Obituaries

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Bluffton
Ruth Grismore, 92 died at 9:21 a,m, Jan. 29, 2013, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.  Services will be 11 a,m, Friday at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton. 

Visitation will be Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Vera A. Higgins, 94 died at 7:05 am January 27, 2013 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. 

She was born November 19, 1918 in Ada to the late James A. and Freda (Frankhauser) Hauenstein. 

On August 9, 1940 she married Herbert Higgins and he died July 8, 2005. Vera was a homemaker and was a member of Central Christian Church, Lima.  

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Vera A. Higgins, 94 died at 7:05 a.m. Jan. 27, 2013 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.  Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Roger J. Wannemacher, 73, died 2:43 p.m. Friday, January 18, 2013 at Putnam County Ambulatory Care Center, Glandorf. 

He was born March 25, 1939 in Cloverdale to Oscar and Rita (Burgei) Wannemacher.  His mother survives in Cloverdale and his father is deceased. 

On November 3, 1962, he married Marilyn Ellerbrock, with just celebrating 50 yrs of marriage.  She survives in Cloverdale.

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Edith M. Daft, 81, of Bluffton, formerly of Ada, died Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 10:05 p.m. at Bridge Hospice Care Center at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay.

Edith was born on October 10, 1931 in Orange Township, Hancock County, Ohio to the Leonard and Flossie (Hartman) Henry, who preceded her in death.

She married J. Robert Daft in 1951. He survives at Maple Crest Retirement Center in Bluffton.

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Former Bluffton High School principal Walter Leonard “Bud” Marshall, 78, of Three Rivers, Michigan, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

He was born in Lima to  James Walter and Thelma Brown Marshall. Walter was a 1952 graduate of Shawnee High School and a 1957 graduate of Ohio Northern University. He earned a Masters degree of Education from Indiana University. He was a member of Sigma Phi fraternity.

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