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Former Oberlin Girl Victim of Pneumonia
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Gladys
Treat Hadden
Mr. and Mrs. Treat Receive
News of Death of Their Daughter
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Treat
of 284 East College street, were notified last Thursday of the death at
Mattoon, Ill., of their daughter, Mrs. Chester Hadden, from influenza,
which developed into pneumonia. Mrs. Hadden was formerly Miss Gladys
Treat.
She took her senior year in high school [class of 1910] and her first
year
of college work at Oberlin, after which she completed her training in
the
University of Illinois. Last November she married lieutenant Chester
Hadden
of Chicago, who was stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison until his death
in the latter part of May. Mrs. Hadden’s funeral was held in
Mattoon,
from
which place the body was taken to Chicago for burial. She leaves a
mother,
father and six sisters to mourn her loss.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin,
Ohio, Wednesday, December 11, 1918, p. 1.
Chester
J. Hageman
Chester J. Hageman, 87,of
St. Paul, Minn., and formerly of Lorain, Oberlin and Bay Village, died
Dec. 7.
Born in Lorain, he was
raised
in Oberlin and lived in Bay Village for 49 years. He [was a 1932
graduate
of Oberlin High School and] earned a business degree in business
marketing
at Miami University of Ohio [in 1936]. He was a member of the Alpha
chapter
of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
During World War II, he
was a staff sergeant with the 66th Armored Regiment of the 2nd Armored
division for about four years. He went from Casablanca, French Morocco
to Berlin, Germany with the division. He was on the initial amphibious
assault landing in the Sicily invasion and D-5 landing in Normandy.
Mr. Hageman participated
in all major campaigns in Europe and northern Africa. He received a
Bronze
Star for commanding a medical half-track that provided medical support
during the clearing of enemy troops in Kaldenhasen, Germany, in 1945.
He
picked up all casualties, gave them immediate treatment and sent them
to
the rear while under heavy fire. He also received a Belgian Fourrage
and
served for six weeks as an exchange soldier with the British Army.
He was a food broker,
working
for Carl H. Weber Co. in the restaurant trade in the Cleveland area
until
retiring in the 1980s.
While his daughters were
growing up, he planned 10-day driving vacations with his family,
covering
the east coast from Maine to South Carolina and going as far west as
Wisconsin.
Mr. Hageman was well known
in Bay Village in the 1950s and 1960s for having the best Fourth of
July
backyard fireworks display before there were community fireworks.
He was a member of Bay
United
Methodist Church in Bay Village.
Survivors include his
daughters,
Hollace Hageman and Cynthia Sargent; a granddaughter; and a sister,
Grace
Hageman of Sarasota, Fla.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Hope A. (nee Steiner), and his parents, Conrad Elmer and
Marie
G. (nee Peck) Hageman.
A memorial service will
be 11 a.m. Thursday at Jenkins Funeral Chapel, 2914 Dover Center Road,
Westlake.
The Rev. Rollin Conway
will
officiate.
Burial will be private in
Brownhelm Cemetery in Brownhelm Township.
Memorials may be made to
the National World War II Memorial Campaign, American Battle Monuments
Commission, P.O. Box 96766, Washington, D.C. 20090-6766 or online at
www.wwiimemorial.com.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Saturday, December 15, 2001.
Grace E. Hageman
Grace E. Hageman, 90,
Sarasota, died Jan. 9, 2003.
She was born Aug. 17, 1912, in
Lorain, Ohio, and came to Sarasota in 1970 from Oberlin, Ohio. She was
a businesswoman. She was a member of the League of Women Voters and the
Historical Society of Sarasota County. She received a bachelor's degree
in economics from Oberlin College in Ohio. She was a member of the
Unitarian Universalist Church of Sarasota.
Survivors include nieces Holly of
Woodbury, Minn., and Cindy Sargent of Ellicott City, Md.
Private services will be later in
Vermilion, Ohio. Robarts Funeral Home is in charge.
Memorial donations may be made to The
Ear Research Foundation, 1961 Floyd St., Suite A, Sarasota, FL 34239;
or OK Volunteer Connections of Sarasota, 1750 17th St., Suite C3,
Sarasota, FL 34234.
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, Sarasota,
Fla., Sunday, January 12, 2003, p. BS8.
Grace E. Hageman
Grace E. Hageman, of
Sarasota,
Fla., and formerly of Lorain County, died in Sarasota.
Survivors include her
nephew,
Hollace Hageman of Minnesota; a niece, Cindy Sargent of Maryland; and a
great niece, Jennifer Sargent.
She was preceded in death
by her brother, Chester Hageman.
Graveside services will
be 10 a.m. today in Brownhelm Cemetery, Vermilion.
Jenkins Funeral Chapel,
2914 Dover Center Road, is handling arrangements.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Tuesday, January 14, 2003.
Edna C. Hagerman
Edna C. Hagerman [nee Lassen], 77, of Freeport, Ill., died Sunday at
Freeport Memorial Hospital after a short illness.
Born in Brownhelm, she grew up in the Oberlin area [and graduated from
OHS in 1926].
She was a member of the First English Lutheran Church, Freeport, Ill.,
and a 50-year member of the Freeport Eastern Star.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Charles R.; a daughter,
Mrs. Elmo (Barbara) Holt of Blanchardville, Wisc., and a granddaughter.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the Riddle
Funeral Home, Vermilion. The Rev. Leah Matthews, pastor, United Church
of Christ Congregational, Brownhelm, will officiate.
Burial will be in Brownhelm Cemetery.
Memorial contributions, if desired, may be made to the Edna C. Hagerman
Memorial Fund, in care of Walker Mortuary Ltd., 321 W. Main St.,
Freeport, Ind. 61032.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, November 27, 1985, p. B-2.
Beulah Haggard
Beulah Haggard, 80, of
Oberlin,
died Oct. 27 at Amherst Manor Nursing Home after several months illness.
She was born in Oberlin
and lived most of her life here. For more than 30 years she worked in
the
health service offices of Oberlin College.
She was a member of First
Church.
Haggard was preceded in
death by her husband, Jake, in 1973. She is survived by a god-daughter,
Robin Jindra, of Oberlin.
Graveside services were
Oct. 30 at Westwood Cemetery with the Rev. John Elder officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, November 6, 1990, p. 2.
Charles Hahn
Charles K. Hahn, 74,
Berlin
Heights, died suddenly last Wednesday at his home. He was an Oberlin
native
[and a 1927 graduate of Oberlin High School].
Mr. Hahn was a member of
the Berlin Heights Congregational Church, where he served on the board
of trustees.
Survivors include his wife
Marguerite; sons Kenneth of Defiance, Clark Allen of Berlin Heights and
Richard of Rocky River; daughter, Margaret Reising of Berlin Heights;
sister,
Mrs. Paul Court of Oberlin; and seven grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Burial was at the
Riverside
Cemetery, Berlin Heights.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 15, 1985, p. 2.
Former Grid Player Here Dies in West
[Harold
S. Hahn]
Harold Schaeble Hahn, a
native of Oberlin and a former Oberlin College athlete, died Nov. 25 in
Van Nuys, Calif., where he lived for the past four years. Funeral
services,
with the Rev. Wilbur E. Goist officiating, were Sunday at the
Cowling-Sedgeman
Funeral Home. Burial was in North Murray Ridge Cemetery, Elyria.
Born Jan. 5, 1903, in
Oberlin,
Mr. Hahn attended Oberlin High School [class of 1920] and Oberlin
College,
where he played tackle on the famous team coached by T. Nelson Metcalf
that beat Ohio State in 1921. Later he attended Syracuse University.
He was in business in
Miami
Beach, Fla., for several years before moving to California, where he
owned
a cleaning business.
Surviving are his wife,
Jean; his father, George A. Hahn, and two sisters, Mrs. Paul Court and
Mrs. Marian Nickles, all of Oberlin, and a brother, Charles.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, December 4, 1947, p. 7.
Marguerite C. Hahn
Marguerite C. Hahn, 88,
of Berlin Heights, former Oberlin resident, died Nov. 20 at her home
after
a short illness.
Born in Jefferson County,
Ohio, she grew up in Oberlin[, graduated from Oberlin High School in
1926,]
and was a 1930 graduate of Oberlin College. She had lived in Berlin
Heights
for 63 years.
Mrs. Hahn served as a
teacher
and administrator at the former Townsend High School in Collins, Ohio,
from 1930-32.
She was a member of the
Berlin Heights First Congregational United Church of Christ, where she
belonged to the Women’s Fellowship. She also belonged to the
Berlin
Garden
Club.
She loved gardening and
flowers.
Survivors include three
sons, Kenneth of Defiance, Ohio, Clark of Berlin Heights and Richard of
Rocky River; a daughter, Peggy Reising of Berlin Heights; seven
grandchildren;
eight great grandchildren; and two sisters, Mildred Salo of Olmsted
Township
and Catherine Clark Totzke of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Charles, in 1985; her parents, Frank and Alice Clark;
and
a brother, William Clark.
A memorial service was
held
Saturday morning at the Berlin Heights First Congregational United
Church
of Christ with the Rev. John Ferguson officiating. Burial was in
Riverside
Cemetery in Berlin Heights.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Berlin Heights First Congregational United Church of Christ, 5
E.
Main St., Berlin Heights 44814.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 26, 1996, p. 2.
Scott
Haigh
Scott Haigh, 48, former
Oberlin resident, died Nov. 1 of cancer.
Born in Oberlin, he grew
up here. He was a prominent member of the Oberlin High School marching
band [class of 1966] and developed a unique style of dancing while
playing
the bass drum.
During the Vietnam War,
he served in the Navy.
He held an A.B. degree in
music and a master’s degree in education and psychology.
Mr. Haigh taught
mathematics
and music in San Diego high schools.
He was an active member
of the Mission Bay Christian Fellowship and was well-known as a drummer
in the San Diego area.
Survivors include his
wife,
Carol; daughters, Wendy, Jane and Cheryl Haigh; father Dana Haigh of
Oberlin;
mother, Jean Vance of Vermilion; brother Gary Haigh; and sister, Karon
Haigh.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 19, 1996, p. 2.
Mildred Haines
Mildred Haines (nee
Morris),
99, of Oberlin, died Feb. 17 at Kendal at Oberlin.
Born in Oberlin, she was
a 1916 graduate of Oberlin High School.
She graduated Phi Beta
Kappa
from Oberlin College in 1920 and received a master’s degree in
1921
from
the University of Chicago.
Mrs. Haines taught at
Wellington
High School, Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pa., Oberlin High School,
and in Staunton, Virginia. She also taught and was dean of girls at
Shaker
Heights Junior High School.
She was a member of the
First United Methodist Church, of Delta Kappa Gamma, the Lorain County
Historical Society, O.H.I.O., and the retired teacher’s
associations of
Lorain County and Ohio.
Survivors include her
stepdaughter,
Shirley Howard of Elyria; nieces Marilyn M. Stock of Elyria, Sara
Hartwig
and Harriet Swit; and nephews Lester Morris and Robert Morris, both of
Oberlin, William Morris of Berlin Heights, Raymond Morris of
Newcomerstown
and Tym Morris of Cleveland.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Curtis W.; and brothers, Lester, Ted, Harold and
William
Morris.
Services were Feb. 20 at
the Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, with the Rev. Al Sprague officiating.
Burial was in Camden Cemetery in Camden Township.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Ohio Historical and Improvement Organization, PO Box 0455,
Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, February 24, 1998, p. 3.
Gerald ‘Scotty’
Haislet, area’s first 7-Up dealer
Gerald B. [Blaine] “Scotty” Haislet, 77, of Grafton died at
his home Tuesday after a short illness.
Born in Mansfield [and a 1931 graduate of OHS], he was a 54-year
resident of Lorain County. In 1937 he became the first dealer for 7-Up
in the area. He was marketing manager for 7-Up for 42 years, retiring
in 1979.
He was a member of LaPorte United Methodist Church and was an avid
bowler and fisherman and enjoyed woodworking.
Mr. Haislet is survived by his wife, Jean (nee Greetham) of 33 years;
sons, Scott, former C-T sports writer, now of Moraga, Calif., and
Christopher of San Gabriel, Calif.; daughter, Pat Lowe of Volcano,
Calif.; three grandchildren; and by sisters, Beverly Little of
Milpitas, Calif. and Nola Dukeman of Galion.
Friends may call Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at
Bauer-Laubenthal-Wainwright Funeral Home, Chestnut Ridge and Route 57
in Elyria.
Services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. in the funeral home. The Rev.
Oden Haynes will officiate.
Private burial will be held at Resthaven Memory Gardens, Avon.
Memorial contributions, if desired, may be made to the Hospice Unit at
Lorain St. Joseph Hospital and Health Center or to LaPorte United
Methodist Church.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, March 27, 1991, p. B-2.
Elizabeth J. Haldeman
Elizabeth J[ane] Haldeman (nee Fell), 89, of Elyria, died Monday
evening at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
Born in Amherst, she [graduated from OHS in 1914 and] lived most of her
life in Elyria.
She was a 65-year member of Lake Avenue United Church of Christ, where
she was a former choir member and Sunday school teacher for 20 years.
She also was a 50-year member of the Barjello Sewing Club.
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Schultz of Detroit, Mich.;
a son, Max E. of Jamestown, N.J.; three grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John, in
1966, a son John Jr., four brothers, and a sister.
Friends may call from noon until time of service at 1 p.m. Friday in
the Curtis-Scheuffler Funeral Home. The Rev. Henry Bruner, pastor, Lake
Avenue United Church of Christ, will officiate.
Burial will be in Ridgelawn Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, March 19, 1986, p. C-2.
Died—Hale
At 139 West Lorain street,
on Saturday, December 22, 1900, Miss Flora E. Hale, aged 47 years. [She
was an 1873 graduate of OHS.]
The funeral was at the
house
Monday, December 24 at 3:30 p.m., Doctor Tenney officiating, and the
burial
was at Westwood Cemetery.
The Oberlin News,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, December 25, 1900, p. 3.
Kenneth L. Hales
Private services for Kenneth L[eviathen] Hales, 71, of 532 Deer
Path, Glen Ellyn, an insurance broker who owned an agency bearing his
name, will be held today in Glen Ellyn. [He was a 1917 graduate of
OHS.] Mr. Hales also was owner and president of the Chicago Towing Co.,
a marine service company, and Midwest Marine, Inc. He died Saturday in
Loyola University Hospital, Maywood. Survivors include his widow,
Katharine; a son, David; a daughter, Mary Linda; three grandchildren;
and two sisters.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago,
Ill., Monday, February 22, 1971.
Kenneth L. Hales
Kenneth L. Hales of Glen Ellyn, loving husband of Katharine; fond
father of David and Mary Linda Hales; grandfather of Holly, Kimberly
and Michelle; brother of Laura Parker and Louise Broome. No visitation.
Private funeral service Monday. If desired, memorials may be made to
the Heart Fund or Glenwood School for Boys, Glenwood, Ill. Insurance
broker with the Kenneth L. Hales Agency of Chicago, owner and president
of the Chicago Towing Co. and Mid-West Marine Inc. His concerns for
others were many and varied. 469-0032.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago,
Ill., Monday, February 22, 1971.
Carol Zimmerman Hall
[Josephine] Carol Zimmerman
Hall, youngest daughter of Mrs. J. C.
Zimmerman and the late Mr. Zimmerman of Oberlin, died
Carol was born in
On
When World War II drew Otis into active service, Carol
returned to Oberlin and joined the staff of the
“News-Tribune.” In the
brief
but full years that followed, two children were born: Gregory, in 1948,
and
Elizabeth, in 1951. Continuing his studies in the
On her death, an editorial in the “News-Tribune” paid her
high tribute: “A more buoyant spirit we will seldom know…
a girl just
brimming
with warmth and friendliness, good nature and laughter… Carol
was a
credit to
her family and to Oberlin.”
In addition to her husband and her two children Carol leaves
her mother Mrs. J. C. Zimmerman, of Oberlin; five sisters and three
brothers,
all member of the Oberlin family: Mrs. Paul Sloan, (LaVerne,
’33), of
Houghton,
Mich.; Mrs. B. L. Crowe, Jr., (Helen, ’34), of Chicago; Mrs.
Martin
Rogers,
(Gertrude, ’35), of Brockport, N.Y.; Mrs. Kenneth Gayer,
(Dorothy,
’36), of
Falls Church, Va.; Mrs. Ralph Mark, (Mildred, ’38), of Fairview
Village, Pa.;
C. P. of Oberlin; Dr. John L., x’47, of Toledo; and Leon D.,
x’50, of
Chester,
Va.
The Oberlin Alumni
Magazine, January 1955, p. 31.
Charles
E. Hall
Charles E. Hall, 64,
former
Oberlin resident, died Nov. 13 at Idaho State Veterans Hospital in
Boise.
Born in Oberlin, he moved
to Boise in 1968. He was in the construction business there and had
previously
worked for Smith Floor Covering, Oberlin.
He served in the Navy
during
World War II.
He enjoyed hunting.
He is survived by a son,
William, of Bradenton, Fla.; a daughter, Janet Hall of Boise; his
mother,
R. May Hall of Oberlin; and brother, Donald J. Hall of Oberlin; and two
grandsons.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, November 27, 1990, p. 2.
Charles M. Hall Taken by Death
Member of Board of
Trustees
and Friend of the College Dies
Had Gained Fame as
Practical
Chemist
Made Fortune by
Discovery
of Process for Manufacture of Aluminum—Burial in Oberlin
A message has been
received
announcing the death of Mr. Charles Martin Hall at Daytona, Florida, at
3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon, December 27th. Dr. George E. Hall
and
Mr.
Homer H. Johnson will be in Washington on Wednesday to bring the body
home
for burial. There will be memorial services on Thursday afternoon at 2
o’clock in Niagara Falls, N. Y., in which city Mr. Hall has
resided for
many years, and the funeral service in Oberlin will be at the residence
of Dr. George E. Hall at 2 o’clock on Friday afternoon, January
1st.
Mr. Hall’s death was
caused
by internal hemorrhage, and although he has been in poor health for the
last six or eight years, the word of his death came as a shock to his
wide
circle of friends in Oberlin.
