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.
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.
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.
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.
