Updated: November/20/2009
WW II vet was builder, loved travel
|
Harry L. Lingo, Jr., 84, a retired DuPont supervisor and a co-owner of a building and remodeling firm, died Wednesday in Windhaven Eldercare Center, Temperance, where he lived about three years.
|
|
|
Updated: November/19/2009
Ex-Whitmer English teacher was a jazz lover
Andrew A. High, Jr., a retired Whitmer High School teacher who loved jazz and Shakespeare, died in his West Toledo home Tuesday of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 78.
|
Updated: November/18/2009
L-O-F exec enjoyed carpentry and boats
C. Buckley "Buck" Holton, Jr., 84, a manager and career employee of the former Libbey-Owens-Ford Co. who enjoyed woodworking and refurbishing old boats and homes, died Sunday at his home in Perrysburg.
|
Updated: November/17/2009
Downtown fixture ran hair salon at Spitzer site
Robert H. Sautter, who with his wife ran a beauty salon in the Spitzer Building in downtown Toledo for more than 50 years, died Sunday in Wood County Hospital. He was 90.
|
Updated: November/16/2009
WWII veteran was director at local synagogue
Jay S. Glassman, former executive director for Congregation B'nai Israel in Sylvania and later the director of the Toledo Jewish Cemetery Association, died Saturday at the Cedar Village Assisted Living in southwest Ohio's Mason. He was 90.
|
Updated: November/15/2009
Ex-union officer coached for CYO
John C. "Jack" Barber, a longtime East Toledo youth football coach and a retired officer of his union local, died Thursday in St. Luke's Hospital of a heart attack.
|
Updated: November/14/2009
Car sales chief had rapport with buyers
Thomas J. Claus, 83, a car salesman and dealership manager during a career spanning five decades, died Thursday in Toledo Hospital from complications of heart and vascular problems.
|
Updated: November/13/2009
Ex-Henry Co. engineer was firm's principal
Eugene C. Gerken, 71, a civil engineer and two-term Henry County engineer who took over the consulting firm founded by his father, died Wednesday in Country View Haven nursing home, where he had been since September, 2008.
|
Updated: November/12/2009
Storer CEO led company into cable TV
Peter Storer, a onetime executive at WSPD television who became chief executive of the pioneering broadcast firm founded in Toledo by his father, died Sunday in his Saratoga, Wyo., home from complications of cardiovascular and pulmonary disease. He was 81.
|
Updated: November/11/2009
Teacher advocated for many Hispanics
Lucy A. Weaver, thought to be the first Latina schoolteacher in Toledo Public Schools, died Sunday at her East Toledo home of complications from an infection. She was 80.
|
Updated: November/10/2009
Inventor revered for props used in magic
DELTA - Frank Radtke, a retired toolmaker who was known worldwide as the inventor of high-bounce silicone balls that have been favored for many years by famous jugglers, died Sunday in Flower Hospital. He was 69.
|
Updated: November/09/2009
Retiree lived to give back to community
Charles "Bud" Lagger of Oregon, a retired BP lab technician cited for both humanitarian and outstanding community service work, died Friday of cancer at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. He would have been 72 today.
|
Updated: November/08/2009
Athletic chief at Rossford also coached
Karen S. Swartz, a former athletic director at Rossford High School, where she coached an assortment of girls' sports, died of heart failure Saturday in Mercy St. Charles Hospital, Oregon. She was 69.
|
Updated: November/07/2009
Edison worker was standout in Libbey football
Barry W. Bigelow, a retired Toledo Edison lineman who was a standout football player at Libbey High School, died of a heart attack Thursday in Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center. He was 75.
|
Updated: November/06/2009
Business founder a Masonic, civic leader
Claude E. Young, 77, co-founder of a plastic parts manufacturer who was a leader in civic and Masonic groups, died Tuesday in St. Luke's Hospital, Maumee, of apparent heart failure.
|
Updated: November/05/2009
Bus driver helped in rescue of 2 from fire
Bruce E. Nelson, 63, a TARTA bus driver who helped rescue a couple from their burning apartment, died of nonalcoholic cirrhosis Saturday in Ebeid Hospice Residence, Sylvania.
