Elyria Area Obituaries Highlight Local Losses
A batch of obituaries from Elyria area notes deaths of W Elwin Thompson 67 of Detroit Michigan born Conneaut longtime Elyria resident retired Hydromatic employee. Also listed are Benjamin A Matuszak 73 Lorain native Polish clubs member and former Roehring shipyard worker, Mrs Stella Pollock 84 Lorain church member, Henry Keim Avon Lake resident, Paul A Thomas 67 New London, Walter J Kiehm 58 New Orleans native long Elyria resident, Jack Jurczynski 50 Lorain carpenter WWII veteran, Matthew Vinsky 77 Lorain Yugoslavia born, John A Keller 57 Lorain U S Steel dies in industrial accident with funeral plans.
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W._ Elwin Thompson
West
Chicago Blvd
Detroit
Mich
Conneaut
Thompson
Elyria
Elyria High School
Livonia
Genevieve (Nee Smith
I.D
Isabell) Faxon
Fort Lauderdale
In Memoriam for Rodney N Wuods and William H Cox
In Memoriam notices mourn Rodney N Wuods who died December 2 1968 and William H Cox who died December 24 195. Read by family including Mrs Anna Brown Debra Brown and others. The notices express ongoing remembrance and grief with affectionate memories of their gentle faces and vacant places.
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Rodney N Wuods
Anna Brown
Debra Brown
William H. Cox
Card of Thanks for Florence Wonder and Barbara Endraw loss
Family expresses gratitude to friends relatives and neighbors for kindness support and prayers after the deaths of Florence Wonder and Barbara Endraw. Special thanks to Rev Edward Griffith Larry of Welling Methodist Church the funeral home emergency responders and Mons Stanislaus for consoling prayers and donations from Nativity Holy Name parish and donors.
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Isk
Florence Wonder
Edward Griffith
Area Births Elyria Memorial Update
A son was born to Mr and Mrs Ray Frifl at Elyria Memorial on Tuesday. The couple resides at 8956 Murray Ridge Road.
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Elyria
Ray Frifl
Murray Ridge Rd
Birth Announcements from Lorain Area Families
A daughter to Mr. and Mrs Noah Meade 1121 Fourth Avenue Lorain. A son to Mr. and Mrs Joseph Baughman 225 California Avenue Lorain. Awinta Joseph Palagyt 777 Stark Street Sheffield Lake. Walter Duncan 3060 Denver Avenue.
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Noah Meade
Joseph Baughman
California
Aca
Awinta
Joseph Palagyt
Stark St
Sheffield Lake
Walter Duncan
Denver Ave
Vandals Strike Roosevelt School in Monday Night Incident
Elyria police report vandals entered Roosevelt School at 121 West River Street and emptied four large fire extinguishers and a small extinguisher on floors and walls. Custodian Arnold Jordan found a beverage machine pried open and desks drawers opened around 7:30 am, with several empty bottles found in rooms.
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Roosevelt School
West River St
Elyria
Arnold Jordan
Avon names Green finance director in oath ceremony
Ronald Green, longtime officer at Central Security National Bank of Lorain County Avon Lake branch, will become Avon finance director at a Monday swearing in after the council meeting. He replaces temp appointee Allen Kaiser and will join new law director John Mackim and city engineer Alex Kanareff. Raymond Price remains service director. Mayor Mitock’s oath will be administered by Joseph Mitock with Hubbard chosen as council president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AVON
Central Security National Bank of
Lorain County
Nicholas T. Mitock
Ronald Green
Duff
Avon Lake
John Mackim
Jenson, Mackim and Nagy
Walker Rd
Mitock
Joseph Mitock
Donald Hubbard
Hubbard
Murray Ridge man held on 4 charges
Lorain County deputies arrested Ivan H. Rhodes after a domestic dispute on Murray Ridge Road. Rhodes, 39, was treated for a scalp cut at Elyria Memorial Hospital and charged with intoxication disorderly conduct assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest following an incident at 8986 South Murray Ridge Road.