Mr. Hall was born in
Thompson,
Geauga County, Ohio, December 6, 1863. He took his preparatory work [at
OHS, class of 1879 and] in Oberlin Academy and graduated from Oberlin
College
in 1885 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He received the degree of
Master of Arts from Oberlin College in 1893 and the degree of Doctor of
Laws in 1910. Since 1905 Mr. Hall has served as a member of the Board
of
trustees of Oberlin College and has been one of the largest
contributors
to Oberlin College.
In 1886 Mr. Hall invented
the electrolytic process for the manufacture of aluminum, conducting
his
experiments here in Oberlin under the direction of Professor Jewett. He
commenced the commercial manufacture of aluminum with the Pittsburgh
Reduction
Company, now the Aluminum Company of America, of which he has served as
vice president since the year 1890. At the time of the Hall invention
aluminum
sold for $12 a pound and was as costly as silver and was slightly used;
as a result of the invention the price of aluminum has been so reduced
as to make it a common metal of commerce, selling at the present time
for
about 20 cents a pound. In 1911 the American Society of Chemical
Industry
awarded the Perkin Medal to Mr. Hall; this medal is awarded annually
for
important discoveries in applied Chemistry.
Mr. Hall had gained
international
fame as a practical chemist for his discovery in relation to the
manufacture
of aluminum. In the August issue of The World’s Work appeared a
special
article giving a history of his discovery and of the development of the
manufacture of aluminum in the years following. Mr. Hall is called in
the
article “The American Creator of the Aluminum Age.” He was
only a year
or two past his majority when he made the discovery while working in
the
laboratory here. He was graduated in 1885 and succeeded in his efforts
in the following year. Because of his youth, he had difficulty in
getting
capital interested in his project, but finally succeeded. At the outset
one small mill was started, with a total output of only 100 pounds a
day.
This was then sold at $2.00 a pound. Just before the plant opened the
price
in Paris was $4.00 a pound. In 1911 the three plants of which Mr. Hall
was the head had an annual production of 40,000,000 pounds and the
price
had fallen to about 20 cents a pound.
President King will
conduct
the services at Niagara Falls and will be in charge of the final
service
to be held her Friday.
During the last ten years
Mr. Hall’s gifts for various purposes in connection with the work
of
Oberlin
College amounted to $194,700. These gifts have been for general
endowment,
library endowment, the improvement of the college campus, the removal
of
the academy department from French and Society halls, and the purchase
and the equipment of the Johnson property for academy purposes, a part
of the cost of the new organ for Finney chapel, the purchase of certain
property needed for college purposes in Oberlin, repairs to the
women’s
gymnasium, books for the library, the automobile lawnmower for the
campus,
and gifts for the running expenses of the college.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin,
Ohio, Wednesday, December 30, 1914, p. 1.
Reported
Missing in Sea Crash [James T. Hall]
Second Lt. James T. Hall,
pilot in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve, is reported missing in an
airplane
crash at sea. Word was received by Lt. Hall’s parents, Professor
and
Mrs.
James H. Hall on Monday, while they were vacationing in New York.
The last word the Halls
had from their son was the latter part of September, at which time he
was
located at San Diego, California, awaiting instructions for sea
operations.
Lt. Hall took his Naval
pre-flight work at Iowa State College and his early flight training at
Olathe, Kansas. He graduated from Corpus Christi, Texas, and at that
time
shifted to the U. S. Marines. From there he was sent as a pilot to
Jacksonville,
Florida, for advanced training in dive bombing.
No details were contained
in the telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Hall.
Word Received of His Death
Lt. James T. Hall
In a telegram received
late
last Saturday afternoon the Navy Department officially informed
Professor
and Mrs. James H. Hall of the death of their son, Second Lieutenant
James
T. Hall, 23, in an airplane crash at sea on October 20.
The wire stated that a
letter
would follow, but as of this morning (Thursday) the letter had not been
received and no further details are known here concerning the nature of
the accident. Several friends of Lt. Hall have expressed the belief
that
when the letter arrives it may still leave reason to hope that he will
be found alive. Many stranger things have happened during this war,
they
point out.
Lt. Hall, a Marine Corps
dive bomber pilot, was first reported missing in a telegram received by
Mr. and Mrs. Hall on October 25, while they were in New York City.
O. H. S. and O. C.
Graduate
Born in Wooster on June
24, 1920, James Truman Hall had lived in Oberlin since he was a year
old
and attended the public schools here, graduating with the high school
class
of 1938, although he spent the school year of 1937-38 traveling and
studying
in Europe in the company of his parents.
He graduated from Oberlin
College with the class of 1942 and went immediately into training as a
U. S. Navy Flier.
In high school he was an
able and popular student, an active leader in the affairs of the band,
orchestra, Hi-Y and Mathematica Club. His major college subject was
French,
and his chief extra-curricular interest the activities of the Dramatic
Association, in which he was a leading performer and business manager
as
well. He was a member of the varsity Glee Club and played varsity
soccer.
Lt. Hall’s
pre-flight
training
was received at Iowa State College and his flight training at Olathe,
Kansas,
Corpus Christi, Texas, and Jacksonville, Florida, where he transferred
to the marine corps and became a dive bomber specialist. The picture
above
was taken when he was Naval ensign.
It is believed that the
accident on October 20 took place some place in the South Pacific
battle
area.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 28 & November 11, 1943, p. 1.
Julia Brainerd Hall
Died, on Saturday,
September 4, 1926, Julia Brainerd Hall,
at her home and that of her sister, Louie Alice Hall, at 1422 Highland
Avenue,
Rochester, N.Y. [She was an 1878 graduate of OHS and an 1881 graduate
of
Oberlin College; she was a sister of Charles Martin Hall.] The service
of the
Episcopal church, of which Miss Hall had been for many years a member,
was read
at the home, and the burial was in the lot of the two sisters in
beautiful
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, December
1926, p. 24.
Louise Proper Hall, 47, buried in Tulsa,
Okla.
Mrs. Dayle L. Hall (Louise
N. Proper) died May 6[, 1969,] in Tulsa, Okla., following a long
illness with Bright’s disease. She was born in Oberlin Sept. 1,
1921,
[graduated from OHS in 1939 and from Oberlin College in 1943,] and
lived there until 1956. From 1950 until she left Oberlin, Mrs. Hall was
employed as secretary in the women’s physical education
department.
Before her illness she taught music and organ in Tulsa, specializing in
working with children.
Mrs. Hall leaves her husband in Tulsa; her maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Grace Powers, of Oberlin; her aunt, Mrs. William Carrier of Memphis,
Tenn.; and her uncle, William E. Powers Jr., ’24, of Oberlin.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, August 1969, p. 47.
Sudden Death of Prof. Hall
Prominent Educator
Passed
Away Wednesday July 3, at Birmingham
High Tribute Paid by
President King at Funeral Services Held Last Friday Afternoon
The sudden death of
Professor
Lyman B. Hall, which occurred in Birmingham, July 3, was a great shock
to the people of Oberlin where he had devoted so many years of active
service
and was loved and esteemed by every one. His death was due to heart
failure
and he expired on the porch of Dr. Boss where he had stopped for
medical
assistance. He was on a bicycle trip with his two nephews and feeling
ill
he stopped at the office of Dr. Boss. While the latter was preparing
some
medicine for him, the end came. The remains were brought to Oberlin and
funeral services held Friday afternoon, being conducted by Dr. Bosworth
and President King. The latter paid a high tribute to the life and
attainments
of Professor Hall. His address is as follows:
I should have been deeply
regretful, if circumstances had prevented me from sharing in this
service
in honor of one with whom I have been associated from the beginning of
my own teaching, and whom I so genuinely honored and loved.
Lyman Bronson Hall, son
of Joseph Alonzo Hall and Sarah Bronson Hall, was born in Richmond,
Vt.,
August 10, 1852. His parents moved to the vicinity of Oberlin, to make
the education of their children possible, when Lyman was four years
old.
He had his earlier schooling in the Oberlin public schools [OHS class
of
1866], and in the preparatory department of Oberlin college. His
natural
self-dependence revealed itself in the fact that he began his teaching
at the age of sixteen, and was self-supporting thereafter. He was a
student
in the preparatory department for two years, 1865-1867, and in the
college
department most of the five years, 1867-1872, stopping in the midst of
his college course, however, to earn money for his expenses. He
graduated
from college in 1872, at the age of twenty, and was enrolled as a
student
in the theological department, 1872-1873 and 1877-1878, taking in 1878
the degree of Master of Arts and Bachelor of Divinity. His theological
training was unusually extended between four and five years. The year
1873-74
and a portion of the year 1874-75 was spent in study at Union
Theological
Seminary, breaking the second year at the Seminary to return to help
his
father, who was in failing health, on a farm in Michigan. He always
counted
this farm work a valuable part of his experience. At the same time he
served
a little church in the vicinity. In the year 1876-77 he went to Harvard
to continue his theological study, receiving the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity from Harvard in 1877. He was a broadly trained man. He had
graduate
study after 1877 not only in Oberlin Theological Seminary but also at
the
University of Berlin, in the year 1888-89; at Johns Hopkins University,
Chicago University, and Harvard University in the years 1893-1895; and
spent a year in travel and study in England in 1905-06.
His first teaching in
Oberlin
was as a teacher of Grammar, in the preparatory department, the year
after
his graduation from college, while he was a student in the theological
department. Upon his graduation from the theological department in
1878,
he was made Tutor in Latin and Greek, and has served continuously on
the
Faculty of Oberlin College from that date. He held the position of
tutor
for five years. He was then Associate Professor of the Latin and Greek
Languages from 1883-1888; Professor of Latin Language and Literature,
1888-1899;
Professor of History of the ten years 1899-1909; and has held the chair
of English and American History since 1909. He was Registrar of the
College
for the two years 1901-1903. He had always had a great interest in
history,
and had given much time to it, and it was at his own earnest desire
that
he was transferred in 1899 to the chair of history. The two years of
graduate
study in 1893-95 were devoted to special preparation for work in
history,
and taken at his own expense, to insure such training for the new field
as his own ideals required. He had a minute knowledge of large portions
of his own country, and of its history; for he was an unremitting
worker,
and was constantly extending his knowledge to the last.
His academic record shows,
thus, that he had just completed forty years of continuous teaching
service
of the College; and his connection with the College, begun as a student
in the year 1865 covered fifty-three years altogether. It is impossible
to measure the value and significance of his contribution to the life
of
the college in this long and loyal connection.
This period covered fully
the years of transit from the older to the newer Oberlin, and it was
natural
that he should have cherished as one of his chief hopes for the period
following retirement from active teaching, the privilege of making a
careful
historical record of this transition period. The College had lost much
in the defeat of that aim through his death.
In his student years he
had planned to be a foreign missionary, but he felt the strength of the
call to the work here at Oberlin, and believed that it afforded him as
large an opportunity as he could expect abroad. He gave himself with
absolute
devotion to his work, and it was characteristic of him—when his
physicians
told him, in 1915, that he might hope to lengthen his life considerably
if he would give up his active work and go to such a climate as that of
California—that he definitely chose, not to lengthen a little of
his
life,
but to continue such service as he could render even with diminished
strength.
The last two or three
years
his work has had to be done with a consciousness, on his own part, of
decided
limitations of strength; though he went forward so uncomplainingly that
even those of his colleagues closest to him hardly understood his real
condition. But to the little inner circle who knew the facts, his
sudden
death came not altogether as a surprise.
Professor Hall united with
the First Congregational church of Oberlin in September, 1864, at the
age
of twelve; he transferred his membership to the Second Congregational
church
in 1879, and gave himself with unstinted devotion to a many-sided
service
of the church through all the years.
He was also a charter
member
of Alpha Zeta literary society.
In the spring of this year
he was appointed by Governor Cox a member of the Ohio History Board,
created
for “the collection and preservation of material bearing upon
Ohio’s
participation
in the war with Germany.”
My own recollections of
him include my wonder, as an undergraduate student, at his boldness in
attempting and successfully accomplishing his graduate address from the
Theological Seminary, without previously writing and without notes; my
impression of the accuracy of his scholarship as a teacher of Latin,
when
I began my own teaching in that department; and my admiration for his
rarely
thoughtful participation, through many years, in the Monday evening
Young
People’s Meeting in Council Hall.
No one could know him with
any intimacy and not recognize his rare candor; his great
unselfishness;
the natural courtesy and thoughtful kindness, growing out of such
unselfishness,
and manifested in every relation of life; the unusual independence of
his
own point of view; and the strength and depth of his convictions and
his
willingness to stand for them at whatever cost might be necessary.
He believed with all his
heart in the value of the work that Oberlin was doing, and found
continuous
joy in giving himself to that work, even though, in the last two or
three
years, there had been a narrowing margin of strength available.
He was a deeply religious
and broad-visioned man, cherishing always the highest Christian ideals
for himself, for his College, for his church, for the Nation, and for
the
world. Those who have known him through the whole period of his
teaching,
and so were bound to him by many ties, have now become a little
company,
but all his colleagues alike will mourn a companion beloved and
honored,
whose friendly presence will be daily missed.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Friday, July 12, 1918, pp 1-2.
Mabelle
Hall
Was oldest female
veteran
Denver (AP)—Mabelle
[Leland
(Musser)] Hall, the oldest living female military veteran, has died at
a nursing home.
She was 106 when she died
Tuesday.
Hall, who was born in
Hinckley,
Ohio, [and was a 1908 graduate of OHS,] was one of about 12,000 women
who
enlisted during World War I. At her death, Hall was the oldest-living
member
of the U.S. Marine Corps, male or female, according to military records.
Thousands of women
enlisted
during World War I, working as clerks, translators and radio
technicians.
Hall served in Washington,
D.C., until 1922 and later worked for the Red Cross in Denver during
World
War II.
A memorial service will
be held in Denver next Monday.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, October 28, 1995, p. D2.
Marilyn Bryant Hall
Oberlin native Marilyn
Bryant
Hall died July 23 in Boise, Idaho, of cancer of the spine. She was 55.
The daughter of Charles
and Gertrude Bryant, she grew up in the family home on West Lorain St.
Bryant was a farmer and Mrs. Bryant for many years had an insurance
business.
After her marriage to Charles Hall, Mrs. Hall operated a beauty shop on
North Prospect St.
The Halls moved to Boise
about 15 years ago. Their marriage later ended in divorce.
Surviving Mrs. Hall are
one son and one daughter, William B. of Boise and Janet Lee of Coeur
d’Alene,
Idaho; two brothers, Robert Bryant of Pittsfield and Harry of Butler;
one
sister, Zelma Brandau of South Amherst; and two grandchildren.
The bodys was cremated and
her ashes scattered over the mountains.
The family suggests that
gifts in her memory, if desired, be sent to the Mountain State Tumor
Institute,
151 East Bannock St., Boise, Idaho 83712.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 9, 1984, p. 2.
Mrs. Mary Hall
Mrs. Mary [Louise] Hall, [nee Finch,] wife of Professor Howard L.
[Lewis Tinker] Hall of the University of Wisconsin Law School, died
this morning in a local hospital after a long illness. She was 64.
Mrs. Hall, who resided at 1506 Wood Lane in Shorewood Hills, was active
in a number of civic organizations in Madison. She was president of the
University League; president of the Madison Club of New England Women;
a member of Zeta Phi Eta, speech sorority; an active member in the
Shorewood League; the Madison Red Cross; and a number of others.
Mrs. Hall [graduated from OHS in 1915,] held an A.B. degree from
Oberlin College, and M.A. degrees from Ripon and Radcliffe colleges.
She taught English and drama at Ripon from 1921-23 and in Cleveland
High schools from 1923-28. She was married to Mr. Hall in 1923. They
came to the University in 1929.
Survivors include her husband, and two sons, Lowell, Milwaukee; and
Hugh, Chicago.
The family has asked that flowers be omitted ant that contributions be
made to the Memorial Fund at the First Congregational Church.
Funeral arrangements are pending at Frautschi’s Funeral Home.
The Capital Times,
Madison, Wis., Sat., Dec. 3, 1960, p. 9.
Ruby Hall
Ruby May Hall, 90, of
Oberlin,
died Sunday, March 24, at Allen Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Born Dec. 31, 1905, she
was a lifelong Oberlin area resident [and a 1925 graduate of Oberlin
High
School]. Mrs. Hall worked as a clerk at the Ben Franklin store from
1937
to 1945 and then at the Oberlin College Library from 1951 to 1953, and
again from 1965 to 1971, retiring as head of the loan reader service
department.
Mrs. Hall was a member of
the First United Methodists Church and the Pythian Sisters. She also
volunteered
for many years at Allen Hospital in the gift shop and as a Red Cross
Gray
Lady.
She is survived by a son,
Donald, of Oberlin; four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren;
sisters
Dorothy Kern of Amherst, and Gertrude Husted of Wakeman; and a brother,
Scott Van Ausdale of Oberlin. She was preceded in death by her husband,
Raymond, a son, Charles, parents Scott and Sadie Van Ausdale, sister
Opel
Papworth and brothers Theodore, Lloyd and Carl Van Ausdale.
Services were held Monday
at the Cowling Funeral Home with graveside services today at 10 a.m. at
Westwood Cemetery followed by a memorial service will be at 11 a.m. at
the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Judith Claycomb
officiating.
The family suggests
memorial
contributions be made to the church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 26, 1996, p. 3.
Thomas Alonzo Hall
Thomas Alonzo Hall died at Chicago, September 19 [11?], 1911.
Thomas A. Hall was born at Richmond, Vermont, December 24 [14?], 1849.
He was graduated from [OHS in 1866 and from] Oberlin [College] with the
class of 1872. The next two years were devoted to the study of
theology, the first in the Seminary at Oberlin and the second at Union
Theological Seminary. Most of Mr. Hall’s life was, however,
devoted to
business, for some time as manager of a mining and smelting company at
Socono, New Mexico, and a marble company at Chicago. For many years
before his death he had had charge of the management of large central
buildings at Chicago. His death was the result of an operation made
necessary by a severe automobile accident which occurred two years ago.
He was married October 2, 1889 to Winifred May Long who with four
children survives him.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin,
Ohio, October 1911, p. 31.
