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Death Follows Long Illness At Home Here
[Bertha
B. Higginbotham]
Mrs. Bertha B.
Higginbotham,
wife of Rev. T. M. Higginbotham, passed away Thursday evening at her
home,
203 North Pleasant street, after a lingering illness. She was confined
to her bed four months.
Bertha A. Bonnell was born
on a farm north of Oberlin on November 14, 1870, daughter of J. B. and
Fanniza Bonnell. She spent her youth in Oberlin attending both public
and
high school—graduating from high school with the class of 1890.
For a
few
years after her graduation she made her home with an uncle, Alfred
Gillett.
She received an appointment to teach under the American Missionary
Association
at Moorhead, Miss.—an Industrial school for colored girls. She
was
married
to T. M. Higginbotham, a student in Oberlin Theological Seminary,
December
5, 1894. After her husband’s graduation from the Seminary in 1898
she
spent
nearly 40 years as mistress of the house, assisting her husband in the
church work, especially in the ladies organizations and children and
young
peoples work.
Mrs. Higginbotham moved
with her husband and daughter to the home on North Pleasant street when
her husband retired from active service in the fall of 1936. She united
with the First Church when a high school girl and was a member when she
passed away. She is survived by her husband, one son, A. Leslie,
professor
of journalism in the University of Nevada; one daughter, Helen Bonnell,
at home, and one sister, Mrs. Mary B. Tinkey of Springfield, Mass., and
one granddaughter, Sara Elinor Higginbotham.
Funeral services will be
held at the Sedgeman Parlors on Monday afternoon, at 2:30. Dr. J. A.
Richards
will officiate. Burial will be made at Westwood.
The Oberlin
News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Friday, June 16, 1939, p. 1.
David Waldron
Hildner
David Waldron Hildner, 90, of Kansas City, Missouri, passed away
peacefully at home on March 31, 2011. He was born on March 23, 1921, in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He grew up in Washington, D.C. and Paris, Missouri and finally Oberlin,
Ohio where his mother, Helen N. Hildner worked in the Oberlin College
library and his grandmother was a housemother at one of the college
dorms.
He graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1938] and enrolled in Oberlin
College, where he majored in botany. While there he was active on the
track team serving as co-captain, competed in numerous regional track
events as a pole vaulter and received many medals and trophies. He was
greatly influenced by his athletic coach, Dan Kinsey, who mentored him
in many ways.
Following graduation in 1942, David enlisted in the U.S. Navy, where he
commanded a PT boat in the Pacific theatre. He was discharged in 1946
with the rank of Lieutenant. After a year of working in the Texas oil
fields, David returned to his home in Oberlin where he met his future
wife, Barbara [Bradley], a student in the college. He and Barbara moved
to Pullman, Washington, where David enrolled as a graduate student,
receiving his master's degree in physical education.
After teaching for several years in a high school near Pullman and in
Centralia, Washington, he decided to change his field to engineering.
He, Barbara and his first born baby son David moved to Cleveland, Ohio,
where his second and third children, Ann and Gregory were born. After
taking additional courses, he worked as an engineer for several
companies before being transferred to Kansas City. At Western Electric
he worked on machine design and automation. After retirement he was
employed as a consultant for Western and later with several small
companies.
David was an avid family man and enjoyed many activities with his wife
and children. He loved to take them camping and on ski outings and each
summer vacation to the family cottage in the Northern Michigan woods of
Omena. He loved to work on the cottage, cut firewood and sail his
beloved sailboats. He also had for a time a motor boat for family water
skiing. He and Barbara loved to travel and made a number of trips
abroad and in the United States.
He enjoyed volunteering with several organizations, including serving
as president of SPARK at UMKC, and various church positions.
David had a great love of music of all kinds. While in Cleveland, he
took lessons to play the guitar and learned a great many folk songs,
having "hootnannys" with friends in his home. After moving to Kansas
City, he began to appreciate K.C.'s jazz heritage, learned to play the
drums, including the bongos, and to jam with jazz groups in the area.
He loved to discuss music with the area's jazz musicians. Another
post-retirement activity was teaching skiing to school children at Snow
Creek in Weston, Missouri, which he continued until he was 86. David
was a man of strong moral values, concern for the underdog and, well
before its present acceptance, engaged in energy efficiency,
conservation and reuse practices.
David is survived by his wife Barbara, three children, David J. Hildner
and wife Berta, Ann E. Hildner and Gregory Richard Hildner; three
grandchildren, Natalia Hildner, Richard Hildner and Maya Hildner and
three nephews, Jeffrey, Mark and Paul Hildner. A memorial service will
be held at All Souls Unitarian Church, 4501 Walnut St., K.C., MO, on
Thurs., April 21, at 5:30 p.m.
Memorial donations may be made to the Women's Committee/ David W.
Hildner Jazz Scholarship at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance,
5100 Rockhill Rd., or the music committee at All Souls.
The Kansas City Star, Kansas
City, Mo., Sunday, April 17, 2011
Arthur C. Hill
Arthur C. [Carter] Hill, 55, of 1306
Middle Ave., a World War II Marine veteran, died in the Good Samaritan
Nursing Home, Avon, Friday after an illness of five months.
He had worked as a diesel truck mechanic at Dunlap’s Garage since
1973.
Mr. Hill, who was born in Oberlin [and graduated from OHS in 1941],
lived in the Oberlin and Elyria areas all of his life. He was a member
of the First United Methodist Church and the United Polish Club. He was
also a 25-year member of Frank S. Harmon Lodge no. 663 F and AM.
Surviving are his wife, Joy V., a son, Larry A., Williams Bay, Wis.; a
daughter, Linda D., at home; his mother, Mrs. Rachel E. Hill, and a
brother, Willard A. Hill, both of South Amherst. His father, Andy Hill,
died in 1966.
Friends will be received in the Harold Dicken Funeral Home this evening
from 7-9 and Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m., where Masonic services will
be conducted Sunday at 6:30 p.m.
Services will be Monday at 1:30 p.m. in the chapel of the First United
Methodist Church with the Rev. Don Adams and the Rev. Thomas Barson, a
nephew of Mr. Hill, officiating. Burial will be in Ridge Hill Memorial
Park.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, December 1, 1979, p. B-2.
Doris Jean Hill
Doris Jean Hill, 58, of
Oberlin, died March 14 at New Life St. Joseph Hospice Residential
Center
in Lorain after a long illness.
Born in New Haven, Mich.,
she had lived in Berea and in Lorain County for many years [and was a
1958
graduate of OHS].
Mrs. Hill and her husband
were evangelists and had traveled throughout the United States.
Survivors include her
husband,
Donald E.; daughters June Johnson of Atlanta, Lorrain Jones and
Kathleen
Estes, both of Walnut Grove, N.C., Sandra Johnson of Winston Salem,
N.C.,
Dorothea Hill of Canton and Danielle Hill of Lorain; sons Michael
Johnson
of San Bernardino, Calif., Isaac Hill of Atlanta, Ga., Jacob Hill of
Oberlin
and David Hill of Avon; and 11 grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by a brother, Butch Perry; and a sister, Donna Jo Wilson.
Friends may call at the
family residence, 204 S. Park St., Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 24, 1998, p. 2.
Mrs. George T. Hill
Graveside services were
held Tuesday morning at Westwood Cemetery for Martha Adams Hill, former
Oberlin resident [and 1923 graduate of Oberlin High School] who moved
to
Walnut Creek, California nine years ago. She died in John Muir Hospital
there last Thursday. She was 76.
Rev. Philip Culbertson of
Christ Church, of which Mrs. Hill was a member, officiated.
Surviving are a son,
George
T. Hill of Orinda, California, a brother Lewis Adams of Tampa, Florida
and two grandchildren.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 25, 1981, p. 2.
Martha Adams Hill died June 18, 1981, at John Muir Hospital in
Walnut Creek, Calif. She was born in S. Amherst, Ohio, Nov. 14, 1904,
and lived on Forest St. in Oberlin, graduating from Oberlin High School
in 1923. [She was a member of the Oberlin College class of 1927.] She
married George T. Hill, a lumber salesman, in 1927 and they lived in
Detroit, Youngstown, Brecksville, Ohio, and Poland, Ohio. She moved to
California in 1972. She leaves a son, a brother and two grandchildren.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Autumn 1981, p. 92.
John Hill dies of heart
attack
John Whitney Hill, a
fourth-generation
Oberlinian, died Saturday at his home, 323 Elm, after a heart attack.
He
was 77.
The News-Tribune
Bicentennial
edition last year described him as the “most native, long time
Oberlinian
in town…a direct descendant of one of the earliest pioneer
families to
settle here. His paternal ancestry in Oberlin dates back continuously
to
1837.”
He was born on May 13,
1900,
in the family home built by his great-grandfather, Lyman A. Hill, at
171
East Lorain (now owned by Robert S. Thomas). He [graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1919,] attended Case School of Applied Science,
graduating
in 1924 with a degree in metallurgy. He then worked in Lorain and Gary,
Ind., steel mills for several years until returning to Oberlin.
His father, Jasper, owned
J. V. Hill, Clothier, and John worked for his father until the
mid-thirties
when he opened his insurance business in the old Inn building, buying
out
the Carl Kinney agency there; his father subsequently started a real
estate
business in the same offices with John.
Eventually the Hills moved
their businesses into the rooms presently occupied by the Automobile
Club
and the Hill-Hammond offices. John sold his agency to Paul Hovey and
Phil
Kaiser of Elyria in 1972. Bill Hammond is presently in charge of the
agency.
John Hill was active in
the community. He was a member of the Oberlin town council for eight
years,
a worker for the Boy Scouts, a director of the Oberlin Savings Bank,
charter
member of City Club, member of Exchange Club and of First Church. He
was
also active in skeet shooting and was a member of the National Skeet
Shooting
Association.
He is survived by his
wife,
Florence; a son, Richard, New York City; daughter, Rachel (Mrs. R.
Kent)
Murmann, Columbia, Mo.; sister, Celia (Mrs. Frank) Huggins, Frogmore,
S.C.;
and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. John Elder
officiating.
Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, December 15, 1977, p. 7.
Mary
Thompson (Sherwood) Hill
Mary Sherwood Hill died
In 1922 she married Norman L. Hill
’17. Four years later
they moved to
In
She leaves daughters Betsy Youngblood
’47 and Virginia LaMay
and eight grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her mother, the
former Ada
Simpson ’14 and her brother, Emery ’12.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Richard Ralston Hill
Richard Ralston Hill, 69,
of New York City, former Oberlin resident, was pronounced dead on
arrival
Oct. 19 at St. Vincent Hospital in New York City.
Born in Cleveland, he grew
up in Oberlin and graduated from Oberlin High School in 1945. He then
attended
the University of Missouri and graduated fro Oberlin College in 1950.
From 1951 to 1952, he
attended
the American Theater Wing School in New York City.
During a winter season of
week to week musical stock in St. Petersburg, Fla., in 1953, he joined
the Actors Equity Association. He had been an actor and singer since
then,
specializing in character roles and comedy.
He played Charles Thomson
in the play and movie “1776.” He also appeared in
“Valmouth!,” “God
Bless
You Mr. Rosewater,” and “The Beggar’s Opera.”
He performed in the world
premiere of the Deems Taylor opera, “The Dragon.”
Mr. Hill toured with
Frances
Langford’s night club act, Martyn Green’s Gilbert and
Sullivan Co., the
National Reparatory Theater to re-open Ford’s Theater in
Washington,
D.C.,
and the Virginia City Players of Montana. He also acted in stock and
dinner
theaters throughout the country.
Survivors include his
brother-in-law
R. Kent Murmann of Columbia, Mo., a niece, Susan K. Fox, of Columbia,
Mo.,
nephew Stephen Murmann of Illinois, and a cousin, Robert Streiner of
Oberlin.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, John W. Hill and Florence Ralston Hill; and a sister,
Rachel,
Murmann.
A graveside service will
be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 9, at Westwood Cemetery.
The Cowling Funeral Home
is handling arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, October 29, 1996, p. 3.
William C. Hill Jr.
Born Dec. 21, 1966, in Oberlin, he graduated from Oberlin High School
in 1986. He worked as a landscaper and in construction.
He enjoyed music and spending time with his family, especially playing
basketball with his nephews. He enjoyed wildlife and watching nature
programs.
He provided others with life through his death as an organ donor.
Mr. Hill is survived by his father, William C. Hill Sr. of Hanford,
Calif.; mother, Marva L. Kolb of Bedford, Ohio; sisters Rhonda Locklear
Lewis of Oberlin, Robin Hill and Rosylnn Hill, both of Bedford, and
Racchi Hill of Cleveland; and stepbrothers Danny Daniels, Derrill
Daniels, Edward Daniels, and Tracy Daniels; and nine nephews and one
niece. He was preceded in death by his stepfather, Carl John Daniels.
A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m., Saturday at Cowling Funeral
Home, 228 S. Main St., the Rev. Lester Allen III, pastor of the
Alliance Church of Oberlin, officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to the National Coalition to Stop
Gun Violence, 1023 15th St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.D. 20005; or
to the National Center for Victims of Violent Crime, 2000 M St. NW,
Suite 480, Washington, D.C. 20036.
Photograph: William C. Hill Jr.
Eleanor W. Hiller, Burbank activist, dies
By Al Friedenthal, Managing Editor
Eleanor W[oodruff] Hiller, 86, a former Burbank Woman of the Year and
10-year member of the California Women’s Board of Terms and
Parole,
died Sunday at her home in Burbank.
Born in Akron, Ohio, [a 1924 graduate of OHS,] and a graduate of that
state’s Antioch College, Mrs. Hiller came to Burbank with her
husband,
Robert E. Hiller, after his work was completed on the Boulder (renamed
Hoover) Dam in 1938.
La Providencia Guild of Los Angeles Childrens Hospital was founded in
her living room in 1947.
Mrs. Hiller’s daughter, Catherine Sullivan, said no matter how
many
activities her mother was involved with, she was always there when her
children came home from school. “She taught her children the
importance
of being active in the community,” Sullivan continued.
The family moved to a home on Bel Aire Drive in 1942, and Robert E.
Hiller continues to reside there.
The Hillers were the first family to sponsor an American Field Service
student for Burbank High. The student, from Turkey, stayed with the
Hillers during the 1956-’57 school year and the family continues
close
contact with the woman, despite the great distance between the two
nations.
Mrs. Hiller was chairman of the California Women’s Board of Terms
and
Parole, a body in which she served from 1967-’77; a member of the
Los
Angeles County Probation Committee, 1963; the county Advisory Committee
on Public Assistance, 1952-’67; county District Attorney’s
Citizens
Advisory Committee, 1963; Big Sister League, which helped girls in
trouble with the law, 1960-1967; Burbank Family Service Agency,
1963-’67; Neighborhood Youth Association, 1963-’67.
She served on the White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960;
delegate and chairman for the Los Angeles County Grand Jury, 1962; Gov.
Goodwin Knight’s Advisory Committee on Children and Youth,
1955-’56;
Burbank Police Commission, 1953-’61, of which she served as
chairman,
vice chairman and secretary; chairman, California Community Councils;
Los Angeles, 1954-’55; president, Los Angeles County Federation
of
Community Coordinating Councils, 1952-’54; Atty. Gen. Edmund G.
Brown’s
Advisory Commission on Crime Prevention, 1957-’58; First
District,
California Congress of PTA, 1944-’62.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Burbank.
Mrs. Hiller also received the 1961 Hourglass Award from the Assistance
League of Southern California and was listed in “Who’s Who
of American
Women” and was Burbank’s Woman of the Year in 1954.
Mrs. Hiller died in the arms of her husband of 62 years.
Burial will be private, but there will be a memorial service organized
in Mrs. Hiller’s memory by her family in the spring, Sullivan
said.
In addition to her husband and daughter, Catherine Sullivan, she is
survived by daughters Lesley Menninger and Elizabeth Brinkworth, and
seven grandchildren.
The Burbank Leader, Burbank,
Calif., Wednesday, December 30, 1992, p. A-2.
Eleanor W. Hiller; Corrections
Activist
By Stephanie Stassel, Times Staff Writer
Eleanor W. Hiller, who dedicated more than 20 years to probation and
corrections issues, which included leading the state board that handled
women’s parole terms, has died at her Burbank home. She was 86.
During her 10 years as chairwoman of the California Women’s Board
of
Terms and Parole, Mrs. Hiller called for the hiring of more parole and
probation officers, in addition to assistance from community groups, to
help imprisoned women adjust to society after their release.
“I believe in caring about people,” Mrs. Hiller said in a
1971 Times
interview. “We each have a stake in our community, and we must
care
what happens to those who are in it. A person who gets into trouble
goes out of the community to prison and comes back to it from
prison.”
She died Sunday of complications of chronic bronchitis, said her
daughter, Catherine Sullivan of Lancaster.
Born in Akron, Ohio, Mrs. Hiller earned a bachelor’s degree from
Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. In 1930, she married Robert E.
Hiller, who worked on Boulder Dam, now called Hoover Dam, before the
couple settled in Burbank in 1938.
Mrs. Hiller’s work involving penal issues began when she served
on the
Burbank Police Commission from 1953 to 1961. During the mid-1950s, she
was on Gov. Goodwin J. Knight’s Advisory Committee for Children
and
Youth in addition to Atty. Gen. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown’s Advisory
Committee on Crime Prevention.
She later served as a delegate and local chairwoman of the White House
Conference on Children and Youth and as a member of the Neighborhood
Youth Assn., Burbank Family Service and the Big Sister League.
A member of the Los Angeles County grand jury in 1962, Mrs. Hiller
served on the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Citizens
Advisory
Committee and was appointed to the Los Angeles County Probation
Committee the following year. Appointed by Gov. Ronald Reagan, she
served as chairwoman of the California Women’s Board of Terms and
Parole from 1967 to 1977.
Mrs. Hiller was a longtime PTA activist and served as president of both
the Los Angeles County Federation of Community Coordinating Councils
and the California Community Councils in the early and mid-1950s. Named
Burbank’s Woman of the Year in 1954, she was also a charter
member of
La Providencia Guild of Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles.
In addition to her daughter, Catherine, Mrs. Hiller is survived by her
husband of 62 years; daughters Lesley Menninger of Iowa City, Iowa, and
Elizabeth Brinkworth of Golden, Colo.; brother John R. Woodruff of
Claremont, and seven grandchildren.
Services will be private and her ashes will be scattered at sea. The
Telophase Cremation Society in Garden Grove is handling the
arrangements. Donations can be made in Mrs. Hiller’s name to the
Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, 4650 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles
90054-0700.
Los Angeles Times, Los
Angeles, Calif., Friday, January 1, 1993, p. 5.
Evelyn Hinchman
Evelyn Hallauer Hinchman,
69, of Anderson, Ind., died Friday at her home after a short illness.
Born in Oberlin, she was
a resident of Anderson for many years.
She is survived by a
daughter,
Sally Fridrich of Cleveland; a son, Russell Lyman of Greensburg, Pa.;
her
mother, Mrs. Belva Hallauer of Oberlin; a brother, Wade Hallauer of
Oberlin;
eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Hubert, in 1968.
