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Delores E. Ellington
Delores E. Ellington, 42,
of Lynn, Mass., formerly of Oberlin, died Aug. 11 of an apparent heart
attack.
Born in Oberlin, she was
a 1969 graduate of Oberlin High School. She had been employed with the
Massachusetts Transit System and in construction trades, all in the
Boston
area.
Survivors include a son,
Warren Honeycut of Boston, and a half-brother, William Miller of
Atlanta,
Ga.
She was preceded in death
by her mother, Beatrice Parker Jenkins; her father, William Miller; and
a brother, James Donald.
Graveside services will
be held at 11 a.m. Thursday in Westwood Cemetery, with the Rev. A. G.
Miller
officiating. Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, August 24, 1993, p. 2.
Lillie May Ellington
Lillie May Ellington, 55,
of Elyria, former Oberlin resident, died at the Cleveland Clinic on
Oct.
1, 1999, after a long illness.
Born in Georgetown, Ga.,
she grew up in Oberlin and graduated from Oberlin High School in 1963.
She had lived in Elyria for more than 20 years and had worked as a
nurses
aid at the Elyria Methodist Home for 20 years.
She is survived by her
mother,
Mamie Dell Ellington, of Elyria; three brothers, Eddie Ellington and
Willie
Ellington, both of Elyria, and Donele Ellington of San Antonio, Texas;
and a sister, Barbara Ellington of Tampa, Fla.
She was preceded in death
by her father, James Ellington; and a son, Darryl Conrad Ellington.
Graveside services in
Westwood
Cemetery will be 11 a.m. today, Oct. 5.
Memorial contributions may
be made to the Kidney Foundation of Lorain County, PO Box 1381, Elyria
44036; or to the American Diabetes Association Ohio Affiliate Inc. 937
N. High St., Worthington, OH 43085.
The Cowling Funeral Home
is handling local arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, October 5, 1999, p. 3.
Frances
On
Following her [graduation from OHS in
1896 and her] receipt
of the A.B. degree from Oberlin in 1902 and her graduation from the
kindergarten training school in 1903, Mrs. Elliot taught in the
kindergarten
school for one year. She then taught in
She and her husband lived in
Survivors are two sons, Charles D.
and William H., and two
sisters, Mary L., ’87, and Lora D., ’00.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, May
1950, p. 25.
Theodore
H. Ellis, 78, Built Navy
Stations
Special to The New York
Times
Summit, N.J., May 27—Theodore Horatio
Ellis of Summit, a
retired civil engineer, who devoted his professional career largely to
the
construction and operation of oil refineries, died here yesterday at
the age of
78. Many of the fuel-oil stations serving the Navy around the world are
of his
design and construction, built when he was consulting engineer for
fuel-oil
stations to the United States Shipping Board.
During the first World War Mr. Ellis
served as a captain in
the Engineers Corps. He was a life member of the American Society of
Civil
Engineers; a charter member of Summit Post, American Legion, and Summit
Chapter, Old Guard, and a former member of the Sons of the American
Revolution.
Born in Oberlin, Ohio, [and an 1884
graduate of OHS,] he was
the son of the Rev. Dr. John M. Ellis, a professor at Oberlin College,
and Mrs.
Ellis.
He leaves a widow, Mrs. Alfreda
Brennan Ellis; a son,
Bernard T., and two daughters, Mrs. S. W. Fenton and Mrs. Thomas E.
McCracken.
The New
York Times, New York, N.Y.,
Monday, May 28, 1945, p.
19.
Hugh Elmer
Hugh Elmer, 87, OC ’31, died
December 7, 1996, in Jacksonville, Fla. Born in Turkey, Mr. Elmer
[graduated from OHS in 1927,] had lived in Jacksonville for 52 years,
and was retired from the Railway Express Agency. Among survivors are
his wife of 64 years, Kathleen, two daughters, a son, nine
grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
Oberlin
Alumni Magazine, Oberlin,
Ohio, Summer 1997, p. 38.
Kathleen Elmer, 95 Jacksonville
Kathleen Elmer, a resident of Jacksonville since 1946, died Wednesday,
May 12, 2004, in Crystal River, at the age of 95.