Charles Wade Hallauer
Charles Wade Hallauer, 83, died Saturday, June 23, 2007, at Welcome
Nursing Home following a short illness.
Mr. Hallauer was a lifelong resident of Oberlin [and a 1942 graduate of
OHS]. He and his late wife, Alberta [Fey], co-owned and operated
Hallauer Radio & TV of Oberlin for 33 years. He was a member of
First United Methodist Church of Oberlin, past commander of the
Vermilion Power Squadron, a life member of the U.S. Power Squadron, a
member of the Oberlin American Legion and was active in the Winnebago
R.V. Camping Club.
A licensed pilot, Mr. Hallauer was also active in the Oberlin Senior
Center. He enjoyed traveling, camping, boating and bowling.
He is survived by his loving companion, Sylvia Sue McKain of Oberlin;
nieces Sally A. Carney of Avon, Barbara (James) Hudak of Macedonia,
Ohio, Sandra (Dale) Dean of Clarksville, Ga., and Lori Lodge of Canton,
Ohio; nephews Russell (Sue) Lyman of Vermilion, and David (Lori) Lodge
of Kennesaw, Ga.; sister-in-law Phyllis Lodge of Elyria; and many
great-nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Belva Hallauer,
and his wife, Alberta.
Visitation was Monday at the Cowling Funeral Home. A funeral service
will be held today, Tuesday, June 26, at 11 a.m. at First United
Methodist Church, Rev. Robert Hooker officiating. Interment will follow
at Maple Grove Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Oberlin Senior Center, 90 E.
College St., or the First United Methodist Church, 45 S. Professor St.
Photograph: Charles Wade Hallauer
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, June 26, 2007, p. 2.
Angelique Denee
Hamilton
Angelique Denee Hamilton,
12, of Oberlin, died Feb. 28 after suffering smoke inhalation in a fire
at her grandmother’s home, where she was spending the weekend.
She was born in Oberlin
and was a fifth-grade student at Prospect Elementary School. [She would
have been a member of the OHS class of 2005.]
She sang in the
fifth-grade
choir. She enjoyed math, science and spending weekends with her
grandmother,
Irene Springer, who also died in the fire.
Survivors include her
parents,
Brian Dostal and Sharin L. Springer, both of Oberlin, and several
aunts,
uncles, and cousins.
Arrangements will be
announced
by the Cowling Funeral Home.
Springer and Hamilton
Services
A memorial service for
Irene
Gertrude Springer, 70, and her granddaughter, Angelique Denee Hamilton,
12, both of Oberlin, will be at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, March 11, at the
Cowling Funeral Home.
Both died in a fire Feb.
28 at Mrs. Springer’s house in Oberlin.
Burial in Camden Cemetery
in Camden Township will be private.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 3 & 10, 1998, p. 2.
Beloved Pastor Remembered, Aaron
McQueen Hamlin
On May 16, 1928 in Oberlin, Ohio, Aaron McQueen Hamlin was born to
Irene and Aaron Ruben Hamlin. [He died June 30, 2006 in San Diego,
Calif.] He was the third of four children blessed to this union. He
attended elementary and high school in Oberlin [and graduated from OHS
in 1946]. At an early age, he confessed his faith in Christ.
Aaron served in the army for two years. In those early years, he had a
love for the game of football and actually aspired to be a professional
football player until the Lord called him into full-time ministry. He
attended Nyack College, in Nyack, New York.
Aaron was a founding organizer of the NBEA in 1963, which he served
faithfully and enthusiastically, in such capacities as Field Director,
Executive Director and President. His work was so valuable to NBEA that
he was even nicknamed "Mr. NBEA." He served on the Boards and/or as an
addition to a number of organizations, including the National
Association of Evangelicals, the Friends Church, World Relief, World
Vision, Voice of Calvary, Mission America and North Portland Bible
College. One of his major motivations was to bring to the body of
Christ his ministry of reconciliation. He also gave to other groups,
organizations and churches, large and small, across the country and in
other parts of the world. A gentle man with a true servant heart, he
had the gift of encouragement and exhortation.
Among his pastorates were a Christian & Missionary Alliance church
in Pasadena, Calif. and Piedmont Friends Church in Portland, before
taking the pastorate of Portland's Mallory Avenue Christian Church,
where he served until retiring during the summer of 2005. He instituted
many programs there to benefit the people and the community. Aaron was
a recipient of many honors. One for which he was particularly proud was
a few years ago, having his alma mater Nyack College award him an
honorary doctoral degree in recognition of his great service to the
body of Christ and to society at large.
"Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, 'Write Blessed are the
dead who die in the Lord from now on.' 'Yes,' says the Spirit, 'that
they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them." Rev.
14:13.
The Portland Observer,
Portland, Ore., July 12, 2006.
Elmer Kirby Hamlin
Elmer Kirby Hamlin, 88,
of Oberlin, died July 17 at Welcome Nursing Home after a long illness.
Born in Urbana, Ohio, he
had lived in Oberlin since 1920 and was a 1930 graduate of Oberlin High
School.
Mr. Hamlin worked at Moen
Inc. in Elyria for 28 years as a Cran machine operator, yard boss, and
inspector, retiring in 1975.
He was a member of Mount
Zion Baptist Church, Central Lodge #73 F&AM, Chapter #15 RAM, and
Cleveland
Consistery #15.
Survivors include a
sister,
Leatha Crosby, of Oberlin; a special friend, Azalia Johnson of Oberlin;
niece, Camille Mitchell of Oberlin; and four grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Lola; his parents, William and Mildred (nee Legg) Hamlin;
a step-daughter, Annette Watkins; six brothers; and three sisters.
A graveside service was
held July 19 at Westwood Cemetery with the Rev. Fred L. Bell, of Mount
Zion Baptist Church, officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 20, 1999, p. 3.
Michael Paul Hamlin
Michael Paul Hamlin, 62, of Lorain, passed away unexpectedly on
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at Mercy Regional Medical Center in Lorain. He
was born and raised in Oberlin, where he attended Oberlin High School
[Class of 1967] and later moved to Lorain.
Following high school he served in the United States Army. Michael was
a musician who played lead guitar, was an avid sports fan, and a
mechanic who enjoyed working on cars.
He will be sadly missed by his son, Devon Whitfield of Elyria;
daughter, Jocelyn Hart of Virginia; a sister, Patricia Hamlin; two
brothers, Spencer (Delora) Hamlin and Dean Scott Hamlin; four
grandchildren; two nieces, Alasa and Savanna; two nephews, Spencer II
and Juan; and a host of other loving relatives and friends.
Michael was preceded in death by his father, Paul Hamlin [OHS
‘50]; and mother, Edna Hamlin (nee Scott).
Visitation will be held Wednesday, March 14, 2012 from 4 P.M. until
time of service at 5 P.M. at Brown-Robinson Funeral Home, 2652 Broadway
Ave., Lorain. District Elder Laurence E. Nevels, Pastor of Christ
Temple of Oberlin, will officiate.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Sunday, March 11, 2012.
Paul H. Hamlin
Paul H[arrison] Hamlin, 64, of Oberlin, died Feb. 2 after an apparent
heart attack.
He was born and lived most of his life in Oberlin [and was a 1950
graduate of OHS]. He served in the Navy during World War II and retired
after 26 years with Gilford Industries.
He was a past president of the Oberlin branch of the NAACP and he
regularly attended City Council meetings. He enjoyed golf.
Survivors include a daughter, Patricia Lynn of Los Angeles; sons,
Michael Paul and Spencer Allen, both of Elyria, and Dean Scott of
Oberlin; and four grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Mae, in 1984; and by a
brother, James.
Services were last Thursday in Christ Temple Church with the pastor,
the Rev. Laurence Nevels, officiating. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, February 13, 1990, p. 2.
Robert O. Hamlin Jr.
Robert O. Hamlin Jr., 61,
of Lorain, former Oberlin resident, died Nov. 11 at his home after a
short
illness.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1952
graduate of Oberlin High School], he had lived in Lorain for the past
25
years.
Mr. Hamlin taught at
Whittier
Junior High in Lorain and was a counselor at Admiral King High School,
retiring in 1982. He then taught at the Lorain County Detention Home
for
ten years, retiring in 1991 because of health problems.
Survivors include his
wife,
Sylvia; sons, Robert III of Lorain and James Owens of California; a
daughter,
Anita Owens-Ramsey, of Lemon Grove, Calif.; five grandchildren; sister,
Camille Mitchell of Oberlin; and brother, Barney Hamlin, of Washington,
D.C.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Robert Sr. and Nancy (nee Thompson); and a sister,
Mildred
Stubblefield.
Services were Nov. 16 in
the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Fred L. Steen officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, November 21, 1995, p. 10.
Robert Hamlin Sr.
Robert Owen Hamlin Sr.,
84, of Lorain, former Oberlin resident, died Sunday at St. Joseph
Hospital,
Lorain.
Born in Urbana, he had
lived
in Oberlin most of his life, moving to Lorain four years ago to live
with
his son, Robert O., who survives.
He was a 1927 [1929]
graduate
of Oberlin High School and the last living member of the 1926 OHS state
basketball championship team. He attended Wilberforce College for three
years.
Mr. Hamlin operated his
own interior decoration business for 50 years.
Other survivors include
another son, Barney of Washington, D.C.; a daughter, Camille Mitchell
of
Oberlin; a brother, Elmer of Oberlin; a sister, Leatha Crosby of
Oberlin;
eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Nancy, in 1977; a daughter, Mildred Stubblefield, in 1992;
five brothers and three sisters.
Friends may call at
Cowling
Funeral Home on Wednesday from noon until the time of services at 1
p.m.
The Rev. Charles Mayle will officiate. Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 26, 1993, p. 2.
Sarah Ruth Hammond
Sarah Ruth Hammond, 34, of Oberlin, died in Williamsburg, Virginia,
Thursday, November 24, 2011, after a long and brave struggle with
mental illness.
A 1995 graduate of Oberlin High School, Sarah received her Bachelor of
Arts Degree in 1999 and her Ph.D. in History of American Religion in
2010, both from Yale University. Sarah was employed at Yales
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS from 1999-2003.
During her student years, Sarah was the recipient of the Andrew F.
Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Richard J. Franke
Interdisciplinary Fellowship, an award given to exceptional students in
the humanities at Yale University. She was also a Lake Doctoral
Dissertation Fellow at the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving at the
Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Sarahs doctoral
dissertation titled “Gods Business Men: Entrepreneurial
Evangelicals in Depression and War” was being revised under
contract with the University of Chicago Press at the time of her death.
In August, Sarah moved to Williamsburg, Virginia, to begin a position
as a Visiting Professor at the College of William and Mary. During her
brief tenure there, her students held her in high regard for her
engaging teaching methods, attentiveness to students, wit, and passion
for her subject matter.
Sarah loved to read and research, taking delight in the intersection
between American Christianity and American culture. She also loved to
engage people in lively discussions of religion, politics, and popular
culture. She was devoted to her two cats, Gandalf and Thea.
The countless people whose lives Sarah has touched already miss her
greatly.
She is survived by her parents, the Reverends Mary and Steve Hammond,
pastors of Peace Community Church in Oberlin; sister, Grace Hammond
[OHS ‘00] (David Fanelli) of Kelly, Wyoming; sister, Rachel
Ramirez-Hammond [OHS ‘97] ( (Juan Carlos Ramirez); niece, Sofia
Ramirez; and nephew, Santiago Ramirez of Lewis Center, Ohio.
Memorial contributions can be sent to Peace Community Church, 44 E.
Lorain St., Oberlin, OH 44074 or to the Baptist Peace Fellowship of
North America, 4800 Wedgewood Dr., Charlotte, NC 28210, designated for
the BPFNA Scholarship Fund.
A private Graveside Service was held Monday, December 5, 2011, at
Westwood Cemetery. A Celebration of Life Service, open to the public,
will be held Friday, December 30, 2011, 11 A.M., at First Church (UCC),
located at the corner of Main and Lorain Streets in Oberlin.
Online condolences may be made to www.cowlingfuneralhomeoh.com.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Friday, December 23, 2011.
Charlene Hamski dies
at 24
A funeral mass will be
held
today at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Church in Elyria for Charlene
“Sherry”
Hurd Hamski, 24, of Houston, Texas.
Mrs. Hamski, an Oberlin
native, had lived here all her life until moving to Texas two years
ago.
She died Monday at Anderson Hospital in Houston after a five-year
illness.
A 1976 graduate of Oberlin
High School, Mrs. Hamski had attended Lorain County Community College
and
Cleveland State University.
Survivors are her husband,
Thomas; mother, Mary Eleanor Hurd of Oberlin; three sisters, Mary (Mrs.
Glenn) Carruthers of Oberlin, Joan (Mrs. Norman) Wilhelm of Altoona,
Pennsylvania
and Rose (Mrs. Carroll) Riddle of Findlay; and two brothers, Edwin Hurd
of Vermilion and Thomas Hurd of Grafton.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
A Christian wake service
was held last evening at the Cowling Funeral Home.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 2, 1982, p. 2.
Elizabeth May Hanak
Elizabeth May Hanak (nee
Burke), 83, of Oberlin, died June 25 at Amherst Manor Nursing Home
after
a long illness.
Born in Oberlin, she had
been a lifelong resident. She graduated from Oberlin High School in
1930
and from the Oberlin Business College.
She had been employed as
a dental assistant for Dr. C. W. Carrick and then worked at Mudd
Library
until retiring in 1977.
A member of the First
Church
in Oberlin, she enjoyed gardening, reading and playing cards.
Survivors include a
daughter,
Maryann Watson of South Amherst; a son, David of Wellington; three
grandchildren;
three step-grandchildren; and three step-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Steve, in 1992; and a brother, Norman Burke.
Services were June 28 at
the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Scott Phillips officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Lorain Community/St. Joseph Hospice Foundation, Lorain.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, July 4, 1995, p. 2.
Mrs. John D. Hand
Mrs. Alicia R. [Ruth] Hand [nee Brink], 78, of 139 Longford Ave., was
pronounced dead at Elyria Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon after
being stricken with a heart attack in her home.
An Elyria resident 52 years, Mrs. Hand was born in Wakeman, Oct. 6,
1894 [and graduated from OHS in 1911]. She was a member of the
Washington Avenue Christian Church.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Allen C. (Lucille) Day, Elyria; two
grandsons; a sister, Mrs. E. P. Rinal, Akron.
Her husband, John D. Hand, died in 1970.
Friends will be received in the Wainwright Funeral Home today from 7 to
9 p.m. and tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Washington Avenue Christian
Church with the Rev. J. Kenneth Evans officiating. Burial will be in
Ridge Hill Memorial Park.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Thursday, April 5, 1973, p. D-2.
James Hanmer dies in
one-car accident
James R. Hanmer, 27, of
Oberlin was killed in a one-car accident early Saturday morning when
the
car he was driving went out of control on Hallauer Rd.
Hanmer was traveling south
on Hallauer around 4 a.m. when his car went off the roadway and struck
a guardrail and bridge abutment, according to Ohio Highway Patrol
troopers.
He was thrown from the car.
Born in Oberlin, he was
a 1974 graduate of Oberlin High School and a member of First Church. He
and his mother operated the Dairy Twist on Route 20 south of Oberlin.
He is survived by a son,
Jacob; mother, Mrs. Richard (Theresia) Hanmer; brother, Thomas; sister,
Mrs. Bernard (Nadine) Glime; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Merle
Hanmer,
all of Oberlin. His father, Richard, died in 1982.
Services were Tuesday
morning
at the Cowling Funeral Home with Rev. John Elder officiating. Burial
was
in East Pittsfield Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 23, 1983, p. 2.
Merle James Hanmer
Oberlin -- Merle James
Hanmer,
96, of Oberlin, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2002, at Welcome Nursing Home,
Oberlin,
following a lengthy illness.
He was born April 23,
1905,
in Pittsfield Township, and lived in the Pittsfield and LaGrange area
until
moving to Oberlin more than 50 years ago. [He was a member of the
Oberlin
High School class of 1925.]
Hanmer was employed at
Republic
Steel, Elyria, as a millwright for many years until retiring in 1970.
He was a member of First
Church, Oberlin, and the AARP. He enjoyed fishing, gardening and
carpentry.
Survivors include his sons
David L. Hanmer of Wellington, Clinton F. Hanmer of Fort Myers, Fla.,
and
Robert A. Hanmer of Oberlin; daughters Naomi McGrann of Richmond, Va.,
Linda Pleasnick of Amherst and Nadine Gott of Wellington; and 28
grandchildren,
39 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. He was
preceded
in death by his wife, Minnie Kathryn (nee Neiding); son, Richard A.
Hanmer;
daughter, Katherine A. Mims; one grandson; his brother, Clifford L.
Hanmer;
sister, Elsie L. Williams; and his parents, James C. and Alice M. (nee
Waite) Hanmer.
Friends may call Wednesday
from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at Cowling Funeral Home,
228 S. Main St., Oberlin. The Rev. William B. Kitchen, pastor of First
Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Brownhelm Cemetery, Vermilion.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Monday, January 14, 2002.
Minnie K. Hanmer
Minnie Kathryn Hanmer, 87,
of Oberlin, died Feb. 1 at Allen Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
Born in Brownhelm Twp.,
she lived in the Oberlin area most of her life.
For 21 years she worked
in the cafeterias at Pleasant Street School and Langston Middle School,
retiring in the early 1970s.
She was a member of the
First Church in Oberlin, where she volunteered for several years to
take
the kitchen towels home and wash them, so they were always ready for
the
next use. She was also a member of the American Association of Retired
Persons.
She enjoyed being a
homemaker,
fishing and flower and vegetable gardening.
Survivors include her
husband,
Merle J.; sons, Clinton of Fort Myers, Fla., David of Wellington, and
Robert
of Oberlin; daughters Naomi McGrann of Richmond, Va., Kathryn Mims of
Elyria,
Linda Pleasnick of Amherst, and Nadine Gott of Wellington; 28
grandchildren;
20 great-grandchildren; and sisters, Elma Barclay of Lorain and Mildred
Turnbull and Lois Pritchett, both of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death
by a son, Richard A., in 1982; a grandson, James R. Hanmer, in 1983; a
brother, William F. Nieding, in 1967; and sisters, Pearl Noble in 1974,
Elizabeth Pratt in 1975, and Ruth Hacker in 1993.
