Eileen Amstutz and Louis Risser will receive Life Membership awards from the Bluffton Senior Citizens Association at the June dinner meeting, according to Tonya Meyer, association director.
Both are members of the association and both turn 90 in June. The dinner is at 6 p.m., Monday, June 12, at the center., 132 N. Main St., Bluffton.
Amanda Wischmeyer is the featured speaker. She will present a program about organic farming.
Additional senior center news is in the June newsletter, attached at the bottom of this story.
Summer play dates will be held at the Jenera Community Park, south of the village on State Route 698, on the first and third Mondays of June, July and August.
Beginning at 9:30 a.m., you can come when you want and stay as long as you would like.
Parents, grandparents and caregivers may bring children of any age to enjoy playing outside with other children while the adults visit.
Krysti’s Music Studio invites Icon viewers to its 2017 art show and open house from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, June 10, according to Kristi Schey, manager and teacher.
The show is at the music studio, 334 S. Main St., Bluffton. In addition, Libby Brodman will have a LuLa Roe pop-up boutique.
This year’s show features art work of students Lena Brown, Jordyn Garmatter, Owen Kohli, Ella Krupp and Ayla Tabler. The students will present projects they have completed throughout the year.
Dorothy Crist Hensel, age 93, died on Tuesday, June 6, 2017, at 5:40 a.m. at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born on Oct. 31, 1923, in Ft. Wayne, Indiana to Daniel E. and Glazel (Kline) Erwin and they preceded her in death. On July 14, 1941, she married Hobart L. Crist and he died on April 9, 1966. She later married Dennis Hensel on Sept. 19, 1981 and he died in March of 2002.
Dorothy retired from Kenton Savings Bank where she worked as a teller. She was a member of the Bethel Church of Christ, Ada.