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Dwayne
‘Marty’ Wahl
Dwayne “Marty”
Wahl, 23,
of Elyria, former Oberlin resident, died Sept. 8 at Cleveland
Metro-Health
Medical Center as the result of injuries sustained in a one-car
accident
on West Ridge Road.
He was born and lived most
of his life in Oberlin, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1987.
An Army Reservist, he was
called to active duty during Operation Desert Storm, serving as a truck
driver from January to May.
He recently started his
own painting business, Wahl To Wahl Painting. He formerly worked for
Oberlin
IGA.
Survivors include his
mother,
Shari L. Quattlebaum of Houston, Texas; sisters, Jeanne and Carla
Quattlebaum,
both of Houston; grandmother, Jeanne Wahl of Oberlin; and aunts,
Beverly
Hatter of Oberlin and Mary Jane Robinson of Rhode Island.
Services were Sept. 13 at
Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Fred Steen officiating. Burial was
in
Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 17, 1991, p. 2.
William
O. Wahl
William Otis Wahl, 63, of
225 South Pleasant died on June 3 in Allen Hospital after a heart
attack
at his home.
Born in Oberlin in 1917,
he had lived here his entire life[, graduating from Oberlin High School
in 1938]. He retired in March from Smith and Jones Corp., Elyria, where
he had worked as an assembler. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy in
World
War II and was a golfer.
He is survived by his wife
Annabelle (nee Scott); three daughters, Mrs. Mary Jane Machnauer and
Mrs.
Sherrie Wahl, Oberlin, and Mrs. Deborah Craighead Mayes of Seattle;
four
brothers, Steven of Oberlin, and James, John (Jack) and Sandy, all of
California;
three sisters, Mrs. Marion Nuby, Sandusky, and Mrs. Margaret Campbell
and
Mrs. Barbara Cannon of Oberlin; and five grandchildren.
Services were Saturday
morning
in the Cowling Funeral Home with Rev. James Roberson officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 11, 1981, p. 2.
Mrs. R. [Reva H.] Wainwright
Mrs. Reva H. Wainwright,
74, wife of the late Lauren F. Wainwright, died at Shangri-La Nursing
Home,
Valley City, at 12:20 a.m. yesterday.
She formerly lived at 240
W. North St., Medina. She was born in Kipton, June 21, 1896 [and was a
1913 graduate of OHS].
Mrs. Wainwright lived in
Medina about 45 years. She was a member of Mallet Creek Methodist
Church.
She is survived by one
daughter,
Mrs. Jay (Helen) Cobb of Hamilton, three grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a son Robert. Funeral services will be
1:30
p.m. Tuesday from the Waite and Son Memorial Home, 765 N. Court St.,
Medina.
The Rev. David Freeman will officiate. Burial will be in Camden
Cemetery,
Kipton. It has been suggested memorial contributions be made to the
American
Cancer Society. There will be no visitation.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Sunday, November 29, 1970, p. F-2.
Elma Wait, 91, enjoyed bowling
Oberlin -- Elma Lorena
Wait,
91, of Oberlin, died Sunday, Dec. 3, 2000, at Welcome Nursing Home,
Oberlin,
following a lengthy illness.
She was born April 16,
1909,
in Pittsfield Township[, graduated from Oberlin High School in 1927,]
and
lived in Oberlin all her life.
She enjoyed bowling.
Survivors include her son,
Joseph Wait of Vancouver, Wash.; brother, William of Canton; sister,
Mary
Bungard of Canton; and eight grandchildren and four
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Davidson; parents,
Arllis
and Savilla (nee Scott) Bungard; and son, Charles Wait Jr.
Friends may call Wednesday
noon until time of services at 1 p.m. at Cowling Funeral Home, 228 S.
Main
St., Oberlin. Burial will be in Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield
Township.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Monday, December 04, 2000.
Thomas F. Wait, 71, of
Elyria, died at his
home today after a long illness.
He was born in Pittsfield
[and graduated from OHS in 1934] but was a 30-year Elyria resident.
He was a former farmer in
Penfield [and] had been employed by Bendix for 30 years until his
retirement
in 1977.
He was a member of UAW
Local
978 and the Elyria Eagles.
Surviving are his wife,
Treva M. (Brown), to whom he was married 35 years; two sons, Lewis R.
Worcester
of Sebastian, Fla., and Anthony C. Vandersommen of Elyria; four
grandchildren;
a great-granddaughter; two sisters, Mrs. Clarence (Ethel) Wilford of
Elyria,
and Anna May Jones of Greenwich.
He was preceded in death
by three brothers.
Visitation will be Sunday
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.; at Dicken Funeral Home, Elyria, where services
will
be Monday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. G. Mae Booth officiating.
Burial will be at East
Pittsfield
Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Friday, November 7, 1986, p. C-2.
Florence
Florence T. Waite died Nov. 26
[27?], 1980, in
In 1922, she returned to the
Miss Waite was born in
She leaves two nieces, a nephew and a
grandniece, Rogely
Boyce ’73.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Former Oberlin Boy Died In Cleveland
George S. Waite Died
April 28—Spent Many Years in the Automobile Business
George W. Waite, a former
Oberlin resident and student, died at Cleveland April 28.
Mr. Waite was born at
Leicester,
Mass., January 12, 1866, and was a son of Professor George W. Waite,
who
was superintendent of the Oberlin schools for many years. [He was an
1883
graduate of OHS.]
About 1890 Mr. Waite
became
associated with The White Sewing Machine Company of Cleveland and for
approximately
ten years was in charge of the retail sales department of that company.
The White Company was one of the earliest in the automobile field and
for
a number of years Mr. Waite was sales manager in the automobile
department
of The White Company. Later on he was with the Packard Company as a
salesman,
and about 1913 he, with David A. Shaw, George Salzman and others,
organized
The Grant Motor Car Company, which for several years had its factory at
Findlay. In 1916 The Grant Company moved its plant to Cleveland, where
it continued in business until about 1921. Mr. Waite was sales manager
of that company during its existence and was recognized as a leader in
the department of automobile sales.
For several years past Mr.
Waite has been in failing health and practically retired from business.
He had a very genial personality and his friends were almost
innumerable.
Mr. Waite’s first
wife was
Miss Sherwood, daughter of the late Dr. Sherwood of Elyria. She died
something
over thirty years ago, leaving two children, who survive Mr. Waite,
namely:
Sherwood Waite and Mrs. George Whaley, both of whom live in or near
Cleveland.
Mr. Waite subsequently
married
again and his widow, Mrs. May L. Waite, resides in Cleveland.
The Oberlin
News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 5, 1930, p. 8.
Janice Anne Waite
Janice Anne Waite (nee Scott)
passed away peacefully from the arms of her loving family on Thursday,
June 18, 2009, at her home in Dover, Del., following a short and
courageous battle with cancer. She was 79.
Jan was born in Oberlin, daughter of Janie (nee Burgess) and Alvin
Scott, Sr. on April 27, 1930. She was a [1948] graduate of Oberlin High
School.
After graduation she attended New York University School of Nursing,
where she met and married Calvin L. Waite. They made their home in
Seattle, Wash., immediately following their marriage, and subsequently
moved to Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Washington, D.C., Westport, Conn., and
Tampa, Fla., following his career.
Upon his retirement they moved to Oberlin, where they lived until last
summer, when they moved to Dover, Del.
She was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, where she had been a
member as a child and where she was married. She served on the board of
directors of Kendal at Oberlin, and was also involved in a variety of
charities.
After years as a homemaker, Jan joined Monogram Insurance of Stamford,
Conn., where she retired as a vice president. Returning to her
childhood home of Oberlin, where her family lives, brought her great
joy.
She enjoyed playing bridge with friends and in tournaments, where she
and her sister, Beverly, were a formidable pair. Jan was an avid
reader, enjoyed sewing, and most of all enjoyed spending time with her
family.
Jan is survived by her beloved husband of 57 years, Calvin; her
children Deborah, Scott (Margaret), and Cally; grandchildren
Antoinette, Chase, Jehu, and Todd; siblings Donald Scott (Ginger),
Beverly Hurst (Charles), William Scott, Patricia Knight, Robin
Dorand-Rudolf (Walter), Charles (Josie), Everett (Joan), and Rosilyn
Sunahara. She was preceded in death by her parents; brother Alvin Scott
and his wife, Priscilla; and daughter-in-law, Anita Ann Waite.
Friends may visit on Thursday, June 25, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church,
from 10 am. until the time of services at 11 a.m., the Rev. Anthoni
McElrath, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Westwood Cemetery.
Cowling Funeral Home is handling local arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tues., June 23, 2009, p. 3.
Willard
W. Waite
Wellington -- Willard W.
Waite, 77, of Wellington, died Friday, Feb. 7, at Allen Medical Center,
Oberlin.
He was born Aug. 15, 1915
in Worthington. He was a [1931 graduate of OHS and a] resident of the
Wellington
area for many years.
He served in the U.S. Army
as chief warrant officer during World War II.
He owned and operated the
Waite Radio & Electric Co., Wellington, for many years and was
employed
by the Lorain Products Co. for many years.
He was an amateur radio
operator since 1932. He was a past chairman of the Ohio Council of
Amateur
Radio Clubs. He was a member of the Wellington Masonic Lodge 127 for 50
years. He was also a member of the Wellington American Legion and
served
as president and secretary of the Wellington Kiwanis. He was a past
secretary
of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce and also served as secretary of
the
Wellington Hospital Board for more than 20 years. He served on many
boards
as a member of the Pittsfield United Church of Christ.
He is survived by his
wife,
Mary (nee Rauthenbusch) Waite; daughters Rita Youngless of Wellington,
Christine Park of Wellington and Arlene Waite of Lorain; son, Michael
Waite
of LaGrange; brother, Raymond Waite of Wellington; and five
grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his daughter,
Connie Waite; sons Joseph, John and Kenneth Waite; and parents George
and
May (nee Hines) Waite.
Friends may call Sunday
6 to 8 p.m. at Norton Funeral Home, 370 S. Main St., Wellington, where
Masonic services will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. Services will be Monday
at 11 a.m. at Pittsfield United Church of Christ, 17026 Rt. 58,
Wellington.
The Rev. Kenneth Gerhardt will officiate. Burial will be in South
Pittsfield
Cemetery.
Memorial donations may be
made to the Pittsfield United Church of Christ, 17026 Rt. 58,
Wellington
44090.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Sunday, 9 February 2003.
Mary Walchko
Mary (nee Mahilo)
Walchko, 86, of Lorain, died Thursday, November 15, 2007 at the Amherst
Manor Nursing Home.
Mrs. Walchko was born in Elyria on June 24, 1921 and [graduated from
OHS in 1940. She] had been a resident of Lorain for most of her life.
Survivors include her husband, Michael; daughters, Janice
Walchko-Dominguez residing in Sherman Oaks, California and Karen Thomas
and Patsy Maderitz both of Lorain; and grandchildren, Derek Thomas,
Jennifer Thomas, Michael Maderitz, and T.J. Maderitz.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, John and Katherine (nee
Dudash) Mahilo; brothers, Alex, John, Harry, William, and Joseph; and
by her sister, Anna Mauer.
Visitation will be Monday from 4 to 8 P.M. in the Gluvna-Shimo-Hromada
Funeral Chapel, 3224 Broadway Avenue, Lorain, where a Parastas service
will be conducted at 4 P.M.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, beginning with a Panachida service at
9:30 A.M. in the funeral chapel and will be followed by the conduction
of the Divine Liturgy at 10 A.M. in Saint Nicholas Byzantine Rite
Catholic Church, 2711 West 40th Street, Lorain. The Reverend Nicholas
Rachford, Pastor of Saint Nicholas Parish will preside. Entombment will
follow in the Resurrection Mausoleum at Calvary Cemetery, Lorain.
The family suggests memorial contributions to either Saint Nicholas
Byzantine Rite Catholic Church, 2711 West 40th Street, Lorain, OH 44053
or to New Life Hospice, 3700 Kolbe Road, Lorain, OH 44053. To leave
on-line condolences for the family please visit www.gluvna.net.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, November 18, 2007.
Last Rites Held on Tuesday For Gladys
Waldecker,
66
Funeral services for
Gladys
Martin Waldecker, 66, wife of Nicholas Waldecker, were held Tuesday
morning
at Sacred Heart Church. Burial was in St. Mary Cemetery, Elyria.
Mrs. Waldecker died
Saturday
at 11:10 p. m. at Elyria Memorial Hospital after an illness of two
months.
Born in Grand Rapids,
Mich.
July 8, 1892, she came to Oberlin at an early age. After graduation
from
Oberlin High School [in 1910], she attended the Conservatory of Music
here.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Church.
The family home is at 43
Groveland.
Besides her husband Mrs.
Waldecker is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mary Youbell, Arlington, Va.;
a sister, Mrs. Raymond Dyke, Oberlin; a brother, Justin Martin, Elyria;
and three grandchildren.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, May 14, 1959, p. 2A.
Alvah Walker dies at 66; heart attack
Alvah Evan Walker, 66, was
dead on arrival at Allen Hospital last Friday, after suffering an
apparent
heart attack at his home, 38 Morgan.
Born in Oberlin on Nov.
14, 1910, he had lived here all his life. For over 30 years, he owned
and
operated the Oberlin Hardware Store, selling it in 1959. He later
worked
as a supervisor in the Oberlin College Buildings and Grounds
department,
retiring on July 1, 1976. He was a member of First Church and Oberlin
Masonic
Lodge 38 F and AM.
He is survived by his
wife,
Betty, a teacher at Firelands School; two daughters, Mrs. Brenda
Richards,
Lorain and John (Mrs. Robert) MacKellar, Jacksonville, Fla.; and one
grandchild.
Services were Tuesday
afternoon
at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. John Elder officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, April 14, 1977, p. 2.
Charles
E. Walker is
victim of crash
Charles E. Walker of
Lorain,
an Oberlin resident for most of his life, died Monday at Lorain
Community
Hospital of complications from injuries he suffered in a motorcycle
accident
over Labor Day weekend. He was 26.
Walker was injured Sept.
2 while riding his motorcycle north on Rt. 60 in Florence Twp. about a
mile south of Rt 113. He failed to negotiate a curve, and was thrown
from
his Honda after it slid off the road and into a guardrail.
He was born in Oberlin and
was a 1977 graduate of Oberlin High School, where he participated in
wrestling
and football. He was a member of the True Light Army Church and was
employed
as a machinist with Grove Industries in Elyria.
Surviving are his wife,
Margarita; sons Charles Jr. and Justin and daughter Kiesha; his
parents,
Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Walker of Oberlin; his grandmother, Mrs. Mamie
McKinney
of Oberlin; his great-grandmother, Mrs. Idella Yates of Girard;
brothers
Richard of Baltimore, Duane of Elyria, Christopher and Sean of Oberlin,
and sisters Barbara Ann and Angela of Oberlin.
His father officiated at
the funeral, which was held yesterday at Cowling Funeral Home. Burial
was
in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 13, 1984, p. 5.
Gerald Albert Walker
Gerald Albert Walker
of Phoenix, Ariz., son of Hazel Walker of Oberlin, died suddenly,
Monday, May 17, 2004, at his mother’s home while visiting his
mother.
Born Nov. 28, 1941, in Oberlin, he [graduated from OHS in 1960 and]
served in the U.S. Air Force from 1960 to 1968, during the Vietnam War.
He owned and operated a floor covering store in Prescott, Ariz.
Mr. Walker is survived by his sons Gerald A. Walker Jr. of Pinetop,
Ariz., and Fred Walker of Queen Creek, Ariz.; daughters Lorna Nevitt
and Shelly Crewse, both of Queen Creek, Ariz.; his companion, Mary Ann
Shiro of Phoenix; brother, Thomas M. Walker of North Canton; 20
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; mother Hazel Walker (nee
Martin) of Oberlin; brother, Thomas M. Walker of North Canton; and
companion, Mary Ann Shiro of Phoenix. He was preceded in death by his
father, Fred H. Walker.
A private family burial will be held at a later date. Cowling Funeral
Home handled local arrangements.
Oberlin-New Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, May 25, 2004, p. 2.
John
Joseph Walker, 65, truck driver
Oberlin -- John Joseph
Walker,
65, of Oberlin, died suddenly Monday, Sept. 11, 2000, at the emergency
room of EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria.
He was born Nov. 23, 1934,
in Girard and had lived in Oberlin since 1946.
He graduated from Oberlin
High in 1954.
He was a U.S. Army veteran.
Walker was self-employed
as truck driver for many years. He also enjoyed farming.
He was a lifelong member
of the Almighty Church, Oberlin, where he served as bishop. He enjoyed
sports, including high school and college, and bowling.
Survivors include his
wife,
Lee Esther (nee McKinney); sons Carl J. Walker of Cincinnati, John S.