Services were Feb. 3 in
the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Douglas Long, pastor of the
First
Church, officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, February 8, 1994, p. 2.
Edith Brand Hannah
Mrs. Ian C. Hannah
(Edith Brand) died after an extended
illness in a nursing home in
After graduation from [Oberlin]
College [in 1897], she
studied art for a year at Cooper Union in
The year 1901-02 was spent in
studying art in
Her art career continued for the
remainder of her life, and
she gained international fame as a portrait painter and as illustrator
of several
of her husband’s books. Among these were “
In 1925 they went to
Dr. Hannah, a Unionist, was elected
to the House of Commons
in 1935, and he remained a member until his death in 1944. Mrs. Hannah,
although bedridden for two years before her death occurred, sent
greetings from
Surviving her are her three sons:
James, a professor at
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, May
1948, p. 28.
Ovid H. Hannon
Ovid H[algarth] Hannon, 43, of RD 1,
Collins, died yesterday in Fisher-Titus Hospital in Norwalk after a
short illness.
A hospital spokesman said an autopsy
was being performed to determine the cause of death.
Mr. Hannon was the owner of a small
general store in Collins. He operated Hannon Motor Sales in Wellington
for 19 years until leaving the business in 1968. He was a [1943
graduate of OHS and a] Navy Veteran.
Survivors include sons David,
Christopher and Daniel, who lived with their mother, Mrs. Helen Hannon,
in Wellington; his mother, Mrs. Rachel Hannon, of Wellington, and a
sister, Mrs. James R. (Lael) Geyer of Oklahoma City, Okla.
Private services will be held
tomorrow in the Curtis Truman Funeral Home in Wellington. The body will
be cremated, and the ashes buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Wellington.
The
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, January 3, 1970, p. 2.
Jane Marie Twining Hantz
Jane Marie Twining Hantz, 55, of
Oberlin, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2013, at New Life Hospice
in Lorain, following a short illness. She was born March 5, 1957 in
Oberlin, at Allen Memorial Hospital, to Lawrence and Dorothy Twining.
She graduated from Oberlin High School in 1974 [1975] and later the
International Business College of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with a degree in
business. Jane also graduated from the Antelope Valley College in
Lancaster, California, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with an
Associates degree in Medical Office Management, being one semester
short of earning her RN.
She worked at the Moen Company in Elyria and Las Vegas, Nevada, as well
as in home health care in Lancaster, California. Her last employment
was at Internal Medicine Physicians in Kauai, Hawaii.
Jane was caring, joyous, detail-orientated and had a wonderful sense of
humor. She loved walking, exercise, animals, crafts, quilting and
spending time with her family. She was a member of Grace Lutheran
Church in Oberlin.
She is survived by her husband, John Hantz of Oberlin; mother, Dorothy
Twining [OHS ‘47] of Oberlin; brother, Gary Twining [OHS
‘71] (Martha) of Elyria; one nephew; five grandchildren; two
great grandchildren; a great niece and nephew; and numerous relatives
and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father, Lawrence A.Twining [OHS
‘47].
A time visitation followed by memorial service for family and close
friends, will be held at Hempel Funeral Home, 373 Cleveland Avenue in
Amherst, from 10 A.M., until service time at 11 A.M., Saturday March 2,
2013. The Reverend Joshua Moldenhauer, Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church,
will officiate. The family will conduct interment service privately at
a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial donations may be
sent to the American Cancer Society for research.
Jane’s family wishes to thank the Doctors, Nurses and Patient
Care Associates of Mercy Hospital and New Life Hospice for their
superlative care and compassion during her internment.
Additional information and online register book are available at
www.hempelfuneralhome.com
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Thursday, February 28, 2013.
Kathleen Thompson Harbaugh
Kathleen Thompson Harbaugh, our mother, was like the wild-flower garden
she planted and tended for 30 years behind her South Toledo home. Her
garden's profusion of color, like her love of family and music
delighted both eye and heart. She talked sweetly, taught music, and
offered home-made granola or delicious vegetable soup to those lucky
enough to know her.
She passed away Tuesday evening, September 2, 2003, at the Health Care
Center of Swan Creek Retirement Village at the age of 86. She was
surrounded by her family, husband, Ted and sons, Bryce, John and Ross,
whom she liked to call her finest achievements. She was born March 12,
1917, in Fenton, Illinois. Known as a very successful violin teacher,
she reached hundreds of youngsters (ages 3-20) during 26 years,
including the last week of her life, teaching with the Suzuki Method. A
life-long learner, she attended 21 Suzuki workshops around the world
including one in Japan with the Shinitchi Suzuki himself.
She graduated from [OHS in 1934 and from] the Music Conservatory at
Oberlin College, where she studied with Maurice Kessler and was the
first student to enroll as a violist (rather than enrolling as a
violinist and switching to viola). She played in the Chicago Women's
Symphony, the Toledo Symphony (for ten years), was violist of the
Tolora String Quartet with Betty Foster, Pat Rafferty and her son, Ross.
Kay sought to integrate all God's children. She believed that music
could help accomplish this goal because it has the power to civilize
those who could listen to Mozart or Beethoven with both heart and mind.
Musical education was vital to her. "Practice every day" was her motto,
and she made her boys practice piano or cello every day before they
went out to play. "Attend a music concert every month", she directed
the parents of her students. "Make your music say something". In
Toledo, she was an active member of Mu Phi Epsilon professional
fraternity, the Monday Musicale, and the Euterpeans. She was also a
member of Park United Church of Christ Church on Glendale, where she
taught Sunday School with her husband, Ted and organized a church
orchestra and was a humble, free-spirited, and politically progressive
voice.
She is survived by her husband of 63 years, Ted; her three sons, Bryce
(Judy), John (Pam) and Ross (Bernice); her sister, Phyllis (93 years
old), and her grandchildren, Molly (Ted), Will (Hannah), Jessica,
Brooke and Nick, as well as many friends. We love you Mom. We remember
your legacy of cheerful service, beautiful music and optimism for all.
Two memorial services will be held: at Swan Creek Retirement Village
dining room at 1 p.m. on Friday, September 5th and at Park
Congregational Church, December 27 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, the
family suggests memorial contributions to her three main charities:
Park Church, Grace Community Center and the Nature Conservancy, or to
research on Multiple Myeloma. The family would like to thank the staff
of Senior Independence and Hospice for their special care and support
of Kay during her illness.
Arrangements by Walter Funeral Home, 419-382-1700.
www.walterfuneralhome.com
The Blade, Toledo,
Ohio, Friday, September 5, 2003.
Patricia A. Hardin
Patricia A[nn] Hardin (nee Alicie) of Wooster, sister of Martha
Harsar of Oberlin, died Sunday, April 9, 2006, at Akron General Medical
Center. She was 54.
She was born Nov. 25, 1946, in Cedar Bluff, Va. She was a homemaker,
and had worked at various jobs throughout the years. [She graduated
from OHS in 1965.]
She was a member of the New Pittsburg United Methodist Church. She was
an avid reader who loved to travel, and liked hummingbirds, game shows,
and family.
Ms. Hardin is survived by her daughter, Margaret Randles of Wooster; a
grandson; sisters Martha Harsar of Oberlin, Ruth Dutton of Amherst, and
Ida Alicie of Winnie, Texas; brother Milbrun Alicie of Hamilton, Ohio,
and John and James Alicie, both of Winnie, Texas; and long-time
companion, Bill Lemaster of Wooster. She was preceded in death by her
parents, Milburn and Maudie Evelyn (nee Pilkins) Alicie.
Services were Thursday, April 13, at McIntire, Davis & Greene
Funeral Home in Wooster, the Rev. Paul Peterson officiating. Burial was
at Sherwood Memorial Gardens.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, April 25, 2006, p. 2.
Ralph L. Harding, Native of Oberlin, Dies
in
Cleveland
Ralph Lyman Harding, 62,
native of Oberlin and senior partner of the architectural and
engineering
firm of Wilbur Watson and Associates, died April 24 at Charity
Hospital,
Cleveland, following a heart attack.
Mr. Harding was the
engineer
in charge of the construction of the two new bridges in Lorain. Born in
Oberlin August 14, 1882, Mr. Harding was graduated from [OHS in 1900,
from]
Oberlin Academy in 1901 and from Case School of Applied Science in
1905.
His father was for many years an instructor in music in the Oberlin
public
schools. Mr. Harding did construction work on railroads and dock
facilities
in the Philippines as well as construction work in the United States.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, May 3, 1945, p. 5.
Mrs. R. [Wendolyn H.] Hardymartin
Mrs. Wendolyn H[ershey] Hardymartin, [nee Jackson,] 45, of RD 1,
Crescent, Iowa, died in Jenny Edmondson Hospital, Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Tuesday from injuries received in a one car auto accident in Council
Bluffs on Jan. 13.
Mrs. Hardymartin, a registered nurse, [graduated from OHS in 1943 and]
lived in Oberlin before moving to Iowa 11 years ago. She was born in
Ohio, Nov. 1, 1925.
Survivors include her husband, Robert G.; two sons, Arthur and Richard
Davies, both of Michigan; her mother, Mrs. Marie Jackson, a resident of
the Elyria Home.
Services will be today at 7:30 p.m. in the Meyer Funeral Home in
Council Bluffs.
Graveside services will be held in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, Saturday
at 1 p.m. with the Rev. Frederick Schumacher officiating.
The Cowling Funeral Home is in charge of the graveside service.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Thursday, January 21, 1971, p. 34.
Mrs. Annie Thomas Hargraves
Annie Thomas Hargraves,
70, sister of Mrs. Gladys Wallace, 180 S. Park, and Mrs. Thelma
Godette,
229 E. Lorain, died on June 13 in Covington Ky.
She was born in
Amherstburg,
Ontario, Canada, in 1905 but at an early age moved to Oberlin with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Philip N. Thomas. She was educated in the Oberlin
public schools[, graduated from Oberlin High School in 1924,] and
graduated
from the Oberlin Kindergarten-Primary Training School in 1927. She
taught
school for more than 30 years in Xenia and in Covington, Ky.
In addition to the sisters
in Oberlin, Mrs. Hargraves is survived by a son, Lt. Col. William F.
Hargraves
II of the U.S. Air Force; a daughter, Mrs. Beatrice Anne Jones, a
teacher
in the Toledo public schools; one brother, Wilbur C. Thomas, Madison,
Wis.;
and a sister, Mrs. Linny Leach, Lorain.
Services were held on June
17 at St. James AME Church in Covington, Ky., and burial was in Oxford,
O.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 24, 1976, p. 7.
Marion E. Harley
Marion E. Harley, 91,
formerly
of Oberlin, died Monday at the Four Seasons Nursing Home, Albuquerque,
N.M.
Born in Henrietta Twp.,
she moved to Albuquerque in 1978 from Oberlin where she spent most of
her
life [and was a member of the OHS class of 1914].
She was a 60-year member
of the First Baptist Church, Oberlin.
Mrs. Harley is survived
by daughters, Mrs. Harold (Dorothy) Thompson of Ft. Myers, Fla. and
Mrs.
Edward (Deanna) Gottschling of Albuquerque, N.M.; and sons, Donald of
Cleveland,
Jack of Oberlin, and Dean of Campbell, Calif.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Floyd, in 1962, and by a daughter, Doris Ward, in May
1986.
Friends may call 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin.
Services will be Friday
at 11 a.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. Paul Buckland, former
pastor
of the First Baptist Church, Oberlin, officiating. Burial will be in
Birmingham
Cemetery, Birmingham.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 24, 1986, p. B-2.
Sarah Harley
Sarah “Sally”
Harley, 77,
of Oberlin died Sunday at home after a long illness.
Born in Lorain, she lived
most of her life in Oberlin. A [1931] graduate of Oberlin High School,
she had been employed for a time at Smith Furnishings, working in the
needlework
supplies department.
Survivors include her
husband,
Doren “Jack”; sons, Doren of Oberlin and Eugene of Atlanta,
Ga.; one
grandchild;
brother, Joseph Bukovac of Amherst; sister, Corine Adams of California.
Family burial services
were
conducted in Westwood Cemetery. Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin, handled
arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 25, 1990, p. 2.
Harlow, 52, Dies In New York Home
George Richardson Harlow,
II, former Oberlin Resident, died suddenly Sunday, June 10, at his home
in Wilson, N. Y., of a heart ailment. He was 52.
Mr. Harlow lived in
Oberlin
in his boyhood and was a graduate of Oberlin High School [in 1919]. He
was a structural engineer with Wright and Cramer, Niagara Falls, N. Y.
Surviving Mr. Harlow are
his wife Grace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Martin of Oberlin; one
son,
George Richardson Harlow, III; three sisters, Mrs. Mabel Greenwood,
Mrs.
Dorothy Bevin and Miss Margaret Harlow, all of Cleveland.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 21, 1951, p. 4.
Grace Elmina Harlow
Grace Elmina Harlow, 94,
of Oberlin, died Thursday, Aug. 3 at Kendal Health Center following an
illness of about one year.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1920
graduate of OHS], Mrs. Harlow lived in New York most of her life and
returned
to Oberlin 30 years ago. She owned and operated the Carlyle gift and
flower
shop.
She was a member of the
First Church of Oberlin.
Survivors include a son,
George of Houston, Texas; and four grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by brothers Henry, Burns and Robert, and a
sister,
Elizabeth “Betty” Martin.
A memorial service will
be held tomorrow (Wednesday, Aug. 9) at 11 a.m. at First Church with
the
Rev. Douglas Long officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery,
Wilson,
New York.
The Cowling Funeral Home
is in charge of arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, August 8, 1995, p. 2.
Services Held Tuesday For Margaret Harlow
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at the Cowling-Stang Funeral Home for Miss Margaret
Harlow,
63, former Oberlin resident, who died in a Cleveland rest home Sunday.
Miss Harlow was for 30
years
employed in the estate department of the Cleveland Trust Co. she was
the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Harlow, who lived here for several
years
in the 1920s. Mrs. Margaret E. Allen, 82 S. Cedar, is a cousin.
Rev. Edward S. Jones
conducted
the services and interment was in the family lot in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 6, 1958, p. 6A.
Margaret Veronica Harold
Oberlin -- Margaret
Veronica
Harold, 83, of Oberlin, died Friday, April 26, 2002, at Allen Medical
Center,
Oberlin, following a short illness.
She was born June 5, 1918,
in Lorain. She graduated from Oberlin High School in 1935 and Oberlin
College
in 1939. She lived in Oberlin from 1928 to 1942 before moving to
Columbus
for most of her life. She moved back to Oberlin recently.
She worked as a high
school
substitute teacher in Oklahoma and North Carolina. She also taught
foreign
language studies at Whetstone High School in Upper Arlington for many
years,
retiring in 1980.
She was a member of Sacred
Heart Catholic Church. She enjoyed karate and earned a black belt. She
was a former race car driver, published poet, and was a former member
of
the Grandparents Living Theatre. She was a former member of Delta Kappa
Gamma, where she created a program of famous ladies from the Gamma
Chapter.
After teaching, she was a resource teacher helping high school language
teachers. She was also on CBE Radio giving elementary classroom lessons
in French and Spanish.
[Survivors include nephews
Bert L. Latran Jr. of Oberlin, Joseph M. Latran of Greenwood, Ind., and
Stephen Latran of Seven Hills and many other relatives and friends.]
She
was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Frank C. Harold; parents,
Steven
and Honora (nee Nagy) Latran; and brothers Bert Lewis Latran Sr.,
Joseph
Michael Latran and Stephen Latran.
Friends may call Sunday,
1 to 3 p.m., at Cowling Funeral Home, 228 South Main St., Oberlin.
Services
will be Monday at 10 a.m. at the funeral home. The Rev. William B.
Padavick,
of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, will officiate. Burial will be in
Pittsfield
Cemetery, Pittsfield Township.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Sunday, April 28, 2002. [The Chronicle Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio,
Sunday, April 28, 2002.]
Helen E. Harr
Helen E. Harr, 88, of
Oberlin,
was pronounced dead at Allen Memorial Hospital on Friday.
She was born and lived
most
of her life in Oberlin, graduating from Oberlin High School [in 1921]
and
Oberlin Business College.
She enjoyed handiwork,
sewing
and crocheting. She loved cats and listening to music.
Survivors include a son,
Robert, of Kipton; sisters, Mabel Bates of Amherst and Esther Manns of
Oberlin.
A brother, Theodore Manns,
preceded her in death.
The family will receive
friends from 10 a.m. until 11 a.m. services today at Cowling Funeral
Home.
The Rev. Darrell Woomer, pastor of First United Methodist Church, will
officiate.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, October 2, 1990, p. 2.
Dorothy
Jeffrey Harrer
Dorothy Jeffrey Harrer died
April 7[, 1977]. She was born
After graduating from Oberlin[College
in 1927], Mrs. Harrer
worked in
In 1943 Mrs. Harrer began teaching at
the Rudolph Steiner
School (N.Y.C.), serving on the school’s board of directors
1954-58.
She and
fellow faculty member William Harrer, an industrial arts teacher, were
married
in 1947. In addition to teaching at
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Agnes A. Harris
Pittsfield Township -- Agnes A[lice] Harris (nee Marshall), 85, of
Pittsfield Township, died Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2005, at Welcome Nursing
Home, Oberlin.
She was born June 25, 1920, in Lorain, and lived most of her life in
the Oberlin area.
She graduated from Oberlin High School in 1938.
Mrs. Harris was employed by the Oberlin City Schools from 1970 to 1981
and at Oberlin Laundry from 1965 to 1969.
She was a member of Pittsfield Community Church, volunteered at the
Oberlin Senior Center and Allen Medical Center in Oberlin and was a
former Cub Scout Den Mother. She enjoyed crocheting, gardening,
bowling, dancing, horseshoes, card games and Scrabble.