Funeral services were
Tuesday
at the Robert Loose Funeral Home in Anderson. Burial was at Park
Cemetery,
Greenfield, Ind.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 6, 1987, p. 2.
Natalie Hinderas
Memorial services were
held
Saturday morning at Mt. Zion Baptist Church for Natalie Hinderas [nee
Natalie
Leota Henderson], concert pianist, who died of cancer on July 22 at her
home in Elkins Park, Pa. She was 60 and had been ill a short time.
She was born and grew up
in Oberlin [and graduated from OHS in 1943]. A child prodigy, she
performed
her first full length recital at the age of 8 and at 12 performed the
Grieg
Concerto with the Cleveland Women’s Symphony.
She graduated from the
Oberlin
Conservatory of Music in 1946 and went on to study with Olga Samaroff
at
the Juilliard School and later with Edward Steuermann at the
Philadelphia
Conservatory of Music.
A winner of many prizes
and awards, Ms. Hinderas performed with major symphonies in the United
States and was a recipient of the John Hay Whitney, Julius Rosenwald
and
Martha Baird Rockefeller scholarships and fellowships. On two
occasions,
she was selected by the State Department to tour as an American
cultural
ambassador. She made several recordings, including a record of piano
music
by black American composers.
She made her Cleveland
Orchestra
debut in 1973, playing the Schumann piano concerto under Louis
Lane’s
baton.
She was scheduled to appear with the orchestra under Christoph von
Dohnanyi
in subscription concerts next January. Her last public concert was a
recital
on May 3 in a Philadelphia synagogue.
In addition to a full
concert
schedule, she was professor of music at Temple University and served on
panels of the National Endowment for the Arts. She received the
honorary
Doctor of Music degree from Swarthmore College and was elected a
trustee
of Oberlin College in 1973.
She is survived by her
husband,
Lionel Monagas, daughter, Michele, and mother, Leota Palmer, all of
Elkins
Park.
A memorial service will
be held tonight at 7:30 at the First United Methodist Church of
Germantown,
Pa.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions, if desired, be made to the Brady Cancer
Institute
at Hahnemann Hospital, Department of Radiology and Oncology, Broad
&
Vine Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. 19102 or to the Wistar Institute, 3601
Spruce
St., Development Office, Philadelphia, Pa. 19104.
Temple University College
of Music is establishing a Natalie Hinderas Memorial Center in which
the
sights and sounds of Natalie Hinderas will be available to the public.
Anyone with photos, video or audio tapes, letters or other memorabilia
are asked to send them, or donations of money, to Helen Laird, Temple
University,
College of Music, 13th & Norris Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. 19122.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, July 30, 1987, p. 2.
Natalie Hinderas, World-Renowned
Pianist
Natalie Hinderas ’46 (Natalie Henderson Monagas), internationally
acclaimed pianist and champion of black performers and composers, died
of cancer July 22, 1987, at her home in the Philadelphia suburb of
Elkins Park. She was 60 years old. [She was a 1943 graduate of OHS and
a 1946 graduate of Oberlin College.]
Hinderas was born in Oberlin and grew up in a musical atmosphere; her
father was a jazz musician and her mother was a pianist, composer, and
teacher at the Cleveland Institute of Music. At age 8 she performed her
first full-length recital; she entered the conservatory and performed
the Grieg Concerto with the Cleveland Women’s Symphony at the age
of
12. After graduation at age 18 she studied with Olga Samaroff at the
Julliard School of Music and later with Edward Steuermann at the
Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.
“Natalie Hinderas was a precocious child of 14 when I first met
her in
Oberlin,” says Professor of Pianoforte Frances Walker ’45.
“I
especially remember her fluent, sensitive chamber music performance on
the student recitals in Warner Concert Hall… It is tragic that
Natalie
was truck down at the height of her brilliant career.”
In 1951 Hinderas made her New York debut at Town Hall and soon after
signed a contract to perform regular radio recitals on the NBC
television network. She was selected in 1960 by the U.S. State
Department to tour Poland, Yugoslavia, Scandinavia, the Middle East,
Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines as an
American specialist and the following year was invited by the American
Society for African Culture to appear at the opening of the Cultural
Center in Lagos, Nigeria.
With her 1971 Philadelphia Orchestra debut, Hinderas became one of the
first black women to perform as a soloist with a major symphony
orchestra. During her career she was invited to perform with virtually
every major symphony orchestra in the United States.
A pioneer in the performance of music by black composers, Hinderas
discovered significant music by black artists while researching
lesser-known composers. She performed music by George Walker, Nathaniel
Dett, William Grant Still, and Stephen Chamber at the Kennedy Center in
Washington, D.C., and in recitals across the United States. Her record
“Natalie Hinderas Plays Music by Black Composers” received
wide
critical acclaim and in 1971 was awarded the Saturday Review Award. She
toured colleges in the 1960s and 1970s, presenting performances and
lectures on the black musical heritage of the United States and the
influence of Afro-American music on classical music forms.
In addition to maintaining her concert schedule, Hinderas had been
professor of music at Temple University since 1968 and a member of
various panels of the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition she
was a member of the Philadelphia Arts Alliance, the National Board of
the Afro-American Musicians Organizations of America, and the Board of
Directors of the Philadelphia Urban League, among other organizations.
She received many awards, including the Martha Baird Rockefeller
Scholarship, the John A. Whitney Award, and an honorary doctor of music
degree from Swarthmore College. She was an Oberlin trustee from 1974 to
1979.
Hinderas is survived by her husband, Lionel Monagas; her mother; and
her daughter.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1987, p. 47.
Columnist Dies [Flora (Ward) Hineline]
Toledo, Ohio
(AP)—Flora
Ward Hineline, former Toledo Blade and Times columnist, died in
suburban
Ottawa Hills Thursday. [She was an 1896 graduate of OHS.]
The Lancaster
Eagle-Gazette,
Lancaster, Ohio, Friday, August 17, 1962, p. 2.
Elizabeth L. Hitchcock, Lewisburg resident
Elizabeth L. Hitchcock, 100, a resident of RiverWoods, Lewisburg, for
three years, and formerly of 200 N. Third St., died Monday, Dec. 22,
2003, in the nursing home. She was born Aug. 3, 1903, in Cherryfield,
Maine, a daughter of the late Sperry H. and Vera Caroline (Locke) Nash.
Her husband, Ralph Nielsen Hitchcock, died in 1984 after 55 years of
marriage. The couple met in college.
Mrs. Hitchcock graduated [from OHS in 1921 and] in 1936 from Oberlin
College.
She was a longtime member of First Presbyterian Church, Lewisburg.
She was also a member of the Lewisburg Civic Club and the Packwood
House Museum. She supported the museum since its inception and trained
tour guides.
Mrs. Hitchcock enjoyed traveling, staying at a retreat in Pond Island,
Maine, painting, and studying the settlement of Lewisburg. She was
active in civic affairs. She also enjoyed writing about architecture
and was proud of her Federal style home.
She is survived by one grandson, Charles of Westerville, Ohio; two
granddaughters, including Lisa Chickor of Accord, N.Y.; one nephew,
John Locke of New York City and Cambridge, England; and one
great-niece, Elizabeth Locke of Stratford, Conn.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by one brother,
Edward; and a son, Charles of Westerville, Ohio.
Services will be held in the new year and will be announced later by
the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Packwood House Museum, 15 N.
Water St., Lewisburg, Pa. 17837.
Arrangements are by the Gary H. Cronrath Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Lewisburg Daily Journal,
Milton, Penn., December 25, 2003.
Marion D. Hitchcock
Co-owned Grafton dairy
Marion D. Hitchcock (nee Drake), 94, of Avon Lake died
Friday at the Avon Oaks Nursing Home after a long illness. [She was a
1918
graduate of OHS.]
She was born in Bay Village and had lived in Grafton before
retiring to Avon Lake in 1974. She moved to the Avon Oaks Nursing Home
six
years ago.
Mrs. Hitchcock was a homemaker. She and here husband, Nelson
G. Hitchcock, owned Hitchcock Dairy in Grafton.
She was a member of Lakeshore United Methodist Church in
Avon Lake and the LaGrange Lyndon Chapter 361 of the Order of the
Eastern Star.
She enjoyed vacationing in Hot Springs, Ark., during the past 15 years.
She is survived by two daughters, Marion Lisle of Avon Lake
and Mrs. James (Ruth) Beshire of Medina; nine grandchildren; and 17
great
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, George
Drake; two sisters, Floss and Margery; and a daughter, Jane Hitchcock
Harris.
Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the
Burmeister-Busch Family Chapel, Avon Belden Road, Avon Lake. Friends
also may
call at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lakeshore United Methodist Church,
33119
Electric Blvd., Avon Lake, until the time of services at 11 a.m. The
Rev.
Meredith D. Coleman will officiate.
Burial will be in Nesbett Cemetery, Grafton.
Glenn
L. Hobbs
Glenn L. [Irvin] Hobbs,
74, of Oberlin, died June 21 at Allen Memorial Hospital.
Born in Oberlin, Mr. Hobbs
was a lifetime resident, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1942.
During World War II, he
served in the Army. He was in the Fifth Armored Division at Normandy,
the
Battle of the Bulge in the Ardennes and the Rhineland.
For many years, he was a
self-employed contractor and was in charge of the restoration of the
Frank
Lloyd Wright Home in 1969. He also manufactured ICA Spring Stretchers
for
works of fine art.
Mr. Hobbs was vice
president
of the ad hoc committee that built the Oberlin Police Facility.
He was a member of the
First
Church in Oberlin.
He was also a member of
the Board of Electrical Examiners and the Housing Renewal Commission
and
was chairman of the Sesqui Centennial Museum Committee in Oberlin.
Mr. Hobbs was a trustee
of the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization and a member and
past president of the Oberlin Exchange Club. In 1993 Mr. Hobbs was the
Oberlin News-Tribune’s Oberlinian of the Year and in 1999 the
Rotary
Foundation
Paul Harris Fellow.
He was a member of the
Oberlin
Athletic Boosters. Earlier, he had been involved in Boy Scouts and
youth
baseball.
He enjoyed golf, walking,
biking and camping.
Survivors include his wife
of 53 years, Lillian D.; a son, Terry Hobbs of Oberlin; a daughter,
Sandra
Reno of Lancaster; and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, Glenn and Emily Hobbs; and sisters Gertrude Kilpartick,
Dorothy Bures, and Mary Joy.
A memorial service was
held
June 27 at the First Church in Oberlin with the Rev. Barney Kitchen,
pastor,
officiating. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, 73 S. Professor
St., Oberlin; or to the Glenn Hobbs/Oberlin Exchange Club Scholarship
Fund,
P.O. Box 125, Oberlin 44074.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 29, 1999, p. 2.
Lillian D. Hobbs
Oberlin —
Lillian D. Hobbs (nee Dudley), 86, of Oberlin, died March 3, 2010 at
Wesleyan Village in Elyria.
She was born October 5, 1923 in Cleveland, OH and has been a resident
of Oberlin most of her life. She graduated from Oberlin High School in
1942 and attended Bowling Green State University. She was a music
teacher for several years at Bank and Public School in Saltville, VA
and was then employed for 22 years in the office of the Oberlin College
Food Service. She also studied percussion, which she taught to
students, was waterfront director of On The Waterfront At Interlochen,
Interlochen, MI. and was also a counselor at Oberlin Country Day Camp
for thirteen years. She and her husband manufactured the ICA Spring
Stretcher for fine works of art.
She was a member of First Church In Oberlin and the Nineteenth Century
Club. She was also a member and past president of Oberlin Woman's Club
and Oberlin Senior Forum. Other interests included golf, walking,
biking and camping.
Lillian is survived by a son Terry G. (Karen) Hobbs [OHS ‘65] of
Oberlin; son-in-law Robert C. Reno [OHS ‘65] of Lancaster, OH;
grandchildren Jeff [OHS ‘94] and Kevin Hobbs [OHS ‘97] and
Katie Reno; great grandchildren Glenn and Arthur Hobbs and a brother
Durand Dudley [OHS ‘44].
Lillian was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Glenn I.
Hobbs [OHS ‘42] in 1999, daughter Sandy H. Reno [OHS ‘68]
in 2007 and parents George and Corinne [OHS ‘14] Dudley.
A memorial service will be Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. at
First Church in Oberlin, Main and Lorain Streets, Oberlin, OH. Reverend
Beth McKee will officiate. Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery ,
Oberlin. Memorial contributions may be made to Oberlin Heritage Center,
P.O. Box 0455, Oberlin, OH 44074 or Oberlin Exchange Club, Glen Hobbs
Memorial Scholarship, P.O. Box 125 Oberlin, OH 44074.
Dicken Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elyria is in charge of
arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Saturday, March 06, 2010.
Nessie Lucile Hobbs
Miss Nessie Lucile Hobbs,
former Oberlin resident, died Oct. 25 at her home in Oakland, Calif. A
retired teacher, she was the daughter of Dayton and Gertrude Hobbs, who
at one time managed the old Oberlin Inn. [She graduated from OHS in
1911.]
The ashes were buried
yesterday
in the Hobbs family plot in South Pittsfield Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 3, 1977, p. 19.
Nessie L. Hobbs died Oct.
25 at Prather Methodist Home, Alameda, Calif.
Born in Oberlin, July 15, 1892, she was the daughter of W. Dayton and
Gertrude Hobbs who owned and operated Hobbs Restaurant for many years
and later managed the old Oberlin Inn. The restaurant, a familiar place
to Oberlin Students in the early 1900s, was immortalized in John
Prindle Scott’s song (“Way Out in Old Ohio”),
“my roommate and I are
going down to Mister Hobbs’ to have a piece of pie.”
A [1916 graduate of Oberlin College and a] physical education teacher
for 37 years, Miss Hobbs was an instructor at Oberlin 1918-20 and
1923-25. She also taught at Western Reserve College for Women and at
high schools in Seattle, Wash., and Riverside, Calif., before joining
the teaching staff at Roosevelt High School in Oakland, Calif., in
1925. She continued to teach at Roosevelt until her retirement in 1953.
During a leave of absence in 1930-31, she earned the M.A. from Columbia.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, January/February 1978, p. 35.
David Charles Hobill
Oberlin — David
Charles Hobill, 55 of Oberlin passed away April 10, 2010, at New Life
Hospice Center of St. Joseph in Lorain after a long illness.
He was born August 4, 1954 in Oberlin. He was a graduate of Oberlin
High School in 1973 [1974]. He was a mason by trade. He also worked at
Mac’s Auto-Truck service in Oberlin for the last several years.
David loved working on cars and enjoyed the outdoors and playing
horseshoes and listening to music.
He is survived by his father William C. Hobill; mother Betty L. Hobill
both of Oberlin; daughter Dawn W. Bush of Avon; son Adam B. Hobill of
El Paso, Texas, 2 grandchildren and Companion Zelma Hobill Epp of
Oberlin
There will be a private family graveside service at Westwood Cemetery
at a later date.
Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Wednesday, April 14, 2010.
William M. Hoca, trade-school teacher
Alana Baranick, Plain
Dealer
Reporter
Olmsted Falls - Services
for William M. Hoca, who taught at the West Side Institute of
Technology
and owned West Park Music, will be at 10:30 a.m. today at St. Mary of
the
Falls Catholic Church, 25615 Bagley Rd., Olmsted Falls.
The 60-year-old Olmsted
Falls resident died of complications of stomach cancer Saturday at the
Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Hoca, a 1963 Oberlin
College
graduate, began teaching mathematics and physics, as well as English
and
electricity, to adult students at the Institute of Technology in
Cleveland
in 1972. He continued teaching at the trade school, known for training
air conditioning and boiler engineers, until it closed four months ago.
Ron Auvil, a former
student
and instructor at the institute, described Hoca as a brilliant math
instructor
who was knowledgeable in technical areas of mechanical system design.
"He was the kind of person
who could take people with a sixth-grade education and teach them
calculus,"
Auvil said. "He came in on his own time to work with students. He felt
he had a moral obligation to teach them."
Hoca was known to buy
calculators,
books and other learning materials for students, Auvil said.
He also was a talented
musician,
who played classical, jazz, polka and rock music on violin, guitar and
other stringed instruments. For many years he made music with the
Twilighters
at weddings and other social events.
From 1973 to 1990, he
owned
the West Park Music store at Kamm's Corners.
Hoca was born in Ukraine,
grew up in Oberlin and graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1959].
He taught at Garfield
Heights
Junior High School and the Cleveland Engineering Institute before
joining
the faculty at the West Side Institute of Technology.
Survivors include his wife
of 35 years, Katherine; daughter, Michelle of Cleveland; sons, Bill of
Strongsville, Steve of Olmsted Falls and Dan of Fremont, Ohio; mother,
Natalia Barnaj of Bethesda, Md.; two brothers; and three sisters.
Chambers Funeral Home of
Cleveland is handling arrangements.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, December 19, 2001.
Mrs. Sylvia J. Hodge
Mrs. Sylvia Jean Hodge,
46, of 172 Lincoln St., Oberlin, died Friday in Allen Memorial Hospital
after an illness of one year.
She was an assembler at
the Gilford Instrument Laboratories and was a member of the Book City
CB
Club.
Mrs. Hodge was born in
Lake
Village, La., and lived in Oberlin most of her life.
Surviving are sons,
William
Jr., Albert, both of Oberlin, Eddie, Atlanta, Ga., Mark and Jeffery,
both
at home; daughters, Sharon, Oberlin, Loretta, at home, Cynthia, Elyria,
and Mrs. Donald (Joan) Young, Oberlin; six grandchildren; her mother,
Mrs.
Amy Whitfield, Oberlin, and Brothers, Billy and James Whitfield, both
of
Elyria, Arthur Whitfield, Columbus, and Sam Whitfield, Oberlin.
Friends will be received
in the Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin, Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Services will be Monday
at 1 p.m. in the Christ Temple Church with the Rev. Laurence Nevels
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, August 11, 1979, p. B-2.
Eleanor Hoeh
A memorial mass will be
held [at] 4:30 p.m. tomorrow at Sacred Heart Church for Eleanor Van
Ausdale
Hoeh, who died on her 81st birthday, after a long illness, in Venice,
Fla.
Born in Oberlin Jan. 1,
1905, [and a 1923 graduate of Oberlin High School,] she lived here
until
entering nurses training at St. Vincents Charity Hospital, Cleveland,
in
1924. After graduating, she was a public health nurse in Cleveland.
In 1932 she married her
late husband, Albert, also of Oberlin, who worked for AT&T Long
Lines
Division in Cleveland. In 1936 they were transferred to Indianapolis,
Ind.,
where they lived for 26 years.
After her husband’s
death
in 1960, she returned to Oberlin in 1962 to care for her parents, the
late
Harry and Cecilia Van Ausdale. Van Ausdale owned the Van-Kel Pharmacy
at
32 South Main for many years. She was then employed as a registered
nurse
at Allen Hospital until retirement in 1973.
