Paul E. Risner, 76, died at 8:33 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, in an auto accident.
He was born on Oct. 23, 1938, in Lima, Ohio to Elmer R. and Ellen Elizabeth (Gilroy) Risner and they preceded him in death. On May 19, 1956, he married Carolyn J. Gullett and she survives in Bluffton.
Mr. Risner retired from Rockwell where he worked as a machinist. He attended Grace Gospel Church of Ada.
Robert "Bob" L. Reichenbach, 84. of Bluffton died Jan. 19, 2015, at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Emmanuel United Church of Christ, Bluffton.
Visitation will be Friday from 4-8 p.m. at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton and an hour prior to the service at the church. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Linda Jo Tabler, 72, died at 12:35 a.m., Sunday Jan. 18, 2015, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay, Ohio. She was born on Dec. 17, 1942, in Lima, Ohio, to Robert L. "Buck" and Lillian M. (Rasor) Lamb. They both preceded her in death.
On Nov. 9, 1963, she married Jerry E. Tabler and he survives in Bluffton, Ohio.
Michael A. Waltz, 66, of Rawson, Ohio, died the evening of January 13, 2015 at the OSU Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. Michael was born May, 13, 1948 in
Bluffton, Ohio to the late Ralph A. and Marie E. Waltz. On October 5, 1968, Michael
married Mary E. Reichenbach at the First Mennonite Church in Bluffton.
Evelyn L. Smith, 69, of Lima died at 8:10 a.m. Jan. 14, 2015, at her residence. She was born Aug. 8, 1945 in Trenton, New Jersey, to the late George and Elsie (Lemaster) Hakin.
She spent her childhood in Osage, West Virginia ,before her family moved to Akron, Ohio. In 1956 she spent half of her seventh grade in the Lima school. Evelyn graduated from Shawnee School in 1963.
