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Received (after much prodding) via Priority Mail on 5/23/02
Holy Cow--
Look what 50 years has done to this poor man.
No--has to be a bad camera.
If you really want to know what he has been doing the past 50 years--you must come to the OHS class of '52 reunion.
See you there!!!
Jack
Received 2/21/03
Following graduation from O.H.S., I moved to Findlay, Ohio, and began my career in the food business. Worked for the Kroger Co. 13 years as meat cutter, head meat cutter and assistant store manager. In 1965 I went to work for Super Food Services as a meat supervisor. S.F.S. is a supplier for IGA food stores. 1974 went into partnership and ran 7 IGA stores, but in 1987 partnership broke and I purchased the Lima Shawnee and Spencerville stores. Retired in 1999, which lasted about 1 month. Got really "bored". Now cutting meat for 16 store chain, and love it. Married Diana February of 1956. What a life. Following is the reason of said union.
1. Son- Dana, 2 sons
2. Son- Randy, 2 sons and 1 daughter
3. Daughter- Terri, 2 sons and 1 daughter
4. Daughter- Kelly, 2 daughters, 1 son, and 2 stepsons
Boy, does grandma have fun at Christmas time, but I don't (Ha).
Pretty good health now. January 1991 had a total hip replacement from car accident when in 8th grade. Quadruple by-pass May of 1994, and total knee replacement December of 2002 from old football injury.
All in all Diana and I have had a great life. Some downs but a lot of ups. With great kids from 46 to 37 and 13 wonderful grandkids 22 to 2 1/2.
What more could a guy want. God bless the OHS class of 1952.
Obituary: M. F. "Jack" Babcock
Spencerville [Ohio]. M. F. [Milferd Frank] "Jack" Babcock, 70, formerly of Shawnee Township and Findlay, died at 11:32 a.m. May 13, 2005, at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, where he had been for one week. He was born June 14, 1934, in Marion to Glen M. and Alice Marie Erber, who preceded him in death.
On Feb. 12, 1956, he married Diana Lee Beckman, who survives. Mr. Babcock worked as co-owner of the Spencerville and Shawnee IGA Foodliners, where he worked for 12 years and retired as a meat cutter at Rays Supermarkets. He had also worked for the Kroger Co. for 12 years in Findlay and Bowling Green stores and had been co-owner of the Harris Foodstores in Lima for 14 years and also for Super Foods.
A graduate of Oberlin High School in 1952, he was a member of the College First Church of God in Findlay while living there and later the Shawnee Church of God. He was a member of the United Foodworkers Local 911 of Toledo and had been a member of the Shawnee Optimist Club, where he had served as secretary/treasurer for several years.
Survivors also include two sons, Dana (Sharon) Babcock of Piqua, and Randy (Kathy) Babcock of Lima; two daughters, Terri (Steve) Brigner of Spring, Texas, and Kelly (Jay) Stephen of Spencerville; 13 grandchildren; a great-grandson; and a sister, Betty L. (Paul) Brown of Lakeland, Texas.
Services will begin at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Thomas E. Bayliff Funeral Home, Spencerville. Pastor Mark Chambers will officiate. Entombment will be at a later date in Memorial Park Mausoleum in Lima. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Heart Unit of St. Rita's Medical Center.
The Lima News, Lima, Ohio, probably Sunday, May 15, 2005.