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Triplett women's team

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 31, 2011 - 6:43am

Here's a Leland Gerber black and white photo of a women's sports team from the Triplett company. Senior Icon viewers, please help us to identify these women and, if it is a team sport, share some information for other viewers.

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Class of 1968 in Mrs. Howe's kindergarten

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 24, 2011 - 10:29am

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I may get in trouble for posting this photo. You'll soon figure out why.

This photo represents some of the members of the eventual Bluffton High School graduating class of 1968.

This is Elfrieda Howe's private kindergarten during the 1955-56 school year. It is located at 118 S. Spring St. Today it is the Jon and Sally Weaver Sommer residence. It was a morning kindergarten.

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Victorian beauty

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 18, 2011 - 12:50pm
Original Bluffton elementary school

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The ghost of schools past stands proudly at the end of Church Street. the Victorian beauty served the students of Bluffton from the 1880s to the early 1950s.

This is a copy of a Will Triplett glass plate negative taken prior to 1900.

Viewer comments are welcome. (There are no class lists on the front doors.)

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Stauffer family

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 12, 2011 - 4:44am

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Kathleen Mikkelsen provided this Stauffer family photo.

Seated are Isaac and Catherine Herr Stauffer. Standing from left are their children, Ruth Stauffer Stuckey, Chester Stauffer, Raymond Stauffer, Mabel Stauffer Minck, Howard Stauffer, Emmet Stauffer and Florence Stauffer Hamilton.

Each of the children graduated from Bluffton High School. The family lived on South Lawn Avenue in the home where Basil and Rosemary Meyer live today (152 S. Lawn Ave.)

Kathleen's father was Chester Stauffer.

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BHS class of 1968 as sixth graders

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 7, 2011 - 4:23pm

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Members of Joe Cremean's Bluffton sixth grade class 1961-62 school year (BHS class of 1968).

Front row from left, Martha Luginbuhl, Mary Jane Baker, Linda Augsburger, Anise Sponagle, Doris Hamman, Bill Hauenstein, Todd Gratz, Yvonne Agner, Linda Mericle.

Second row from left, Barbara Diller, Barbara Martz, Pat Benroth, Jim Heiks, Fred Steiner, Barbara Basinger, Joyce Reichenbach, Jerry Kloeppel, Larry Conrad, Carol Koontz.

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Fill it up for 15 cents in Bluffton

Posted by Fred Steiner on August 2, 2011 - 4:46am

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Kathleen Mikkelsen of Mennonite Memorial Home provided this classic photo to The Icon. It shows Ralph Diller, operator of Brilliant Bronze gasoline station, a product of Johnson Oil Co. The photo was taken between 1938-40.

The station was located on the site of today's Bluffton Dari Freeze at the corner of South Main and Bentley.

There are several items to examiine in this photo. The price of gas is 10 cents, 5 cents for tax, totalling 15 cents (per gallon?). Notice the "contains lead" labels.

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