Walker
of Crossville, Tenn., and Michael S. Walker of Lorain; daughters
Annette
M. Walker and Carlene J. Burnett, both of Oberlin, Yvette G. Williams
of
Elyria and Valerie D. Payne of Atlanta; brother, the Rev. Love D.
Walker
of Elyria; sister, Nellie B. Caver of Elyria; and 16 grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents,
Lorenzo
and Pincy Mae (nee Tarver) Walker Sr.; and brother, Lorenzo Jr.
Friends may call Thursday
6 to 9 p.m. at Cowling Funeral Home, 228 S. Main St., Oberlin. Burial
will
be in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin. Service arrangements are incomplete.
The Rev. Love D. Walker, pastor of Almighty Church, will officiate at
the
services.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 12, 2000
Lorenzo Walker Jr.
Lorenzo Walker Jr. was so
busy that he seldom had a whole day to spend at his home, 125 Grafton.
Saturday he just took the time—worked on a remodeling project,
watched
the Ohio State game and decided because it was such a beautiful day
that
he would barbecue supper outdoors.
“He spent the whole
day
doing just what he wanted to do,” said his sister, Nellie Cavers.
Shortly after 10
o’clock
Saturday night, he went to the kitchen for some cider and collapsed of
a heart attack. He died with his wife Linelle at his side. He was 41
years
old.
Mr. Walker, a
superintendent
with Griffith Blacktop, was chairman of the Oberlin Planning Commission
and co-chairman, with Nora Draves, of the Oberlin High School Booster
Club.
He was one of the originators of the plan for the new OHS football
field
which opened this fall.
He was a member of the
Almighty
Church (True Light Army), which owns Beulah Farm on Hamilton St., and
was
serving as the church’s president; and was a member also of the
loan
board
of the Farmers Home Administration in Medina.
Born on Aug. 4, 1933 in
Girard, he came here as a teenager when the Almighty Church bought
Beulah
Farm in 1946 and his father, Lorenzo Walker Sr. of 185 Quarry Rd., was
called as its minister. He was graduated from Oberlin High in 1953.
In addition to his wife
and his parents, Mr. Walker is survived by five children, all at home;
Anthony, 19, now at Lorain County Community College; Rose, 18, senior
at
OHS; Wayne, 16, sophomore at OHS; Russell, 13, an eighth grader; and
Michelle,
11, a student at Pleasant School. He is survived also by two brothers,
Joseph, 185 Quarry Rd., and Robert 14237 Quarry Rd. Mrs. Cavers lives
at
236 Sumner.
Funeral services were held
yesterday at Rust Church with Rev. Samuel Jones of the True Light Army,
Girard, officiating, and Dr. Sumpter Riley of Rust Church assisting.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
The family suggested that
memorial contributions be made to the OHS Booster Club stadium fund.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, November 14, 1974, p. 3.
Mabel Cordelia (Holloway)
Mabel Cordelia Holloway was
born in
She attended elementary school in
At
After graduating from university and marrying, Mrs. Walker
worked at a YWCA in
Later, Mrs. Walker became a teacher with the Board of
Education. She taught at Southern Preparatory School, Western Senior
and
Mrs. Walker was the founder of The Bahamas Union of
Teachers. She worked hard for the recognition of the
Mrs. Walker was also an artist. She painted Bahamian scenes
on neckties, scarves and skirts, which she sold. She also painted the
insignia
on the aprons for the Masonic lodges. She was always supportive of her
husband
in his various projects. She assisted in selling The Voice, a small
newspaper
which he edited.
Mrs. Walker lived by principles, "I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me". She always believed in the
potential
of people, and so encouraged people to achieve their goals. She would
say,
"nothing is impossible" and, "there is nothing called, ‘I
can't’".
Even in her later life, she was always encouraging and helping people.
She
believed in the dignity of work. Her hobbies were reading and gardening.
After retirement, she was in charge of
She was noted for her contribution to The Bahamas when a
primary school, the
Mrs. Walker, the mother of 7 children, died at the age of 85
on
Personalities in Bahamian Education,
http://www.bahamasnationalarchives.bs/Bahamian_Educators/Bahamian_Educators_Walker_Mabel.htm
Michael James Walker
Michael James Walker, 21,
of Oberlin, was pronounced dead last Friday at Elyria Memorial Hospital
following a one-vehicle accident.
Born in Elyria, he lived
most of his life in Oberlin. He graduated from Oberlin High School in
1989.
He worked for Maintenance
Systems, Elyria.
He enjoyed weight-lifting.
Survivors include his
wife,
Mary Lou; a daughter, Carissa Lauren, at home; his parents, Larry and
Judith
Walker of Oberlin; and a grandfather, Harlan Walker of Clendenin, W.Va.
Memorial services were
Monday
morning at the Cowling Funeral Home.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, December 10, 1991, p. 2.
Roland
Walker, 86
Troy -- A memorial service
will be held Thursday for Roland Walker, 86, of Center View Drive, who
died Friday in Samaritan Hospital after a brief illness.
Mr. Walker was born in
Stellenbosch,
South Africa. He came to this country in 1918. He graduated from
[Oberlin
High School in 1924 and] Oberlin College in Ohio with a bachelor's of
arts
degree in 1928 and a master's in biology in 1929. He received a
doctorate
in zoology in 1934 from Yale University.
He was a professor of
biology
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1934 until his retirement in
1972,
when he became professor emeritus. Mr. Walker had researched and
authored
many articles in his field. He was a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Society of
Sigma Xi, and a member of the Rensselaer County Historical Society for
more than 30 years. He was a World War II Army Air Corps veteran.
He was the widower of
Vivian
V. Trombetta Walker. Survivors include a son, David Walker of Piermont,
Rockland County; a daughter, Helen Walker of Cambridge, Mass.; and
three
grandchildren. The service will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Christ,
Sun of Justice Chapel and Cultural Center, Peoples and Burdett avenues.
There are no calling hours.
Contributions may be made
to the Roland Walker Prize Fund, in care of Department of Biology, RPI,
Troy, NY 12180. Arrangements are by the Morris-Stebbins-Miner and
Sanvidge
Funeral Home, 3412 Hoosick St., Troy.
The Times Union, Albany,
New York, Tuesday, August 3, 1993, p. B11.
Former Resident To Be Buried Saturday
Mrs. John Wall Died in
Denver
Saturday—Had Spent Most of Her Life Here
Mrs. John Wall, former
Oberlin
woman, died in Denver, Colo., Saturday, aged 74 years. She had been for
several years in Denver with her father and two years ago paid a visit
to Oberlin.
Mrs. Wall had been a
resident
here most of her life, coming with her parents when she was about 4
years
of age. She was born January 22, 1860, [and graduated from OHS in
1878].
On February 6, 1879, she was married to John Wall, whose death occurred
in 1912. Four [six] children were born to them, John and Lewis of this
place, Albert and George of Detroit, Mrs. Barbara Atkins of Cleveland
and
Mrs. George Brown of Denver. The latter is accompanying the remains
here.
She was a sister of George
Shanks, who died here a few years ago, and her father William Shanks
was
a former well known resident. He is a veteran of the Civil War and is
now
99 years of age.
Among the older residents
Mrs. Wall was well and favorably known. She was a member of the First
Church
in Oberlin.
The remains will arrive
today from the west and funeral services held at Sedgeman’s
funeral
parlors
Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, the Rev. J. A. Richards
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood cemetery.
The Oberlin
News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, April 13, 1934, p. 1.
Christine Wallace
Oberlin -- Christine Wallace, 52, went home to be with the Lord on July
27, 2008, following a long illness.
She was born Feb. 14, 1956, in Cleveland, and had lived in Elyria and
Oberlin for many years.
Christine Wallace was a graduate of Oberlin High School [in 1974] and
[of] Lorain Community College majoring in business education.
She was employed as a teacher for the Oberlin early childhood center
for the past 29 years, retiring in 2006.
Christine Wallace was a life-long member of the Almighty Church of
Oberlin, where she was under the spiritual leadership of Mother Wilson
and was a Sunday school teacher. Mrs. Wallace enjoyed watching T.V.,
especially the Sci-Fi channel.
Christine Wallace will be sadly missed by her two sons, Joshua and
Elijah Wallace, both of Elyria; sister, Regina (Willie) Lucas of
Oberlin; brother, Essex Burton of Durham N.C; and a host of nieces,
nephews and other relatives.
Ms. Wallace was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and Ezzie
Wallace and sisters Marjorie Mealings, Gloria Wallace and Dorothy
Wallace.
Friends may call Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, at 10 a.m. until time of
service at 11 a.m. in the Carter Funeral Home Chapel, 127 West Bridge
St., Elyria. The Rev. Michael Martin, pastor of the Almighty Church of
Oberlin, will officiate. Burial in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Thursday, July 31, 2008.
Dorothy Wallace
Dorothy Wallace of Oberlin died unexpectedly Saturday, May 27, 2006 at
Allen Medical Center in Oberlin. She was 51.
Born Nov. 7, 1954 in Cleveland, she moved to Oberlin at a young age.
She attended Oberlin schools[, graduated from OHS in 1974,] and earned
her associate’s degree in applied business and medical
administration
from Ohio Business college.
She worked as an STNA in nursing care centers in the Greater Cleveland
area for more than two decades.
She was a life member of the Almighty Church in Oberlin. Dorothy was a
music enthusiast and a skilled musician being proficient with the
violin.
She enjoyed botanical gardening.
Mrs. Wallace is survived by her son, Jamie Wallace; sisters Christine
and Regina Wallace; a brother, Essex Burton; aunts Janie Wallace and
Minnie Walker; uncle, Aaron Wallace; and a host of other relatives and
many friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Edward and
Ezzie (nee Anderson) Wallace; and sisters Marge Anderson and Gloria
Wallace.
Services were Saturday, June 3, at Wyers Funeral Chapel in Elyria,
Bishop Michael Martin of the Almighty Church officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 6, 2006, p. 2.
Donald L. Walton
Funeral services for
Donald
L. Walton, 18, of 12043 Pyle Rd., who died last Thursday at 5:35 p.m.
at
Elyria Memorial Hospital, were held Monday afternoon at the Cowling
Funeral
Home. Rev. Donald Yaussy officiated and burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Young Walton died of
injuries
including extensive brain damage, sustained in a bicycle-car accident
on
July 23 near his home. A [1976] graduate of Oberlin High School, he had
lived in this area all his life. He was born in Amherst July 1, 1958.
He
was employed at Harbortown Marine Service, Vermilion.
Donald was a member of
Sundance
Kids 4-H Club, Oberlin 4-H Club and 20th Century Farmers.
He is survived by his
mother
and stepfather, Alice and Donald Robertson, with whom he lived; his
father
and stepmother, Donald and Carol Walton of Birmingham; two sisters,
Tracy,
at home, and Amy of Birmingham; two brothers, Timothy and Michael, both
at home; and grandmothers Mrs. Alice Milan of Wakeman and Mrs. Marion
Walton
of Birmingham.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 28, 1976, p. 18.
H. Stanley Wangerien
H. Stanley Wangerien, 66, of 624 Ambassador Ave., Eustis, Fla., died
yesterday morning at the Waterman Memorial Hospital, Eustis.
Cause of death was not immediately known.
Born in Oberlin [and a 1925 graduate of OHS], Mr. Wangerien had made
Eustis his winter home for 27 years. A retired farmer, he was a member
of the Oberlin United Methodist Church.
Surviving is his wife, Mae E. [nee Abel], to whom he had been married
43 years.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the
Zeller, Kennedy and Hamlin Funeral Home, Eustis, Fla., with the Rev.
John M. Brackman officiating.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Eustis.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Thurs., May 16, 1974, p. D-2.
Paula C. Wanosky
North Ridgeville — Paula C. [Cain] Wanosky (nee Gorske), age 64,
of North Ridgeville, passed away suddenly Monday, January 19, 2009, at
her home.
Born in Oberlin [and a 1962 graduate of OHS], she was a resident of
North Ridgeville for the past 36 years, moving from Fairview Park.
Mrs. Wanosky worked as a science teacher for North Ridgeville High
School for 12 years, retiring in 2006. She previously taught at North
Olmsted High School and Firelands High School.
She was a volunteer and director of Friendship APL in Elyria for the
past two years and was also active with the North Ridgeville Band
Boosters.
Survivors include her husband of 38 years, Gary; sons Alan (Ashley)
Wanosky of Parkersburg, West Virginia and Bryan Wanosky of Elyria;
daughters Karen (Jeff) Mash and Lauren Wanosky, both of North
Ridgeville; grandchildren Dustin, Chelsea, Gillian and Juliet; sisters
Pamela (Keith) DeLong of Oberlin and Patricia (Joe) Price of Vermilion.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Doris Gorske.
Friends may call Thursday, January 22, 2009, from 3 p.m. until the time
of memorial service at 5 p.m. at the David Bogner Family Funeral Home,
36625 Center Ridge Road, North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039. Rev. Brian
Wilbert, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Oberlin, will officiate.
Private burial will be in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
Memorial contributions may be made to Friendship APL, 8303 Murray Ridge
Road, Elyria, OH 44035.
For more information or to send an online condolence, please visit
www.davidbognerfamilyfuneralhome.com.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Wednesday, January 21, 2009.
Dr. F. Champion Ward
Dr. F. Champion Ward, 96, past dean of the College at the University of
Chicago, Ford Foundation vice president and chancellor of the New
School for Social Research, died at his home in North Branford on July
2, 2007. Ward's career spanned the postwar course of American and
international education, beginning with his tenure as the dean of the
innovative College of the University of Chicago in 1947; his years
advising the governments of the newly independent nations of Asia,
Africa and the Middle East; his work as the Ford Foundation's vice
president for education and research; and his term as chancellor of the
New School for Social Research.
Ward was born on Dec. 30, 1910 in New Brunswick, N.J., and spent his
boyhood and college years in Oberlin, Ohio, where his father, Clarence,
was head of the college's art department. After acquiring a master's
degree in philosophy in 1936, Ward earned his doctorate at Yale
University and received a Sterling Fellowship.
From 1937 to 1945 he taught philosophy and psychology at Denison
University, and as associate dean trained military officers for the
army's de-Nazification efforts in Europe.
After the war, Ward began a lifelong association with the University of
Chicago by joining the faculty of the nascent Hutchins College. Within
two years he was appointed dean of the College. For seven years, he and
Chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, whose Yale lectures six years
earlier had fired Ward's commitment to reforming American higher
education, fought side-by-side in the battle between their new
interdisciplinary college with its core humanities curriculum and the
university's departmental faculties. The principles and practices that
have evolved from those years of innovation and backlash wrought
changes in American higher education that continue to this day.
After Hutchins' departure, Ward took a leave from Chicago to join the
Ford Foundation and serve as educational consultant to the government
of India. From 1954 to 1959, during which Chicago made him William
Rainey Harper Professor of the Humanities, Ward lived in New Delhi,
India with his family.
At a time of Red Baiting back home and Cold War clumsiness abroad, he
earned Indian educators' trust and respect by refusing to take any
action until he had spent a year immersing himself in the country's
culture and history. A gentle critic of the precipitousness with which
American philanthropies behaved in developing countries, he was soon
enlisted to advise the governments of Burma, Turkey and Jordan as well.
Upon his return to the United States in 1959, Ward began a four-year
stint as director of the Ford Foundation's Overseas Development Program
for the Middle East and Africa, through which he traveled extensively.
In 1963, he was appointed deputy vice president for international
programs, and three years later became vice president for education and
research. During the next five years he also served as chairman of the
White House Task Force on the Education of Gifted Persons, and as a
member of UNESCO's International Commission on the Development of
Education. From 1959 to 1978 Ward also served as a trustee of his alma
mater, Oberlin College.
After his retirement from the Ford Foundation in 1977, Ward served as a
consultant at the World Bank, UA-Columbia Cable Television, the
Association of American Universities and the Connecticut Board of
Higher Education; as well as the Ford, Hazen, Edna McConnell Clark and
Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation.
From 1978 to 1981 he guided the MacArthur Foundation's development of
its "Genius" grants. He also served on the Greenwich Board of
Education, where he successfully fought to retain the town's
neighborhood schools.
In 1980, Ward was appointed chancellor of the New School for Social
Research and acting dean of its graduate faculty, for which he worked
to help restore to its founding, interdisciplinary principles.
A member of the editorial board of the Journal of General Education,
editor of The Idea and Practice of General Education and contributor to
Humanistic Education and Western Civilization and The Knowledge Most
Worth Having, he was the author of numerous articles and reviews.
Ward is survived by his wife, Duira Baldinger Ward; his children,
Geoffrey, Andrew and Helen; seven grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.
