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Ministerial Association will share video among its congregations

As an observance of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Bluffton Area Ministerial Association, BAMA, invites the community to join together during Week of Prayer and Christian Unity Jan. 18 to 25.

In recent years, the BAMA pastors marked the week with an annual pulpit exchange.

“In the exchange, congregations welcome a pastor from another local church to lead worship, demonstrating the importance of strong ecumenical relationships within the body of Christ, the universal Church,” said Rev. Karol Farris Schilling, pastor of Bluffton Presbyterian Church.

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Remembering Jo Croft

Jo Anna (Diller) Croft, 79, of Bluffton, died Jan. 13, 2021. Click here for her obituary. The following thoughts and memories were provided by her family

Jo was kind and loving, she exuded warmth and set all at ease with her calming demeanor.

She was raised in Bluffton and graduated with a teaching degree from Bluffton University. Jo was beloved by students in her elementary and Montessori school classrooms.

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Jo Anna Croft was a Bluffton University graduate

Election poll worker, Lions Club member, Bluffton Hospital volunteer

Jo Anna (Diller) Croft, 79, of Bluffton, died Jan. 13, 2021, surrounded by family. Jo was born July 10, 1941, to Archie and Velma Diller.

Click here for a family tribute.

She was raised in Bluffton and graduated with a teaching degree from Bluffton University. On Aug. 4, 1990, she married Bill Croft and they were married 30 years. 

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Vaccines to 80 and older start next week

In coordination with the state roll out of COVID-19 vaccine, several area health care providers will begin administering vaccine to those age 80 and older starting next week, by appointment only.  

Allen County Public Health will maintain a list on their website and update it as providers are identified in the county. Click here for the website.

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Bluffton's gaggle

Technically a gaggle of Canada Geese is the term used when the birds are in the air. So, what do we call them when they gaggle, team or skein in the National Quarry? You guess is as good as ours. Here's this winter's familiar flock, gaggling or not, in the quarry.

Abraham and Anna Locher Lugibihl

Our Swiss connection - part 9

This is the ninth installment in this series. Click here for the previous installment.
Note the various spellings of Lugibihl in this story.

Abraham Lugibihl was born Nov. 11, 1838, in Riley Township. He was the sixth of 10 children born to John C. and Anna Marie “Thüler”  (Americanized to Diller) Luginbuhl. The family came from France in 1824 to Holmes County, Ohio, and then to Riley Township in 1837.

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