She was active in the
Sacred
Heart Church Altar and Rosary Society, Oberlin senior Forum and in the
Senior Citizens group at the Community Center. She lived at Firelands
Retirement
Center, 36 South Pleasant, before moving to Florida last year.
She is survived by a son,
Daniel V. Hoeh II, and grandson Daniel V. Hoeh III, both of Sarasota,
Fla.;
and two brothers, Robert D. Van Ausdale of Hudson, Fla., and Rolland H.
Van Ausdale of Maumee.
Burial was in Sunset
Memorial
Park, North Olmsted.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 9, 1985.
Melvern C. Hoff, 79, retired Amoco chemist
By Joan Giangrasse Kates
Special to the Tribune
Melvern C. Hoff, 79, of
Warrenville, formerly of Naperville, a retired chemist with Amoco
Chemicals,
whose side interest in botany led to a lifelong passion to save prairie
land, died Tuesday, Jan. 23, in Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.
Born in Cleveland, Mr.
Hoff
spent much of his childhood on his grandparents’ farm where he
developed
a keen interest in nature and the natural sciences. He graduated [from
Oberlin High School in 1939 and] with a bachelor’s degree in
science
from
Oberlin College in Ohio in 1943, and went on to earn a PhD in chemistry
from Ohio State University in 1948.
“Even as a child he
showed
an exceptional curiosity toward anything to do with
science—especially
plants and chemicals,” said his wife, Jean. “He was always
outside
doing
something as a kid. He loved hiking and poking around in the
trees.”
In 1948, Mr. Hoff was
hired
by Standard Oil of Indiana in Whiting to work in the chemical
processing
laboratory. Later, when the company became Amoco Chemicals and
relocated
to Naperville, he continued his work in the field of paraxylene, a
chemical
involving the distillation of petroleum and used in the manufacture of
synthetic fabrics, such as the backing used in rugs.
With 36 years of service,
Mr. Hoff retired in 1964 after being awarded 25 patents for chemical
processes.
A Naperville resident from
1970 until 1982, Mr. Hoff served as the president of the West Chicago
Prairie
Stewardship Group from 1982 until his death. His work with the group
included
reclamation and restoration of local prairie land.
“He loved every
minute he
spent saving prairies,” said his wife. “When the group
first formed,
their
goal seemed overwhelming, because most of the designated land was
totally
invaded by alien weeds and plants. They used to joke that at least
there
was one thing they could tackle and that was to get rid of all the
trash.”
Other survivors include
a son, Stephen; two daughters, Nancy Roberts and Mary Ann Herlihy; a
sister,
Elaine Norton; and six grandchildren.
A visitation will be held
from 6 p.m. Friday until the time of service at 7 p.m. in
Friedrich-Jones
Funeral Home, 44 S. Mill St., Naperville.
Chicago Tribune, TribWest
Edition, Chicago, Illinois, Friday, January 26, 2001, sec. 2, p. 13.
Melvern C. Hoff, 1921 - 2001
Mel Hoff, longtime
volunteer
steward of West Chicago Prairie, died in January at age 80. He
collapsed
while cross-country skiing in a forest preserve.
"I was one of the odd-jobs
volunteers for him," writes Margrit Nitz. "Mel worked for Amoco
Chemicals
Corporation for 36 years and had a Ph.D. in chemistry and 25 patents,
not
to mention the tools he invented for use in the prairie.
"An avid birdwatcher, Mel
was also well versed in prairie and savanna flora and fauna. He’s
the
only
person I could call at eight in the morning with an identification
question
for a turtle or butterfly, who would say, ‘hold on a minute.
I’ll get
my
books.’ He encouraged me to collect wild petunia seeds,
it’s not his
fault
I chose a day that was 100° (with 1,000 percent humidity and no
breeze)
to bag them. I sloughed with him through a foot of water amongst the
tussock
sedges in the pouring rain, all the while accusing him of trying to
drown
me. He identified the cool bird that I saw as a greenwinged teal. Both
he and his wife Jean loved to give tours of their yard. It is a
beautiful,
natural landscaped yard, especially showy in the spring, with numerous
twinleaf, white and red baneberry, and merrybells, just to name a few."
"Mel was organized,
curious,
tenacious, fun, and had boundless energy...He was the grandfather I
never
had. I miss him already."
[Photo caption: Mel Hoff.
Photo by Dave Jagodzinski.]
Chicago
Wilderness Magazine, Chicago, Illinois, Spring 2001
Mary Madeline (Lindsay) Hoffman
Mary “Molly” Lindsay Hoffman died March 19, 1983, in the
Martha’s
Vineyard Hospital, Oak Bluffs, Mass. Since September 1980 she had been
a resident in the long term care wing of that hospital.
Mrs. Hoffman was born Sept. 7, 1888, in York, Neb., the daughter of
Robert S. ’81 and Flora (Galbreath ’81) Lindsay. At Oberlin
she was
treasurer of the YWCA and was class vice president in her junior year.
She was also general secretary of the YWCA 1912-14. After graduating
from [OHS in 1906 and from] Oberlin [College in 1910,] she taught in a
Congregational school in Utah and in a high school in Crete, Neb.
In 1914 she married E. Michael ’07. He was an official for the
YMCA and
served in Manchuria during the last years of WWI. After the war the
family settled in Salisbury, N.C., where he was secretary of the local
YMCA. Mrs. Hoffman established a summer camp for girls at Chimney Rock,
N.C.
In 1927 they moved to Berea, Ky., where Mr. Hoffman joined the Berea
College faculty and Mrs. Hoffman became a high school librarian. They
remained there until his retirement in 1944 at which time they moved
back to North Carolina and founded the community of Last Resort in
Black Mountain. For ten years Mrs. Hoffman and her daughter-in-law, the
former Catherine Hughes ’36, owned and operated a small book
store in
Asheville, N.C. The Hoffmans moved to Martha’s Vineyard in 1966.
She leaves a son, Michael L. ’35, a daughter, Jean Wexler
’42, two
grandsons and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her
husband, brothers Kenneth D. ’08 and Edgar W. ’14 and a
sister, Jean
Carlson ’08.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Summer 1983, p. 74.
The American Tragedy
– in Oberlin [Donald Hofmann]
Donald Hofmann, a
17-year-old
Oberlin High School student, was killed in a traffic accident just
south
of Oberlin on Saturday, Dec. 5. The driver of the car which demolished
Hofmann’s vehicle has been charged with driving while intoxicated
and
has
been indicted by the grand jury for second degree murder. Rev. Wayne
Saffen,
pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, said in his funeral sermon for the
young
boy some words which we think are very much worth repeating in these
editorial
columns of the News-Tribune. If the message is taken to heart, perhaps
Donald Hofmann shall not have died in vain. Pastor Saffen’s
sermon is
re-printed
in part below.
“The American
Tragedy”
Theodore Dreiser wrote one
of the great American novels called An American Tragedy.
But what occupies us today
is truly The American Tragedy. A fine young man, 17 years old, has been
killed on one of our highways.
This pathetic story is
chronicled
and retold in our newspapers across America – somewhere –
every day.
This
time it hits close to us. It is someone we know and love. It involves
not
only a family and a church, but a whole community is shaken.
This is not an ordinary
accident – for accidents will happen. It is not a case of a wild
teenager,
but of one who had the reputation of being one of the safest young
drivers
in town.
It was a case of a drunken
driver, an assaulting car careening out of control, the slaughter of
innocence.
It looks like a classic
case of good and evil. But we would misunderstand the problem if we
thought
that the solution to it would be to “throw the book” at the
driver of
the
other car. This would let us all off the hook too easily, our
consciences
too easily pacified. For this is a social problem, a community problem,
a state and national problem, not only an individual problem. It is not
a matter of crime and punishment alone, but of individual and community
reform.
The police, the National
Safety Council, the judges, the newscasters and newspapers have been
preaching
safety on our highways for years. Lately the clergy have been enlisted
to preach on the Fifth Commandment: “Thou shalt not kill!”
– not with
an
automobile either.
But who cares? When a
policeman
stops us for a traffic violation, we feel insulted and get angry. We
ask
him why he isn’t out doing his job: catching robbers or tracking
down
fugitives,
not realizing that we have made traffic safety his number one problem.
He has to save us from ourselves and protect us from one another. We
are
not nearly so much in danger from thieves, robbers, criminals or
murderers
as from nice guys everywhere who use an automobile carelessly. Who
thanks
the police for doing a thankless job? Nobody – until something
like
this
happens.
For years we have heard
slogans like:
“If you drink, don’t drive!
If you drive, don’t drink!”
But who cares? Just avoid
the alcometers and chew Sen-Sen. This is our solution. Try to get by.
We
still license roadside bars which can be reached only by automobile.
Who
cares? We still permit bartenders to sell liquor to drunks. Who cares?
It’s the “Buck” that counts, isn’t it? No
matter who gets hurt or
gypped.
I’m not preaching
prohibition.
The Lutheran Church never has. Nor does the Bible. But the Bible does
teach
responsibility, moderation and loving your neighbor as your self. It
sternly
warns against drunkenness. If our society is going to continue to
permit
drunken driving and permit liquor merchants to arm irresponsible
drivers
with beer and wine over the counter, we might just as well legitimatize
the indiscriminate selling of arms and ammunition – machine guns
for
those
who want to go out on a spree and shoot up a neighborhood. What not?
It’s
the “Buck” that counts, isn’t it? “Anything for
a Buck!” That is our
real
national philosophy, isn’t it?
Are we our brother’s
keeper?
We still ask the question of Cain, while Abel lies bleeding and dying
in
the twisted wreckage of a car. If we want to go on living the way we
have
been, this is the price we shall have to pay. We must figure that it is
worth it. For we do not cooperate with the authorities. We do not back
up our legislators. We do not even discuss the problem, except to be
properly
“shocked” and shake our heads when we hear or read that
another tragedy
like this, the American Tragedy, has happened again. We let ourselves
off
too easily. We do not follow through.
It has gotten to the point
where law enforcement agencies have had to get tough with us. If we
will
not heed the gospel of love, then we shall surely feel the sting and
power
of the law. St. Paul says that the Government does not bear the sword
in
vain, but is the minister of God to carry out the retribution of
vengeance
and to execute justice. (Romans 13). The Government has the obligation
to enforce the Law. They are doing it: meting out stiffer fines,
revoking
drivers’ licenses, jailing DWI’s, and now in Ohio
prosecuting attorneys
are asking for second degree murder charges, instead of mere traffic
manslaughter,
against those accused of drunken or reckless driving leading to death
–
and grand juries are handing down the indictments. Let’s back
them up
with
legislation, not to get even with anyone, but to snap out of our damned
and damnable apathy.
Yet the Law cannot get at
the root of the problem. It can only threaten punishment, so that we
will
obey the Law out of fear, if we will not abide by it willingly. It
cannot
get at the inner person. It can only punish the transgressor. It cannot
save the sinner or produce the saint – for it lacks the power of
salvation
and the motivation of love. The Government is not the Church just as
the
Church is not the State. The Government cannot persuade; it can only
enforce.
The Church cannot enforce; it can only persuade.
This is not only a case
of a car full of drinking men versus one boy – but it is also a
case of
our own implication in the social guilt which permits something like
this
to happen. We are all guilty of Don’s death because of our
apathy. We
are
therefore responsible to see to it that we are at least no longer
apathetic.
Nor is it a case of
saying:
“What chance do you have, when even good drivers get
killed?” We cannot
avoid the menace of evil outside ourselves, but each of us is
responsible
to see to it that he is not a menace to others. Don was a teen-age
driver,
but he was not a menace to others. Can we say the same of ourselves?
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 17, 1959, p. 4A.
Ruth Hogue in Mars
Ruth [Alice] Dulmage Hogue, 86, died Thursday, Dec. 25, 1980, in St.
John Lutheran Home, Mars [Penns. She graduated from OHS in 1913.]
She is survived by a daughter, Zoella Deuser, three grandchildren, and
one great grandchild.
Friends were received at the H. P. Brandt Funeral Home Inc., 1022 Perry
Highway, Ross.
North Hills News Record, Warrendale,
Penns., Tues., Dec. 30, 1980, p. 6.
Lois Marna Holbrook
Humboldt - Lois Marna Holbrook, [nee Palmer], 80, retired employee of
Sunair Electronics, died of heart failure Tuesday at Jackson-Madison
County General Hospital. [She graduated from OHS in 1938.]
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Arrington Funeral Directors.
She leaves a daughter, Marna Reasons of Humboldt, two sisters, Elaine
Kubasak of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Shirley Haney of Elyria, Ohio; a
stepsister, Carol Neilsen of Fort Lauderdale, six grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.
The Commercial Appeal, Memphis,
Tenn., Wednesday, December 20, 2000, p. B4.
Everett
L. Holden
Everett L. Holden, 82, of
Zephyrhills, Fla., former Oberlin resident, died April 19 at the
Heartland
Nursing Home of Zephyrhills.
Born in Kipton, he
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1933 and attended Oberlin College during
1933-34.
He served in the Air Force
during World War II and had taught at Brevard Community College in
Florida
before retirement. He moved from Cocoa Beach, Fla., to the Zephyrhills
area two years ago.
He is survived by his
wife,
Marian; [a brother, Leland of Oberlin, Ohio; a sister, Ethel Holden of
Oberlin;] and three nieces.
Burial was in the Military
Cemetery at Busnell, Fla. [Coleman and Ferguson Funeral Home,
Zephyrhills.]
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, May 19, 1998, p. 3. [Tampa Tribune, Tampa,
Florida,
Tuesday, April 21, 1998, p. 4]
L. F. Holden dies at age 75
Leland F.
“Lee” Holden of
310 East College died Saturday at the Golden Acres Nursing Home in
Amherst
after a brief illness. He was 75.
Born in Camden Jan. 9,
1903,
Mr. Holden was a lifelong area resident. He was graduated from [OHS in
1920 and from] Oberlin College in 1926. After football coaching
positions
at Massillon Junior High School and Oberlin High School he became an
agent
for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. until his retirement in 1965.
He was a member of Oberlin
Rotary Club.
Surviving are his wife
Mabel;
two sons, Jack of Mt. Sidney, Virginia and Robert of Bridgewater,
Virginia;
three stepchildren, Robert G. Smith of 310 East College, Dorothy Hansen
of Lakewood and Mrs. Joan Carley of Stamford, Connecticut; one brother,
Everette of Cocoa Beach, Florida; and eight grandchildren.
The body was cremated.
There
will be a private memorial service.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 3, 1978.
Leland F. (“Lee”)
Holden
died Aug. 19, 1978, at the Golden Acres Nursing Home, Amherst, Ohio,
after a brief illness. He was born in Kipton, Ohio, Jan. 9, 1903.
A lifelong resident of the Oberlin area, he majored in physical
education and was a three-year letterman in football, playing as a
lineman on the undefeated teams of 1924 and 1925. After teaching phys
ed and coaching in the junior high school at Massillon, Ohio, for two
years, he returned to Oberlin to succeed Lars Wagner ’26 as coach
and
director of physical education at Oberlin High School.
From 1934 until his retirement in 1965 he was a life insurance
representative for Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and consistently
qualified for its “President’s Club” which was
composed of men with
outstanding sales records. He was a director of the Lorain County Life
Insurance Underwrites Assn. and a member of the Oberlin Rotary Club.
He was a founder of the Oberlin Booster Club to support high school
athletics in 1951 and served as president for its first four years. His
marriage in 1927 to Florence E. Smith’26 ended in divorce.
Mr. Holden leaves his wife, Madge whom he married in 1946, sons Jack
and Robert, stepchildren Robert G. Smith, Dorothy Hansen and Joan
Carley, brother Everett ’37 and eight grandchildren.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, September/October 1978, p. 65.
Lyman Holden
Dr. Lyman "Zeke" Holden, died on Friday, April 24, 2009.
He was born on Sept. 23, 1926, in Oberlin, Ohio, to Leo and Lillian
Holden. [He graduated from OHS in 1947.]
He is survived by his wife, Loyce Greenlee Holden; a daughter, Kathryn;
a son: Matthew and wife Toni; a grandson: Aaron; and a sister: Marjorie
Bjorklund.
Dr. Holden taught math at SIUE [Southern Illinois University at
Edwardsville], 1957-2007.
He played Dixieland Jazz, SIU Old Guys Band, Port of Alton Jazz Band,
local bands, the Edwardsville Muny Band, Granite City Community Band,
New Horizons Band and Melody Lane Band. He was well recognized for his
"Smiley Face" sousaphone.
A memorial service will be at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, April 28, at SIUE at
the Religion Center.
Saksa Mateer Funeral Home in Edwardsville is in charge of arrangements.
Edwardsville Intelligencer,
Edwardsville, Ill., Wed., April 27, 2009.
Lyman Sanford Holden
L. "Zeke" Holden Dies; Was Emeritus Professor Of Mathematics And
Statistics
Lyman Sanford "Zeke" Holden of Alton, one of the pioneer faculty and
who was known for playing a Sousaphone with the smiley face, died
Friday, April 24, at Christian Hospital Northeast in St. Louis. He was
82.
Holden joined the University in 1958 as an instructor of mathematics in
what was then known as the Science and Technology Division, teaching
classes at the Alton Residence Center, now the SIU School of Dental
Medicine. He became an associate professor in the School of Science and
Technology in 1974 and won the SIUE Teaching Excellence Award in 1982.
He retired in 2004 after 46 years of teaching and then continued
teaching until 2007. He was an emeritus professor of mathematics and
statistics.
A native of Oberlin, Ohio, Holden earned a bachelor's in mathematics in
1950 at Oberlin College and a master's in math in 1958 at The Ohio
State University. From 1953-56, he taught general science and algebra
at Schaaf Junior High School in Parma, Ohio. During the 1963-64
academic year, Holden was granted leave to work on his doctorate at
Ohio State. His love of music led him to study classical piano for
several years. His wife, Loyce, created a covering over the bell of
Holden's Sousaphone that depicted a "Smiley Face," which became his
trademark as he performed in bands, including Dixieland Jazz, the SIUE
Old Guys Band, the Port of Alton Jazz Band, the Edwardsville Muny Band,
the Granite City Community Band, the New Horizons Band and the Melody
Lane Band. A memorial service was conducted from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday,
April 28, at the SIUE Center for Spirituality and Sustainability,
formerly the Religious Center.
SIUE News, Obituaries 2009,
April 28, 2009, http://www.siue.edu/news/archives/Obituaries09.shtml.
Long Illness is Closed by Death
Miss Maude Holgate
Passes
Away at Home of Her Parents
End Came Early Thursday
Morning
Teacher’s Illness
Ends
in Death – Was Favorite with Many Friends
After an illness covering
a period of ten months, Miss Maude Lucile Holgate died at the home of
her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Holgate, 166 West Lorain street, last
Thursday
morning at 3:30 o’clock. Death was due to tuberculosis.
Miss Holgate was born at
Dalton, Ga., November 3, 1888. The greater part of her life was spent
in
Oberlin where her parents have been highly respected residents for many
years. In 1906 Miss Holgate was graduated from the Oberlin high school.