Greenwich Citizen,
Greenwich, Conn., Friday, July 20, 2007.
Helen Ward, Fern Whitmer
Killed in
Airliner’s
Crash
Two Young Women on Way
for Holiday Visits with Parents Here
Included in the toll of
177 dead in last week’s tragic holiday airline crashes were two
young
women
enroute here for holiday visits with their parents in Oberlin and
Kipton.
Both were victims of the LaGuardia Field crack-up of the United
Airlines
DC-4 last Thursday evening.
Miss Helen Ward, daughter
of Prof. and Mrs. Clarence Ward, 335 E. College St., and Miss Fern
Whitmer,
daughter of Mrs. Vern Burden of Kipton died in the United Airlines
crash,
said to have resulted from a sudden cross-wind that hit the DC-4 just
as
it was about to take off the LaGuardia Field runway.
Memorial services, with
Dean Thomas Graham of the Graduate School of Theology officiating were
held Sunday for Miss Ward at the East Oberlin Church, where her father
is pastor. Funeral services for Miss Whitmer were Tuesday in Cleveland.
On Museum Staff
Miss Ward was born Sept.
8, 1909, in Portland, Me. A graduate of Oberlin High School in 1928 and
of Oberlin College in 1932, she later attended the Yale School of Drama
in 1933 and 1934. She had traveled extensively and had acted in summer
theaters in northern Michigan. She was formerly on the staff of the
Costume
Art Museum in New York City and when that collection was given to the
Metropolitan
Museum, she became assistant director of the Museum of Modern Art in
New
York.
Airline Hostess
Fern Whitmer, who lives
in Queens, N. Y., was an American Airlines hostess, enroute here with
her
fiancé, Charles J. Shannon, Elmhurst, Long Island, to visit here
mother, and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Burden, former operators of
Vern’s Tavern, Kipton, and now owners of a store there. Miss
Whitmer,
who
was taking her fiancé home to meet her parents, died in the
crash.
Her fiancé was taken to Queens Hospital, where he died Sunday.
Miss Whitmer was a
graduate
of City Hospital in Cleveland. She had been an airline hostess for
about
a year.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 5, 1947, p. 1.
Mrs. Irene D. Ward
Mrs. Irene D. Ward [nee Drake], 66, a former resident of Oberlin, died
at her home in New York City Friday.
Born in Sullivan, she attended high school in Oberlin [graduating from
OHS in 1927], later moved to Albuquerque and, finally, to New York City.
Survivors include one daughter, Alleyan Ward Miller of New York City;
three granddaughters and one sister, Mrs. Ed (Christina) Puscas of
Zanesville.
The body was cremated. Graveside services will be held at a later date
with burial in Sullivan.
The family requests memorials be sent to the American Cancer Society.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, October 28, 1974, p. 10.
Agnes Noble Warden
Mrs. Ernest Nathan
Warden (Agnes Lenora Noble), Oberlin’s
oldest living graduate, died on
Mrs. Warden was born in
Mrs. Warden lived most of her adult
life in Napoleon,
Mrs. Warden had served on the Public
School Board in
Several of Mrs. Warden’s
relatives
have attended
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, October
1958, p. 29.
Personals [Ernest Nathan Warden]
Miss Faye Warden while a guest at the home of her aunt, Mrs. A. E.
Hubbard, on her way to London, England, was recalled to Napoleon, Ohio,
by the sudden death of her father, E. N. [Ernest Nathan] Warden, last
night. Mr. Warden [an 1876 graduate of OHS] was well known, having been
judge of the Court of Appeals from his district, and Mrs. Warden was
Agnes Noble [OHS ‘76], of LaGrange.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Tuesday, November 22, 1927, p. 6.
Rev. Eugene Lyman Warner
Rev. Eugene Lyman Warner, of Decatur, Ala., a retired Episcopal priest,
husband of Marian Louise Warner, father of Fred Howell Warner of
Midlothian [died August 7, 1993. He was a 1935 graduate of OHS].
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond,
Va., Tuesday, August 10, 1993, p. B-2.
Ralph Emerson Warner
Ralph E. Warner, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at the
University of Colorado, died April 30 in Denver, at the age of 50.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on June 8, 1906, to John H. Warner, A.M.,
’16, and Estelle Bookman Warner, x’07, Ralph [graduated
from OHS in
1925,] received his A.B. from Oberlin College in 1929 and his A.M. the
following year. He was awarded the Ph.D. degree from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1935, where in addition to his graduate
studies he had been a teaching assistant in Spanish and Portuguese.
That same year he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado,
Boulder, as an instructor and at the time of his death was a full
professor of Romance Languages and Literatures.
He is well-known for his many scholarly publications which include
bibliographies, articles, and book reviews. He was a member of the
Modern Language Association of America, the American Association of
Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, and Phi Sigma Iota. An enthusiastic
philatelist, his articles on Brazilian and Mexican issues and U.S.
Envelopes have been widely read. Ralph was an honorary member of
Sociedade Philatelica Paulista.
Survivors include his wife, Dianne Austin Warner; a son, Lawrence; his
parents; three sisters, Mrs. Mary R. Warner Jenkins, ’36 [OHS
‘32],
Mrs. Estelle Warner Siddall, ’36 [OHS ‘30], and Mrs.
Elsbeth Warner
Dolden, ’34 [OHS ‘30]; and three brothers, Eugene Warner
[OHS ‘35],
John H. Warner, Jr., ’31, and Paul Warner, ’32.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, December 1957, p. 31.
Mrs. Evelyn Warren
Mrs. Evelyn Warren, 65,
was found dead in her apartment at 29 ½ W. College last Thursday
afternoon. She has been ill for a short time.
Mrs. Warren, a former Town
Shop employee, was born May 10, 1905, [was a 1925 graduate of OHS,] and
lived in the area all her life.
Her husband, Raymond, died
in 1957. Mrs. Warren is survived by a son James Dulmage of Columbus, a
sister Mrs. Kent Richardson of Lorain and two grandchildren.
Funeral services for Mrs.
Warren were conducted by Rev. Donald Spencer of First Congregational
Church
at the Cowling Funeral Home on Sunday. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery
at Norwalk.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 8, 1970, p. 4.
Marian
Lilley
Marian L. Warren died
Miss Warren was active in the
Campfire Girls Council, Pi
Lambda Theta national honorary education sorority, AAUW, the PTA
Council,
Ithaca Council of Social Agencies, and the missionary society of the
Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the New York State Association
of
Deans and Counselors, New York State Teachers Association, National
Teachers
Association and the American Personnel and Guidance Association. In
college she
was secretary of her class, and served on the YWCA cabinet and Hi-O-Hi board. After her retirement she
lived in
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Reita Cole Warren
Reita Warren (nee Cole),
61, of Oberlin died Sunday at Allen Memorial Hospital.
She had lived all her life
in Oberlin and was a 1948 graduate of Oberlin High School. She attended
the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
She had been a bookkeeper
for Lorain County Bank in the 1960s and was a travel agent for Oberlin
AAA during the 1970s. With her husband, Richard, she owned and operated
Reita’s Yesterday Treasures in Wellington. Mrs. Warren was a
member of
First United Methodist Church.
Survivors in addition to
her husband include a son, Richard Jr. of Oberlin, and her mother,
Marjorie
Cole of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death
by her father, Ralph Cole.
Funeral services will be
held Wednesday at Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin, with the Rev. Barbara
SilverSmith, pastor of First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will
be in East Pittsfield Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 8, 1992, p. 2.
Richard Dane
Warren
Richard Dane Warren,
55 of Mesa, AZ passed away December 21, 2010. Richard was born in
Oberlin, OH January 13, 1955. [He graduated from OHS in 1974.]
He is preceded by father Lee Warren and mother Mary Francis Warren of
Mesa, brother Dale Warren & 1 sister Marlene Vance. Richard is
survived by his 3 children Brandon Warren of Pine, AZ, Cassie and Levi
Warren of Mesa, and 2 grandchildren. Also sisters Barb Randitsas of
A.J., Anna May White of N.C., brothers Donny Warren of Payson, Jerry
Plumb & Tom Warren of Mesa, many nieces & nephews.
Richard served in the US Army 1975-79 he was a plumber for the family
business & also worked as an iron worker. His favorite things were
family, his love for German Shepherds, Harley Davidsons, reading &
all sports.
Services will be at Mesa's First Church of the Nazarene on Monday Jan.
3rd at 11am, 955 E. University.
The Arizona Republic, Saturday,
January 1, 2011.
Mrs. Sarah M.
Warren
Sarah M. Warren [nee Graham], 79,
formerly of Zenobia Road, Clarksfield, died Thursday evening at the
Ohio Extended Care Center in Lorain following a long illness.
She was born in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and had spent most of her life in the Clarksfield area. [She
graduated from OHS in 1917.] She was a member of the Seventh Day
Adventist Church.
Surviving are two sons, James Warren
of Muskogee, Oklahoma and LaVerne Warren of Perrysburg; a stepson,
Herman Warren of Norwalk and eight grandchildren.
Services will be held Monday at 10
a.m. at the Clarksfield Methodist Cemetery with the Rev. Harry Kohles,
pastor of the Clarksfield Seventh Day Adventist Church, officiating.
Arrangements are being made by Gerber Funeral Home, 16 Cooper St.,
Wakeman.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Sun., Oct. 8, 1978, p. D-2.
Donald A. Wasserman
Age 72. Beloved husband of Dorothy; dear father of Donald, David
(Leslie), and Deana King (Greg); grandfather of Kelly, Joseph, T.J.,
Corey, Haley, Bradley and Sarah; brother of Sonny, and Sandy Kaiser.
[1949 graduate of OHS.] U.S. Army Veteran. Visitation Friday, 2-4 AND
7-9 P.M. in the chapel at Sunset Memorial Park, 6245 Columbia Rd.,
where services will be held Saturday, Jan. 24 at 11 a.m. In lieu of
flowers, memorials may be made to the Diabetes Assn., 3601 S. Green
Rd., Cleveland, 44122. Arrangements by Dostal Funeral Service
dostalfuneralservices.com.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, January 23, 2004.
Donald A. Wasserman, 72, of Olmsted Township, retired operating
engineer, died Wednesday. Services today. - Dostal, North Olmsted.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, January 24, 2004.
Anna Ruth (LeRoy) Waterman
Anna LeRoy Waterman, [OHS ’21, OC ’25, died] July 2, 1991,
in San
Rafael, Calif. Born Sept. 15, 1903, in Adams, Natal, South Africa, she
was a library assistant in Williamstown, Mass., for many years. She was
an accomplished craftswoman and won many awards for her silver jewelry
and hooked rugs. She was preceded in death by her husband, Allyn Jay
Waterman ’25, and her parents, Albert Emile LeRoy ’01 and
Rhoda Clarke
LeRoy, Class of 1898. She is survived by sisters Mary LeRoy Funkhouser
’27 and Ethel LeRoy ’22; a brother, Gaylord LeRoy
’30; two daughters,
including Shirley Waterman Lobenthal ’53; two nephews, John LeRoy
’66
and Peter Funkhouser ’56; six grandchildren; and two
great-grandchildren.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin,
Ohio, Fall 1991, p. 33.
C. M. Waters, Great
O.H.S. Athlete, Dies
Word was received in Oberlin of the death of Clyde M[erelton]
Waters, 58, in Bristol, Connecticut, on May 11, as the result of a
heart attack. Mr. Waters, a former Oberlin resident, was the brother of
F. H. Waters [Frank Howard] Waters [OHS ‘03] of Oberlin.
Born in Kingsville October 29, 1886, the son of F. T. and Alice E.
Waters, Mr. Waters came to Oberlin with his family in 1892. He entered
the Oberlin High School in 1900 and for three years starred on the high
school football team, being considered one of the best athletes in the
history of the school.
In 1904 he [graduated from OHS and] entered Williams College where he
played football, basketball, baseball and hockey, and was voted in 1906
the best college catcher. He left Williams in 1907 to enter
professional baseball, retiring from this in 1919 to become
metallurgist with the New Departure Division of General Motors in
Bristol, Connecticut.
During the years of his career as a professional baseball player, Mr.
Waters was with the New York Highlanders, the Montreal team and the New
Haven team until 1918. Previous to that time, he coached the Oberlin
High School football team, the teams of Erie High School and of Kenyon
and Hamilton Colleges. Pete Fisher, famed Oberlin athlete, was one of
his Oberlin protégés.
Famous as a sports official throughout the east, he worked in as many
as 125 basketball games a season, and only last November closed his
twenty-third season as football official in the Army-Navy games.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Waters is survived by two daughters, Mrs.
Charles Engels of Terryville, Connecticut and Miss Marjorie Waters of
Washington, D.C.; a brother, F. H. Waters of Oberlin, and a sister of
Lorain.
Burial was in Bristol May 14.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Thursday, May 18,
1944, p. 6.
[Clyde] Waters, Former
Williams Star
Athlete,
Dead
Bristol, Conn.
(AP)—Clyde
Waters, 55, who ended his 23d season as a football official by working
the Army-Navy game at West Point last November, died of a heart attack
yesterday at his home here.
Waters, one of the most
renowned athletes ever to attend Williams College, had complained only
of a slight illness before he was stricken.
At Williams, where he was
graduated in 1908 [after graduating from OHS in 1903,] Waters won
letters
in baseball, hockey, basketball and football for four consecutive years.
After graduating, he
signed
a contract with the New York Yankees baseball team, but never played in
the major leagues. He was a catcher for two years with Montreal in the
International League and for six years with New Haven in the Eastern
League.
Waters officiated in many
of the East’s major gridiron contests during the last 20 years,
and
numbered
such coaches as Chick Meehan, Jim Crowley and Lou Little among his
friends.
Veteran fans recalled too
that Waters never took kindly to heckling from the crowd and on more
than
one occasion climbed into the stands to settle matters with any overly
persistent annoyers.
Waters Played for Keeps
[“The
Referee’s Sporting Chat” sports column by John M. Flynn]
Clyde Waters, who died
suddenly
in Bristol, Conn., Thursday, was a fine all-around athlete at Williams
College from which institution he was graduated in 1908. He was the
type
of player who battled for everything, rather hard on umpires or
referees,
despite the fact that he later became an outstanding football official,
also an umpire in baseball.
For some years, Clyde
caught
for the New Haven baseball club of the Eastern Association and later
for
the New Haven Colonials, a strong semipro team conducted by George M.
Weiss,
now identified with the Yankees.
Only a short time ago,
Clyde
signed up to officiate in 10 college football games this year.
Two
games at the Yale Bowl and two at Dartmouth were on the list.
The Berkshire Evening
Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass., Friday & Saturday, May 12 & 13,
1944,
pp. 13 & 5.
Clyde
Football
Official for 23 Years—Was a Star at Williams
Bristol
At
He leaves a widow and two daughters,
Mrs. Charles Engels of
Terryville and Miss Marjorie Waters of
The
New York Times,
Frank
Howard Waters
F. Howard (Bud) Waters,
prominent varsity athlete in his
college days and retired custodian of the College, died April 19[,
1967,] in
Following graduation [from
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Mrs. Nell Waters, 72, Dies of Lung Cancer
Mrs. Nell Wilkinson
Waters,
72, resident of Oberlin for more than 50 years and former teacher in
the
public schools here, died last Thursday at Pleasant View Sanatorium
where
she had been since March 31. Death was caused by lung cancer.
Mrs. Waters, born in
Virginia
May 13, 1886, came to Oberlin about 1903 to make her home with her aunt
and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. George Birdseye. She graduated from Oberlin
High
School in 1906, then taught in country schools for two years before
going
to Wakeman for a year.
She taught in Oberlin
elementary
schools for eight years, then went to East Cleveland where she taught
for
17 years until her retirement in 1935.
She completed her college
work in summer sessions and earned her degree from Kent State
University
in 1933.
She married F. H. Waters,
who survives her, in 1939.
Before ill health forced
her to give up outside activities Mrs. Waters did volunteer work at
Allen
Hospital and worked in the Thrift Shop operated by the Oberlin
Woman’s
Club. She was a member of First Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, July 24, 1958, p. 1B.
Roberta Watkins
Roberta Annette Watkins,
66, of Oberlin, died Saturday at her home.
Born in Cleveland, she had
lived in Oberlin all her life. A 1943 [1944] graduate of Oberlin High
School,
she was a licensed practical nurse at Allen Memorial Hospital for a
number
of years and was a member of the American Association of Retired
Persons.
Survivors include a son,
Kevin Watkins of Laurel, Md.; daughters, Diantha Watkins of Oberlin,
Tracy
Watkins of Kirkland, Wash., and Joanne Freeman of Honolulu, Hawaii;
stepfather,
Elmer Hamlin of Oberlin; brother Myrle Cooper of St. Paul, Minn.;
sisters,
Hazel Cooper of St. Cloud, Minn., and Bonnie Buster of Shaker Heights;
and six grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Luther, in 1986; and by her father, Myrle Cooper.
