Robert M. Stocking, 89 of Bluffton and formerly of Brook Park, Ohio, died at 3:20 p.m. Monday, June 27, 2011, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay. He was born August 7, 1921, in Cleveland to Milan and Leah (Dumm) Stocking. On Sept. 11, 1954 he married Annie Unwin and she survives in Bluffton and formerly in Brook Park.
Sign-ups are currently underway for this season's Bluffton Buccaneers midget football team according to Mac Davies, coach. The team is open to youth entering grades 3 to 6.
The Bluffton community can be proud of its mail carriers. Each year for the past several years, our local mail carriers who are members of the National Association of Letter and Rural Carriers have participated in the national Stamp Out Hunger Campaign.
On the second Saturday in May, our carriers not only deliver our mail, but pick up groceries that we leave on our doorsteps to be distributed to the needy in our area.
Jane Sycks will give a piano recital at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 9, in the sanctuary of the Bluffton Presbyterian Church.
Pieces to be played include Toccata by Khachaturian, Prelude by Bach, Moonshadows on the Mountain by Jennifer Lian, Pavanne by Martin Gould, the Haydn Sonata, March Wind by MacDowell and Debussy's Clair de Lune.
Vera E. Burkholder celebrates her 96th birthday Tuesday, June 28. She has been a life long resident of Bluffton, and worked at Triplett Electrical Instrument Co. for 20 years and graduated from Bluffton College.
She taught first grade at Lafayette School, and Allen East School for 19 years, and then retired.
She resides at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton. Her phone 419-643-8055.
