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Laurence
H. MacDaniels, Professor and Horticulturist
Professor emeritus of
horticulture at Cornell University since 1956, Laurence H. MacDaniels
’12 died at his home in Ithaca, New York, June 18, 1986, one
month
after the death of his wife of 70 years and classmate, Frances E.
Cochran MacDaniels. After graduating from [OHS in 1907 and from]
Oberlin [College in 1912] he enrolled in graduate studies at Cornell
and was appointed instructor in botany two years later. He was
subsequently appointed assistant professor of pomology in 1919 and four
years later achieved status as professor. At that time he taught and
conducted research on basic aspects of pollination of apples, tree
wounds and bracing, and anatomical aspects of pollination of flowers
and fruits fallen from their plants.
In 1940 Cornell appointed him head of
the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture, a position
he held until his retirement in 1956, at which time he received
emeritus status.
During his 1926-27 sabbatical leave
he did a botanical survey of the fe’i banana in Fiji, Tonga,
Samoa, and
Tahiti through the Bishop Museum of Honolulu. This led to the
publication “A Study of the Fe’i Banana and Its
Distribution with
Reference to Polynesian Migration.” In 1949 he continued his
survey in
newly opened areas in Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Canton Island.
During his tenure as professor at
Cornell and after retirement he was a relief worker for the Near East
Foundation, visiting professor of horticulture at the College of
Agriculture at the University of the Philippines at Los Banos, and
technical advisor in Yugoslavia and Mexico for improving the culture of
nuts and fruits.
Professor MacDaniels was a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science, chairman of
the Lily Committee of the American Horticultural Society (1938-46), and
president of the American Society for Horticulture Science in 1940. He
was a member of many honorary and professional societies, including the
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, the Botanical Society of America,
the American Society of Naturalists, and the New York Academy of
Sciences.
In 1966 he received the Wilder Medal
from the American Pomological Society and in 1980, he received the
Lytell Lily Cup from the Royal Horticultural Society of London. He was
listed in American Men of Science and Who’s Who in America.
The author of many scientific
articles and bulletins, particularly on walnut toxicity, Bougainvillea
varieties, lilies, tree crops, and conservation, he wrote the text of
An Introduction to Plant Anatomy with A.J. Eames.
Born October 21, 1888, in Fremont,
Ohio, he was the son of Heman Nye MacDaniels (1859-60). He leaves
daughters Ellen Speers ’42 and Carolyn Miller ’47, six
grandchildren,
and two great-grandchildren. His brother Everett ’06, and sisters
Alice
’99 [OHS ‘94] and Anna ’05 are deceased.
Photograph: Frances and Laurence
MacDaniels
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1986, p. 55.
Helen
MacLaury MacDermott
Mrs. James Christopher
MacDermott Jr. (Helen Dodd MacLaury)
died May 17[, 1972,] at
Mrs. MacDermott was a graduate and
research technician at
She leaves her husband, who is chief
anesthesiologist at
Euclid Memorial hospital, sons James Christopher III of Margareta,
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Lendrum "Len" MacEachron
MacEachron, Lendrum [Acker] "Len" Died August 30th, 2010, aged 91.
Preceded in death by his wife, Suanna "Su", and daughter, Judy.
Survived by daughter, Mary O'Driscoll; son-in-law, Sean O'Driscoll and
son by choice, Steve Rosenberg. Born in Tsechow, China, Len grew up in
Oberlin, Ohio, graduated from [OHS in 1936 and from] Oberlin College
and served in the Air Force in WWII. After 25 years as a patent,
trademark and copyright attorney, Len's passion for folk music led him
to found Here, Inc. in 1968, producing mountain and hammer dulcimers,
folk harps, fretless banjos and enthusiastically encouraging building
your own instruments from kits. Len and his wife, Su, toured all the
major folk festivals of the 60s and 70s, promoting instrument making
and the power of music embodied in their slogan "Music Can Save the
World". Their home was a veritable B & B for any and all musicians
visiting the Twin Cities and they hosted numerous famous music parties.
Len was active in many peace, justice and environmental organizations
and an avid square and contra dancer well into his 80s. A Life
Celebration for Len will be held Tuesday, September 7th, at the
University Club of St. Paul, 420 Summit Ave., from 7 to 9:30 PM.
Star Tribune, Minneapolis,
Minn., September 5, 2010.
Prof. Ronald MacLennan, 37, Dies; Funeral
Held
Tuesday
Funeral services were held
on Tuesday afternoon at First Church for Prof. Ronald F. MacLennan, who
died at Allen Hospital on Saturday evening, May 27, following an attack
of coronary thrombosis. He had been ill about ?? weeks. Rev. Joseph F.
King conducted the services. Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery
following
cremation.
Born in Oberlin September
26, 1906, the son of Mrs. S. F. MacLennan and the late Professor
MacLennan,
Mr. MacLennan had grown up in Oberlin, attending the grade schools and
graduating from Oberlin high school in 1923. The following year he
enrolled
in the Oberlin School of Commerce, graduating from there in 1924. In
the
fall of 1924 he entered Oberlin College and graduated with honors in
Zoology
with the class of 1928.
That same year Mr.
MacLennan
entered the University of California for graduate study in zoology,
obtaining
his Ph.D. degree from that university in 1932. After completing his
graduate
study he worked for eight years in the zoology department of Washington
College, Pullman, Washington.
In 1933 he married Marie
Schulte, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schulte of Kansas City,
Missouri,
who graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory with the class of 1930.
In the fall of 1940 he
returned
to Oberlin as assistant professor in the zoology department of Oberlin
College, a position which he held until the time of his death.
Mr. MacLennan was a member
of Sigma Xi, honorary scientific society, the American Society of
Zoologists,
the American Microscopic Society, and during this past year he had been
president of the Oberlin Chapter of the American Association of
University
Professors.
International
Reputation
Considered one of the
outstanding
protozoologists in the country, Prof. MacLennan was the author of many
articles published in scientific journals both in this country and
abroad.
Especially interested in research as well as in teaching, he had been
engage
in special work connected with centrifuging protozoa to determine the
character
of different cells. At the time of his death he was just completing a
scientific
work entitled “Contractile Vacuole of Paramecium.” Included
among the
many
meticulous and artistic drawings which he made of protozoa was found
this
quotation which he had copied recently from Darwin’s
“Origin of
Species,”
and which his colleagues said seemed most fittingly to express Mr.
MacLennan’s
“idea of nature and life”: “There is grandeur in this
view of life,
with
its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into
a few forms or into one: and that while this planet has gone circling
on
according to the fixed law of gravity from so simple a beginning,
endless
forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being
evolved.”
In 1942 Prof. MacLennan
was granted a leave of absence from teaching in order to serve on the
building
committee of Oberlin College. In this capacity he helped to draw the
plans
for the proposed new biology building. At the time of his death, he was
chairman of the science division of Oberlin College, and chairman of
the
board of deacons of First Church.
He is survived by his wife
and one son, Frederick; his mother, Mrs. S. F. MacLennan of Oberlin;
two
sisters, Mrs. J. Austin Kerr of Berkeley, California, and Miss Sarah
MacLennan,
of Farmington, Connecticut; one nephew, and one niece.
Pall bearers at the
funeral
were Dudley P. Barnard, H. W. Bradford, Lea Comings, John W. Kurtz, R.
S. McEwen and Carl C. W. Nicol.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 1, 1944, pp. 1-2.
Sarah B. MacLennan
Sarah B. MacLennan, 80,
died Sunday in Washington, D.C.
Born in Oberlin, she was
the daughter of Simon F. MacLennan, professor of philosophy at Oberlin
College from 1897-1933. She attended the Oberlin Public Schools
[graduating
from Oberlin High School in 1921] and graduated from Oberlin College in
1925. She was looking forward to returning in May for her 60th college
reunion.
From 1930 until her
retirement
in 1969 she taught history of art at Miss Porter’s School in
Farmington,
Conn. Since retirement she has spent her winters in Washington D.C.,
and
her summers near Alton, N.H.
She is survived by one
niece
and two nephews and several grandnephews and grandnieces.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 21, 1985, p. 2.
Evelyn Heacox MacRae
Evelyn Heacox MacRae died April 2, 1987, in Sun City, Ariz. Born June
23, 1901, in Oberlin, she [graduated from OHS in 1919 and from Oberlin
College in 1923 and] received the M.A. degree from U. Chicago in 1929.
She had a 20-year career in social work, holding positions in cities
including Boston, Chicago, and New York.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Spring 1988, p. 41.
Services Were Held Friday For Mrs. Charles
Magruder
Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon at the Sedgeman Funeral Home for Mrs. Charles S.
Magruder
(Luetta Squire Peabody) of 351 E. College St., prominent in Democratic
politics and women’s club work, who died Wednesday, May 28, at
Lakeside
Hospital, Cleveland.
Born in Russia township,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Squire, Mrs. Magruder spent most of
her life in Oberlin [and was an 1894 graduate of OHS]. Active in the
early
women’s suffrage movement, after its adoption she became
Democratic
State
Central Committeewoman for the 14th district, and later served as vice
chairman of the central committee. She was one of the organizers of the
Federation of Democratic Women of Ohio and its first president.
Mrs. Magruder was active
in local club work and had served as president of the Oberlin
Woman’s
Club,
the Nineteenth Century Club and the Christmas Club. She was also a
former
secretary of the Village Improvement Society and former president of
the
Lakeside Federation of Women’s Clubs.
In 1935 she was made state
superintendent of charities, later becoming director of the Columbus
Association
for the Blind. While she held these posts the Marguders made their home
in Columbus. They returned to Oberlin about a year ago.
After the death of her
first
husband, Otis E. Peabody, Mrs. Magruder started and operated for
several
years the Apparel and Gift Shop on S. Main St. Her marriage to Mr.
Magruder
took place in 1930.
Besides her husband she
is survived by three daughters, Edna Kathalti of Cleveland, Eleanor
Fulton
of Shaker Heights, Doris Brooks of East Cleveland; two grandchildren;
one
brother, Harry Squire of Oberlin; and two sisters, Mrs. Carrie Herrick
of Oberlin and Mrs. Ruby Shepard of Lakewood.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 5, 1947, p. 6.
Ernest A. Malham (1927-2011)
Elyria - Ernest A. [Arthur] Malham, 84, of Elyria, died Wednesday,
September 27, 2011 at the Wesleyan Village in Elyria following a brief
illness.
Mr. Malham was born in Oberlin on July 21, 1927, a son of the late
Ernest A and Minnie A. (nee Lange) Malham, Sr.
He was a 1945 graduate of Oberlin High School. He was a member of the F
& AM Masonic Lodge # 380 of Oberlin and the Amherst Eastern Star.
He enjoyed growing flowers and pursued his interest following his
retirement.
He retired as an input processor in the accounting department at Ford
Motor Company in Avon. Mr. Malham began his career at Ford in 1958.
Mr. Malham is survived by his niece Karen F. Pitkin of Cherry Hill, New
Jersey and a nephew Phillip of Texas.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife,
Margaret "Peg" (nee Strauss) Malham, a sister Beatrice Ruth Baldwin, a
brother Raymond A. Malham, and a niece and a nephew.
Burial will be at Ridge Hill Memorial Park Cemetery in Amherst Township.
A Celebration of his life will be held on Tuesday, October 3, 2011 at
3:30 PM in the chapel at Wesleyan Village, 805 West Street, Elyria with
Chaplain Beth McKee, officiating.
The Schwartz, Spence, Boyer & Cool Home For Funerals, 1124 W. 5th
Street, Lorain, Ohio is handling the arrangements.
Online condolences at www.boyer-cool.com.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Sunday, October 2, 2011.
Oberlin Girl Died Tuesday
Marian Headline Mallack
Passed Away In Charity Hospital After Long Illness
Death Resulted From
Severe
Flu Attack – Funeral Held Here On Thursday Afternoon
Mrs. Marrian (sic)
Headline
Mallack, wife of John Mallack of Cleveland, died early Tuesday morning
in Charity hospital from pneumonia. Mrs. Mallack was the daughter of
Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Headline, formerly of this place, but now residents of
Cleveland.
The young woman was taken
with a severe attack of the flu last winter and never recovered from
its
effects. She underwent several operations and one performed ten days
ago
resulted in the setting in of pneumonia.
She was married last June
and expected to leave with her husband for California but her sickness
prevented. She attended the Oberlin schools, [graduating from Oberlin
High
School in 1917,] and had many friends here. Besides her parents she is
survived by one brother, Eugene, a sophomore in Western Reserve
university.
Mr. Headline is superintendent of buildings at the university. The many
friends of the family have deep sympathy for them in their sorrow.
The funeral services were
held from their former home on Orchard street Thursday afternoon at
1:30
o’clock, conducted by Rev. Van der Pyl. The remains were taken to
Murray
Ridge cemetery for interment.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, September 24, 1920, p. 1.
Robert W. Mallory
Robert William “Bob” Mallory, 88, died peacefully in his
home Friday,
Feb. 8, 2002.
A celebration of his life will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Reager Funeral
Home.
Robert W. Mallory was born Sept. 18, 1913, in Oberlin, Ohio, to William
Garfield Mallory and Mary Keziah Pope Mallory.
Bob graduated from [OHS in 1931 and from] Oberlin College in 1935 after
earning varsity letters in basketball and baseball. He worked briefly
as a photographer's assistant in Oberlin and Yosemite, Calif.
During World War II, Bob served in the U.S. Coast Guard in Ketchikan,
Alaska, as a lieutenant on the USCG Hemlock.
After the war, in 1946, he married Merle Satone Stoddard and began a
distinguished career in oil exploration, starting as a field geologist
in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He managed progressively larger offices in
Amarillo, Texas, Casper, Wyo., Alberta, Canada, and Denver. During that
time, he was elected president of the Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas
Association. He also was a past president of the Wyoming Geological
Association. He retired in 1972 from Champlin Oil Co. as the
exploration manager for the Midwestern Region. He and Satone moved to
Fort Collins in 1993.
His greatest love was for his family. He was a splendid and devoted
father and grandfather. He shared with his family his great affinity
for athletics, boats, mountain climbing and hiking.
He is survived by his wife, Satone his daughter, Linda Burnham, M.D.,
of Fort Collins two sons, Doug Mallory, M.D., of Fairmont, Minn., and
Rob Mallory of Fort Collins his grandchildren, Dustin and Jessica of
Fort Collins, as well as Robert and Paul of Fairmont. He was preceded
in death by his daughter, Susan, and his sister, Stella Irene Dickerman.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Larimer County in care
of Reager Funeral Home.
Fort Collins Coloradoan,
Fort Collins, Colorado, Friday, February 12, 2002, p. B2.
Dr. M. E. Maltby, Long at Barnard
Retired Associate
Professor
of Physics Dies—Served on Faculty 31 Years
Dr. Margaret E. Maltby,
a retired Associate Professor of Physics at Barnard College, died
Wednesday
evening in the Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center,
at the age of 83.
Born in Bristolville,
Ohio,
Dr. Maltby was graduated [in 1877 from OHS and] in 1882 from Oberlin
college
and nine years later received a Master of Arts degree there. She was an
instructor in physics at Wellesley College from 1889 to 1893. After
receiving
a Bachelor of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology,
she went to Germany, on a traveling fellowship, and worked for several
years under the direction of Prof. Friedrich Kohlrausch, a leader in
physical
chemistry.
