Earl L. Bechtol
Aug 19, 2018
Earl L. Bechtol, age 83, of Montpelier, Ohio, died at 1:48 A.M. on Sunday, August 19, 2018, at the Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center near Defiance. Mr. Bechtol worked at several area factories, including Spangler Candy Company, Hayes-Albion and Trim Trends. He was a member of the Ohio Army National Guard from 1954-1960. Earl was a member of First...
Paul M. Hall
Aug 15, 2018
Paul M. Hall, age 84, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:01 A.M. on Tuesday, August 15, 2018, at his home. Mr. Hall worked as a plater at Fulton Tubing and had managed a restaurant and night club in Mobile, Alabama for twelve years before moving to the Bryan area. He also worked for AT&T and managed Lester’s Diner for a...
John F. Strup
Aug 14, 2018
John F. Strup, age 85, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 4:30 P.M. on Tuesday, August 14, 2018, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton after an extended illness. A veteran of the United States Army, he served in the Korean Conflict from 1953-1954. He was employed as a machinist by The Aro Corporation in Bryan, retiring with forty-five years of...
William F. Snider
Aug 12, 2018
William F. Snider, age 90, of Bryan, passed away Sunday, August 12, 2018 at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice Center near Defiance. He retired from GM Power Train and served in the U.S. Navy from 1948 to 1952. William enjoyed woodworking and spending time with his dog Salty.William F. Snider was born on July 17, 1928, in Mannington, West Virginia,...
David L. Seslar
Aug 10, 2018
David L. Seslar, age 75, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 7:47 A.M. on Friday, August 10, 2018, at Dupont Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he was a patient. Mr. Seslar was a 1963 graduate of Edgerton High School, where he was lettered four years as a catcher on the baseball team, was a member of the first wrestling...
Kenneth E. Norrick
Aug 4, 2018
Kenneth E. Norrick, age 103, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 8:20 P.M. on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton where he was a resident. Kenneth retired from GM PowerTrain in Defiance on June 30, 1978 with 24 years of service. He was also a long time farmer. He was a member of the West Unity...
Dorothy M. Shaw
Aug 1, 2018
Dorothy Mae Shaw, age 91, of rural Montpelier, Ohio, died at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, August 1, 2018, in her home. Mrs. Shaw was a 1945 graduate of Edon High School. She devoted her life to her faith and family and will be fondly remembered as a spunky, fun-loving, sweet and kind-hearted woman.Dorothy Mae Shaw was born on December 1,...
James Douglas Ramey
Jul 27, 2018
James Douglas Ramey, age 65, of Bryan, Ohio, and formerly of Wabash, Indiana, passed away on Friday, July 27, 2018, at his home in Bryan. Mr. Ramey was a graduate of Southwood High School in Wabash and had retired from CK Technologies in Montpelier, Ohio. He was active in masonic life as a member of Lafontaine Lodge #295 where he...
Patricia Ann Osmun
Jul 24, 2018
Patricia Ann Osmun, age 74, of St. Joe, Indiana, passed away at 5:50 A.M. on Tuesday, July 24, 2018, at Lutheran Life Villages at Pine Valley, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, after an extended illness. Mrs. Osmun was a 1961 graduate of Bryan High School and was a loving, devoted homemaker, wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was a devoted Girl...
Ruth P. Merrifield
Jul 23, 2018
Ruth P. Merrifield, age 78, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 4:55 P.M. on Monday, July 23, 2018, in her home, surrounded by her family. Mrs. Merrifield was a 1959 graduate of Springfield High School in Holland, Ohio, and had been employed by Spangler Candy Company as a candy cane spinner, retiring in 2001, with twenty-two years of service. She...
Stephanie C. Swihart
Jul 23, 2018
Stephanie Carol Swihart, age 46, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 7:44 A.M. on Monday, July 23, 2018, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was a patient, after a brief illness. Stephanie was a private home care giver and was an avid fan of NASCAR and the Pittsburgh Steelers. She was also devoted to her...
Thomas Franklin Harbor, Sr.
Jul 22, 2018
Thomas Franklin Harbor, Sr., age 70, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 1:20 P.M. on Sunday, July 22, 2018, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton, where he was a resident. Mr. Harbor had been employed by ITT Higbie in Archbold, Ohio, and retired with more than forty years of service at the time the plant closed. He was an...
Harold J. Borton
Jul 21, 2018
Harold J. Borton, age 89, of Montpelier, Ohio, passed away at 7:50 P.M. on Saturday, July 21, 2018, at his son’s home in Parma, Michigan. Harold was a farmer, a fireman for Norfolk & Western railroad, worked in maintenance and after his retirement, drove cars for a dealership. He was a US Army veteran of the Korean War. Harold enjoyed...
Barbara B. Rice
Jul 20, 2018
Barbara B. Rice, age 74, of Farmer, Ohio, passed away on Friday, July 20, 2018, at Park View Nursing Center in Edgerton where she had been a patient. She worked for many years at Bob’s Dairy Bar in Edgerton and Lester’s Diner in Bryan.Barbara was born February 16, 1944, in Buffalo, New York. She married Layel J. Rice on April...
P. Brent Roose
Jul 19, 2018
Perry Brent Roose, age 71, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 12:38 P.M. on Thursday, July 19, 2018, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Center- Bryan. Brent was the owner of Roose & Associates, Inc. in Bryan. He was a US Army veteran of the Vietnam War and a Purple Heart recipient. He was a member of Bryan VFW Post #2489,...
LaMar W. Allomong
Jul 18, 2018
LaMar W. Allomong, age 88, of Edon, Ohio, died at 2:30 A.M. on Wednesday, July 18, 2018, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan, Ohio, where he was a resident. Mr. Allomong was a 1948 graduate of Edon High School, served in the United States Air Force from 1951-1955 and was employed by The Aro Corporation in Bryan as a purchasing...
Daniel James Keller
Jul 17, 2018
Daniel James Keller, age 54, of Edon, Ohio, passed away at 8:30 P.M. on Tuesday, July 17, 2018, in Cleveland Clinic, where he was a patient, after a chronic illness. Mr. Keller was a 1982 graduate of Edon High School and served in the United States Air Force from 1983-1990. He had formerly worked at Trim Trends and was a...
Jeffrey Alan Evans
Jul 13, 2018
Jeffrey Alan Evans, age 57, of Hudson, Michigan, passed away on Friday, July 13, 2018. Mr. Evans was a machinist and tool and die setter. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, and spending time with family and his dogs. The son of William “Bill” and Nancy (Eisenacher) Evans, he was born on May 20, 1961, in Addison, Michigan. Survivors include his...
Friedhelm Woelke
Jul 10, 2018
Friedhelm Woelke, age 81, of Novi Michigan, passed away at 6:41 P.M. on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, at Glenn Park of Defiance where he was a resident. Mr. Woelke had immigrated to the United States from Germany where he was born and raised and for many years worked as was a manufacturing engineer for Bohle Machine Tools in Farmington, Michigan,...
Marshall C. Leslie
Jul 10, 2018
Marshall C. Leslie, age 93, of Stryker, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in his home. Mr. Leslie was a 1942 graduate of Bryan High School, was a lifelong farmer and for twenty-five years was manager of the Federal Land Bank Association of Bryan. Marshall came to know the Lord in his teens, had an unwavering faith in...
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