Survivors include her daughter, Shirley Whitbeck of Westlake; sons
Russell Harris of Wellington and Bruce Harris of Oberlin; and seven
grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death
by her husband, William S. Harris, in 1996; her parents, Andrew and
Marjorie Marshall; and brother, Andrew Marshall.
Friends may call Thursday, 5 to 8 p.m., at Dicken Funeral Home, 323
Middle Ave., Elyria. Services will be Friday at 11 a.m. in Pittsfield
Community Church, 17026 SR 58, with the Rev. Kenneth L. Gerhardt,
pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Pittsfield East Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Pittsfield Community Church,
17026 SR 58, Wellington, OH 44090.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Wednesday, October 05, 2005.
Elmer G. Harris
Elmer G. Harris, 76, of
Oberlin, died June 24 at home after a six-month illness.
Born in 1915 in his
Oberlin
home, which has been in his family since 1833, he lived most of his
life
here.
He was a dairy farmer
until
1964, when he became a maintenance repairman for the State Highway
Patrol
in Elyria. He worked there 12 years, until retiring in 1976.
He was widely known for
his Book Barn and Rest Home for Old Books, where he had collected over
75,000 books. He was also well-known for his guitar, banjo and
harmonica
playing and gave concerts to many organizations and rest homes.
Mr. Harris was a 60-year
member of South Amherst First United Methodist Church, where he was
Sunday
School superintendent 15 years, and was a lay leader and choir member.
He was a 1934 graduate of
Oberlin High School, a member of the Senior Men’s Breakfast Club
in
Oberlin,
a 45-year member of the Lorain County Camps of Gideon Society, a member
of the Johnny Appleseed Postcard Club in Ashland, the Oberlin branch of
the AARP, the Lorain County Banjo Band, and the Farm Bureau Council.
He is survived by his wife
of 53 years, Lillian R. (nee McManama); a son, David G. Harris of East
Berlin, Conn.; two daughters, Mrs. Roger (Martha) Pendleton of Ashland
and Mrs. Floyd (Barbara) Hammond of Oberlin; eight grandchildren; two
great-grandsons;
two brothers, Warren A. Harris of Oberlin and Clyde E. Harris of
Vermilion;
and a sister, Nina Eschke of Elyria.
Services were June 27 at
the South Amherst United Methodist Church with the Rev. Jeff W.
Gindlesberger,
pastor, officiating. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, South Amherst.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Lorain County Camps of Gideon Society or the South Amherst First
United Methodist Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 30, 1992, p. 2.
Emanuel Harris
Obituaries: Miami Area
Deaths
Harris, Emanuel
[“Sonny”],
39, of Miami, died Monday. Services 11 a.m. today, Morningstar Baptist
Church. Poitier Funeral Home. [Oberlin High School class of 1979.]
The Miami Herald, Miami,
FL, Thursday, July 12, 2001.
Richard S. Harris
Richard S. Harris, 74, former Pittsfield Township zoning inspector,
died this morning at Allen Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
Born in Wakeman, he lived in the Wakeman-Pittsfield area all his life
[and was a 1934 graduate of OHS].
Mr. Harris retired in 1981 after 25 years as chief mechanic for Oberlin
Municipal Power Plant.
He had worked as a volunteer with [the] American Cancer Society and
enjoyed bowling.
His wife, Betty, preceded him in death in 1983.
Survivors include daughters, Linda Miller of Pittsfield, Joyce
Loudenslagel of Bellevue; three grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and
a brother, William of Pittsfield.
Friends will be received 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday at Cowling Funeral
Home, 228 S. Main St., Oberlin.
Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home with the Rev.
Harry Sawdey, pastor of Pittsfield United Church of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be in East Pittsfield Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, April 4, 1990, p. B-2.
Robert Alan Harris
Robert Alan Harris, 28,
of Rocky River, former Oberlin resident, was found dead in his car on
Aug.
20.
He was born in Amherst and
grew up in Oberlin, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1976.
During high school he was
on the varsity basketball team, varsity track team and varsity football
team for four years. In 1976 he was an Ohio High School All-State
selection
in football, basketball and track.
He received a full
scholarship
to Bowling Green State University where he played varsity football for
four years and was co-captain of the football team. He graduated with a
bachelor of science degree in health and physical education in 1980.
He was an All-Mid America
Conference selection in 1980. He played offensive tackle. After his
graduation
he was the ninth-round draft pick of the Philadelphia Eagles.
He played professional
football
as an offensive tackle for two years in the Canadian Football League.
He
was injured while playing in Canada and gave up the sport.
He then taught special
education,
math, education and health and was also the assistant junior high
school
boys’ basketball coach at Bucyrus.
He then went to the
Hopewell
Loudon schools in Bascom where he taught secondary health and physical
education for two years. He was also head coach of the boys’
varsity
track
team and assistant coach for the varsity football team.
He received a graduate
assistantship
at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W. Va., from which he received
his master’s degree in 1985.
At the time of his death
he was working as physical director of the YMCA center branch,
Cleveland.
He is survived by his
parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Warren Harris of Oberlin; and four sisters, Mrs. David
(Jean)
Sebastian of Elyria, Carol Harris of Rocky River, Mrs. Tim (Dianne)
Mahar
of Amherst and Mrs. Terry (Linda) Yuhas of Oberlin.
Services were Saturday
morning
in the Hempel Funeral Home, Amherst, with Rev. John R. Butchko, pastor
of the First United Methodist Church, South Amherst, officiating.
Burial
was in Evergreen Cemetery, South Amherst.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 28, 1986, p. 5.
Willie Harris
Elyria — Willie
Harris, 75, of Elyria went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, April
14, 2010 in the Center Ridge Health Care Center following a long
illness.
He was born in Coatopa, Alabama coming to Elyria, Ohio in 1949. He
attended Oberlin High School [class of 1953?]. Mr. Harris was an
entrepreneur where he became self employed and opened up Harris auto
body shop in Elyria, Ohio where he was owner and operator, through his
vision he also opened and was owner of H & H Bus Line Services. Mr.
Harris also worked at Harshaw Chemical Company.
He was a member of Greater Victory Church of Lorain, Ohio and was
formerly a member of Original Glorious Apostolic Church of Elyria,
Ohio, where he served as Deacon. Mr. Harris formed the Gospel Quartet
group “The Heavenly Band”, where he played guitar and was
also affiliated with “The Gospel Echo’s”. He enjoyed
singing, fishing and worked on cars.
He is survived by daughters: Paulette Barnes and Shelle’ Mathis
both of Elyria, sons: Kenny Harris, Clint (Chasity) Harris, Kim Harris
all of Elyria, 14 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, mother:
Pearlene Chaney of Oberlin, mother of his children: Valeria Harris of
Elyria, sisters: Barbara Jean (Joe) Kirby of Elyria, Julia (Clarence)
Bush of Elyria, Ceola Besteder of Cleveland, Roberta Wilson of
Cleveland, Margaret Allen of Chicago, Ill., brothers: Roosevelt
(Brenda) Harris, Joe (Vonya) Harris Jr. [OHS ‘60], and a host of
nieces, nephews other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his daughter: Lisa Lynne Noble, brother:
John Tolbert Jr., father: Joe Harris.
Friends may call Tuesday, April 20, 2010 from 10 a.m. until time of
service at 11 a.m. in the Faith Ministries Christian Center, 1306
Euclid Avenue, Lorain, Ohio, where Pastors, Alvin & Diana Lindsey
will officiate services. Burial to follow in Brookdale Cemetery.
Online condolences can be sent to: carterfuneralhome@yahoo.com or
www.carterfhinc.com.
Professional Services Entrusted to: Dennis W. Carter-LFD and Carter
Funeral Homes, Inc., 127 W. Bridge Street, Elyria, Ohio 44035; (440)
322-7788.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Saturday, April 17, 2010.
Douglas G. Harrison
Oberlin -- Douglas G. Harrison, 67, of Oberlin, died Wednesday,
Jan. 23, 2008, at Community Regional Medical Center, Lorain, after a
short illness.
He was born Feb. 21, 1940, in Oberlin to the late Wilma (nee Reid) and
Glenn Harrison. Doug was a 1959 graduate of Oberlin High School.
He was a friendly handyman who was often seen around town. He was a
member of Christ Church in Oberlin and dearly loved his dog Taffy.
Survivors include his three goddaughters, Rebecca Hancock-Winfield of
Oberlin, Roanne Lisi of Middleburg Heights and Roberta Marsnik of
Strongsville; and a cousin, Anne Reid of Kent.
Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 25, at
Norton-Eastman Funeral Home, 370 S. Main St., Wellington. A graveside
service will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin,
with Father Brian Wilbert officiating.
Memorials may be given to OASIS Animal Shelter in care of the funeral
home.
Condolences may be expressed online at www.nortoneastmanfuneralhome.com.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Thursday, January 24, 2008.
Glenn Harrison
Glenn Harrison, 57, of 53
N. Pleasant, died Friday in Allen Hospital following a six-month
illness.
He had been an Oberlin resident for 46 years [and was a 1935 graduate
of
Oberlin High School].
Harrison was born in
LaGrange
on Feb. 1, 1915. He was a factory representative for Disston Inc. of
Pittsburgh
and was a member of Christ Episcopal Church and the Ohio Hardware
Association.
Surviving are his wife,
Wilma, and a son, Douglas.
Funeral services were held
at the Cowling Funeral Home Monday with Rev. Peter Beebe officiating.
Burial
followed in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 16, 1972, p. 5.
Jeremy R. Harrison
Jeremy R. Harrison,
29, of Parma, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, January 15, 2012, in
Parma. He was born on August 21, 1982, in Parma [and graduated from OHS
in 2003]. He was a welder at Expert Crane and enjoyed hunting and
fishing. He is the loving husband of Amanda of six years; cherished son
of Donnie R. and Darleen (nee Valerian) Harrison, Jr.; brother of his
twin, Blake and Randy (Dana) Harrison; beloved grandson of Donnie and
Peggy Harrison, Sr; son-in-law of Jody and Richard Penndorf and
brother-in-law of Erica Penndorf. Friends may call at Waite & Son
Funeral Home, 3300 Center Rd., Brunswick, OH 44212 on Thursday, January
19, from 2-4 and 7-9 P.M. Interment will take place on Friday, at New
Russia Township Cemetery, in Oberlin . Please meet at the funeral home
at 10 a.m.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, January 17, 2012.
Lisa Margaret Harrison
Lisa Margaret
Harrison of Oberlin died Wednesday Aug. 17, 2011 at her home from
cancer. She was 46.
Lisa was the youngest of three children, born April 11, 1965, to Jeanne
McKibben and Howard Harrison in Boston, Mass.
She grew up in Fairport, N.Y. and moved to Oberlin in 1979 where she
attended Oberlin High School, graduating in 1983. At Oberlin High
School, she was voted the friendliest in her senior year and chosen
Homecoming Queen.
She attended Florida Southern College for one year, and graduated from
Ohio University in 1988 with a major in psychology. During the 1990s
she studied for a master’s degree in historic preservation at
Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga.
Following graduation from Ohio University, she moved around, coaching
track in Rocky River; living in Hilton Head, S.C., Rockville, Md.,
Ashville, N.C., Chicago, Ill., Cincinnati, and finally Ann
Arbor/Ypsilanti, Mich.
She had been on disability for the past few years because of a serious
psychiatric illness. She returned to live in Oberlin and was cared for
by New Life Hospice starting in June, 2011.
She was stoic, courageous and gracious to the end. Her family and
friends were grateful for the chance to reunite with her during the
last few years.
She enjoyed running, tennis, and movies, and even appeared as an extra
in several productions. She enjoyed reading the Psalms, writing
thank-you notes and watching DVDs.
Lisa is survived by her mother, Dr. W. Jeanne McKibben of Oberlin; her
father, Dr. Howard N. Harrison of Fort Myers, Fla.; brother, Dale
Harrison of Oberlin; sister, Catherine McClure (Don) and niece, Emily,
of Ashville, Ohio; stepbrother, Brett Wagner (Kathryn Drury) and
two nieces of Honolulu, Hawaii; stepsister, Dr. Amanda Wagner (Dr.
Toby Eshelman) of Madison, Wis.; uncle, James McKibben (Linda) of Erie,
Pa.; and cousins, Jamie McKibben of Erie, Pa., and Missy McKibben
Perkins (Tom) of Salinas, Calf. Her stepfather, Dr. William Wagner
of Oberlin, preceded Lisa in death in 2000.
A memorial service will be held in the Meeting House of the First
Church in Oberlin on Sunday, Aug. 28, at 2 p.m. Private family burial
will be at Westwood Cemetery.
Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to New Life Hospice, 5255 North Abbe
Road, Elyria, 44035.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 25, 2011, p. 6A.
Nancy Carolyn
Harrison
Nancy Carolyn Harrison,
28, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claston Harrison of 45396 Russia Rd., died
on Saturday in the Medical College of Virginia hospital in Richmond,
Va.,
after a short illness.
Born in Lorain on Feb. 7,
1949, she attended Oberlin schools, graduating from Oberlin High School
in 1967. She played clarinet in the OHS marching band. She attended
Lorain
County Community College and graduated from Bowling Green State
University
in 1973. After teaching special education at Tiro, Ohio, for two years,
she moved to Virginia in 1975 and had been teaching special education
in
Jenkins Elementary School, Newport News. She was a member of the Church
of the Open Door, Elyria.
In addition to her
parents,
she is survived by two sisters, Judy (Mrs. Gene) Scott of Wellington
and
Peggy, at home; a brother, Sgt. Roger, Parris Island, S.C.; and her
grandmother,
Mrs. Jocie Mae Harrison of Portsmouth, O.
Funeral services were
Wednesday
morning at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Don Engram of the
Church
of the Open Door officiating. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 31, 1977, p. 14.
Death of Mrs. Harroun Saddens Oberlin
Beloved Friend and
Teacher
Passed Away This Morning At Allen Hospital
By Mrs. E. J. Lampson
The death of Antoinette
Beard Harroun, wife of Professor Herbert Harroun, occurred this morning
at Allen Hospital. The words stare back from the page as one tries to
realize
what they mean. That death could come to that bright and radiant spirit
seems impossible. That we shall never again hear that quick light step,
see the warm welcome of her smile, feel the strong clasp of her hand,
we
cannot accept. All of us who were her friends, —and who was
not?—drew
strength
from her vitality, turned to her in sorrow or in joy, sure of the depth
and tenderness of her understanding.
As a teacher she had no
rival; even the dullest student felt some gleam of light in her
classroom.
No student in the more than thirty years of her teaching in Oberlin,
but
gained from her something beyond the subject taught, whether it was
mathematics
or Latin or German. Something of the glowing vivid richness of her
personality
entered into them, enriching them forever.
She lived every year of
her life, every day, every hour of it fully and richly. She packed a
dozen
lives into her one span of life. She touched no one but to enrich and
bless
them. Somewhere that bright spirit goes on—for even death cannot
conquer
it.
Services for all that is
mortal will be held at the First Church at three o’clock on
Thursday
afternoon.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, September 17, 1940, p. 1.
Services for Mrs. Harroun Thursday
Impressive Rites Conducted By Dr. Richards; Speaks of Her
“Radian Spirit”
Impressive funeral services for Mrs. Herbert Harroun were conducted by
Dr. James A. Richards in First Church Thursday afternoon.
In prayer, Dr. Richards spoke as follows:
“Now we celebrate before Thee this radiant spirit that long
shined
among us. We thank Thee for her out-reaching for all that is good and
true and beautiful; for her out-giving, who could possess no prize
without yearning to share it; for all the grace of her imparting, till
multitudes the world around recall the inspiration of her teaching in
which she gave herself as freely as her subject, and all who knew her
best felt her a source of light for their daily paths.”
“Now even our startled hearts would thank Thee that her suffering
is
over, her weakness at an end, her spirit free. Make generous our love
for her that the very affection that makes it hard to part may also be
our abundant comfort as we think on the greatness of her gain.”
Taught Here 29 Years
Mrs. Harroun was a highly popular, highly respected teacher in Oberlin
College and Oberlin Academy for twenty-nine years. Her subjects
included German, mathematics and Latin. From 1926 until her retirement
in 1939 Mrs. Harroun was Assistant Professor of German.
Born July 17, 1875 at Columbus, Ohio, [and an 1889 graduate of OHS,]
Mrs. Harroun was graduated with
the A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1894. She received her M.A.
degree here in 1927. On several occasions she had studied in Germany.
Before teaching in Oberlin she had taught at Madison, Ohio, and at
Akron.
She died at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, in Allen Hospital, after a gallant
struggle to recover from an emergency surgical operation some weeks
before.
Mrs. Harroun is survived by her husband, Herbert Harroun, Emeritus
Professor of Singing in Oberlin Conservatory of Music; by her daughter
Katherine; and two sisters, Mrs. W. A. Siddall of Oberlin, and Mrs. D.
E. Esterley of Topeka, Kansas.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, September 20, 1940, p. 4.
Antoinette
Beard Harroun
She loved life with
all her heart. She never wanted to grow
old. She never did. The quick, eager rhythm of her step, forever
hurrying to
keep some new and delightful tryst with life, never flagged, nor did
the deep
friendliness of her nature, nor the vivid enthusiasm for the
astonishing
variety of human interests that were hers. How she managed, within the
boundaries of one existence, to encompass so much of the fullness of
life must
remain a mystery and a marvel. But she did. She brimmed with it.
Her teaching was charged with
intellectual vitality and
spiritual energy. Her classroom was transformed into a theater, on
whose stage,
under her stimulating direction, her amateur pupils discovered in
themselves
professional accomplishment. It became an orchestra pit, in which,
under her
kindling leadership, every member of the organization outdid himself,
for her
sake. They could not fail her. And so they found themselves in living
up to her
expectation of them, her belief in them. The least like a pedagogue of
anyone
in Oberlin, she was an inspired and inspiring teacher.
In her own home, with the complete
and cordial cooperation
of her immediate family, she created an atmosphere of rich and
whole-hearted
hospitality. She loved her friends and loved to have them about her.
She was
prodigal in entertainment. She was equally generous, when the need
arose, in
sympathy and true kindness. No one ever turned to her for help in vain.
She was
quick to realize need of this sort, and instantaneous in responding to
it.