The University of
Goettingen
awarded to Dr. Maltby a doctorate in 1895, and soon afterward she
returned
to this country. In 1897 she was an instructor in physics and
mathematics
at Lake Erie College, and the next year she returned to Germany to
become
assistant to the president of the Physikalsche Technische Reichsanstalt
in Berlin.
Dr. Maltby joined the
faculty
of Barnard in 1900 and for three years was an instructor in chemistry.
In 1903 she became Adjunct Professor of Physics and seven years later
associate
professor, serving until she retired in 1931. Before her retirement Dr.
Maltby introduced a course in the physics department designed for music
students and dealing with the physical basis of music, believed to have
been the first such course.
She is the aunt of Maj.
Philip Randolph Meyer. Services will be held at St. Paul’s Chapel
of
Columbia
University, 117th St. and Amsterdam Ave., on Saturday, at 10 A.M.
The New York Times,
New York, N.Y., Friday, May 5, 1944, p. 19.
James
C. Mann dies at age 67
James C. Mann, 67, of
Oberlin
RD 1, died Tuesday at Amherst Manor Nursing Home where he had been a
patient
for one month.
Graveside services will
be held today at 11 a.m. at East Pittsfield Cemetery with Rev. Michael
Beynon officiating.
Mr. Mann, born in
Youngstown
on Nov. 23, 1913 had lived all his life in this area[, graduating from
Oberlin High School in 1933]. Most recently, until his retirement five
years ago, he had been employed in maintenance at the Emerald Valley
Golf
Club. In earlier years he was employed as mechanic at Rowe-Goerner
Motor
Sales.
Mr. Mann was an Army
veteran
of World War II; former member of the Oberlin Volunteer Fire
Department;
and member of the Pittsfield United Church of Christ. He was also a
member
of Oberlin Lodge 380 F&AM and the lodge held a Masonic service at
the
Cowling Funeral Home last night.
Surviving Mr. Mann are one
son, Raymond of Kipton; two daughters, Mrs. Linda Twaddle of New London
and Susan (Mrs. Philip) Keller of Columbus; three sisters, Marion (Mrs.
Malcolm) Scott and Inez (Mrs. Nicholas) Gardinier, both of Oberlin and
Nadine (Mrs. Robert) Baker of Wellington; and five grandchildren.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 1, 1981, p. 2.
Esther Anna Manns
Esther Anna Manns, 95, of
Oberlin, died March 23 at Welcome Nursing Home after a long illness.
Born in Pittsfield Twp.,
she graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1916]. She graduated from
Kent
State Normal College in 1922 and earned a bachelor’s degree from
Kent
State
University in 1929. She also received a master’s degree from
Columbia
University
in 1940.
After teaching social
studies
in a one-room school in Penfield Twp., she taught at Princeton Junior
High
School in Youngstown for 34 years, retiring in 1962. She returned to
the
Oberlin area after retirement.
Miss Manns was a member
of the First United Methodist Church and of Delta Kappa Gamma society.
She is survived by two
nephews,
Hubert C. Bates of Amherst and Robert Harr of Kipton; and three nieces,
Wilma Zech of Henrietta Twp., Marilyn Elliot of Columbus and Elma
Nelson
of Port Clinton.
She was preceded in death
by two sisters, Mable Bates and Helen E. Harr; a brother, Theodore
Manns;
and her parents, William and Eliza Manns.
Services were Saturday
morning
at the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Judith W. Claycomb
officiating.
Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 29, 1994, p. 2.
Eleanor
Walkup
Mrs. George M.
Mansfield (Eleanor Eva Walkup) died at her
home in
Mrs. Mansfield taught physical
education in the YWCA at
Mrs. Mansfield leaves two daughters,
Mrs. Richard Caniff of
Glen Ellen,
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Mrs.
Mildred L. Mark
Mrs. Mildred L. [Mark, nee Zimmerman], 78, of Richmond, wife of Ralph
M. Mark[, died Oct. 21, 1994. She was a 1934 graduate of OHS].
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Richmond,
Va., Sunday, October 23, 1994, p. B-3.
Mrs. Stanley P. [Ruth]
Mark Dies
Word has been received in
Oberlin of the death of Mrs. Stanley P. Mark, former Oberlin resident,
in Delevan, Wis. Friday.
Mrs. Mark is the former
Ruth Miller, daughter of the late Dr. and Mrs. S. E. Miller. Besides
her
husband she is survived by a daughter Sybil, now married.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 19, 1958, p. 6A.
Harry V.
Marsh
Harry V. Marsh[, OHS
class of 1911 and
Mr. Marsh was assistant manager of
the Hotel Bourdette in
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
December 1946, p. 26.
Leonard W. Marsh
Leonard W. Marsh, 47, of
Elyria, former Oberlin resident, died Aug. 24 at EMH Regional Medical
Center
after a short illness.
Born in Akron, Mr. Marsh
had lived in Lorain County all his life. He was a 1968 graduate of
Oberlin
High School.
He was employed as a
carpet
layer and salesman for many years and worked at Eric’s Floor
Covering
in
Elyria for five years.
He was a member of Midview
Baptist Church in Eaton Township.
He enjoyed golfing and
gardening.
Survivors include his
mother,
Geraldine Marsh of Elyria; sons, Steven, Joseph, David and Scott, all
of
Elyria; brothers Richard and Gary Pelton of Ashland; a sister, Janet
Smith
of Fredericktown; two grandsons; nieces and nephews; and a longtime
friend,
Robin Shumaker of Elyria.
Services were Aug. 27 at
the Blackburn Funeral Home, Grafton, with the Rev. Tim Mayo, pastor of
Midview Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial was in the
Butternut
Ridge Cemetery in Eaton Township.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, September 2, 1997, p. 2.
Patricia
L. Marsh
Patricia L. [Louise] Marsh
(nee Supers), 64, of Elyria, died Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at the
Cleveland Clinic, following a short illness. Mrs. Marsh was born in
Oberlin, December 23, 1944 and moved to Elyria in 1973 from Oberlin.
She was a graduate of Oberlin High School in 1962 [1963]. She was a
homemaker and was an avid cross stitch fan.
She is survived by her husband of 41 years, Andrew; two daughters,
Kathleen ( Chad) Granlund of Michigan and Jennifer Marsh of California;
one son, Christopher of Avon Lake; and one grandson, Ethan. She
is also survived by her mother, Helen Supers (nee Paukst) of Oberlin;
one brother, Andrew Supers; and two sisters, Kathleen Keating of
Michigan and Stephanie Supers of Elyria.
She was preceded in death by her father, Andrew Supers.
A memorial Mass will be held Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11 A.M. at St.
Jude Catholic Church, 590 Poplar Street, Elyria. The Reverend Father
Frank P. Kosem, Pastor, will officiate.
Reichlin Roberts Funeral Home, 327 Cleveland Street, Elyria, is
handling the arrangements.
To leave on line condolences for the family, go to
www.reichlinroberts.com.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday March 11, 2009.
Eleanor Shirley Marshall
Oberlin -- Eleanor
Shirley Marshall, 75, of Oberlin, died
Sunday, May 23, 2004, at her home.
Marshall was born Aug. 2, 1928, in
Elyria and lived in
Oberlin all her life. She was a graduate of the Oberlin High School
class of
1948.
She was a master sergeant in the U.S.
Air Force. She lived
all of her life in Oberlin, except for time spent in the service.
Survivors
include many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her
parents,
Chester and Eliza (nee Jenkins) Marshall; brothers John Marshall and
Charles
''Pete'' Marshall; sisters Virginia Charlotte Champe, Thelma Smith and
Ethel
Tuck.
There will be a private family burial
in Westwood Cemetery,
Oberlin.
Arrangements by Cowling Funeral Home,
Oberlin.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Monday, May 24,
2004.
Harriett
Gibbs Marshall, a
messenger of music!
Harriett Gibbs
Marshall was born
From
On
Under her management, and in later
years, under that of her
cousin, Victoria Muse, the Conservatory represented the nation’s
most
successful Black owned and operated music school to have advocated the
study
and performance of Black music. Throughout its 57-year existence, the
school’s
highly trained faculty brought in talented students from all over the
The establishment of the Conservatory
was only part of
Harriet Gibbs Marshall’s dream. She envisioned a
As a writer she published A Story of
Haiti 1930, followed by
Last Concerto, based on the life, love, and music of Samuel
Coleridge-Taylor.
Harriett Gibbs Marshall died on
Posted with
permission of The African American Registry,
http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1993/Harriett_GibbsMarshall_a_messinger_of_music
Henry Cowles Marshall, 92,
died on December 22, 1965, in Dayton, Ohio, at the home of his daughter
and son-in-law where he had lived since his retirement in 1948. He was
born in Berea, Kentucky, but lived in Oberlin during his high school
and college days, attending both the local high school [graduating from
OHS in 1892] and the Oberlin Academy before entering college [Oberlin
College class of 1896]. His parents were Samuel J. Marshall of the
Class of 1861 and Louisa Kaiser Marshall, Class of 1867. Five
generations of his family were connected with Oberlin in some way,
including Henry Cowles who came from Yale to join the Oberlin faculty
in 1835 and a grandson, Charles David Windle, who was graduated in 1949.
For a number of years Mr. Marshall taught in school in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, going to Columbus, Ohio, in 1907 where he became principal of
Everett High School in 1917. In Columbus he organized the Boys Choir
School and was its headmaster. It is now located in Princeton, New
Jersey. He was director of activities at a boys’ camp in Maine
and an
avid ice skater even into his 90th year. A member of the Congregational
Church, he was active in both church and church school.
Mr. Marshall is survived by three daughters, Mrs. J. Studebaker of
Wayne Township, Ohio, Mrs. Louise Windle of Pennsylvania, and Mrs. John
Sills (Esther Marshall, ’27) of California; two sons, Raphael of
Cleveland, and Harry E. of Columbus, Ohio; 13 grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, March 1966, p. 38.
Henry
Cowles
Henry Cowles Marshall, 92,
died on
For a number of years Mr. Marshall
taught in school in
Mr. Marshall is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. J.
Studebaker of
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
John
Chester Marshall
Retired bricklayer for
U.S. Steel
John Chester Marshall, 72,
of Oberlin died Wednesday at the Cleveland Clinic after suffering an
apparent
heart attack.
Born in Cleveland, he
lived
in Oberlin most of his life.
A [1941] graduate of
Oberlin
High School, he was a bricklayer for U.S. Steel Lorain Works, retiring
in 1983.
Mr. Marshall was a World
War II Navy veteran.
Survivors include a son,
John C. of Hollywood, Fla.; daughters, Anita Marshall of Sandusky,
Sylvia
Jackson of Oberlin and Angela Alston of Lorain; nine grandchildren; one
great-grandchild; a brother, Charles “Pete” Marshall of
Oberlin; and
sisters,
Eleanor “Molly” Marshall and Virginia Champe, both of
Oberlin.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Marion, in 1988.
Friends may call 7 to 9
p.m. today at the Cowling Funeral Home, South Main Street, Oberlin,
where
services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday. The Rev. Charles Mayle will
officiate.
Burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery in Oberlin.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Friday, January 7, 1994, p. C2.
Kenneth E.
Marshall
Kenneth E. Marshall, 58, of Lorain, died suddenly Thursday, Aug. 27,
2009, at Community Health Partners in Lorain.
Born Aug. 28, 1950, in Oberlin, he was a 1969 graduate of Oberlin High
School, where he played football and wrestled. Mr. Marshall enjoyed
listening to music, cooking, hunting, fishing, raising and training his
horses, and farming. He worked at Lorain Steel as a crane operator and
was a firefighter.
Mr. Marshall served in the Army overseas from 1970-72, and was a
disabled veteran.
He served as a volunteer firefighter for the Oberlin Fire Department
for five years and was the first African-American in the department.
He was a loving and devoted father and grandfather, and enjoyed
watching his grandchildren play.
He is survived by his mother, Arcenia “Cenie” Marshall of
Oberlin; daughter Kendra G. Marshall [OHS ‘92] of Westerville,
Ohio; granddaughters Kaysyn D. Marshall of Westerville and Kaylesia
“Leesi” Marshall of Germany; grandson Kenneth Romeo
“Rome” Marshall of Germany; sisters Penny Smith [OHS
‘79] of Columbus, Ohio, and Kristen (Clarence) Womack [OHS
‘81] of Pittsburgh, Pa.; brothers Charles Marshall [OHS
‘63], Duane “Tony” Marshall [OHS ‘65] and
Gilbert Marshall [OHS ‘66], all of Oberlin; a host of nieces and
nephews, and his former wife and friend Barbara Keplinger.
He was preceded in death by his father, Charles L. “Pete”
Marshall.
Visitation will be Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, from 10 a.m. to noon at
Cowling Funeral Home of Oberlin, followed by a graveside service at 2
p.m. at Westwood Cemetery, with Pastor Brian Kenyon of Calvary Baptist
Church officiating.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Kenneth E. Marshall Fund at
any Lorain National Bank branch.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, September 1, 2009, p. 3.
Lois Ann
Dickinson Marshall
Lois Ann “Lad” Dickinson Marshall of Oberlin died suddenly
Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2007, at her home. She was 68.
Born Oct. 12, 1938, in Oberlin, she lived here her entire life. She
graduated from Oberlin High School in 1956 and from Ohio Wesleyan in
1960. She received her master’s degree in public administration
from Cleveland State University.
She served as director of the Family Service Association of Lorain
County and director of the Oberlin Early Childhood Center.
She was a member of the Oberlin Unitarian Universalist Fellowship,
serving on many committees and hosting many bed and breakfast guests.
She was an active member of the Family Service Council of Ohio, United
Way, and the Family and Children’s Council of Lorain County.
She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, gardening, restoring
the family home, taking walks, painting, reading, and working Sudoku
puzzles.
Mrs. Marshall is survived by her daughter, Beth Marshall of Findlay;
son, Steven Marshall of Downington, Pa.; seven grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren; mother, Hazel D. Bahret of Fort Myers, Fla.;
brothers J. Frederick Dickinson and Robert A. Dickinson of Englewood,
Fla., William J. Dickinson of Kansas City, Mo.; and former husband,
John Marshall of Trenton, Mich. She was preceded in death by her
father, John F. Dickinson.
Services were Thursday at Fairchild Chapel. Cowling Funeral Home
handled local arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Oberlin Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship, P.O. Box 354, Oberlin, Ohio, 44074.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, October 9, 2007, p. 2.
Martin R. Marshall
Mr. Martin Raphael
Marshall of
Mr. Marshall was born on
Surviving are his daughter, Mrs. Earl
F. Campbell of
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
October 1958, p. 30.
Arthur T. Martin, Ohio Educator, 43
Law Dean at State University
Since 1940 Dies—Held NRA, WPB and WLB Posts
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 7
(AP)—Dr.
Arthur T. Martin, dean of Ohio State University’s Law College
since
1940,
died here today after a long illness. His age was 43.
Born in Hadjin, Turkey,
Dr. Martin was the son of John Campbell Martin, a Canadian, and Mrs.
Mary
Isabel Cameron Martin. He was naturalized an American in 1931.
He [graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1919,] received an A. B. degree from Oberlin College in
1923, a J. D. from Ohio State in 1929 and an LL. M. from Columbia
University
the next year. A fellow at Columbia in 1929-30, Dr. Martin was
assistant
Professor of Law at Ohio State, 1930-34 and associate professor from
1934
to 1937, becoming Professor of Law in the latter year.
