Area deaths bring Elm residents and business figures to Lorain
A series of obituary notices from Elyria Lorain County detail the deaths of Elsie I Jacobs 82 of Elyria former Spike's Farm Market owner and Hungarian church member. Robert Mccahon 72 Lorain owner of McCahon Printers with long Merchant Marines service and local society ties. Alice L Schroeder 63 Toledo resident employed at Rite-Way Cleaners with many relatives. John A Sinkinson 55 Elyria area resident with family. Ivadell Hasley Isabel 77 Elyria with mass. Lipria Sinkinson 55 Elyria. Leo L Neufer 76 Lorain tool and die maker and union member. Charles W McPherran 43 Norwalk Chrysler head controller and coach. Gertrude M Nagel 82 Amherst lifelong area resident. Bertha Szanto 88 Lorain resident. Burial plans and service details announced, with multiple funeral homes and churches named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie I. Jacobs
Elyria
Good Samaritan
Avon
Austria-Hungary
Miami
Fla
Alice L. Schroeder
Toledo
Regina Coeli Catholic
Boyer-Van Wormer-Scott Funeral Home
Toledo Memorial Park
D.E.B.R.A. of America Inc
Leo L. Neufer
Lorain
Mr. Neufer
General Industries
Mechanics Education Society of America
Elyria Eagles
Eleanor McMullin Heuser
William Heuser
North Ridgeville
Ronald
Georgia) Clawson
Lakeside
Calif
Richard
Judy) Pollard
N. Canton
Helen McGhee
Colby
Wis
John R. Devin
Ridge Hill Memorial Park
Charles W. McPherran
Norwalk
Akron
Randolph
Ohio
McPherran
Sandusky
Chrysler
St. Paul High School
St. Paul Catholic Church
Judy
Nee Anvil
Theresa Marie
Melanie Roseann
Lee Charles
Scott Patrick
Ben Michael
Malcolm
Mary Louise McPherran
Cuyahoga Falls
Charles
Joyce) Vella
Garfield Heights
John McPherran
Henderson, Nev
Gary McPherran
Tuscon, Ariz
Ronald McPherran
Heuston-Gerber
Robert Dendinger
St. Paul Cemetery
Amherst Considers Bids to Replace AAMET Ambulance Service
Amherst officials seek council authorization to solicit bids for a new ambulance service after AAMET plans to cease operations on Sept 8. Four bidders including Lorain Community Hospital and Lorain Area Ambulance Service expressed interest. proposals hinge on location and costs. Mayor Jaworski vows to protect Amherst Hospital and veto plans that ignore its interests, while talks on forming a regional ambulance district arise but may be premature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amherst
Police and Fire Committee
Aamet Ambulance Service
Wayne Whyte
Lorain Community Hospital
Lorain Area Ambulance Service
C&a Services
AAMET
Cheryl Taryan
Kenneth Sroka
Lorain
Amherst Hospital
Andy Warhola
John Larkers
Warhola
LCH
John Jaworski
Jaworski
Jim Codney
Amherst Township
Michael Naymik
Ford plants close two weeks for annual vacation
Ford Motor Co. will shut Lorain Assembly Plant and the Avon Lake Ohio Truck Plant for two weeks of vacation. Truck plant and commercial van line crews resume in mid July, while about 3000 workers on the passenger line face layoff during that week due to transmission plants in Livonia Michigan and Sharonville Ohio failing to meet demand for Thunder bird and Cougar cars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Motor Co
s_ Lorain
Ohio
Avon Lake
Assembly Plant
Livonia
Mich
Sharonville
Dearborn, Mich
Theft hearing set for Westlake cage star Morozko
Lynn Morozko, 19, former Westlake High School girls basketball star who helped the team reach the 1983 state tournament, faces an aggravated burglary charge over a stolen 1978 Oldsmobile. Police tied the case to a June 19 traffic accident in Fairview Park, and Morozko is free on a $2,500 bond ahead of Tuesday’s Rocky River Municipal Court appearance.
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Westlake
Rocky River
Westlake High School
Lynn Morozko
Settler's Reserve Way
Miss Morozko
Fairview Park
Correction Services for Garry A Figley Sr.
