Imojene Bronson, 86 of Bluffton died at 6:50 p.m. Jan. 3, 2013 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born in Bluffton to the late Fred O. and Esma (Burkholder) Bronson.
Imojene was a homemaker and a member of the Missionary Church in Bluffton.
Survivors include a sister Fairy Mesler of Bluffon; a brother Marvin Bronson of Virginia Beach, Virginia; nephew Gary (Karen) Bronson of Celina; niece Sam (Dave) Holland of Bellefontaine; and numerous other nieces and nephews.
By Keisha Holtsberry, sports information assistant
The Bluffton University men’s basketball team fell to Defiance College on Wednesday, Jan. 2. The Beavers slipped to 4-8 overall and 0-5 in the HCAC, while Defiance improved to 7-5 overall and 3-2 in the Heartland Conference.
Bluffton EMS responded to 532 total calls for 2012, according to the year end statistics provided by Jan Basinger, Bluffton EMS Chief. In fact, there were more calls in 2012 than in any of the previous six years.
There were 43 more calls in 2012 than in 2011, with the fewest calls (31) coming in July and the most calls (52) happening in June.
The vast majority of the calls, nearly 400 in fact, were medical. Next were fire calls followed by calls related to motor vehicle accidents.
In the Dark Ages when verbs were conjugated using white chalk on school blackboards and sentences still diagrammed, there lived a teacher named Evelyn Luginbuhl.
I recently read in the Bluffton Senior Citizens January newsletter that she is turning 90 and will receive a life membership to the Senior Citizens Association.
Matt McCoy is a mathematics major at Bluffton University, but the sophomore from Archbold, Ohio, has several other academic interests, too.
In November, he had an opportunity to explore one of them on a level “most undergraduates don’t get to see,” according to Dr. Stephen Harnish, a professor and chair of math at Bluffton.
McCoy accompanied Harnish to SC12, an international supercomputing conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. And while he attended presentations, hands-on workshops and tutorials there, he was much more than a passive observer, Harnish noted.
Joshua Woodruff says he looks at life differently after completing a two-year mission project in Nicaragua with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
“I see people differently now,” he explains. “We are all children of the same God. Now I see the divine potential in people. I’ve learned what people can become.”
His two-year experience came after he accepted a mission call from his church. While a senior at Bluffton High School in 2009-10 he began filling out application forms through the church and before he graduated knew that he would be going to Nicaragua.
