Vocalist Bethany Babcock and saxophonist Chelsey Parker will present their Bluffton University junior recital at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, in Yoder Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Babcock, from Deshler, Ohio, is a mezzo-soprano and a voice student of Dr. Crystal Sellers Battle, an assistant professor of music. Parker, a McComb, Ohio, resident who will perform on the alto saxophone, is a student of Dr. Adam Schattschneider, a professor of music.
The Bluffton University Gospel Choir, fresh off a late October performance in Hesston, Kan., will present its first campus concert of the 2013-14 academic year at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public; an offering will be taken for music scholarships.
Becca J.R. Lachman, a poet and a faculty member at Ohio University, will read from her work at 4 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, in the Musselman Library Reading Room at Bluffton University. The event, beginning with refreshments at 3:45 p.m., is free and open to the public.
A Mennonite from eastern Ohio, Lachman is the author of the 2012 book of poems, “The Apple Speaks,” and editor of the recent anthology, “A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford.” She also writes the blog, “Confessions of a Tattooed Mennonite.”
A Celebration of Life Service has been scheduled for Michael K. Augsburger to be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Bluffton Town Hall, 154 N. Main St., Bluffton.
The family will receive friends following the service until 4:30 p.m. at the town hall where light refreshments and desserts will be provided.
Arrangements have been entrusted with Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Doris J. Bucher, 81 died Nov. 8, 2013, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was born Sept. 7, 1932 in Benton Ridge to the late Clifford and Lois (Reiter) Niswander. On October 3, 1954 she married Charles Bucher and he died August 2, 2005.
She retired from Triplett Corporation, Bluffton. She was a member of English Lutheran Church, Bluffton. She was a graduate of Cory-Rawson High School.
