May 2022

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A memorial service for Marilyn Bullock will begin at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, May 7, 2022 at Bluffton Presbterian Church, 112 N. Main St.

The family will receive friends beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the church. Burial will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton.

Marilyn passed away on January 21, 2022.  Arrangements are under the direction of Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Playing in Harrison, OH, the Bluffton University men's golf team tied a bow on its 2021-22 season at the Heartland Conference Championship on Sunday, May 1, 2022. The Beavers took sixth place after putting up a 330 in the final round.

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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School girls varsity softball team was seeded fourth at the Elida district Div. IV sectional drawing Sunday.

The Lady Pirates (8-7) will host ninth seed Lima Central Catholic Monday, May 9. Bluffton nipped LCC 3-2 at home on April 7.

The victor advances to the sectional second round May 12 against the winner between fifth seed Coumbus Grove and 13th seed Hardin Northern. 

The game will be held at the highest seeded team of the four sectional semifinalists.

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The Village of Bluffton tree commission celebrated Arbor Day (April 29) by planting a magnolia at the Village Arboreum on Saturday, April 30. The process became a lesson in tree planting for an enthusiastic young participant, Sam Stahl.

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By Bill Herr, Bluffton Icon Columnist

In all the years of Bluffton Pirate football, which person loved it the most? Was it a player? Was it a coach? Was it an administrator or teacher? 

My choice is Curtis Habegger, one of my former students. Curtis graduated from Bluffton High School in 1976. One of his classmates, Bob Herr, told me "Curtis was a great guy, had an outstanding personality." After graduation, Curtis worked for Lugibihl Spray. David Lugibihl said that Curtis was very quiet, didn't say much until you got to know him. He had a good personality. He was slow, but a good worker, very particular. Curtis told David he wanted to clean out his barn floor. He insisted on doing it by hand with a pitchfork rather than using an available tractor loader. David said it took him three days, and afterward, the barn was so clean You could have eaten a meal on it."

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The Bluffton University softball team traveled to Lexington, Ky., for its final games of the 2022 season. Transylvania squeaked out a 6-5 victory in the lidlifter before staking its claim to first place in the Heartland Conference with a 15-0 mercy-rule win in game two.

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By Cort Reynolds

The Bluffton High School varsity softball team lost to visiting Lincolnview 15-6 in a Northwest Conference makeup game Saturday afternoon, April 30.

The Lady Pirates trailed just 7-6 after a high-scoring first three innings.

But the defending league champion Lancers plated six runs in the fourth frame, and added five more in the fifth to pull away.  

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By Fred Steiner, BlufftonForever.com

If you attended Bluffton High School in the late 1950s or 1960s and took chemistry or driver’s education, Wilford Geiger was your teacher.

And, here’s an opportunity to see Mr. Geiger as a toddler.

With every hair in place, these three Geiger children pose for a portrait in 1912.

The three, from left, are Beulah Geiger Gooding, Wilford O. Geiger and Estella Geiger Pugh.

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During Bluffton University's spring semester--which is wrapping up with finals the week of May 1--athletes visited Bluffton elementary and middle schools for a series of "High-five Fridays."

Baseball coach James Grandy reports that at first some children didn't know what to make of the line-up of young men and women who were there to encourage them and celebrate going to school.

By April 29, he notes, children were "sprinting through the line." It proved to be a fantastic experience for the university guests and K-12 school hosts.

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