|
Updated: November/04/2009
Business manager of zoo was WWII vet
John R. "Ray" Hunter, 87, business manager of the Toledo Zoo for 20 years, who was recruited to the post by childhood friend Phil Skeldon, died Tuesday of pneumonia in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township.
|
Updated: November/02/2009
Pastor related well with youths
Daniel Robert D'Clute, pastor of family ministries at New Harvest Christian Church in Oregon, died unexpectedly Friday at his home in Oregon. He was 40.
|
Updated: October/31/2009
Tiffin man polished glassware at factory
TIFFIN - Edward L. West, 77, who for 30 years brought out the shine in stemware, vases, and plates as an acid polisher at the former Tiffin Glass Co., died Thursday in Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center.
|
Updated: October/30/2009
Grower known for optimism, openness
Ronald Schmidlin, 70, the third-generation owner of a business that evolved from growing tomatoes to growing bedding plants in greenhouses, died Sunday in his home in Fulton County's Fulton Township.
|
Updated: October/29/2009
Manager sat on school board in Port Clinton
Robert Clinton Johnston, a retired plant manager who spent 10 years on the Port Clinton City School District Board of Education, died of cancer Sunday in his Catawba Island home. He was 76.
|
Updated: October/28/2009
BGSU teacher was language, speech pioneer
Elizabeth A. Neidecker, 89, a retired professor and an early advocate for speech-language pathology programs in schools, died Monday in Blakely Care Center.
|
Updated: October/26/2009
Fund-raiser led Miracle Network
Mary Frances "Mefty" Lechman, the former director of the Children's Miracle Network in Northwest Ohio who launched the Dance Marathon fund-raisers at Bowling Green State University and University of Toledo, died Saturday at the Kingston Care Center of Sylvania. She was 71.
|
Updated: October/26/2009
Ex-jail officer aided husband with MS
Tina Marie Davenport, who spent most of her life caring for others, including her late husband, Hank, who had multiple sclerosis, died Saturday.
|
Updated: October/25/2009
BGSU professor began popular culture center
BOWLING GREEN - Ray B. Browne, 87, who created an academic discipline and a national movement by studying the stuff of everyday life - whether comic books, fast food, pop tunes, or situation comedies - died Thursday in his home of congestive heart failure.
|
Updated: October/24/2009
Aunt, niece active in Masonic groups
Memorial services will be at 4 p.m. today in the Newcomer Funeral Home for Carma Christine Fulghum, 69, and her aunt, Martha Jacobs, 96, who were killed Oct. 11 near Barnsdall, Okla., when an oncoming pickup hit their minivan.
|
Updated: October/23/2009
Auto dealer was leader in industry
Vincent "Vin" Devers, whose name has been synonymous with automobile dealerships in the Toledo area for more than five decades, died Wednesday in the Franciscan Care Center in Sylvania. He was 89.
|
Updated: October/22/2009
Museum aide a descendant of glass magnate
Caroline MacNichol Orser, 80, a longtime volunteer at the Toledo Museum of Art and a member of the board of directors, died Oct. 11 in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
|
Updated: October/21/2009
Writer covered sports for Blade, Toledo Times
Hal Shanahan, 85, a retired Blade sports writer who covered two of his favorite activities - bowling and golfing - but who reported on most sports at every level, died Saturday in University of Toledo Medical Center, the former Medical College of Ohio Hospital.
|
Updated: October/20/2009
CCC veteran loved baseball, raising garden
Norman A. Schell, 93, a retired railroad worker who was an avid baseball player and a green-thumb gardener for many years, died Sunday in his home in Maumee.
|
Updated: October/19/2009
East Toledoan was boxer, Navy vet
James M. Hunyor, a boxer in East Toledo in the late 1930s and retired crane operator at the former Libbey-Owens-Ford, died yesterday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township, of complications from a stroke, his family said. He was 90.
|
Updated: October/18/2009
Jazz radio host also formed arts workshop
Russell Charles Taylor, 76, a jazz radio host who promoted creative expression in Toledo's black community, died Monday in Darlington Nursing & Rehabilitation Center from complications of kidney and congestive heart failure.
|
Updated: October/17/2009
Ex-Bedford educator led turnaround
LAMBERTVILLE - George Hagen, 82, who as superintendent of Bedford Public Schools brought calm to a troubled district and championed new ways to educate adults as well as children, died Tuesday in his Lambertville home from complications of congestive heart failure.
