 9 pm at Burmeister Avon Lake Funeral Home services Monday 16 am at Holy Spirit Catholic Church burial Calvary Cemetery Lorain prayer service today 3 pm at funeral home memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society
Rev Lorenzo Walker Sr 75 of 350 Naples Drive Elyria survived by one daughter Mrs Nellie Caver and two sons John J and Robert L. calling hours today 2 4 and 7 9 at Caver Funeral Home Elyria services Monday 2 pm burial Westwood Cemetery Oberlin. Melvin Bechemer 68 of Grafton survived by wife Catherine one son Melvin J one sister and one brother calling hours today 3 5 and 7 9 at Blackburn Fulton Funeral Home Grafton services Monday at Immaculate Conception Church 10 am burial St Mary Cemetery.
About 100 people gathered at Oberlin College for an anti draft and registration rally in Wilder Hall. Organizers Oberlin Against the Draft said the event aimed to warn against registration and potential future drafts as speeches criticized the system and policies.
Five injured steelworkers released from St. Joseph Hospital after a gas leak at the Lorain Cuyahoga Works. One man Elmer Bail remains in a coma in critical condition. The mishap also killed seven others at the plant as investigators probe a bleeder valve failure releasing carbon monoxide.
Former Lorain County Sheriff deputy Lemmie Davis, 30, released on 15500 cash bond after arrest on a secret indictment for kidnapping gross sexual imposition endangering children and dereliction of duty. He faces arraignment at 9 a.m. Tuesday in common pleas court with attorney Gerald Smith. Davis was fired November 25 from the department.
Events include Izaak Walton League turkey shoot and a high school Christmas concert. A Florida gang member accused of strangling Christine Gerhart is extradited to Lorain County. Open house at Lorain Community Hospital marks dedication of a new emergency care center. Numerous local meetings follow, plus three suspended jail sentences and probations for Edwards, Mollohan, and Theiss.
Clerks note shoppers seek bargains as Christmas nears while frugal patience rises. Store managers say discounts draw crowds, but late buyers face slim pickings and higher frustration from missing desired items. Clerks express mixed feelings but mostly enjoy the busy season and social contact.
Food rationing in Britain continued beyond World War II and did not end until 1954, the policy remaining in place for years after the war.
The text notes stripping wax from furniture using olive oil and turpentine water and mentions Joseph Hansom patented the Hansom cab in 1834.
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