Obituaries

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Imajean Mathewson

Imajean I. Mathewson, 78 of Bluffton died at 6:40 p.m. Nov. 11, 2010, at Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg. She was born July 8, 1932 in Putnam County, Ohio to Albert and Loretta (Okuley) Klass.

On June 30, 1951, she married Larry Mathewson and he survives.

She was currently working for the Bluffton schools where over the years she had held numerous positions.

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Gideon Steiner

Gideon Steiner, 93, of Bluffton died 2:40 pm Nov. 10, 2010, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born April 10, 1917, in Ontario, Canada, to Gideon and Sarah Wilhelm Steiner.

On Dec. 8, 1941 he married Ellnora Amstutz and she preceded him in death on Aug. 17, 1995. Mr. Steiner retired from Durez Corp., Kenton where he was a first class stationary engineer. He also worked at BLH, Lima and was a custodian at the Bluffton Schools.

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Gideon Steiner, 93, died at 2:40 p.m. Nov. 10, 2010, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral Home, Bluffton.

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Arline W. Wagner, 99, of Bluffton, died at 3:55 a.m., Nov. 8, 2010, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

She was born Nov. 18, 1910 in Dola, Ohio, to Willis and Myrtle Swartz Wolfe. She married Daniel W. Wagner and he died in 1980.Mrs. Wagner was a homemaker.

Survivors are a daughter, Norma Parent, Bluffton; grandson, Daniel (Denise) Parent, Aiken, S.C., granddaughter, Roxanne (Mark) Pool, Lexington, Ky. and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Donald, Dale and Robert Wolfe, and one sister, Kathryn Mills.

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Carol Patterson

Carol Christine Patterson, 92, of Wayne, Penna., and formerly of Bluffton, and Greenbelt, Md., died Nov. 1, 2010 at the Neighborhood Hospice Inpatient Unit, West Chester, Penna.

She was born April 16, 1918 in Orange Twp, Hancock County, Ohio to Clarence and Mabel Anderson Cookson. On May 22, 1941 she married Charles A. Patterson and he preceded her in death on Nov. 2, 1989.

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Kathleen A. Evilsizer

Kathleen A. Evilsizer, 82, Bluffton, died at 7:42 a.m., Oct. 31, 2010 at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton. She was born July 29,1928, to John T. and Margaret E. (Woods) Moran in Lincolnshire, England. On June 13, 1952, she married James S. Evilsizer and he died Nov. 29, 1992.

She was a homemaker and member of the Bluffton Senior Citizens Center.

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