Dr. Martin was on the
legal
staff of the National Recovery Administration in 1934-35, a Labor
Department
referee in 1936-37, a War Production Board Commissioner in 1942 and an
arbitrator and mediator for the National War Labor Board in 1942-43. He
once headed the rubber committee of the Wage-Hour Division of the Labor
Department and had been chairman of WLP wage-hour panels.
In 1941-42 Dr. Martin
served
as chairman of the Administrative Law Commission of the State of Ohio.
He had been secretary and
treasurer of the League of Ohio Law Schools and the Association of
American
Law Schools, and was a member of the Ohio State and Columbus Bar
Associations,
the American Judiciary Society, the Order of the Coif and the Rotary,
Faculty
and Crichton Clubs.
Dr. Martin was compiler
of “Cases and Other Materials on the Law of Conveyances,”
published in
1939, and “Cases and Materials on the Law of Real
Property,” 1943.
In 1934 he married Miss
Alice Elizabeth Rasor.
The New York Times,
Friday, February 8, 1946, p. 19.
Professor Martin Dies at 90
Charles Beebe Martin,
former
professor of classical studies in Oberlin College, and professor
emeritus
since 1925, died in Allen Hospital Thursday morning, September 25, at
the
age of 90. Funeral services were performed by the Rev. Joseph F. King
in
Fairchild Chapel Saturday afternoon. In accordance with Professor
Martin’s
request, no personal eulogy was delivered. The burial took place in
Westwood
Cemetery.
At the time of his birth,
May 7, 1857, his parents were missionaries in Cairo, Egypt, but they
returned
to the United States the following year because of ill health. They
were
living in Oberlin when he [graduated from OHS in 1871-2 and] enrolled
in
the college preparatory department. Professor Martin continued his
training
in Oberlin, receiving the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts,
and Bachelor Divinity, in the years 1876, 1880, and 1881, respectively.
He began his teaching career in 1880.
Mrs. Martin was Helen J.
White of the Oberlin Class of 1887, whom he married in July of that
year.
Their daughters were Helen Martin Rood, ’11, and Elizabeth Martin
Rood,
’16. Two grandsons, Charles and Gerald Rood of Providence, Rhode
Island,
survive.
Remarkable Teacher
Professor Martin’s
most
significant contribution was the attitude of mind with which he endowed
the students who learned from him. He trained them in the rigors of
thought
and observation, “and guarded for them the integrity and dignity
of the
intellectual world.”
After retiring in 1925,
Professor Martin served on the educational staff of the Cleveland
Museum
of Art, giving illustrated lectures and gallery talks.
Martin Lectureship
At this time a lectureship
foundation named for him was established to “stimulate interest
in the
classics by bringing to Oberlin classical scholars of international
fame
for courses of lectures.” Two Martin lectures are scheduled for
November
6 and 7 of this year.
Professor Martin’s
“Reminiscences,”
published privately in 1945, covered the years from 1870 to 1902.
“They
read,” wrote D. M. Love last May, “like the account of one
who had
‘kept
watch o’er man’s mortality’ during almost the entire
span of Oberlin’s
history… Survivors of an earlier era people the first pages, and
the
closing
chapters foreshadow the present day.”
The Oberlin Times,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, October 2, 1947, p. 1.
Donald
Duane Martin
Henrietta Township --
Donald
Duane Martin, 66, of Henrietta Township, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2002,
at
New Life Hospice Residential Center, Lorain, following a brief illness
will cancer.
He was born Feb. 27, 1936,
in LaGonda, Pa., where he lived until moving to Oberlin in 1949. He
lived
in Henrietta Township the past 39 years.
He graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1954.
Martin was a veteran of
the U.S. Navy, serving as an aviation electronics technician. He served
two tours of duty in Japan. He received the National Defense Service
Medal,
Good Conduct Medal and the Combat Air Crew Insignia.
He was employed at Ford
Motor Co., Lorain, for 32 years, retiring in 2001 as an electrician. He
was also a volunteer fireman for 10 years with the Birmingham Township
Fire Department, where he also served many years as treasurer. He
coached
baseball in the Firelands School District for several years.
He was a member of the
Vermilion
AMVETS Post 22 and the Vermilion American Legion Post 397.
Survivors include his wife
of 41 years, Beverly Jean (nee Diedrick) Martin; son Brian Martin of
Wellington;
daughters Julie Batal of Tewksbury, Mass., and Suzanne Valerius of
Henrietta
Township; one grandson; and sisters Marian McKnight of Washington, Pa.,
and Barbara Tarry of Elyria. He was preceded in death by his parents
Daniel
and Alice (nee Sloneker) Martin, and brothers Kenneth Martin and Carl
Martin.
Friends may call Friday,
2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m., at Hempel Funeral Home, 373 Cleveland Ave.,
Amherst,
and Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7576,
7576 Poorman Road, Vermilion. Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery,
Oberlin.
Memorial contributions may
be made to Vermilion AMVETS Post 22, 1517 SR 60 N, Vermilion 44089.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Thursday, August 15, 2002.
Educator Betty Martin dies at 67 in
Cleveland
Elizabeth
“Betty” Martin,
67, retired principal of Eastwood Elementary School, died in the
Cleveland
Clinic on Nov. 21 after a five week illness. Her home was at 555 East
College.
Born in Oberlin on Aug.
17, 1912, she graduated from Oberlin High School in 1930 and from the
Oberlin
Kindergarten-Primary Training School in 1932. She received the BS in
elementary
education from Ashland College in 1939 and the master’s degree
from
Ohio
State University in 1946.
From 1932-37 she taught
in the Sheffield schools then joined the Oberlin school staff, teaching
2nd and 3rd grades at Pleasant Street School from 1937-47. She was
principal
at Pleasant Street School from 1947-55 and at Eastwood principal from
1955
to 1973 when she retired.
Retirement did not end her
interest in teaching, however; she served as a Title I tutor from
1973-77
and as a substitute teacher last year.
She was a member of Delta
Kappa Gamma, teachers’ honorary, the Ohio Education association,
past
matron
of Pansy Chapter 34, Order of Eastern Star, and a past district deputy
of OES, Senior Forum, and First Church. For several years in the early
‘70’s she served on the Oberlin Housing Renewal Commission.
For many years she had
spent
the summers at Lakeside, where she and her brother Robert operated the
Abigail Tea Room.
Survivors include her
sister,
Mrs. Grace Harlow of 140 North Main and brothers, Robert of 292 Oak and
Burns of San Jose, California and several nephews. Her brother Henry
preceded
her in death.
Eastern Star services were
held at the Cowling Funeral Home on Saturday evening, with funeral
services
on Sunday afternoon at First Church. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
The family suggests that
memorial contributions, if desired, be made to the Betty Martin Library
Fund at Eastwood Elementary School.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, November 29, 1979, p. 12.
Rites Held Yesterday For Faye Martin, 63
Faye Smith Martin, 63,
wife
of Charles G. Martin, 160 N. Park, died Sunday at 2:10 p.m. at the
Carter
Rest Home after a five-year illness.
Born in Oberlin Feb. 3,
1893, Mrs. Martin had lived here all her life. She was a member of Rust
Methodist Church, the Women’s Progressive Club, and the NAACP,
serving
as its treasurer for many years.
Surviving besides her
husband
are one daughter, Mrs. Winifred Green of Cleveland and a granddaughter,
Frances Johnson; and one brother, Clarence Smith of Elyria.
Funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon at Rust Church with Rev. John Ferguson officiating.
Interment was in Westwood Cemetery.
The Oberlin
News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 4, 1956, p. 3A.
Fritz
Martin,
Track Coach, Directed
Wesleyan Athletics
J. Fred Martin, who had been a
track coach and athletic
director at
Fritz Martin spent 43 years at
Wesleyan. He was head track
coach for 35 years, and his teams won 11 Little Three titles in track
and 14 in
cross-country events. He was athletic director from 1944 to 1954 and
over the
years also coached football, boxing, handball and wrestling.
He [graduated from OHS in 1915 and]
held a B.A. from Oberlin
College and an M.A. from Columbia University. He was a former president
of the
New England Intercollegiate Athletic Association and of the New England
Association Conference on Athletics.
Surviving are a daughter and a son.
Deaths
– Martin, John F., 80, of
The New York Times,
Lillian June (French) Martin
Lillian French, daughter of Silas Henry French and Villa Spore, was
born at her parent’s home in Hartland Ridge, [Huron Co., Ohio,]
October 28, 1897, and married Wayne W. Martin [OHS ‘26], born at
Wakeman, Ohio, son of Harmon and Della Martin. At the age of nine, she
removed to Oberlin, to be given the benefits of a better education than
the country schools provided. Grade and High School work was all
completed in Oberlin, graduating from the latter in 1915. The family
tendency to excel along literary lines cropped out during this period,
and she twice won the first prize in a Story Contest in the English
Department. She studied piano as a child, thus laying an excellent
foundation for the further musical study which she elected to pursue at
Wooster, Ohio. Prior to this she spent a year in the home of her well
known aunt, Mrs. Lillian French Read, whose help and encouragement
definitely decided Miss French to choose music as her life work.
Three years were spent in serious study of Music at Wooster College, at
Wooster, Ohio, from 1917 to 1920. Following her graduation, Miss French
engaged in private teaching, both voice and piano, in Wakeman, Norwalk,
and Elyria. After this apprenticeship of three years, she secured a
position as instructor in voice and piano at the State College for
Women, Tallahassee, Florida.
Marriage, and a new field of endeavor came in 1926, when she moved to
Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband, to establish a home, and later on to
rear and help to educate two children, [twins] Allen Shields Martin and
Janet Elinor. Now that the children are older, she is busy teaching and
singing, and hopes to broaden her musical career as opportunity permits.
Thicker Than Water: Genealogy
of the Dan Waugh Family, Elsie J. French et al. (1939), pp. 28,
30-31.
Lillian (French) Martin, devoted mother of Allen S. Martin of Mt.
Washington [in Cincinnati] and Janet Lucas of Cleveland, also survived
by 6 grandchildren. She died on June 4, 1982. Services will be held at
Lyndhurst Presbyterian Church in Cleveland on June 7 at 2 p.m.
Cincinnati Enquirer,
Cincinnati, Ohio, June 6, 1982.
Robert Martin
Robert Delwin Martin, 79,
of Oberlin, died Saturday, March 25, at the Cleveland Clinic following
a one-month illness.
Born June 2, 1915, in
Oberlin,
Mr. Martin graduated [from OHS in 1933 and] from Miami University in
1938
where he was a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.
For many years, Mr. Martin
owned Martin Inn, which closed in 1965. He and his family also owned
the
Abigail Tea Room in Lakeside for many years. Mr. Martin was a member of
the Oberlin Masonic Lodge and First Church of Oberlin.
He is survived by his
wife,
Ruth; sons Christ of Portage, Wisconsin, Bruce of Jackson, Ohio, and
Ladd
and Sheldon, both of Oberlin; five grandchildren, and a sister, Grace
Harlow,
of Oberlin.
Friends may call today
from
10 a.m. until the time of services at 11 a.m. at the Cowling Funeral
Home.
The Rev. Douglas Long will officiate and burial will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, March 25, 1995, p. 2.
Margaret Maruschak
Margaret Maruschak (nee
Paddock), 69, of Oberlin, died Sunday night at Allen Memorial Hospital
following a long illness.
Mrs. Maruschak was born
in Oberlin on Feb. 13, 1921, and had lived here her entire life except
when she attended college.
She taught students with
learning disabilities at Prospect Elementary School, and had taught
with
the Head Start program, and at the First Church until her health failed.
Mrs. Maruschak [graduated
from OHS in 1939 and] earned a bachelor’s degree from the Flora
Stone
Mather
School of Case Western Reserve University in 1945. She received a
master’s
degree in education from the Ohio State University.
She is survived by
Stephen,
her husband of 36 years; two daughters, Nancy Maruschak-Galloway of
Elyria,
and Donna Corr of Massillon; three sons, Thomas of Lorain, Michael of
Jackson,
Miss., and Andrew of Sheffield; a brother, Charles Paddok, of Playa Del
Ray, Calif.; and by five grandchildren.
Friends will be received
at the Cowling Funeral Home from 2-4 p.m., and from 7-9 p.m. today,
Dec.
4. There will be a service held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at First Church
with Rev. John Elder officiating.
There will be a private
burial for the family at Westwood Cemetery.
The family suggests that
memorial gifts be given to the Northwest Ohio Multiple Sclerosis
Society
or to First Church.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, December 4, 1990, p. 2.
Popular Young Man Of Oberlin [Arthur
Mason] Dies From The Result Of Fall
Fell Fifteen Feet From a Gallery in
Warner Gym
Arthur Mason, who would have been 26 years of age in July, died
at 2 o’clock Sunday morning at his home in Oberlin from injuries
sustained last Wednesday afternoon when he fell fifteen feet from a
gallery in Warner gymnasium, Oberlin, being repaired by Lee Whitney,
tinner, of this city, for whom he worked.
Mason fell backwards from a ladder leading to the gallery in Warner
gymnasium while in the act of going to the roof to perform some kind of
repair work. His head struck the hard wood floor below. He was picked
up unconscious and remained in that condition until relieved by death.
The injury resulted in a gash in the temple but no bones were
apparently broken. Concussion of the brain later developed and resulted
in death.
Mason was alone at the time and no one saw the accident. He was
carrying a bucket of cement to workmen on the roof of the building who
were repairing the gutters. With one hand occupied with the cement it
is probable that he missed a rung of the ladder and the heavy load
overbalanced him. He probably fell a distance of fifteen feet.
He was discovered some minutes later by Herbert Glenn, the college
carpenter and at first he was thought to be dead as he had bled
profusely from the wound in his temple. An ambulance harried him to the
hospital where he remained unconscious until Thursday morning when he
appeared restless. Opiates were administered as it was thought best to
keep him at ease for a longer period. Thursday afternoon another
hypodermic was given.
Mason was prominent in high school circles at Oberlin [OHS class of
1911?] where he was captain of the baseball team in 1910 and was also a
prominent member of the Masonic order in Oberlin which will probably
have charge of the funeral service. The services will probably be
conducted Thursday afternoon.
He was married in December, 1915, to Miss Ruth Davis, daughter of E. J.
Davis, of the Sugar Bowl, Oberlin. Two daughters, one two years and the
other four months of age, in addition to his mother, Mrs. Christy, the
wife of the New York Central railroad ticket agent at Oberlin, and a
brother, Mark Mason, of Butte, Mont., survive.
Mason was a likeable fellow and had numerous friends in this city where
he was employed as a tinsmith for Lee Whitney as well as in Oberlin
where he had spent his entire life. His untimely death is regretted and
the sympathy of his fellow associates in this city as well as the large
number of friends in Oberlin is extended to the bereaved family.
Evening Telegraph,
Elyria, Ohio, Monday, March 24, 1919, p. 1.
Max L. Mason dies at 75 of heart attack
Max L. Mason, 121 E.
Lorain
St., died Jan. 21 at Allen Hospital following an apparent heart attack.
He was 75 years old.
A native of Oberlin [and
1912 graduate of Oberlin High School], Mr. Mason was employed at the
U.S.
Steel Corp. in Lorain for more than 35 years before his retirement in
1959.
