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The Icon posted this photo taken by Leland Gerber. Jim Diller provided some background on this photo:

The class is in the Bluffton High School Home Economics class. I believe the teacher is Peg (Gagliardi) Diller, my sister, who taught there in the mid-1950s. 

Fourth from the left in front row is Louella Steiner my aunt, next to her is Verna Diller – my mom, next to Verna is Edna Ramseyer.  Behind Louella is a Mrs. Grismore, who I think Allen Grismore’s wife and grandmother to Ken Bucher.

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Despite the fact that this plate has Ada written all over it, the Icon spotted it in Bluffton.

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Good advice, according to this little guy, who lives in the Bluffton Public Library. If you've never seen him, check out the glass display case in the children's section of the library.

You showed us that funeral directors are people just like us

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By Fred Steiner
Gordon Diller’s father, Roger, once reminded us that when you see two or more local Swiss guys talking, pretty soon they are laughing.

So it was with Gordon. Nearly immediately in any conversation with Gordon, you too, were laughing.

It was good-hearted laughing.  The kind of laughing that made you feel good to be part of the everyday experience of a small town.

Beyond that, Gordon proved that funeral directors were human beings. He showed us that funeral directors have emotions beyond grief. 

Was funeral director of Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton

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Gordon R. Diller, 67, died Aug. 5, 2018, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay.  Gordon was born Dec. 6, 1950, in Pandora to the late Roger and Marjorie (Gratz) Diller. On Dec. 21, 1985 he married Jodi Lugibihl Diller who survives.

Gordon graduated from Pandora-Gilboa High School and then served in the U.S. Navy. Gordon attended Bluffton College and graduated from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science in 1977. 

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Bluffton Public Library celebrated National Coloring Book Day on Thursday. Here's a couple coloring book artists who celebrated the event. Holding her drawing is Isla Gordon-Hancock. Isla's creativity inspired her grandmother, Deb Beer, to also get out the colored pencils, as seen in the next photo.

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