Marion Blumenthal Lazan’s second great-granddaughter was born this morning (Oct. 29). Two months ago, she and her husband, Nathaniel, celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. And her mother lived to age 104, dying just last December, six weeks shy of her 105th birthday.
Lazan happily related those milestones Tuesday at Bluffton University. But none of them would have been possible without a nearly 70-year-old triumph of “perseverance, determination, faith and, above all, hope,” she said in a filled Founders Hall on campus.
Martha Jane Beach, 91, of Jenera died at 6:10 a.m. Oct. 28, 2013 at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born March 13, 1922, in Monroe Township, Allen County to Clarence and Esther Slusser Jones. On Jan. 13, 1951 she married Eugene W. Beach and he preceded her in death on May 28, 1973.
Mrs. Beach retired from Triplett Corp., Bluffton. She was a member of Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Jenera. She was a graduate of Mt. Cory High School.
Guy Jones (center) speaks to faculty and students following his Oct. 22 presentation, “Who Said I’m an Indian?” at Bluffton University.
Co-founder of the Dayton, Ohio-based Miami Valley Council for Native Americans, Jones addressed stereotypical labels applied to native cultures, citing the Washington Redskins football team as an example.
“There is no honor in that name,” said Jones, a Hunkpapa Lakota. “We have been lost in translation.” He also discussed economic and educational issues for Native Americans.
Here's a stretch of Bluffton that you've never seen. That's because it is Bluffton, Missouri. Phil Pannabecker recently biked through it and took this photo. Click here for more views of our sister community.