Loving-kindness welled up like a natural spring in her disposition and
was
overflowing.
Her way of life was in itself the
most authentic and
persuasive statement one could have of a philosophy to live by. All her
manifold activities, all her countless kindnesses, her enthusiasm, her
overflowing generosity, attested to her belief in the value of life for
its own
sake. In the presence of such abundance as hers, such radiance of
nature, the
bleak futility of the defeatist could only shrivel and die. The living
warmth
of her nature blessed and heartened a veritable host of friends and
acquaintances, and in them her philosophy, her faith, lives on. It
cannot die.
It is imperishable. The happiness which she possessed and bestowed upon
us in such
full measure while she lived was so deep and true as to transcend even
the
sorrow that engulfs us now she is gone. All her days she was a living
and
quickening presence in our lives. She is still. She always will be.
Photograph: Mrs. Antoinette Beard Harroun, ’94…a life of
friendship and
intense activity. Mrs. Harroun died September 17, in Allen Hospital
after nearly a month’s illness. She had taught in Oberlin for 29
years,
during that time teaching German, mathematics and Latin at various
times. She graduated from Oberlin in 1894. Survivors are her husband,
Professor-emeritus Herbert Harroun; her daughter Katherine; and two
sisters, Mrs. W. A. Siddall of Oberlin and Mrs. D. E. Esterly of
Topeka, Kansas.
--R. A.
Jellife.
The Oberlin
Alumni Magazine, October 1940,
p. 14.
Robert
R. Hartson
Robert Reed Hartson, 73,
of Cleveland Heights, former Oberlin resident, died of cancer Feb. 21
at
University Hospitals in Cleveland.
Born in Grinnell, Iowa,
he moved to Oberlin in 1923 when his father joined the psychology
department
at Oberlin College.
He graduated from [OHS in
1938 and from] OC in 1942, then entered the Army Air Forces meteorology
program at the University of Chicago, graduating in 1943. He received
further
training in weather reconnaissance and was assigned to the 8th Squadron
of the Air Transport Command.
Mr. Hartson was one of the
first two officers of the Army Air Transport Command to prove that C-54
cargo planes could be flown west to east over the North Atlantic
throughout
the year. He was awarded an Air Medal after making 114 crossings during
World War II.
He later worked in crystal
research at Harshaw Chemical Co., Cleveland, retiring in 1982.
He belonged to the
American
Chemical Society and the Cleveland Skating Club, and served on the
board
of the Cleveland Whist Club.
He also served as
president
of Cleveland Heights Meals on Wheels for three years. He donated 100
pints
of blood to the Red Cross and was a lay member on the Case Western
Reserve
University Animal Care and Use Committee.
For six years he was
president
of the Oberlin College class of 1942, ending with its 50th reunion. He
played duplicate bridge and was working toward a life master
designation.
He also raised 180
varieties
of dahlias as well as vegetables, and enjoyed golf and antique clocks.
Mr. Hartson was a member
of Christ Episcopal Church in Oberlin and later belonged to St.
Paul’s
Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, where he was an usher. He
participated
in the Boar’s Head Festival at Trinity Cathedral for 17 years.
He is survived by his
wife,
Jean (nee Moore); three daughters, Margaret H. Ehrisman of Naperville,
Ill., Catherine R. Caldwell of Chagrin Falls and Barbara H. Tricarichi
of Chester Twp.; six grandchildren; and a sister.
Services were Feb. 26 at
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, March 1, 1994, p. 2.
Barbara Ann Harvey
Services will be held
today
at 1 p.m. in Mt. Zion Baptist Church for Barbara Ann Harvey, 36, former
Oberlin resident, who died Thursday morning at St. Judes Hospital in
Kenner,
La., after a long illness. The Rev. Fred Steen will officiate and
burial
will be in Westwood Cemetery.
Born in Mininhall, Miss.,
Mrs. Harvey spent much of her life in Oberlin, leaving in 1975 for
Louisiana.
She was a 1971 graduate
of Oberlin High School and was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church.
Survivors include her
husband,
McKinnley; four sons, Daymon, Adris, Chadid and Ahmad, all of Kenner;
her
mother, Inez Smith of Kenner; father, Earl Smith Jr. of Oberlin; three
sisters, Ruby Brown and Indiana Smith of Oberlin, Cynthia Brown of
Elyria;
four brothers, Clinton Smith of Mobile, Ala., Larry of Kenner, Milton,
stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany; a step-brother, LeRoy Veasley
of Detroit, Mich.; and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith Sr. of
Oberlin
and Mrs. Laura Gilmore of Detroit.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, February 13, 1990, p. 2.
Elizabeth A. Harvey, Beloved sister, dear
friend
Canandaigua - Elizabeth A. "Betty" Harvey, age 82, of Saxton Lane, died
on Sunday, July 17, 2011, at F. F. Thompson Hospital.
She is survived by her sister and brother-in-law, Maria and Russ
Artwell of Washington state; housemate, Natalie Ross; and extended
family members in Virginia and North Carolina. Betty was born in
Oberlin, Ohio and was the daughter of Robert Perrow Harvey and Helen
(Williams) Harvey [OHS ‘17].
She attended schools in Oberlin and was a graduate of Oberlin High
School, Class of 1946.
Betty earned a bachelor of science degree from Wayne State University
in Detroit.
She was formerly of Chicago, Ill., where she resided for 30 years and
worked as a hospital administrator. Betty retired in 1988 and moved to
Canandaigua.
She was a member of First Congregational Church of Canandaigua.
Betty enjoyed spending time at her cottage in Marmora, Ontario, Canada,
and was an avid fisherman.
There will be no calling hours. A memorial service to celebrate her
life will be held on Thursday at 11 a.m. at First Congregational
Church, 58 N. Main St., Canandaigua. Memorial contributions may be made
to Wood Library, 134 N. Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424; Salvation
Army, P. O. Box 510, Canandaigua, NY 14424; or First Congregational
Church, 58 N. Main St., Canandaigua, NY 14424.
Arrangements are by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home Inc., Canandaigua.
Condolences may be offered at www.johnson kennedy.com.
Daily Messenger, Canandaigua,
N.Y., Tuesday, July 19, 2011, p. 4A.
Helen Marie Harvey
Helen Marie Harvey (nee
Williams), 97, former Oberlin resident, died April 2 in Rochester,
N.Y.,
after a long illness.
Born in Jen Tsun, China,
where her parents George and Alice Moon Williams were missionaries,
she
lived in Oberlin most of her life until 1969. Since then, she and her
husband
had spent winters in Florida and summers in Canada. She had been living
in Canandaigua, N.Y., at the time of her death.
Mrs. Harvey graduated from
Oberlin High School [in 1917] and attended Oberlin College from
1917-19.
She graduated from Sargent College of Boston University.
She was a member of the
East Oberlin Community Church, a past regent of the Daughters of the
American
Revolution, and also belonged to the Literary and Social Club and the
Pansy
Chapter 34 of the Order of the Eastern Star, both in Oberlin.
Survivors include her
daughter,
Elizabeth Harvey of Canandaigua, N.Y.; foster daughters, Marie Artwell
of Richland, Wash., and Natalie Ross and Ruth Nightgale, both of
Canandaigua;
three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Perrow.
Private burial will be in
Westwood Cemetery.
The date for a memorial
service will be announced by the Cowling Funeral Home.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, April 11, 1995, p. 7.
Douglas Haskell, 80, A Writer Specializing
In Architecture Topics
By Thomas W. Ennis
Douglas Haskell, an
editor,
critic and writer on architectural subjects, died Saturday at Lake
Placid
Hospital in Lake Placid, N.Y., at the age of 80. He lived in Manhattan
and had a summer home in Lake Placid.
Mr. Haskell had written
about architecture for more than 50 years. Years ago, when only
specialized
journals were concerned with architecture, Mr. Haskell wrote a column
on
the subject for The Nation. In that column he defined architecture as a
concept “of man working upon the whole of his environment to put
it
into
habitable, workable, agreeable and friendly shape.”
Although he was not an
architect,
his concern with architects and their problems led the American
Institute
of Architects to admit him in 1953 as a corporate member. In 1962, the
institute made him a fellow. Last June, the institute honored him again
with a medal for his efforts to inspire and influence the profession
through
his writing.
Mr. Haskell’s
influence
as an architectural journalist became widespread when he was with
Architectural
Forum, a publication of Time Inc., which was widely regarded as the
leading
American architectural journal. He was with the magazine from 1949 to
1964,
serving successively as architectural editor, editorial chairman and
editor,
the post he had when he retired in 1964. Architectural Forum was later
sold by Time and is now defunct.
Born in Turkey, Mr.
Haskell
was the son and grandson of missionaries. His father, Dr. Edward B.
Haskell,
was a missionary in Turkey who was attached to the American Board of
Foreign
Missions.
After graduating [from
Oberlin
High School in 1916 and] in 1923 from Oberlin College, Mr. Haskell soon
became deeply involved in architecture, starting with a visit to the
Bauhaus
group in Germany. He also came under the influence of such architects
and
planners as Frank Lloyd Wright and Clarence Stein.
Following the publication
in 1928 of a long article on Frank Lloyd Wright, his first major
venture
in the field of architectural journalism, Mr. Haskell joined
Architectural
Record, a professional magazine published by F.W. Dodge, now a division
of McGraw-Hill Inc. He was on the staff of Architectural Record from
1929
to 1930, and until he rejoined the magazine’s staff in 1943, he
was a
contributor.
His monthly architectural column ran in The Nation from 1930 to 1943.
He is survived by his
wife,
the former Helen Lacey; three sisters, Margaret Hazens of Wofford
Heights,
Calif., Martha Palmer of Los Angeles and Eldora Spiegelberg of St.
Louis,
and four brothers, Edward and Gordon, both of New York City, Oliver of
Los Angeles and Henry of Trents Harbor, Me.
The New York Times, Tuesday,
August 14, 1979, p. D15.
Douglass Haskell,
Architect And Founder of Camp Treetops
Douglas Haskell, 80, of Lake Placid and New York City, died at Placid
Memorial Hospital on Saturday, Aug. 11.
Mr. Haskell was born on June 27, 1899 in Turkey where his parents,
Edward B. and Martha Miller Haskell, were missionaries.
He first came to Lake Placid in 1926, and in 1929, with his wife, Helen
Lacey Haskell, founded Camp Treetops, a summer camp for boys and girls,
which is still in operation.
An architect by training, he designed the first building for North
Country School in 1938.
Mr. Haskell was a journalist with the Architectural Record for many
years and also served as a journalist and editor of the Architectural
Forum.
He was a member of President John Kennedy’s Pennsylvania Avenue
Commission.
Survivors include his wife, Helen Lacey Haskell, of Lake Placid and New
York City; four brothers, Edward and Gordon of New York City, Oliver of
Los Angeles, Calif. and Henry of Tenants Harbor, Me., and three
sisters, Mrs. Margaret Havens of Wofford Heights, Calif., Mrs. Martha
Palmer of Los Angeles, Calif. and Mrs. Eldora Spiegelberg of St. Louis,
Mo.
The Clark Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. There were no
calling hours. Cremation took place in the Gardener Earie Crematory in
Troy. A memorial service will be held at a later date which will be
announced.
The Lake Placid News, Lake
Placid, N.Y., Thursday, August 16, 1979, p. 18.
Mrs. Sarah B. Haskins
Wakeman—Mrs. Sarah
Bacon
Haskins, 80, of 21 Pleasant St., a native and life-long resident of
Wakeman,
died yesterday morning at Fisher-Titus Memorial Hospital, Norwalk,
after
a long illness. [She was a 1905 graduate of OHS.]
Mrs. Haskins was a member
of the Congregational Church and the Ladies Society of the church. She
was a charter member of the Book Club and a charter member and life
member
of the Wakeman Chapter Order of Eastern Star 460. Her husband, George
B.
Haskins, died in 1941.
Surviving are a daughter,
Mrs. Hale (Betty) McClaflin, rural Wakeman; a son, George B. Haskins,
Jr.,
Alliance; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and a sister,
Miss
May Bacon, Wakeman.
Friends will be received
today, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. EST at the Gerber Funeral Home where an
Eastern
Star service will be held at 8:30 EST this evening.
The Rev. Elwyn Owen will
officiate at a funeral service at 2:30 p.m. EST tomorrow at the funeral
home. Burial will be in Wakeman Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Tuesday, August 9, 1966, p. 14.
Rose Elaine Haslett
Rose Elaine Haslett [nee Tillotson], a homemaker, died Monday at
Crescent City Health Care Center. She was 85.
Mrs. Haslett was born in Oberlin, Ohio, [graduated from OHS in 1926,]
and lived in Hialeah, Fla., for many years before moving to New Orleans
four years ago.
Survivors include two daughters, Nancy Haslett of New Orleans and Jean
Moffett of Easley, Ohio; and two grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held today at 6 p.m. at Bultman Funeral
Home, 3338 St. Charles Ave. Burial will be in Lakeview Cemetery,
Sebring, Fla.
The Times-Picayune, New
Orleans, Louisiana, Wednesday, August 31, 1994, p. B4.
Elizabeth Hastings
Elizabeth
“Betty” Rogers
Hastings, 66, of Oberlin, died Monday morning at Allen Hospital after a
long illness.
Born in Pittsfield, she
was a lifetime area resident [and a 1936 graduate of Oberlin High
School].
During World War II, she worked for the Oberlin Rationing Board, and
had
also worked as a receptionist for Dr. Virgil Hart and as a clerk at the
Haylor Book Store.
She was a member of First
Church, Pansy Chapter 34 of the Order of Eastern Star, and a former
member
of the Junior Forum.
She is survived by her
husband,
James; two sons, James Jr. of Palmyra, N.Y., and John, at home; a
brother,
Forest Rogers, and a sister, Mrs. Esther Wyckoff, both of Oberlin.
Services were Wednesday
morning at the Cowling Funeral Home, with Rev. John Elder officiating.
Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions be made to First Church or to the Lorain County
Visiting Nurses Association, in care of the Lorain County Health
Department.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, February 14, 1985, p. 2.
James
Hastings
James Loren Hastings, 79,
of Oberlin, died Saturday, Jan. 21, at his home following a one-year
illness.
Born Oct. 16, 1915 in
Oberlin,
Mr. Hastings graduated from [OHS in 1934 and from] Miami University in
1938 with a bachelor of science degree.
He was one of the first
draft contingents from Oberlin for World War II and served as staff
sergeant
in the medical detachment of Company H, 148 Infantry 37th Division for
four years. His division saw considerable action throughout the Pacific
area in General Douglas MacArthur’s campaign.
In 1945, Mr. Hastings and
Walter Gorske operated the Oberlin Bait Canteen.
Mr. Hastings was past
master
of Oberlin Lodge No. 380 F&AM; past high priest of Oberlin Chapter
219 R.A.M.; past master of Elyria Council 86 of Royal and Select
Masons;
past commander of Elyria Commandery No. 60 K.T.K.Y.C.H.; secretary of
Oberlin
Lodge 380 and Oberlin Chapter 219 for 25 years.
Survivors include his
sons,
John of Oberlin and James, Jr. of Palmyra, New York; and a sister,
Rhoda
H. Edwards of Manlius, New York. He was preceded in death by his wife,
Elizabeth, in 1985.
Services will be held
today
from 2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the Cowling Funeral Home. Services will
be
Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home with the Rev. Douglas Long
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, January 24, 1995, p. 2.
Paul G. Hastings, A Sacramento State
Professor, He Wrote Textbooks, Jogged, Played Music In His Free Time
By Steve Gibson
Paul G. Hastings was a man who played
tennis, jogged, played the French horn and wrote textbooks when he
wasn't teaching classes at California State University, Sacramento.
"He was extremely active," said his
daughter, Margery Winter of Sacramento. "Until he became ill, he jogged
every day."
Mr. Hastings, a business professor at
Sacramento State for more than three decades, died Saturday of prostate
cancer. He was 81.
In later years, he took up golf and
scored a hole in one at the Ancil Hoffman Golf Course on his 80th
birthday.
Mr. Hastings, a native of Upland,
Ind., authored more than a dozen workbooks and textbooks, including the
widely used "Fundamentals of Business Enterprise and Personal Finance."
Both his parents were missionaries
and he spent much of his youth in India. He [graduated from OHS in 1931
and] had a dual major of music and business while at Oberlin College,
where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1937. He earned a master's
degree in business administration from Wharton School in 1939 and
worked briefly at the DuPont Corp. before getting a doctorate in
economics at the University of Pennsylvania.
During World War II, he served in the
Army Air Forces, and after the war he taught for several years at Texas
Christian University at Fort Worth.
As a youth, he was an accomplished
tennis player who won amateur championships and a musician who played
in bands, his daughter said.
"He was always a patient father and
understood women," his daughter said. "He was a mentor and confidant to
many students and friends . . . and had a great sense of humor. He
didn't talk a lot, but when he said something you really listened."
In addition to his daughter, Mr.
Hastings is survived by a son, David Hastings of Sacramento, and his
former wife, Elsa Belford Hastings.
Funeral services will be held at 11
a.m. Saturday at Sierra View Funeral Chapel, 6201 Fair Oaks Blvd.,
Carmichael.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks
that any remembrances be made to the charity of the donor's choice.
The
Sacramento Bee, Sacramento,
Calif., Thursday, August 24, 1995, p. B5.
Obituaries – Paul Guiler Hastings
Dr. Paul G. Hastings, [OHS ’31,] WG'39, Gr'50, Sacramento,
Calif., a
former professor of business at California State University,
Sacramento; [died] August 19, 1995. He wrote a number of textbooks. An
avid athlete, he scored a hole-in-one on his 80th birthday in 1994.
The Pennsylvania Gazette,
University of Pennsylvania, March 1998,
http://www.upenn.edu/gazette/0398/0398obits.html
Ellen Birdseye Hatch
Mrs. Ellen Birdseye
Hatch, [an 1897 graduate of OHS and] for
25 years director of recreation on the Oberlin [College] faculty, died
July 2,
1947, in Pittsburgh, following an illness of more than a year’s
duration. She
was 67 and had been retired since 1945.