Friends will be received
Thursday at 10 a.m. until the time of services at 11 a.m. in the
Cowling
Funeral Home, Oberlin. Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, November 9, 1993, p. 2.
Funeral Services For Mrs. [Celestia]
Watson Held This Morning
Oberlin, O., Jan. 17—Mrs. Miles J. [Celestia M.
“Lettie” Myers] Watson passed away Sunday night at her
home, 235 Elm street after a five weeks illness.
Mrs. Watson was born in Mansfield, the daughter of the late Judge Joel
Myers and Anna Mary Harper Myers. She came to Oberlin at an early age
and attended Oberlin High School [class of 1885?], Oberlin Academy and
Oberlin College.
She became associated with the Second Church in Oberlin early in life
and was an important worker in all its activities. She was a charter
member of the Women’s Relief Corps, Past Regent of the D. A. R.,
active in the D. A. C., and associated with the Oberlin Women’s
Club.
Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Glenn I.
Molyneaux, and three grandchildren, Glenn, Jr., Eileen and William
Molyneaux.
Private funeral services were held at 10:30 this morning at the home on
Elm street.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Tuesday, January 17, 1939.
Mrs. Anna Weage
Mrs. Anna [Zipporah] Woodruff Weage died at Seattle, Wash., on June 26
as a result of a second stroke. Three years ago she had one and had
been in poor health ever since. Mrs. Weage was formerly a resident of
East Lorain street and is a sister of C. D. Woodruff of this place. She
graduated from [OHS in 1881 and from] Oberlin [College] with the class
of 1886.
The Oberlin New,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, July 11, 1929, p. 1.
Andy David Weaver
New Port Richey, Fla. --
Andy David Weaver, 36, of New Port Richey, Fla., formerly of Oberlin,
died
Sunday, Dec. 14, 2003, of injuries from a motorcycle accident in New
Port
Richey.
He was born Nov. 17, 1967,
in Oberlin and lived in Florida for 10 years.
He [was a member of the
OHS class of 1986 and] graduated from the Lorain County Joint
Vocational
School.
Weaver was a construction
worker in Florida.
He enjoyed cooking,
fishing
and riding his motorcycle and was a member of the Diamonds Motorcycle
Club
of New Port Richey.
Survivors include his
wife,
Karen; sons Mitchell A. Weaver and Tyler J. Weaver, both of Maryland;
stepson,
Matt Clark of Lithia, Fla.; stepdaughter, Cassie Clark of Lithia; his
father,
Dave Weaver of Oberlin; mother and stepfather, Karen and Dale Herrick
of
Oberlin; brother, Tim H. Weaver of Oberlin; sister, Ruth A. Francis of
Oberlin; stepsister, Laura L. Herrick of Elyria; his grandmother,
Phyllis
M. Langdon of Oberlin; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death
by his grandfathers Howard Weaver and Howard Langdon; grandmother,
Gertrude
Weaver; and stepbrother, John Herrick.
A graveside service will
be held later at Pittsfield Cemetery.
Arrangements by Cowling
Funeral Home, Oberlin.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Tuesday, December 16, 2003.
Catherine Weaver Dies At
Hospital
Oberlin, O. April 14.—Catherine
May Weaver, 37, wife of Professor H. E. Weaver of Oberlin College, died
at 4:20 this morning at Allen hospital, where she underwent an
operation a week ago.
Catherine May, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. O. C. May of North Main street, was born in Oberlin. She was a
[1920] graduate of Oberlin high school and of the Oberlin College class
of 1924, and received her Master’s degree in 1932. She was
married in 1924 to H. E. Weaver, and they lived for some time in
California and in Arizona, returning to Oberlin several years ago. For
the past two years, Mrs. Weaver had been operating a kindergarten
school at her home, 221 Elm street. She was a member of the First
Church, was active in Women’s clubs and in the work of the
Parent-Teacher association.
Besides her husband and parents, she
leaves two small sons, Richard and Larry; one sister, Miss Beulah May
of Ashtabula; and a brother, Gordon C. May of New York City.
Funeral services will be held Sunday
at three o’clock from the Sedgeman funeral parlors. Interment
will be made in Westwood cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Friday, April 14, 1939, p. 2.
Weaver Funeral
Funeral services for Catherine May
Weaver, who passed away early yesterday morning in Allen hospital, will
be held Sunday at three o’clock at Fairchild Chapel, with the
Rev. N. Van der Pyl in charge. Interment will be made in Westwood
cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, April 15, 1939, p. 2.
Mrs. Felix W. [Mary Magdalene] Weaver
Mrs. Mary M. Weaver [nee Muhich], 45, of 23180 Emmons Rd., Columbia
Station, was found on the floor of the bathroom of her home by her
husband, Felix W., when he returned home yesterday afternoon and was
pronounced dead in Elyria Memorial Hospital at 5:15 p.m. Mrs. Weaver
had been under treatment for a heart ailment, it is reported.
She was born in Campbell, Aug. 28, 1915. [She graduated from OHS in
1935.]
Surviving besides her husband are two brothers, Edward Musich
[Muhich?], of North Ridgeville, and Frank Muhich, of Lorain; three
sisters, Mrs. Harold Knoch, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Roy [Kathryn F.]
Sprouse [OHS ‘46], of Grafton and Mrs.
Denver Kelly, of Elyria.
Friends may call at the Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home after 7 p.m. today.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 10, 1961, p. 14.
Robert A. Weaver
Avon -- Robert A.
''Bobby''
Weaver, 37, of Avon, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 2002, at his home. [He was a
1983 graduate of Oberlin High School.]
Survivors include his
mother,
Louise E. Weaver (nee Foote) of Oberlin; and sister, Sandy Weaver of
Texas.
He was preceded in death
by his father, James L. Weaver Sr., and brother, James L. Weaver Jr.
Friends may call Thursday
from 10 a.m. until time of service at 11 a.m. at Cowling Funeral Home,
228 S. Main St., Oberlin. The Rev. Bryant Carter will officiate. Burial
will be in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Wednesday, January 23, 2002.
Mrs. Ceicle M. Webb
Funeral services for Mrs. Ceicle M. [Cecile May] Webb, 35, will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 from the Rust M. E. church in Oberlin. Rev.
J. U. Watson will officiate.
Mrs. Webb died suddenly at her home 115 Pine street, Saturday night at
10:15. She was born in Oberlin, January 29, 1902, coming from there to
Elyria four years ago [and was a 1921 graduate of OHS].
She leaves her husband, Clarence, six children, Ruth, Clarence Jr.,
Harold, Phillip, Barbara and Laura; three brothers and three sisters,
Harley J., Otis and Worthy Smith all of Oberlin, Mrs. Bertha Stewart of
Los Angeles, California, Miss Theresa Smith and Mrs. Ella Thompson,
both of Oberlin.
The body will be removed from the Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home to the
church in Oberlin tomorrow noon.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, October 4, 1937, p. 2.
Bernice Lucille Webber, 86
Oberlin -- Bernice Lucille
Webber (nee Hatter), 86, of Los Angeles, Calif., formerly of Oberlin,
died
Wednesday, March 7, 2001, at County Villa Terrace in Los Angeles.
She was born May 2, 1914,
in Grand Rapids, Mich.
[She graduated from
Oberlin
High School in 1933.] She had attended Wilberforce University of Ohio
and
upon her retirement in 1965, went on to finish her college studies at
Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, N.J., at the age of 67.
Mrs. Webber lived with her
family in Oberlin until 1941, when she and her sister left to support
the
World War II effort in Washington, D.C., where she was employed by the
Veterans Administration. She was employed as a statistical code clerk
supervisor
at Veterans Administration Regional Headquarters, Newark, N.J., for 35
years, until her retirement in 1965.
Survivors include her son,
Harry Webber of Los Angeles, Calif.; and two grandchildren. She was
preceded
in death by her husband, Harry B. Webber, in 1995; parents, George and
Mary (nee Clukis) Hatter; sisters Grace and Elenore; and brothers
Thornton
and Franklin.
Graveside services will
be Thursday at noon in Westwood Cemetery, Morgan Street, Oberlin.
Cowling Funeral Home,
Oberlin,
is handling arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Thursday, March 15, 2001
Donald
F. Webber
Donald Francis Webber, 77,
of Oberlin, died at his home in New Russia Township on Jan. 12.
Born in Russia Township,
he was a lifelong area resident.
He graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1935 and then studied at the Oberlin School of Commerce.
Mr. Webber served in the
Army during World War II and afterward worked for the Railway Express
Agency
for several years. He worked as a shipping foreman at the Bendix Corp.
in Elyria from 1951 until his retirement in 1981.
He was a member of Sacred
Heart Catholic Church, VFW Post 1079 in Elyria, and the American
Association
of Retired Persons.
He enjoyed bowling,
gardening,
fishing and camping.
Survivors include his
wife,
Mary J.; sons, Ronald A. of Oberlin, Dennis R. of Avon Lake, and
Charles
A. and David W., both of Amherst; daughters, Vicki L. Weitzel of
Oberlin
and Valerie L. Dale of Elyria; 16 grandchildren; nine
great-grandchildren;
a brother, Lloyd A. of Elyria; and a sister, Loretta Neal of Oberlin.
Services were Saturday
morning
at Sacred Heart Church with the Rev. William B. Padavick officiating.
Burial
was in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Elyria.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 17, 1995, p. 3.
Lloyd A. Webber
Lloyd A. Webber, 80, of Elyria, passed away Friday, January 18, 2008 at
New Life Hospice in Lorain. He was born November 15, 1928.
Lloyd was a 1947 graduate of Oberlin High School.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1947 to 1951. During the Korean War he
earned Master Sargent and received the bronze star and purple heart
medals for heroic combat action.
Lloyd also graduated from the Northern Ohio Private Police Academy in
1984.
He spent his career with the Prudential Insurance company. Lloyd is
survived by daughters, Julie Hodgson of Fripp Island, South Carolina,
Cindy Ferriman of Northville, Michigan; and a sister, Loretta Neal of
Oberlin.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 29 years, Barbara A. Webber
(nee Dimick).
A private memorial service will be held to honor his life.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Saturday, January 19, 2008.
Mary Juanita Webber
Mary
Juanita Webber (nee Whitney) was born in Oberlin on February 22, 1920
to Charles and Olive Whitney. She had three siblings – Velma
(Brill), Don Whitney and Wilma (McDole). She lived the first 16 years
of her life in Pittsfield, before moving to Oberlin and graduating from
Oberlin Senior High School [in 1939].
She married Donald Webber on June 21, 1941. Together they raised six
children. While her children were growing up Mary was a Cub Scout den
leader and was active in 4H with her girls. She worked at
Gibson’s Bakery and volunteered for many organizations throughout
her life. She sold flowers with her husband for the American Cancer
Society for many years, was a front desk and gift shop attendant at
Allen Memorial Hospital, volunteered at the Flu Shot Clinic and was a
member of RSVP. She was active with Meals on Wheels and was a director
of the Oberlin Senior Center Craft Room. She enjoyed volunteering as a
grandparent reader at Eastwood Elementary School for many years. She
loved working outside with her flowers, quilting and sewing, baking and
was an avid Cleveland Indians fan. She was a member of East Oberlin
Community Church, where she served as part of the choir and
women’s fellowship. She loved her Lord, life, her family and
especially delighted in her 16 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren
and seven great great grandchildren.
She was welcomed into her Savior’s arms Thursday, June 13, 2013.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Olive (nee
Widowson) Whitney; her husband of 54 years, Don Webber [OHS ‘35];
her siblings, Velma Brill [OHS ‘30], Don Whitney and Wilma McDole
[OHS ‘31]; grandson, Richard Webber; and a great granddaughter,
Alyssa Webber.
She is survived by her children, Ron (Amy) Webber [OHS ‘61] of
Oberlin, Dennis (Rose) Webber [OHS ‘65] of Avon Lake, Charles
Webber [OHS ‘69] of Amherst, David (Rhonda) Webber [OHS
‘73] of Amherst, Vicki (Charles) Weitzel [OHS ‘77]of
Oberlin, Valerie (Tracy) Dale [OHS ‘82] of Elyria; 15
grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren; and seven great great
grandchildren.
Per her request, a private graveside service is planned.
Memorial contributions may be made to New Life Hospice Center of Lorain
County, the American Cancer Society or the library of Eastwood
Elementary School.
Online condolences may be sent at www.cowlingfuneralhomeoh.com
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio,
Friday, June 14, 2013.
Eleanor Weber, 79, of Palatine, hospital
volunteer,
schoolteacher
By Krystyna Slivinski
Special to the Tribune
Eleanor Weber, 79, of
Palatine
was a retired Chicago Public Schools teacher and a 23-year volunteer at
Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
“There was a strong
tradition
of service in her family,” said her daughter, Sheila [W.
(Philip)]
Aszling
[of Chicago]. “Her family also was very educationally
oriented.”
Two of Mrs. Weber’s
siblings
became teachers. Her late father, Lyman Cady, was a theology professor.
A former resident of
Inverness
and Rolling Meadows, Mrs. Weber died Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Church Creek
Health Care Center in Arlington Heights.
She was born [November 1,
1921] in Tsinan, China, where her father worked as a missionary.
Her family returned from
China and settled in Oberlin, Ohio, where Mrs. Weber [graduated from
high
school in 1939 and] obtained a bachelor of arts degree in history from
Oberlin College in 1943. She married a year later and became a
homemaker,
raising her children in Chicago. She volunteered for her children's
parent-teacher
associations and served as a den mother for the Boy Scouts and was a
Girl
Scouts leader in Norwood Park.
In the early 1960s Mrs.
Weber returned to college and received a master’s degree in
education
from
the University of Chicago. After graduating she worked as a
kindergarten
and 1st grade teacher at Brentano Elementary School on Chicago’s
Northwest
Side until 1973, when she retired and moved to Inverness.
Mrs. Weber began
volunteering
at Northwest Community Hospital. She taught baby-sitting clinics for
teens,
served as president of the Northwest Community Hospital Foundation, and
supervised student volunteers. She worked part-time for the last three
years as a receptionist for the hospital’s surgical waiting room.
“She was a teacher
from
the get-go,” said Diane Folkers, a volunteer coordinator at the
hospital.
“Our teens respected her. … She had touched so many of
their lives.”
Besides her daughter, she
is survived by her husband of 57 years, Donald [Robert Weber]; three
sons,
Donald [B. Anchorage, AK,] Scott [(Cynthia) Weber, Grand Rapids, MI]
and
[Keith (Dana) Weber of Martinez, CA]; two brothers, William and Eugene
Cady; a sister, Louise Hall; and seven grandchildren.
A memorial service will
be held later.
Chicago Tribune,
Northwest Edition, Chicago, Illinois, Thursday, December 14 [& 13],
2000, sec. 2, p. 9.
Katherine Anne Webster
Katherine Anne Webster of Oberlin died unexpectedly Monday, Oct. 9,
2006, at the emergency room of Allen Medical Center. She was 42.
Born June 3, 1964, in Oberlin, she graduated from Oberlin High School
in 1981. She lived in Oklahoma for 18 years before returning to Oberlin
six years ago.
She worked in the electronics department at Invacare in Elyria since
returning to Oberlin.
She enjoyed travel, NASCAR, vintage Volkswagen events, and car shows.
Mrs. Webster is survived by her husband, Kevin Webster; sons Steven A.
Webster of Oberlin and Jacob H. Webster of South Amherst; mother,
Johanna K. Watkins of Oberlin; and sister, Johanna E. Pionke of Ft.
Meade, Md. She was preceded in death by her father, Paul Revers.
Private family graveside services were held at Westwood Cemetery.
Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lorain National Bank, 40 E.
College St., Oberlin, Ohio 44074 c/o Katherine Anne Webster.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, October 17, 2006, p. 2.
Ralph Allen Webster III
Ralph Allen Webster III,
50, of Ponca City, Okla., and a former resident of Oberlin, died
Wednesday
in Ponca City after suffering complications from diabetes.
Born in Wilkensburg, Pa.,
he lived in the Oberlin area most of his life.
A 1969 Oberlin High School
graduate, he worked in several industries, including a bicycle factory
and a meat-packing factory.
He enjoyed writing fiction.
Survivors include his
father,
Ralph Jr., and brothers Timothy of Austin, Texas, Thomas and Eddie,
both
of Naples, Fla., and Kevin of Oberlin.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Virginia, in 1997 and his mother, Dolores Thomas, also in
1997.
Friends may call starting
at 2 p.m. Sunday at Trout Funeral Home in Ponca City.
A graveside service will
be in Canute, Okla., on Monday.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Saturday, November 3, 2001.