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Elyria Township
Lorain County
Rhodes
Four injured in wrong way crash near Monroeville
State patrol reports a two car crash on Rt 20 just east of Monroeville sent four hospitalized. James Gobel 56 of New London cited for DUI after his eastbound car traveled on the wrong westbound lanes and collided head on with Richard Good public records show Helen Gobel also treated.
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Monroeville
New London
James Gobel
North Main St
Gobel
Norwalk Fisher- Titus Hospital
Helen Gobel
Norwalk Hospital
Norwalk
Rt. 20
Toledo
Nativity Set Offered by Non-Profit on Middle Avenue
Nativity set photographed by John Kenney is sold by the non profit Search at 606 Middle Ave. It reproduces a sculpture by Trina Paulus, a former Cleveland artist now teaching tapestry weaving in Israel with the Grail Movement. Figures come in white or terra cotta. the largest stands about 8 inches tall.
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John Kenney
Middle Ave
Trina Paulus
Cleveland
Israel
Salvation Army Leader Welcomes Christmas Birth
Capt. Joseph DeMichaels of the local Salvation Army announces a Christmas birth. His wife gave birth to their third child Monday evening. Both mother and son are reported healthy as the head of the unit extends Christmas wishes.
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Salvation Army
Joseph DeMichaels
Amherst Man Charged With DUI And Gambling Device Possession
Amherst resident Clarence Jolley, 45, was arrested by Elyria Police on a driving while intoxicated charge after officers observed his vehicle weave at West Avenue and Second Street. In his pocket police found 24 pool tickets for football and basketball games, some tucked in a ten dollar bill.
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Amherst
Elyria
Clarence Jolley
Charles St
West Avenue
Second Street
Fires burn fewer acres in 1968 than 1967 in U.S. and Portland
A report shows 1968 wildfire acreage declined by about ten percent from 1967, yet total burned area remained substantial at four percent of a million acres. The brief notes the national trend with emphasis on the Portland region and overall fire losses.
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Portland
Ore
U.S
Fenton Named Assistant Administrator at Elyria Methodist Home
Albert J. Fenton of Findlay is named assistant administrator at the Elyria United Methodist Home succeeding Jack L. Taylor. Fenton will start Jan 1 after a career in accounting and sales with Ohio Rubber Co. He and his wife will move to Elyria. they have five children and ten grandchildren. The home serves 293 residents and 126 nursing patients across five halls.
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Tod Ur
Thal
Methodist Home
Elyria United Methodist Home
Albert J. Fenton
Findlay
Jack L. Taylor
Taylor
Fenton
Ohio Rubber Co
Willoughby
Corinth
N.Y
New York University
New York City
Elyria
United Methodist Home
North East Ohio
Post Office to be closed on Friday
The Elyria Post Office will close Friday along with all federal offices due to a Nixon executive order. Mail deliveries will halt until Saturday, with holiday lock box service tomorrow and Friday and windows closed. Normal delivery resumes with possible Saturday mail backlog.
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Elyria
America
Richard M. Nixon
Michael J. Lotko
Lotko
Social Security
Internal Revenue and
Selective Service
Elyria Woman Reports Burglary of Clothes Goods
Luella Jones of 126 Huron St. found her home unsecured and several items missing including clothes six nurse uniforms jewelry a wedding ring a portable TV and a friend’s 20 gauge shotgun Police noted no forced entry and the loss was detected at 2 15 a m after she left seven hours earlier.
