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Newspaper
Willard Times Junction
Location
Willard, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 2013
Page
2
Willard organizations are invited to submit meeting dates and times for the Willard Times Junction Community Calendar. Send details including event time, location, contact person and phone number to P O Box 368 Willard Ohio 44890.
Junior Holida aged 84 of Willard died January 10 2013 at Stein Hospice Sandusky after dementia. He was born September 13 1928 in Magoffin County Kentucky to Oscar and Camilla Holida. He married Lucy Barnett Holida on September 17 1949. He worked for Norfolk and Western Railroad retiring in 1987. He enjoyed church singing banjo and fishing. Surviving are wife Lucy. children Joel Hicks Jeddy Holida Brenda Proffitt Debra Holida. grandchildren Crystal Paul Jay Heather Sherry Mikel Justin Brooke. 14 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. sisters Josephine Rowe Norma Jean Holmer. brothers Virgil Richard Dean Chester Raymond. Preceded by parents daughter Judy son James granddaughter Julie Stine great grandson Patrick Kish four brothers and three sisters. Visitation January 13 2013 at Freewill Baptist Church Willard 4 9 p.m. prayer at 6 p.m. Funeral January 14 2013 at Freewill Baptist Church 2 p.m. Burial Greenwood Cemetery Willard. Online condolences at sec orfuneralhomes.com.
Dr. Robert Secor was elected Mercy Willard Hospital Chief of Staff succeeding Dr. David Jump whose two year term ended December 31 2012. James Rosso was elected Chief of Staff Elect and both Secor and Rosso will serve on Mercy Willard's Board of Trustees along with other 2013 medical staff officers.
Joyce Gase hosted the Research Club on December 20. Carolyn Smith presented It’s Christmas, exploring global customs from Sweden’s December 13 St Lucia Day fish feast to Netherlands gift exchanges on December 6 and Norway’s December 21 season start. Members noted 1866 Alabama legal recognition of Christmas and the rise of biblical, noncommercial traditions. Afterward, punch and cookies were served. Next meeting is January 17 at Barbara Waggoner’s home with a program titled High on Music Eat Worms by Marilyn Sands.
The Beatles were the first group memorialized in London’s Madame Tussauds in 1964, posed sprawled on a red couch with instruments. Lead vocalist on My Girl was David Ruffin of The Temptations, also in 1964, after pulling the song from The Miracles.
In early 1920 a Deshler mail car aboard No. 16 caught fire while in the station, destroying the car and its load. Four Baltimore & Ohio workers stayed inside as flames grew, losing clothing and suffering minor burns. Separate tale recalls a Havana couple’s auto struck by a Lake Shore Electric Limited train near Monroeville, with a child needing stitches but no major injuries. See Times Past on Page 3.
January marks School Board Recognition Month as the Ohio School Boards Association honors 718 local and joint boards and educational service centers. South Central Local Schools join statewide notice praising five board members Steve Gray Bryan Hamman Bob Morgan Jeff Oney and Leann Palm for their dedicated service to students and community.
On January 31, 1606 in London Guy Fawkes a principal conspirator in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament leaps to his death moments before execution for treason He had been found secreted in a Parliament cellar with two tons of gunpowder.
The Oxford English Dictionary began with a 1857 plan by London's Philological Society to compile a comprehensive word list from 1150 A.D. to the present. The project spanned over four decades, with the first portion published on February 1, 1884, marking the start of a monumental linguistic endeavor.
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