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Christopher B. Kohli, 53 died Sept. 12, 2013, at his residence. He was born July 7, 1960 in Ft. Wayne, Ind., to the late Maurice and Rowena (Boyer) Kohli Jr.  On July 29, 1981, he married Beth Businger and she survives in Rawson.

Chris was a retired pipefitter for Lima Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 776.  

Survivors also include a son Zachery (Taunja Wickham) Kohli of Bluffton; a daughter Ashley (Shanon) Hauenstein of Bluffton; and three grandchildren Haleigh Gatchel, Brayden Hauenstein and Makenna Hauenstein. He was preceded in death by a brother Stephen Kohli.

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Members of the Bluffton High School class of 1944 gathered recently for a 69th class reunion.

Back row, from left, Raymond Kohli, Robert Stratton, Harry Minck. 

Front row, from left, Dorothy Burkholder Balmer, Ruth Burkholder Shoemaker, Glenna Swick Marquart and Margaret Griffith Carr.

It could be the largest single garage sale in Hardin County - make that northwestern Ohio.

"It's" Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Ada, football garage sale. This year's sale is from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Sept. 14, on the Wilson property on the east side of Ada.

The sale brings a couple thousand football and other sports fans to Ada for a once-a-year chance for footballs including overruns, blemished footballs, scrap footballs and many other miscellaneous sporting goods items.

The company is already staking out the area where sale items will be on sale.

Vicki Garmon took this action photo of the Bluffton boys' vs. Ada boys soccer game earlier this month. BHS won the contest.

Climbing the stairs to the second-floor reading room of Bluffton University’s Musselman Library brought back strong memories for an African-American graduate who returned to campus in 2011 for the first time in 45 years.

And as Bluffton embarks on yearlong study of race and ethnicity in America as part of its civic engagement program, the insights triggered by Dr. Elaine (Ragsdale) Schott’s memories remain relevant, university President Dr. James Harder said Sept. 10 in his annual President’s Forum address.

This ugly duckling of the milkweed plant is probably a monarch butterfly by now. The photo was taken earlier this month in a Bluffton garden.

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