She then took a course in the Oberlin Kindergarten training school from
which she was graduated in 1909. The following fall she was offered and
accepted a position in the public schools, at Adrian, Mich., as a
preparatory
teacher.
While engaged in her third
year of successful service at Adrian, Miss Holgate was seized with an
attack
of pleurisy which later developed into tuberculosis. She was given care
for a time in a hospital at Adrian and several months since was brought
to the home of her parents here. Professional skill on the part of the
attending physician and loving attention by the parents and other
members
of the family served only to alleviate the pain of what proved a final
illness. The end came peacefully and unexpectedly, following a day
which
seemed marked by improvement.
Capable, dependable, of
sunny temperament, Miss Holgate made many friends who were drawn to her
by her thoughtful kindness for others. This friendship was evidenced on
Christmas day by many remembrances from former pupils and from parents
of children whose path had been made easier by here helpfulness. It is
a pleasant thought for surviving relatives that Miss Holgate lived to
receive
these proofs of the affection of her friends and that her strength was
such that she found enjoyment in the holiday.
Of her immediate family,
the deceased is survived by her parents, and one sister, Mrs. Doren
Lyon,
and one brother Curtiss Holgate. To them will be extended the sincere
sympathy
of their friends in the loss they have suffered.
A brief funeral service
was held at the home at 10 a.m. Saturday after which the remains were
taken
to Clyde for interment in the beautiful McPherson cemetery. Among those
in attendance at the final services were Fred Curtiss and Mrs. Mary
Foster
of Clyde, brother and sister of Mrs. Holgate and Mrs. Libbie Thomas of
Shelby, sister of Mr. Holgate.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin,
Ohio, Wednesday, January 1, 1913, p. 1.
Services scheduled for
Henry Holl, 76
Harold John Holl, 76,
deputy
auditor in the Lorain County auditor’s office until his
retirement in
1972,
died Tuesday evening at Allen Hospital after several months’
illness.
His
home was at 11465 Leavitt Rd.
A Masonic
service—Mr. Holl
was a 50-year member of Oberlin Lodge 380 F&AM—will be held
today
at
7 p.m. at the Cowling Funeral Home. Funeral service, with Rev. John
Elder
officiating, will be held there tomorrow at 11 a.m. and burial will be
in Crown Hill Cemetery, Amherst.
Friends will be received
at the funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
Mr. Holl, born in Amherst
on Sept. 28, 1900, had lived all his life in this area [and was a 1920
graduate of Oberlin High School]. He was a member of First Church,
Oberlin
Lodge 380 and Lorain County Shrine.
Surviving are his wife,
Eleanor; one daughter, Helen (Mrs. John) Oldfield of 230 Hollywood; two
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, September 8, 1977, p. 2.
Arlene Hollingsworth
Oberlin—Miss Arlene J. Hollingsworth, 53, of 373 South Main St.,
died
yesterday in Allen Memorial Hospital after an illness of several
months. She was born in Elyria and had lived in this area all her life.
[She graduated from OHS in 1933.]
Miss Hollingsworth was employed as a secretary at Oberlin College for
34 years. She was a member of First Congregational Church, Oberlin
Businesswomen’s Club, Pythian Sisters and the Oberlin Stamp Club.
Miss Hollingsworth is survived by two brothers, Donald Holzhauer,
Elyria and Henry Holzhauer, Oregon, Ohio. She was raised by foster
parents and took the Hollingsworth name.
The Rev. Frederick Schumacher will officiate at the funeral service
Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the Cowling Funeral Home. Burial will be in
North Murray Ridge Cemetery.
Friends will be received in the funeral home tomorrow from 2 to 4 and 7
to 9 p.m.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, February 17, 1969, p. 16.
Anna
Bebout Holmes
Mrs. Henry Holmes (Anna Maude
Bebout) died Feb. 26[, 1970,]
at the Osborn Memorial Home in Harrison, N.Y. Born in Glenville, Ohio,
Jan. 29,
1875, she was a teacher at
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Jesse Alonzo Holmes
Jesse Alonzo Holmes, 79,
of Elyria, brother of Pamalla Johnson and Doris Gene McElya, both of
Oberlin,
died Sept. 14 at his home after a short illness.
Born in Birmingham, Ala.,
he had lived in Ohio for 61 years. He was a graduate of Oberlin High
School [class of 1936?].
Before retiring, he worked
for 14 years at the Walton Hills plant of Ford Motor Co.
Other survivors include
a daughter, Pamalla Holmes of Lorain; three brothers, Carl of New York,
Lewis of Youngstown and Arthur of Cleveland; and a special friend,
Debra
Hocevar.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Maria; his parents, Willard and Mary Holmes; and brothers,
Turner and Willard.
Graveside services were
Sept. 20 at Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 23, 1997, p. 2.
Former Oberlin Girl Died in New York City
Marjorie Tyler
Holmes’
Death Followed Operation – Funeral Here Sunday
Marjorie Tyler Holmes
passed
away in New York City on Nov. 7, after an operation for appendicitis.
She
was well known here where her girlhood was passed and was a [1912]
graduate
of Oberlin high school and the public school music department of the
Conservatory.
While Mrs. Holmes lived
in Oberlin she was a member of Christ Episcopal church, although she
gave
the best she had in faithful service at Mt. Zion Baptist church. At the
time of her death she was a member of St. John’s Congregational
church
at Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Holmes’ life
was one
of struggle, being only seven years old when her father died. Through
help
of mother, brother and sisters and with an ardent desire to succeed,
she
attained her training.
She was united in marriage
o July 4, 1918 with Norman A. Holms and went to Durham, N. C., for two
years. In 1920 they moved to Springfield, Mass., and then to New York
City
in 1922 where Mr. Holmes is head of the Lincoln Community House.
Mrs. Holmes was a woman
of great ambition, industrious, earnest hearted, conscientious and of a
sunny disposition. The most outstanding characteristic of her religious
life was her quiet day in and day out devotion to her family and work.
She leaves a husband, two
daughters, 4 and 2 years of age, a mother, brother, and four sisters.
Funeral services were held
here on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock in the Mt. Zion Baptist
church.
Interment
was made in Westwood cemetery.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, November 16, 1923, p. 1.
Pvt.
Bernie Holmes Reported Killed in Action in Korea
Is Oberlin’s First
Fatality
In Korea; Believed Hit First Day Back on Line
Pvt. Willard Bernie
Holmes,
son of Willard Holmes, 55 Oakland St., and Mrs. W. L. Young, 200 N.
Park
St., has been reported killed in action in Korea on Dec. 7, according
to
a telegram received by his parents on Wednesday of last week.
This is the first fatality
among Oberlin service men in Korea.
His family had heard from
Pvt. Holmes three weeks ago by phone from Tokyo and he then told them
that
he was due to be released from the hospital where he had been treated
for
a stomach ailment for the two months previous.
In a letter written after
that, on Dec. 5, he said he was on leave and in good shape, and that he
would be sent back to Korea the next day. Also in this letter he told
of
being 30th in line in his company for rotation, that is to be sent
home.
On Dec. 7th he was killed, according to the wire from the adjutant
general.
The wire said there would be further information to follow in a letter
which up till this time has not be received.
Pvt. Holmes was drafted
in September of 1950. In the last war he served in the Merchant Marines
for one year and was discharged for physical injuries. Before he was
inducted
he worked at the Co-op store. He attended Oberlin High School.
He is survived by his
mother,
Mrs. William Young, his father, Willard Holmes, and one sister, Pamela
Jule Holmes, and a step sister, Doris Jean Holmes.
Asks Red Cross To Investigate
Mrs. Young refuses to
believe
it possible that her son could have been killed in Korea only two days
after writing from Japan, and she hopes to have word that the telegram
was sent in error.
She has requested the
American
Red Cross to investigate the accuracy of the report.
“Voice from the
Cellar”
[by Charles A. Mosher]
Bernie Holmes was the
friendly
sort; he never seemed mad at anybody. He did some hard work at local
homes
and was a nice chap to have around. He did it well, and was willing and
cheerful about it.
Last time we saw him, and
it seems only a few weeks ago, Bernie was just about to go overseas;
and
he was smiling about it, despite the fact that his new orders reversed
an earlier decision that he would be discharged because of a minor
heart
ailment. Last time we heard from him was from Japan. He liked it there,
too; liked the people, but was mighty glad also to hear about the folks
at home via the News-Tribune. We suppose Bernie even liked the fellows
he was shooting at. He wasn’t mad at anybody.
Bernie was killed in
action
in Korea on Dec. 7, tenth anniversary of Pearl Harbor. That he should
be
Oberlin’s first fatality in Korea is most incongruous…he
just wasn’t
the
warrior type.
This is being written on
Christmas day. Isn’t it also incongruous that even at this season
of
peace
and good will toward men, our nation must bend its every effort to
prepare
for war, in the attempt to achieve peace? This past year has been one
of
the most incongruous in history…the utter misery which is Korea,
in
contrast
to the lush living we have enjoyed in America, “prosperity”
such as no
other people has ever known before.
Incongruity is said to be
the very essence of humor. But if there is any humor in the
incongruities
mentioned in the paragraphs above, it is a most cruel humor. None but
Mars
himself could laugh when a Bernie Holmes is killed, or when a Wallie
Walls,
Vic Barson or Dick Helke is injured. Mars laughs. And many of the rest
of us give such incidents a mere side glance…and continue our
busy
ways,
getting and spending.
War, by whatever other
name
it may be called in Korea, is forever Hell. And there is a hellish joke
in the incongruity of millions reveling in this tainted abundance which
a war economy creates, while a few are marched off to fight, and be
wounded,
and die.
There is cruel laughter
in the fact that, as yet, no one can be very sure whether Korea was
necessary,
or why. Only in the far future, if ever, will history know whether or
not
Bernie Holmes died in vain.
Today, we can only hope
the sacrifices in Korea are effective and meaningful. The intention is
good, to stave off a larger war, to put into practice effective
collective
security through the United Nations, to hold back the tide of rampant
totalitarianism.
This is a cause in which all of us have a stake. Whether in vain or
not,
there can be no question but that Bernie and the many others are being
called upon to make their sacrifice in the hope that it will benefit
all
of us…you and me, and our children’s children.
But it is a grim,
humorless
hope.
And how does it look just
ahead for 1952? Seemingly, there is more reason than a year ago to
believe
that the Korean effort has not been in vain. There seems to be some
reason
to believe we face a new year of comparative peace.
If so, we lucky, luxury
stuffed ones at home owe that hope to the sacrifices of nearly a
million
young Americans like Dick Helke, and Vic Barson, and Wallie Walls, and
Bernie Holmes, young men who have had to live through Hell, and kill
and
wound, and be wounded and killed, even though by nature they
aren’t mad
at anybody.
It is well to remember and
ponder our dept to them at this year’s end.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, December 27, 1951, p. 1. [“Voice from
the
Cellar”
was reprinted as an Editorial “Remember dept of war” in the
Oberlin
News-Tribune of Tuesday, December 25, 2001, p. 4.]
Mrs. E. H. Holter Died February 6
Had Suffered with Very
Poor Health for a Long Period—End Was Expected
Had Been Prominent Club
and Church Worker—Funeral Services Held Saturday Afternoon
Mrs. Elizabeth Holter,
wife
of E. H. Holter, and for many years a prominent church and club worker,
died at her home on East College street Thursday, February 6. She had
been
in poor health for several years and her death was expected for several
days before the end came.
Mrs. Holter had a wide
circle
of friends here and her death is a real loss to the community. For
years
she was active in the work of the First Congregational church, of which
she was a member, and also in the Woman’s Club, the Christmas
Club and
other organizations.
She was born in England
January 22, 1857, but [graduated from OHS in 1874 and] for many years
had
been a resident of this place, where Mr. Holter was a former prominent
business man. With her husband she made several trips to Europe, where
she had collected numerous works of art. Upon this subject she was
thoroughly
conversant and she had given numerous talks and lectures before
women’s
gatherings here and in other places.
Besides her husband, she
is survived by a son, Louis, who is an engineer in Seattle, Wash., and
who came on for the funeral. Services were held from the home Saturday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. Van der Pyl. Friends were present from
Canton
and elsewhere. The interment was in Westwood cemetery.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Friday,
February 14, 1919, p. 1.
Oberlin Girl Died Suddenly in Northwest
Miss Thelma Holton a
Victim of Pneumonia While on Here Way to Teach in California
Had Reached Vancouver
When Compelled to go to Hospital – Remains Being Brought Home
The many friends of Miss
Thelma Holton of 30 East Lorain street were shocked to learn of her
death
which occurred early Monday morning in a hospital in Vancouver, B. C.
Miss Holton was on her way
to California where she had accepted a position of supervisor of music
in Lancaster, a few miles out of Los Angeles. She had accompanied Miss
Nessie Hobbs, who is teaching in Seattle, Wash., and had felt sick
during
the journey. At Vancouver Miss Hobbs called a physician who believed
she
had a bilious attack but the following morning he found her temperature
so high that he ordered her taken to the hospital at once. Everything
possible
was done for her but she gradually grew worse, the disease developing
into
pneumonia.
Mrs. Holton was informed
of her daughter’s sickness and left Friday morning for her
brother’s
home
in Detroit. She found she did not have the strength to go on and had
she
done so she would have been too late to see her daughter alive.
Mrs. Lucile Allen, an
older
sister, resides in Portland, Ore., and will accompany the remains back
to Oberlin. They will probably arrive Tuesday night and funeral
services
will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.
Miss Holton was a [1917]
graduate of the Oberlin high school and later entered the conservatory,
completing her course there last June. She was an accomplished musician
and had a very fine voice. Soon after completing her course she
received
the offer of a very fine position to supervise the public-school music
in Lancaster and had looked forward to a delightful year in southern
California.
She had worked hard throughout her course to fit herself for teaching
and
her sudden death is a serious blow to her mother and many friends.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, September 9, 1921, p. 1.
Spent Girlhood Days Here
With Parents
Mary Woodruff Holway
Died In Seattle August 13—Graduate of College
Mrs. Mary Holway of
Seattle,
Washington, formerly Mary E. Woodruff of Oberlin, passed away at her
home
in Seattle Saturday morning, August 13, at the age of 72 years.
Mrs. Holway was born in
Vienna, Trumbull county, Ohio, and came with her parents and family to
Oberlin in 1876. She attended high school [OHS class of 1882] and
college
here, graduating from the latter in 1887. She thereafter taught in the
high school for several years in Illinois and Wisconsin.
She was married in 1897
[1895] to John W. Holway and a few years later moved with him to
Seattle.
Mrs. Holway had ancestors
who fought in the Revolution and a grandfather, General Charles
Woodruff,
fought with General Grant, in the Mississippi campaign. Her son, Evan
Holway,
is a member of the Seattle University Post of American Legion.
Heart trouble was the
cause
of her death. Her sister, Mrs. Anna Z. Weage, died in Seattle three
years
ago.
Mrs. Holway is survived
by her husband, the Rev. John W. Holway; three children, Evan, Theodore
and Esther, also three grandchildren. All of these are living around
Seattle,
a brother, Charles D. Woodruff, of East Lorain street, Oberlin, and
numerous
other relatives.
She was buried in Seattle.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 25, 1932, p. 5.
Donald
Holzhauer, carried Little League South to title
Donald F. Holzhauer, 69, of
Elyria, former manager of Elyria
Little League South and a member of their board of directors, died
Tuesday
morning at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Holzhauer was born in Elyria. He
was a [1933] graduate
of Oberlin High School, but lived most of his life in Elyria. In 1959,
he was a
candidate for the 5th Ward council seat in Elyria.
With the little league since 1954,
Mr. Holzhauer’s 1958
majors team won the state championship, a first for any Elyria team,
and the
only time the Little League South has taken the title.
He retired in 1978 from the Ridge
Tool Company, Elyria,
where he was employed as an assembly inspector. He was a member of the
First
United Methodist Church of Elyria.
Mr. Holzhauer is survived by his wife
of 43 years, Clara
(nee Cammaru); a daughter, Mrs. Patrick (Donna) Kelley of Lorain; sons,
Richard
C. of LaGrange and James H. of South Amherst; 12 grandchildren; and a
brother,
Henry, of Oregon, Ohio.
A sister preceded him in death.
Friends may call 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Friday at the
Curtis-Scheuffler Funeral Home, Elyria, where funereal services will be
held at
11 a.m. Saturday. The Rev. Alva W. Taylor will officiate.
Burial will be in Ridge Hill Memorial
Park, Lorain.
[Photograph: Donald F. Holzhauer]
The
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Wednesday, August 17,
1983, p. B-2.
Henry Karl Holzhauer
Henry Karl Holzhauer formerly of Navarre Ave. in Oregon passed away
November 6 in 2003. Henry was born in Elyria, Ohio, on September 17,
1911, and was the son of Lawrence and Nellie (Albrecht) Holzhauer. He
graduated from Elyria [Oberlin] High School [in 1930] and the Ohio
State University.
Henry came to Toledo to work for Sealtest Dairy where he was Plant
Superintendent in charge of operations, and he met his future bride,
Bernice Bossler. His employment was interrupted by service in World War
II in the Pacific theater. Upon his return to Toledo, he married
Bernice in 1946. She passed away in 1989.
Henry was an avid gardener with a particular interest in dahlias. He
traveled to many Midwest dahlia shows over the years, and received
numerous awards for his prized flowers. The Toledo Blade featured his
flowers many times over the years. He was a past president of the
Toledo Dahlia Association and was a senior judge for the American
Dahlia Association. He was also affectionately known as the Flower Man,
at the corner of Navarre and Wheeling in Oregon. His prized dahlias and
other types of flowers were admired by thousands of people, passing by
that corner for over 50 years. He was a Trustee and Elder at
Eastminster United Presbyterian Church.
Henry is survived by his children SarahJane and Robert (Jackie), his
beloved grandsons Carl, James, and David, sisters-in-law Clara
Holzhauer and Leona House, cousins Vivian Peabody and Idabelle
(Charles) Berg, and 3 nephews, a niece, and several grandnieces and
nephews. He was preceded in death by brother, Donald Holzhauer, sister,
Arlene Hollingsworth, niece Donna Jean Kelly and nephew Richard
Holzhauer.
The family would like to thank the staff of St. Charles Hospital,
Lutheran Homes at Toledo, Orchard Villa and Heartland Hospice for their
tender care and concern for our father.
Visitation will be Sunday from 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. to
9:00 P.M. Services will be at the Eggleston-Meinert-Pavley Funeral Home
in Oregon on Monday at 10:00 A.M. with the Rev. David Bartley
officiating. Interment will be at Ottawa Hills Memorial Park. The
family requests donations to Eastminster United Presbyterian Church in
lieu of flowers.
Eggleston-Meinert-Pavley Funeral Home,
http://egglestonmeinert.com/show.pl?id=314
Robert George Homstead
Robert George Homstead, 69,
was surrounded by his family at Green Hills Nursing Center in West
Liberty where he passed away Monday, May 12, 2008. He was born January
18, 1939, in Middletown, Conn.
