Avon Lake Officer recalls near miss with thief chase
Avon Lake police chief photographer Leslie E. Alger recalls a 1941 pursuit when a stolen car sped east on Lake Road at 100 mph. A tractor trailer narrowly clipped the cruiser, but Alger forced a stop and the thief was arrested with help from Rocky River. He reflects on the driver’s possible thoughts as he avoided collision.
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Damaze
Avon Lake
Alger
Columbia Lake Rds
Rocky River
Navarre
Ohio
Force
Lorain County
FBI
State Highway Patrol
Pittsburgh, Pa
Walter G.schmittle
East Bridge St
East River St
East River
Clark Sts
Schmittle
Delbert B. Conklin
Hecock Ave
Lorain
Elltwa
Ileda Ave
Elyria Ave
Conklin
Lucille Thomas
el- Grafton
St. Oberlin
Ileda
Beatrice A. Tipple
John Basil
East Royalton Rd
Columbia Star
Elyria Area Obituaries and Funeral Notices
Multiple deaths and funeral arrangements from Elyria Wellington Lorain and Avon Lake communities. Included are notices for David Curtis Nichols 15 of Wellington. Clarence Elliott 60. Claude Walter Weidrick with service details in Wellington and LaGrange. Rick, 45, of Vero Beach, Florida. Harry L. Dakin 71. Gustav F. Reiche 88. Captain Alfred M. Hansen 69. Roy L. Pearce formerly of Elyria. Albert E. Griffiths 91. Hilmer J. Larson 61. and others with service locations at Norton, Adair, Harold Dixon, and Brookdale cemeteries and area churches. Memorials and burial details provided.
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Davd Curtiss Nichols
Clarence Elliott
Douglas M
Farmers Mutual
Claude Walter
Pat) Weid. Nichols
LaGrange
Insurance Co
Rick
Vero Beach
Fla
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Tucson
Ariz
Wellington
Elyria
Scle Norton Funeral
Key Rosis
Edward Griffith
Thelstone High School
Hel Re
North Olmsted
Charles Weston
Nelson
Mason E Iliott
Westlake
Adair Funeral
Harry L. Dakin
Norton
William Kaina
Sullivan Congregational Church
Sullivan
Dakin
Southern Lorain County
Gustav F. Reiche
Broad St
Lorain Countty
Mr. Reiche
Germany
Brookdale Cemetery
Earl R. Henderson
Sudro- Curtis Funeral Home
Capt. Hansen
Norway
Great Lakes
Tomlinson Steamship Co
Cleveland
Shipmasters Association
Lorahn Eagles
Lorain Moose Lodges
Eleanor C. Hansen
Laura Halvorsen
Walter A. Frey
AVON
Hilmer J. Larson
Elizabeth
Jong
Lee Ross
Loyal Order of Moose No
Legion of the Moose
Grace M. Larson
Burmeister
Avon Lake
Homer Graven
White Haven Cemetery
Mayfield Heights
Sere Uy Ua
Fred B. Hughes
South Mill St
Lorain County Hospital
Dell A. Edwards
Eee Hegre
Hughes
Hayes Ave
Hunt Electrics
Leonard Lotz
Sprague Co
Hart Rd
Columbia Station
Litchfield
Jold S. Ewing
Nowly of God Church
Albert V. Januzzi
Januzzi
Cather
Lorain
Swaniey
Chicago
Fred B
Wray Paul
Thomas
Philip of
North
Drew
Paul Moore Sr
Ridgeville
West 23Rd St
P Oul Gibbons
Sylvia Chuha
Colorado Springs
Reid Ave
Cole
Bwo
Walter Wolfe
Howard Ryder
Akron
William
Fred F Hughes
Curtis
E. Truman
Assembly of God Church
Rev. P. Hinton
Mother files $75,000 suit in Elyria court case
A $75,000 suit against Virccident was filed in the Lorain county common pleas. The action stems from a bicycle collision on Eighth Street and involves Catharine Westbrook, Richard Westbrook, and other defendants. Parallel notices include minor traffic fines and a grave side service for infant burial in Sheffield Lake.
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Common Pleas
Middle Ave
Cath- Paul Westbrook
Mararine Poston
Eighth St
Iseilles Ave
Richard
William J. Beattie
Lakeside Chant
Lorain
Hospital Births Report From Area Facilities
A long list of births announced across area hospitals includes daughters and sons born to families at addresses in Lorain, Grafton, Vermilion, Amherst, Avon Lake, and neighboring towns. Names include Hobert, Underwood, Andrus, Casper, Jackson, Holtwick, Klyop, Komik, Me, Murray, Schafer, Shaffer, Spicer, Szivan, Todd, Wonderly, Appel, Boettner, Shippe, Hobbs, Kish, Urban, Chymivey, Pineara, Martelland, Pesarchick, Piskur, Heatley, Shambart, Williams, Fecha, Gonzales, Sklarek, Ortiz, Altpater, Hotko, Hernandez, Git tinger, Summers, Castle, Hoffman, Deel, Sterk, Hansberger, Stewart, Hansberger, Green, Peasley, Searles, Baltes, Hronik, Zilch, Tiller, Gault, Hellinger, Voich, Kreeger, Schaechterle, Polevchak, Vogt, Collins, Weimer, Lasch, and others in the region.
