Obituaries

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Dr. Leland Lehman

Dr. Leland C. Lehman, 90, of Bluffton, Ohio died 9:30 p.m. March 12, 2010 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Born Feb. 4, 1920, in Berne, Ind., to Leo E. and Alice Lehman, he married Dorothy Jean Burner on June 24, 1945, and she preceded him in death on April 8, 2005.

Dr. Lehman was a professor of economics. He retired from Bluffton College and had also taught at Denison University, Granville, Ohio, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., and following his retirement, one year at Bethel College, North Newton, Kan.

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Note: A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2010, at the First United Methodist Church in Bluffton.

RoseAnn "Rosie" Rodabaugh Dolan died on Jan. 3, 2010, in Portland, Ore., following a lengthy illness. She was born on Aug. 2, 1954, in Bluffton, Ohio to Dr. Franklin D. and Lois M. Neiswander Rodabaugh, who preceded her in death. She married Christopher Dolan on June 28, 1986, in Bluffton in the garden at the home of her parents.

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Anna Ruth Suter, 80, of Pandora died at 5 a.m. March 8, 2010, at Carlisle House, Bucyrus. Born May 25, 1929, in Pandora to Tillman and Rosa Suter Geiger, she married Wilmer E. Suter on Dec. 28, 1947, and he preceded her in death on Jan. 18, 1988.

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Anna Ruth Suter, 80, of Pandora died 5 a.m. March 8, 2010 at Carlisle House, Bucyrus. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral Home, Bluffton

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Sherwood "Jake" Huser

Sherwood "Jake" Huser, 89, of Pandora, died at 7:50 p.m., March 5, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.

He was born March 9, 1920, in Lima, Ohio, to Philemon and Elizabeth (Basinger) Huser.

Mr. Huser was a retired painter. He was a member of Pandora United Methodist Church, was a life member of the Pandora American Legion Post 616 and was a graduate of Pandora High School.

As a World War II veteran, he was a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge.

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William Kenyon Freeman

William Kenyon Freeman, 96, of Pandora, died at 2:35 a.m., March 5, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. He was born March 7, 1913, in San Ysidro, Calif., to Allen P. and Elizabeth Kenyon Freeman.

On Nov. 23, 1941 he married Mary E. Collier, and she died Sept. 12, 2005.

Mr. Freeman was farmer in Delaware County most of his life until the Alum Creek Watershed Project took their farm at which time they relocated to a farm in Union County (Richwood, Ohio) in 1970.

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