Here is the Bluffton Methodist Episcopal choir. Fortunately someone took the time to write the names of the members, so today, although most of the names are unfamiliar to us, we, at least know who they are. Beyond that there are several other things in the photo worth pointing out.
First the members: Standing from left, Oren (Soapy), Florence Bogart, (woman unidentified), Alice Lambert Lugibill and Effa Grindell.
Ina M. Ewing, 89, Pandora, Ohio, died at 8:03 p.m., Jan. 21, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was born Aug. 6, 1920, to Ralph and Ethel (Pacey) Cherry in Pandora. In 1940 she married Marcus Moser and he died in 1971. She married Cliff Stewart in 1971 and he died in 1972. She married Stanley Ewing in 1976 and he died in 1994.
She was a homemakier and worked in the cafeteria at RCA and Whirlpool, Findlay, She was a member of St. John Mennonite Church, Pandora. She was also a member of the Putnam County Farm Bureau.
BOARD OF ZONING AND APPEALS MINUTES
Date: December 14, 2009
(These minutes were published in the Jan. 22, 2010 Bluffton council packet)
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: 218 S. Main Street
BZA: Bill Gable, Gordon Diller, and John Harbison
Administration: Nancy Benroth
Petitioner: Sean & JoLynn Burrell, and Meg Burrell
The legal notice was published in the Bluffton News on December 3, 2009.
Letters were sent to all the property owners within 200 feet of all property lines.
In her Martin Luther King Jr. Day address Addie Banks challenged the audience at Bluffton University to rethink the meaning of Rev. King's life through the lens of Christian faith.
"While King's life is often understood to be about social action for civil rights and peace witness, the core of his life and witness was really about a willingness to accept personal transformation in response to God's call," said Banks.
By the age of 53, you would think I'd learned the fine art of organization. But maybe it has nothing to do with age. Probably it's genetic. Here's where I get to blame my parents for something -- my tendency toward disorganization. It's all their fault.
So here I am...married to Mr. Organization himself. I'd hoped that after 30 years of marriage, I'd have gained some of his skills through osmosis. Nope. Hasn't happened.
By Joanne Niswander
As some of you know, my husband Dean passed away just after the first of the year. It wasn't unexpected. He had been in Mennonite Memorial Home for the past 15 months.
In addition to physical problems that kept him in a wheelchair, he had Alzheimer's disease. And that is what I want to talk about.
Greg Ring doesn't make it easy to take a photo of his license plates. He covers the plates with some sort of protective devise. It really causes a glare when you take a photo with a flash. Greg ought to know better. GMDE stands for Greg, Mary, Don and Ethan Ring.
I grew up on a farm in good country. A creek ran through the southwestern corner of it. A creek is a natural waterway larger than a run but smaller than a river. In romantic lore, poets have celebrated the rivers of the earth - the Rhine and Danube, the Volga and Don, the Tigris and Euphrates. In Allen and Putnam counties it's the Riley, the Blanchard, the Auglaize and Ottawa of which natives speak. So close to home, those small waters seldom rise to the level of romance.
