The Bluffton High School class of 1957 held its 55th class reunion in the Bluffton town hall on July 14.
3rd Row: Larry Moser, Marvin Diller, Dan Gleason, Ron Geiser, Gary Lora, Rich Garmatter, Jake Basinger, Paul Jorg, Bill Herr
2nd Row: John Murray, Judy (Tschantz) Koepke, Linda (Core) Kramer, Nan (Schmidt) Knee, Jane (Badertscher) Walter, Christine (Geiger) Shumaker, David Shumaker
1st Row: Don Badertscher, Judy (Schiffke) Hauenstein, Raeleen (Bucher) Greenawalt, Eva (Galloway) Pickett, Ruth (Augsburger) Koontz, Margie (Gerber) Closson, Arlene (Balmer) Geiser.
Clyde W. Hartman, 88, of Bluffton died at 6:15 p.m. July 14, 2012, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born Jan. 17, 1924, in Orange Township to Wilbur and Alberta Basinger Hartman. On June 1, 1947 he married Mary Alice Ream and she survives.
Here's the seven-day report for July from Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer.
Date High Low Rain
July 3 94 73
July 4 100 73
July 5 98 75
July 6 101 71
July 7 102 78
July 8 87 69
July 9 88 61 0.10
David A. Moser, 58, of Mt. Cory died at 2:56 p.m. July 13, 2012, at Bluffton Hospital. He was born Dec. 31, 1953, in Bluffton to James A. and Mary Jane Joseph Moser who preceded him in death. On July 2, 1977 he married Linda Shepler and she survives.
Mr. Moser retired from CSX after 38 years. He was a member of the Findlay Moose, and the Eagles, American Legion and VFW, all of Columbus Grove. He was a 1972 graduate of Bluffton High School.
By Mary Pannabecker Steiner
One of my brothers lives in the mountains of Virginia where he regularly picks a variety of wild berries on his runs up the mountainside and into the woods. This never really impressed me because I don't like blackberries and raspberries so why bother picking them?
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We would like to thank all the helping hands that were on Columbus Grove Road horse barn cleaning up storm debris. We really appreciate it!
With great gratitude,
Shawn, Nancy, Shane & Kolton Stratton
The June 29 severe wind storm was not kind to neighoring Columbus Grove. In fact, Columbus Grove was hit much harder than Bluffton in the storm.
The most striking result of the storm was that the Christy's on the Square building, a popular chocolate shop, experienced a lost front face.
Christy's is temporarily closed. The Icon is not aware of a decision on what will take place to the building on Grove's Main Street. The upper floor housed several apartments.
Vehicles parked in front of the business were demolished when the front face collapsed.
45817 has a new postmaster. He's Darrell Von Sossan of Ottoville, who started here on June 30. The new postmaster is a career employee with the United States Postal Service, where he first started as a clerk-carrier in Van Wert in 1988.
Von Sossan accepted the Bluffton position after serving as postmaster of Leipsic, 45856, since 2000. He replaces Danielle Laing who served the Bluffton post office as officer in charge since August 2011 when Everett Collier retired as postmaster.
Laing is now the officer in charge at the Leipsic post office.