She was born Aug. 10, 1908, in Foochow, China, in a small stone cottage
near the top of a mountain called Kuliang. She was named Kathleen
Cynthia Beard. Her father, Willard L. Beard, was a missionary and
principal of a Chinese boys' high school, and her mother, Ellen Kinney
Beard, taught English in his school. She was educated in China by
missionary wives until the age of 12. Kathleen left China at the age of
12, sailing from Shanghai to Seattle, Wash., with her parents when they
returned to the United States on furlough.
She then lived in Oberlin, Ohio, and completed her high school
education there [OHS class of 1926]. She met her childhood sweetheart
and future husband, Hugh Elmer, in Oberlin.
Following high school, she attended Oberlin College and graduated in
1931 with a degree in music. After graduation she went to Logan, Utah,
and taught in a high school for one year. She then returned to Saginaw,
Mich., and married Hugh Elmer on Sept. 9, 1932.
They settled in Jacksonville in 1946 and joined the Epperson Memorial
Methodist Church. Kathleen became the church organist and she was also
very active in other church functions. She continued playing the organ
and piano for the church for more than 50 years. In addition to playing
the organ and piano for the church, she played for many weddings and
other functions. She also wrote numerous songs including songs for
individual weddings.
When Epperson Memorial Methodist Church closed, she became a member of
the Wesley Fellowship.
She was a member of the PEO Sorority.
In 1988, she and her sister Marjorie, escorted by her niece, Nancy
Butte, returned to China for a visit to see their birthplace and
childhood home.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Hugh Elmer, Dec. 7, 1996;
four sisters, Phoebe Beard, Geraldine Beard, Marjorie Butte and Dorothy
Newberg; and one brother, Gould Beard.
Survivors include one son, Allen Elmer and wife, Sherry, of
Jacksonville; two daughters, Cynthia (Cyndy) Amend and husband, Bob, of
New Smyrna Beach, and Jacqueline (Jill) Jackson and husband, Charles,
of Crystal River; nine grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.
Her grandchildren and their spouses are: Adam Elmer and wife, Sandy,
Nicole Simmons and husband, Randy, Christopher Elm, Mark Jackson and
wife, Jana, Scott Jackson and wife, Della, Laura Peugh and husband,
Bill, Robert Amend and wife, Robin, Michael Amend and wife, Diana, and
Steve Amend.
Her great-grandchildren are: William Peugh III, Timothy Peugh, Jordan
Peugh, James Peugh, Liana Amend, Nathaniel Amend, Rachel Amend,
Michaela Amend, Andrew Amend, Megan Amend, Sarah Jackson, Joshua
Jackson, Lucas Jackson, Jamie Jackson and Brett Jackson.
Citrus County Chronicle,
Crystal River, Florida, May 15, 2004.
Pearl Elmer
Pearl Elmer, 91, of St. Petersburg, died Sunday (Nov. 21, 1993) at St.
Petersburg General Hospital. [He was a 1920 graduate of OHS.] Bay Pines
Funeral Home, St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg Times,
Florida, Wednesday, November 24, 1993, p. 8.
ELVIN -
The friends and relatives of Mr. John Borg Elvin, Mr. and Mrs. John
Earle
Elvin, Mrs. Michael Clark, are invited to attend the funeral of Mr.
John
Borg Elvin [OHS 1959] Wednesday, September 25, 1968, at 11:30 o'clock
at
Mikell Chapel of St. Phillips Cathedral, the Very Rev. David B. Collins
officiating, Interment, Arlington. H. M. Patterson & Son, Spring
Hill,
Atlanta Journal, Atlanta,
Georgia, Tuesday, September 24, 1968.
Catherine Beach Ely
Miss Catherine Beach Ely,
a writer, who had formerly been a school teacher in Philadelphia, died
in a private hospital here yesterday at the age of 63. Miss Ely, who
resided
at 437 West 121st Street, was born in Oberlin, Ohio [and graduated from
OHS in 1888].
Funeral services will be
held at Hulberg’s Parlor, 104 West 73d St., Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock.
Interment will be in Oberlin, Ohio.