Earl E. Weekly
Earl Edwin Weekly, 41, of 432 Metcalf Rd., a veteran of World War II,
died in Fairview Park Hospital at 6:22 p.m. Saturday. He had been ill
three weeks, following an operation.
Mr. Weekly was born in Akron Feb. 19, 1921, but lived nearly all his
life in Elyria [after graduating from OHS in 1939]. He was a toolmaker
at the Carlisle Machine and Tool Co., and a member of the American
Rifle Association. During World War II he was a technical sergeant with
the 411th bomb squadron on Guam.
Surviving are his parents, Kathryn and Harold Dearth of Elyria, and a
brother John Weekly, with the U. S. Air Force in Japan.
Services will be Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Sudro-Curtis Funeral
Home with the Rev. Ralph Neighboub officiating, and burial will be in
Ridge Hill Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, August 13, 1962, p. 18.
John William Weekly
John William Weekly, 66, of Jacksonville, Ark., died March 27, [1985,]
in the Jacksonville Veteran’s Hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Weekly was born in Elyria and was a graduate of Elyria [Oberlin]
High School [in 1937]. He left the area in the late 1950s when he
joined the Air Force.
He retired from the Air Force as a Technical Sergeant in 1974 with 25
years of service.
He is survived by his wife of 25 years, Juliette (nee Sudau); a son,
John; a step-son, Dana Humphrey of Atlanta, Ga.; and three
grandchildren.
Services were held at the Little Rock Air Force Base Chapel. Rev.
Robert Edwards officiated.
Burial with military honors was at National Cemetery, Jacksonville, Ark.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio,
Wednesday, April 10, 1985, p. D-2.
Charles J. Weeks
Charles J[udson] Weeks,
86, of
149 W. College, an active member and a high office holder in several
orders
of the Masonic Lodge, died last Thursday in Welcome Nursing Home where
he had been a patient nine months. [He was a 1902 graduate of OHS.]
Mr. Weeks retired as a
signal
maintenance man for the Penn Central Railroad in 1949. He was born in
Kipton
and had lived in the area all his life. He attended First Church.
Mr. Weeks was a 63-year
member and past master of Masonic Lodge 380 F and AM, 56-year member
and
past high priest of chapter RAM 219, a 40-year member and past
illustrious
master of Elyria Council 86, a 30-year member and past command of
Elyria
Commandery 60, a 60-year member and past worthy patron of Oberlin Pansy
Chapter Order of Eastern Star 34 and a 25-year member of Lake Erie
Consistory.
He was a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Knights of York Cross of
Honor.
Mr. Weeks’ wife Maud
died
in 1969. Surviving are two sons, Richard A. of Elyria and Charles P. of
Alliance; a daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller of 182 E. College; seven
grandchildren;
eight great-grandchildren, and a brother Paul T. of Framingham, Mass.
An Eastern Star service
was held at Cowling Funeral Home Friday, followed by a Masonic service.
Rev. Donald Spencer of First Church officiated at a graveside service
Saturday
afternoon at Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, June 25, 1970.
Charles P. Weeks
Charles P[arsons] Weeks, 83, of Alliance, died Sunday, Oct. 6, 1996,
from injuries incurred in an automobile accident.
Born in Oberlin, Ohio, [and a 1933 graduate of OHS,] he was the son of
the late Charles J. and Maude Parsons Weeks. Surviving are his wife of
60 years, Ruth M. Beans Weeks of the residence; a daughter and
son-in-law, Marsha and Gary Jackson of Northfield; a son, Ronald P.
Weeks of Alliance, a son and daughter-in-law, David L. and Leeanna
Weeks of Akron; a brother, Richard Weeks of Elyria; 10 grandchildren,
and 11 great-grandchildren.
Private family services will be held at a later date. The family
requests that memorial contributions be made to the Stark County Humane
Society, 5100 Peach Street N.E., Canton, Ohio 44720. Charles was a
member of the Ohio Cremation and Memorial Society, Inc. (Ohio Cremation
and Memorial Society, 1-800-633-9720.)
Akron Beacon Journal, Akron,
Ohio, Thursday, October 10, 1996, p. C8.
Funeral service Aug. 6
held for Mrs. Weeks,
85
Mrs. Charles J. (Maude
Adelaide)
Weeks, 85, died Aug. 3 at Welcome Nursing Home where she had lived for
six weeks. Her home had been at 149 W. College.
Services were held Aug.
6 at the Cowling Funeral Home with Rev. Donald Spencer officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Born in Vermilion on March
16, 1884, Mrs. Weeks had lived in Oberlin most of her life [and was a
1903
graduate of OHS]. She was a member of First Church; Nineteenth Century
Club; 62-year member and past matron of Pansy Chapter No. 34, Order of
Eastern Star; and Auxiliary of Elyria Commandery No. 60.
Besides her husband she
is survived by two sons, Richard A. of Elyria and Charles P. of
Atwater;
one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller of Oberlin; seven grandchildren and
seven great-grandchildren.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 21, 1969, p. 7.
Paul Thorne Weeks
Paul Thorne Weeks, [OHS ’06, OC ’13, died] September 28,
1990, in
Pompano Beach, Fla. Born November 19, 1890, in Clarksfield, Ohio, he
earned the Ph.D. degree in physics at Cornell U. After serving in the
U.S. Army Mr. Weeks worked in the radio-tube engineering divisions of
Westinghouse Lamp Co. and Raytheon Manufacturing Co. He earned
professional and national accolades for his part in developing the
proximity-fuse tube, subminiature tube, and transistors. He retired in
1960. He was preceded in death by his sister, Lucy Weeks Curtis
’13,
and cousin, Judson Spore ’24. Survivors include his wife, Joie
Miriam.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1991, p. 28.
Richard A. Weeks
Richard A. Weeks, 86, of North Canton, and formerly of Elyria, died
suddenly Tuesday, October 30, 2007. He was born in Oberlin on July 31,
1921 to the late Charles [OHS ‘02] and Maude (Parsons) [OHS
‘03] Weeks.
While growing up in Oberlin, he spent his summers on his
grandparents’ farm in Kipton. He was president of the Oberlin
High School Class of 1939, received a bachelor’s of Naval Science
from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1943 and served as a Naval
officer during WW II, sailing on merchant ships in war zones.
In 1947, he received a bachelor’s of Business Administration from
Western Reserve University. After working for the Plain Dealer and
Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, Dick worked 32 years for the Bendix Corp. as
an accountant.
In Elyria, he was a parishioner of St. Mary’s Catholic Church,
coached Little League baseball for 18 years, enjoyed many jazz concerts
at Oberlin College, and was a member of the Eagles.
Living the last 10 years in North Canton with family, he was active at
Holy Spirit Catholic Church as a eucharistic minister and proclaimer of
The Word, and a member of The Canton Horseshoe Club, Veterans of
Foreign Wars and American Legion.
Throughout his life, Dick enjoyed playing tennis, bowling and pitching
horseshoes. Dick had an insatiable love of learning, demonstrated by
his reading and attendance of college classes.
He was a loving and devoted family man.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Helen W. Weeks in
1997; sister, Elizabeth Fuller [OHS ‘24]; and brother, Charles
Weeks [OHS ‘33].
He is survived by his sons and daughters-in-law, Philip and Jeanette
Weeks of Green, Richard and Elizabeth Weeks of New York City, John and
Anne Weeks of the home; grandchildren, Michael (Heather) Weeks of
Greenville, S.C., Paul (Alison) Weeks, Thomas, Daniel and Charlie Weeks
all of New York City, Sarah, Timothy and Halle Weeks of the home;
great-granddaughter, Julia Weeks of Greenville.
Friends may call 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Arnold Funeral Home,
Hartville. A Mass of Christian burial will be 10 a.m. Saturday,
November 3, 2007, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church with the Rev. John
Zapp as celebrant. Burial follows in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Elyria.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Holy Spirit Religious
Education and Youth Ministry, 2952 Edison St., NW, Uniontown, OH 44685.
Visit online at www.arnoldfuneralhome.com
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Thursday, November 01, 2007.
Margaret
C. (Gerrish) Weislogel
Margaret Gerrish Weislogel
died
For a brief time, she was a secretary
for the Fairview Joint
School Board and was secretary/treasurer for the
She leaves a daughter, three
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband and four
sisters,
including Dorothy Henkes ’18 [OHS ‘14], Martha Metcalf
’11 [OHS ‘07]
and Mary
Seiberling ’18 [OHS ‘14].
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Gilbert
Wellman
Gilbert Walter Wellman
died
at age 74 of an apparent heart attack Monday evening in the Elyria
Memorial
Hospital emergency room.
He was a lifetime Elyria
and Oberlin area resident, graduating from Oberlin High School in 1933
[1934]. He was born in Elyria.
Wellman was a job setter,
retiring in 1976 from Ohio Screw Products in Elyria. Before Ohio Screw
Products he worked at Colson Co., Elyria.
He was a member of the
Lake
Erie Gem and Geology Society and a World War II army veteran.
His hobbies were lapidary
work, woodworking and electronics.
Survivors are his wife of
47 years, Alma; a daughter, Shirley Ann South of Cincinnati; two
grandchildren
and a brother, Paul M. of Elyria.
The Rev. Stephen Hammond
will officiate the services today at 11 a.m. at Cowling Funeral Home.
Burial
in Westwood Cemetery will follow the service.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, November 17, 1988, p. 2.
Flossie Edna Ritzenthaler Wells
Flossie Edna Ritzenthaler Wells died Sept. 16, 1987, in Prescott, Ariz.
She was born May 27, 1889, in Kipton, Ohio[, graduated from OHS in
1906, and was a member of the Oberlin College class of 1913]. Before
her retirement in 1959 she held various teaching positions at schools
in Ohio, North Dakota, Colorado, and Arizona.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin,
Ohio, Spring 1988, p. 40.
Former Director of Warner Library
[Kristin Weltzheimer] Dies at 63
Kristin Weltzheimer of Ossining was a longstanding member the Union
Church of Pocantico Hills, where a memorial for her will be held on
Dec. 15.
Kristin Weltzheimer of Ossining died November 29, 2012 at the age of
63. Born in Oberlin, OH on December 24, 1948, she was the daughter of
the late Charles E. and Margaret Boesche Weltzheimer. Kristin was a
[1966] graduate of Oberlin High School, Hiram College in Hiram, OH and
had Masters Degrees from Case Western Reserve and Pace Universities.
She had been a Librarian at Westchester Community College, SUNY
Purchase and the Ossining Public Library. She had also served as
Director of the Somers Library and Warner Library in Tarrytown.
Kristin was also instrumental in establishing the Ossining branch of
the Civil Service Employees Union. She was a member of the Westchester
Library Assn., American Library Assn., Rotary Club and the Jacob Burns
Film Center.
During the 1980's, Kristin pursued an acting career and studied acting
in New York City. She appeared as an extra in several feature length
films including Zelig, TheVerdict and Prizzi's Honor.
Kristin was a faithful and longstanding member of Union Church. She was
an active member of the Board of Trustees and provided many years of
service to the music program in which she sang in the choir and played
the flute.
She is survived by her brother Harry Boesche Hunsicker of Dallas, TX
and her sisters Mary Ann Hunsicker [OHS ‘52] of Yardley, PA and
Gretchen Holden [OHS ‘58] of Portland, OR.
A memorial service to celebrate Kristin's life will be held on
Saturday, December 15 in the Union Church of Pocantico Hills at 2:00 PM.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to one of the following
three organizations: The Union Church of Pocantico Hills Music Fund,
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation or PBS.
Tarrytown-SleepHollowPatch,
http://tarrytown.patch.com/articles/former-director-of-warner-library-dies-at-63,
Monday, December 03, 2012.
Helen (Brady) Werner
Helen Miriam (Brady) Werner (OHS
class of 1932) died in Louisville, Colorado, on March 4, 2005 of
complications following a broken hip. Helen resided in Boulder,
Colorado, where she and her husband, Myron (also a Class of 1932 OHS
graduate), lived for over 50 years after moving to Colorado first in
1951, returning in Oberlin the next year and building a home, then
returning to Boulder in 1954. A graduate of the Oberlin School of
Commerce, Helen served as a secretary in the Oberlin and Boulder public
schools as well as in the Psychology Department at the University of
Colorado in Boulder. Myron, who was employed as a carpenter at the
University of Colorado, died of a stroke in 1980. Helen and "Mike"
enjoyed entertaining relatives and Oberlin friends in Colorado and
hosting many gatherings of children and grandchildren in their home and
on picnics in the Colorado mountains. They have left behind three
children (Marjorie Bell of Bakersfield, California; John Werner of
Sanford, Florida; and Joel Werner of Boulder) as well as six
grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Nieces and nephews include
Jane (Slater) Spiegelberg and Gary Slater of Oberlin and Kent Slater of
Highland Ranch, Colorado.
Obituary provided by family.
Helen Miriam Werner
Helen Miriam Werner, of Boulder, died of congestive heart
failure Friday, March 4, 2005, at HospiceCare Center of Louisville. She
was 90.
Born May 31, 1914, in Lakewood, Ohio, she was the daughter of James A.
Brady and Miriam E. Goodnough Brady. She married Myron Werner in 1937
in Oberlin, Ohio. He died in 1980.
She graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1932 and from Oberlin Business College.
Mrs. Werner was a secretary at
the University of Colorado, Fairview High School and Martin Park
Elementary. Before moving to Boulder in 1954, she was a secretary in
Oberlin.
She was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Boulder. She
also volunteered at Boulder Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Werner enjoyed music, gardening and cooking.
"She was passionate about Colorado and proud to live in one of the
oldest homes in the Newlands area of Boulder," her family said.
Survivors include a daughter, Marjorie Bell, of Bakersfield, Calif.;
two sons, John Werner, of Sanford, Fla., and Joel Werner, of Boulder;
six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two sisters, Louise B. Brady and Marjorie
R. Slater, and a brother, James A. Brady.
Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Friday at the Seventh Day
Adventist Church, 345 Mapleton Ave., Boulder.
A funeral service will follow at 10 a.m. at the church. The Rev.
Darrell Rott will officiate. Interment will be at Mountain View
Memorial Park, 3016 Kalmia Ave., Boulder. A reception follows at the
church.
Contributions may be made in her name to HospiceCare of Boulder and
Broomfield Counties, 2594 Trailridge Drive East, Suite A, Lafayette, CO
80026.
M.P. Murphy & Associates Funeral Directors is in charge of
arrangements.
The Daily Camera, Boulder, Colorado, Wednesday, March 9, 2005,
p. A19.
Myron Lee Werner
Myron Lee Werner of
Boulder,
Colorado, former Oberlin resident, died at his home on Sept. 17 after a
long illness. He was 67.
Born in Amherst on July
15, 1913, he lived in Oberlin more than 30 years. He graduated from
Oberlin
High School [in 1932] and Oberlin School of Commerce and was a
journeyman
carpenter, serving as secretary to the Oberlin union for several years.
He and his family moved to Boulder in 1954, where he worked as a
carpenter
for the University of Colorado until retirement in 1970. He also served
in Boulder as secretary for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners.
He is survived by his
wife,
Helen Brady Werner; two sons, John Werner of Yonkers, New York and Joe
Werner of Boulder; a daughter, Marjorie Lee (Mrs. Evan) Bell of
Bakersfield,
California; sister, Candace Kreeger of Amherst; sister-in-law, Marjorie
(Mrs. Harlan) Slater of 132 Hollywood; and five grandchildren.
Graveside services were
held Saturday at Mountain View Memorial Park, Boulder.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions, if desired, be made to the Kidney Foundation of
Ohio, Cleveland.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, September 25, 1980, p. 2.
Louis Lee West
Louis Lee West, 79, of Oberlin, died suddenly Monday, May 5, 2008, at
Allen Medical Center. He was born October 30, 1928, in Oberlin [and was
a 1948 graduate of OHS].
Mr. West was a brick mason for many years. He was a member of Rust
United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men, the Sparrows Bible Study
Group, NAACP and Union 45 local 34. Louis enjoyed visiting the sick and
shut-ins, gardening, fishing, traveling and loved being active within
the Oberlin community.
He is survived by his wife, Dorothy B. West of Oberlin; son, Darrell T.
West of Cleveland Heights; daughter, Jacquelyn D. Hopkins of
Pittsburgh; four grandchildren; sisters, Vivian West and Betty Oldwine,
both of Dayton, Sue Wells of Memphis; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Joe and Gladys Lee West.
Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, May 8, 2008, at Cowling
Funeral Home, 228 S. Main St., Oberlin. Funeral services will be 11
a.m. Friday, May 9, 2008, at Rust United Methodist Church, Oberlin.
Pastor Lorenzo Smart of Rust United Methodist Church will officiate.
There will be a private family burial at a later date.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, May 7, 2008.