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Thomas Todd
Toledo
Charles Young
West 25Th St
Mary Wonderly
Garden Dr
Avon
Carl Appel
Highland Park
Robert Boettner
Amherst
Henry Shippe
East Lake Rd
Roy Hobbs
East 29Th St
Daniel Kish
Root Rd
Hattie Urban
West 13Th St
Eugene Chymivey
Camden Ave
James Pineara
Roger Martelland
Reid Ave
Joseph Pesarchick
Colorado Ave
Edward E. Fitz
N. Hester St
Norwalk
Clara Ringlein
Monmeville
Christina Aun
Mary Polevchak
West
Collins
John Hronik
Berlin
St. Lorain
Conrad Zilch
Cen- Heights
Ntral
David Tiller
Taylor
William Gault
Central
Welcome Brown
Bell Ave
Elyria
Oberlin Allen Hospital public notices list residents
A partial OCR reads Oberlin Allen Hospital and lists residents and addresses including Mrs Milland Tribble and daughter re 2 Quarry Rd Carl Peterson 78 South Professor St Mrs John Holloway and daughter Elm St Mrs Gertrude Helm 227 North Main St Mrs Donald Payne 3 Parkwood St Hilbert Cloudt 26 Groveland St Victor Barson 47 Morgan Scott Sturges Fairway Bh Mrs William Northcutt and son 724 West River St Elyria Mrs Wayne Matson RD 2 Elyria Mrs George Yasher Box 42 Kipton
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Milland Tribble
Quarry Rd
Carl Peterson
South Professor St
Ohn Holloway
Elm St
Gertrude J Helm
North Main St
Donald Payne
Parkwood St
Hilbert Cloudt
Groveland St
Victor Barson
Morgan Scott Sturges
Fairway
William Northcutt
West River St
Elyria
Wayne Matson
Neighborhood Contacts and Addresses in Sandusky and Lorain
A fragmented listing shows multiple residents and addresses in Sandusky and Lorain including Mrs Ralph Schmidt Monroe ville Devorah Calvert Huron Charles Zumpt 526 Jackson St and 3000 West Lake Rd Lorain Edward Chupick Hilltop Dr Mrs Norman Bennett Park Ave 16442 along with Joseph Kang Stop 113 West Lake Rd Lorain Mrs Robert Sterna Elyria Ave William Parker Cornell Ave Mrs Hugo Truscello Middle and Mrs Larry Faulkner and son B Bar-B Trailer Ct indicating a local directory snippet.
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Charles Zumpt
Jackson St
Thomas Kelly
West Lake Rd
Lorain
Edward Chupick
Hilltop Dr
Norman Bennett
Park Ave
Joseph Kang
Robert Sterna
Elyria Ave
William Parker
Cornell Ave
Hugo Truscello
Larry Faulkner
Bar-B
Hospital Discharges Linda Tribble and Peggy Graley in Lorain County
Linda Tribble of Oberlin and Peggy Graley of Wellington are discharged from Southern Lorain County Hospital. A newborn baby boy Isabell of Oberlin is noted in the same discharge list.
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Southern Lorain County Hospital
Linda ‘Tribble
Oberlin
Peggy Graley
Wellington
Baby
Boy Isabell
Toledo cash grain prices show varied corn and soybean bids
Toledo cash grain figures from UPI list prices in cents per bushel for grain at Toledo. Wheat No 2 soft red 200, No 2 soft white 210. Corn No 2 yellow 115. Oats No 2 white 77. Soybeans No 1 yellow 246.
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Toledo
UPI
New York
Turnpike crash injures two from Fenton
Two young motorists from Fenton Midh were taken to Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital after a collision on the Ohio Turnpike east of Norwalk. William Runyon, 19, suffered a skull fracture and other injuries when his car rammed the rear of a semi driven by Carl Prieskers, 34, of Belleville Michigan. Dixie Snowden, 18, incurred a bruised knee and possible back injury. both remained listed as fair.