The New York Times, New
York, N.Y., Friday, February 7, 1936, p. 19.
Dies in New York
The body of Miss Catherine
Beach Ely, 63, former Oberlin resident, arrived here Saturday for
interment
at Westwood. A brief service at the grave was conducted by Dr. James A.
Richards of First Church. Miss Ely, well known as a writer and
educator,
died in New York on Thursday. She was graduated from Oberlin College in
1893. Her college work was followed by teaching in small colleges and
private
schools and by further study in Europe. Miss Ely was the author of “The
Modern Tendency in American Painting,” and of a number of special
articles.
Irving W. Metcalf of Oberlin is a cousin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, February 11, 1936, p. 1.
Dennis E. Emary
Huntington Township --
Dennis
E. Emary, 49, of Huntington Township, died Saturday, May 18, 2002, when
a fuel tank he was working on burst.
He was born Sept. 11,
1952,
in Elyria.
He graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1970 and attended Valparaiso College in Indiana.
Emary, a journeyman
toolmaker,
had been employed at Bendix Corporation in Elyria and the former
Gilford
Instrument Laboratories, Oberlin. For the last 21 years he was owner
and
operator of the Huntington Hardwood Lumber Co.
He was a member of St.
Patrick
Church, Wellington.
Survivors include his
wife,
Denise; son, Bryan E. Emary of Sterling Heights, Mich.; daughter,
Rebecca
L. Smith of North Ridgeville; stepson, Andrew J. Dansco of Huntington
Township;
two grandchildren; his parents, Robert J. and Florence M. Emary of
Wakeman;
brother, David E. Emary of St. Paul, Neb.; and sisters, Deborah E.
Schuster
of Chardon and Dale E. Neale of Crestline.
Funeral Mass will be
Saturday
at 11 a.m. in St. Patrick Church, 512 N. Main St., Wellington, with the
Rev. James J. Reymann, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Ridge
Hill
Memorial Park, Amherst Township.
Memorial contributions may
be made to National Arbor Day Foundation, Trees in Memory Program, 211
N. 12th St., Lincoln, Neb. 68508.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, Wednesday, May 22, 2002.
Margaret Stenger Engelhart
Margaret “Margo” Stenger Engelhart, [OC ’29, died] May 13, 1994,
in Seal Beach, CAlif., at 85. [She graduated from OHS in 1925.] Her
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin, Ohio,.B. was in sociology; she also
earned an R.N. at U. Washington and certification in public health at
U. California-Berkeley. Her husband, E. Carl, survives.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin, Ohio, Fall, 1994, p.
44.
Arthur W.
Engle, was teacher, superintendent
Arthur W. Engle, 81, of
Bradenton, Fla., died Feb. 23 in Bradenton.
Born in South Amherst, he was a [1924
graduate of OHS and a] former resident of Lakewood and Amherst. He
moved to Florida in 1967.
He attended Oberlin College and
received his undergraduate degree from Iowa State College and his
master’s degree from Kent State University.
He was employed as a teacher by the
former Birmingham High School and from 1935-1949 was head of the
science department at Amherst’s Marion L. Steele High School.
He also was a former superintendent
of Belden High School, now consolidated with the Midview Local School
District.
He assumed duties as executive head
of Elyria Township schools in 1951 and was a former principal in
Maplewood School in Elyria.
In 1961, he became principal of
Central Junior High School in Amherst. He retired in 1967.
Mr. Engle was instrumental in helping
to arrange the consolidation of the township schools with the Elyria
City School District.
He was a member of Phi Delta Kappa,
Kappa Delta Pi, and the National Society for Education.
He also held memberships in the State
Board of Ohio Mental Health Association, Lorain County Guidance Center,
Lorain County Mental Health Clinic, the Lorain County Tuberculosis and
Health Association, and the Lorain County Crippled Children and Adults
Association and the Sandstone Camera Club.
He was a former delegate to the North
Eastern Ohio Teachers Association and a member of the National
Elementary Principals’ Association and president of the Lorain County
Education Association.
He is survived by his wife, Mary;
sons, Arthur of Chicago, Ill., and Robert of Granville, Ohio, and six
grandchildren.
The Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Friday, March 7, 1986, p. C-2.
Arthur
William Engle
Arthur W. Engle died
He [graduated from OHS in 1924 and]
attended Oberlin
[College] 1924-26 [class of 1928]. His wife, Mary ’28, two sons, and
six
grandchildren survive.
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Mary L. Engle
Mary L. Engle [nee Ebersole], 92, formerly of Bradenton, died March 8,
1999.
She was born Sept. 22, 1906, in Oil City, Pa. She retired as a private
secretary at the U.S. Automatic Corp. in Amherst, Ohio. She [graduated
from OHS in 1924,] attended Oberlin College and was a member of Trinity
Methodist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Arthur W. of Libertyville, Ill., and Robert
of Granville, Ohio; six grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
A graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Skyway Memorial
Gardens. Palmetto Funeral Home is in charge.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
Sarasota, Florida, Friday, March 19, 1999, p. 8B.
Martha Estabrook
Martha (nee Hayward)
Estabrook,
62, of Oberlin, died Friday evening at Welcome Nursing Home, after a
long
illness.
She was born in Omaha,
Neb.,
and lived in Oberlin when her mother was house director at Elmwood
during
World War II. She then graduated from [Oberlin High School in 1943 and
from] Oberlin College in 1947. She was a primary school teacher and
taught
in a number of foreign schools, returning to Oberlin to live in 1977.
She
was a member of First Church.
She is survived by two
sons,
Thomas of Worcester, Mass., and Charles of Rockland County, N.Y.; and
two
brothers, Sumner Hayward of Oberlin and Raymond Hayward of Bethesda, Md.
Her husband, Charles,
preceded
her in death in 1975.
Private family services
will be held at Woodland Cemetery in Dayton.
A memorial service will
be held Saturday, Dec. 17, at 3:30 p.m. at First Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, December 1, 1988, p. 2.
Frances Beard Esterly
Mrs. D. Edward
Esterly (Frances Adele Beard) died on
The family moved to Oberlin, [where
she graduated from OHS
in 1884,] and Mrs. Esterly took the preparatory course in 1894 and
graduated
from the Literary Course of the college in 1888.
She taught school for four years in
the Oberlin public
schools and after that for nine years in
In 1901 she married David Edward
Esterly and moved to
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs.
John P. Adams (Frances
Maria Esterly, ’26); a son, Daniel Beard Esterly; and a sister, Mrs. W.
A.
Siddall (Minne Beard, ’91).
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
November 1951, p. 34.
Jane Eubank
Laura Jane White Eubank,
72, died Wednesday in a Dallas hospital.
The body was cremated.
Memorial
services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Westminster Presbyterian Church
with
the Rev. James J. Pitts officiating. Arrangements were made by North's
Funeral Home, 242 Orange.
Mrs. Eubank was born in
Eveleth, Minn., and graduated from high school in Oberlin, Ohio, [in
1942]
and Ohio State University in 1946. She married Joe Combs Eubank in 1946
and lived in Columbus, Ohio, San Antonio, Big Spring, Altus, Okla., and
Abilene. She was a social worker in Columbus, Ohio. She was employed by
the Texas Department of Human Services as a supervisor for 19 years
until
retiring in 1987. She was a volunteer with Medical Care Mission in
Abilene
for seven years and was a longtime elder at Westminster Presbyterian
Church.
Survivors include two
sons,
Mark Brent Eubank of Kerrville and Eric Bryan Eubank of Austin; one
brother,
B. Wade White of Sarasota, Fla.; and three grandchildren.
Memorials may be sent to
Medical Care Mission, 301 Medical Drive, Abilene 79601-4550; or
Arthritis
Foundation, Northwest Chapter, 3001 W. 5th St., Fort Worth 76107.
Abilene Reporter-News,
Abilene,
Texas, Sunday, September 7, 1997
Dr. Austin P. Evans Dies at 78; Professor
of
Medieval History
Special to the New York
Times.
Barnard, Vt., Sept. 21—Dr.
Austin Patterson Evans, professor emeritus of history at Columbia
University,
died today of a heart ailment in his home here. He was 78 years old.
