Area deaths feature Gardinier and Duffield notices
Obituaries list James Claude Gardinier 47 of Hartford Conn former Vermilion resident died of a heart attack at home. Lulu Duffield 52 of North Olmsted died after a lengthy illness at the Cleveland Clinic with services in Lorain and burial in Elmwood Cemetery. Also noted are memorials for Oral H O’Dell 74 of Elyria and Raymond Wiles 69 of Wakeman with services and donor arrangements, plus detailed funeral notices for Bylica Farabaugh and others. Memorials to heart and cancer groups requested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Claude Gardinier
Hartford
Conn
Buffalo
N.Y
Aetna Insurance Company
Ford Assembly
Lorain
Deborah
Bernadine
Christine
Cynthia
Rebecca
Pennsylvania
Jennifer
James
Joseph
Helen
Vermilion
Helen Hancock
Carl
Nancy) Forman
Amherst
Kathleen Flynn
Frank
Claude
Riddle Funeral Home
Philip Seltman
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
Maple Grove Cemetery
American Heart Association
Lulu
Duffield
Captain
North Olmsted
Cleveland Clinic
Bow River Trading Co
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
Jack
David A
New York City
Stephan J
Cleveland Heights
Robert J
Mary C.) Bastock
Reidy - Scanlan Funeral Home
Michael Gulgas
Elmwood Cemetery
Oral H. O'Dell
Elyria
St. Joseph Hospital and Health Center
Leivasy
W. Va
Lorain County
Raymond
Jake” Wiles
Wakeman
Berlin Heights
Medina
Alexander “Alex” F. Bylica
Reidy-Scanlan
St. Anthony of Padua Church
Tom Smith
Calvary Cemetery
Disabled Veterans of America
Louis Paul Proy
Reidy- Scanlan Funeral Home
Bylica
City fights over self insurance program cost savings
Koscho told council the self insurance program saved the city about 300 000 in five months and acted within statutory powers. Zaleski outlined two options for contract authorization or third party administration. Diversified lease payments were questioned last December and a restraining order was filed to stop equipment removal. An agreement halted removal. the city will seek a 90 day injunction and a Lorain County hearing is slated before Judge Bedleski.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Koscho
Zaleski
Council
Diversified
Lorain County
Lorain County Common Pleas Court
Adrian Bedleski
Lynette McGough
Patton
Obituary notices list Lorain residents with multiple survivors
A string of death notices from Lorain include Jose Arocho DeJesus 68. John J Berchak 76 of Avon Lake. Elisa Louise Delprincipe 80 of Lorain. Alberta Horwedel 84 of Avon. Eugene C Pennington 65. Lawrence Gene Taylor of Avon Lake. Harold L Thomas 50 of Lorain. Each listing names survivors, call times, funeral home details, Mass times, cemetery plans, and veterans honors where noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arocho-Dejesus Jose
Lorain
Eva Lidia Arocho
Signa Elsie Arocho
Isabel Arocho
John R Devin
Sacred Heart Chapel
Lorain Bunal
Calvary Cemetery
Berchak John J
Avon Lake
Oneta
Jeanne Burkhardt
Burmeister
St Joseph Catholic Church
Bural
St. Mary Cemetery
Avon
Delprincipe Elisa
Louise
Loraim
Don
Mas
Dombrowski
Christan
St Peter's Catholic Church
Lora Bural
Iain
Pennington
Eugene C
Elyma
Ruth
Sharon Martin
Chevy Young
Debbie Kahle
Dicken Funeral Home
Elyna
Bonal
Brookdale Cemetery
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1078
Taylor Lawrence
Gene
Irene (Nee Demsey
Robert
Sharon) Barrall
Maureen Osborn
Laura) Menzang
Michael
Hope
Thomas Harold L
Loran
Raymond
Laune
Lorrie
Tanner
Evelyn Thomas
John R Down
Rome
Funeral Home
Borsal
Ridge Hill Memoral Park
Lora
Polish Legion of American Veterans Post 38
Students honor Martin Luther King Jr with school essays
Seventh grader Kris Thompson notes King’s peaceful methods and opposition to segregation while Curtis Gray compares King to Gandhi. Third grader Amy Keller calls King brave and rights for all. Others praise nonviolence, equality, and King’s dream, with quotes from Quiana Harris and Kim Boyes.
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Kris Thompson
Eastern Heights
King
Martin Luther King Jr
South
Curtis E. Gray
Roosevelt Elementary
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India
Curtis
Amy Keller
Franklin Elementary School
Martin
Russella Adams
Roosevelt School
Quiana Harris
Franklin Elementary
Crystal Lewis
Angie McCall
Kim Boyes
Memorial tribute and King memorial banquet slated in Oberlin and Lorain
At Oberlin College Hall Auditorium 67 North Main Street a 7:30 p.m. tribute features Rev. Fred L. Steen presenting An Unfinished Symphony with the Everett Williams Jr. Ensemble from Washington and Oberlin participants. The King Foundation will host the 17th annual memorial banquet next Saturday January 23 at Lorain County Community College Stocker Center at 7:30 p.m. with Nolen M. Ellison president of Cuyahoga Community College delivering the keynote.