Bob's family moved from Middletown to Oberlin in 1948.
He graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1956] and attended Muskingum
College and worked 14 years in the restaurant business. He then joined
New York Life Insurance Company as an underwriter and received numerous
awards as top salesman. Bob earned the CLU and CHRC designations. In
1986 he relocated to Columbus, and joined Nationwide Financial Services
as an investment advisor, retiring in 2004.
Bob loved bicycling and fly fishing. He rode on many trips with family
and friends, including TOSR 1987-1993 and Red Flannel 1983-1994. He
rode with his nephew Kris Koepp to Surry, Maine, in June of 1991 in
memory of his beloved parents, Dick and Bea Homstead. He loved fishing
on the Mad River and Muzzy Lake.
He is survived by his wife, Carolynn Homstead; daughters, Laurie
Homstead, Amy Rubin, Carrie Holland, Christine Kluge, and Marie Reffke;
sons, Steve Homstead, Scott Homstead, Matt Sonner, and David Sonner; 15
grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren; brother, Allan Homstead; and
sister, Jan Koepp.
He was preceded in death by his father, Richard Homstead; mother,
Beatrice (Thompson) Homstead; and step-son, Clinton Sonner.
Friends may visit 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 15, 2008, at Cowling
Funeral Home, 228 S. Main St., Oberlin. Call (440) 775-1451.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, May 16, 2008, at the funeral
home. Interment will be in Westwood Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Leukemia
& Lymphoma Society, 20525 Center Ridge Road, Cleveland, OH 44116.
Online condolences may be made to www.cowlingfuneralhome.com.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
Marshall
Francis Hoopes
Marshall Francis
Hoopes was born on
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Brett
H. Hoover
Brett H. Hoover, age
45, of 8743 E. Lincolnway, Orrville,
died Monday, September 20, 2004 from injuries sustained in a
two-vehicle crash
near the intersection of U.S. Route 30 and Carr Road.
Funeral services will be held at
Trinity United Methodist
Church in Orrville on Thursday, September 23, 2004 at 11:00 AM with
Rev. David
Kowaleski officiating. Burial will take place in the Apple Creek
Cemetery.
Friends may call at Auble Funeral
Home in Orrville on
Wednesday from 6-9 PM. Online registry and expressions of condolence
may be
sent to the funeral home Web site at www.aublefuneralhome.com.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Trinity United
Methodist Church, 1556 Rex Drive, Orrville, OH 44667 or the American
Cancer
Society, Wayne County Office, 721 E. Milltown Road, Wooster, OH 44691.
Brett was born on November 8, 1958 in
Oberlin, Ohio the son
of Dr. George and Bobbie (Horam) Hoover. He was united in marriage to
Danette
Fahrni on June 23, 1984 in Wooster, OH.
He graduated from Oberlin High School
in 1978 and attended
Ashland College from 1978 to 1980. He served in the US Army from 1980
to 1983
in Germany.
He had been employed by the City of
Orrville since 1989 in
the maintenance department at the power plant.
Brett was a member of Trinity United
Methodist Church in
Orrville and was active in various church functions.
He was also active in the John R. Lea
SPTO, Waynedale Music
Boosters, served as a coach for Southeast Soccer and helped organize
the
Powerhouse Poker Run to benefit the American Cancer Society.
He is survived by his wife, Danette
Hoover, daughter, Molly
Hoover and son, Faustin Hoover; parents, Dr. George and Bobbie Hoover
of
Oberlin, OH., brother, Douglas (Joan) Hoover of Oxford, OH., sisters,
Candace
Hoover of Denver, CO., Andrea (Mark) Hodge of Tucumcari, NM., and Robin
Shaffer
of Oberlin, OH; father and mother-in-law, Raymond and Natalie Fahrni of
Apple
Creek, brothers-in-law, Douglas (Jody) Fahrni of Apple Creek and David
Fahrni
of Wooster, nieces and nephews.
Auble Funeral Home,
Orrville, Ohio, Wednesday, September 22,
2004,
http://www.webfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=40572&fh_id=10508
Miss Elizabeth W. Hope
Miss Elizabeth W. Hope of
Cleveland, formerly of Oberlin, died Monday in Cleveland. She was
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1921 and from Oberlin College in 1925 and
worked
for the Ohio Bell Telephone Co. in Cleveland from 1925 until her death.
Her parents, the late Mr.
and Mrs. John Hope, managed an Oberlin College dormitory at S.
Professor
and Vine Sts. She was preceded in death also by two brothers, John and
Earl, and a sister, Mrs. Rebecca Knowlton. She is survived by several
nieces
and nephews.
The funeral was held
Thursday
at 10:30 a.m. in Cleveland. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 23, 1971, p. 3.
Miss Elizabeth Woods Hope
died Dec. 13[, 1971,] (Oberlin College
class of 1925) in Cleveland. She was born Dec. 29, 1903, in Pittsburgh.
Her father, the late John Hope, was in the grocery business in Oberlin
for a number of years and students lived in the family residence at 123
S. Professor. Miss Hope was a secretary for the College prior to
starting a 29-year career in the offices of the Ohio Bell Telephone Co.
in Cleveland. She retired in 1968 as secretary to the vice president
for rates and revenues. She was a life member of the Telephone Pioneers
of America. Miss Hope was preceded in death by brothers John and Earl
and sister Mrs. Rebecca Knowlton.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, January/February 1972, p. 46.
Clark T. Hopkins Called
By Death
Promising Young Man
Suddenly
Succumbs to Heart Strain
Was Engaged in Heroic
Act at Time
Sad Ending to a Camping
Trip While with Brother and Friends at Keuka Lake, N. Y.
This community was
saddened
Thursday last by the news that Clark Hopkins, son of E. R. Hopkins,
optometrist,
of East College street, had met death by drowning, as early reports
stated.
The facts are as follows:
A young lady, in opposition to her chaperon, went bathing and asked
Clark
to accompany her. Knowing his ability as a swimmer and confident of his
power to bring her out, she foolishly plunged into water beyond her
depth.
As she was sinking the second time he reached her, and after a severe
struggle,
aided by a plank thrown to them from the dock, succeeded in reaching
the
pier. Here, after a desperate effort, he lifted her so that those on
the
pier could grasp her and lift her to safety. Almost immediately after
this
he sank back into the water and went down without a struggle.
An expert swimmer, Sheldon
Barons, was soon at hand and in the second dive located the body and
brought
it to the pier, where every effort available, including “ozone
apparatus,”
was used, but without any resuscitating effect. Two physicians were
unanimous
in saying his death was not caused by drowning, none of the drowning
symptoms
being present. It was decided that death was due to “acute
dilation of
the heart from strain.”
The remains reached
Oberlin
Thursday evening and were taken to the home on East street. The funeral
was held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. from the residence and interment made in
Westwood cemetery. There was a very large attendance, and six of his
former
classmates acted as pallbearers. The floral tributes were many and
beautiful.
The members of the rooming house in Cincinnati, where he had roomed,
sent
an elegant floral piece of white lilies.
Clark graduated from [OHS
in 1908 and from] Oberlin College in 1912 and that same fall went to
Cincinnati,
where for the past three years he taught physical training in the
public
schools. He, with his brother, on July 5, went to Keuka Lake, N. Y., to
spend several weeks camping.
Clark had a wide
acquaintance
among the young people of Oberlin; was held in high esteem by his
teachers
in college, had made good in his work as a teacher, was upright,
honorable,
conscientious, diligent, everything to make the heart of a parent glad.
Had he lived until next January he would have been 25 years old.
The sympathy of the entire
community is with Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins in their dire bereavement.
The Oberlin New, Oberlin,
Ohio, Wednesday, August 25, 1915, p. 1.
Hoyt Stilson Hopkins
Hoyt S. Hopkins,
retired professor of physiology at the New
York University College of Dentistry, died March 5[,1968,] in
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Murrell Edwards Hopkins
Murrell Edwards Hopkins died Dec. 3, 1984, in Cincinnati. Born
Dec. 2, 1885, in St. Lawrence, S.Dak., she taught physical education at
U. Cincinnati, was former director of the YWCA, and past president of
the Council of Church Women of Greater Cincinnati.
[She graduated from OHS in 1903.] At Oberlin [College] she was captain
of the first Princeton inter-class basketball team and won numerals in
all sports, especially skating. She had been class [of 1908] president
since 1973.
She was married to her classmate, Russell. She leaves a son, five
grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Her sister Martha
’34 and
brother John ’48 are deceased.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1985, p. 70.
Murrell Edwards Hopkins
Murrell Edwards, beloved wife of the late Russell B. Hopkins, dear
mother of Lewis E. Hopkins of New Orleans, La. And the late Martha H.
Sheard and John S. Hopkins, grandmother of Richard A. W. Sheard, Angela
Sheard Wills, Judith Hopkins Kinney, Samuel and Russell Hopkins, also
survived by seven great-grandchildren, died Monday, December 3, 1984,
aged 99. Residence – Bethesda Scarlet Oaks [Cincinnati, Ohio].
Funeral service at the Bethesda Scarlet Oaks Chapel, 440 Lafayette
Avenue, Thursday at 10:30 a.m. Memorials, if desired, may be directed
to the Alanson United Methodist Church, Alanson, Mich. 49706. Elden A.
Good Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Cincinnati Enquirer?, Cincinnati,
Ohio, about Tuesday, December 4, 1984.
Delmar H. Horning Sr.
Delmar H. Horning Sr., 59,
of Toledo, a former Oberlin resident, died on March 14 after a short
illness.
He was born in Oberlin and
graduated from Oberlin High School. A World War II veteran, he moved to
Toledo after the war.
He is survived by his
wife,
Eileen; sons, Delmar Jr. and Timothy, both of Toledo, and Robert of
Lima;
daughters, Kathy, Sheri and Michelle, all of Lima, and Debra of Boca
Raton,
Fla.; sisters, Mrs. Cleova Winder and Mrs. Evelyn Edmonds, both of
Wellington;
and nine grandchildren.
Funeral services and
burial
in Toledo Memorial Park were last Saturday.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 22, 1984, p. 2.
Julia Bacon Horr
Mrs. Julia Bacon Horr
died in
Mrs. Julia Bacon Horr was born
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
December 1914, p. 120.
Mrs. Grace Wood Houghton Dies
Services were held on
Monday
at 2:30 p.m. at First Church for Mrs. Grace Wood Houghton, 257 E.
College,
who died on Friday at 11 a.m. at the home of Mrs. Clarence Wood, 22
King.
Mrs. Houghton had been in failing health for the past five years.
Rev. Joseph King
officiated
at the services and burial was in Westwood cemetery.
Mrs. Houghton was the
widow
of Morton A. Houghton, retired postmaster, who died in November 1953.
She
was born in Oberlin, May 24, 1882. She was a [1902] graduate of Oberlin
high school and received her diploma from Oberlin College in 1907. She
was a teacher in the Oberlin elementary schools.
Mrs. Houghton was a member
of First Church and an original member of the Nineteenth Century club.
She is survived by two
daughters,
Mrs. Margaret West of Oberlin and Mrs. Elizabeth Beckley of
Cooperstown,
N. Y.; one brother, James Wood in Texas and two granddaughters and one
grandson.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 6, 1954, p. 6.
M. A. Houghton, Postmaster Here 39 Years,
Dies
at 74
Services were held on
Saturday
at 2:30 p.m. at the home, 257 E. College St., for Morton Andrew
Houghton,
74, long time Oberlin postmaster who died at Allen Hospital on Friday
at
6:25 a.m. after an eight months’ illness.
Mr. Houghton was
postmaster
here from 1902 to 1923 when the administration changed. For 10 years he
was employed by the McDonald Co., Cleveland brokerage firm. In 1933 he
was returned to the postmastership and served until his retirement on
Aug.
31, 1949.
He was born in Rice Lake,
Minn., on Aug. 5, 1879, and came to Oberlin when he was three years
old.
He graduated from Oberlin High School in 1897 and from the Oberlin
Academy
a year later. He played football in high school as well as baseball. He
attended Oberlin College where he was a member of the famous Oberlin
football
team of 1898.
He coached the Oberlin
High
School team in 1917 and in 1920. His interest in athletics continued
throughout
his life and he was the founder (in 1900), past president and a member
of the Northern Ohio Athletic Officials Association up until 1933.
He was a member of the
board
of education for several years and was active in the Boys’ Work
committee
of Oberlin. He served for 20 years on the board of the Lorain County
Children’s
Home.
In 1934-35 he was county
relief commissioner. He was also a charter member of the Oberlin
Exchange
Club and a member of the board of the Lorain County Tuberculosis and
Health
Association for 16 years.
He was chairman of the
committee
which organized the Oberlin Businessmen’s Club which later became
the
Oberlin
Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Ward Board and Liberty Bond
committee during World War I.
He was a 32nd degree Mason
of the Lake Erie Consistory and a member and past master o the Oberlin
Masonic Lodge. Masonic services were held at 8 p.m. on Friday at the
Cowling-Stang
Funeral Home.
Surviving him are his
wife,
Grace; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret West, at home; and Mrs. Elizabeth
Beckley
of Cooperstown, N. Y.; three brothers, George and Stanley of Oberlin
and
Ralph of Albion, Mich.; and one sister, Mrs. Mary Drew of Newark. Two
brothers
and sisters preceded him in death.
Mr. Houghton was a member
of First Church. Rev. Joseph King, pastor, officiated at the Saturday
services.
Burial was made in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 19, 1953, p. 1.
Lois [Marie] Houle
Biddeford—Lois
M. Houle, 75, of Biddeford, died at Southern Maine Medical Center on
Tuesday following a short illness.
Mrs. Houle was born May 11, 1925 in Norwalk, Ohio, a daughter of
Charles Roy and Ruth Emma Cole Jackson, and raised primarily in
Oberlin, Ohio. She attended Oberlin public grammar schools and high
school.
Mrs. Houle was an accomplished athlete and renowned for her diving
prowess as a youth in Ohio. She also won several state-level
competitions in cheerleading. As a basketball player, she was the
equivalent of All-American, scoring an average 50 points per game with
Oberlin (Ohio) High School during her last two years. Following
graduation from high school in 1943, Mrs. Houle headed for Washington,
D.C., where she received a science degree in nursing from Capital City
School of Nursing.
During her clinical work in Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, she
met and married Dr. Marcel Paul Houle. After Dr. Houle completed his
tour of duty in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, they moved in 1949 from
Washington, D.C. to his hometown of Biddeford, where he established a
successful medical practice and they raised nine children.
During her many years in Biddeford, Mrs., Houle was actively involved
in several local charities and social groups, including the Southern
Maine Medical Association Auxiliary, St. Mary’s Church
Ladies’ Sodality, and the Maine Cancer Society. Mrs. Houle and
her husband were among the co-founders of Creative Work Systems, a
Maine non-profit organization that assists developmentally disabled
adults and children.
Mrs. Houle enjoyed traveling and cooking. Family members say she was
true to her values and did not hesitate to speak up where she saw abuse
or injustice. She always preached a gospel of love and tolerance in her
home and with her children and grandchildren, showing them how to love
life and their neighbors. Her hospitality was remarkable and visiting
her home was often an invitation to a feast of culinary delights. She
also was a good musician and had a love of music, talents that she
passed on to her children.
She was a lifelong communicant of St. Mary’s Church in Biddeford.
Mrs. Houle is survived by her husband; eight sons, Philip P. of
Hyattsville, Md., James A. of Scarborough, Steven C. of Biddeford,
David A. of Mililani, Hawaii, Matthew P. of Hilton Head Island, S.C.,
Thomas E. of Belchertown, Mass., John F. of Saco, and Jeffrey R. of
Great Falls, Va.; a daughter, Nancy R. Rice of Cranston, R.I.; and 12
grandchildren.
HOULE, Lois M., of Biddeford, died May 8. Visiting hours 4-7 p.m.
Sunday at Hope Memorial Chapel, Biddeford. A funeral mass will be held
at St. Mary’s Church at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 14. Donations in
memory of Mrs. Houle should be sent to either Creative Work Systems,
443 Congress St., Portland, ME 04101, or the American Cancer Society,
Maine Division Inc., 52 Federal St., Brunswick, ME 04011.
Biddeford Journal-Tribune, Biddeford,
Me., Friday, May 11, 2001, p. 11.
Faith Houser
A memorial service will
be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the First Church Unitarian for Faith
(Tenney)
Houser, a 60-year Belmont resident who died Oct. 13 [in Sudbury] at the
age of 97.
Daughter of the Rev. Henry
M. Tenney and Ann Elizabeth (Parsons) Tenney of Oberlin, Ohio, she was
graduated from [Oberlin High School in 1905 and from] Oberlin College
Conservatory
of Music in 1909. She married the late Ralph H. Houser in 1912.
She was active in the
Belmont
Dramatic Club, was soloist in area churches and taught folk dancing in
her home for many years.
Advocates of physical
fitness,
Mr. and Mrs. Houser spent every summer at their camp in Bristol, N.H.,
swimming, playing tennis and hiking in the nearby White Mountains.
[She was the mother of the
late Mrs. Lyal D. (Hope) Twombly of Bedford. She is survived by ten
grandchildren
and eleven great-grandchildren.]
The Belmont Citizen,
Belmont,
Mass., [The Bedford Minuteman, Bedford, Mass.,] Thursday,
October
20, 1983.
Harold E. Hovey
Harold E[vans] Hovey, 62, of West Palm Beach, Fla., died in his home
Friday after being stricken with a heart attack.
Mr. Hovey was born in Oberlin [and graduated from OHS in 1934].
Surviving are daughters, Sandra Luckett, Chicago, and Gayle Wille,
Miami, Fla.; and a brother, Paul Hovey, Elyria. His wife, Mildred,
preceded him in death.
Service arrangements were not available.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Sunday, February 18, 1979, p. D-2.
Paul
G. Hovey
Paul G. Hovey, 80,
Sarasota,
died July 18, 2002.
He was born Sept. 21,
1921,
in Oberlin, Ohio, [graduated from Oberlin High School in 1939,] and
came
to Sarasota in 1985 from Elyria, Ohio. He was president of Hovey-Kaiser
Insurance Agency, Elyria, and a member of the Rotary Club, Gyro
International
and Meadows Country Club. He graduated from Miami University, Ohio, and
was an Army Air Forces liaison pilot during World War II, serving in
China,
Burma and India. He was a Protestant.
Survivors include his
wife,
Marilyn; daughters Susan Shuchat of Philadelphia and Jane Clark of
Bowling
Green, Ohio; a son, Daniel of Venice; seven grandchildren; and a
great-grandchild.
A family memorial service
will be private. National Cremation Society, Sarasota chapter, is in
charge.
Memorial donations may be
made to Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, 120 Wall St., 19th Floor, New
York,
NY 10005.
Sarasota Herald Tribune,
Sarasota, Florida, Sunday, July 21, 2002, p. BS8.
