Johannes Geiger was 44 years old when he brought his wife, Barbara (Walti) and their five children, John, Verena, Barbara, Peter and Anna, from Canton Basel, Switzerland in 1835.
Johannes’ parents, David Gyger and Verna (Steiner), as well as Barbara’s parents, Nicholas Walti and Christina (Badertscher), remained in Switzerland.
Remember Bill Marchal, former owner of the Bluffton Dari Freeze? Always inventing something new, Bill's latest patent pending invention, a quick change battery clamp is now on Kickstarter. Click here to view his product. Here's Bill's story:
How often have you struggled to remove the clamp attached to your car battery?
You know, that clamp first designed for under-the-hood use in vehicles invented 80 car models ago?
Icon sports writer, Cort Reynolds, recently had an article publilshed on the Boston Celtics blog.
The article is about ex-Boston player and coach, K.C.Jones. He won eight titles as a Celtic defensive ace guard, and two more as Boston head coach in the mid-1980s. Jones died Christmas Day at age 88.
2019 saw 406
Life Flights from
Bluffton + 19 ground transports
On Feb 1, 2021, Mercy Health will introduce a consolidated Life Flight Network to handle its air and ground transportation services.
The Bluffton Airport is home to one of the four Mercy Health Life Flight bases involved in the new network. Other bases include a mobile ICU base, plus air bases in Wauseon and Sandusky.
Here's the fourth in a series of Ada-Bluffton Icon Christmas picture exchanges.
Each day until Dec. 31 on Bluffton Icon we'll post a holiday lights photo from our neighbor community of Ada. And, as a small inset, you'll see the photo from Bluffton that is posted on Ada Icon.
In this installment, the larger photo shows ad Ada holiday lawn display. The inset shows Luke's window on Main Street, now posted on Ada Icon.