Mrs. Hatch received her
[bachelor’s
degree from
Fred M. Hatch, who became her husband
in 1905, was her
classmate and a prominent athlete in college. He died in 1932. Beside
her son,
George, ’28, Mrs. Hatch is survived by a sister, Miss Bessie
Birdseye,
of
Oberlin, and a brother, Sidney Birdseye, of
Photograph: Mrs. Ellen B.
Hatch…pioneer in directing
all-college recreation, she devoted nearly her entire career to Oberlin.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, August
1947, p. 25.
George
Birdseye Hatch
George Birdseye Hatch died
Mr. Hatch majored in chemistry and
was a member of the
varsity football squad. He received his A.M. in chemistry from Oberlin
in 1929
and the Ph.D. from
He leaves his wife (Virginia Bentzel,
’35) whom he married
in 1938 and four children.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Grace C. Hatter
Grace C. Hatter, 85,
formerly
of Oberlin [and a 1933 graduate of OHS], died Feb. 10, 1999 at St.
Joseph
Hospital, Flushing, New York.
Born on Nov. 21, 1913, to
George and Mary A. Hatter, she was preceded in death by her parents,
brother
Franklin C. Hatter and sister Eleanor Hayes. Survivors include her
sister
Bernice Webber of Hollywood, Calif., nephew Harry Webber of Hollywood,
Calif.; nieces Mary Ellen Steele of Cleveland, Jimmie Carol David of
Chicago
and numerous cousins.
A graveside service will
be held Wednesday, March 10 at 10 a.m. at Westwood Cemetery with the
Rev.
Kevin Coleman of Rust United Methodist Church officiating. Cowling
Funeral
Home is handling the local arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 9, 1999, p. 2.
Janet Joyce Haynes, 66
Wellington -- Janet Joyce
Haynes (nee Hurst), 66, of Wellington, died unexpectedly Sunday, Dec.
10,
2000, in the emergency room at Oberlin Medical Center.
She was born April 14,
1934,
in Wakeman, and lived most of her life in Wellington.
She graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1952.
She enjoyed bowling,
bingo,
reading, crafts and crocheting.
Survivors include her sons
Rick Haynes of Wellington and Randy Haynes of Gillette, Wyo.; daughters
Judy Tomlinson and Jeanne Sipes, both of Wellington, and Joni Pickworth
of Pittsfield; brothers Larry Hurst, Russell Hurst and Edwin Hurst, all
of Wellington, John Hurst of South Amherst and Jim Hurst of North
Ridgeville;
sisters Loretta Bartter of Marion and Arlene Pycraft of Wellington; and
13 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond W.
Haynes; and parents, Elton and Thelma (nee Smith) Hurst.
Friends may call Tuesday
7 to 9 p.m. at Cowling-Truman Funeral Home, 218 Herrick Ave., East,
Wellington,
where services will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Leon Simpson of
Firelands
Church will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Wellington/
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Monday, December 11, 2000
Elder Karl L. Haynes
He was born in Oberlin and graduated
from
He served in the U.S. Army with the
rank of staff sergeant
from 1980 to 1988 at
He was a member of
Survivors include his brothers Robert
Haynes of Alabama,
Nathaniel Haynes of Oberlin, Conroy Haynes of Yankton, S.D., Harvey and
Joseph
Haynes of Sioux Falls, S.D.; sisters Sarah Walker, Christine Payne and
Tracie
Haynes, all of Oberlin; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in
death by his
parents, Robert and Nancy Haynes; paternal grandparents, Lawrence and
Nancy
Haynes; and maternal grandparents, Joe and Mary President.
Friends may call Saturday from
Arrangements by Carter Funeral Home,
The
Morning Journal,
Eugene V. Headline
Eugene V. Headline of La
Grange, beloved husband of Clarissa G.; father of William W.;
grandfather of Erica Jean. Resting at Merker Funeral home, 518
Hillgrove avenue, corner of Franklin, Western Springs. Visitation
Sunday, 7-9 p.m. Memorial services Monday, 10 a.m., at the Community
Church of La Grange Highlands, 1901 W. 58th place. Interment Cleveland,
O. CHestnut 6-1500.
Chicago
Tribune, Chicago, Ill.,
January 08, 1961.
Boyhood Oberlin Resident, Eugene V.
Headline,
Dies
Eugene V. Headline, 60,
who lived in Oberlin in his boyhood and youth [and graduated from
Oberlin
High School in 1918], died Saturday in LaGrange, Ill.
Mr. Headline is the son
of the late Herbert and Ida Headline. He is survived by his wife,
Clarissa
G.; one son, William W., in California; and one granddaughter.
Graveside services were
held Tuesday at Lakeview Cemetery in Cleveland.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 12, 1961, p. 3A.
E. Lucille Davidson Hecock
E[thel] Lucille
Davidson
Hecock, 94, died Saturday, May 12, 2012 at The Community at Parkvue in
Sandusky, her home for the past 11 years.
She and her husband Louis were long-time residents of Fort Myers, Fla.,
having moved there from Oberlin in the eighties. Lucille was born at
home in Kipton, Jan. 23, 1918, and was a graduate of Oberlin High
School [in 1935] and Oberlin School of Commerce in 1936. She worked as
a bookkeeper for the Oberlin Inn for many years, after which she and
Louis traveled worldwide until his death in 1996. Lucille enjoyed
crafts, and square dancing, and was an avid reader.
Lucille was preceded in death by her husband, Louis J. Hecock in 1996;
daughter, Penny Hecock Winn [OHS ‘66]; parents Robert and Maude
Davidson; brother Robert “Butch” Davidson; and sister
Muriel Davidson
Oliphant [OHS ‘34].
Lucille is survived by her brother, Calvin Davidson of Oberlin and two
sisters, Helen Davidson Johnson of Oberlin and Mynne Davidson Coven of
Conway, Ark. Her daughters mourn her passing; Christine Yochem [OHS
‘60] and Sally Henning [OHS ‘61] of Huron, and Holly
(William) Eastin
[OHS ‘62] of Granite Falls, N.C. She is also survived by five
grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and several nieces and
nephews.
Cremation has taken place at her request and burial will be at Camden
Township Cemetery at a later date with the family attending. The Groff
Funeral Home and Crematory in Sandusky is handling the arrangements.
Memorial donations may be made to The Sandusky Library, 114 W. Admas
St., Sandusky, Ohio 44870 or to Stein Hospice, 1200 Sycamore Line,
Sandusky, Ohio 44870.
Condolences may be made online at www.grofffuneralhome.com.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, May 17, 2012, p. 6A.
George H. Hecock, ex-Elyria councilman
George H. Hecock, 95, of
Elyria, an Elyria councilman in the 1950s, died Friday at Elyria United
Methodist Village.
Born in Wheaton, Ill., he
lived in Florida during the winters and Elyria during the summers for
many
years. An Oberlin High School graduate [class of 1930], he worked for
General
Motors in Elyria before retiring in 1969.
Mr. Hecock was
Elyria’s
4th Ward councilman in the early 1950s. He belonged to King Solomon
Masonic
Lodge 56, the El Rey Grotto Band and Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite
Valley
of Cleveland. He enjoyed music, traveling and fishing.
Survivors include a
daughter,
Jean Sheldon of Elyria; a son, William of Elyria; four grandchildren;
and
nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife,
Dorothy
(nee Schultz); his second wife, Lena (nee Shick); his third wife, Maude
(nee Sanner); and a brother, Harry M. Friends may call 10 a.m. until
services
at 11 a.m. today at Busch-Curtis-Scheuffler Family Chapel, 114 Second
St.,
Elyria. The Rev. Beth McKee and members of Elyria Masonic Lodge 787
Free
and Accepted Masons will conduct services. Burial will be in Brookdale
Cemetery, Elyria.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, January 10, 2004.
M. Harry Hecock
M. [Marion] Harry Hecock, 81, of New London died Thursday at Firelands
Nursing Center [in New London].
Born in Michigan City, Ind., he had resided in the Pittsfield, Oberlin
and Elyria areas most of his life before moving to the New London area
12 years ago. [He was a 1929 graduate of OHS.]
Mr. Hecock retired in 1978 as factory foreman at Empire Spring Company,
Elyria.
He was an Eaton Township Boy Scout leader, a member of Elyria King
Solomon Lodge 56 F. & A.M., and a former member of New London
Grange. He had attended New London Christian and Missionary Alliance
Church.
Mr. Hecock enjoyed farming and gardening.
Survivors include his wife, Elenore (nee Copas) to whom he was married
50 years; a daughter, Marian Wellert of West Salem; a son, Richard of
New London; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and a brother,
George of Lakeland, Fla.
Friends may call 7-9 p.m. Friday and 1-3 p.m. Saturday at Eastman
Funeral Home, 200 W. Main St., New London.
Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with the Rev.
Keith McKenzie, pastor of New London Christian and Missionary Alliance
Church, officiating.
Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society, Huron County Unit,
New London 44851 or the church, 4625 S.R. 162 W., New London,
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Friday, May 24, 1991, p. C-2.
Richard
E. Helke
Richard E. Helke, 74, of
Wadsworth, formerly of Oberlin, an Army veteran, teacher and coach,
died
Saturday at Akron City Hospital.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1947
graduate of OHS], he had been a resident of Wadsworth for the past 30
years.
He served in the Army
during
the Korean War and taught sixth grade in Wadsworth City Schools for 16
years before retiring in 1989. He also taught in Sandusky and Oberlin.
He coached junior high
football
and girl’s track.
Mr. Helke was a member of
Grace Lutheran Church and enjoyed traveling and sports.
Survivors include his sons
Eric of Virginia Beach, Va., and David of Gulfport, Fla.; a daughter,
Cindy
Stecker of Akron; four grandchildren; a brother, Albert Jr. of Oberlin;
and his friend and companion, JoAnn Cowie of Wadsworth.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Shirley; and a sister, Millie Allen.
Friends may call 2 to 4
and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Hilliard & Mullaney Funeral Home, 174
N. Lyman St., Wadsworth, where funeral services will be 11 a.m.
Thursday.
The Rev. Ann Paynter will
officiate.
Interment will be in
Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin.
Memorials may be made in
care of the funeral home to Haven of Rest or Christian Appalachian
Project.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Monday, February 17, 2003.
James Hellmuth
killed
as car rams bicyclists
A memorial service will
be held Saturday at 4 p.m. in First Methodist Church for James M.
Hellmuth,
18, fatally injured Sunday at 5:20 p.m. when he was riding his bicycle
along a street in midtown Philadelphia.
He died a Hahneman
Hospital
there of brain injuries seven hours after the accident.
Returning from hike
Young Hellmuth, son of Mr.
and Mrs. William F. Hellmuth Jr. of 144 Shipherd, was returning from a
30-mile bicycle hike with three companions. The other three sustained
only
minor injuries.
The four were riding
single
file on the right side of the road when a car headed in the opposite
direction
swerved across the street and crashed head-on into the bike riders.
Driver charged
The driver, James R.
Scott,
45, of 1205 N. 25th St., Philadelphia, is held without bond on charges
of homicide by automobile, leaving the scene of an accident and driving
while his license was under revocation.
He was bound over to the
grand jury after arraignment in Magistrate’s Court Monday.
Scott, according to
Philadelphia
police, fled on foot from the scene of the accident, leaving a woman
companion
alone in the car. She gave police Scott’s name and he was
apprehended
at
his home.
Student at Carleton
Jim graduated a year ago
from Oberlin High School and had completed his freshman year at
Carleton
College in Northfield, Minn.
He was working in
Philadelphia
for the summer under a program sponsored by the American Friends
Service
Committee.
The Hellmuths were
informed
of the accident at 7 p.m. by American Friends Service.
Flew to Philadelphia
Mrs. Hellmuth flew to
Philadelphia
and reached the hospital just before midnight. Her son died at 12:30
a.m.
Monday.
The Hellmuth boy’s
accident
came just a year after the July 29 car-motor scooter crash which took
the
lives of two Oberlin boys, Roger Isackes, 19, and Howard Isackes, 16,
sons
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Isackes, 329 Edgemeer.
High-ranking student
Young Hellmuth was a
high-ranking
student in high school.
He placed in the top two
percent in the Merit Scholarship competition which he entered in his
junior
year. He won honorable mention in the state scholarship finals in
English
12 in his senior year and honorable mention in Division II in the
senior
general state scholarship tests.
His extracurricular
activities
included three years in Hi-Y, where he acted as service chairman in his
senior year and was a delegate to the model legislature; two years on
the
school news staff; representative to the Student Senate in his senior
year;
and participation in varsity basketball for two years.
Three other children
The Hellmuths have three
other children: Suzanne, 15; Billy, 11; and Peter, 8.
Rev. Hugo J. Hollerorth,
former minister of religious education at First Church, now on the
faculty
at St. Lawrence University, will conduct the memorial service.
Memorial fund
contributions
may be sent to Donald Gove, 136 Shipherd.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 2, 1962, pp. 1A & 5A.
Charge Murder in Death of Oberlin Youth [James
Hellmuth]
Philadelphia
(AP)—James
Scott, 45, of Philadelphia has been charged with homicide by automobile
in the death of James Hellmuth, 18, of Oberlin, Ohio, son of the dean
of
Oberlin College.
Hellmuth[, a 1961 graduate
of OHS,] died Sunday night, five hours after being struck while cycling
with a group of students. Two others were injured. Police said the auto
ran into the cyclists who were traveling in single file during a
rainstorm.
The Oberlin youth was
attending
a project, “Interns in Industry,” here, sponsored by the
American
Friends
Service Committee. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hellmuth Jr.
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette,
Lancaster, Ohio, Tuesday, July 31, 1962, p. 1.
Mrs. William Hemphill [Esther Kruger Hemphill]
Mrs. Esther Millie Hemphill [nee Kruger], 56, of 111 Prospect St.,
Wellington, died in the Wellington Community Hospital last night. She
had been in failing health.
A lifelong area resident, Mrs. Hemphill was born in Pittsfield
Township, Aug. 31, 1918[, and was a 1936 graduate of OHS].
She was a member of the Amvets Auxiliary of Wellington.
Surviving are her husband, William: two sons, William and Christopher,
both of Wellington; three daughters, Mrs. Janice Fox, Oberlin, and Mrs.
Edward (Ardith) Snyder, Elyria, and Mary Ellen, at home; 12
grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Phyllis Langdon, Pittsfield. A son,
David, died in 1966.
Friends will be received in the Cowling-Truman Funeral Home,
Wellington, tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. The Amvets Auxiliary
will conduct a memorial service there tomorrow at 7 p.m.
Services will be Monday at 1 p.m. in the funeral home. The Rev. Dwight
Hayes will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Saturday, May 10, 1975, p. 14.
Death Comes Wednesday [Edith Henderson]
Miss Edith Henderson
Passes Away—Private Services Saturday
Miss Edith Henderson died
Wednesday morning after several weeks sickness. She had been in poor
health
for some time past. Private funeral services will be held from the
home,
42 East Lorain street, Saturday morning.
Miss Henderson was a
graduate
of Oberlin high school [class of 1893] and the Kindergarten-Primary
Training
School. For several years she taught in New York and one year in the
south.
For the last number of years she has been secretary for Mrs. Lydia Lord
Davis of West College street. She was obliged to give up her work in
August.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, September 10, 1931, p. 1.
'Gloomy Gus' Henderson, Ex-Coach, Is Dead
at 76
Palm Springs, Cal, Dec. 17
(UPI)--Elmer C. [Gloomy Gus] Henderson, the football coach credited
with developing the University of Southern California into a major
power in the 1920s, died last night. He was 76.
Death came in California Convalescent
hospital from complications of pneumonia.
Henderson, a native of [Oberlin,
Ohio, a 1908 graduate of OHS], and a graduate of Oberlin college,
coached at U. S. C. from 1919 to 1924. His teams won 42 games and lost
only 7. He brought the first Trojan team to the Rose bowl and defeated
Penn State in the 1923 New Year's day game.
Coached Detroit
Lions
Survivors include his wife, Kathryn,
a resident of nearby Palm Desert; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Johnson of
Centralia,
Wash; and a brother, Herbert
Henderson of Evansville, Ind.
After leaving U. S. C., where he was
succeeded by Howard Jones, Henderson coached at Tulsa university for 10
years, and later coached the professional Detroit Lions for one season.
Fired, Fires Back
As the Lions' representative at the
National league draft meeting in Milwaukee at the end of the 1939
season, Henderson was under emphatic orders from Owner George A.
Richards to draft Bulldog Turner on the first round.
When the Bears, drafting ahead of the
Lions', took the big All-American center from Hardin-Simmons, Richards
fired Henderson. Henderson then revealed Richards had been courting the
collegian thruout the season, going so far as picking up a bill in
excess of $1,000 to fix Turner's teeth. The league promptly fined
Richards $5,000 for violating its no-tampering rule. Several weeks
later an irate Richards sold the Lions to Fred Mandel of Chicago.
Henderson also coached the pro Los
Angeles Bulldogs and completed his career at Occidental College in Los
Angeles.
Chicago
Tribune, Chicago, Illinois,
December 18, 1965.
Elmer Henderson, 77, dies; was OHS, USC,
pro
coach
Elmer Henderson, 77, died
Friday in Desert Springs, Calif.
Ashes will be interred
later
in Westwood Cemetery. There will be no service.
Mr. Henderson, son of J.
T. Henderson, who founded the Oberlin Business College in 1895, grew up
in Oberlin and graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1908] and Oberlin
College [in 1912].
He began his football
coaching
career at Oberlin High School while still a college undergraduate.
Later he coached football
at the University of Southern California and the University of Tulsa
before
coaching professional teams, including the Los Angeles Bulldogs and the
Detroit Lions.
He was owner and director
of the Catalina Island Boys Camp.
Mr. Henderson is survived
by his wife, Kathryn, and a daughter, Helen. William R. Close, 280 Oak,
is a nephew.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 23, 1965, p. 3C.
Elmer Clinton Henderson,
76,
died on December 16, 1965, in Palm
Springs, California, from complications of pneumonia. He was a noted
football coach. He built the University of Southern California and the
Tulsa University football elevens from mediocrity to national fame
“to
make his name a legend,” according to the Los Angeles Times. He also coached
the Detroit Lions, and the Los Angeles Bulldogs, and the Occidental
College team before retiring in 1941.