He is survived by his
wife,
Maym; a son, Harold, 290 N. Pleasant; two daughters, Mrs. James Lavelle
of Los Angeles and Mrs. Jarjorie Butler of New Platz, N.Y.; and nine
grandchildren.
Funeral services, with the
Rev. Floyd Buckland of the First Baptist Church officiating, were held
at Cowling Funeral Home on Saturday. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, January 29, 1970, p. 3.
Viola Louella Mason
Viola Louella Mason, 72,
of Oberlin, died at University Hospital in Cleveland on Feb. 23 after a
short illness.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1942
graduate of OHS], she worked at American Greetings and was a machinist
at Gilford Instrument Labs, retiring in 1985.
Mrs. Mason is survived by
a daughter, Leslene Lofties of Lortin, Va.; a son, Lester Jr. of
Oberlin;
an adopted son, Lester Barclay of Chicago; five grandchildren; five
brothers,
Harold Huston of Cleveland, Theodore Huston of Sandusky, Lawrence and
Allen
Huston, both of Oberlin, and Richard Huston of Cleveland; and three
sisters,
Marguerite King, LaVerne Bailey and Minnie Isom, all of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Lester, in 1985; her parents, Theodore O. and Mayme
Huston;
and a brother, Ellwood.
Services were Saturday
morning
at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, with the Rev. Fred L. Steen officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 1, 1994, p. 2.
Mary
Lee Massey
Elyria — Mary Lee Massey (nee Mc Queen) 73, of Elyria passed away
Friday June 26, 2009.
She was born in KY coming to Oberlin 48 [58?] years ago.
She was a [1955] graduate of Oberlin High School. Mrs. Massey was a
homemaker, and she enjoyed bingo, crocheting, and ect.
She is survived by sons--William, Richard, Cornelius, James, Malachi,
and Jonathan, daughter--Marietta, Christine, and Bernetta.
22-grandchildren, 2-great grandchildren.
A brother-James Mc Queen of Columbus.
She was preceded in death by husband-- Malachi Wade, and daughter-
Jacqueline Massey.
Friends may call Tuesday June 30, 2009 from 10 am until the time of
service at 11 am at the Elyria Carter Funeral Home Chapel, 127 W.
Bridge St., Elyria, Ohio 44035.
Rev. Arnett Thornton will officiate services. Burial will be in
Brookdale Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements entrusted to: Dennis W. Carter and Carter Funeral
Home Inc. 127 W. Bridge St. Elyria.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Sun., June 28, 2009.
Emma N. Matcham
Emma N. Matcham, 75, of
Elyria, sister of Vivian Knepper of Oberlin, died Friday at Elyria
Memorial
Hospital after a long illness.
She was a longtime
resident
of North Ridgeville before moving to Punta Gorda, Fla., in 1965. For
the
past several months she had lived with her daughter in Elyria.
She is also survived by
her husband, George D.; her daughter, Mrs. Leland (Narelle) Peden of
Elyria;
sons, George Jr. of Chapel Hill, N.C., and Arthur of Punta Gorda; two
sisters,
four other brothers, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services were Tuesday
afternoon
at the Chapel of Brookdale Cemetery, Elyria, with burial in Brookdale
Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 28, 1985, p. 2.
George D. Matcham, owned TV repair shop
George D. Matcham, 85, a
former North Ridgeville resident, died June 1 at his home in Punta
Gorda,
Fla., after a long illness.
Born in Oberlin [and a
1926
graduate of OHS], he lived in North Ridgeville. At one time, Mr.
Matcham
worked at the Ridge Tool Co., General Motors Fisher Guide Plant and
Bendix-Westinghouse,
all in Elyria, and the Fruehauf Trailer Co. in Avon Lake.
He enjoyed fishing,
gardening
and electronics.
Survivors include a
daughter,
Narelle Peden of Elyria; sons, George Matcham Jr. of Kingman, Ariz.,
and
Arthur of Elyria; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; three
great-great-grandchildren;
sisters Marjorie Young of Punta Gorda and Ruth Heimsath of Madison,
Ohio;
and a brother, Truman Matcham of Erie, Pa.
He was preceded in death
by his wife, Emma (nee Knepper); a son, James; and a brother, Edward.
A memorial service will
be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Brookdale Cemetery in Elyria. The Rev. Janet
Long will officiate.
Memorials may be made to
the Easter Seals Society.
Southeastern Crematories
in Punta Gorda handled arrangements.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Thursday, June 16, 1994, p. D2.
Truman Wallace Matcham
Dedicated Community and Church Leader
Truman Matcham, 89, died Sunday, July 17, 2005, at Hamot Hospital
following a brief illness. He was born March 29, 1916 in Oberlin, Ohio,
son of the late George D. Matcham and Emma Callin Matcham. Mr. Matcham
[graduated from OHS in 1934,] served in the United States Navy during
WWII and was a proud graduate of Ohio State University in 1948. He
retired from General Electric Co. in 1980 after working 41 years as an
industrial engineer and manager. Mr. Matcham was a member of the
Lawrence Park United Methodist Church, where he was a trustee and held
other leadership positions. He served as a Lawrence Park Commissioner
and Judge of Elections in Lawrence Park for many years. Mr. Matcham
served on the board of the Erie chapter of Meals on Wheels and in many
other civic organizations throughout his life. In his later years he
enjoyed woodworking, traveling, photography, reading and was a champion
scrabble player.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years Martha Matcham, two
brothers, George Matcham and Edward Matcham, and sister Marjorie Young.
Survivors include three children, Susan Matcham Hernandez (Robert) of
Salinas, Calif., Beth Matcham Shepherd (Mike) of Silver Spring, Md. and
John Matcham (Donna) of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., one sister, Ruth Heimseth
of Menlo Park, Ohio, and seven grandchildren.
Friends may call on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the G.R.
Bailey Funeral Home, 4396 Iroquois Ave., Lawrence Park. A funeral
service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at the Lawrence Park United
Methodist Church followed by the burial at Wintergreen Gorge Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Lawrence Park United Methodist Church
Youth Endowment Fund, 4015 Niagara Place, Erie, PA 16511.
Erie Times-News, Erie,
Penns., Wednesday, July 20, 2005, p. 89.
[Mary Matthews] Dies in Wisconsin
Miss Mary L. Matthews,
former
Oberlin resident and American Board missionary, died Dec. 31 at her
home
in Lancaster, Wis., after an illness of six weeks.
Miss Matthews left Oberlin
in August, 1948, to make her home with her brother-in-law and sister,
Rev. and Mrs. S. Bryant Welles. She had served as missionary in what
was
then European Turkey before her retirement many years ago.
Funeral services were held
in the Congregational Church in Lancaster, conducted by the minister,
Rev.
Francis Krang. Burial was in the Matthews family lot in Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, January 18, 1951, p. 10.
Clara Mae Matthews
Lorain — Clara Mae Matthews, 79, (nee Schramm) of Lorain died
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at Community Health Partner's Regional Medical
Center following a brief illness.
Mrs. Matthews was born in Oberlin, Ohio on October 21, 1929, the
daughter of the late Frank G. and Minnie M. (nee Mahlke) Schramm. She
was a [1948] graduate of Oberlin High School.
She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church for more than 50
years. An active member of her church, Mrs. Matthews also taught Sunday
School for more than 50 years, a member of the Sunago Fellowship, and a
member of the former Missionary Circle.
Mrs. Matthews was well known for writing and sending cards of
encouragement to church members and friends. In the late 1960's, after
learning of the plight of POW's during Viet Nam, she wrote to
Washington DC to request a bracelet to support a missing soldier. She
was sent a MIA bracelet for Sgt Fred Schreckengost and continued to
wear the bracelet until her passing, Sgt. Schreckengost has never been
located.
She was a homemaker and a talented pianist. She was the accompanist for
the Kitchen Kuties: a group that regularly played and sang "Oldies"
music at 18 different nursing homes in Lorain and Erie Counties. She
enjoyed reading her Bible and caring for others. She collected Mickey
Mouse Memorabilia.
Mrs. Matthews is survived by her husband, Clyde E. Matthews to whom she
was married on June 26, 1948, her son Kenneth A (Kimberly) Matthews of
Sheffield Village, and a granddaughter Valerie Wright, and a great
granddaughter Amber, a brother-in-law Earl Matthews of Lakewood, nieces
and nephews Barbara Matthews, Carolyn Matthews Scott, Tim Matthews,
Gary Matthews and Terry Matthews and their families.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a sister
Phyllis Matthews.
Friends may call Monday, June 29, 2009 from 4-8 pm at the Schwartz,
Spence, Boyer & Cool Home For Funerals, 1124 W. 5th Street, Lorain.
Funeral Services will be Tuesday at 10:30 am in the funeral home with
Pastor Chris LaLonde, pastor of the Faith United Methodist Church,
officiating.
Mausoleum Encryptment will follow in Resthaven Memory Gardens in Avon.
The Family suggest that memorial contributions may be made to Faith
United Methodist Church, 2201 Reid Avenue, Lorain, Ohio 44052.
Online condolences at www.boyer-cool.com.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Sun., June 28, 2009.
Phyllis Ann Matthews
Phyllis Ann Matthews (nee
Schramm), 63, of Lakewood died Tuesday at St. John & West Shore
Hospital.
Born in Elyria [and a 1946
OHS graduate], she worked 40 years for Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.
Survivors include her
husband,
the Rev. Earl L. Matthews; daughters, Barbara Matthews and Carolyn
Scott;
sons, Timothy, Gary, and Terry; six grandchildren; and a sister, Clara
Mae Matthews.
A son, Larry, preceded her
in death.
Friends may call 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. today at McGorray Brothers Funeral Home, 14133 Detroit Ave.,
Lakewood.
Services will be 11 a.m.
Friday at Cove United Methodist Church, 12501 Lake Ave., Lakewood.
Burial will be in
Resthaven
Memory Gardens, Avon.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Thursday, September 19, 1991, p. B-2.
Beulah H. May
Beulah Harriet May, 87,
of Oberlin, died March 3 at Welcome Nursing Home.
Born in Oberlin, she was
a lifelong resident. She graduated from [Oberlin High School in 1925,]
from Oberlin College in 1929 and from Western Reserve University School
of Library Science in 1931.
Miss May was librarian at
Oberlin High School for 28 years, retiring in 1973. After retiring, she
volunteered at the library for several years.
She was a member of the
Northeast Ohio Educators Association, the Oberlin Ohio Educators
Association
and the American Association of Retired Persons. She also belonged to
the
Literary and Social Club and the Pinochle Club. For many years she was
a volunteer at Allen Memorial Hospital gift shop.
Miss May was an active
member
of First United Methodist Church and the Naomi Circle of the church.
She is survived by a
foster
son, Paul Rimelspach of Elyria; and three nephews, Gordon May of
Athens,
Ga., and Richard and Larry Weaver, both of Philadelphia.
Services will be at 11
a.m.
today, March 7, at the First United Methodist Church, with the Rev.
Judith
W. Claycomb officiating. Burial will be in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, March 7, 1995, p. 2.
Gordon C. May
Gordon C. May, 87, former
Oberlin resident, died June 14 in Bogart, Ga., where he had been living
with his son.
Mr. May was born in
Oberlin,
attended Oberlin High School [where he graduated in 1923], and
graduated
from Oberlin College in 1927.
He is survived by his son,
Gordon, and a grandson, both of Bogart; and a sister, Beulah May of
Oberlin.
Interment will be in
Athens,
Ga.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 18, 1991, p. 2.
Gordon Chapman May, [OHS
’23, OC ’27, died] June 14, 1991, in Bogart, Ga. Born Mar.
7, 1904, in
Troy, Ohio, he was, for 22 years, treasurer of Graphite Metallizing
Corp. of Yonkers, N.Y., from which he retired in 1980 as
vice-president. He was preceded in death by his wife, Leita; a sister,
Catherine May [OHS ‘20] ’24, ’32 A.M.; and an aunt,
Alice May ’12, ’17
A.M. He is survived by a son; two grandchildren; and a sister, Beulah
H. May [OHS ‘25] ’29.
Oberlin Alumni Magazine, Oberlin, Ohio, Fall 1991, p. 33.
Sudden Death of Miss Lucy Fern May
Friends of the family of
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. May, of No. 112 North Professor street, were
shocked
Easter morning when it became known that their second daughter, Miss
Lucy
Fern May, had died suddenly early that morning.
Miss May had been in
apparently
good health, had taught school in the Worcester district, this
township,
for the present school year, had closed the winter term Friday, and had
spent Saturday preparing for Easter and in planning for her vacation
holiday,
which was to have been this week between the winter and spring terms of
the school.
Saturday night, about 10
o’clock, she was taken with nausea, and violent pains in her
head,
which,
however, seemed to subside, and was resting quietly at 1 o’clock
by the
side of her youngest sister, Alice, when her older sister, Mary, went
to
her bedside and asked how she felt. She replied, “I am feeling
comfortable.”
In the morning Alice arose
quietly and did not attempt to disturb her, as she was apparently
sleeping.
Some time later another member of the family on going to her bedside
discovered
that she was cold, and probably dead.
Dr. W. C. Bunce was
immediately
called, but he said she had passed away some time before. A careful
examination
made some time later by Dr. Bunce, assisted by Dr. Everett, disclosed
the
fact that her death was caused from degeneration of the tissues of the
heart. The whole of the right side was affected, and the doctors said
nothing
could have been done to save her, and the only wonder was that she had
been able to continue her work so long.
Miss May was a graduate
of the Oberlin High School class of ’95, and also of the Academy.
She
was
of a bright and sunny temperament and much loved by her friends. She
was
24 years old last December, and had lived in this village for nearly
eighteen
years, coming here from Pennsylvania with her parents when a mere child.
The impressive funeral
services
were largely attended. The children of the school in District No. 6,
which
Miss May taught, were there in a body, together with a number of their
parents and friends.
A number of the teachers
and pupils from other schools in the township; representatives from the
Oberlin Union schools, from the class of ’95 of which Miss May
was a
member;
friends from Elyria and Cleveland and a number of relatives from out of
town were also present.
The floral offerings were
beautiful and consisted mainly of lilies, roses and carnations. The
interment
was at Westwood Cemetery.
Relatives from out of town
were her aunt, Mrs. D. F. Chipman, her cousins, Mrs. Frank C. Wilson
and
Fred Ebener and Miss Hattie Chipman of Pontiac, Mich.
The Oberlin News,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, April 1, 1902, p. 1.
Runee Maybaugh
Wellington -- Runee
Maybaugh, 76, of Wellington, died
unexpectedly Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2004, at Allen Medical Center, Oberlin.
She was born July 26, 1928, in
Oberlin and lived most of her
life in Wellington.
She graduated from Oberlin High
School [in 1946].
Mrs. Maybaugh was a member of Order
of the Eastern Star,
Wellington. She enjoyed crocheting and collected praying hands and
angels.
Survivors include her husband, Donald
E. Maybaugh; son,
Richard H. Maybaugh of Wellington; and five grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Donna
Maybaugh;
her parents, Zenas and Mable (nee Blue) Clevenger; and brothers Richard
and
Arthur Clevenger.
Friends may call Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.,
at T.G. Cowling
Funeral Home, 218 Herrick Ave., E., Wellington, where services will be
Friday
at 10 a.m. The Rev. Mark Petric of New Life Assembly of God will
officiate.
Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery, Wellington.
The Morning Journal, Lorain, Ohio,
Thursday, September 2,
2004.
Mrs. Wallace Mayfield
Rebecca Francis [Frances]
(Mrs. Wallace) Mayfield, 58, of 382 S. Pleasant, died in Allen Hospital
July 3 after a long illness.
Mrs. Mayfield was born in
Oberlin, [graduated from Oberlin High School in 1933] and was a member
of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Barnes,
were
very prominent members of the church and were also active in local
civic
affairs.
Surviving are her husband;
a daughter, Mrs. Elaine Smith, 197 Groveland; a son, Edward Randall of
Lorain; ten grandchildren; a brother, Samuel Barnes, of Washington,
D.C.;
and a sister, Mrs. Everett (Margaret) Jones of Detroit, Mich.
Funeral services were held
Saturday in Mt. Zion Baptist Church with the Rev. Fred Steen
officiating.
Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, July 12, 1973, p. 6.
Richard
Ely Maynard
Richard E. Maynard died
Mr. Maynard was born
In 1939 he married Georgianna Mathew,
who later taught
English and supervised the library at the
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Matthew Dwayne Alexander Mayo
Atlanta, Ga.
— Matthew Dwayne Alexander Mayo, 41, of Atlanta Ga. and formerly
of Oberlin, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 2009 at the DeKalb Medical Center
in Decatur, Georgia, after bravely battling a sudden illness.
Matthew was born March 30, 1968 in Oberlin. He was a 1987 graduate of
Oberlin Senior High School. Matthew moved to Atlanta, Georgia in 1991.
He worked for the Center of Disease Control as a Shipping/Receiving
Clerk for Advanced Federal Services Corporation in support of the
Procurement and Grants Office, Material Management Activity. He was a
member of Sozo New Covenant Fellowship Church in Tucker, Georgia.
Matthew was a loving guy with a jovial attitude. He never met a
stranger, and had the uncanny ability to put a smile on anyone’s
face. He was often teased for having the ability to hold one captive
with his long stories about cars, foods, restaurants and music. He had
an art for holding healthy debates, while having the ability to find
common ground with friends, family and co-workers.
Matthew will be sorely missed by many. He is survived by his wife of 17
years, Bette Mayo nee (Washington); two daughters Ryan and Taylor Mayo
of Tucker, GA; parents, Matthew Mayo and Shirley Mayo of Oberlin, OH;
brothers, Michael Mayo of Arlington, Wash., currently deployed in
Afghanistan and Marcus Mayo of Oberlin. and sister, Marjean Mayo also
of Oberlin.
Matthew was cremated per his request and returned to Oberlin. A private
viewing was held at Greg Levitt’s Funeral Chapel in
Lawrenceville, Georgia on Monday October 12, 2009.
A pubic memorial service will be held Friday, November 25th at 6:00
p.m. at Mount Zion Baptist Church, 47 Locust St., Oberlin, Ohio.
Shirley Mayo (his mother), will officiate.
The Morning Journal, Lorain,
Ohio, Tuesday, November 17, 2009.
Charlotte McCarthy
Played bingo, attended
St. Jude’s
Charlotte McCarthy (nee
Powers), 88, of Elyria died today at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
in
Toledo after a brief illness.
Mrs. McCarthy was born in
Oberlin[, graduated from OHS in 1930,] and lived in Elyria most of her
life.
She was a homemaker and
attended St. Jude Catholic Church in Elyria.
Mrs. McCarthy enjoyed
fishing,
traveling with her family and playing bingo. She was affectionately
known
as “Grandma” to the friends she played bingo with.
Mrs. McCarthy is survived
by her son, Dennis McCarthy of Elyria; daughters Sharon Vietzen of
Elyria
and Kathleen Zacharias of Toledo; 12 grandchildren; and 14
great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death
by her husband, Gerald McCarthy, parents George and Mary Jane Powers;
brothers
Sam, Frank, George and Kenneth Powers; and a sister, Lorretta Rhodes.
Friends may call 2 to 4
p.m. and from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Reichlin-Roberts Funeral Home,
327 Cleveland St., Elyria.
Services will take place
at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Burial will be at St.
Mary’s
Cemetery in Elyria.
Memorial contributions can
be made to the charity of the donor’s choice.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria,
Ohio, Thursday, February 25, 1999, p. B2.
Hunting Trip Is Fatal To Fulton Man
[Alison McCarty]
Alison McCarty, office manager at the McKendry Ford agency, lost his
life in a hunting accident in the Adirondacks Thursday afternoon, when
a rifle in the hands of Victor Baumister was discharged.
McCarty and a party of friends from this city left last week Tuesday
night and had been hunting for a day and a half when the accident
occurred. In the party were Dr. C. R. Baldwin, Dr. Leigh A. Simpson,
Sergeant Elmer LaPointe of Troop D, state police; Floyd Boynton, C.
Fred Hillick, Price Bailey, Charles Chesbro, James Kinney, Harry
Aylesworth, his son, Harold, and Harold L. Rogers.
McCarty and Baumister, hunting together as was their invariable custom
for several years, had sighted a deer. They followed its tracks until
it entered one end of a small swamp some five or six acres in area. The
judgment of the two hunters was that their quarry would make its exit
on the far side and then climb a ridge which they could see across the
swamp.
McCarty’s suggestion was that Baumister should circle the swamp
and post himself on the ridge to wait the coming of the buck. Baumister
agreed and asked that Mr. McCarty allow ten minutes before he stared on
the track.
Right up to the instant of the shooting the plan worked perfectly. The
buck, seemingly alert to danger on his back track, emerged from the
swamp. Baumister caught a brief glimpse of the deer, saw it was a buck
and prepared to shoot. The deer secreted himself in a tiny copse of
evergreen and stood quietly there for some minutes before coming out,
to become the target for Baumister’s gun. The shot was down hill.
The probabilities are that Baumister, an expert marksman as a rule,
overshot the deer and the bullet hit McCarty, who had the misfortune to
come precisely in line with the bullet’s flight. McCarty cried
out once as he was hit. Baumister ran to his aid, but he was beyond
help, death having been instant and merciful. Baumister’s
distress signals brought members of the party, Charles Chesbro, Fred
Hillick, Dr. L. A. Simpson and Dr. C. R. Baldwin, who were a few
hundred yards away. Dr. Simpson pronounced the unfortunate man dead,
and so the sad news was relayed to Fulton via the fire warden’s
telephone, some three miles away from the party’s camp.
The balance of the day, from nine in the morning to four in the
afternoon, was utilized in assembling the widely scattered members of
the party.
At the inquest Thursday Coroner Bibby of Long Lake and District
Attorney George McDonald of Herkimer county, gave a verdict of
accidental death.
The body was brought to this city by Frank Spaulding, who left here
Thursday night. Funereal services were held from the Presbyterian
church Sunday afternoon. Rev. Allen Hacket and Rev. A. C. Horsman
officiating; interment in Mt. Adnah.
Mr. McCarty was a native of Lysander and moved to this city about 25
years ago. He attended the public schools here and after leaving high
school attended Central City Business school, Syracuse, and Oberlin
college, Oberlin, Ohio [where he graduated from high school in 1918].
He had been office manager at the local Ford agency for the past ten
years.
With his wife, Sarah Schols McCarty, and a son, Lawrence, 3, he made
his home with his parents. He also leaves a brother, also of this city.
The Fulton Patriot,
Fulton, N.Y., Thursday, November 16, 1933, p. 1.
Met
Death On Western Front
Lawrence McCarty Killed
in Action on October 25 – Word Received Here Monday
Had Been Doing Scout
Duty During the Last Drive of Our Boys – Many Friends Here
Lawrence McCarty was
killed
in action on the western front October 25. The news was received from
the
War department on Monday and was a severe shock to the many friends of
the young man.
It is understood from
recent
letters received from him that he was a member of a scout troop which
kept
upon the heals of the retreating Huns. A letter published in this paper
about a month ago told of his work in entering the Hun trenches and
dugouts
and in looking for machine gun nests and bombs. This letter was
published
about the time he met his death.
Lawrence had been a
resident
of Oberlin for about five years. He was a graduate of the high school
[about
1914] and had been employed in Ohly’s pharmacy. It was his
intention to
enter a school of pharmacy after his discharge from the army.
The young man’s
mother,
Mrs. Milan McCarty, moved from her home on Morgan street last summer to
Fulton, N. Y., after her youngest son, Allison, was graduated from high
school. Another son, George, is in the Officers’ Training School
at
Camp
Gordon, Ga.
The family has many
friends
in Oberlin, all of whom feel keenly the death of this young man, whose
life held so much of promise but who was called upon to make the great
sacrifice for his country. His friends cherish the thoughts of his
friendship
and will long cherish his memory as one who proved by his bravery and
fortitude
the real qualities of American manhood.
The Oberlin Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, December 6, 1918, p. 1.
Lawrence R. McCarty
McCarty—The remains of private Lawrence R. McCarty, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Milan McCarty of 18 North Seventh street, arrived from France
on Wednesday last and were taken to the undertaking rooms of Young,
Foster & Kennedy and later to the home of his parents. Funeral
services were held Sunday afternoon from the family home and the
remains taken to Lysander for interment. Homer Russell Smith post of
the American Legion had charge of the military part of the services.
Private McCarty enlisted in the 83d division at Oberlin, O., April 18,
1918, where he was living at that time, and was later sent to Camp
Sherman, where he was transferred to Company K of the 102d infantry,
26th division. He was stationed here only two months, when he was sent
to the embarkation station at Camp Merritt and from there he sailed for
France.
On his arrival in France he was immediately sent to the battlefields
and was with his company in engagements in St. Mihiel and
Meuse-Argonne. He was killed in action at Bois D’Ormont, near
Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 27, 1918.
The Fulton Patriot, Fulton,
N.Y., Wednesday, September 28, 1921, p. 1.
Carolyn
Ruth McClellan
Carolyn Ruth
McClellan, 73, of Polson, passed away
Carolyn was born
She taught school in
She married Robert Bruce McClellan on
Carolyn received her master's degree
in education from
After their retirement in 1979, she
and Robert retired and
moved
Carolyn is preceded in death by her
sister,
She is survived by her husband,
Robert of Polson; two sons,
David and his wife Marthe of Barcelona, Spain, and John of Helena; two
grandchildren, Jonathan and Samantha; and a sister,
Cremation has taken place and a
memorial service will be
held
Missoulian,
Virginia K. McClellan
Virginia [Helen] K. [nee Kurepkat] McClellan, 79, of Xenia,
[died] Wednesday[, September 4 1996]. [She graduated from OHS in 1935.]
Private services. (McColaugh, Xenia)
Dayton Daily News,
Dayton, Ohio, Friday, September 6, 1996, p. 6B.
Emily Elizabeth (Gunn) McCollister
Emily Gunn McCollister, 94, of 3201 First St. NE, St.
Petersburg, died Thursday (Nov. 9, 1989) at the Masonic Home of
Florida. She was born in Wellington, Ohio, [graduated from OHS in
1912,] and came here in 1966. She worked as a bookkeeper. She was a
Methodist. She was a member of OES Adah Chapter 219, St. Petersburg.
Survivors include two stepsons, Roy, Tampa, and Ralph, Punta Gorda;
nine grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. Anderson-McQueen
Funeral Home, St. Petersburg.
St. Petersburg Times,
St. Petersburg, Florida, November 11, 1989, p. 7.
Daniel W. McConnell, 47,
farmer
Pittsfield Township --
Daniel
''Dan'' W. McConnell, 47, of Pittsfield Township, died, Monday, Nov.
20,
2000, at his home, as a result of a farming accident.
He was born June 29, 1953,
in Oberlin, and had been an Oberlin area resident all his life. [He
graduated
from Oberlin High School in 1972.]
McConnell was a lifelong
farmer.
He was a member of the
Lorain
County Farm Bureau and the National Ayrshire Cattle Breeders
Association.
He enjoyed bowling, golf and all other sports, and was an avid
Cleveland
Browns fan.
Survivors include his wife
Laura (nee Mull); his father, Norman McConnell of Pittsfield Township;
sister, Cheryl Newell of Delaware, Ohio; and brothers Kenneth McConnell
of Amherst and Robert McConnell of Seattle, Wash. He was preceded in
death
by his mother, Marion McConnell.
Friends may call Friday
6 to 9 p.m. at Norton Funeral Home, 370 S. Main St., Wellington.
Services
will be Saturday at 11 a.m. in Grace Lutheran Church, 310 W. Lorain
St.,
Oberlin, with the Rev. Rich Docekal, pastor, officiating. Burial will
be
in East Pittsfield Cemetery, Pittsfield Township.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain,
Ohio, November 22, 2000.
Harriet McConnell
Trumansburg, N.Y. — Harriet B. McConnell, 93, of 21 Cayuga St.,
died on
Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, at Lakeside Nursing Home [Ithaca, NY] after a
brief illness.
She was born in Shaoxing, China on Jan. 5, 1911, the second of four
daughters born to Claude and Grace Barlow. Her father was a Baptist
missionary-surgeon. She was educated at Shanghai American School. As
conflict among competing warlords in China increased in the late 1920s,
missionary life became unsafe and the family returned to the United
States in 1928, where she finished high school [at Oberlin, Ohio, in
1929]. Her father was then contracted by the Egyptian Ministry of
Health to study and eradicate schistosomiasis and the family relocated
to Egypt where she entered the American University of Cairo (AUC). She
and her older sister were the first female graduates of that
institution.
In 1931, she became engaged to John W. McConnell of Philadelphia, an
instructor of economics at AUC. They were married in Germantown, Pa. in
1933.
She lived in New Haven, Conn., Washington, D.C., Englewood, N.J., and
in 1946, moved five young children to a big old house in Trumansburg,
N.Y. when her husband took a position at Cornell University in the new
school of Industrial and Labor Relations.
She was a homemaker of great talent. She not only cooked the food, she
grew it and canned it. She not only washed the clothes, she made them.
She not only cleaned the house, she rebuilt it. She cared for her
parents who lived next door. She encouraged the neighborhood children
to play in the backyard and made sure that everyone played fairly. She
maintained a sharp intellect, never talked down to children or adults,
held firm beliefs about proper behavior and was a constructive presence
at the Trumansburg Central School and the Trumansburg United Methodist
Church.
In 1962, her husband became president of the University of New
Hampshire. Although a private person and daunted by the public exposure
involved in his position, she gradually made the role of
president’s
wife her own, humanizing the relationships between the university
community and the president’s office with her wit and plain
speaking in
a time of academic turmoil.
She and her husband returned to Trumansburg in 1971 and once again
renovated their old home, making it a comfortable place to welcome
family for visits. She earned a degree in practical nursing at age 60,
and worked in the office of Dr. Stanley Gutelius, Trumansburg’s
general
practitioner.
She loved her husband, her family, her home, her garden, her church,
the Philomathic Library and her neighbors. She grieved deeply after the
loss of Jack in 1997 and spent many hours sitting on his tombstone
giving him the latest news and seeking his advice. She fought against
her progressive loss of physical strength in the last five years,
conscious that there was still much she wanted to do and see.
She left life as she lived it - with courage and determination. She is
survived by her youngest sister, Elizabeth Davids of Charles Town, W.