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Oberlin College
N. Main St
Fred L. Steen
Oberlin
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Dr. Steen
Everett Williams Jr
Washington
Everett Williams
Oberlin Conservatory
Mt. Zion
Shiloh Baptist Church
Charles R. Aufdenkampe
Grace
Martin Luther King Foundation
Dr. Martin Luther King
Lorain County
Nolen M. Ellison
Cuyahoga Community College
Abatement program cited as tool to spur home and store upgrades
Fairview Mayor Joseph Gaul defends a tax abatement plan noting its effect to spark homeowner improvements and store upgrades along Lorain Road. He says the program acts as a marketing tool for revitalizing old neighborhoods and is available to all, though Westgate projects dominated early benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairview
Joseph Gaul
Westlake
North Olmsted
Gaul
Westgate
Lorain Road
Avon Lake man sentenced for felonious assault and attempted rape
Stephen Keller aged 39 of 33803 Electric Brd was sentenced to 3 to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty to felonious assault and attempted rape for attacking a woman with a knife in her Sheffield Lake home. He also must serve a 2 to 5 year term for a 1986 weapons violation tied to a parole violation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Avon Lake
Stephen Keller
Keller
Sheffield Lake
Lorain Clerk Arlene Kokinda Wins Pay After Delay
Lorain City Council finally passes emergency pay ordinance for clerk Arlene Kokinda and her part time secretary. A council member who opposed her raise changes stance and suspends rules. Kokinda will be paid next Friday and keeps full first paycheck with no refund due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain
Arlene Kokinda
Kokinda
Powrie Re elected V O E D Board President in Lorain County
Marianne Powrie of North Ridgeville was reelected to a fourth term as president of the Lorain County Joint Vocational School Board at the reorganizational meeting. David A. Updegraff of Avon Lake was elected vice president, succeeding Delores Carter who remains on the board. New member James Berthold of Amherst, EHOVE supervisor, joins alongside returning appointees Gary Young and Earl Wammes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Marianne Powrie
North Ridgeville
Lorain County
David A. Updegraff
Avon Lake
Delores Carter
James Berthold
Amherst
Ehove Joint Vocational School
Lorain County Joint Vocational School
Gary Young
Sheffield-Sheffield Lake
Earl Wammes
Elyria City
Lorain County Disaster Services Agency Renamed
Lorain County Disaster Services Agency will be known as the Lorain County Emergency Management Agency starting January 14. The agency focuses on the four steps of emergency management: mitigation preparedness response and recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Lorain County Disaster Services Agency
Lorain County Emergency Management Agency
Agency
Stevovitch Named Acting LMHA Chief
Vera Stevovich Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority administrative assistant was named acting executive director by the LMHA Board. The appointment lasts until July 1 or until the return of Executive Director Peter Schroeder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stevovitch
LMHA
Lorain
Vera Stevovich
Lorain Metropolitan
Peter Schroeder
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James Gardinier
Oral O’ Dell
Lulu Duffield
American Cancer Society
Fisher Guide
Raymond Wiles
General Motors’ Fisher Guide
United Auto Workers
Huron County Firefighters Association
Wakeman Fire Department
Wakeman Grange No. 1399
Berlin Echoes
Huron County Cancer Society
St. Mary’s Church
Wiles
Ernest
North Fairfield
Richard
Beatrice Schamp
Gosport
Ind
Rita Wiles
Tyre
Ohio
Delnis Greenleaf
Collins, O
Louis D. Wiles
Carrollton
St. Mary's Church
The
Medical College of Ohio
Toledo
Hinman Funeral Home
Wilbur Breen Nore
Elyria Memorial Hospital
USX
Cherry Ridge Golf League
Violet
Zoltan C. Szucs
Hungarian Reformed United Church of Christ
Hungarian Reformed Church of Christ
Globe and East
St. Lorain
Walter A. Frey
Mr. O'Dell
Sylvia P
Oral H. Jr
David
Ruth) Jones
Roger
Jean) Mahoney
Dicken
Bruce Hartley
Vincent United Methodist Church
Resthaven Memory Gardens
Bylica Services
Ronald Farabaugh
Ronald L. Farabaugh
Mark Auxter
First United Presbyterian Church
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Mr. Farabaugh
New London
Farabaugh
Fisher-Titus Hospital
Norwalk
Ethics Commission
Horwedel
Alberta
Burmeister County Line
St. Mary Catholic
St Mary Church Cemetery
Man With Dream
William R. Scott
Booker C. Peek
Frances Walker-Slocum
Richard Levin
Ronald Kahn
County, Metropolitan Park Board
Powrie
Phyllis Mosher
Wellington
Lewis Randall
Margaret Strohm
Josiah Fernandez
Keystone Schools
Ed Witbeck Jr
Midview Schools
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