Onalee Lehman Shepler graduated from Bluffton in 2002. She married fellow Bluffton alum Nick Shepler (who graduated in 2005). They have 2 children, Levi age 7 and Ivy 4. She received her Associate of Arts in Early Childhood Education from The Ohio State University in 2004.
Rosemary Spinelli Carroll, a 1969 graduate of Bluffton High School, died in Scottsdale, Ariz., after a long illness. She was the daughter of Bluffton native Mary E. McGinnis Spinelli and granddaughter of Dale Owens McGinnis and Delbert A. McGinnis. The Spinelli family lived in Bluffton for one year while Col. Spinelli served in Vietnam.
Rev. Marilyn Ruth Rayle Kern died on March 15, 2018, at 6:30 a.m. She was born Dec. 27, 1933 in Celina, Ohio, to Rev. Fred D. Rayle and Elsie (Fleck) Rayle. After graduating from John Harris High School in Harrisburg, Penn., Marilyn attended Findlay College, from which she graduated in 1955. She then married G. Richard Kern and raised her family in Findlay, Ohio.
Bluffton girls' teams were in the thick of last weekend's Bluffton Family Recreation girls' basketball tournament. Here's action from the fifth grade team. The next photo shows a fast break during the fourth grade's game.
