Area deaths Tony Prochazka dies at 76 in Elyria
lifelong Elyria resident Tony Prochazka age 76 died Saturday at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a brief illness. He was a Parker-Hanni Jin Corp. retiree of 45 years, married 53 years to Edith M. Prochazka, and is survived by son James A. and daughter Mrs. Robert Shaffstall both of Elyria, nine grandchildren, two great grandchildren, brother Frank of Elyria, and half brother George of Arizona.
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Tony Prochazka
Elyria
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Parker-Hanni- Jin Corp
Edith M
James A
Robert
Mary) Shaffstall
Frank
George
Arizona
Marietta College Degrees For Lakatos Zepp In Elyria Notice
Lauren G Lakatos and Mark Zepp of Ohio earned bachelor of science degrees from Marietta College. Lakatos, Amherst, was on the dean's list and a crew team member. Zepp, Elyria, is a biology graduate. Graveside rites are set for Wednesday at Brookdale Cemetery with Rev. Ronald C Welsh officiating. Memorials to the American Heart Association. Dicken Funeral Home handling arrangements.
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Lauren G. Lakatos
Amherst
Marietta College
Marietta
Ohio
Lakatos
Marion L. Steele High School
Anthony J. Lakatos
Wilshire Dr
Mark Zepp
Elyria
Wayland Academy
Charles and
Theresa Zepp
Washington Avenue
Brookdale Cemetery
Ronald C. Welsh
St. John Lutheran Church
American Heart Association
Dicken Funeral Home
Deaths of Bowles and Madagascar defense minister in crash
Former Ambassador Chester Bowles dies at 85 in Essex Connecticut after a long Parkinsons battle and a prior stroke. He served as governor and congressman, advised presidents, and held roles from wartime administrator to ambassador. In Madagascar a DC-3 crash killed Adm Simon Guy and ten others en route to a military academy ceremony north of Antananarivo.
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Chester Bowles
Essex
Conn
Bowles
Eleanor Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Dean Rusk
Southeast Asia
India
Adm
Simon Guy
Madagascar
Antananarivo
Antsirabe
Larson scholarships awarded by W.O. Larson Foundation
The W.O. Larson Foundation awarded 6000 in college scholarships to 10 high school students, many children of Larson Foundries employees. Recipients include Rick Block Lorain Clearview HS and Michael Guggenbiller Avon Elyria Catholic HS, among others from Lorain Elyria Grafton Wellington and Southview. This 19th annual awards honor Walter Q. Larson Sr. and emphasize financial need.
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Grafton
W.O. Larson
Elyria
Diana L. Miller
Wellington
Firelands High School
Chris T. Petrofski
Lorain
Southview High School
Lucinda Podmanik
Admiral King
Fisha L. Robinson
Catherine A. Zimmerly
Elyria West High School
Walter Q. Larson Sr
Larson Consolidated Inc
23 Elyria High seniors win Scholastic E awards
Elyria High School honors 23 seniors with Scholastic E awards for maintaining a 3.75 GPA or better across high school. 1986 winners include Stephanie Bankson Michelle Dennie Lara Hisingberg Christine Errington Rhonda Fleming Peggy Fortune Deborah Goldstein Christopher Gubeno Hojli Horak Julie Horn Steven Ickes Anthony Jung Dana Kerr Lisa Kias David Lee Anita Leedy Lisa Lotko Marc MacNair Stephanie Mason Peter Paonesa Julie Pierce Cynthia Ursem Rebecca Wulfhoop.
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Elyria
Elyria High School
Stephanie Bankson
Michelle Dennie
Lara Hisinberg
Christine Errington
Rhonda Fleming
Peggy Fortune
Deborah Goldstein
Christopher Gubeno
Hojli Horak
Julie Horn
Steven Ickes
Anthony Jung
Dana Kerr
Lisa Kias
David Lee
Anita Leedy
Lisa Lotko
Marc MacNair
Stephanie Mason
Peter Paonessa
Julie Pierce
Cynthia Ursem
Rebecca Wulfhoop
Centel rate increase takes effect June 1
Centel Telephone Co will raise residential and single line rate from 1 to 2 dollars per line and multi line business charges from 2.19 to 2.42 dollars starting June 1. FCC approval last year aims to cover local toll network connection costs and may lower long distance rates by about five percent. Milton J. Tomasek says long distance firms will pay per minute fees for use of local lines.
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Lorain
Centel Telephone Co
Center
Vermilion
Amherst
South Amherst
Sheffield Village
Sheffield Township
Avon
Avon Lake
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Milton J. Tomasek
Tomasek
Barco Wins Colombia Presidency Campaigned for Cuba OAS
Virgilio Barco of the Liberal Party swept to a landslide victory in Colombia's presidential election. He supports allowing Cuba back into the OAS. Barco, 65, will assume office on Aug 7 and will be the first Colombian president married to an American, his wife Caroline Isakson from York, Pennsylvania.
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Bogota
Colombia
Virgilio Barco
Liberal Party
Cuba
Organization of American States
Barco
Caroline Isakson
York, Pa
Mayors praise Hands Across America line across Lorain County
Mayors from Avon Lake Sheffield Lake Bay Village and Lorain hail Hands Across America for helping the hungry and homeless The line stretched nearly unbroken across Lorain County with thousands participating Avon Lake estimated 6600 people joined The mayors noted small gaps quickly filled and praised the diverse crowd reflecting communal charity with tears in many eyes.
