Retired Blufton school teacher Glennys Alene Henry, died on Jan. 4, 2020, due to age related complications, at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, just one week shy of her 95th birthday.
The youngest of four children, she was born at the home farm eight miles from Moundridge, Kan., to Christian D. and Reina Wedel Kaufman. Preceding her in death were her siblings Orlo, Elva, and Tilmar.
Charlotte Faye McKibben, 89, died Jan. 3, 2020 at the Bridge Hospice Care Center in Bowling Green, Ohio. Faye was born Sept. 8, 1930, in Cloverdale, Ohio, to the late Earl and Ashley (Kirkendall) Buckmaster. On June 26, 1948, she married William McKibben who preceded her in death on July 25, 2018.
Faye graduated from Continental High School. She had worked at Triplett Corporation, Bluffton and retired as the branch manager at Citizens National Bank in Bluffton. Faye had also worked with her husband, sister and brother-in-law at M & R Plumbing & Heating in Bluffton.
Glennys A. Henry, 94, of Bluffton, died Jan. 4, 2020, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton.
Graveside services will begin at noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 at Maple Grove Cemetery, Bluffton.
A memorial service will take place at 2 p.m., Wednesday at the First Mennonite Church in Bluffton with visitation taking place one hour prior to the service.
Arrangements are incomplete at Chiles-Laman Funeral & Cremation Services, Bluffton.
Arliss Dale Plaugher, 84, died Dec. 27, 2019, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born Jan. 15, 1935 in Lafayette to the late Odie and Dortha (Kettimon) Plaugher. On Oct. 26, 1956, he married Barbara Hall Plaugher who survives.
Kenneth W. Zuercher, 99, died Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019, at Danbury Woods Assisted Living in Wooster.
He was born April 18, 1920, in Pandora, Ohio, the son of Ernest S. and Ida Kiene Zuercher. He married Betty J. VonGunten on Oct. 23, 1943, and celebrated 71 years of marriage. She preceded him in death on Oct. 31, 2014.
Kenneth graduated from Rawson High School in 1938, and from Findlay College in 1942, where he held basketball scoring records at both schools for many years.