Margaret West
Margaret H. West (nee
Houghton) of Colorado Springs, Colo., formerly of Oberlin, passed away
Monday, Aug. 19, 2002, at a care center in Colorado Springs. She
was 90.
Born Dec. 23, 1911, in Oberlin, she
graduated from Oberlin High School in 1929. She attended Oberlin
College and the Oberlin Business College.
She worked in a government office in
Lorain for two years, then worked as a civilian in an Army Air Corps
plant in Elyria during World War II.
Following the war, she worked at
Oberlin College as secretary to the director of admissions for five
years. Then she worked as the administrative assistant to the dean of
women for 25 years.
She was a member of First Church for
46 years, where she was a member of the Women’s Association as
well as
a deaconess for many years. She was president of the Senior Forum
women’s club for four years.
Mrs. West is survived by her son,
James West of Colorado Springs; daughter-in-law, Joy West;
granddaughter, Janice Bouska of Salem, Ore.; grandson, James R. West of
Stevenson Ranch, Calif.; and five great-grandchildren, Hannah and Paige
Bouska, and Elizabeth, James, and Matthew West. She was preceded in
death by here parents, Morton and Grace (nee Wood) Houghton; twin
sister, Martha; and sister, Elizabeth Beckley.
Burial will be at Oberlin at a future
date, yet to be determined.
Memorial contributions may be made to
Faith Evangelical Covenant Church, 4965 Barnes, Colorado Springs, Colo.
80917.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, August 27, 2002, p. 2.
Margaret West
Margaret West [nee Ward], 81, of Port Charlotte, Fla., died Nov. 6 at
her residence after suffering an apparent heart attack.
Born in Pittsfield, she was a [1923 graduate of OHS and a] former
resident of Oberlin.
She was a member of Sacred Heart Church, Oberlin.
Mrs. West is survived by a brother, Thomas Ward of Port Charlotte,
Fla.; a sister, Alice Ward Dugan of Port Charlotte, Fla., and several
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward, in 1978, two
brothers, and two sisters.
A memorial Mass will be held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday in Sacred Heart
Church, Oberlin. The Rev. Robert Bonnell will officiate.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Thursday, November 14, 1985, p. B-2.
Eva P. Weston
Eva P. Weston (nee Smith),
84, of Oberlin, died Friday after a long illness.
Born in Nottingham,
England,
she had been a resident of Oberlin since 1917 and was a 23-year
resident
of the John Frederick Oberlin Retirement Center.
A 1925 graduate of Oberlin
High School, she was also a graduate of the Oberlin Business School.
From 1943-49 she was an
assistant in the alumni records office of Oberlin College, and had also
worked as a bookkeeper for Oberlin Savings Bank for 16 years.
She was a member of the
American Association of Retired Persons, serving as secretary of the
Oberlin
chapter.
She is survived by nieces
and nephews.
Mrs. Weston was preceded
in death by here husband, Harold, in 1966; and by four sisters.
Services were Monday
morning
in the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Darrell Woomer officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the Oberlin Senior Citizens Association in care of the
Oberlin
Community Center, 80 S. Main St.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 26, 1989, p. 2.
Thomas
F. Weston
Thomas F. Weston, 76, of
Oberlin, died July 4 at EMH Regional Medical Center in Elyria after a
short
illness.
Born in Oberlin, he
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1941 [1943].
He was a World War II
veteran,
serving in the Army Air Corps assigned to the 384th Bomb Group of the
8th
Air Force, and participated in D-Day.
Mr. Weston was employed
at the General Motors Corp. in Elyria, Thew Shovel in Lorain and then
for
29 years at the Maytag Corp. in Bellevue, before retiring in 1986.
He was a member of First
United Methodist Church, and had served as a trustee, usher and
co-director
of the annual resale.
He belonged to the
Cleveland
Wing of the Confederate Air Force, where he served on the maintenance
crew
and had participated in the annual air show at the Lorain County
Regional
Airport.
His interests included the
Boy Scouts, golf, antique cars, story telling, camping, vegetable
gardening
and traveling with his wife and family.
He had taken several trips
to England to retrace his Air Corps assignments and his family roots.
He
recently completed a cruise through the Panama Canal.
He is survived by his wife
of 52 years, Jean (nee Court); sons Michael P. of Amherst and Tom J. of
Cleveland; daughters Christine L. Gerberick of Ashland and Elizabeth A.
Weston and Kathryn S. Vannatter, both of Oberlin; and nine
grandchildren.
A memorial service was
held
at First United Methodist Church on July 9, with the Rev. O. French
Ball
and the Rev. Judith W. Claycombe officiating. Burial was in Milan
Cemetery
in Milan.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the First United Methodist Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 14, 1998, p. 3.
Margaret West
Margaret H. West (nee
Houghton)
of Colorado Springs, Colo., formerly of Oberlin, passed away Monday,
Aug.
19, 2002, at a care center in Colorado Springs. She was 90.
Born Dec. 23, 1911, in
Oberlin,
she graduated from Oberlin High School in 1929. She attended Oberlin
College
and the Oberlin Business College.
She worked in a government
office in Lorain for two years, then worked as a civilian in an Army
Air
Corps plant in Elyria during World War II.
Following the war, she
worked
at Oberlin College as secretary to the director of admissions for five
years. Then she worked as the administrative assistant to the dean of
women
for 25 years.
She was a member of First
Church for 46 years, where she was a member of the Women’s
Association
as well as a deaconess for many years. She was president of the Senior
Forum women’s club for four years.
Mrs. West is survived by
her son, James West of Colorado Springs; daughter-in-law, Joy West;
granddaughter,
Janice Bouska of Salem, Ore.; grandson, James R. West of Stevenson
Ranch,
Calif.; and five great-grandchildren, Hannah and Paige Bouska, and
Elizabeth,
James, and Matthew West. She was preceded in death by here parents,
Morton
and Grace (nee Wood) Houghton; twin sister, Martha; and sister,
Elizabeth
Beckley.
Burial will be at Oberlin
at a future date, yet to be determined.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Faith Evangelical Covenant Church, 4965 Barnes, Colorado
Springs,
Colo. 80917.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, August 27, 2002, p. 2.
Death Of
Young Man Wednesday Morning
George H.
Westervelt Died After Long Sickness—Private
Funeral Today
George H. Westervelt, oldest son of
Mr. and Mrs. George
Westervelt of 155 North Pleasant street, died at his home Wednesday
morning at
8 o’clock. He had been sick for a long time.
The young man was 23 years of age and
was a graduate of the
high school. He had also studied in the Oberlin Business College. He
was born
in Oberlin at the old home on South Professor street, and had lived
here all
his life. He was a bright young man and had many friends among the
young
people. His parents have the sympathy of every one.
Private funeral services will be held
from the home this
afternoon. The burial will be in Westwood cemetery.
The
Oberlin Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, August 5, 1927,
p. 1.
John Westervelt, 59, dies; nephew of
building
donor
John E. Westervelt, 59,
was found dead at his home, 155 N. Pleasant, Friday noon. He had been
ill
for the past several months.
Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at the Cowling Funeral Home with Rev. Frederick
Schumacher
officiating. Interment was in Westwood Cemetery.
Born in Oberlin Nov. 8,
1906, Mr. Westervelt lived his entire life in Oberlin [and was a 1924
graduate
of Oberlin High School]. He was employed at the Thew Shovel Co.,
Lorain.
He was a member of First Church.
He is survived by two
brothers,
Dr. Herbert Westervelt of Benton Harbor, Mich., and William Westervelt
of Decatur, Ill.
Mr. Westervelt was a
nephew
of Edmond C. Westervelt, who gave Westervelt Hall to Oberlin College.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, September 9, 1965, p. 6A.
Alfred
G. Wheeler
Alfred G. “Al”
Wheeler,
longtime athletic director and coach at Peru State College and member
of
the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame, died June 16 at Charlotte, North
Carolina.
He was 83.
Born in Oberlin, Wheeler
was a [1918 graduate of Oberlin High School and a] 1922 graduate of
Oberlin
College. He was a three-sport letterman, captain of the basketball team
for three years, and was “All Ohio” in basketball and
football his
senior
year. In 1921 he quarterbacked the Oberlin team that upset powerful
Ohio
State, the last time an Ohio team ever defeated OSU.
Wheeler came to Nebraska
after coaching two years at Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, two
years as freshman coach at Iowa State, and nine years as assistant and
later head baseball, basketball and football coach at Amherst College
in
Massachusetts. After obtaining his Master’s degree at Columbia
University,
he came to Peru in 1938 for what he thought might be only a year or two.
He is survived by his
wife,
Frances, whom he met at Columbia University in 1937. Other survivors
are
his son Al Jr., of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, an entomologist with the
Pennsylvania
department of agriculture, two daughters, Sandra Jane Evans of
Greenwich,
New Jersey and Mary Sue McKnight of Grove City, Pennsylvania; and a
sister,
Bertha Powers, of Elyria.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 24, 1982, p. 2.
Alfred G. Wheeler, A.B.,
P.E., died June 16, 1982, at Charlotte, N.C., of kidney failure.
Athletic director and coach at Peru State Teachers College in Nebraska
from 1938 until his official retirement in 1965, he was selected
Nebraska College Coach of the Year in 1952 by the Omaha World-Herald
and in 1960 by the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star. In 1952 the Rockne
Club of Kansas City named him Little All American Coach of the Year. He
was a member of the Nebraska Sports Hall of Fame and was elected to the
Helms Foundation Hall of Fame in Los Angeles in 1954.
“Coach Al” began his athletic career at Oberlin High School
[class of
1918] as captain and quarterback of the football team and a basketball
player. He went on to play college football, basketball and baseball
[at Oberlin College], earning nine letters. He was captain of the
basketball team for three years and was “All Ohio” in
basketball and
football his senior year.
Mr. Wheeler was the quarterback who completed a seven-yard touchdown
pass to Bill Parkhill ’22, capping an 85-yard drive, in the 7-6
win
over Ohio State in 1921. Parkhill, who died in 1980, kicked the extra
point.
After graduating from Oberlin [College in 1922] Mr. Wheeler went into
professional basketball for a year with the Rosenblum team of
Cleveland. He then coached for two years at Manual Arts High School in
Los Angeles where his teams won a city championship in football and
placed second in basketball. From 1925 to 1927, Mr. Wheeler was
freshman football coach at Iowa State College and assistant to the late
Nelson Metcalf ’12 [OHS ‘08].
He went to Amherst College as freshman football coach and his
team’s
record was marred with only one defeat and one tie. For nine years he
was Amherst’s assistant and later, head baseball, basketball and
football coach. His varsity baseball teams won four Little Three
Championships.
In 1937 he received the master’s in health and physical education
from
Columbia and then went to Peru, where his overall football record was
133-51-12. His football teams won or shared seven Nebraska Conference
titles and his basketball, baseball and track teams all won NCC
championships.
His basketball teams participated in five N.A.I.A. tournaments. In
track, Mr. Wheeler coached two conference champions in an eight-year
period. In 1958, he brought baseball back to the campus after a 35-year
absence. In 1960, he led his team to an 11-6 record. His teams won 75,
lost 65 and won or shared two NCC titles.
For 12 years Coach Wheeler was district chairman of the National
Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). He was a member of the
executive committee for seven years and was president 1953-54.
It was said in the Lincoln Evening Journal Sept. 14, 1965, that Mr.
Wheeler probably was responsible for “more coaching
protégés out in the state and across the nation than
anyone else in Nebraska history.”
Mr. Wheeler leaves his wife, Frances Rudisill, whom he married in 1938,
a son, two daughters from a previous marriage and a sister, Bertha
Powers, formerly of Oberlin. His first wife, Isabelle Hoelzle
‘23k,
died in 1971.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Autumn 1982, p. 95.
Charles E. Wheeler Jr.
Oberlin -- Charles E. Wheeler Jr., 67, of Oberlin, died Wednesday, Nov.
1, 2006, in the Community Regional Medical Center, Lorain, following a
lengthy illness.
He was a lifetime resident of Oberlin. He attended Oberlin High School
(class of 1957?).
Wheeler was a veteran of the U.S. Army and U.S. Merchant Marine Corps
and was once employed as a truck driver.
He attended Rust United Methodist Church in Oberlin. He enjoyed
fishing, playing various card games and animals.
Survivors include his mother, Elizabeth A. (nee Hodge) Johnson, and
stepfather, James Johnson Jr., of Oberlin; sister, Rita Mae White of
Chattanooga, Tenn.; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives.
Friends may call Monday at 11 a.m. until the service at noon in the
Carter Funeral Home Chapel, 127 W. Bridge St., Elyria. The Rev. Greg
Ball will officiate.
The Morning Journal,
Saturday, November 04, 2006.
Chas. Wheeler, Political News
Writer, Is Dead
Charles N[ewton] Wheeler, 75, political editor of the Chicago Daily
News, died yesterday in his home at 426 Belmont av. after an illness of
several months. He was former president and a leading spirit in the
Chicago Press Veterans association, whose members were gathered in La
Salle hotel for their annual meeting just as word of Wheeler's death
was received in newspaper offices.
Services will be held in the chapel at 25 E. Erie st., Tuesday, the
time to be set later, and burial will be in Mt. Greenwood cemetery.
There will be a wake in the chapel at 6 p.m. today.
Wheeler was known as the dean of Chicago's political editors, but he
also was a classical scholar who could, and often did, make better
speeches than most of the men he wrote about as a reporter for 53 years.
Known Country Over
Wheeler, who called himself the youngest reporter in Chicago "from the
neck up," had a nationwide acquaintance and had covered political
conventions and campaigns since William Jennings Bryan was nominated
for President for the second time by the Democrats in Denver in 1908.
His last active work was coverage of the 1949 legislative session as
political editor of the Daily News. After the closing all night session
at Springfield, he returned to his hotel at 7 a.m. on July 1 and raised
a baritone voice in a hymn of thanksgiving when he saw a newspaper
headline heralding the conviction of an alleged communist worker. Since
then he worked only a few days after taking a vacation.
Reporter in Joliet
Wheeler came to Chicago in 1907 from Joliet where he had been a street
car conductor, steel worker and reporter for 10 years for Joliet
newspapers. He became political editor of the old Inter-Ocean.
In 1914 he became a member of The Tribune’s staff, where he
worked six years, two of which were spent abroad as chief of the London
bureau and as war correspondent in France during the closing months of
the first World war.
His last 10 years of active work were as political editor of the Daily
News, which he joined in 1939 upon the demise of the Herald-Examiner,
where he first worked in 1921. Twice his newspaper career was
interrupted, first as American spokesman for the De Valera government
of free Ireland and again, for two years before the 1929 depression,
assistant to the president of the Illinois Power and Light company.
Halls His Profession
At the close of his career close friends knew that Wheeler had one
regret. It was that he did not die in harness, to escape illness and
hospitalization. To 200 colleagues at his 70th birthday celebration in
the Red Lacquer room of the Palmer House, he said, "The reporter's
profession is the noblest on earth."
Wheeler was born July 28, 1874, in Steuben, O. [and graduated from OHS
in 1894.] He was married in 1897 to Mary Lowery of Joliet.
Surviving are his widow, Laura, whom he married in 1921; five sons,
Calvin, Patrick, and Charles Jr., all of Joliet, Marshall of
Springfield, and John of Chicago, and a daughter, Mrs. Jerome Holland.
Photograph: C. N. Wheeler
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago, Ill., December 04, 1949.
Charles N. Wheeler
Charles N. Wheeler of 426 Belmont avenue, husband of Laura Hanoon
Wheeler, father of Marshall of Springfield, Ill., Calvin Patrick and
Charles Jr. of Joliet, and John and Mrs. Jerome Holland of Miami
Shores, Fla., brother of Mrs. Mary L. Campbell of Arlington, Va., Mrs.
Ruth Pitcher of Baltimore, Md., Mr. Gyp Wheeler of Detroit, Mich.
Services at home for funeral, Erie at Wabash avenue, Tuesday, Dec. 6,
at 11 a.m. Interment Mount Greenwood. Member of Home lodge, No. 508, A.
F. & A. M., and Chicago chapter, No. 127, R. A. M.
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago, Ill., December 05, 1949.
C. N. Wheeler Rites Will
Be Held Tuesday
Services for Charles N. Wheeler, political writer of the Chicago Daily
News, will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow in the Peoples church of
Chicago, 941 Lawrence av.
Burial will be in Mount Greenwood cemetery.
Wheeler, who was 75, died Saturday in his home at 426 Belmont av. after
an illness of several months. He came to Chicago in 1907 and became one
of Chicago's best known political writers. During his career he was on
the staffs of the old Inter-Ocean, the Herald-Examiner, and for a six
year span The Tribune.