Jeanette B. Howard
Jeanette B. Howard (nee
Franklin), 71, of South Amherst, mother of Shirleyann Sanislow of
Oberlin,
died July 2 at the Cleveland Clinic after a one-day illness.
Born in 1922 in Oberlin,
she was raised in Russia Twp. and graduated from Oberlin High School in
1940. She lived most of her adult life in South Amherst.
Mrs. Howard was a motor
route carrier for The Morning Journal for 33 years.
Other survivors include
her husband of 54 years, John; three grandchildren; two great
grandchildren;
and a sister, Doris Murray of Lake Park, Fla.
She was preceded in death
by two brothers, John Franklin in 1966 and Robert Lyle Franklin in 1965.
Services will be at 1 p.m.
today, July 6, at the Hempel Funeral Home, 373 Cleveland Ave., Amherst.
The Rev. Daniel Mundt, assistant pastor at Foursquare Gospel Church in
Amherst, will officiate.
Burial will be in
Evergreen
Cemetery in South Amherst.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 6, 1993, p. 2.
June Marie Howard, 80
Oberlin -- June Marie
Howard
(nee Carpenter), 80, of Oberlin, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2001, at New
Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph, Lorain.
She was born Sept. 28,
1920,
in Eaton Township.
She graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1938 and lived in LaGrange, Elyria, Amherst and
Rochester
before returning to Oberlin 30 years ago.
She assisted her husband,
the Rev. Leland G. Howard, a Methodist minister, at churches he served.
Mrs. Howard was a
volunteer
with Grandmothers Student Reading Program in the Oberlin Public
Schools.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, Elyria, and its Senior
Saints,
and a member also of the Ladies Missionary Group of Oberlin Calvary
Baptist
Church. She enjoyed music, playing the piano, sewing, cooking and
entertaining.
Survivors include her
husband
of 60 years, the Rev. Leland G. Howard; daughters Sylvia J. Gembka of
Sandusky
and Rosalie V. Howard of Indianapolis, Ind.; sons Robert L. Howard of
Elyria,
James E. Howard of Midlothian, Ill., and the Rev. John S. Howard of
Painesville;
nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; sister, Marjorie Odor
of Elyria; and brothers Alvin Carpenter of Elyria and Richard Carpenter
of Cement City, Mich. She was preceded in death by her parents, Elwin
and
Viva Carpenter; and twin daughters Gloria and Viva Howard.
Friends may call Friday
5 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m.
at Dicken Funeral Home, 323 Middle Ave., Elyria. The Rev. Bradley W.
Quick,
pastor of First Baptist Church, Elyria, will officiate. Burial will be
in LaGrange Cemetery, LaGrange.
Memorial contributions may
be made to New Life Hospice, 5255 North Abbe Road, Elyria 44035.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Thursday, January 11, 2001
Nathaniel
Richardson Howard
Nathaniel R. Howard died
Mr. Howard was born in
Mrs. Howard then got a job teaching
at
A month later he bean working for the
Plain Dealer and was police reporter, political
writer, copy
reader, city editor, night new editor and managing editor before he
became
editor of the News in 1937.
During World War II, Mr. Howard was
assistant to Byron
Price, director of the U.S. Office of Censorship, in 1942-43. He
carried on a
heavy lecturing schedule to civic groups, historical societies and
PTA’s for
many years.
After the Plain Dealer
sold the Cleveland News to the Cleveland Press, Mr. Howard became
contributing editor at the Plain
Dealer.
He retired in 1963 (on his 65th birthday), but he kept up his
lecturing schedule and wrote the history of the Union Club (1972) and
edited
the papers of George M. Humphrey who was secretary of the Treasury in
the
Eisenhower administration.
Mr. Howard was past president of the
American Society of
Newspaper Editors, a former director of the Associated Press and a
former
president of the City Club in
He leaves his wife, the former Edith
Moriarty whom he
married in 1930, two daughters, four grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
His first wife (Marjorie Norton ’21) died in 1928. His brother,
Edward
’21,
died in 1954.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Ruth Matthews Howard
Ruth “Pat”
Matthews
Howard,
former Oberlin resident, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, died April 21.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1936
graduate of OHS], she was one of four children of George Leroy Fields
and
Marvyl Berry Fields.
She was married to the
Rev.
Wesley S. Matthews for over 35 years and to Wendell Howard for five
years.
After his death, she returned to Yellow Springs where she had lived for
the past eight years.
Survivors include her five
children, Domina Marvyl, Westina Lomax, Kriza Adora, Barbara Kathleen
and
Wesley Michael Matthews; two grandchildren; and great aunt Rachel Berry
Abrams.
She was preceded in death
by two sisters, Lillian Adora Godette and Faith Nadine Adams; and a
brother,
Howard Leroy Fields.
A memorial service was
held
at Central Chapel A.M.E. Church in Yellow Springs on May 10. Family
graveside
services were held at Westwood Cemetery on May 11.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Wilberforce University, Wilberforce Ohio, in the name of
Ruth
Matthews Howard.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, May 14, 1996, p. 2.
Angela Howard-Crosby
Columbus -- Angela
Howard-Crosby
of Columbus, formerly of Oberlin, died Sunday, Jan. 12, 2003.
She was born in Oberlin
and graduated from [OHS in 1964 and from] Ohio Dominican College (St.
Mary's
of the Springs).
Mrs. Howard-Crosby was
employed
by the Columbus Parks and Recreation Department for more than 30 years
until her retirement and was a funeral director at Crosby Funeral Home,
Columbus.
Survivors include her
daughter
Leeza R. Crosby (Lisa R. Howard); sister, Constance Crosby-Guire; and
one
granddaughter, one aunt, a niece, great-niece and great-nephew. She was
preceded in death by her husband, William B. Howard; and her parents,
the
Rev. Normal C. Crosby and Eva Mae Parker-Crosby.
Services were Jan. 17 in
Mount Olivet Baptist Church and burial was Jan. 18 in Eastlawn
Cemetery,
both in Columbus.
Crosby Funeral Home
handled
arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Friday, February 14, 2003.
Alfred William Fritz Hubbard
Alfred “Fritz” Hubbard, [OHS ’25, OC ’29, died]
September [August 30,]
1993, in Urbana, Ill. He was 85. Following receipt of his Oberlin A.B.
degree in English and physical education, he earned a Ph.D. degree in
physical education at U. Illinois, later to retire there as professor
of physical education and director of UI’s Sports Psychology
Laboratory. Earlier, he taught courses and coached sports at St.
Johnsbury Academy in Oregon and at Reed Coll. Winner of the first
President’s Award of the North American Society for Sport and
Physical
Activity, he lectured widely on athletics in the United States and
abroad. His wife, the former Annabelle Leicht ’33, and brother
Deane
’28, preceded him in death. His brother Robert ’32 survives.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1993, p. 53.
Services Held on Saturday For Deane O.
Hubbard,
53
Deane O. Hubbard, 53, son
of Mr. and Mrs. P. Deane Hubbard, 73 S. Professor, died Wednesday,
March
11 at his home in Darien, Conn.
Funeral services were held
Saturday at Christ Church with Rev. James Wells, rector of St.
Paul’s
Church,
Lewiston, N. Y., assisted by Rev. Edward W. Jones, officiating.
Interment was in Westwood
Cemetery.
Mr. Hubbard, born in
Cleveland
Jan. 19, 1906, graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1924] and
attended
Oberlin College for two years before transferring to Case Institute of
Technology, where he received his BS in chemistry in 1931. He received
the degree of chemical engineer from Case in 1936.
Mr. Hubbard was a member
of the American Chemical Society; Electrochemical Society; American
Institute
of Chemical Engineers; and the Society of Professional Engineers. He
was
active in the Episcopal Church.
Besides his parents he is
survived by his wife, the former Geraldine Hopkins; a daughter, Mrs.
Thomas
Cheshire, teacher at Eastwood School; a son, Edward W., student at
Case;
and two brothers, Dr. Alfred W., on the faculty of the Graduate School
of the University of Illinois, and Robert D., economic stabilizer
officer
of the Regional Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, March 19, 1959, p. 4B.
Norman S. Hubbard
Norman S. Hubbard, a
traffic
supervisor of the New York Telephone Company and an employee of the
company
for the last twenty-one years, died on Wednesday at his home, 114-56
176th
Street, St. Albans, Queens. Mr. Hubbard, who was born fifty-three years
ago of Congregationalist missionary parents in Foochow, China, was
graduated
[from Oberlin High School in 1911 and] from Yale in 1916. He leaves a
widow,
Mrs. Katherine M. Hubbard, and a son, Norman S. Hubbard, Jr.
The New York Times,
New York, NY, Friday, September 21, 1945, p. 21.
Oscar E. Hubbard
Oscar E. Hubbard, 93, of
Winthrop, Massachusetts, died in his sleep on July 11, at his home.
Dr. Hubbard was born in
Ithaca, New York, and raised in Oberlin where he [graduated from OHS in
1921 and he] also received his undergraduate degree at Oberlin College
in 1925. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University
in
1930, interned at Church Home and Infirmary in Baltimore and was a
resident
at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York.
Dr. Hubbard then served
at the Yale University Institute of Human Relations in New Haven, as a
psychiatrist at the Fairfield State Hospital in Newton, Connecticut,
and
a fellow in child psychiatry at the Louisville Child Guidance Clinic.
Prior to World War II, he
was director of the Child Guidance Clinic in Buffalo, New York. Mr.
Hubbard
served as a Lt. Colonel in the USAF during World War II and the Korean
War. Following the war, he was the psychiatrist first at the Houston
and
then at the Dallas Veterans Hospitals after which he served as the
chief
of the Mental Health Division for the Territory of Alaska.
He then became a professor
of psychiatry at the University of Mississippi Medical School before
moving
to New York City and becoming an electroencephalographer at the Bronx
State
Hospital. He completed his career at the NY City Rikers Island Prison
from
which he retired at 87.
His avocations included
figure skating and ice dancing which he continued into his 90th year.
At one time, Mr. Hubbard
delivered the local newspaper in Oberlin as a youngster and set type
for
the press as well. He is survived by his sister, Marjorie Robison, a
son,
G. David Hubbard, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A
funeral
Mass was held in the Church of St. John the Evangelist by Father
Sullivan
on July 14. Interment was in Manhattan, New York.
The family suggest
memorial
contributions may be made to REW Foundations, 217 Lincoln St.,
Winthrop,
MA 02152.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 22, 1997, p. 3.
Robert D. Hubbard, Civil defense official, 89
Robert D. Hubbard of Boulder, an assistant regional director of
civil defense, died Jan. 28. He was 89.
No services were held. There was cremation.
He was born Jan. 6, 1912, in Lakewood, Ohio [and graduated from OHS in
1928]. In 1938, he married Elizabeth Gillett.
Hubbard served on the faculties at American University, the University
of Denver and the University of Colorado.
He was co-founder and first president of the Colorado Senior Lobby. He
also founded Morrison's first Boy Scout troop and was a member and
president of Red Rocks Lions Club.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Allen, Laurance and Philip; and
a daughter, Alice.
The Denver Post, Denver,
Colorado, February 8, 2001, p. B-5.
Ruth M. Hubbard
Ruth M. Hubbard, 80, of
Waco, Texas, a former resident of Oberlin, died at her home on Dec. 20.
Born in Charleston,
Illinois,
on Sept. 22, 1902, she grew up in Oberlin [and graduated from Oberlin
High
School in 1920.]. Her father, George D. Hubbard, was professor of
geology
at Oberlin College from 1910-1936 and continued to live here until his
death in 1958.
She graduated from Oberlin
College in 1924, and received the AM degree in 1925 and the PhD in 1927
from the University of Minnesota. From 1947 until she retired in1966
she
was chief clinical psychologist at the VA Hospital in Waco. Through all
these years she had maintained her membership in First Church.
She is survived by a
brother,
Oscar Hubbard of New York City, and a sister Marjorie (Mrs. Anthony)
Silvester
of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Graveside services were
last Thursday afternoon at Westwood Cemetery with Rev. John Elder
officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, December 30, 1982, p. 2.
Ruth M[arilla] Hubbard
died Dec. 20, 1982, in Waco, Tex., where she lived since 1947. She
retired in 1966 as chief psychologist at the VA Hospital in Waco. After
her retirement she traveled in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Iran and
Istanbul.
Miss Hubbard was born Sept. 22, 1902, in Charleston, Ill. [and
graduated from OHS in 1920 and Oberlin College in 1924]. She was the
daughter of George D. Hubbard, professor of geology and geography
(1910-36), for whom a scholarship fund was created in his name at
Oberlin. When he died in 1958, Mrs. Hubbard moved from Oberlin to live
with Ruth until her death in 1968.
Before joining the Waco hospital staff in 1948, Miss Hubbard was a
psychologist at the Cleveland and Rochester Child Guidance Clinics, the
Kalamazoo (Mich.) State Hospital and in family services in Detroit. She
was also a lecturer at Western Reserve U., Wayne State, U. Mich., and
U. Texas. In addition, she was the author of many articles in
professional publications.
Miss Hubbard was a Fellow of the American Assn. for the Advancement of
Science, was an officer and president of the Detroit, Michigan, Texas
and Southwestern Psychology Assns., and was a Diplomate in clinical
psychology for the American Board of Professional Psychologists. In
addition, she was listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Texas
Women of
Distinction and Personalities of the South.
Miss Hubbard received the MA in 1925 and the PhD in 1927 from U.
Minnesota. She also studied at Columbia.
She leaves sister Marjorie Silvester ’35 [OHS ‘30] and
brother Oscar
’25 [OHS ‘21]. Services and burial were in Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1983, p. 56.
Greta Huber
Greta Huber, 18, a
lifelong
resident of Oberlin and a senior at Oberlin High School, died Feb. 17
at
St. Luke’s Hospital, Cleveland, of injuries suffered in an
auto-van
accident
in Cleveland Feb. 13.
She is survived by her
parents,
Richard and Jo Huber of Oberlin; a sister, Molly of Oberlin; maternal
grandmother,
Mary Limbird of Milan; and paternal grandmother, Clara Huber of Los
Angeles.
A memorial service was
held
Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship meeting rooms.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions be made to the Unitarian Universalist Service
Committee,
78 Beacon St., Boston, Mass. 02108-3497; or Habitat for Humanity,
Americus,
Ga.; or Storer Camps, 7620 S. Stony Lake Rd., Jackson, Mich. 49201.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, February 25, 1988, p. 5.
Richard Anthony Hudnell
Richard Anthony
Hudnell, 56, of Oberlin, passed away at EMH Regional Medical Center,
Monday, November 8, 2010, after a short illness. He was born July 27,
1954 [and graduated from OHS in 1973].
He worked as a research lab mechanic for NASA in Cleveland for 30
years, retiring in 2006. Richard was past president of Oberlin Kiwanis,
member of Open Spaces City of Oberlin, American Legion and VFW.
He enjoyed playing drums, ice skating, riding motorcycles, working on
classic cars and CB radios and computers, listening to classic rock and
roll and taking his grandson fishing.
Richard is survived by his wife, Catherine M. Hudnell of Oberlin;
mother, Marjorie Gatlin Hudnell of Oberlin; daughters, Alison M.
Hudnell [OHS ‘94] of Oberlin, Elizabeth A. Hudnell [OHS
‘98] of Heflin, Louisiana, Catrinia R. Kubur [OHS 2002] of West
Bloomfield, Michigan; grandson, Richard Grant Ryon Hudnell of Ohio;
four grandchildren; brothers, Brian Hudnell [OHS ‘79] of Ashland
and Chris Hudnell [OHS ‘84] of Oberlin and sister, Lisa Hudnell
[OHS ‘74] of Elyria and Laura Hudnell [OHS ‘75].
He was preceded in death by his father, Ralph Hudnell.
Graveside services are Thursday, November 11, 2010, 12 P.M., at
Westwood Cemetery in Oberlin. Pastor Brian Kenyon, of Calvary Baptist
Church will officiate.
Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin, is handling local arrangements.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Wednesday, November 10, 2010.
Thomas
Herman Hudnell
Thomas Herman Hudnell, 78,
of Oberlin, died Dec. 11, 1998.
Born in Columbus, Ohio,
to the late Ralph and Marie Hudnell, he grew up in Oberlin and
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1939, where he was a star athlete.
He attended Oberlin
College
1939-40 and later attended New York City College.
Mr. Hudnell was a staff
sergeant in the U.S. Army, serving in Normandy and the Rhineland. He
received
the Good Conduct Medal, American Theater Service Medal, EAME Theater
Service
Medal with four Bronze Stars, and the Victory Medal.
Mr. Hudnell worked for the
U.S. Postal Service in Cleveland and in New York City, retiring in
December
1982 as an administrative assistant in the Department of Social
Services
in New York City.
He was a member of Rust
United Methodist Church, Oberlin, and was a volunteer at Allen Memorial
Hospital, a Grandparent Reader at Eastwood School, and also drove the
Senior
Citizens’ bus.
Survivors include his
sister,
Geraldine Simons of Columbus; two daughters, Rev. Rosa Burgee of Los
Angeles
and Laura Hudnell of New York City; and one grandson.
Mr. Hudnell’s body
was
donated
to Case Western Reserve University for medical research.
Photograph caption: Thomas
Hudnell.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, January 26, 1999, p. 2.
Herbert
E. Huffman
Herbert E. Huffman, 59,
of Oberlin, was pronounced dead on arrival at Allen Memorial Hospital
Friday
afternoon after suffering an apparent heart attack.
Born in Oberlin, he was
a lifelong resident [and a 1948 graduate of Oberlin High School].
He retired as a master
sergeant
in the Air Force in 1966 after 16 years of service. He worked for
Oberlin
College in the audiovisual department.
He also worked for 18
years
at Lorain County Community College in the audiovisual department and
operated
Huffman Electronics out of his home. He was also a ham radio operator.
He was a member of Mt.
Zion
Baptist Church and served on its board of trustees. He was in charge of
the church’s audio equipment.
Survivors include his
wife,
Aola (nee Jenkins), and a sister, Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Payne of Oberlin.
Friends may call 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. tonight at the Cowling Funeral Home. Services will be
Wednesday
at 11 a.m. in Mt. Zion Baptist Church, with the Rev. Fred Steen
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, December 12, 1989, p. 2.
Alice H. Hughes
Alice H. Hughes, 87, of
Oberlin, died at Allen Memorial Hospital on Sept. 27 after a short
illness.
Born in Pittsfield
Township,
she was a longtime resident of Oberlin [and a 1925 graduate of Oberlin
High School].
She attended Oberlin
College
from 1925-28 and earned the LL.B. degree from Cleveland Marshall Law
School
in 1942.
During World War II she
inspected landing craft for the Navy. She also worked for the FBI and
was
a retired lawyer.
Ms. Hughes enjoyed flower
gardening, animals and needlework.
There are no immediate
survivors.
She was preceded in death
by her father, Orville John Hughes; her mother, Delia L. (nee
Shaughnessy);
a sister, Sr. Jonnes; and a brother, John H. Hughes.