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Elyria
Luella Jones
Huron St
Mrs. Goldeen Dickerson 67 dies in Elyria
Mrs Goldeen Dickerson 67 of 5 Shear St Elyria died after a long illness at Avon Oaks Nursing Home She was born in Panola County Mississippi and had lived in Elyria 44 years She was a Fairfield Baptist Church member president of the Missionary Society charter member of Sidonia Chapter 69 Order of Eastern Star and served on the minister's wives board Survivors include her husband the Rev William Dickerson five sons a daughter and three brothers Funeral services will be Saturday at 1 pm at Bethany Baptist Church with Eastern Star rites and burial in Brookdale Cemetery funeral arrangements by Brown Funeral Home Lorain
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B.A. Matuszak
Benjamin A. Matuszak
Washington Ave
Shields
U.S. Army
Berea
Matuszak
Lorain
Roehring Co
American Ship Building Co
Nativity Church
Janislaus J. Ciolek
Calvary Cemetery
Henry Keim
South Point Dr
Avon Lake
St. Joseph Hospital
Mildred
Donald
William
Cleveland
Burmeister Funeral Home
Stella Pollock
Kennedy Plaza
Broadway
Edwin
Forest of Columbus
Ralph
Galion
Lowell
Marion
Earl
Summerville
D.C
Clara Kurtz
Bloomington
Reichlin-Cooley
William Bullock
Elmwood Cemetery
Paul A. Thomas
South Main St
New London
Thomas
Clarksfield
Sheree
Don
Neil
Cecil
St. Petersburg
Fla
Conrad Lucas
Lee Moor
Mopadore
Walter J. Kiehm
Louis XIV St
New Orleans
Mr. Kiehm
Mentor
Elyria
Magdalyn
Michael
Albert
Delores) Smith
Edward
Mary) Noonan
John
Helen) Walton
Grafton
Norman
Meridian
St. Dominic Church
Jack Jurczynski
Foster Park Rd
Highland View Hospital
Warrensville Heights
Cleveland Electric Iluminating Co
Jurczynski
Lorain High School
Geraldine
Frank Joseph Jurczynski
Kenneth Mary
Joseph
Cincinnati
Dambrowski
Funeral
Stanislaus Ciolek
Matthew Vinsky
29Th St
Lorain Community Hospital
Mr. Vinsky
Yugoslavia
Lorain Works
United States Steel Corp
James M. Bodzash
John A. Keller
21St St
U.S. Steel Corp
Dombrowski
Gerald J. Keller
Stanislaus J. Ciolek
Theodore Marszel
Keller
Holy Name Society
United Polish Clubs
Josephine
St. Matthew Church
Akron
Judy
Mary Norrish
Lakewood
Helen) Clements
Tifton
Zigmont
Goldeen Dickerson
Shear St
Avon Oaks
Dickerson
Panola County
Miss
Fairfield Baptist Church
The
Missionary Society
Sidonia Chapter No. 69
Order of Eastern Star
Union Missionary Baptist District Association
Minister's Wives Board
William Dickerson
Burrell Cleveland
Booker
William Croff
Oberlin
Robert Croff
St. Louis
Sebon Croft
Sledge
Bethany Baptist Church
James Stillworth
Edward Small
Union Missionary Baptist
Eastern Star
Brookdale Cemetery
Brown Funeral Home
Also Mentioned on This Page
W.E. Thompson
H. C. Pollock
Stanley Ozminski
Vernon
Marabelle) Reynolds
Richard Atherton
Houston
Tex
Henry Adelial Wisnewski
Helen Ruck
Ozminski
Filyria
Memoriam
Lear
Carra Lear
Marry
Lois) Hebebrand
Barbara
Frank Endria
Richard
Sudro-Curtis
Hatevy C. Corti
Ernest ©. Scheuffler
Lorain St. Joseph
Honor Farm
Green Acres
Green
Lorain Bank
Allen Kaiser
Louis R. Walker
Alex Kanareff
North Ridgeville
Kanareff
Ing
Kanareff and Associates
North Olmsted
Raymond Price
Murray Ridge
Glenn Nida
Kenneth Mitchell
Thomas Hallaver
Hallaver
Time
Nida
Louis Jordan
Hallauer
Toledo Parkview Hospital
Richard Good
North Canton
Fisher-Titus
Toledo Hospital
Middle Avenue
Salvation Army Head
Amherst Man
Munich
West Germany
Fulton
Mrs. Dickerson
Rev
D'Amato
Church OF the Open Door
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