Surviving Wheeler are his widow, Laura; five sons, Calvin, Patrick, and
Charles Jr., all of Joliet; Marshall of Springfield, and John of
Chicago, and a daughter, Mrs. Jerome Holland.
Chicago Tribune, Chicago,
Ill., December 05, 1949.
Clarence
Edward Wheeler
Clarence Edward Wheeler,
73, of Oberlin died March 23 at his home.
Mr. Wheeler was born in
Oberlin and graduated from Oberlin High School. He worked in
construction
and maintenance in the Washington, D.C., area for many years. After his
return to Oberlin, he drove the senior citizens bus.
He served in the Army
during
World War II.
Survivors include his
daughter,
Yolanda Neal, of St. Louis; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild;
mother, Beatrice B. Wheeler of Oberlin; a brother, Avon, of Lorain; and
two sisters, Jennie Francis of Lorain and Margaret “Midge”
Taylor of
Lansing,
Mich.
He was preceded in death
by his father, Clarence.
Services were Monday
afternoon
at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Charles Mayle officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 29, 1994, p. 2.
Clyde Wheeler
Oberlin—Word has
been
received
of the death Sunday of Clyde Wheeler, 74, in River Falls, Wis. Born in
Pittsfield, Mr. Wheeler [graduated from OHS in 1909 and] lived in this
area until seven years ago when he moved to River Falls.
Survivors are his wife,
Iona, of River Falls; a brother Carl, of Hallauer Rd.; a son Huber, of
Madison, Wis., and a daughter, Mrs. Wilda Collier of Morency, Mich.
Funeral
arrangements have not been announced.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Tuesday, August 24, 1965, p. 14.
Elfleda M. Wheeler
Oberlin—Elfleda M.
Wheeler,
Hallauer road, died suddenly sometime Sunday morning at her home. She
was
[a 1903 graduate of OHS, was] a member of the Community Church of
Pittsfield,
and had been employed for many years in the offices of the Republic
Steel
Co. in Cleveland and Youngstown.
She is survived by two
brothers;
Clyde of Deshler and Carl of R. D. 1, Oberlin. The body is at the
Cowling-Sedgeman
Funeral Home where friends may call. Funeral arrangements are as yet
incomplete.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Monday, November 14, 1949, p. 2.
Oberlin native
[Elmer William Wheeler] dies in Japan
Oberlin—An Oberlin native [and 1935 graduate of OHS] who would
have
completed 20 years in the Air Force next August has died in Japan, his
relatives have been notified.
He is S-Sgt. Elmer Wheeler, 47, whose wife lives in Columbus. Sgt.
Wheeler had seen more than two months action in Viet Nam this year.
His wife, Eva Lou, reported there had been an explosion near where he
was stationed shortly before he was transferred to Japan. She added she
had not been told whether he was injured in the blast, nor the cause of
his death.
Mrs. Beatrice Wheeler, 118 Locust St., his mother, left for Columbus
Saturday after being notified by a Department of Defense telegram.
Other survivors include a brother, Avon Wheeler, of 1652 East 34th St.,
Lorain, and a sister, Mrs. Cyrus Francis, 1424 West 18th St., Lorain.
His wife said she did not know when, or if, the sergeant’s body
will be
shipped home, but she hoped burial would be in Oberlin.
Portrait Photograph: S/Sgt Elmer Wheeler
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, December 14, 1964, p. 22.
Vera M. Wheeler
River
Falls - Vera M. Wheeler, age 87, of River Falls, died on Saturday, Oct.
13, 2012, at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., following a stroke.
She was born Aug. 29, 1925, in Parkersburg, W.Va., to Boyd and Grace
(Baker) Petty. She graduated from Oberlin (Ohio ) High School in 1943
[1945]. She married Huber Wheeler [OHS ‘42] in 1950. They spent
their early married years in Ohio before moving to Madison in 1956. In
1974, they moved to rural River Falls, where Vera assisted her husband
in commercial beekeeping. After arriving in River Falls, she served for
many years as a volunteer at the Fish Clothing Room, was an active
member in the Pierce County Beekeepers Association (working the booth
at the Pierce County Fair numerous times).
She enjoyed playing cards with friends, loved to read books and was
always ready to help her neighbors with a variety of homemaking
projects. Vera and Huber also spent many hours traveling throughout the
country and Western Wisconsin.
Survivors include her husband, Huber; sons, John (Claire) of Palm
Springs, Calif., and Gregg (Joan) of Eau Claire; grandchildren, Caleb
Wheeler of Eau Claire and Emmaline (Kevin Hoyt) Wheeler of Altoona;
sister-in-law, Jackie Petty of Parkersburg, W.Va.; and many nieces and
nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; siblings, Robert [OHS
‘48], Richard and Nancy; in-laws, Clyde [OHS ‘1909] and
Iona Wheeler [OHS 1902]; and sister-in-law, Wilda and Charles Collier.
A memorial service will be held Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, at 11 a.m. at
the Bakken-Young Funeral Home in River Falls. Visitation will be one
hour before the service at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed
to the River Falls Public Library.
Wisconsin State Journal,
Madison, Wis., October 22, 2012, p. A6.
Ann K. White
Oberlin -- Ann K. White, 74, of Oberlin, died unexpectedly Tuesday,
Dec. 19, 2006, at home.
She was born June 4, 1932, in Alliance and lived in Oberlin for many
years. [She graduated from OHS in 1950.]
Mrs. White worked as a teacher and piano instructor.
She was a member of Christian Missionary Alliance Church of Oberlin,
where she played the piano. She volunteered at charitable events at
nursing homes and hospitals and for other organizations, playing the
piano. She supported many animal rights charities.
Survivors include her sons Jon S. White of Hilliard and Marc S. White
of Bridgewater, Conn.; daughter, Lyn W. White of Cleveland; and four
grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Felix S.
White; and her parents, Thomas S. and Florence Kepler.
Burial is private.
Memorial contributions may be made to the donor's favorite charity.
Arrangements by Cowling Funeral Home, Oberlin.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Friday, December 22, 2006.
Bertram
Wade White
Bertram Wade White, 83,
Sarasota, died Nov. 20, 2001. He was born May 31, 1918, in Gilbert,
Minn.,
and came to Sarasota in 1983 from Mentor, Ohio. He was an executive at
Fluid Controls Inc. and Hynautic Inc. in Osprey. He graduated from
Oberlin
College and Case University in Ohio and was an Army veteran of World
War
II. Survivors include a son, Timothy of Lancaster, Ohio; and three
grandchildren.
A memorial service will
be later. National Cremation Society, Sarasota chapter, is in charge.
Memorial donations may be
made to Salvation Army, 1701 S. Tuttle Ave., Sarasota, FL 34239; or to
American Cancer Society, 1750 17th St., Suite A, Sarasota, FL 34234.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
Sarasota, Florida, Thursday, November 22, 2001, p. BS6.
Mrs. Laurence White
Christine Alexander White,
who came here with her mother in the 1920’s and was graduated
from
Oberlin
High School in 1932, died April 29 in Los Angeles. She is survived by
her
husband, Laurence, to whom she was married in 1933 after he received
his
Oberlin College degree, and her mother, Mrs. Helen Alexander, who now
lives
in Oregon. Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Kenneth (Libby)
Worcester,
who also lives in Oregon.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, May 9, 1974, p. 9.
Young Lady Dies Here
Miss Eloise White
Passed
Away Thursday Morning
Miss Eloise White, only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delmer White of Hollywood avenue, died at
Allen
hospital Thursday morning at 2 o’clock, after an illness of three
weeks.
Miss White was a graduate
of Oberlin high school [in 1928] and the School of Commerce. She had
many
friends who will regret her untimely death.
Funeral services will be
held at Sedgeman’s parlors Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Burial will
be in
Greenwood cemetery, Wellington.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, May 4, 1934, p. 1.
Ethel L. White
Ethel L. White (nee
Donaldson) of Elyria, formerly of Oberlin, died Saturday, May 29, 2010,
at Welcome Nursing Home, following a long illness. She was 86 years old.
Born March 24, 1924, in Oberlin [and a 1942 graduate of OHS], she
worked as a beautician for many years, retiring in 1970.
She was a member of Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Oberlin.
She walked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights
movement.
She was an avid sports fan, and enjoyed golf, bowling, attending
church, and spending time with her family.
Mrs. White is survived by her sons Howard E. Chambers [OHS ‘67]
of Oberlin and Stanton L. Chambers [OHS ‘70] of Missouri City,
Texas; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren; sister Gloria
Hopkins [OHS ‘52] of Norfolk, Va.; and a host of nieces and
nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Donald White;
parents, Dennis W. and Louise (nee Smith) Donaldson; sisters Erma
Causby, Freda Payne [OHS ‘36, and Geraldine Catherine Donaldson;
and brother, Dennis A. Donaldson [OHS ‘41].
Services were Friday, June 4, at Christian Missionary Alliance Church,
the Rev. Lester Allen, pastor, officiating. Burial was at Westwood
Cemetery.
Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements. Online condolences may
be left at www.cowlingfuneralhome.us.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 8, 2010, p. 2A.
Felix
S. White
Felix S. White, 64, of
Oberlin
died of a pulmonary embolism at Allen Memorial Hospital on Sept. 2.
He was born in Cleveland
and had lived in Oberlin since he was two years old. He was the first
Oberlin
High School student to be able to take courses at Oberlin College and
he
chose to study English literature in his senior year.
After graduating from OHS
in 1948, he attended Baldwin-Wallace College on a football scholarship,
and then served in the Air Force during the Korean War.
Later he was employed by
the Ohio Turnpike Commission and the U.S. Postal Service before working
for the city of Oberlin. He was named street superintendent in 1977,
and
held that post for 15 years before retiring two years ago.
His special interests were
music, good jazz and opera, reading, sports, gardening and his family.
He also loved animals.
Survivors include his
wife,
Ann; two sons, John of Worthington and Marc of Stratford, Conn.; a
daughter,
Lyn White of Cleveland; three grandchildren; and a sister, Dureve Jones
of Oberlin.
Private family memorial
services are being planned.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the Lorain County Animal Protective League.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 13, 1994, p. 2.
Mrs. R. [Floy] White Dies
in Oberlin
Born and Educated Here,
Had Lived in Cleveland Many Years; Services Friday
Mrs. Floy W. White, 62,
native of Oberlin, died at the home of her birth, 159 Groveland street,
Wednesday morning, following an illness of two years.
Mrs. White was born in
Oberlin
on February 8, 1879, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Cowan. Educated
in Oberlin she graduated from the high school here [in 1898] and
studied
piano in the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For a time following her
schooling
she taught grade school in Memphis, Tennessee, until her marriage to
Roy
White, of Cleveland. Mr. White was at one time trainer of the Cleveland
Indians.
Practiced Chiropody
Following her
husband’s
death Mrs. White studied in Cleveland and for ten years practiced
chiropody
with an office located at 105th street and Wade Park. Two years ago,
because
of heart trouble Mrs. White was forced to retire. When her condition
became
serious six weeks ago she was brought to her old home in Oberlin.
She leaves two brothers
and two sisters, Harvey Cowan, 159 Groveland, James H. Cowan,
Washington,
D.C., Mrs. Lenora Gaskin, Washington, D.C., and Mrs. P. G. Mollison,
Chicago,
in addition to nephews and nieces.
Services Tomorrow
Services will be held at
2:00 o’clock Friday at the home with the Rev. Nicholas Van der
Pyl
officiating.
Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, September 11, 1941, p. 1.
Frankell
White
Frankell Wade White,
97, former Oberlin resident, died March
17 in Sarasota, Fla.
She grew up in Oberlin[, graduated
from OHS in 1908,] and
completed the bachelor of arts degree at Oberlin College in 1912. She
taught in
Minnesota for a number of years and was an assistant in the Oberlin
College
library from 1945 until retirement in 1958. She lived in Oberlin until
moving
to Florida two years ago.
She was a member of the First Church
in Oberlin.
She is survived by a son, Wade White
of Sarasota; a
daughter, Jane Eubank of Abilene, Texas; three grandsons and two
great-grandchildren. Her husband, Samuel, died many years ago.
There will be a memorial service
later.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 26,
1987, p. 2.
Frederick G. White, 53, Assembler
at Nordson Corp.
Oberlin – Frederick G. White, an assembler at Nordson Corp. in
Amherst,
spent his spare time fishing and painting.
Twice, he won Fish Ohio awards for record-setting fish he had caught.
One was a 15-pound, 31-inch catfish, the other a large trout. His
favorite fishing spot was Spencer Lake near Sandusky.
Mr. White also was a talented artist who painted murals, portraits and
landscapes. He specialized in oil paintings.
"He was a down-to-earth, happy-go-lucky guy," said his wife, Idelle.
"He was very helpful to people. He gave back everything that people
gave to him."
Mr. White, 53, died Saturday at his home in Oberlin. He had been
diagnosed with muscle cancer in February.
He was born in Mount Vernon, O. He had attended Oberlin High School
[class of 1958].
During the Vietnam War, Mr. White serviced aircraft as an Air Force
technical specialist. He served two tours of duty in Vietnam.
Mr. White lived in Detroit before returning to Oberlin 10 years ago.
For nearly 10 years, he assembled hot melt glue application systems at
Nordson Corp.
He was a member of Mount Zion Baptist Church in Elyria.
He enjoyed gardening.
Surviving are his wife, Idelle; daughters, Malica Evans of Woodridge,
Va., and Merissa, Michelle and Mesha, all of Oberlin; sons, Frederick
C. (Rick) of Atmore, Ala., and Darrian of Oberlin; his mother, Iris, of
Oberlin; five grandchildren; six brothers; and three sisters.
Services will be at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 614
W. River Rd. N., Elyria.
Carter funeral home in Elyria is handling arrangements.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Thursday, May 13, 1993, p. 16D.
Cpl.
White dies in action; city’s first Vietnam victim
Marine Lance Cpl. Gene
White,
22, Oberlin’s first casualty of the Vietnam war, was killed in
action
Friday
in the Huon Dien area. He died of a gunshot wound in the neck.
White’s body will be
returned
to the United States under military escort. Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery. The family has decided against burial in a national cemetery,
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick White, 131 N. Park, told the
News-Tribune.
Visit from officer
Word of Gene’s death
was
brought to the Whites Saturday morning by a marine officer from
Cleveland.
A telegram from Gen. Wallace M. Greene, Jr., commandant of the Marine
Corps,
followed, giving the few details.
Mrs. White was told that
it would take eight to 10 days for arrival of the body. She has
received
no definite word yet and no arrangements for a funeral service have
been
made.
Cpl. White, born in Mt.
Vernon June 28, 1945, graduated from Oberlin High School two years ago.
After a year at Compton Junior College in California, he enlisted in
the
Marine Corps. After his four-year tour of duty was over he had hoped to
have enough money to complete his undergraduate education and go on to
law school.
“I feel like Gene
died for
a cause he really believed in,” said Mrs. White. “He had
talked with
several
ministers here and expressed his love for his fellow man. He was always
so unselfish. He really wanted to go to Vietnam.”
Wounded previously
White was hit on the
forehead
by mortar shrapnel while participating in a previous operation on July
6.
Besides his parents, White
is survived by seven brothers and three sisters. Tyrone, Larry,
Gregory,
Rita, Karen and Janet are at home; John and Charles (Ricky) live in
Oberlin;
and Fred and Keith of Detroit, Mich.
The family has lived in
Oberlin 23 years.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, July 27, 1967, p. 1.
Lad Drowned in Old Quarry Hole
Death Came to [Harold
P.] White While Swimming – Companions Did All They Could
Was a Senior in the
Oberlin
High School – Many Attended Funeral, Held Monday
One of the saddest
accidents
ever known in Oberlin occurred last Friday afternoon when Harold P.
White
met his death while swimming in Sherburne’s quarry in Henrietta.
That morning the senior
class of the high school of which White was a member, was given a
holiday
and the boys decided to go for a swim. Boarding the 9:30 west bound car
they set out in high spirits. The water was warm, the day pleasant and
the outlook was for a fine swim. White proposed to one of the fellows
that
they swim to the end of the hole, rest on a ledge and then return. The
outward trip was easy, but no ledge was found and the lads were forced
to return the whole distance without rest. Both found it hard, but were
swimming so strongly that none of the fellows realized that they were
in
danger. White’s companion arrived safely, but turned around just
in
time
to hear White cry, “Get a rope, fellows.”
Even then no one realized
the danger and it would have been useless if they had. No rope was
nearer
than the top of the 50-foot bank and it was impossible for those near
at
hand to help him. It was soon over. After a struggle of but a few
seconds
he went down without another word. If he had come up once he could have
been saved, but he failed to rise even a single time.