Dr. Evans had retired in
1952 after teaching medieval history for forty years. He specialized in
the struggle for religious freedom in the 16th century. From 1924 to
1954,
he was editor of “Records of Civilization,” a series of translations of
original medieval sources, published by the Columbia University Press.
At his retirement, there were forty-seven volumes in the series.
He was born in Brooklyn,
and graduated [from OHS in 1907 and] from Cornell University, where he
was assistant in medieval history for three years. In 1915 he joined
the
history department of Columbia, where he taught primarily in the
graduate
school. He served twice as executive officer of the department.
During World War I, Dr.
Evans served with the Young Men’s Christian Association, working in the
French Foyer du Soldat at Verdun, and was awarded the Croix du Guerre.
At the end of the war, he helped organize the Army Educational Corps at
Beaune for American soldiers awaiting transportation home.
He was a fellow of the
Medieval
Academy of America and its president in 1954, and a fellow of the
American
Geographical Society. He was a member of the American History
Association,
Academy of Political Science, the Association Guillaume Bude and Phi
Beta
Kappa.
Dr. Evans was the author
of “An Episode in the Struggle for Religious Freedom; the Sectaries of
Nuremberg, 1524-1528”; and with others, of “Persecution and Liberty:
Essays
in honor of George Lincoln Burr”; and with Clarissa P. Farrar, of “A
Bibliography
of English Translations from Medieval Sources.”
Surviving are his widow,
Mrs. Barbara Deane Evans; two sons, Charles Deane Evans of Anchorage,
and
Austin Murray Evans of Ann Arbor, Mich.; a daughter, Mrs. David J.
Reisner
of Morristown, N.J.; a sister, Mrs. Harry W. Martin of Arlington, Va.;
and eight grandchildren.
The New York Times, New
York, N.Y., Saturday, September 22, 1962, p. 25.
Kathleen Anne Evans
Kathleen Anne “Kate”
Evans,
48, of Orangevale, Calif., former Oberlin resident, died Jan. 31 after
suffering from lupus.
She was born in 1944 in
New Castle, Pa., and graduated from Oberlin High School in 1963. She
attended
Lorain County Community College.
Miss Evans then attended
Manatee Junior College in Florida and received a degree in nursing in
1974
from the University of Kentucky and did post-graduate study at Indiana
University, Indianapolis.
She was a registered nurse
in six states, nursing education coordinator for Hillhaven Convalescent
Hospitals, Inc. of California, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ
of
Latter Day Saints in Fair Oaks, Calif., and of the church relief
society.
She was a former member
of Business Professional Women Associations in Indianapolis and
Sacramento,
Calif.
Survivors include sisters
Eileen DeGaton of LaPine, Ore., and Margaret E. Sica of New Castle; a
half-sister,
Gretchen “Gigi” Giltner-Stewart of Elyria; a brother, Vernon R. Evans
Jr.
of Georgia; and 11 nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Vernon Ralph Evans Sr. and Irma Eileen (nee Griffin);
her
stepfather, Calvert Giltner; and her former husband, James Edinger.
A memorial service was
held
Sunday at the Ed & Don DeCarbo Northside Funeral Home, New Castle,
Pa., with Bishop George R. Federkeil of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter
Day Saints in New Castle, officiating. Burial was in Savannah Cemetery
in New Castle.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of Lupus Foundation of America,
1323
Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15219.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 2, 1993, p. 2.
William H. Evans
William Henry Evans,
51 of 2
Born in
Before coming to
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Helen (Paillot) Evans of
this city; a son, Richard H. Evans of
The Farwell funeral service, 18 Lock
st., is in charge of
arrangements. A funeral announcement will be published later.
The
Margarita M. Ewald
Margarita M. Ewald, 79, 1550 Gay Drive, Winter Park, died Jan. 23. Born
in Argentina, she [graduated from OHS in 1926 and] moved to Winter Park
from Westlake, Ohio, in 1956. She was a retired secretary and a member
of the First Congregational Church, Winter Park. Survivor: brother,
Victor H., Sandy Spring, Md. Cox-Parker Carey Hand Guardian Chapel,
Winter Park.
The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, Fla., Wednesday, February 3, 1988, p. D4.
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