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Fenton Midh
Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital
Norwalk
State Highway Patrol
William Runyon
Fenton
Carl Prieskers
Belleville
Mich
Runyon
Dixie Snowden
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Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation
London
Lincoln High School
Parma
National Woolen Mills
Matin Post Office
Special Delivery Department
Civil Service
Western Automatic
Fraternal Order of Police
Cuyahoga Lodge
First Congregational Church
Harold Douttiel
PTL
Leslie E. Alger
Elyria Area
David C. Nichols
Clarence Elmjott
Claude Walter Weidrick
Diane E
C. E. Nichols
Don A. Barhow
Harold Dickon
Richard Linde
LaGrange Cemetery
First Congregational
da Lvid Nichols
Key
Stone High School
P_ H. Coontz
Darin Services
Alfred M. Hansen
Leavitt. Rd
St. Joseph Hospital
Albert KE. Griffiths
Albert E. Griffiths
South Main St
Allen Hospital
Greenwood Cemetery
Weidrick
Municipal Light
Magyar St
Florida
Dorothy
Frances Jo
Betty Jane
Beulah Cutter
Spencer
Edmund Beane
Brentley
Jomor- Pro
Cauren
Wil
Episcopal Church
Nationa ‘Fraternal Society of the Deaf
Edward Jones
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Baby Girl
Baughman
Municipal Court News
George O'Dell
Tory
Dave Currie
Parmer Ave
Sheffield Lake
Dale Baughman
Knickerbocker Ave
Donald Yackle
Robert C. Carneck
John McAuley
Red B. Hughes
William M. Steckler
Beebe Akatk
Bonnie Norris
East Ave
River St
David C. Barnes
Grafton Rd
Robert E. Wallace
Medina
Lest of Center
Frank Olic
Gratton
Ernest P. Hamilton
Laurel Rd
William L. Dunbar
Center Ridge Rd
North Ridgeville
David L. Nowak
Olmsted & Co
Falls
Charles L. Pickel
Deaconess Hospital
Mansfield St
Ohio State University
Me. Pickel
Dearconess Hospital
Mr. Pickel
Lorain Clan
U. S. Navy
Ohio State
St. John's United Church of Christ of
Alfreda Pickel
Jack Sey
Its
Schwartz - Spencer
Thei
Elmwood Cemetery
American T. & T
Flossie Smith
East Anaconda
James C. Francis
Main St
Glake & Oblo
Ohrveier
Bush St
Bustman Kotek
TRH
General Bievirle
Russell Aulisio
Ind
Standand
Cexas Company
Eee
Ae Ora L
Narér Brothers
Westinghouse Airbreke
Westinghouse Electric
Woolworth Co
Joseph J. Antolich
Southwood Dr
Steve Nagy Sr
Horace Johnson
Cinton Ave
Roy Hardway
Wesley Ave
Harold Kelly
South Abbe Rd
Dorothy Kelly
South Abhe Rd
Elyria Memorial
Carl Hobert
Tenth St
Robert Underwood
Indian Hollow Rd
Grafton
Danforth Andrus
Edward Casper
Olive Ave
Alan Jackson
South Durkee Rd
Richard Holtwick
10Th
Tresa Klyop
Jth
Michael Komik
Lake Ave
John Me
Donald and
Indian. Hollow Rd
Oliver Murray
Coronado Ct
Bruvne Schafer
Merle Shaffer
Ninth St
Thomas Spicer
Inland Dr
Vermilion
Joseph Szivan
North Woodhill Dr
William Todd
Robert Vandermark
Walter Wehlber
Bellfield Ave
Lawrence Whitacre
Cambridge Ave
Ralph Wohlever
East St
Lorain St. Joseph
Herbert Dillingham
F St
Joseph Poplar
West 26Th St
Daniel Piskur
Euclid Ave
Andrew Heatley
Jefferson Ave
Harry Shambart
Edgewood Dr
Carlene Williams
28Th St
Helen Fecha
Camden
Francisco, Reyes and Son
30Th St
Thomas Gonzales
23Rd St
Sandra Sklarek
West St. St
Tony Ortiz
Andrew Hotko
Maryland Ave
Pedro Hernnandez
Sandusky
Samaritan
Paul Gittinger
Monroeville
Ratgh E
Summers RD
Berlin Heights
George Castle
Hiron
Titus
Hans Hoffman
Greenwich
Brant
Milan
Amherst Hospital
Jesse Deel
Jaeger Rd
Dorothy Hellinger
Sophia Voich
Westward St
Russell Kreeger
Spring St
Karen Schaechterle
Anita
New London
Gregory
Weimer
Lakewood
James Lasch
Mary Vogt
Patricia Schlenhaker
North Fairfield
Oberlin Allen Hospital
Sandusky Providence
Ralph Schmidt
Devorah Calvert
Huron
Memoriam
Weree
Ot Ann Zacharias
Sudro-Curtis
Fairfax
Florist
Toledo Cash Grain
Sandusky Memorial
Richard Ritz
Pegschuitz
Saat
Turnpike Patrol
Elyria Police
State Patrol
Corporation of North Ridgeville Endicot
Edgeview Shopping Center
Canter Rider Road
Dick Stewart
Dick Stewart Appliances
Cleveland St
Frigidaire Laundry
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