A rope was procured
immediately,
but the party contained no swimmer of sufficient ability to dive
through
half the thirty feet of water in which he had sunk. For an hour
attempts
were made to drag for the body with hooks, but they were futile.
Nothing
resulted and the boys took the twelve o’clock.
A man who was going
through
town, hearing of the circumstances, offered to try for the body. He
succeeded,
however, in getting down but twenty feet. At 5 o’clock a
professional
diver
was hired by phone from Lorain. Arriving at 9 p. m. with his two
assistants
they drove at once to the scene and set to work. It was after twelve
before
the apparatus was properly placed and the descent made. A crowd of 75
people
had gathered and stayed on in spite of the lateness of the hour. The
diver
was down but a minute and a half, finding the body directly below the
spot
where it went down. It was brought up at 12:05, nearly fourteen hours
after
the drowning. According to the undertakers, a severe cramp in the
stomach
was responsible for the drowning and accounts for the failure of the
body
to rise. It was impossible for the victim to help himself in the least
as both arms and legs were rendered useless. The body was brought back
by Marshal VanAusdale and a delegation of White’s schoolmates,
and was
removed early Saturday morning to the home on East Vine street.
Harold P. White was born
April 8, 1885, in Topeka, Kansas. His father was Edward Harvey White, a
graduate of Oberlin College, and a lawyer of Topeka. His mother was
Caldonia
Scott, daughter of John Scott of this place. Both his parents died
before
he was four years of age, and after living in Chattanooga, Tenn., for
two
years the little fellow was brought to Oberlin by his grandfather. Ever
since that time he has been brought up and educated by his
grandparents,
who loved him as much as their own children. His death has been a
severe
blow to them. As has been said, White was a senior in the local high
school.
Class day was to have been held the night of the disaster, but was
postponed
by a unanimous vote of the class, to this (Tuesday) evening. It was
Harold’s
ambition and intention to enter Oberlin College as a freshman next fall
and after graduating to study medicine. As a boy and young man his life
has been one of which his relatives and friends have every reason to be
proud. In his class he was one of the most popular and respected
members.
The funeral was held
Monday
morning at 9:30 in the home of Mr. Scott, grandfather of the deceased.
Scripture was read by Dr. Tenney, who made some well-chosen remarks
upon
the life and character of the dead boy, and gave many messages of
comfort
to the bereaved relatives and friends. The music was rendered by the
high
school glee club and was most appropriate. The senior class of the high
school marched from the school house to the services in a body. Many
beautiful
floral tributes were placed on and around the coffin, including a large
bunch of cream roses from the class and a wreath from college students.
The pall-bearers were classmates of the deceased. A large crowd
accompanied
the hearse to the cemetery, where Rev. Bickford conducted the burial
service.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 12, 1906, p. 1.
Martha White, 78, worked at Gilford
Oberlin—Martha
Amelia
White,
78, of Oberlin, died Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2001, at Welcome Nursing Home,
Oberlin, following a brief illness.She was born March 1, 1923, in
Oberlin,
and remained a lifelong resident.
Mrs. White was employed
at the former Gilford Instrument Laboratories, Oberlin, as an
inspector,
retiring in 1984 following 17 years' service. She had also worked at
Jack
Knight Cleaners and American Greetings.
She was a member of Rust
United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir, and a member of
the
NAACP. She enjoyed fishing, camping, bowling, travel and dining out
with
friends and family.
Survivors are her
stepdaughter,
Patti Brown of Barbourville, Ky.; and sisters Elizabeth Johnson of
Oberlin
and Mary Williams Hodge of Miami, Fla. She was preceded in death by her
husband, Samuel White; bothers George W. Hodge, Arthur Hodge, Glen
Hodge
and William Hodge; sister, Alberta Peoples; and her parents, Albert and
Irene (nee Stevens) Hodge.
Graveside services will
be Monday at 10 a.m. in Westwood Cemetery, Morgan St., Oberlin. The
Rev.
Kevin L. Coleman of Rust United Methodist Church and Pastor Charles B.
Mayle of the Christian Missionary Alliance will officiate.
Cowling Funeral Home,
Oberlin,
handled arrangements.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Thursday, November 01, 2001
White services
Graveside services for
Martha
Amelia White, 78, a lifelong resident of Oberlin, will be 10 a.m.
Monday
at Westwood Cemetery in Oberlin.
The Rev. Kevin L. Coleman
of Rust United Methodist Church in Oberlin, Pastor Charles B. Mayle of
Christian Missionary Alliance and Pastor Howard O. Jones will
officiate.
Mrs. White died Wednesday at Welcome Nursing Home in Oberlin after a
short
illness.
There will be no
visitation.
She was an inspector at
Gilford Instruments in Oberlin for 17 years before retiring in 1984.
Prior
to that, she worked at Jack Knight Cleaners and American Greetings.
Mrs. White was a member
of Rust United Methodist Church, where she sang in the choir.
She also was a member of
NAACP.
She enjoyed fishing,
camping,
bowling, traveling and dining out with her friends and family.
Survivors include her
stepdaughter,
Patti Brown of Barbourville, Ky., and sisters Elizabeth Johnson of
Oberlin
and Mary Williams Hodge of Miami, Fla.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Samuel; parents Albert and Irene (nee Stevens) Hodge;
brothers
George, Arthur, Glen and William Hodge; and sisters Alberta Peoples and
Ida.
Cowling Funeral Home, 228
South Main St., Oberlin, is handling arrangements.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Saturday, November 3, 2001
Miss Alma Whitehead
Miss Alma Whitehead, a
graduate
of Oberlin high school with the class of 1910, died at the German
hospital
in Cleveland Sunday at the age of 20. Death was due to heart disease.
Miss Whitehead was a
daughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Robert B. Whitehead, until two years ago residents of
Oberlin. She was prominent in school affairs while here and was a
general
favorite with her classmates, to whom her death is a shock. She had
gone
to the German hospital to take a course in nursing.
The Oberlin News,
Oberlin, Ohio, Wednesday, May 8, 1912, pp. 8 & 5.
Oberlin
Boy Met His Death In France
Paul Whitehead in
American
Aviation Service Entered Upon His Great Adventure
Had Been a Member of
Junior High School Class – No Official News Yet Received
Paul Whitehead, of this
place, with the American Aviation Corps in France, has entered upon the
Great Adventure. A cablegram from Miss Edith Metcalf in France was
received
by the young man’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. R. B. Whitehead of 33
College
Place, last Friday. It briefly said that he had been killed, but
whether
he met his death while in combat with the enemy or in some accident is
not yet known. No official report has been received here.
Mr. Whitehead believes his
son had taken part in the big aerial raid in which several hundred
planes
participated. He is led to believe that his son recently completed his
training and was in actual service. This he gathered from Paul’s
last
letter
home.
The young man was a junior
in high school when he made up his mind to enlist in the aviation
service.
He stood the highest in practically all the tests given and was so well
liked by his officers that he was admitted to further training although
he was one year too young for this service. During his stay in France
he
has been sent from one training camp to another, gaining proficiency in
the various duties which the flyers have to perform. Paul was popular
among
his classmates and friends and many people unite with Mr. and Mrs.
Whitehead
in their deep sorrow. Yet they have the consolation that their son
could
have given his life in no better cause, and that his great sacrifice
was
not made in vain.
Paul Whitehead Collided With Another Plane
Young Aviator Fell a
Distance of 2,000 Feet to His Death – Had Completed His Training
Rev. and Mrs. R. B.
Whitehead
have received later word regarding the death of their son Paul who was
in the aviation service in France. The young man was killed in an
accident
in the air when his machine and that of another pilot collided. He fell
the distance of about 2,000 feet. The young man had completed his
training
and was given command of a small attacking plane, which is the ambition
of flyers. He expected orders to send him into actual fighting within a
few days when the accident cut short his career.
Miss Edith Metcalf, who
is with the Red Cross in France, took charge of the remains and a
military
funeral was held. It was largely attended by his mess mates as well as
aviators from other divisions. His comrades brought many flowers and
the
full military service was given.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, October 18 & 25, 1918, p. 1.
Rev.
Robert C. Whitehead, 61, Dies Suddenly At
Windham
Born
A graduate of
Mr. Whitehead had just returned to
Extremely active in Scouting, Mr.
Whitehead introduced Cub
Scouting here and had been cub scoutmaster of Pack 51, comprised of 11
Dens. A
year ago he was awarded the Silver Beaver by the Pine Tree Council, Boy
Scouts
of America, in recognition of outstanding service to boyhood.
His other activities included the
chairmanship of Town and
County Church Commission of the Congregational Christian Conference of
Maine;
Presumpscot Lodge, AF & AM, Kiwanis Club; and Pleasant River Grange.
Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Miriam
Macey Whitehead; a
daughter, Mrs. James W. Looney, Cleveland, O.; two sons, Robert C.,
Funeral services will be held at
Photograph: Rev. Robert C. Whitehead
Undated newspaper clipping
probably from the Portland Press
Herald,
Arthur Whitfield
Elyria native,
thoughtful
of others
Arthur Whitfield, 60, of
Columbus, formerly of Elyria, died Saturday at the Regency Manors
Nursing
Home in Columbus after a long illness.
Born in Elyria, he lived
in Columbus most of his life.
Mr. Whitfield had eight
years of education.
He worked as a newspaper
carrier for the Columbus Dispatch. He also was employed by Ohio State
University
for 14 years.
Mr. Whitfield was a member
of the Gospel Lighthouse Church of Columbus.
He enjoyed spending time
with his family, never missing a milestone in any family members’
life.
He was always there to lend a helping hand, earning himself the
nickname
“Roadrunner.”
Survivors include brothers
Billy G. of Lorain and Sam Whitfield of Oberlin; and a host of nieces
and
nephews.
He was preceded in death
by his parents, James and Amie (nee Jones) Whitfield; brothers James
and
John Whitfield; and a sister, Sylvia Jean Hodge.
Friends may call from 7
to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Cowling Funeral Home, 228 S. Main St., Oberlin.
Services will be at 11
a.m.
Wednesday at the Grace Community Church, 1908 W. 20th St., Lorain.
Elder Allen Gibson of the
Grace Community Church will officiate.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery, Oberlin.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Monday, May 17, 1999, p. C2.
Diana Whitfield
Diana Whitfield, 47, of
E. College St., a lifelong resident of Oberlin, died unexpectedly at
Allen
Memorial Hospital on Sunday, June 21, 1998.
Mrs. Whitfield was born
in Oberlin and lived her entire life here; she was a 1968 graduate of
Oberlin
High School. She was an assembler at the Nordson Corporation for 21
years.
Mrs. Whitfield was a
member
of Grace Community Church of Lorain, having served on the usher board
and
the women’s ministry. She also was a member of the church choir
and in
her spare time enjoyed fishing, crocheting and talking on the C.B.
radio;
her handle was “Lady 2-10.”
She is survived by her
husband,
Billy “Pap” Whitfield, known as “999” on the
C.B. radio; sons Donald
Johnson
of Oberlin, Douglas Johnson of Lorain, and Carl Johnson of Fresno,
Calif.;
daughter Angelina Johnson of Cleveland; stepsons Billy Whitfield and
Eric
Whitfield of Lorain, and Billy Whitfield, Jr., of Cleveland;
step-daughters
Katy Armstrong of Cleveland, Tonia Whitfield, Theresa Horton, and Mary
Albright, all of Lorain; a brother, David Albright, Jr., of Elyria; and
sisters Paula Booker and Dorrie Albright of Columbus; and 17
grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her parents David and Estella (nee Rucker) Albright.
Services will be held
today
from 7-9 p.m. at Cowling Funeral Home with funeral services scheduled
for
11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 24, at Grace Community Church of Lorain,
with
Elder Allen Gibson officiating. Interment will be at Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 23, 1998, p. 3.
John T. Whitfield
Oberlin—Funeral
services
for John Thomas Whitfield, 27, who was shot and killed when police
stopped
the car he rode in after a filling station holdup in Elyria Sunday,
will
be tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Cowling Funeral Home. Burial will be in
Westwood
Cemetery.
Whitfield, of 133 Lincoln
St., was born in Elyria and had lived in this area all his life. He
attended
schools in Oberlin.
Surviving are his wife,
Virginia, Lorain; two sons, John and Ricky, and three daughters,
Rebecca,
Naomi, and Mary, all of Lorain; his mother, Mrs. Amy Whitfield,
Oberlin,
at whose home he was living; four brothers, James of Cleveland, Pat of
Lorain, Sam of Oberlin and Arthur of Columbus and a sister, Mrs. Sylvia
Hodge, Oberlin.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Wednesday, September 20, 1967, p. 34.
Mr.
and Mrs. Whitney funeral held Sunday
Jay M. Whitney, 72, and
his wife, Grace, 71, of 525 Church St., Kipton, were killed in an auto
accident near Toyah in West Texas last week on Wednesday. They
were
en route to visit their daughter, Mrs. Luella Mandeville, and her
family
in San Diego, Calif.
Funeral services were
Sunday
at the Gerber Funeral Home in Wakeman. Rev. Paul Miguel of Kipton
Community Church and Rev. Alan Campbell of East Oberlin Community
Church
officiated. Burial was in Camden Cemetery.
The Whitneys were killed
in a head-on collision when an approaching car crossed the center
line.
Three persons in the other car, all Californians, were also killed.
Mr. and Mrs. Whitney, both
Camden Township natives, spent their lives in the area. Both were
members of Kipton Community Church.
Mr. Whitney, a retired
carpenter,
was a former school teacher and athletic coach for 10 years in Berlin
Heights
and in Old Fort and Arlington, both in Seneca County. He was a
[1912
graduate of Oberlin High School and a] 1916 graduate of Ohio State
University,
majoring in agriculture.
Surviving are three
daughters,
Mrs. Mandeville, Mrs. Leota Brumby of Kipton and Mrs. Leona Hurst of RD
1, LaGrange, and five grandchildren. A son, Arthur, died in 1946.
Mr. Whitney is survived
by a sister, Mrs. Mary Geist of RD 3, Wellington, and Mrs. Whitney by
three
sisters and four brothers: Mrs. Emma Hayes of Wellington, Mrs. Mabel
Keithley of Los Angeles, Mrs. Blanche Baker of Kipton, Seth Ingersoll
of Elyria, F. A. Ingersoll of Oberlin, Charles Ingersoll of Kipton and
Walter Ingersoll of RD 1, Wakeman.
The Oberlin News-Tribune, Thursday,
February 4, 1965.
John A. Whitney
John A. [Arthur] Whitney,
85, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011, at Lutheran
Hospital after a brief illness. Born in Ishpeming, Mich., he was the
son of John H. and Golda B. Whitney. He graduated from high school in
Oberlin, Ohio in 1943. Entering the Army shortly after, he served in
World War II primarily as a deep sea diver and electrician with the
110th Port Marine Maintenance Company stationed in Southampton, England.
He earned his Bachelor's degree in Radio Engineering from Indiana
Technical College (now Indiana Institute of Technology), Fort Wayne, in
1951. He then joined the faculty at Tech as a Development Engineer in
the R&D Department and later as a professor of Electrical
Engineering. During this time he developed test equipment for the
magnet wire industry.
He married Virginia Graff Whitney in 1952, and they enjoyed 39 years of
marriage until her death in 1992. He remained devoted to her until the
day he died.
He was a Master Mason for over 50 years and served as Master of
Southgate Lodge 731.
In 1964, he earned his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from
Purdue University and later his Professional Engineer's License. In
1968, he left Tech to join Franklin Electric, Bluffton where he was
manager of the Advanced Developmental Engineering Department, retiring
in 1989. He was granted more than 30 patents through his work at Tech
and Franklin.
He earned his Private Pilot's License and owned a Cessna Cardinal.
He joined the Eastern Star, Star of the East 514 and served as Worthy
Patron along side his wife. After his retirement, he lent financial and
practical support to numerous local organizations and was a member of
MENSA after submitting his GRE scores that were in the 99th percentile.
He developed the next generation of magnet wire test equipment in his
work at AZ Tech in his late 70s, writing new standards adopted by the
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA). He will be
remembered by many for his brilliance, vision and generosity.
He is survived by his son, Ron Whitney of Fort Wayne; daughter, Marilyn
Whitney of Fort Wayne; sister, Phyllis (Andrew) Allan [OHS ‘42]
of Elyria, Ohio; four nephews; and one niece. Service is 1 p.m. Monday,
Feb. 28, 2011, at D.O. McComb & Sons Lakeside Park Funeral Home,
1140 Lake Ave., with calling one hour prior. Pastor Dale Matthews
officiating. Calling also from 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, at
the funeral home. Burial in Lindenwood Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the American Diabetes Association or American
Heart Association. To sign the online guestbook, please visit
www.mccombandsons.com
The Journal Gazette,
Fort Wayne, Ind., Sunday, February 27, 2011, p. 3C.