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November MMH birthday celebrations

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 31, 2009 - 7:17am

Several residents of the Mennonite Memorial Home will celebrate November birthdays.

They include:

oVera Lee, 6th

oMike Plate, 11th

oBob Spillman, 14th

oAllene Luginbuhl, 15th

oEdith Holbrook, 17th

oArline Wagner, 18th

oDean Sommers, 18th

oVera Higgins, 19th

oAlice Wingate, 24th

oTreva Suter, 27th

oHarvey Bauman, 27th

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Meet Willow Ann Derstine

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 28, 2009 - 5:57pm

Willow Ann Derstine was born Wednesday, Oct. 21, to Matt and Jannie Derstine. Lu Derstine is the grandmother and Luther and Geneva Shelter are the great-grandparents.

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EC 66 is no zip code

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 25, 2009 - 2:01pm
EC 67

EC 66 means Everett Collier and 66 is his football jersey.

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There goes LGH 4

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 25, 2009 - 1:59pm
LGH 5

Sorry to say, we don't know what the G stands for, or for that matter the 4. However, this license plate belongs to Lowell Hostetler, 11999 Snider Road.

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Margaret Steiner celebrates 95th birthday

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 23, 2009 - 2:08am

Lifelong Bluffton resident Margaret Steiner celebrates her 95th birthday on Oct 23, 2009.

Born in 1914 to Fred and Bertha (Althaus) Hahn, she graduated from Bluffton High School in 1932. She was the youngest of the Hahn children who were William, Lester, Howard and Florence.

Margaret lived most of her adult life at 201 N. Lawn Ave., in the home built by her maternal grandfather, Rudolph Althaus, a Swiss immigrant who was among the signers of a petition to change the name of Shannon to Bluffton.

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99 songs on Katheryne Patterson's Oct. 24 birthday cake

Posted by Fred Steiner on October 22, 2009 - 5:22am

Katheryne Patterson, who is known as the Bluffton elementary school music teacher by a generation of Baby Boomers, will celebrate her 99th birthday on Saturday, Oct. 24. She is a lifelong Bluffton resident and lives at Maple Crest.

Her list of community activities seems endless as she has always maintained a wide variety of interests, making her a Bluffton icon in her own right.

She was born to Albert and Anna (Leichty) Lugibill on Oct. 24, 1910, in Bluffton. Unknown to most people, a twin sister, Dorthea, died on the same day Katheryne was born.

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