Longtime Elyria teacher Edward Witham dies after illness
Edward F. Witham 89 of North Ridgeville died Saturday after a three year illness. A Portsmouth NH native, he taught 39 years mainly at Jefferson Junior High in Elyria retiring 1969. He loved sailing and served in local power squadrons. He was survived by his wife and children. services and burial details followed in Valley City.
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Edward F. Witham
North Ridgeville
Portsmouth
N.H
Case Road
Portsmouth, N.H
Kent State University
Ohio State University
Witham
Jefferson Junior High School
Elyria
Russell J Fish longtime Chatham Grange founder dies
Russell J. Fish 79 of Chatham Ohio died Monday after a long illness. He was a founding member of Chatham Grange for 58 years and held leadership roles in Medina County and Ohio Grange. Survived by wife Margaret two sons five grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Visitation is Wednesday at Parker & Son Funeral Home with services Thursday conducted by Rev James Zimmerman. Burial in Chatham Cemetery. Memorials to Hospice of Medina County or Lodi Community Hospital.
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Russell J. Fish
Chatham
Ohio
Ohio Pythian Sisters
Medina
Columbia Station
Sunshine Biscuits
Grafton
Chatham Community Church
Chatham Grange
Medina County
Pomona Grange
Ohio Grange
Margaret
Roland
Glenn
Lodi
Kenneth
Columbia Township
Austin
LaGrange
Parker & Son Funeral Home
Medina St
James Zimmerman
Chatham Cemetery
Hospice
P.O. Box
Lodi Community Hospital
Elyria St
Obituary notices from Lorain area draw multiple families
Andres Hernandez Rojas 78 of Lorain died Monday after a short illness born in Utuado Puerto Rico moved to Lorain worked with the railroad Fruehaus Trailer Company and Ford Motor Co retired 1978 survived by wife Genseralda daughters Anita Jenni Edma Millie ten grandchildren nine great grandchildren five sisters and two brothers services arranged at Richard Reidy Funeral Home with mass at Sacred Heart Chapel burial at Calvary Cemetery others include Jean Pawlowski 78 of North Ridgeville died at St John West Shore Hospital born 1916 Cleveland lived in North Ridgeville 10 years member of St Peter Catholic Church Senior Citizens Kitchen Band survived by daughter Linda Slivka sons Anthony Gregory three grandchildren one great grandchild sister Louise Nerkowski brother Edward Plona arrangements pending Mildred Gilbert of Oberlin died Streetsboro long illness Cowling Funeral Home Oberlin to announce Pedro Cardona 96 of Lorain died Lorain Community Hospital after long illness arrangements to be announced by Richard J Reidy Funeral Home Lorain.
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Walter K. Farris
Valley City
Medina General Hospital
Medina
Barnum
W.va
Liverpool Fire Department
Farris
General Motors
Fisher Guide
Elyria
Ford Motor Co
Brook Park
United Church of Christ
Bettie
Betsy Angle
Craig
Simon
Westernport
Lottie Boyles
Bloomington
Dorothy Streets
Sara Johnston
Bauer Funeral Home
Columbia Rd
Center Rd
Robert G. Sherwood
Myrtle Hill Cemetery
United Church of Christ Memorial Fund
Florence C. Gerhart
Signal Mountain
Tenn
Lorain
Trinity Lutheran Church
First Evangelical Lutheran Church
Colorado Springs
Colo
Lisa Scrope
Erik
Manassas
Earl
Ft. Polk
Schwartz, Spence & Boyer
5Th St. Lorain
Ridge Hill Cemetery
Hospice of
Chattanooga
Hamm Rd
Leukemia Society of America
Perimeter Park Dr
Nashville
Marion Kaplansky
Lorain Area
San Francisco
Budapest
Hungary
Benjamin
Samuel
Bette
Nee Weis) Rosenfeld
Salem Cemetery
Joel Chazin
Agudath B'nai Israel Synagogue
Walter A. Frey
Erie Ave
Dean W. Tite
Wakeman
Huron
Mr. Tite
Harshaw Chemical Co
Robert
Wakeman Hardware
JoAnne Freeman
Wellington
Terri Martin
North Ridgeville
Rita Lockhart
Roseville
Calif
Butternutoe Cemetery
Eaton Township
Andres Hernandez Rojas
Emh Regional Medical Center
Utuado
Puerto Rico
Fruehaus Trailer Company
Rojas
Sacred Heart Chapel
Generalada
Anita Gerena
Jenni Sanchez
Torain
Edma Terry
Tennessee
Millie Cowley
North Olmsted
Alejandro
Inocencia Hernandez
Richard Reidy
Pearl Ave
Calvary Cemetery
Craciun Funeral Homes, Inc
Cleveland
Jean Pawlowski
St. John West Shore Hospital
Westlake
St. Peter Catholic Church
Linda Slivka
Anthony
Gregory
Hanford
Louise Nerkowski
Parma
Edward Plona
Edward
Sandra Palendar
Bogner- Busch Family
Center Ridge Rd
Death Notice Velber Clara E 84 Elynia
Clara E Velber 84 Elynia dies survived by a half sister Bessie Temp. Friends may call 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm at Laubenthal DeCarlo Funeral Home 257 Washington Ave Elynia. Rosary at 3:30 pm. Services 9 am Wednesday at the funeral home followed by a Mass at 9 30 am at St Mary Catholic Church Elyria. Burial in St Mary Cemetery Elyria.