Va.; her children, Janet (John) Alexander of Old Town, Maine, Kathleen
(David) Mervin of Arnside, Cumbria, UK, Grace (Dan) Clark of Boulder,
Colo., Judith (Henry) Sondheimer of Denver, Colo., and John (Marjorie)
McConnell of Wyckoff, N.J.; nine grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her many friends and
neighbors whom she considered her family.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Sept.
10, at the Ness-Sibley Funeral Home, 23 South St., Trumansburg.
A Memorial Service will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11 at the
Trumansburg United Methodist Church, officiated by the Rev. Robyn
Wernham. Interment will be held at Grove Cemetery in Trumansburg.
In lieu of flowers, memorials in Harriet’s name may be directed
to the
Trumansburg United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 628 or the Ulysses
Philomathic Library, P.O. Box 705, Trumansburg, NY 14886.
For additional information please contact the funeral home at
1-888-534-5446 or www.ness-sibley.com.
Foster's Online, Dover,
N.H., Thursday, September 9, 2004.
Mrs. L. W.
McConnell
Wellington—Mrs.
Lottie M. McConnell, 79, R.D. 1, died
yesterday at noon in the Weber Nursing Home after a long illness. She
was a
patient in the rest home three weeks.
Mrs. McConnell was born Dec. 9, 1880
in Clarksfield Township
[and graduated from OHS in 1900]. She was a member of the First
Methodist
Church, Wellington Grange, Farm Women’s Club and Chapter 103
Order of
Eastern
Star.
Survivors are her husband, L.
Winfield McConnell to whom she
would have been married 55 years June 21; two son, Boyd and Richard,
both of
Wellington; three grandchildren; two great grandchildren and a sister,
Mrs.
Lillian Cook, Wellington R.D.
Friends will be received in the
Norton Funeral Home after 7
p.m. today. Services will be Thursday at 2 p.m. in the funeral home.
The Rev.
Harold Willman will officiate. Burial will be in Brighton Cemetery.
The
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria,
Ohio, Tuesday, June 14,
1960, p. 14.
Elsie Elizabeth McCormick
Oberlin — Elsie
Elizabeth McCormick, 90, passed away peacefully at New Hospice Center
in Lorain, August 27, 2009.
She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, May 25, 1919, and was the daughter of
the late John Mitro and Mary Schnear Mitro.
Elsie lived in Oberlin most of her life and [graduated from OHS in
1937. She] worked at the Oberlin Clinic in Patient Registration
retiring after 20 years in 1982. She was a member of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church and enjoyed square dancing and playing bridge.
Elsie is survived by her husband, Joseph J. McCormick of Oberlin, sons
Gene J. (Renee) Lawson, Redmond, WA, Hal A. (Katherine) Lawson, Albany,
NY, grandsons Michael & Brian Lawson, great-grandson Julian Lawson;
sisters Agnes Mason [OHS ‘39], Grand Rapids, MI & LaVerne
Clark, Seven Hills, OH.
She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers Fred Mitro [OHS
‘34] and John Mitro [OHS ‘35], sister Dorothy Dudley [OHS
‘42] and her first husband Burdett "Sam" Lawson.
Visitation will be Monday August 31, 2009 from 6-8 p.m. at the Cowling
Funeral Home in Oberlin. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday
September 1, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with
Father Robert J. Cole officiating. Interment will be in Westwood
Cemetery.
Memorial Contributions may be made to New Life Hospice 1555 N. Abbe
Rd., Elyria, Ohio.
The Morning Journal,
Lorain, Ohio, Sunday, August 30, 2009.
Miss Edith McCoy Dies in Cleveland at 59
Funeral services were held
on Tuesday afternoon in Cleveland for Miss Edith Alice McCoy, 59,
sister
of Mrs. John P. Wood of Oberlin, who died Friday at Woman’s
Hospital in
Cleveland. Burial was made in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin.
A teacher of history,
civics
and modern problems at West High School, Cleveland, for the past 28
years,
Miss McCoy had entered the Cleveland system in 1920. Born in Wichita,
Kans.,
she moved to Oberlin with her family in 1906, their home being at 237
E.
College St. She graduated from Oberlin High School [in 1908] and
received
her A.B. degree from Oberlin College in 1912 and her A.M. in 1914. She
was a member of the Lakewood Congregational Church.
Besides her sister, Miss
McCoy is survived by a nephew, John A. Wood, Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, October 20, 1949, p. 3.
Peggy
Rimbert McCoy
Peggy Ann McCoy (nee
Rimbert),
50, of Mitchellville, Md., former Oberlin resident, died March 10 at
Doctors'
Hospital in Lanham, Md., after a long illness.
A 1960 graduate of Oberlin
High School, she received a bachelor's degree from Central State
University
in 1964 and a master's degree from Ohio State University in 1967.
Mrs. McCoy was a reading
specialist at Shugart Middle School in Temple Hills, Md.
She was a member of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church and of Delta Sorority.
Survivors include her
husband,
Richard H.; a son, Galen Boyd, at home; stepsons, Melvin, Avery,
Jelani,
and Jabari McCoy, all of Wilmington, Del.; a grandson; her mother, Eva
Mae Rimbert of Oberlin; a sister, Jacqueline Brooks, of Oberlin; and
five
brothers, Ron J. Rimbert, of Oberlin, Terrence G. Rimbert of Elyria,
Eddie
M. Rimbert of Montomery, Ala., Ray W. Rimbert of Oakland Calif., and
Larry
J. Rimbert of Columbus, Ind. She was preceded in death by her father,
Eddie
Rimbert, in 1992.
Services were Monday
morning
in the Cowling Funeral Home, with the Rev. Fred L. Steen, pastor of Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, 16 March 1993, p. 2.
Peggy Ann McCoy, 50, Reading Specialist
Mitchellville, Md. – Peggy Ann McCoy "dedicated her life and
service to
young people," said her former pastor, the Rev. Fred Steen of Mount
Zion Baptist Church in Oberlin.
Steen first met Mrs. McCoy when she was Peggy Ann Rimbert, a teen-ager
at Oberlin High School.
"She was always one of the top students academically," Steen recalled.
"She was very active in the church. She sang in the youth choir and was
an active member of the Baptist Youth Fellowship until she went away to
college."
Steen most recently saw Mrs. McCoy, then a reading specialist at
Shugart Middle School in Temple Hills, Md., last year, when she came
home to Oberlin for the funeral of her father, Eddie Rimbert.
"I was so pleased and so proud to see how she had developed as an
educator and how dedicated she was to her children," Steen said.
About that time, Mrs. McCoy's kidney-related health problems became so
severe that her doctors advised her not to return to work.
"But she insisted on going back to her students, giving of herself
until the end," Steen said. "These days, you do not find that kind of
dedication in teachers. She was one of those chosen ones."
Mrs. McCoy, 50, of Mitchellville, Md., died Wednesday at Doctors
Hospital in Lanham, Md.
She was born in Hazard, Ky.
She graduated from Oberlin High School in 1960. She earned a bachelor's
degree from Central State University at Wilberforce, O., in 1964 and a
master's degree from Ohio State University in 1967.
Mrs. McCoy was a member of Seaton Memorial African Methodist Episcopal
Church in Seat Pleasant, Md.
Surviving are her husband, Richard H.; son, Galen F. Boyd of
Mitchellville; mother, Eva Mae Rimbert of Oberlin; stepsons, Melvin,
Avery, Jelani and Jabari, all of Wilmington, Del.; a grandchild; a
sister; and five brothers.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Cowling funeral home, 228 S. Main
St., Oberlin.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, March 12, 1993, p. 4C.
Uel Parsons McCullough
Uel P. “Bud” McCullough died Aug. 31, 1985, in Phoenix,
Ariz. A
counselor for the Arizona Dept. of Vocational Rehabilitation for 24
years, he retired in 1970 to work in insurance and as a shoe salesman.
Born in Oberlin, he was the son of Emeritus Professor of Chemistry
James C. and Mary (Parsons ’07) McCullough. [He graduated from
OHS in
1931 and from Oberlin College in 1936.] He moved to Goodyear, Ariz., in
1943 to work in the personnel department at Aircraft Manufacturing.
He leaves his wife, the former Katharine McCosh, two children, two
grandchildren, and a sister, Katharine Morton ’32 [OHS ‘28].
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, Winter 1986, p. 62.
Wilma May McDole
Wilma May McDole, 96,
of Pittsfield Township, died Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009, at Welcome
Nursing Home. [She was a 1931 graduate of OHS.]
Mrs. McDole was a member of Peace Community Church of Oberlin, as well
as the Allen Hospital Auxiliary and the Senior Center.
She enjoyed reading, sewing, crocheting and camping.
She is survived by her daughters, Marilyn Barone [OHS ’53] of
Loveland, Colo., and Carolyn Winson [OHS ‘54], of Elyria; four
grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Mary J. Webber
[OHS ‘39], of Oberlin.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Olive Whitney;
her husband, Charles Albert McDole; a grandson, Michael Nasipak; a
brother, Donald Whitney; and a sister, Velma Brill [OHS ‘30].
There will be a private family burial at the East Pittsfield Cemetery
at a later date, followed by a memorial service at Peace Community
Church of Oberlin. Cowling Funeral Home handled local arrangements.
Memorial offerings may be given to Peace Community Church, 44 E. Lorain
St., Oberlin.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Tuesday, August 18, 2009, p. 2.
Charlotte
Mrs. Lewis McDonald (Charlotte
Freelove Weeks), 89, died in
On
Mrs. McDonald is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. Martha
Hunderlock of
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Claire
Mrs. Leon Emerson McDonald
(Augusta Rudd), 88, died of a
stroke followed by pneumonia on
On
Mrs. McDonald is survived by a
daughter, Professor Esther M.
Lloyd-Jones of
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Robert A.
McDonald
Robert A[rdell] McDonald, 48,
of
Born in Oberlin,
Mr. McDonald was a member of the
First United Presbyterian
Church,
Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth J.
(nee
Friends may call at the
Curtis-Scheuffler Funeral Home today
from
Funeral service will be
The
Chronicle-Telegram,
Margaret Bradshaw McGee
Margaret Bradshaw McGee,
who once described herself as “writer, wanderer, grandmother, at
times
librarian at the Christian Science Reading Room,” died March 16
in
Meadville,
Pa. She was 86.
Mrs. McGee was born in Ann
Arbor on Jan. 20, 1889; her family moved to Oberlin in 1900 and her
father,
Rev. John W. Bradshaw, was pastor of First Church from 1900 to 1912.
Margaret McGee was
graduated
from [Oberlin High School in 1906, from] Oberlin College in 1910, and
subsequently
worked as a YWCA gym director in New Jersey and as national field
secretary
for the Campfire Girls. In 1916 she was married to Harold G. McGee, who
was director of the Bureau of Municipal Research in Akron.
The McGees lived in
Hudson,
and Mrs. McGee served on the school board and the zoning board of
appeals
there. During World War II she was an assembly line worker at the Morse
Instrument Co. in Hudson. Mr. McGee died in 1948 and Mrs. McGee moved
back
to Oberlin.
She took courses in
writing
at Western Reserve University in Cleveland and at New York University,
and wrote poetry and articles. A book “Fires of youth,” was
published
in
1959, and in 1964 a collection of 90 poems, “No other
lantern,” came
off
the press. In 1965, she wrote a series of articles on local history for
the News-Tribune.
Mrs. McGee was a two-term
member of the Oberlin College Alumni Board, and was serving as alumni
class
president for 1910 at the time of her death.
She had left Oberlin in
1971 to live in Meadville, where she was a member of the Christian
Science
Society (as she had been in Oberlin). Last fall she went to live with
her
daughter, Mrs. W. E. Curtis of Saegertown, Pa.
Survivors in addition to
Mrs. Curtis are two sons, Charles G. of Chicago and Dr. Peter L. McGee
of Bay City, Mich.; 12 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Ann
Arbor.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, March 27, 1975, p. 13.
James
A. McGrann
James A. McGrann, 64, of
Scottsdale, Ariz., former Oberlin resident, died June 4.
His parents were Dr. James
and Mary McGrann of Oberlin, now deceased. He was a 1942 graduate of
Oberlin
High School.
He was a World War II navy
veteran, and was a business executive for Excel Industries.
He moved to Arizona in
1983
from Indiana and was a volunteer at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-North.
Survivors include his
wife,
Peege, a son, James P.; a daughter, Lissa Villanueva; and a brother,
Jack,
of Virginia.
Services were in
Scottsdale.
Memorial contributions,
if desired, may be made to the Scottsdale Memorial Hospital-North
Auxiliary
Memorial Fund, 10450 N. 92 St., Scottsdale, AZ 85260.
Oberlin News-Tribune,Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 15, 1989, p. 2.
John Thomas McGrann
John
Thomas "Jack" McGrann, formerly of Oberlin, died peacefully at his home
on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010, following an extended illness. He was 83.
Born March 10, 1927, in Columbus, he attended the Oberlin City Schools
[and graduated from OHS in 1945]. He left high school before graduation
to enlist with his father and brother in the U.S. Navy during World War
II.
In 1947, he returned to Oberlin to attend Oberlin College. He received
his law degree from the University of Cincinnati, and was admitted to
the Ohio Bar in 1953.
Upon graduation, he began a long career in banking, starting at the
First National Bank of Cincinnati and becoming an assistant trust
officer. He moved to Richmond, Va., in 1956 to help develop a new trust
department for the Bank of Virginia, and retired in 1986 as president
of the Bank of Virginia Trust Company and senior vice president of the
Bank of Virginia. He was also a graduate of the Stonier Graduate School
of Banking at Rutgers University.
Throughout his active years, he served on the boards of Estate Planning
Advisory Council of the University of Richmond, the Richmond Estate
Planning Council, the Advisory Council of the Medical College of
Virginia Foundation, and the Planned Giving Committee of the Virginia
Heart Association, as well as other community organizations.
An avid “scratch” golfer (sometime with a 7 handicap) with
a quick wit and down-to-earth manner, he played courses around the
United States and Europe. He was a past president, director,
men’s golf champion, and long-time member of Willow Oaks Country
Club in Richmond.
He was a former member of Third Presbyterian Church and a long-time
member of Bon Air Presbyterian Church.
Mr. McGrann is survived by his sons John Thomas McGrann Jr. (Karen) of
Chester, Va., and David Allen McGrann (Katy); grandchildren Margaret
Grace and James Davidson McGrann, both of Richmond; numerous brothers-
and sisters-in-law; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in
death by his wife Naomi (nee Hanmer) [OHS ‘47]; parents, James
Arthur and Mary (nee Manes) McGrann; and brother James Arthur McGrann
Jr. [OHS ‘42].
The family is immeasurably grateful to Princess and Pam Reeves of
Superior Care, LLC, and their staff of wonderful home health caregivers
for the excellent care and companionship they provided to Mr. McGrann
and to Mrs. McGrann prior to her death.
A memorial service celebrating Mr. McGrann’s life was held
Tuesday at Bon Air Presbyterian Church in Richmond.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Building Fund at Bon Air
Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Rd., Richmond, VA 23235.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, October 21, 2010, p. 3A.
Naomi Grace (Hanmer) McGrann
Naomi Grace Hanmer McGrann, 77, of Richmond, died at home April 7, 2006.