Mr. Henderson was born in Oberlin, Ohio, on March 10, 1889. While still
in college, where he earned letters in five sports, he coached the
Oberlin High School football team. He did work in athletics at a
military school and a high school, 1913-1919, going to Southern
California in 1919. In 1923 he and Willis Hunter, ’15, started
the
Catalina Island Boys Camp, which came to be known as one of the best
camps in the West. In 1961 the Helms Athletic Foundation elected
Henderson to its College Football Hall of Fame.
Mr. Henderson is survived by his wife, the former Kathryn W. Wilson,
whom he married in 1938; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Johnson of Centralia,
Washington; and a brother, Herbert of Evansville, Indiana.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, March 1966, p. 38.
Harold Henderson Dies After Heart Ailment
Funeral services will be
held tomorrow afternoon in the Church of Good Hope, St. Paul, Minn.,
for
Harold Henderson, a former resident of Oberlin [and 1909 graduate of
Oberlin
High School], who died there Wednesday morning following a heart
ailment.
His wife, the late Hazel
Clark Henderson, died Dec. 21. There were three children in their
family.
Henderson, popular athlete
and star, graduated from Oberlin College in 1914. He was the son of the
late J. T. Henderson, former president of the Oberlin Business College,
who with his wife and family lived at 271 W. College.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, January 9, 1958, p. 3A.
Harold Lawrence "Brock" Henderson
Harold L. Henderson, research director of the Minnesota Taxpayers
Association, died on January 9, 1958, from heart trouble at St.
Joseph’s Hospital, St. Paul, Minnesota. He was 66. His wife,
Hazel,
died two weeks earlier in a hospital room across the hall from her
husband.
Mr. Henderson was born on August 4, 1891, the son of John T. and Ada
Lawrence Henderson of Oberlin. As an undergraduate [OC class of 1914]
he was known familiarly as “Brock,” a nickname that he
carried
throughout his life. He was a stellar athlete, earning letters in
football, basketball, and baseball for three years and honored by being
selected as all-state quarterback.
After leaving Oberlin he graduated from the Public Administration
Training Institute of New York, took an A.M. at Columbia University,
and did other graduate work at New York University. He became a career
man in fact-finding in the public service field, working in Milwaukee,
and then as director of the Minnesota Institute of Government Research
for twenty-two years before it merged with the Minnesota Taxpayers
Association in 1956. An editorial in the Minneapolis Star said, in
part: “A brilliant researcher, an encyclopedia of tax
information, he
was respected nationally for his understanding of public finance.”
He was the author of many reports of the revenue and spending of the
State of Minnesota; he was the source of a good deal of factual
information used by governors, legislators and other, and had a hand in
the Little Hoover Commission Report of a few years back.
Survivors include two daughters; Mrs. Hamilton Warren H. Lufkin
(Shirley M.) and Mrs. Sarah Jones of St. Paul; a son, Lawrence C. of
Fairmont, Minnesota; two brothers Herbert R., x’21 [OHS
‘17], of
Evansville, Indiana, and Elmer C., ’12 [OHS ‘08], of Los
Angeles; and
three grandchildren.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, March 1958, p. 31.
Oberlin Woman Dies in Lorain Hospital
[Harriet
M. Henderson]
Lorain, Jan.
17.—Miss
Hattie
Maude Henderson, 45, assistant librarian at Oberlin College, died this
morning in St. Joseph’s Hospital following a brief illness. She
was
admitted
to the hospital January 7.
The deceased leaves two
sisters, Miss Margaret Henderson and Miss Edith Henderson, both of
Oberlin.
[She was an 1897 graduate of OHS.]
She was a member of the
United Congregational church of Oberlin. Funeral services will be held
from her residence, 32 East Lorain street, Oberlin, Tuesday.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Saturday, January 17, 1925, p. 2.
Herb Henderson
Herbert Raymond
Henderson was born June 21, 1899 in Oberlin, Ohio and died January 14,
1991 in Odon, Indiana. [He graduated from OHS in 1917 and
served as a 2nd lieutenant in the U.S. Army in World War I.]
He was a professional football player in the early 1920s. He played for
one season, in 1921, for the Evansville Crimson Giants of the National
Football League. Prior to playing pro football, Henderson played at the
college level at Ohio State. There he was a starting halfback on the
Buckeyes 1920 Big Ten Championship team. He also participated in the
1921 Rose Bowl Game. He later served as a football coach at Central
High School in Evansville, Indiana for 4 years with a record of 26-8-2.
After his coaching career ended, Henderson became an Athletic Business
Manager. He stayed in that position for 5 years. He then made his mark
as a Football Official in Indiana and was a grader of the Big Ten
Conference officials for several years. He was the 86th person inducted
into the Indiana Football Hall of Fame on November 30, 1979.
Evansville Crimson Giants
During a 1921 game against the Hammond Pros, Henderson stated that the
Hammond players met with him during the game and asked if he could tone
down his hits, because the Hammond players still needed to be healthy
for work on Monday. Henderson, a high school football coach, refused
and stated that he needed to show his players, who were sitting in the
stands watching him, “how tackling was done.”
From Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Henderson_(American_football)
Kym
Henderson
dies
after illness
Kym M. Henderson, 20, of
Canton, formerly of Oberlin, died Friday in Timken Mercy Hospital
following
a brief illness.
Born in Oberlin, she
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1979.
Survivors include her son,
John L., at home; her parents, Mrs. Marie Henderson of 131 Gladys Ct.,
and Melvin Henderson, Natalbany, Louisiana; sisters, Pamela Henderson,
Long Beach, California, Emogene Mitchell, Canton, Dr. Carol Carter,
Amherst,
Massachusetts; brothers, John J. Henderson, Canton, Sgt. Jeffery
Henderson,
Fort Ord, California, and Melvin Henderson, Erie, Pennsylvania;
grandparents,
Mrs. Corarena Clay, Oberlin and Tyree McBeth, Brookhaven, Mississippi.
Services were Tuesday
afternoon
at the Carter Funeral Home, Elyria, with Rev. Laurence Nevels of Christ
Temple officiating. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 9, 1980, p. 2.
Lena
Wytona Henderson
Lena Wytona
Henderson, 28, of Detroit and formerly of
Oberlin, died suddenly in St. Clairs, Mich., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004.
Born in Oberlin, she was a [1994]
graduate of Oberlin High
school and attended Eastern Michigan State University. She was employed
as a
cocktail server at the Greektown Casino in Detroit. An accomplished
violinist
and violist, Ms. Henderson was a lifetime member of the NAACP and was
active in
a variety of sports.
Survivors include a special friend,
Angela Davis of Detroit;
her parents, Clinton R. Smith of Slidell, La., and Gayle L. Henderson
of
Lorain; a step-father, Ricky Pope of Amherst; a grandfather, James
Henderson of
Oberlin; a grandmother, Mattie Henderson of Oberlin; a
step-grandmother, Betty
Smith of Elyria; and many aunts and uncles. She is preceded in death by
her
grandparents, Earl J. and Inez Smith, and great-grandparents, Earl and
Indiana
Smith.
Graveside services will be 11 a.m.
Saturday, at Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin. Pastor John Helms will officiate. Cowling Funeral
Home, 228
S. Main St., Oberlin, is in charge of arrangements.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 14,
2004.
Kevin B. Henke
Kevin B. Henke, 27, son
of Herbert and Sabra Henke of 124 Woodhaven, died Oct. 29 at University
Hospital in Cleveland of complications relating to cystic fibrosis.
Born July 28, 1954, he was
graduated from Oberlin High School in 1972 and attended Beloit College
for two years. He then transferred to Oberlin College receiving the AB
degree in 1976. Following graduation, he held a student internship at
the
Jamie C. Lee Art Gallery in Houston. For the past two years he had done
occasional freelance photography.
Memorial services were
yesterday
afternoon at First Church with Rev. John Elder officiating.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions, if desired, be made to the Cystic Fibrosis
Foundation
Cleveland Chapter, 3091 Mayfield Rd., Cleveland Hts. 44118.
Oberlin News-Tribune,Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 5, 1981, p. 2.
Prof. W.A. Henry Dies
Suddenly
Prof. W.A. Henry
passed away Friday evening,
Wm. A. Henry was born in
The Professor had conducted a studio
of music in
PFC Willis Henry dies in VA hospital
Private First Class Willis Lee Henry, 21, of Hastings Rd., Oberlin,
died yesterday in the Veterans Administration hospital, Cleveland,
where he had been a patient since January. Ill one and a half years, he
was on medical leave from the Army.
He attended Oberlin High School and enlisted in the Army during his
senior year, Jan. 27, 1975. PFC Henry was a track vehicle mechanic and
was attached to the First Cavalry Division. Before his illness, he was
stationed in Schwabach, Germany.
Born in Elyria, May 9, 1956, he was an area resident all of his life.
He attended the Church of Christ, Elyria.
Surviving are his wife, Nancy; a son, Shannon Lee, at home; his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Henry, Oberlin; a sister, Mrs. Robert
(Linda) Cuson, Oberlin; the grandfathers, Leonard Kendrick and Hughlen
Henry, both of Tennessee.
Friends will be received in the Cowling Funeral home, Oberlin, tomorrow
from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Services will be Wednesday at 1 p.m. in the Church of Christ with
Harold Stanley officiating. Burial will be in Brookdale Cemetery.
The family suggest memorial contributions, if desired, be made to the
United Church of Christ, East Broad St., Elyria.
Portrait Photograph: PFC Willis L. Henry
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, May 23, 1977, p. B-2.
Raymond H. Herod
Raymond H. Herod, 75, of
Oberlin, died Feb. 19 at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a short illness.
Born in Yellow Springs,
he lived most of his life in Oberlin [and graduated from Oberlin High
School
in 1937].
Mr. Herod retired 10 years
ago after 28 years with Ford Motor Co., Lorain.
He was a member of Rust
United Methodist Church and the Brown Dukes Club.
He is survived by his
wife,
Elizabeth; sons, Raymond of Florissant, Mo., and Calvin Dillard of
Memphis,
Tenn.; a daughter, Yvonne of Hamtramck, Mich.; three grandchildren; and
one great-grandchild.
A grandson, Hyland,
preceded
him in death in 1985.
Services, conducted by the
Rev. Charles Mayle, were Monday morning in the Cowling Funeral Home.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, February 25, 1992, p. 2.
Miss Nellie Herrick
Died at Huron Street
Hospital From Effect of Appendicitis—Had Many Friends Here
The community suffers an
irreparable loss in the death of Miss Nellie B. Herrick, daughter of
Mr.
and Mrs. C. B. Herrick of West Lorain street, which occurred last
Friday
at the Huron street hospital in Cleveland. Miss Herrick died of
appendicitis
after a short illness.
Nellie Beryl Herrick was
born June 9, 1884 at New Oberlin where she lived the first years of her
life. Had Miss Herrick lived until Tuesday she would have been
twenty-four
years old. She was a student in the public schools here during her
childhood
and later graduated from the high school with the class of ’05.
Since
then
she had been a student in the conservatory.
Miss Herrick was known by
her many friends as a girl of sweet disposition and of a fine and noble
character. Talented as a musician, she had a large class of pupils in
Oberlin
and Elyria who mourn her death. As a teacher of music, during the past
two years, she won the respect and love of her pupils.
The funeral was held at
the home on Sunday afternoon, Dr. Bradshaw her pastor conducting the
service.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, June 12, 1908, p. 1.
Robert W.
Herrick
Robert W. Herrick,
88, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 in Littleton, Colo.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Clara Herrick, and
his brother, Roger Herrick [OHS ‘37] and sister-in-law, Betty.
Bob was born in Oberlin, Feb. 27, 1924. During WWII he worked for the
Army Corps of Engineers. He graduated from the American Academy School
of Horology in Denver in 1951 and then joined his father in the family
business, Herrick’s Jewelry Store in Oberlin. After he retired
and sold the jewelry store, he and his wife, Jeanne, moved to
Littleton, Colo., in 2003.
He is survived by his wife Jeanne, sister Betty (James) Dulmage [OHS
‘40], step-daughter Patricia Robertson [OHS ‘62],
step-grandchildren Matthew and Jeffrey, three step-grandchildren and
three nephews and their families. Condolences can be sent to Jeanne
Herrick, 6155 S. Ammons Way, Apt. 315, Littleton, Colo., 80123.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 30, 2012, p. 6A.
Roger
C. Herrick
Roger C. Herrick, 78, of
Amherst, former Oberlin resident, died Jan. 28 at Golden Acres Nursing
Home in Amherst after a long illness.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1937
graduate of OHS], he lived in Florida before moving to Amherst 43 years
ago.
Before retiring in 1983,
he and his brother Robert co-owned and operated Herrick’s
Jewelers.
Their
father, Charles, had started the business in the 1920s.
Mr. Herrick served in the
Navy as a yeoman second class during World War II from 1942-45. He
received
a Good Conduct Medal and a Victory Medal.
He was a member of St.
Joseph
Catholic Church in Amherst, the “Vincentians” and the
Knights of
Columbus
Council 4891.
He enjoyed travel and
sports.
Survivors include his wife
of 55 years, Betty (nee James); a son, James R. Herrick of Amherst; a
grandson
and a granddaughter; brother, Robert, of Oberlin; and sister, Betty
Dalmage
of Columbus.
Preceding him in death
were
his parents, Charles and Clara (nee Rogers).
Services were Jan. 30 in
the Garland-Misencik Funeral Home, Amherst, followed by Mass at St.
Joseph
Catholic Church with the Rev. James Schmitz, associate pastor, as
celebrant.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, February 4, 1997, p. 3.
Marion M. Hess
Marion M. Hess, 78, of
Avon
Lake, former Oberlin resident, died Sunday afternoon at Fairview Park
Hospital
after a brief illness.
Born in Oberlin, she
divided
her time for many years between Avon Lake and Pompano Beach, Florida.
She is survived by two
nephews,
Roger Herrick of Amherst and Robert Herrick of Oberlin; and a niece,
Betty
Dulmage of Columbus.
Graveside services were
Tuesday morning at Westwood Cemetery, with the Rev. Michael Beynon
officiating.
The family suggests
memorial
contributions, if desired, be made to the American Cancer Society.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 6, 1981, p. 2.
Marion Herrick Hess died Aug. 2, 1981, at Fairview Park (Ohio)
Hospital after a brief illness. She was born in Oberlin Sept. 20, 1902,
[graduated from OHS in 1920, was a member of the Oberlin College class
of 1924,] and worked in Cleveland for two years at the Humane Society.
In 1926 she married Clayton F. ’23, who died in 1959. Mrs. Hess
was the
sister of the late Charles E. Herrick who owned and operated Herrick
Jewelry in Oberlin. She leaves his sons, Roger and Robert, who no
co-own the store, and his daughter, Mrs. Betty Dulmage of Columbus,
Ohio.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Autumn 1981, p. 91.
Authorities identify
victim of fatal fire [Michael Anthony Hess]
Authorities have identified the victim of Friday’s fatal fire at
Riverview Mobile Home Park in Wakeman.
Michael Hess, 44, died after the trailer at the Riverview Mobile Home
Park, 5571 U.S. 20, lot 91, caught fire early Friday morning, Coroner
Jeffrey Harwood said today. [He graduated from OHS in 1977.]
Hess is divorced and has some family members in the area, Harwood said.
The cause of death remains under investigation, pending the state Fire
Marshall’s report. Harwood said authorities have not determined
whether Hess died before the fire or as a result of it.
Sheriff’s Detective Dane Howard said this morning that the fire
was “suspicious in nature.”
The trailer was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived at
5:45 a.m., Wakeman Fire Chief John Eschen said.
Norwalk Reflector, Monday,
July 21, 2003, p. 1.
[No obituary was published in the Norwalk Reflerctor.]
Rachel
Metcalf Hess
Mrs. Walter N. Hess
(Rachel V. Metcalf) died March 2[,
1968,] at the age of 72 in Spartanburg, S.C. Born in Wurzburg, Germany,
[and a
1913 graduate of OHS,] Mrs. Hess was a graduate assistant in zoology at
Oberlin
for a years after her graduation in 1918. She taught at
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Mrs. Rossleene Arnold Hetler Dies in
Missoula,
Montana
Mrs. Rossleene Arnold
Hetler,
55, former Oberlin resident, died Wednesday, Nov. 1, at her home in
Missoula,
Mont., after an illness of two months.
Daughter of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert E. Arnold of Oberlin, Mrs. Hetler was born in
Cleveland
March 9, 1895, and moved with the family to Oberlin in 1905. She was
graduated
from [Oberlin High School in 1912, from] Oberlin College in 1916 and
received
her master’s degree from the University of Illinois the following
year.
Mrs. Hetler taught at
Goucher
College, Maryland, for several years before receiving her Ph.D. degree
in physiological chemistry from Yale University. After her marriage to
Donald M. Hetler, both she and her husband taught at Washington
University,
St. Louis. About 10 years ago Mr. Hetler was made head of the chemistry
department at the University of Montana and the family moved to
Missoula.
Mrs. Hetler was active in
research work and was the author of a number of articles dealing with
the
physiological chemistry field which were published in various
periodicals.
At the time of her death she was at work on a book.
Besides her husband, Mrs.
Hetler is survived by one daughter, Kathryn, a sophomore at the
University
of Montana; one sister, Mrs. C. R. Winfield, Oberlin; and one brother,
Herbert B. Arnold, Birmingham, Mich.
Burial was made in
Missoula.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 9, 1950, p. 1.
David Henry Heydenburk
David H. Heydenburk died
Often in conjunction with his
teaching and sometimes as a
separate vocation, he worked in various missions in
He was also an organist at the
Mr. Heydenburk studied composition at
the American
Conservatory in
He was a member of the National Assn.
of Evangelicals, the
American Council of Christian Churches, the Interdenominational Foreign
Mission
Assn., the Christian and Missionary Alliance and the National Assn. of
Christian Schools.
His brother, Clement ’28, is
deceased.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
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