Ray L. Burkholder, 96 of Pandora, retired farmer, and renowned National Weather Service observer died Thursday, Oct. 17, 2013, at the Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.
He was born July 3, 1917, in rural Pandora to the late Christian C. and Bertha (Zuercher) Burkholder. Following the death of his mother in 1921 Ray resided with his paternal uncle and aunt, Amos and Katie Burkholder, until his father’s marriage to Irma (Foltz) in 1925.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's soccer team responded favorably to its first match at the Sears Complex in over three weeks when the Beavers welcomed rival Anderson University on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013.
Note: This story is reprinted with permission from The Toledo Free Press. Don Diller is a Pandora-Gilboa HS grad and Bluffton College alumnus. His nephew, Jason Diller, lives in Bluffton.
By Michael Miller, editor in chief, Toledo Free Press
United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey may have taken the first step toward understanding her mother in Bluffton, Ohio.
She said as much following an Oct. 15 lecture at Bluffton University, where her late mother, Gwendolyn Ann Turnbough, attended college for one year 50 years ago.
