Obituaries

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Elisabeth Gratzer, 98, died at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Irene O. Miller, 97, died at 5:10 p.m. March 17, 2013, at Richland Manor, Bluffton. She was born May 5, 1915, in Beaverdam to the late Earl and Sylvia (Beemer) Bowers. On Sept. 28, 1935, she married Harold D. Miller and he died Sept. 19, 1991.

Mrs. Miller was a homemaker and also retired from Elder-Beerman, Lima. She was a member of the Cairo United Methodist Church. She was a graduate of Beaverdam High School.

Survivors include two sons Terry Miller of Lima, Gary (Donna) Miller of Bluffton; five grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and eight great great grandchildren.

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Cleora Louise Skinner, 97 died at 5:35 p.m. March 14, 2013, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born Nov. 14, 1915 on the family farm in Jackson Township, Allen County, Ohio to the late Peter P. and Louise (Fett) Badertscher.  She was married to Forest Golden and later divorced.

She attended her first eight grades in a one-room school by the name of Peanut Center located on the corner of PeeVee and Sandusky roads. She graduated from Lafayette-Jackson High School in 1933 and Lima Business College in 1936.

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Cleora Skinner, 97, died March 14, 2013 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Judith “Judy” D. Mericle, 71 died at 11:45 p.m. March 13, 2013. at Lima Memorial Health System.  She was born July 6, 194,1 in Putnam County, Ohio to Grenfall and Geraldine “Jerry” (Stirn) Mericle.  Her mother survives in Bluffton.

She was retired as a legal secretary for Mike Bender Attorney. She was a member of Pandora Missionary Church. She was a Pandora-Gilboa graduate.

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Gretchen O. Lehman, 91, of Pandora, died at 7:50 pm March 8, 2013, at St. Rita’s Medical Center, Lima.  She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Berne, Indiana, to the late B. Franklin and Nan Marie (Eckrote) Sprunger. On June 28, 1942 she married Richard B. Lehman and he died June 19, 1991.

Mrs. Lehman was a homemaker and had also worked as a cook at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. She was a member of the Pandora Missionary Church, the International Missionary Women, and was a charter member of Asi-No-Mas Club. She volunteered at Et Cetera Shop, Bluffton, and Hilty Memorial Home. 

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