Correction services for Garry A Figley Sr aged 34 of New London will be held at Eastman Funeral Home Monday at 2 p.m. Mr Figley died Thursday. Friends may call 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home in New London. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Norwalk following Monday services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Sinkinson
Elyria
Reichlin-Roberts
St. Jude’s Church
John Buza
Brookdale Cemetery
Linkinson
Ivadell
Hasley Isabel
Laubenthal
St. Agnes Church
Mary
St. Judex Church
Brookdale Gemeccy Lipria
Wainwright Funeral Home
Funeral
Bela Bacso
Ridgelawn Cemetery
Gertrude M. Nagel
Amherst
St. Joseph
George
Richard
Garland-Misencik
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Kenneth Retter
St. Joseph Cemetery
Garry A. Figley Sr
New London
Eastman
Figley
Woodlawn
Norwalk
Death of George E. McCann Former Elmira Editor 90
George E. McCann, age 90, former executive editor of Gannett papers in Elmira and former AP editor, died Wednesday of cancer at St. Joseph Hospital in Elmira. A native of Elmira, he began as a 17 year old reporter on the Elmira Advertiser in 1911, later worked for Elmira Herald and Syracuse Post Standard before joining AP in 1918. He edited cables copy from foreign bureaus until 1927 when a heart attack prompted his Elmira return, later rising to executive editor of the three Gannett papers in 1956.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW York
George E. McCann
Gannett
Elmira
Associated Press
McCann
St. Joseph Hospital
Area banks keep rates stable amid rising prime lending rate
Local bankers report consumer and home mortgage loans largely unchanged as prime rates move upward. Some banks like Elyria Savings keep 12.5 percent prime for now, with expectations of gradual increases into 1985. others anticipate further rises before the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Trust Co
Lorain
Jack Elliot
Ronald Hongosh
National City Bank
Elyria
Elyria Savings and Trust National Bank
Bill Nash
Hongosh
Stanley Piyor
Lorain National Bank
Prosecutor appeals three Wilmoths case after suppression
Lorain County Prosecutor appeals the dismissal of criminal charges against Howard Wilmoth John Wilmoth and Bernard Wilmoth after Judge Cirigliano suppressed all evidence from the December 21 1982 raid on a garage at 732 Idaho Ave Lorain The judge ruled the warrant improper because the affidavit was oral The prosecutor argues a written affidavit followed the oral one before the search and seizure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Joseph J. Cirgiliano
Lorain County
Idaho Ave
Lorain
Cirigliano
Howard Wilmoth
John Wilmoth
Bernard Wilmoth
Adrian Bedeski
John Rosebaum
New York Man Wounded in Elyria Shooting
Police search for a Staten Island man who shot and wounded 23 year old George Williams at Bullwinkles on West Broad Street. Williams was treated at Elyria Memorial Hospital for gunshot wounds to the face and thigh and released. Five spent casings and one bullet were found. Barmaids did not see the shooter as he fired from inside the front door. No arrests have been made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Staten Island, N.Y
Bullwinkles
W. Broad St
George Williams
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Keystone to Name New Superintendent at meeting
LAGRANGE The Keystone Board of Education will announce the district’s new Superintendent at a special meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the high school’s media center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lagrange
Keystone Board of Education
Hopkins Airport Wins $2.9 Million for Runway Upgrades
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is allotted almost 2.9 million by the FAA for runway taxiway and lighting improvements. The grant will follow after Hopkins submits project schedules, marking the first step toward full funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hopkins
FAA
Oberlin and Wellington in National Geographic feature
The July National Geographic highlights Oberlin and Wellington in a story on the Underground Railroad. It notes Oberlin’s strong abolitionist stance and recalls the 1858 capture of fugitive slave John Price near Oberlin with residents pursuing him to Wellington to free him. It also mentions Oberlin College students reconstructing the Kentucky to Oberlin flight in January 1980.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberlin
Wellington
National Geographic
Underground
Lorain County
John Price
David Hoard
Oberlin College
Kentucky
Taylor to Succeed Brown as EMH Chief Administrator
Elyria Memorial Hospital named Donald R. Taylor to replace James C. Brown as chief administrator effective November 1 after Brown retires. Taylor, with Elyria roots and prior experience at Community General Hospital Reading Pa, earned a 1972 master’s in hospital administration and is a Fellow of the American College of Hospital Administrators. Brown joined EMH in 1951, rising from business manager to administrator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Donald R. Taylor
Elyria Memorial Hospital
James C. Brown
Brown
Taylor
Community General Hospital
Reading
The
American College of Hospital Administrators
American Hospital Association
Ohio Hospital Association
Three Teens Arrested for Lorain County Beverages Burglary
In Elyria three 18-year-olds, Charlies E. Erwin Roger D. Harris and Dean G. New, were charged after a 2:30 a.m. alarm at Lorain County Beverages. They allegedly stole beer wine and taps. Harris was captured in nearby woods, Erwin on Parmaley Avenue, New during an attempted getaway on a railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria
Lorain
Harris
Woods
Erwin
Parmaley Avenue
New
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Elsie Jacobs
Spike
Q. Robert McCahon
Robert MccCahon
St. Joseph's Hospital
McCahon
McCahon Printers
Merchant Marines
Elks
Black River Historic Society
Vermilion Boat Club
Ruth
Nee Smith
Thomas
Mary Susan) Brown
Bay Village
John Oliver McCahon
West Semsbury
Richard Morris
Elmwood
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Sinkinson Services
Leo Neufer
Charles McPherran
Bertha Szanto
Amherst Ambulance Service
Alana Baranick
Whyte
ARMET
Ambherst Hospital
Naymik
Stephen Piar
Tenney Ave
Mary Miller
Ford
Cage Star
N.Y
Keystone Schools
Cleveland Hopkins
Geographic
University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
Hospital
Police
Nnb
Blackburn-Fulton Funeral Home
Main St
Grafton
Razak A. Kherani, No. Inc
Asaf Ali Dar, M.o
E. River St
Elyria Lorain
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