Graveside services were
Sept. 30 at St. Mary Cemetery in Elyria. The Rev. Jim Gordon read from
the Book of Psalms.
Memorial gifts may be made
to a charity of the donor’s choice.
The Dicken Funeral Home,
323 Middle Ave., Elyria, handled arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, October 4, 1994, p. 5.
J. [Lois] Irene Hughes
J. [Lois] Irene Hughes
(nee
Huffman), 71, of Oberlin, died at home on March 13 following a long
illness.
Born in Logan, Ohio, she
had made here home in this area for the past 40 years.
She is survived by her
husband,
Ernest, to whom she was married 40 years; a daughter, Linda Streator of
Oberlin; sons, Robert Wetherbee Sr. of Independence, Ky., and Glenn and
Harry Wetherbee, both of Wellington; sisters, Mae Broome and Helen
Nicholson,
both of Oberlin, and Betty Ann Princehorn of Medina; brothers, William
Huffman of Cincinnati and Earl Huffman of Elyria; 12 grandchildren and
six great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by three sisters and a brother.
Services were Saturday
afternoon
at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Leland Howard officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 19, 1991, p. 2.
Joannes Hughes
Joannes Hughes
[Sister Joannes Marie, nee Gertrude Mary Hughes], [died] Feb. 20, 1986,
in Richfield, Ohio. After graduation [from OHS in 1923 and Oberlin
College in 1928], she received a fellowship in the program of education
for social work from U. Cincinnati, but instead she began her life work
as a Sister of Charity of St. Augustine. In 1935 she received her
A.M. degree at Western Reserve U. She taught French, social studies,
and languages at St. Augustine Academy in Lakewood, Ohio, and St.
Luke’s Sch. Later, she became the medical staff librarian at St.
John’s Hospital in Cleveland, a position she held until she
retired. She leaves a sister, Alice H. [OC] ’29.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin College, Summer 1986, p. 60.
John H. Hughes
John Harold Hughes, 70,
owner of the Hughes Packing Co. on Rt. 20 E from 1942 to 1963, was
pronounced
dead Saturday at Allen Hospital after being stricken with an apparent
heart
attack in his home on Hale Rd.
Born in Elyria on Nov. 14,
1903, Hughes was a cattleman in Florida in the 1920’s and
30’s.
He lived in Oberlin most
of his life[, was a 1924 graduate of OHS,] and was a member of the
Beaver
Creek Gun Club. He had been ailing for several months following major
surgery.
Surviving are his wife,
Frances, and two sisters, Alice Hughes of Oberlin and Sister Joannes,
CSA
of Cleveland.
He was the son of the late
Orville and Delia Hughes of Oberlin.
Funeral services were held
yesterday in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Msgr. Michael Ivanko
officiating. Burial was in St. Mary Cemetery in Elyria.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 10, 1974, p. 6.
Leonard
E. Hughes Jr.
Oberlin—Leonard E.
Hughes
Jr., 51, died suddenly yesterday at 4 p.m. in his home, 268 Grafton Rd.
Dr. Paul Kopsch, Lorain County coroner, ruled death was due to natural
causes, probably a heart ailment.
Mr. Hughes was born in
Cleveland
June 26, 1909, and was employed in the stock room of the General
Industries
Co., Elyria. He was a veteran of World War II and saw extensive service
in the European Theater.
His father Leonard E.
Hughes
Sr., Oberlin, survives.
Friends will be received
in the Cowling-Stang Funeral Home where services will be held Monday at
1 p.m. The Rev. Thomas Sumner, pastor of Rust Methodist Church, will
officiate.
Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Friday, June 23, 1961, p. 10.
Harrison
H. Hull
Harrison H. Hull, 63, son
of Mrs. Anna Hull of 270 W. Lorain, died Monday in Ashland. Born in
Oberlin
on April 15, 1912, Mr. Hull graduated from Oberlin High School [in
1929]
and attended Ohio State University and the Oberlin School of Commerce.
During World War II he was a captain in the U.S. Army, serving in
Germany.
He retired from the Columbia Gas Co. in 1974, after over 30 years of
service,
being a member of their Quarter Century Club.
In addition to his mother,
he is survived by his wife, Mary Bittinger, and a son, James B., both
of
Ashland; a brother, Wilbur, of Cape Coral, Fla.; and a sister, Mrs.
Wilmah
Hull Lauer, of Elyria.
Funeral services will be
held today at 3:30 p.m. at the Denbow and Trimm Funeral Home in Ashland.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 2, 1975, p. 6.
Hold Services For Mrs. Eudora Hull
Mrs. K. Eudora Hull, 92,
sister of Mrs. A. R. Kimpton and G. A. Paige with whom she lived, died
at the Kimpton home on E. College St. on Saturday at 9 p.m.
She had lived in Oberlin
for the last nine years, coming here from New York State.
Mrs. Hull was born in
Oberlin
on Sept. 11, 1861 and she graduated from [OHS in 1880 and from] Oberlin
College in 1886. In 1892 she married Rev. Walter G. Hull, a Methodist
minister
of the central New York district.
Survivors are her brother
and sister. One daughter preceded her in death.
A short prayer service was
held on Monday with Rev. R. L. Krepps of First Methodist Church
conducting
the service. Burial services will be held in Syracuse, N. Y.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 22, 1953, p. 4.
Wilbur S. Hull
Wilbur S. Hull, an Oberlin
resident from 1910 to 1928, died on Aug. 3 in Cape Coral, Fla., after a
long illness. Mr. Hull, 67, had lived in Cape Coral for seven years.
Born in Oberlin on Jan.
27, 1910, Mr. Hull graduated from Oberlin High School in 1928 [1926],
and
then went to General Motors’ technological school in Flint, Mich.
Mr.
Hull
was the plant manager for GM at Grand Blanc, Mich., before moving to
Florida.
Surviving are his wife,
Marion M. Hull; one son, Neil, of Birmingham, Mich.; one daughter, Mrs.
Patricia Calos of Alfred, N.Y.; his mother, Mrs. J. A. Hull of Elyria;
one sister, Wilmah Jean Lauer of Elyria; and three grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
in Fort Myers, Fla. The body was cremated.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, August 11, 1977, p. 2.
Janice
[Winifred] Ruth Hume
July 19, 1915 - February 18, 2012
- daughter of Fred C. Ruth and Alice Powers Ruth of Ohio, was born in
1915 in Columbus, Ohio, and died at Absolut of Aurora Park, East
Aurora, New York, on February 18, 2012. A graduate of [OHS in 1932 and]
Oberlin College, with a Master’s Degree from Canisius College,
Ms. Hume taught high school English for over 23 years at schools in
California and New York State. She retired from Frontier Central High
School in Hamburg, New York. She later taught adult writing workshops
through the Gowanda Central Schools, and was a member of Writers’
Guild of America. Her novel, A Vision Feminine, was published in 2002,
and she completed a second book titled The Psychic Connection: Stories
From Your Life. Other publications appeared in Fisk University’s
alumni magazine, as well as in Progressive Teacher and The Music
Journal. A violinist, she gave concerts at nursing homes in Western New
York in the 1990s. She was married to The Rev. Myron K. Hume (died
1954) and later to Louis Russell (died 1996). She was pre-deceased by
her parents and by sister Alice Senko [OHS ‘34] and brother Ralph
Ruth. She is survived by son Elliott (Carol) Hume of Clarence, New
York; daughter Diana (John Edwards) Hume George of Venango,
Pennsylvania, step-son David (Vicky Luine) Russell of Brooklyn, New
York, and step-daughter Marsha (Jerislaw) Chudy of West Seneca, as well
as nine grandchildren and many great grand-children.
Services are private. Memorials to the Alzheimer’s Association,
2805 Wehrle Dr., Suite 6, Williamsville, NY 14221-7380. Arrangements by
Robinson & Hackemer Funeral Home, Warsaw.
http://www.robinsonandhackemer.com/index.php/obituaries/janice_ruth_hume/
Helen
Marjorie Hull Hummeland
Mrs. Arne B.
Hummeland (H. Marjorie Hull) died suddenly
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oliver B. Humphrey Dies Following Operation
Funeral of Well Known Young Man
Is Held on Thursday Afternoon
Oliver B. [Byron Oliver] Humphrey, known to his many friends as Bob,
died at Allen Hospital at 1 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Mr.
Humphrey had
been operated upon for appendicitis on Sunday. Peritonitis had
developed and the disease was in too advanced stage to permit of his
recovery.
Mr. Humphrey, a young man of 33, had been employed in the Iron Fireman
department of the T. O. Murphy Co. He was industrious and attentive to
business and had the esteem of those who knew him. He is survived by
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Humphrey of West Russia, his bride of
five months, a brother, Cecil, of Oberlin and a sister, Mrs. Margery
Worthington of Elyria. [He graduated from OHS in 1924.]
Funeral services were held at the Sedgeman parlors Thursday afternoon
at 2 o’clock. The service was read by James F. Miskovsky in the
absence
of Rev. Louis E. Daniels, rector of Chris Episcopal church. Burial was
made at Westwood. Mr. Humphrey was a member of Oberlin Lodge No. 380 F.
and A. M. and a Masonic service was performed at the grave.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Friday, August 20, 1937, p. 1.
Former Oberlin Woman [Mrs. Lulu Hunley]
Dies
In Cleveland
Mrs. Lulu Hunley, 50, died
in Cleveland last Saturday, and was buried in Westwood Tuesday
afternoon.
Mrs. Hunely was formerly Lulu Cowan of Groveland street [and was a 1902
graduate of OHS]. She is survived by her mother and brother, Harvey, at
home, Mrs. William Mollereson of Chicago, Mrs. Gaston and James Cowan
of
Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Floy White of Cleveland. Rev. Nicholas Van
der Pyl had charge of the services.
Mrs. Hunley was the widow
of Prince Hunley, who for many years worked at the Hotel Hollenden in
Cleveland,
and became very well known through his aid to the state in the Billy
Whitla
kidnapping case.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Friday, December 20, 1935, p. 1.
Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt, Educator, Pan-Africanist, Writer
Ida Gibbs Hunt, one of the early black women college graduates in the
United States, was a teacher, social and civic activist, and author of
journal and newspaper articles. Her concern was with advancing humanity
and social justice. She was involved in three Pan-African congresses,
serving variously as lecturer, planner, and conference participant. She
was a product of the middle-class black society of the 1800s and 1900s
that prepared its children to make a difference in black America.
Born on November 16, 1862, in Victoria, British Columbia, Ida Alexander
Gibbs Hunt was one of five children born to Mifflin Wistar Gibbs
(1823-1915), a Philadelphia native, and Maria Ann Alexander Gibbs (d.
1904), a Kentuckian. The other Gibbs children were Horace E. (b. 1864),
Donald F., and Harriet Aletha Gibbs Marshall (1868-1941) [OHS class of
1883]. Harriet became known as an educator, concert pianist, writer,
and the founder of the Washington Conservatory of Music. A fifth child
died before reaching adolescence…
One of First Black Women to Receive
Bachelor’s Degree
Ida Hunt studied in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music from 1872 to
1876, then in the local public schools from 1876 to about 1879 [when
she graduated from OHS]. She completed her senior year of high school
in Oberlin [College]’s Preparatory Department and became a
boarding
student at Oberlin. Hunt received a bachelor of arts in English in the
1884 graduating class, which included three black women who were among
the early African American women to earn bachelor’s degrees from
an
American college. Mary Eliza Church (later Terrell) [also OHS class of
1879] and Hunt were friends before they entered Oberlin, classmates in
the preparatory department, and dormitory roommates during their
freshman and senior years in college. The third black woman to graduate
with them was Anna Julia Cooper. These women became successful and were
well known for their work as educators, leaders, and civil rights
activists. Around 1885 Hunt reentered the Conservatory of Music to
further develop her musical talent.
That same year Hunt joined here family in Little Rock for a while and
became a missionary. Although the dates of her work during this period
are unknown, for two years she taught Latin and mathematics in the
State Normal School (now Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical College),
in Huntsville, Alabama. Illness compelled her to return to Oberlin in
1889. Between 1889 and 1892 she studied at Oberlin, receiving an M.A.
degree in 1892… Roland Bauman, [Oberlin College archivist,] who
wrote
Hunt’s biography for Dorothy Salem’s African-American
Women, notes that between 1892 and 1895 Hunt apparently was
principal of the Preparatory Department in the State Normal School (now
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University) in Tallahassee,
Florida…
In 1895 Hunt joined her Oberlin classmates Terrell and Cooper at the M
Street High School (later Dunbar Senior High School) in Washington,
D.C., where the women had been invited to teach. Hunt taught English, a
position she held until 1904 when she married William Henry Hunt
(1869-1951). William Hunt had been secretary to Mifflin Gibbs while
Gibbs was U.S. consul to Madagascar at Tamatave. When Gibbs resigned in
1901 due to advanced age, Hunt was appointed to the position. Because
William Hunt received various assignments as U.S. consul, the Hunts
spent the next twenty-seven years abroad. William Hunt’s work
took him
to Tamatave (1904-06); St. Etienne, France (1906-26); Guadeloupe, in
the West Indies (1927-28); St. Michaels, in the Azores (1929); and
Monrovia, Liberia (1931-32). In late 1932 the Hunts resettled in
Washington when William Hunt was reassigned to the State Department for
a brief period. He retired from public service in 1932 and died on
December 19, 1951.
Pursues Literary and Civil Interests
Hunt was a woman of many interests and talents and devoted her energies
to organizations, especially international ones, that supported peace,
women’s suffrage, civil rights, and human and social justice in
general. She joined Coralie Franklin Cook, Rosetta E. Lawson, Josephine
Beall Bruce, and other black women in founding the first YWCA in the
District of Columbia, which was incorporated on June 30, 1905. Later
she was a board member of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA. While the extent
of her involvement is unknown, she figured in the Niagara Movement, the
forerunner of the NAACP. Her presence in France between 1906 and 1926
put her in convenient position to become active in the Pan-African
congresses held in Paris. Hunt was assistant secretary of the first
congress held in 1919 and a participant in the second held in 1921. She
and W. E. B. DuBois cochaired the committee that planned the third
conference held in London in 1923, when she presented a paper titled
“The Coloured Race and the League of Nations.”
Hunt was active with the Red Cross in France and in the United States
as well. She was also a member of the Femmes de France, the Club
Franco-Etranger, the Book Lovers Club, the Bethel Literary Society, the
NAACP, the Washington Welfare Association, and the Women’s
International League of Peace and Freedom.
In addition to her lectures to teacher’s associations and other
organizations and audiences, Hunt published several articles in the Journal of Negro History, the Negro History Bulletin, and in
newspapers in the United States and abroad. Her articles included
“The
Price of Peace” (1938), “Civilization and the Darker
Races,” (n.d.),
and “Recollections of Frederick Douglass” (1953). For the
most part,
her lectures and writings enabled her to present the ideas of racial
progress and reform she had gleaned from her experiences on the three
continents where she had lived…
Hunt died at her home, 1215 Ingraham Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., on
December 19, 1957. Although she was a member of Plymouth Congregational
Church in the city, final services were held at the McGuire funeral
home with Daniel G. Hill, dean of the Howard University School of
Religion, officiating. She was buried in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. The
Hunts had no children.
Ida Gibbs Hunt served the community well. Her work demonstrated her
concern for education, cultural development, and civil and
women’s
rights. Her views are preserved in the articles she published on these
issues…
Jessie Carney Smith, ed., Notable
Black American Women, Book II, Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research
Inc. (1996), pp. 212-213.
Mrs. W. J. [Bertha] Hunter
Mrs. Bertha L. Hunter, 74,
of 548 Cornell Ave., died in Elyria Memorial Hospital yesterday morning
following an illness of two years.
An Elyria resident 50
years
[and a 1915 graduate of OHS], she was born in Henrietta Township, Jan.
14, 1896. Her husband, William J. Hunter, died in 1968.
Survivors include a
daughter,
Mrs. George F. (Lois) Chorak; a son, Howard C. Coven, both of Elyria;
three
grandchildren and a great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Estelle Mennel,
living
in California.
Services will be tomorrow
at 1 p.m. in the Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Charles W.
Hamilton officiating. Burial will be in Rest Lawn Memorial Park, Huron.
Friends may call at the
funeral home today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Thursday, October 8, 1970, p. 38.
Paula M. Huntington
Columbus -- Paula M.
Huntington,
45, of Columbus, died Monday, June 2, 2003, at Grant Medical Center in
Columbus. [She was a 1976 graduate of OHS.]
She was employed with the
United Methodist Children's Home as a youth specialist.
Mrs. Huntington was a
member
of Higher Ground Always Abounding Assemblies.
Survivors include her
husband,
Ira Huntington; sons Terrance L. and Timothy L. Williams, both of
Lorain;
stepson, Kyle Williams of Cincinnati; stepdaughter, Kristaline Williams
of Columbus; brother, Craig Gibbs of Jacksonville, Fla.; sisters Brenda
Dean and Johanna Cash, both of Lorain, and Marsha Gibbs of Oberlin; and
eight grandchildren, three aunts and nieces, nephews, and cousins. She
was preceded in death by her parents, Brenton W. and Gertrude D. (nee
Huffman)
Gibbs.
Friends may call Friday
from 11 a.m. until time of service at noon at Higher Ground Always
Abounding
Assemblies, 870 St. Clair Ave. Sherman Watkins will officiate. In
Oberlin
friends may call Saturday from 10 a.m. until time of services at 11
a.m.
at Christ Temple Apostolic Church, 380 W. Lincoln St. District Elder
Laurence
Nevels will officiate. Burial will be at Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
J. Martin Smith Mortuary,
Columbus, is handling arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Thursday, June 5, 2003.
Katharine Burgner Huntley
Katharine
“Trink” Burgner
Huntley, former Oberlin resident, died June 19 in a nursing home in Ann
Arbor, Mich., after a long illness.
She grew up in Oberlin and
graduated from [Oberlin High School in 1920 and from] Oberlin College
in
1924.
Survivors include her
husband,
Frank, an Oberlin [High School] classmate; a son, Christopher;
daughters,
Janet Linde and Sylvia Horowitz; and a sister, Rebecca Decherd of Ft.
Myers,
Fla.
Katharine Huntley
Former Oberlin resident
Katharine Huntley, who died June 19 in Chelsea, Mich., a suburb of Ann
Arbor, is survived by her husband, Frank; three sons, John,
Christopher,
and James; two daughters, Janet Linde and Sylvia Horowitz; a sister,
Rebecca
Decherd; and 23 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Huntley (nee Burgner)
would have turned 90 on July 1. Services were held June 25 in Ann Arbor.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesdays, June 29 & July 6, 1997, p. 2.
R. C. Huntley, Former Oberlin Resident,
Dies
in Michigan
Word was received in
Oberlin
last Saturday of the sudden death of Reginald Cecil Huntley, in
Sturgis,
Michigan, February 4, of pneumonia.
Mr. Huntley, president of
the Sturgis Posture Chair Company, was a graduate of the Oberlin High
School
in 1919 and of Oberlin College in 1923. He was a son of the late Dr.
and
Mrs. George A. Huntly, for many years residents of Oberlin. His
brother,
Frank Huntley, was a former instructor in the English department of
Oberlin
College.
