Note: A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2010, at the First United Methodist Church in Bluffton.
RoseAnn "Rosie" Rodabaugh Dolan died on Jan. 3, 2010, in Portland, Ore., following a lengthy illness. She was born on Aug. 2, 1954, in Bluffton, Ohio to Dr. Franklin D. and Lois M. Neiswander Rodabaugh, who preceded her in death. She married Christopher Dolan on June 28, 1986, in Bluffton in the garden at the home of her parents.
Anna Ruth Suter, 80, of Pandora died at 5 a.m. March 8, 2010, at Carlisle House, Bucyrus. Born May 25, 1929, in Pandora to Tillman and Rosa Suter Geiger, she married Wilmer E. Suter on Dec. 28, 1947, and he preceded her in death on Jan. 18, 1988.
Anna Ruth Suter, 80, of Pandora died 5 a.m. March 8, 2010 at Carlisle House, Bucyrus. Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral Home, Bluffton
Sherwood "Jake" Huser, 89, of Pandora, died at 7:50 p.m., March 5, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora.
He was born March 9, 1920, in Lima, Ohio, to Philemon and Elizabeth (Basinger) Huser.
Mr. Huser was a retired painter. He was a member of Pandora United Methodist Church, was a life member of the Pandora American Legion Post 616 and was a graduate of Pandora High School.
As a World War II veteran, he was a survivor of the Battle of the Bulge.
William Kenyon Freeman, 96, of Pandora, died at 2:35 a.m., March 5, 2010, at Hilty Memorial Home, Pandora. He was born March 7, 1913, in San Ysidro, Calif., to Allen P. and Elizabeth Kenyon Freeman.
On Nov. 23, 1941 he married Mary E. Collier, and she died Sept. 12, 2005.
Mr. Freeman was farmer in Delaware County most of his life until the Alum Creek Watershed Project took their farm at which time they relocated to a farm in Union County (Richwood, Ohio) in 1970.
Howard Roy Eckenwiler, 66, Beaverdam, died Feb. 27, 2010, at his residence. He was born Feb. 11, 1944, to Roy and Georgene (Bishop) Eckenwiler. He married Marlene Vorhes in 1991 and she survives.
Mr. Eckenwiler retired from Consolidated Biscuit of McComb. He was a member of the American Legion Post 382, Bluffton. He was a 1962 graduate of Beaverdam High School and was valedictorian of his class.