Born January 13, 1929, in Oberlin, Ohio, Mrs. McGrann was the daughter
of Merle and Minnie Hanmer, who preceded her in death. She is survived
by her husband of 55 years, John Thomas (Jack) McGrann; sons, John
Thomas McGrann, Jr. and wife, Karen Waters, and David Allen McGrann and
wife, Katy; and grandchildren, Margaret Grace and James Davidson
McGrann, all of Richmond. She was preceded in death by two siblings,
Richard Hanmer and Kathryn Mims; and is survived by five siblings,
Clinton Hanmer, David Hanmer, Robert Hanmer, Linda Pleasnick and Nadine
Gott, and their families; and sister-in-law, Pegge McGrann Downs and
family.
Mrs. McGrann attended Oberlin public schools and graduated from [OHS in
1947 and from] the School of Dental Hygiene, The Ohio State University,
passing all national and state boards in 1956.
She was a former member of Third Presbyterian Church and long-time
member of Bon Air Presbyterian Church. She was a member of the Council
of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Tuckahoe Women's Club, Ikebana
of Richmond, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and Willow Oaks Country
Club.
The family is grateful to Pam Reaves, of Today's Companion, Inc., and
her wonderful home health caregivers, Princess Reaves, Erica Bradley,
Tanita Anderson, LaRaven Rambo, Ashley Ruddle and Edith Bailey, and to
hospice caregiver, Tricha Hood, for the excellent care and friendship
they have provided Mrs. McGrann and her husband.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to The Memorial
Garden of Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 West Huguenot Road,
Richmond, Virginia 23235, or the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, 1800
Lakeside Avenue, Richmond, Virginia 23228.
A memorial service celebrating Mrs. McGrann's life will be held
Wednesday, April 12, at 11 a.m. at Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201
West Huguenot Road. Following the service, the family will receive
friends and family in the church fellowship hall.
Richmond Times-Dispatch,
Richmond, Virginia, Monday, April 10, 2006.
Earl M’Kee is Taken
by
Death
End Comes Following
Second
Operation in Philadelphia Hospital
He Had Not Been Strong
for Years
Kidney Trouble,
Attributed
to Accident Sustained in 1903 – Was Very Highly Respected
Earl Uriah McKee, son of
Mrs. Lucy McKee, died at the Samaritan hospital in Philadelphia last
Thursday.
Death followed a second operation for kidney trouble, from which Mr.
McKee
had suffered for several years. While exercising in the gymnasium here
at about the time of his graduation from the high school, in 1903, Mr.
McKee injured his back in some manner. Since that time he has never
enjoyed
good health. In the hope that an operation might effect a cure he
entered
the Samaritan hospital in March, and on March 20 underwent an
operation.
A second operation was thought advisable by the surgeons and this was
performed
late in June.
Mr. McKee was born in
Oberlin
March 14, 1886. He was educated in the public schools, graduating from
the high school in 1903. Despite poor health, he was determined to
secure
a college education and pursued his studies under the handicap of
disease.
For a time he was employed as an assistant in the ticket office of the
Cleveland Southwestern and Columbus railway here.
Had not his health forced
a suspension of his school work Mr. McKee would have graduated from
Oberlin
College with the class of 1914. In his school work he was modest and
studious
and earned the esteem and friendship of his associates. A young man of
the highest character, his death is a shock to the many here who
appreciated
him outside his home circle.
In addition to his mother,
Mr. McKee is survived by one brother, O. C. McKee, and a sister, Mrs.
J.
E. Van Voorhis of Ravenna. Mrs. McKee and O. C. McKee accompanied Mr.
McKee
to the hospital and were with him when the end came.
Funeral services were held
at the family home in Elm street Saturday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Dean
E. I. Bosworth of the Oberlin Theological seminary, and Professor W. J.
Hutchins were the officiating clergymen. Dr. Bosworth paid feeling
tribute
to the worth of Mr. McKee, with whom he was well acquainted. Floral
tributes
of beauty attested the esteem of friends. Interment was made in
Westwood
cemetery.
The Oberlin New,
Oberlin,
Ohio,
Wednesday, July 22, 1914, p. 1.
Earl U. McKee
Earl U. McKee died July 16, 1914, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Earl McKee was born in Oberlin, March 14, 1886. He was graduated from
the Oberlin highs school in 1903. On account of a serious accident
which occurred during the last year of his high school work, he did not
at once begin his college course. The old accident hindered him all
through his work, and in March, 1914, he was compelled to go to
Philadelphia for expert surgical help. His death came July 16. The
Faculty of Oberlin College voted to fill out the incomplete diploma and
to rank Mr. McKee a graduate with the class of 1914.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, February 1915, p. 209.
Glenn L. McKee 1927-2004
Waterville -- Widely published and beloved Maine poet Glenn Lester
McKee, 76, died Sunday, Jan. 11, 2004, at Maine General Medical Center
in Waterville after a long and vainglorious battle with cancer.
He was born Oct. 1, 1927, in Hartville, Ohio, to schoolteachers Lucie
Hoodlet McKee and Charles Lester McKee. As a child, McKee's family
moved to various small towns in Ohio and Indiana, and this mined-out
coal country created in the poet a sense of place that remained with
him even after half a century in New England. [He graduated from OHS in
1945.]
As a young man, McKee served in the Army [enlisted Nov. 6, 1945] and
earned degrees from Earlham College and Tufts University. He engaged in
a long and varied work history, including careers as a Unitarian
Universalist minister with parishes in both Maine and New Hampshire; as
a newspaperman in Massachusetts; and as a human services administrator
in Augusta. Upon his retirement, McKee returned to his first and last
love -- poetry.
McKee, a member of The Live Poets Society, created poetry up until a
few weeks before his death. He published four chapbooks: "The Man from
Maple Grove" (Nightshade Press, 1990), "Picking Time" (White Wave,
1994), "raising doubt" (Green Point Press, 1996), and "Memory's Menu"
(Mellen Poetry Press, 1999). In addition, McKee's poems cut a wide
swath among national and state literary and poetry journals, including
"Rattle," "Now and Then," "The New York Times," 'The Café
Review, "Potato Eyes," and "Rural Southern Voice for Peace."
In the mid-'90s, McKee was a member of the award-winning Maine Slam
Poetry team, and in 1995 his poem "High Plains Drifter" received the
first prize in the Writer's Digest Magazine non-rhyming poetry contest.
In 1998 his poem "Memory's Menu" won second prize in the ETSU Center
for Appalachian Studies and Services annual poetry contest. In 2003,
while wrestling with cancer, McKee recorded and released a CD,
"Lester's Calling," of 47 of his favorite poems, including "Another
Night Nobody Died" and "Candy Wages."
McKee is survived by a loving circle of friends, including members of
the Winslow Congregational Church, who helped "rewind my crickets when
weather warms again." In addition, McKee is survived by four children,
N. Cathy McKee, Robert McKee and his wife, Beth, Carole McKee Armen,
and Glenn McKee Jr. and his wife, Deborah; nine grandchildren; his
sisters, Ruth Gordon and Twila Evans; his former wives, Genevieve McKee
and Patricia McKee; and several nieces and nephews
A memorial service will be held at the Winslow Congregational Church,
26 Lithgow St., Winslow, at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17, with the Rev.
Deborah Tate Breault officiating. Burial will at the Maine
Veteran's Cemetery in Augusta.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Glenn's name to the
Winslow Congregational Church Memorial Fund, 26 Lithgow St., Winslow ME
04901, or Hospice Volunteers of Waterville, 304 Main St., Waterville ME
04901.
Morning Sentinel,
Waterville, Me., Thursday, January 15, 2004, p. 4B.
Glenn L. McKee
Glenn L. McKee of
Waterville died Jan. 11; graveside service 2 p.m. Sunday, July 25,
Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Mount Vernon Road, Augusta.
Morning Sentinel,
Waterville, Me., Sunday, July 18, 2004, p. 3B.
Otis C.
McKee
Otis C. McKee died
Otis McKee graduated from
A member of
He leaves son Richard J. ’35
[OHS
‘31] and a grandson. His
wife, the former Mabel Dixon ’99 PhB, whom he married
The
Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Richard J. McKee
Duxbury—Richard J.
McKee,
88, formerly of Lexington, died Tuesday, May 15, 2002, at the Quincy
Medical
Center. He was the husband of the late Priscilla (Leonard) McKee.
He was born in Oberlin,
Ohio, on Aug. 3, 1913, the son of the late Otis C. and Mabel (Dixon)
McKee.
Mr. McKee graduated from [Oberlin High School in 1931 and from] Oberlin
College in Oberlin, Ohio.
Mr. McKee was employed as
a comptroller for Andover Newton Theological College in Newton for 18
years
before his retirement. He was also an accountant for Davies, Rose &
Hoyt Law Firm in Boston for 21 years.
He was a member of the
Hancock
Congregational Church in Lexington, the Men’s Club, an usher at
Hancock
Church, and a member of the Duxbury Yacht Club.
Mr. McKee enjoyed tennis,
golf, and volunteered as treasurer for the Dana Home in Lexington.
He is survived by a son,
Stephen J. McKee of Duxbury; and a cousin, Ina Stone of Oberlin, Ohio.
A memorial service will
be held at 1:30 p.m. on June 12, in the Hancock Congregational Church
in
Lexington. Interment was private.
For those who wish,
contributions
in Mr. McKee’s memory may be made to the Mass. General Hospital
Kidney
Transplant Fund, c/o Dr. Cosimi, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114.
Arrangements were under
the care of the Douglass Funeral Home, Lexington.
Lexington Minuteman,
Lexington,
Mass., Thursday, June 6, 2002, p. 15.
Carl McKellogg, 70, former resident, dies
Funeral services were held
in Chesterland Friday for Carl S. McKellogg, 70, who died last week
Wednesday
at Allen Hospital of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on
Aug.
14.
Mr. McKellogg, born in
Oberlin,
lived here until young manhood. His father, Frank McKellogg, operated a
men’s clothing store
where Lawson’s now is.
Surviving Mr. McKellogg
are his wife, Isabelle, and one daughter.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, August 27, 1964, p. 1B.
Carl Stone McKellogg, 70, died August 17, 1964, at Allen Memorial
Hospital, Oberlin, of injuries sustained in an automobile accident on
August 14. His home was in Chesterland, Ohio. Mr. McKellogg was chief
plants inspector, retired, with Strong, Cobb and Company, Inc., drug
manufacturers.
He was born on February 8, 1894, in Wakeman, Ohio, the son of Frank E.
McKellogg and Julia Browning McKellogg, both Class of 1878. [He
graduated from OHS in 1910 and from Oberlin College.] On June 24, 1919,
he married the former Isabella Phillips Koons. From September 1917 to
February 1919 he served in the United States medical department and
chemical warfare service.
Mr. McKellogg is survived by his wife and one daughter, Mrs. C. G.
Sisson (Julie Anne, ’42) of Painesville, Ohio.
The Oberlin Alumni Magazine,
Oberlin, Ohio, November 1964, p. 30.
Scott Patrick McKenna
Scott
Patrick McKenna, 51, died June 5, 2010.
He was born in Elyria on Aug. 5, 1958, to H. Jeanne and Thomas L.
McKenna, Jr.
Mr. McKenna and his parents moved to Oberlin in 1972, where he
graduated from high school in 1976. He also attended Bluffton College.
He was an athlete participating in football, basketball, soccer and
baseball at both the high school and collegiate levels. He also greatly
enjoyed the outdoors and was an avid fisherman.
He is survived by his sister, E. Lee Lander of Elyria, brother Thomas
McKenna of Medina, three nieces, three great-nephews and two
great-nieces.
A memorial service is planned for July 24, 2010, at 2 p.m. at the St.
Paul United Church of Christ, 9715 E. River St., Elyria.
Memorial donations may be made to the Oberlin Public Library, 65 S.
Main St., Oberlin, 44074-1626.
Schwartz, Spence, Boyer & Cool Home For Funerals, 1124 W. 5th
Street, Lorain, handled the arrangements.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, July 8, 2010, p. 3A.
Kathryn Lee Helm McKnight
Shaker Heights -- Kathryn Lee Helm McKnight was a nurse in a number of
elementary schools while she worked for the Cleveland Board of
Education. She had earlier been a nurse at Cook County Hospital in
Chicago and a nurse and health adviser in Washington, D.C.
She came to Cleveland when she married a local lawyer, William T.
McKnight. Mrs. McKnight died Monday at the Hospice of the Western
Reserve. She was 89.
She was born in Owensboro, Ky., and graduated from high school in
Oberlin [in 1931]. She received her nurse's training at a hospital in
Baltimore.
In Cleveland, Mrs. McKnight was a volunteer for the Red Cross and the
League of Women Voters. She belonged to a social group called the Hen's
Club. She lived in Shaker Heights for many years and attended Plymouth
Church of Shaker Heights.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. McKnight is survived by a daughter,
Michelle M. Barber of Palo, Leyte, the Philippines; a sister; and four
grandchildren.
No services are planned.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Arrangements were handled by the E.F. Boyd & Son Funeral Home of
Cleveland.
The Plain Dealer,
Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, August 2, 1997, p. 9B.
Alan K. McMickens
Alan K. McMickens, 35, of
Oberlin, was pronounced dead at his home on Jan. 15.
A lifelong Oberlin
resident,
he graduated from Oberlin High School in 1974. He worked 15 years as a
shipping clerk at Ciba Corning.
Survivors include his
mother,
Gladys McMickens of Oberlin; brothers, Randall of Cleveland and Dennis
of Toledo, and a sister, Sharon Andrus of Valejo, Calif.
Mr. McMickens was preceded
in death by his father, Isaac, in 1990.
Services were Saturday
morning
in the Cowling Funeral Home with the Rev. Fred Steen officiating.
Burial
was in Westwood Cemetery.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 21, 1992, p. 2.
Died. McMillan—On Friday, May 6, 1892
At the home of her
uncle,
Theodore Wood, No. 36 West College street, Miss Estelle McMillan, aged
21 years, 4 months and 6 days.
The deceased was a bright
and intelligent young lady, the daughter of Dr. A. McMillan. She
graduated
with honors from the High School [in 1888] and was one of the most
popular
members of the class. She studied with the class of ’92 in the
College
until after the death of her mother, when she went south to teach but
on
account of ill health, returned to Oberlin and was soon taken with
paralysis
and inflammatory rheumatism and was a great sufferer. The funeral was
attended
at 1 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. H. M. Tenney
and
Prof.
J. M. Ellis, and the remains taken to Brownhelm for burial.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore
Wood,
the uncle and aunt of Miss McMillan, desire to thank the friends who
have
been very kind during her long illness.
The Oberlin News, Oberlin,
Ohio, Friday, May 12, 1892, p. 8.
Death of Oberlin
woman is study in tragedy - Dorothy McNaughton
By Sue Scott
The two-page obituary lay
on the News-Tribune floor near the front-door mail shoot. In
Saturday’s
dusk, one could hardly make out the return address of Kowloon, Hong
Kong.
In fact, it would be Monday morning before anyone paid much attention
to
the grieving father’s letter that was tossed in with all the
others.
But, inside the airmail
envelope was a story – a sad story of beauty and youth, of
anguish and
physical pain, finally of death.
Someone who was loved had
died: Someone wonderful was gone.
It is likely that those
who did all that caring will not be quite the same – ever again.
Dorothy Ellen
“Duffy”
McNaughton,
this is your obituary as penned by your father, William McNaughton,
from
Yau Yat Chuen, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
This is what he tells all
your loved ones, your surrogate family, your friends, teachers,
mentors,
about you. He wanted them to know:
“Dorothy Ellen
“Duffy”
McNaughton
died on 13 May in Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. She was 30 years
old.
