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Genevieve Leightner was active in Pandora Missionary Church

Posted by Fred Steiner on November 1, 2012 - 3:16pm

 

Genevieve Marie Leightner, 97, of Pandora died at 8:15 am Nov. 1, 2012, at Bluffton Hospital. She was born Feb. 24, 1915, in Toledo to Edward Guy and Maude Murbach Dilgart. On Sept. 16, 1939, she married Clinton Edward Leightner and he preceded her in death on Sept. 9, 2004.

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Dr. James L. Spinelli was grandson of the late Del McGinnis

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2012 - 4:28pm

Dr. James L. Spinelli, Columbia, South Carolina,  Retired Colonel US Army, was born in Wurzburg, Germany. He entered the United States Army in June 1974, as a distinguished graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, commissioned as a Second Lieutenant. He received his Medical Degree at USUHS In 1982, in Bethesda, MD.

He was the grandson of former Bluffton resident Del McGinnis and he spent some time in Bluffton while he was growing up.

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Gregory Schramm had many Bluffton connections

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 30, 2012 - 4:06pm

Gregory Paul Schramm, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., formerly of Columbus Grove, died at 7:20 a.m. Oct. 24, 2012, at his residence.

He was born Nov. 29, 1953, in Lima to Arthur Schramm and Gladys Schumaker Reese. His father survives in Lima. His mother and stepfather, Gary Reese, survive in Elida. On April 14, 2000, he married Kimberly Sitton, who survives.

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E. Wayne Amstutz owned Amstutz Insurance Agency for 40 years

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 26, 2012 - 7:55pm

Retired Bluffton businessman, E. Wayne Amstutz, 90, of Bluffton died at 12:18 a.m. Oct. 26, 2012 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. 

Wayne and his twin brother, Dwaine, were born in Bluffton to Benjamin and Naomi Amstutz on Aug. 30, 1922. When he was 4 years old his mother died.  In 1931 his father married Elma Diller. Wayne grew up on the family farm in Putnam County. On Feb. 16, 1947 he married Louise Wilch and she survives.

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Mary Jane Cook was a 1936 Bluffton High School graduate

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 25, 2012 - 10:52pm

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Funeral service for Robin Wilch, owner of Groves Bears, Tuesday

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 20, 2012 - 9:09pm

Bluffton businesswoman Robin Sue Wilch, 58, of Lima died at 11:48 p.m. Oct. 19, 2012 at St. Rita’s Medical Center Lima.  She was born Dec. 27, 1953 in Bluffton. Her father, Robert (Terri) Wilch survives near Bluffton and her mother, Sue Kempf Groves, survives in Lima.

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