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America
Lorain County
Lakeside
Lorain
Alex Olejko
Sheffield Lake
Daniel Fragassi
Hausrod
Fragassi
Bay Village
James Cowles
Huntington Street
Hansrod
Avon Lake
Central American chiefs back regional parliament plan
Five presidents from Guatemala Honduras Costa Rica El Salvador and Nicaragua endorsed forming a regional parliament and backing Contadora mediation as the path to end guerrilla warfare. They urged a peace treaty but left questions on foreign military bases arms control and verification unresolved.
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Esquipulas
Guatemala
Contadora
Contadora Group of Nations
Vinicio Cerezo
Central America
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Costa Rica
Jose Azcona Hoyo
Honduras
Jose Napoleon Duarte
el Salvador
Daniel Ortega
Nicaragua
European Parliament
Mexico
Colombia
Venezuela
Panama
Contadora Group
United States
Dairy Queen Joins Miracle Network Teleathon Drive
Dairy Queen stores across Lorain Erie and Huron counties co sponsor The Children’s Miracle Network Tele-a-thon May 31 to June 1. Proceeds benefit Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital Cleveland with 50 cents donated from each Blizzard sale. Local stores offer Flavor Friends plush toys and car washes to boost totals. Telethon airs on WEWS TV Channel 5 and last year raised 21 million nationally.
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Elyria
Dairy Queen
Lorain County
Erie
Huron Counties
Children’s Miracle Network
Childrens
Dairy Queens
Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital
Cleveland
Wews-Tv
Channel 5
New titles in Elyria Public Library memorial and juvenile lists
Elyria Public Library adds MEMORIALS ADULT and MEMORIALS JUVENILE sections with numerous titles and dedications. Notable items include The Complete Book of the Dog, The Maine Coast, Virginia, Walt Disney World and Epcot Center, Nuclear Chemical Engineering, The Pacific Northwest, and Polar Express. Dedications honor Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Ward W B Young Jr, Adrones Babe Beal, Thomas Plas, Liz Schilling, and Howard Barnes among others.
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Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Elyna Education Association
Ernest Royer
Kenneth Atkins
Ward W.B. Young, Jr
Rorick Amos
Richard Lewontin
Adrones
Babe” Beal
John Murbach
Angela Sayer
Gerry Boals
Melissa Ann Stuth
Brady Alan Smith
Maggie Morrison
Maine Coast
George Putz
Cape Cod
The
Islands
Eleanor Berman
Virginia
John Bowen
Walt Disney World
Epcot Center
Colorado River
Virginia Hopkins
Pacific Northwest
Mary Brandt Kerr
Disneyland
Br Ward
W.B. Young
Serboer Fauger
Charles Arthur Ely
Collec Gon
Richard Liddicoat
George D Hurlbut
Nuclear Chemical Engineering
Manson Benedict
William G. Sharp
Calleere
Konrad Krausop
Howard C Barnes
Sarah J Bates
Janet MacDonald
Pete and
Betty Schilling
Evelyn Bell
Charles Mercer
Elyria Education Association
Tim Furniss
de George D. Hurlbut
Chris van Allsburg
Rikid Tikki Tayi
Rudyard Kipling
Lee Admes
Lee Ames
Ronald “Reagan
George Sullivan
Ethel M. Tyler
Gavin Bishu
Dick Gackenbach
Anna Hines
Charlie Meadows
Russell Hoban
Brjan Lefard
Dream Child
David McPhail
Emma
James Stevenson
Cash, checks stolen in office break-in at Midway Blvd
Elyria police investigate a break-in at the Transamerica Financial Services office 385 Midway Blvd. Overnight Thursday employees locked the building at 6:45 p.m. and found the front door ajar and the office ransacked Friday at 8 a.m. Missing were 320 in cash and 30 blank checks.
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Elyria
Transamerica Financial Services
Midway Blvd
Tree saves driver from plunge after car goes off cliff
Vermilion police report a 51 year old man, William B. Burchak, lost control on Gore Orphanage Road and skidded through a retaining fence. His car went airborne about a foot above a cliff and was stopped by a tree, sparing him a 100 to 120 foot fall into the Vermilion River. Burchak, who was treated at Lorain Community Hospital, was cited for driving while intoxicated and failure to control. His passenger, Robert A. Brown, escaped uninjured. both men were warned for not wearing seat belts.
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Vermilion
Vermilion River
William B. Burchak
Rolling Meadows Rd
Gore Orphanage Road
State Highway Patrol
Henry Lipian
Lippian
Burchak
Lorain Community Hospital
Robert A. Brown
Rolling Meadows
Brown
Yard vandalism sullies Carlisle Township lawn
A Carlisle Township couple awoke to obscene messages, garbage strewn across the yard, toilet paper, and a partially burned cross. They suspect a nonracial prank by a neighborhood teenager, with Lorain County deputies investigating and possible links to a recent LaGrange incident.
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Carlisle Township
Doug Wahl
Oberlin Rd
Wahl
Jeanette Kenska
Lorain County
LaGrange
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Cen
American Chiefs OK Regional Parliament
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Birmingham
Erie County
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Pine Bar
Carolyn Beam
Ridge Hill
Memorial Park
Chimese
Epi
Larae & Amars
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Bibs & Cooper Fst
Elyria Public Library
Carlisle
Carter Funeral Home
Elyria Ave
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