|
Updated: October/16/2009
Founder of import firm was art lover
Willis Boice, 86, founder of a machine tool-importing firm who turned a corner of his warehouse into an art gallery, died Tuesday in Parkcliffe Community.
|
Updated: October/15/2009
Ex-Toledoan was active volunteer
Mary Howe Brumback, 81, a onetime Toledoan who was a support to her husband, Charles, as he rose through the ranks at the Tribune Co., died of cancer Tuesday in her Sarasota, Fla., home.
|
Updated: October/14/2009
Ex-Sylvania teacher had led VFW post
Richard L. Wright, 77, a longtime Sylvania high school teacher, died Monday in Lynwood Manor, Adrian, of complications from cancer.
|
Updated: October/13/2009
Choir director taught, sang in Choral Society
Juanita Steward Lloyd, a retired Toledo Public Schools teacher who devoted much of her life to teaching and music, died Wednesday in Lake Park at Flower Hospital in Sylvania. She was 82.
|
Updated: October/12/2009
Ex-Fayette official served as firefighter
Max Eugene Snider, 83, who served for several years on Fayette Village Council and was a Gorham-Fayette volunteer firefighter for about 40 years, died Oct. 4 at his son's home in Clute, Texas.
|
Updated: October/11/2009
City officer followed kin, joined force
Charles E. Wiener, 81, who was a Toledo police officer, following his father and an older brother, died of cancer Friday in Hospice of Northwest Ohio, South Detroit Avenue.
|
Updated: October/10/2009
Nurse had dedication to care for schoolkids
Barbara Duffey, 67, a public health nurse whose favorite duty was caring for schoolchildren, died Thursday in her Ida Township home from complications of myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disorder.
|
Updated: October/09/2009
TPS teacher imparted joy of music to students
Alda Haddad, 86, who taught music to Toledo elementary and high school students, died Tuesday in Marion, Ohio, General Hospital of congestive heart failure.
|
Updated: October/08/2009
Professor honored for quality of teaching
David V. Gedeon, 70, a retired Bowling Green State University technology professor who was honored for his teaching and his dedication to family, died Monday in Mercy St. Vincent Medical Center.
|
Updated: October/07/2009
Union painter was WWII vet
Richard L. Jennings, 89, a union painter who was an officer and board member of his local, died Monday of congestive heart failure at his cottage on Cub Lake near Hillsdale, Mich.
|
Updated: October/06/2009
Business professor taught 30 years at UT
Janet Marie Northrup, 73, a retired University of Toledo business education professor who befriended her students, died Sunday in her Ottawa Hills home.
|
Updated: October/05/2009
Toledo educator served in WWII
Margaret "Peg" Kendall, 86, of Toledo, a longtime guidance counselor for Toledo Public Schools who was in the Navy during World War II, died Tuesday at Ebeid Hospice Residence in Sylvania.
|
Updated: October/04/2009
Commissioner post capped public career
Francis E. "Fritz" Szollosi, 89, who capped 31 years of federal service - including nearly seven years as Toledo postmaster - with eight years as a Lucas County commissioner, died Saturday in his Oregon home from complications of a fall at home in August.
|
Updated: October/02/2009
Engineering prof led UT department
Milton A. Netter, Jr., 86, a former chairman of the industrial engineering department at the University of Toledo, where he taught for decades, died of pneumonia Wednesday in Mercy Memorial Hospital, Monroe.
|
Updated: September/30/2009
Plumber was mayor of Bryan for 24 years
William C. Runkle, 79, the mayor of Bryan nearly a quarter-century who, wherever he went, was a goodwill ambassador for the Williams County seat, died Friday in Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center of complications from congestive heart failure.
|
Updated: September/29/2009
Oil painter collected bells, lived to be 102
Dorothy Singer, an amateur painter who was an active member of the Toledo Artists' Guild and who reliably attended services at her Toledo church even though she never had a driver's license, died Friday in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio at age 102.
|
Updated: September/28/2009
Concrete pipe worker sold coal, scrap vehicles
Willie "Buck" Parsons, who retired after more than 33 years at the former Toledo Concrete Pipe Co. and built an auto parts business now run by one of his eight children, died Saturday in his son's Spencer Township home.
|
|
Search
advertisement
