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Marcile Suter 1914-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on January 2, 2012 - 12:45pm
Marcile Suter

Marcile Suter, 97, of Bluffton died at 6:40 a.m. Jan. 1, 2012, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. She was born Sept. 5, 1914, in Bucyrus, to Robert and Ida Auch Rindfuss. On June 30, 1940, she married Winford Suter and he preceded her in death on Feb. 18, 1997.

Marcile and Winford met at Bluffton College. Winford's entire career was with Nationwide Insurance, formerly known as Farm Bureau Insurance and so the family over the years made their home in six or seven different communities such as Brooklyn, Conn., Canfield, Ohio, and finally Dover, Ohio.

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Denise Arleen Hendricks 1938-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 31, 2011 - 4:58pm
Denise Arleen Hendricks

Denise Arleen Hendricks, 73, of Findlay died at 6:14 p.m. Dec. 29, 2011 at Blanchard Valley Hospital, Findlay. She was born in Hardin County on Sept. 26, 1938 to Wilmer Harry and Glenona Ruth Hathaway Badertscher and they preceded her in death.

Mrs. Hendricks retired from Lakeview Farms and had owned the Blue Note Restaurant, Lima, D's Diner, Wapakoneta and Savannah's Restaurant, Lima. She had also worked at Triplett Corp, Bluffton. She was a member of the Silver Sneakers, Lima.

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Helen James Minck 1920-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 30, 2011 - 7:08am
Helen James Minck

Helen James Minck of Lima and Clearwater, Fla., died on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 2011. Born May 5, 1920, she was the daughter of Cletus and Vera Wolfe. She grew up in Toledo and Lima, and graduated in Physics from Wellesley College in Massachusetts where she met and married Harvard graduate Robert A. James, the founder of Raymond James Financial.

They moved to St. Petersburg in 1945. She had four children, Tom (Mary), Christopher (Debbie), Robin a.k.a. Sulara (Scott Young) and Wendy James Seldon.

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Elvina Wilkins 1935-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 26, 2011 - 1:10pm
Elvina Wilkins

Elvina Mae Wilkins, 76, died at 6 p.m. Dec. 25, 2011 at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay from complications of a fall in her home. She was born Nov. 5, 1935 in Bluffton to Waldo and Blanche (Criblez) Wilkins.

Elvina lived her entire life in Orange Township, Hancock County, Ohio. She was a member of the Trinity United Methodist Church, Bluffton. During her working years Elvina was employed by the Boss Glove Factory, Bluffton until the company closed and then worked for 25 years at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.

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Elvina M. Wilkins funeral arrangements incomplete

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 25, 2011 - 4:31pm

Elvina M. Wilkins, 76 died at 6 a.m. Dec. 25, 2011 at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.

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Nelson D. Schumacher 1918-2011

Posted by Fred Steiner on December 23, 2011 - 8:18am
Nelson D. Schumacher

Nelson D. Schumacher, 92, of Bluffton, died on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011 at Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton. He was born in Pandora, on Dec. 30, 1918 to the late Menno and Lena (Diller) Schumacher. He married Betty Habegger on Oct. 9, 1949. She died on April 9, 1981. He married Jean Basinger on December 27, 1985 and she survives.

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