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Mary Magdalene Boyer, 95, of Bluffton died Oct. 9, 2019, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton.  A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m., Sunday, Nov. 3, at the First Mennonite Church, Bluffton. 

Visitation and a luncheon will take place immediately following the service.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

CLICK HERE FOR A VIDEO - It's Fire Prevention Week. In Bluffton that means that the 1920-era Studebaker fire truck, number 1, parades around town. Here's Heidi Steiner's Kindergarten class taking their turn on the big red truck. (Jamie Nygaard photos)

Bluffton First Mennonite Church invites you to participate in a workshop, “Living Thoughtfully, Dying Well”, on Saturday, Nov. 16, from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in the fellowship hall. Dr. Glen E. Miller, a retired physician of Goshen, IN, wrote a book with the same title and will be the keynote speaker.

Issues to be addressed include estate planning, memorial and funeral planning, advanced directives, nursing home and home health, hospice and palliative care.

This drawing is posted above a doorway at Bluffton High School. The third Icon viewer to correctly identify the room number will win 5 tickets to the Shannon Theatre. Email your answer to: [email protected]

By Cort Reynolds
VAN BUREN - The Bluffton volleyball team dropped a four-set match at Van Buren in a non-league battle Wednesday evening to end the regular season.

The Lady Pirates     dropped to 11-11 after their fifth consecutive defeat. VB took the first set 25-15, then Bluffton evened the match with a 26-24 win in set two.

But the Black Knights won the final two games by identical scores of 25-17, 25-17 to improve their record to 16-4.

By Cort Reynolds
BLUFFTON - Playing their second Crestview opponent in a row, the Bluffton girls soccer team lost 1-0 to visiting Ashland Crestview in a non-conference defensive struggle Wednesday evening.

The Lady Pirates fell to 9-6-1 with the defeat, two days after they beat league foe Convoy Crestview 5-0. The powerhouse Lady Cougars improved to 15-0-1 with the win.

AC's Carley Campo scored the game's only goal five minutes into the match via an assist by Kat Leeper. Both defenses kept the offenses off the scoreboard for the final 75 minutes.

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