Mr. Huntley is survived
by his wife, Mary VanBuren Huntley (Oberlin Conservatory, ’21)
and one
daughter, Mary Dana.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, February 10, 1944, p. 4.
Edwin
H. Hurd
Edwin H[arrison] Hurd, 53,
of
Vermilion,
former Oberlin resident, died March 12 at Lorain Community Hospital
after
a short illness.
Born in Lafayette, Ind.,
he graduated from Oberlin High School [class of 1957] and moved to
Vermilion 32 years
ago.
He served in the Army from 1960-62.
He was a route supervisor
for Lorain Music for five years and had previously owned and operated
Dellefield
Auto Body in Amherst.
He was a member of United
Church of Christ Congregational in Vermilion, had served on the
Vermilion
Parks Board and as commissioner of the Vermilion city league baseball
program.
Survivors include his
wife,
Lynn; a daughter, Christine Solnick of Lorain; a son, Daniel G. of
Amherst;
his mother and stepfather, Eleanor and Steve Ronez of Amherst; sisters,
Mary Carruthers of Amherst, Joan Wilhelm of Altoona, Pa., and Rosie
Riddle
of Findlay; a brother, Thomas E. of Colorado Springs, Colo.; and two
grandsons.
Services were Friday
afternoon
in the Riddle Funeral Home, Vermilion, with the Rev. Louis Bertoni
officiating.
Burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery, Vermilion.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 19, 1991, p. 2.
Beverly Jane Hurst
Beverly Jane Hurst,
79, of Kensington, Maryland, passed away on Friday, February 3, 2012.
She was born in Oberlin, on January 16, 1933 to Janie (Burgess) and
Alvin Scott, Sr. [and graduated from OHS in 1951].
She was the beloved wife of Charles G. Hurst, Jr.; mother of Chaverly
(Larry) Osborne; grandmother of Larry “Trey” and Allantra
Osborne.
She is survived by sisters, Patricia Knight [OHS ‘62], Robin
Rudolph, Rosalind Sunahara; brothers, Donald Scott [OHS ‘46],
Billy Scott, Alvin L. Scott [OHS ‘46], Charles Scott [OHS
‘68], and Everette Scott; and by many loving family members and
friends.
Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University
Blvd. West, Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sunday, February 12, 2012 from
10 A.M. to the 11 A.M. funeral service. Interment private.
www.collinsfuneralhome.com.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Monday, February 06, 2012.
Howard Gibson Hurst
Former resident and
Oberlin
native Howard G. Hurst of Tampa, Florida died Dec. 31. He was 67.
Mr. Hurst was graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1934 [1935]. He had been a member of the
St.
Petersburg Gulf Coast Symphony in the violin section and was associated
with real estate in Tampa.
Surviving Mr. Hurst are
his wife Dorothy; two sons, David DeVage and John Howard, both of
Tampa;
one daughter, Cynthia A. Schultz of Greenwood Lake, New York; a sister,
Mrs. Maxine Broud of Monroeville; and two grandchildren. Mrs. Leota
Gibson
is an aunt and Allyn and Harold Gibson, all of Oberlin, are cousins.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 21, 1982, p. 2.
Melvin
Charles Hurst
Melvin Charles Hurst, 76,
of LaGrange, brother of Virginia Bickel of Oberlin, died Nov. 8 after
being
stricken at home.
Born in Camden Township,
he was a lifelong area resident, graduating from Oberlin High School in
1937.
A farmer, he retired in
1987. He had served with the Navy during World War II.
He was a member of East
Oberlin Community Church.
Other survivors include
a brother, Donald, of Fredericksburg, Texas; and three other sisters,
Margaret
Adler of Racine, Wis., Mary Jane Neumann of Wellington and Carol J.
Geiger
of LaGrange.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Leona A., in 1992; and his parents, Morris L. and Emma M.
(nee Elmes).
Services were Nov. 11 in
the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Mark Reynolds of East Oberlin
Community
Church officiating.
Burial was in Camden
Cemetery
in Camden Township.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, November 14, 1995, p. 5.
Edith Evelyn Husted
Edith Evelyn Husted died June 16, 1988, in Claremont, Calif. Born in
Oberlin Feb. 12, 1892, she [graduated from OHS in 1909, was a member of
the Oberlin College class of 1915, and] retired as a missionary. She
leaves a sister, two nieces, and two nephews.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin,
Ohio, Fall 1988, p. 55.
Gertrude A. Husted
Oberlin -- Gertrude A.
Husted
(nee Van Ausdale), 89, of Oberlin, died Friday, Aug. 22, 2003, at her
home.
She was born April 8,
1914,
in Oberlin, where she lived all her life. She graduated from Oberlin
High
School in 1933.
She retired as a clerk
with
Oberlin Municipal Court in 1976. She was a member of Kipton Community
Church.
Survivors include her son,
Jerry Husted of Pickerington, Ohio; daughters Anne Husted-Hartle of
Vermilion
and Jean Wright of Pataskala, Ohio; brother, John ''Scott'' Van Ausdale
of Oberlin; sister, Dorothy Kern of Oberlin; and 11 grandchildren, 19
great-grandchildren
and four great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her
husband
of 66 years, Ralph E. Husted, in 1999; parents Silas Samuel ''Scott''
and
Sarah (nee Baxter) Van Ausdale; brothers Carl, Lloyd and Ted Van
Ausdale;
and sisters Opal Papworth and May Hall.
Friends may call Monday
from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. in Morman Funeral Home,
16
Cooper St., Wakeman. The Rev. Lee Stull will officiate. Burial will
follow
in Evergreen Cemetery, South Amherst.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Kipton Community Church, 511 Church St., Kipton, OH 44049;
or
New Life Hospice, 5255 N. Abbe Road, Elyria, OH 44035.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Saturday, August 23, 2003.
Howard Hurlburt
Husted
Howard H. Husted died March 31, 1979, at Smithville-Western Care
Center, near Wooster, Ohio. He was born March 21, 1890, in Troy, Ohio,
but spent his youth in Oberlin [where he graduated from OHS in 1908].
He was the son of Daniel (Academy 1880-83) and Elizabeth Hurlburt
(Academy 1883-85) Husted. Mr. Husted married Edith Knapp ’14 in
1917
and they moved to Youngsville, Pa., where he operated Equitable Life, a
general insurance agency, for 40 years.
He was a member of many civic organizations, including Youngsville
Kiwanis and American Legion [World War I veteran].
After his wife died in 1973, he sold his home in Pennsylvania and moved
to Wooster to live with his daughter, Betty, who survives. He also
leaves sons Warren and Theodore, sisters Anne Deeter’17 and Edith
Husted ’15, six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. His
granddaughter, Rev. Karen P. Husted, assisted the pastor at the funeral
service.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1979, p. 41.
H. E. Husted, Oberlin Native, Dies at 61
Hubert E. Husted, a native
of Oberlin and a former teacher here, died Saturday in Charity
Hospital,
Cleveland, after suffering a heart attack. Funeral services were Monday
in Lakewood. Burial was in Xenia.
Mr. Husted was born here
in 1886, the son of Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Husted. His father was a dentist
here for many years, and the family home was at 182 Elm St.
Following his graduation
[from Oberlin High School in 1903 and] from Oberlin College in 1908,
Mr.
Husted studied at Cornell University and taught mathematics and physics
in high school classes.
He was a teacher in the
Oberlin schools from 1910 to 1913 and in the Oberlin Academy from 1913
to 1914 and 1915 to 1916. He was also connected with the Rogers Academy
in Rogers, Ark., and was in charge of the academy of Drury College,
Springfield,
Mo.
In 1916 he joined the
Garfield
Savings Bank, Cleveland, as bookkeeper. When that bank merged with the
Cleveland Trust Co., Mr. Husted became an officer in the real estate
loan
department. Eight years ago he was made manager of the safe deposit
department
of the Cleveland Trust. At the time of his death he supervised safety
deposit
operations in the main office and all branch banks.
An amateur wood carver,
he made a complete set of miniature furniture in scale before buying
his
home in Lakewood.
Surviving are his wife,
R…, his mother, Alberta, and a sister, Mrs. J. B. Wolfe.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 20, 1947, p. 2.
Ethel Virginia Huston
Ethel Virginia Huston (nee
Phillips), 82, of Oberlin, died April 4 at Welcome Nursing Home after a
long illness.
Born in Oberlin, she was
a [1936 graduate of OHS, a] 1940 graduate of Oberlin College and also
attended
the Oberlin School of Commerce.
She was a fan of the
Cleveland
Indians and the Ohio State Buckeyes, and was a history buff.
Survivors include three
sons, Mark of Oberlin, Phil of Dayton and Larry of Oakland, Calif.; a
daughter,
Jane Counseller of Fairfield, Pa.; 11 grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Jack; parents Wilbur and Jessie (nee Fisher) Phillips;
and sisters Marjorie Phillips, Julia Phillips and Ruth Reinhold.
Graveside services were
held April 7 in Westwood Cemetery, followed by a memorial service at
First
United Methodist Church with the Rev. Dr. O. French Ball officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, April 11, 2000, p. 2.
Logan Scott
Huston Sr.
Lorain - Logan Scott Huston Sr., 63, went home to be with the Lord
Monday, February 7, 2011 at Community Health Partners Hospital in
Lorain.
Logan was born January 6, 1948 in Oberlin [and graduated from OHS in
1967]. He worked as an assembler and inspector for the Ford Plant in
Lorain for 30 years, retiring in 1997. He then drove limousines for
nine years for Touch of Class.
He was a member of Rust United Methodist Church in Oberlin and was an
usher, trustee of the Pastor Parrish Board, president of United
Methodist Men and a lay speaker. Logan took a mission trip to Haiti in
1985. He served as president of Local 425 Veterans and was a chaplain
for Lorain County Vietnam Vets.
Logan enjoyed riding motorcycles, hunting, fishing, playing bass
guitar, watching old movies and playing with his grandchildren.
He was survived by his wife, Mary Jane Huston, of Lorain; two sons,
Logan S. Huston Jr., of Lorain, and Darryl (Dawn) Watson, of Amherst; a
brother, Lawrence B. (Frances) Huston Jr. [OHS ‘64], of Salinas,
Calif.; an uncle, aunt, a host of nieces, nephews and cousins and five
grandchildren.
Logan was preceded in death by his father, Lawrence B. Huston Sr., and
his mother, Louisa Scott Huston [OHS ‘45].
Visitation will be Friday, Feb. 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Cowling
Funeral Home at 228 S. Main St. in Oberlin. Funeral services will be
Saturday, Feb. 12, at 10 a.m. at Rust United Methodist Church in
Oberlin. Pastor Lorenzo Smart will preside. Interment will follow in
Westwood Cemetery in Elyria, with full military honors conducted by
Post 1079. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to
Lorain County Vietnam Veterans Memorial, P.O. Box 258, Lorain OH 44052.
Online condolences may be made at www.cowlingfuneralhomeoh.com.
The Morning Journal, Wednesday,
February 9, 2011.
Louisa S. Huston
Louisa S. Huston, 68, of
Oberlin, died unexpectedly on July 10 at Allen Memorial Hospital after
a short illness.
Born in Oberlin, Mrs.
Huston
had lived here all of her life. She attended Oberlin High School (class
of 1945) and graduated from the Erma Lee School of Cosmetology in
Cleveland.
She was a licensed beautician and also cared for many elderly people in
Oberlin.
She was active in Rust
United
Methodist Church in Oberlin, serving on the Usher Board, singing in the
Gospel Choir, aiding the Logos youth program, and coordinating the
Church
Floral Program.
Mrs. Huston was also a
member
of the Oberlin club of the National Association of Negro Business and
Professional
Women, Martha Chapter 35 OES, and the board of the Oberlin Hot Meals
Program.
Survivors include her
husband,
Lawrence; sons, Lawrence Jr. of Salinas, Calif., and Logan of Lorain;
two
grandsons; a sister, Annabelle Wahl of Oberlin; and a brother, Robert
Scott
of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death
by sisters Beatrice Jenkins, Margaret Smith, and Wilma Daniels.
Friends may call from 7-9
p.m. Wednesday, July 13, at Cowling Funeral Home in Oberlin. Funeral
services
will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, at Rust United Methodist
Church with the Rev. Sadie Reynolds and the Rev. James Roberson
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 12, 1994, p. 2.
Francis Hutchins, Berea College President Emeritus
Francis Stephenson Hutchins [OHS ‘19] ’23, president
emeritus of Berea
College, died November 28, 1988, in Berea, Kentucky, having suffered a
stroke. He was born August 19, 1902, in Northfield, Massachusetts.
While an Oberlin student he traveled to China as a representative to
the Shansi Memorial Schools. Upon receiving his bachelor’s degree
he
returned to China as an instructor under the auspices of the
Yale-in-China Association in Changsha, Hunan. After a year as
instructor and acting head of the English Department at Shantung
Christian university, he spent the following 11 years as Yale-in-China
representative to Hunan-Yale Medical College (now Hunan Medical
College), the Yali Union Middle School, and Hua Chung College, Wuchang.
During this period he earned the M.A. degree in international relations
from Yale and became executive secretary of the Changsha International
Relief Committee, which administered funds in the city of Changsha and
in Hunan Province.
In 1939 he was invited to become president of Berea College, in whose
1855 founding—for the purpose of educating the sons and daughters
of
Appalachians who had had no opportunity for a college
education—Oberlin
supporters and graduates played a major role. In becoming the
college’s
fifth president, he succeeded his father, who had been president for 19
years and joined a family tradition of distinction in academe; his
brother, Robert Maynard Hutchins ’19, who died in 1977, had been
president of the University of Chicago.
Among the highlights of Hutchins’s 28-year presidency was the
re-admission of black students in 1950 following an amendment of
Kentucky’s Day Law, which prohibited black and white students
from
attending school together. He also established the bachelor of science
degree in nursing as well as degree programs in industrial arts and
business administration. During his presidency the college’s
budget and
endowment increased fivefold. He was praised for guiding the college
through troubled times; the last years of the Great Depression, World
War II, the Korean War, and the turbulent years of the sixties.
Following his retirement from Berea, in 1967, he resumed the position
of Yale-in-China representative, working for several years in Hong Kong
before returning to Berea, where he continued to be active in
development work, taught courses on China, and maintained an office in
Hutchins Library, named to honor both him and his father.
He was a charter member of the NATO U.S. Citizens Commission and a
director of the E.O. Robinson Mountain Fund, and he held a number of
honorary doctorates, including one from Oberlin. He presented the
commencement address at Oberlin’s 115th anniversary commencement
exercises.
Survivors include his wife, the former Louise Gilman; three sons; one
daughter; eight grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Portrait photograph: Francis Hutchins
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1989, p. 39.
Charles
H. Hutchison
Charles H.
“Mick”
Hutchison,
71, of North Ridgeville, brother of Clinton Hutchison and Dorothy
Justin
of Oberlin, died last Friday at Elyria Memorial Hospital after a long
illness.
He was born in Oberlin and
graduated from Oberlin High School in 1935. A World War II Navy
veteran,
he served in the South Pacific.
Mr. Hutchison retired in
1980 as a machinist repairman after 40 years with Parker Hannifin Corp.
He was a member of First
Congregational Church, North Ridgeville; Lorain County Rabbit and Cavy
Breeders; Huron County Rabbit Breeders; American Rabbit Breeders; and
Netherland
Dwarf Rabbit Club. He was a Boy Scout counselor, 4-H Club advisor, and
actively showed hackney and Shetland ponies.
He is also survived by his
wife, Florence, to whom he was married 50 years; a son, Robert V. of
North
Ridgeville; a daughter, Jean Wellert of Wakeman; a brother, Clifford of
Elyria; and eight grandchildren.
Services were Monday
afternoon
at Bogner Funeral Home, North Ridgeville, with burial in North
Ridgeville
Cemetery.
Contributions in memory
of Mr. Hutchison may be made to the Lorain County 4-H Club.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, July 13, 1989, p. 2.
Clifford
W. Hutchison
Clifford W. Hutchison, 71,
of Elyria, brother of Clinton “Tom” Hutchison and of
Dorothy Justin,
both
of Oberlin, died Jan. 14 at his home after a short illness.
He was born in Oberlin and
was a graduate of Oberlin High School. In World War II, he served with
Gen. George Patton’s Third Army and received the EAME service
medal
with
two bronze stars.
An Elyria resident since
1966, Mr. Hutchinson had worked at Deco Plastic Molds Co., Elyria, for
19 years, retiring in 1963.
He was a member of St.
Mary
Catholic church in Elyria and its Holy Name Society, and was a life
member
of both VFW Post 1079 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter No. 49. He
was a 71st Division Society member and a member of the American
Association
of Retired Persons.
Other survivors include
two sons, Clifford Jr. and Terry, both of Elyria; a daughter, Pamala
Wielopolski
of Ypsilanti, Mich.; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Ann, and by a brother, Charles.
Services were Saturday
morning
in the Reichlin-Roberts Funeral Home, Elyria, followed by Mass at St.
Mary
Church. The Rev. Charles Diedrick, associate pastor, was the celebrant.
Burial was in St. Mary Cemetery, Elyria.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the American Heart Association.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 19, 1993, p. 2.
Eletha J. Huth
Lived
with daughter
Eletha J[ane] Huth, 92, of
Wellington[, a 1923 graduate of OHS,] died Friday at her home after a
long illness.
She lived with her daughter since
1991.
Survivors include her daughter, Nora
Boardman of Wellington and a brother, John A. Prosser of Elyria.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Paul E., in 1990, and her parents, Bert and Mabel (nee Weaver)
Prosser.
Friends may call from 1 p.m. until
the time of service at 2 p.m. Monday at the Norton Funeral Home, 370 S.
Main St., Wellington.
The Rev. William Buckeye, pastor of
First United Methodist Church in Wellington, will officiate.
Interment will be at Brookside
Cemetery in Elyria.
The
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, March 22, 1997, p. C2.
Robert
P. Hyde
A Company, 526th Armored Infantry
Battalion
Robert Preston Hyde, 90, of Wooster, died Friday, December 24, 2004 at
his home from congestive heart failure. Memorial services will be
held later in the spring. Contributions may be made to Hospice &
Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County, 2525 Back Orrville Rd.,
Wooster, OH 44691. He was born in Pauri, India, to Methodist
missionaries and came to the United States when he was 17 years old. He
was a graduate [OHS in 1932 and] of Oberlin College, where he met his
wife, Rosalie (Clelland) Hyde. He was honorably discharged from the
U.S. Army in 1945, having fought in northern Europe at the Battle of
the Bulge. He was manager of Westfield Insurance Companies until
retirement and moved to Wooster in 1968. He was a member of Westminster
Presbyterian Church. Surviving are his wife and children, Sandy of
Northfield, VT; Carole of Menlo Park, CA; and Marilyn of Alexandria, VA.
526th Armored Infantry Battalion web site
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