Cause of death was cancer of the throat, complicated by AIDS.
“Dorothy grew up in
Oberlin
and attended both Oberlin public schools and Lake Ridge Academy. Her
father,
William McNaughton, was Assistant Professor of Chinese at Oberlin
College
from 1965-1970.
“Dorothy graduated
from
Lake Ridge Academy in 1975. She was salutatorian of her graduating
class
and won the Headmaster’s Award. She had been a special student at
the
Accademia
di Belli Arti in Venice (Italy) in 1974-75.
“At Stanford she
majored
in Creative Writing and minored in Italian Civilization. She studied
under
Brett Singer, Toby Wolf, and William Chace and participated in the
Stanford
“Year in Florence” Program. After graduation, she lived and
worked in
the
Bay area, occasionally contributing to the area
“underground” press and
working on a collection of short stories. She also worked as an Italian
translator for the legal firm of Ream, Train.
“In 1982 Dorothy
moved to
New York City, where she worked at various jobs, continued her writing,
studied briefly at New York University and became active in slum
eradication
and drug rehabilitation movements in Manhattan. In time she herself
developed
a problem of drug abuse.
“Dorothy married
Michael
Fanti Krzesinski of New York City and they had a daughter, Megan
Bryony,
who lived about 45 days. After her daughter’s death in early
1985,
Dorothy
entered for the third time a drug rehabilitation program in New York.
She
stayed with this program, but within a year it occurred that her drug
abuse
had led to the development of ARC (“AIDS-related
condition”). The ARC
deteriorated
to AIDS in late 1986. She had been a moderate smoker, since about 1973.
Because of the AIDS, mild viral infections led in late 1986 first to
the
loss of sight in Dorothy’s left eye, and later to total blindness.
“Her father asks
that any
of Dorothy’s friends who wish to contribute to her memory,
contribute
either
to AIDS-related research or to the Society for the Blind.
“Dorothy is survived
by
her husband, mother, father, and brother.”
End of the obituary.
Dorothy’s
body later was cremated.
The funeral took place in
New York.
But, it is not the end of
Dorothy’s story.
There are those here who
have openly discussed their relationships with her and the sorrow at
losing
their friend to the dreaded AIDS. There are those here who anguish, too.
Ruth
Aschaffenburg-Koschnick
met Duffy when both were nine years old and pupils at Pleasant Street
School.
“We met in class and we wrote notes to each other. She was a
writer
from
way back… and she drew pictures, pictures on the notes. She was
really
artistic. She had a sense of humor and we would get into trouble for
passing
those notes,” Ruth said Tuesday from her office phone at Hall
Auditorium
box office.
The two became friends
instantly,
partly because they lived on Shipherd Circle and would walk together.
“We
would mostly play over at Kim Hale’s house on West College in an
old
college
house next door to Pyle Inn Co-op. We would dance to Aretha Franklin.
We
would just dance around and bake cookies and talk about boys,”
she
remembered.
They were spirited girls
and their antics sometimes got them into trouble with authority
figures.
“We’d play in the college buildings and run into the
elevators and the
restrooms,” Ruth said.
Somehow the phone earpiece
seemed to transmit Ruth’s smile as she remembered those fun years
so
long
ago.
“The maintenance men
would
chase us out usually, but sometimes they would talk to us. You know, it
got pretty boring around here in the summer.”
The years passed. Duffy
went off to Lake Ridge Academy in North Ridgeville. Ruth went to
Oberlin
High School. Duffy pushed herself very hard when it came to academics.
Ruth admitted she did not. The girls remained close but “we
didn’t see
each other as often,” Ruth said. “Duffy was busy studying a
lot. She
was
so artistic, so intelligent. She could write Chinese and speak
Italian…Duffy
wanted to be upbeat, but there was a lot of pressure
academically…she
lost
some touch with us. She wanted to be hip. She got sort of left
behind.”
It was so true that the
young girl threw herself into her schoolwork. Lake Ridge records show
that
Duffy doubled up on her courses her junior year so that she could study
in Italy her senior year. She graduated with her own class – and
as its
salutatorian. Because she had been in Italy, there are no photos of
her,
however, in her senior yearbook.
Although many described
Duffy as popular with her peers, outgoing, social, she reportedly did
not
have many boyfriends and the ones she did have while in high school
were
older, described as “wilder.” In high school, Ruth said,
Duffy was “not
comfortable” with smoking dope, “wouldn’t know what
to do with it.”
But,
she did drink and when she did it was until she was out of control, her
childhood friend said. When Duffy returned to Oberlin while she was
enrolled
at Stanford, she always carried a pint of alcohol with her on the
weekends.
“We would go out drinking, sure,” Ruth said, “but I
didn’t think any of
my friends were alcoholics,” Ruth said.
Now, Ruth said she
believed,
that drinking may have led to later drug usage.
Yet, Duffy did not do any
intravenous drugs until after her stint at Stanford, Ruth claimed.
Those
beginnings were during an abusive relationship with a boyfriend, an
alleged
cocaine user. Finally, the love-relationship ended and Duffy returned
to
Oberlin. It was May 1981 and her stay here lasted one month. It was the
last time Ruth would see her childhood friend until just a few months
ago
when she visited the dying woman in New York.
“She was very
unhappy that
May of ’81,” Ruth said.
There are reports that
Duffy
attempted to take her own life during that spring visit.
Later she would go to
Brazil
to live with her brother, then return to New York where her mother
lived.
A number of people lost
track of Duffy when she was in New York. It was there she would enter a
rehab program for her addiction to heroin. It was there she would give
birth to her child who would die just days later. It was in New York
that
Duffy became a drug counselor. It would be there that she would die.
Professor McNaughton moved
in with Dr. and Mrs. Frank Laycock when Duffy was only 8 years old. She
would live there on Shipherd Circle until she went off to Italy her
senior
year in high school. The Laycocks described her as “easy to live
with,
quiet sometimes and very brilliant.” She was very social and
popular
with
all her friends, Mrs. Laycock stressed. “She was an avid
dancer,” both
agreed, and took ballet lessons from Lois Gremore. (Gremore would later
describe Duffy as “a beautiful girl, very gifted, very
ethereal.”) On
Saturdays,
the Laycocks would take Duffy to the museum in Cleveland where she took
art lessons.
But, the Laycocks too saw
Duffy less often as the years passed.
Last February, Ruth
Aschaffenburg
from Oberlin, Cindy Mauney of Washington and Kim Hale of Baltimore
decided
they had to visit Duffy at Roosevelt Hospital. They traveled together
from
Washington. Duffy was having chemotherapy treatments at the time and
“it
was while we were there that her doctor told her she would be
blind,”
Ruth
said.
“She could see
shadows
then,
outlines of faces. We had prepared ourselves for the worse, knowing it
was a terminal disease. We intended to cheer her up, but she cheered us
up.”
Ruth said that at the end
Duffy had no bitterness about her life. She told Ruth she had learned
things,
accepted her life.
“She was happy in
the end.
She found and married Michael. She had found love,” Ruth said.
“I’d like to
say, she was
one of the most loving persons I’ve ever known. And, even though
she
had
been so unhappy, led such a tragic life, she was a person who cried by
herself,” Ruth said.
Cindy and Kim and Ruth
keep
in touch yet, Ruth added, and “we’re having a hard
time…trying to go on.
“Duffy was a
writer…I hope
that someday her works can be published.”
At about 6 a.m. Hong Kong
time, Professor McNaughton called the News-Trib office. It was about 6
p.m. Tuesday here. He had heard from Oberlin that his daughter’s
obituary
would be turned into a story. Surprisingly, his voice sounded so near.
“She was
courageous…I
think
that she thought she would be able to win, but nobody does,”
McNaughton
said of the AIDS.
Why Duffy?
“You can be sure,
I’ve
thought
about that and thought about that and thought about that,” the
father
said.
“It’s, no doubt, a complicated issue…up until her
graduation from
college,
she never gave me any trouble at all…I guess she did get drunk
once in
high school…I’m sure there’s more to it than that. I
don’t know a lot
about
drug addiction, but she was trying to fight the addiction…she
was
fighting
the whole time.”
From across the Pacific
Ocean, his voice cracked with emotion.
The battle was over.
Photo, p. 1, of Duffy
outside
in a snow storm, caption: This photo of Dorothy “Duffy”
McNaughton was
provided by the Frank Laycock family, people with whom Duffy lived in
Oberlin
from age 8 until she went off to Stanford University.
“Duffy”
McNaughton
died last month in New York City from throat cancer complicated by
AIDS.
This picture was taken a few months before her death.
Photo, p. 2, of 5 young
dancers, caption: Lois Gremore, local dance instructor, provided this
photo
of “Duffy” McNaughton (far right) taken with other members
of a ballet
group during a recital. “Duffy” was known for being a
talented dancer
and
artist.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Thursday, June 4, 1987, pp. 1-2.
Enid E. McNutt
Enid E. McNutt [nee Elmer], 88, of Bainbridge, Ga., formerly of Safety
Harbor, died Thursday (April 23, 1992) at Memorial Manor, Bainbridge.
She was born in Fairton, N.J., [graduated from OHS in 1922,] and moved
to Safety Harbor in 1939. She moved to Bainbridge in 1989 from Safety
Harbor.
She was a registered nurse. She was a member of First Presbyterian
Church, Safety Harbor.
Survivors include two daughters, Mary Weaver, Brinson, Ga., and Sara
Stevens, Bradenton; a son, Rollin McNutt Jr., Jacksonville; a brother,
Hugh Elmer, Jacksonville; a sister, Pearl Elmer, St. Petersburg; nine
grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Baty Funeral Home, Safety Harbor.
St. Petersburg Times, St.
Petersburg, Florida, Saturday, April 25, 1992, p. 11.
Mrs. Alice B. McRoberts
Mrs. Alice B. [Bitely]
McRoberts,
80, of 301 Furnace St., died suddenly in her home at 6 p.m. yesterday.
Mrs. McRoberts, widow of Ernest J., had been in ill health for some
time.
She was born in
Pittsfield,
Nov. 28, 1879, [graduated from OHS in 1896,] and lived in Elyria 53
years.
She was a member of the Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Research
Club
and the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary.
Surviving are a foster
son,
Russell C. Lambert, North Madison, several nieces, nephews and cousins.
Friends may call from 7
to 9 p.m. today at the Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home where services will be
tomorrow at 2 p.m., with the Rev. Jack Cassidy officiating. Burial will
be in Pittsfield Cemetery.
The Chronicle-Telegram,
Elyria, Ohio, Friday, April 8, 1960, p. 16.
Don E. McRoberts
Don “Sam” E[lmer] McRoberts died on Wednesday, June 27,
2007, in Scotts Valley, Calif. He was 90 years old.
Mr. McRoberts was born in Pittsfield, Ohio, and graduated from Oberlin
High School in 1935.
He served in the United States Army from 1940-1945. He lived in Oberlin
until 1964, when he moved to Tucson, Ariz., where he lived until he
moved to Scotts Valley last year.
Mr. McRoberts was a member of the Carpenters and Joiners Union
throughout his life and was committed to the principles of quality
building and respect for skilled labor. He owned McRoberts Construction
in Oberlin until 1964 and worked on a variety of projects in the Tucson
area before he retired. In his retirement, he spent many hours working
on miniature construction, building doll houses and furniture for
family and friends.
He was also a founding member and past president of the Tucson
Horseshoe Pitcher’s Association.
He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Jackie (nee McConnell); his
daughter Meg of Scotts Valley; a brother (Keith “Pete”) of
Sparks, Nev.; two sisters-in-law; three nieces, and four nephews. He
was preceded in death by a daughter, Susan; his parents, Tim and Lena
McRoberts, two brothers and two sisters.
Oberlin News-Tribune, Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, July 3, 2007, p. 2.
Don E. McRoberts
No services are planned for Don E. McRoberts, who died Saturday
in Scotts Valley. He was 90.
Born in Oberlin, Ohio, Mr. McRoberts graduated from Oberlin High School
in 1935 and served in the U.S. Army from 1941 to 1945.
Mr. McRoberts enjoyed woodworking and spent his retirement building
doll houses and furniture for family and friends. He was a member of
the Carpenters and Joiners Union.
Mr. McRoberts is survived by his wife of 58 years, Jackie McRoberts of
Scotts Valley; daughter Meg McRoberts of Scotts Valley; brother Keith
"Pete" McRoberts [OHS ‘44]of Fernley, Nev.; and many nieces and
nephews.
His daughter, Suzi McRoberts; brothers James "Howard" McRoberts and
Ralph "Jack" McRoberts [OHS ‘31]; and sisters Helen "Sis"
Streving and Betty Almas [OHS ‘43] died previously.
Contributions are preferred to the Hospice Caring Project of Santa Cruz
County, 904 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, CA 95066 or a favorite charity.
Santa Cruz Sentinel,
Santa Cruz, Calif., Friday, June 29, 2007.
Ralph
(Jack) McRoberts
Ralph (Jack) McRoberts,
70, Nickel Plate Diagonal Rd., died Saturday morning at Good Samaritan
hospital, Sandusky, after an illness of several months.
Born in Pittsfield on
March
25, 1913, he was a [1931 graduate of Oberlin High School and a] World
War
II veteran, serving with the Navy. He had been employed by the State
Highway
Department until his retirement. He was a member of the Pittsfield
United
Church of Christ.
He is survived by a
sister,
Betty (Mrs. Ted) Almas of Elyria; and two brothers, Don of Tucson,
Ariz.,
and Keith of Las Vegas, Nev.
Graveside services were
held Monday morning at the East Pittsfield Cemetery with the Rev. Jeff
King officiating.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin, Ohio, Thursday, March 31, 1983, p. 2.
Dorothy E. McVeigh
Dorothy E. McVeigh (nee
Squires), 81, of North Ridgeville, former Oberlin resident, died Jan.
22
at her home after a long illness.
Born in Oberlin, she
graduated
from Oberlin High School [in1937]. She then lived in Elyria, moving to
North Ridgeville in 1948.
Mrs. McVeigh retired from
Ohio Screw Products in Elyria in 1981, where she was an inspector.
Previously,
she had worked at Bendix, Timms Spring, and Airborne, all in Elyria.
She was a member of the
First Congregational United Church of Christ in North Ridgeville and
the
Lorain County Genealogical Society.
She enjoyed bowling,
working
with her flowers and researching her ancestors. Her research culminated
in a trip with her daughter-in-law to England last spring.
She is survived by her
husband
of 60 years, Robert E.; daughters Shirely McVeigh of North Ridgeville
and
Barbara Shively of Troy, Ohio; a son, James McVeigh of North
Ridgeville;
10 grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a sister, Lois Hutchison
of
Oberlin; and a brother, Robert Squires of Amherst.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, Clarence and Ethel Squires; and a sister, Eleanor
Kasper.
Calling hours were
yesterday.
The David Bogner Family Funeral Home, 36625 Center Ridge Rd., North
Ridgeville,
is to announce further arrangements. Burial will be in Evergreen
Cemetery
in South Amherst.
Memorial gifts may be made
to the American Cancer Society, 43099 N. Ridge Rd., Elyria 44305-1051.
Oberlin News-Tribune,
Oberlin,
Ohio, Tuesday, January 25, 2000, p. 3.
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