Here's today's installment of the Bluffton High School Class of 2020 Senior Spotlight. Each weekday until the end of May the Icon will feature photos and future plans for four BHS seniors. Students will be featured in a four-set random order.
Here is a group of young women in Bluffton taken in 1906.
From left, Hulda Schaublin, Clara Wilson, Verba Ronston Ulch, Ora Kimmel, Elvina Hover, Florence Wilson Hilty, Bessie Bonnell and Blanche Williams Triplett.
The identification are thanks to someone taking the time to write the names on the back of the photo.
Some of the local relationships in this photo include Florence Wilson Hilty (sixth from left). She is the paternal great-grandmother of Cara Young Davies and Brandt Young.
The Bluffton High School graduating class of 2020 had its senior year cut short due to a world-wide pandemic. That didn't stop members from holding a parade through town for their last hoorah– a secret that practically everyone knew about. (Jamie Nygaard photos)
Paul Frederick Gossard, 85, died May 24, 2020, at Mennnonite Memorial Home in Bluffton. Paul was born Dec. 20, 1934 in Mt. Victory, Ohio, to the late Everet Merrel and Mildred Roxie (King) Gossard. On June 18, 1960, he married Linda Duncan Gossard, who preceded him in death on Nov. 27, 2010.
Paul retired from Cooper Tire & Rubber Company, Findlay, after 30 years and drove vehicles for Nienberg Auto Sales and Magnum Trucking Equipment after retirement. Paul was a veteran of the U.S. Army.
Here's today's installment of the Bluffton High School Class of 2020 Senior Spotlight. Each weekday until the end of May the Icon will feature photos and future plans for four BHS seniors. Students will be featured in a four-set random order.
