Celeste F. Welly Blinzler
Oct 19, 2009
Celeste F. Welly Blinzler, age 92, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:08 A.M. on Monday, October 19, 2009, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan, Ohio, where she was a patient after a brief illness. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Bryan, Ohio. Celeste F. Welly Blinzler was born on July 25, 1917, in Blakeslee, Ohio, the...
Gordon Thomas Mowat
Oct 12, 2009
Gordon Thomas Mowat, age 63, of Ney, Ohio, died at 7:19 P.M. on Monday, October 12, 2009, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers of Bryan, Ohio, shortly after admittance. Mr. Mowat was a 1963 graduate of Fairview High School. He entered the U.S. Navy on September 16, 1965, and served for four years. He retired from the Defiance Post Office...
Maxine J. Hawkins
Oct 10, 2009
Maxine J. Hawkins, age 91, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 4:15 A.M. on Saturday, October 10, 2009, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, where she was a resident. Mrs. Hawkins was a member of the Edgerton Church of Christ and the Ladies Aide. Maxine J. Hawkins was born on September 23, 1918, in Bryan, Ohio, the daughter of Ernest...
Debra Lynn Kizer
Oct 9, 2009
Debra Lynn Kizer, age 51, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, October 9, 2009, in Cleveland, Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, where she was a patient. Mrs. Kizer was a graduate of Edgerton High School and Four County Joint Vocational School. She was a cafeteria cook at Edgerton Local Schools and a member of Life Changing Realities Fellowship in...
Larry L. Laub
Oct 9, 2009
Larry L. Laub, age 66, of Lake Seneca, near Montpelier, Ohio, died on Friday, October 9, 2009, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient. He was a 1961 graduate of Stryker High School. Mr. Laub was a longtime resident of Hicksville, Ohio, and of New Palestine, Indiana, where he worked for International Harvester/Navistar, retiring in...
Virgil O. Sloan
Oct 3, 2009
Virgil O. Sloan, age 86, of rural Stryker, Ohio, died on Saturday, October 3, 2009, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio. He was born on September 15, 1923, near Stryker, the son of Otis and Dora (Mann) Sloan. On August 6, 1950, he married Wilma Willson of Ai, Ohio. The family celebrates his life as a caring,...
Paul W. Thomas
Oct 1, 2009
Paul W. "Doc" Thomas, D.C., age 79, of Defiance, Ohio, died at 11:34 A.M. on Thursday, October 1, 2009, shortly after admittance to Defiance Regional Medical Center. Dr. Thomas was a chiropractor, practicing in Defiance for thirty years until his retirement in 2002. He was a graduate of Montpelier High School and a veteran of the United States Air Force,...
Don C. Hey
Sep 26, 2009
Don C. Hey, age 68, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 10:25 P.M. on Saturday, September 26, 2009, in his home after a brief illness. Mr. Hey was a 1959 graduate of Wren High School and graduated from Toledo Barber College in 1960. He operated D&D Barber Shop for nearly fifty years in Bryan. Don had been a member of the...
William C. Runkle
Sep 25, 2009
William C. “Bill” Runkle, age 79, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 12:20 P.M. on Friday, September 25, 2009, at Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center, Bryan, Ohio, where he was a patient. Mr. Runkle was a 1947 graduate of Sandusky High School and was a veteran of the United States Army, serving in Korea from 1951-1952. A plumber by trade, Mr....
Harold Ray Steele
Sep 23, 2009
Harold R. Steele, age 94, of Edgerton, Ohio, and former Decatur, Indiana, and Columbia, Ohio, resident, died at 3:30 A.M. on Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at Park View Nursing Center, Edgerton, Ohio, where he was a resident for six years. Mr. Steele was a member of the Columbia Church of Christ, Columbia, Ohio. He was employed by Norwalk Truck Lines...
Nina Josephine Dangler
Sep 12, 2009
Nina Josephine Dangler, age 93, of Bryan, Ohio, went to be with Jesus at 6:31 A.M. on Saturday, September 12, 2009, in Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan, where she was a patient. Mrs. Dangler worked as a clerk at the Belmont store in Edgerton, Ohio, for ten years and was also employed as a secretary at Airmate, Bryan, from...
Denver Higley
Sep 10, 2009
Denver Higley, age 84, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 2:55 P.M. on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where he was a patient. Mr. Higley attended Bryan High School. He was a veteran of the United States Army Air Corps, serving with the 506th Fighter Group and participated in ground combat at Iwo...
John P. Schelling
Sep 10, 2009
John P. Schelling, age 101, of Bryan, Ohio, and most recently of Indian Lake, Ohio, where he resided with his daughter, died at 8:10 P.M. on Thursday, September 10, 2009, at Lima Memorial Hospital, Lima, Ohio, where he was a patient. Mr. Schelling was a member of the United States Army, serving in World War II. He was employed by...
Ralph S. Bush, Jr.
Sep 6, 2009
Ralph S. Bush, Jr., age 78, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 8:43 P.M. on Sunday, September 6, 2009, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where he was a patient. Mr. Bush was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, having served in Korea. He worked as a machinist for many years with Goss Manufacturing and Rockwell-Collins in...
Joshua W. Wodarski-Felt
Sep 6, 2009
Joshua W. Wodarski-Felt, 4-year-old son of John E. and Jennifer L. Wodarski-Felt, of rural Edon, Ohio, died at 10:58 P.M. on Sunday, September 6, 2009, at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was admitted after an accidental drowning at his home. Joshua is survived by his parents; his siblings, Jory, Kenyon, Dorian, Sawyer, and Harli Wodarski-Felt, at...
Phyllis M. Reas
Aug 23, 2009
Phyllis M. Reas, age 77, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 1:48 A.M. on Sunday, August 23, 2009, at Community Hospitals ands Wellness Centers, Bryan, Ohio, where she had been admitted on Saturday. Mrs, Reas was a nurses’ aide at DeKalb Memorial Hospital in Auburn, Indiana, retiring with thirty-one years of service. She was an emergency medical technician at DeKalb Memorial...
Kenneth L. Hopkins
Aug 17, 2009
Kenneth L. Hopkins, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 5:32 A.M. on Monday, August 17, 2009, at St. Anne’s Hospital in Westerville, Ohio, after a brief illness. Mr. Hopkins and his wife had been living at the Worthington Christian Village in Columbus, Ohio, for the last 1 ½ years. He was a graduate of Edgerton High School and was...
Burl T. Mercer
Aug 15, 2009
Burl T. Mercer, age 69, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 3:05 p.m. on Saturday, August 15, 2009, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio, after a brief illness. Mr. Mercer was employed by Edgerton Metal Products as a trim press operator, retiring in 2001 with the closure of the plant and thirty years of service. Burl T. Mercer...
Viola B. Myers Leslie
Aug 12, 2009
Viola B. Myers Leslie, age 94, of Montpelier, Ohio, died at 9:17 a.m. on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Montpelier, Ohio, after a brief illness. Mrs. Leslie attended both Pulaski and Bryan Schools. She was a member of the Pulaski United Methodist Church and the Pulaski U.M.W. Viola was the cafeteria manager at Pulaski...
Nancy L. Bible
Aug 8, 2009
Nancy L. Bible, age 67, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:33 p.m. on Saturday, August 8, 2009, at Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center after an illness of several weeks. Nancy worked on the Etch-A-Sketch line at the Ohio Art Company in Bryan, retiring on August 31, 2007, with forty-five years of service. She was a member of the Bryan Veterans...