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Velber
Clara E
Elyna
Bessie Temp
Laubenthal-DeCarlo
Washington Ave
Elynia
Altar and Rosary Society
St Mary Catholic Church
Elyria
St. Mary
Elyri
Upward Bound 25th Anniversary Event At Baldwin Wallace
Upward Bound marks 25 years at Baldwin Wallace College with a Saturday evening program in the College Union Ballroom. Arnold Mitchem will give the keynote as alumni and former staff are urged to reconnect. The group formed in 1964 under the Economic Opportunity Act to prep disadvantaged students for college.
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Berea — Upward Bound
Baldwin-Wallace College
College Union
Grand St
Arnold Mitchem
The
National Council of Educational Opportunity Associations
Barbara Berry
Terry Webb
Florence Williams 94 to announce arrangements in Wellington
Rel fan oi Florence Williams age 94 of Well- Home in Wellington will announce arrangements. The family requests friends and neighbors to join in a service to be scheduled. Contributions may be made to a local charity in her memory.
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Florence Williams
Wellington
Prudoff's plan to reform Community Development continues
Lorain City Council will form a resident committee to help guide the successor Office of Community Improvement Services. The new office would focus on housing needs, not economic development, as the previous department had done. Citizens asked questions about the reorganization and the director's job elimination.
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Lorain
Council
Office of Community Improvement Services
Community Development Department
Clecy
Joe Casteel
Lst Ward
Sanford Prudoff
Alex Olejko
Planning Resources Inc
Cleveland
Olejko
Gulf Road slope work closes road near Spring Valley Club
Gulf Road in Elyria will be closed about a month between Whitman Boulevard and Hilliard Road for slope stabilization near Spring Valley Country Club. Detour routes via Hilliard Abbe and Burns roads. north entrance to the club stays open. Work by Mark Schaffer Excavating and Trucking, project cost about $150,000, expected completion April 6.
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Elyria
Gulf Road
Whitman Boulevard
Hilliard Road
Spring Valley Country Club
Hilliard, Abbe and Burns
Mark Schaffer
DUI Case Plea Deals Highlight County Prosecution
The case file shows DUI charges including Codner-Mattes reduced due to first offense and a 0.12 blood test. County Prosecutor Gregory White and judge candidates are cited. Nunez defends plea bargains to prevent case backlog while denying ethical violations and political motives.
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Gregory White
Scherach
Motsch
Dietrich
Codner- Mattes
Nunez
Motels theft and teen arrest headline local incidents
Elyria police report a man in his 20s stole an envelope with receipts from the Knights Inn on Griswold Road around 1 50 p m. Lorain police say a 14 year old tried to steal from a Century Telephone car, later charged with multiple offenses. New London man Jack Rumsey dies in an accidental electrocution found in his flooded basement. coroner ties death to electrical shock.
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Knights Inn
Griswold Rd
Lorain
Century Telephone
West 10Th Street
New London
Jack Rumsey
Third Street
Marilyn Rumsey
Sal Midolo
Rumsey
Midoto
Huron County
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U.S. Power Squadron
Mr. Witham
Vermilion Power Squadron
Walter K. Farris Ford
Helen Wiley
Homemaker
Jim Duty
Strongsville City Cemetery
Parkinson’s Disease Association
P.O
Philadelphia
Washington Avenue
David Caccamise
W. River Rd
Vermilion
Washington Avenue Christian Church
Dicken
Florence
C. Gerhart
Garden Club
Ridgeville
Senior Citizens’ Center
Mildred Gilbert
Oberlin
Streetsboro
Cowling Funeral Home
Pedro Cardona
Lorain Community Hospital
Richard J. Reidy
E. 31St St
E. River St
Daly
Upward Bound
Smith
Fairwood
Brookpark Memorial
Big Creek
Brookview
Wi Parkwell
Cable Company
Continental Cablevision
Joan Lowry
Ohio Cable Television Association
Columbus
Lowry
Continental
Amherst
Amherst Township
Avon Lake
Bay Village
Carlisle Township
South Amherst
North Coast Connection
Continental Kids
Sherrod Brown
LCCC
Lorain County Community College
Lccc Marketing Office
Rel Fan Oi
Prudoff
Prenice Budd
Chronicle-Telegram
Super Kmart
Cooper Foster Park Road
Thomas Urbanek
Michael Scherach
Dui
Dominion Pleas
George Bush
9Th Street
Griswold Road
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