Ashley Brooke Fields, formerly of Bluffton, and Jonathan David Lucas, formerly of Findlay, announce their engagement. The couple will be married Oct. 25, 2014 at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, Findlay.
Ashley is the daughter of Amie Stratton and Robert Fields of Bluffton. She graduated from Bluffton High School in 2007 and is a graduate of Ohio Northern University with a bachelor's degree in Nursing. Ashley is employed at Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. as a nurse in the cardiothoracic surgical step-down unit.
There are probably more nurses in Bluffton than you might expect.
Maple Crest hosted an alumni gathering of The Mennonite College of Nursing from Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., on June 16. Attending were several Bluffton residents who are graduates of the school.
Persons in the photo accompanying this story are, from left, Doris Garmatter Hamman, Mary Ann Watkins, Marcie Sommer Duehr, Willadene Keeney, Elfrieda Landes Ramseyer and Janet Krejci. Click on photo to enlarge.
Andrea Hines Williams, a graduate of Bluffton High School and daughter of Lisa Hines of Venedocia and James Hines of Bluffton, recently graduated from the College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. On campus, Hines was active in the Academy of Student Pharmacists, Northern Christian Fellowship, Christian Pharmacy Fellowship International and the Student Society of Health Systems Pharmacists.
Roger Hoffman, plant manager of Peerless Ohio Glove, went to work on June 11 just as he had for the past 15,000 days, or so.
That’s 41 years on the job in the same building with the same company.
Most viewers have switched jobs several times, but not Roger. Asked if he thinks of himself as the “ultimate Baby Boomer” because he works for the same company he started with in 1973, he answers: “No!”
“I actually have coffee every morning with guys I know were also at the same job close to, as long, or longer than me,” he says.
Three Cory-Rawson High School students received their State FFA Degrees in Columbus on May 2, 2014. Megan Ritter and Ian Moser will be starting their senior year at Cory-Rawson this fall. Brent Warren is a 2014 graduate and will be attending Eastern Kentucky University this fall.
John and Esther Spaeth will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 15 with an open house hosted by their children at Trinity Lutheran Church in Jenera from 2-5 p.m.
They were married there by Pastor Donald Laude on June 15, 1964. John and Esther (Smith) were neighbors who attended Trinity. They had their first date after being on a Luther Society picnic committee together.
