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Vera Burkholder

Lifelong Bluffton resident Vera Burkholder is the June resident of the month at Richland Manor.

She graduated from Bluffton High School and studied to be a teacher at Bluffton College. After graduating she taught 19 years as a first grade teacher at Allen East. She is a lifelong member of the Bluffton Missionary Church.

June worship service leaders at Mennonite Memorial Home were recently announced. Here's the schedule of services:

Sunday, June 3 - Chaplain Bill Herr
Sunday, June 10 - Renee Caskie
Sunday, June 17 - Elizabeth McDowell
Sunday, June 24 - Chaplain Bill Herr

Sunday services are at 9:30 a.m.

Tuesday, June 5 - Carol Clements, St. John's UCC
Tuesday, June 12 - Matthew Zuehlke, Bluffton Presbyterian
Tuesday, June 19 - Steve Yoder, First Mennonite
Tuesday, June 26 - Sister Carol Inkrott, St. Mary's Catholic

St. John's United Church of Christ announces its summer Sunday hours, according to Rev. Carol Clements, pastor.

Sunday School is at 9 a.m. and worship is at 10 a.m.

The church June newsletter is available to Icon viewers as an attachment at the bottom of this story.

Bluffton Lions present the 45th Bluffton Festival of Wheels Cruise-In, Friday, June 15.

The event takes place in downtown Bluffton from 2 to 8 p.m. Jeff Houston, 1950s DJ will play music from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m.

The Flag City Cloggers will perform from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and the Night Jazz Swing Band will perform on the Bluffton Presbyterian Church lawn from 6 to 8 p.m.

Several Bluffton downtown businesses will hold sidewalk sales all afternoon.

A registration form for car owners is an attachment to this story.

Mennonite Home Communities of Ohio (MHCO) June "Ask the Expert," program is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, at the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center, 132 N. Main St., according to Daren Lee of MHCO.

The program provides adults 55 and over in the greater Bluffton area an opportunity to speak directly to an MHCO nurse and social worker present at each session.

MMH centenarian Pauline Hirschler and her daughter, Marilyn Bishop.

Mennonite Memorial Home held its annual Women's Celebration with two programs on May 21 and May 22.

The first featured a catered meal by Special Occasions and a guest speaker, Anne Stratton. Her presentation was "Toys of the Past."

The second program featured Ron Friesen, an MHCO duplex resident, as the guest speaker. Friesen brought some of his vintage toy collection and spoke on various items.

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