The Lima News- January 8, 1950

Stiles Baker, 70, died at 12:15 p.m. Saturday in Memorial hospital. Born Mar. 14, 1879, in Henry-co, he had lived in Lima 27 years. Mr. Baker was retired after 25 years' service as a mill worker and lumber buyer for the E.E. Holmes Lumber Co. He was a member of the Methodist church in Mendon. His wife Orah, died in 1946. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Homer Gottfried, Mrs. Alfred Warren, Mrs. John Beck, all of Lima, and Mrs. Raymond Lynn, Ansonia; three sons Melvin, Dayton, Eugene and Lloyd both of Lima; a sister, Mrs. Webster Miller, Celina, and a brother James Baker, Pleasant Lake, Ind. The body will remain in Siferd and Son funeral home until services at 2 p.m. Tuesday in High Street Evangelical United Brethren church. The Rev. Frank Hamblen will officiate, and burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery.

Funeral services for Miss Nellie Chambers, 52, of this city, who died at noon Tuesday at the home of a brother, C.E. Chambers, in Lima after a four day illness due to paralysis will be held here at 2 p.m. Thursday with Rev. George Herd, pastor of First Methodist church, officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery.
Her death followed that of a brother, Orlando, who died less than a month ago in a  Middletown hospital from injuries received when he fell from a railroad bridge on which he was working. She made her home here on Wheeler Lane until two weeks ago when she went to live with her brother. A sister Mrs. Lewis Jones of this city and the brother survive.

The Lima News- January 10, 1950

St. Marys

Funeral services will be held here at the Sittler Memorial home, Wednesday morning for Harold Drake, 47, Ft. Wayne, Ind. He died Sunday morning at Bluffton clinic, Bluffton, Ind. Burial will be in Elm grove cemetery. He is survived by his widow. the former Harriet Tussing; a sister, Mrs. John Wilson, St. Marys and a brother, Frank, Toledo.

Services for Jess Dixon, 62, Logan-tp farmer, who died Wednesday of a heart attack, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Buckland Congregational Christian church. Rev. C.C. Ryan will officiate and burial will be in Buckland cemetery. A member of the Buckland church for a number of years, Mr. Dixon is survived by his widow, Maxie, and a son Wayne, serving in the armed forces at Camp Lee, Va., two daughters, mrs. Walter E. Murlin of Mendon, and Mrs. Melvin Metzger of Lima; two brothers, Bernard of Detroit, and Bryan of near St. Marys; four sisters, Mrs. Fred Gardber, Mrs. Opal Shaffer and Miss Zella Dixon, all of Lima, Mrs. Fred Vorhees of near St. Marys, and three grandchildren.Arrangements are in charge the C.B. Miller and Son funeral home.

John E. (Jack) Fike, 56, former oil driller, died at his home here Monday after an illness dating back to last June. Surviving are his widow, Blanche Wesner Fike, a stepson, Alfred Wesner, and two brothers, Isom Fike, of St. Marys, and O.W. Fike of Roundhead. Funeral services will be Wednesday afternoon at his late residence with Rev. Frank Hamblen officiating. Burial will be in Elmgrove cemetery.

Funeral services for Mrs. Wilhelmina Merkle, 74, widow of John Merkle, who died Sunday at her home, 715 W. Auglaize-st, after a two-week illness due to heart trouble, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the residence with Rev. R.J. Loew, pastor of St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed church officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery. One son, and three daughters and a brother survive.

The Lima News- Mar 16, 1978

Henrietta Opperman, 51, died at 1:35 p.m. Wednesday in Joint Township Hospital, St. Marys. Survivors include her mother, Mrs. Myra Egbert of Wapakoneta; her husband Myron; a son Steve of St. Marys; a daughter Karla of Dayton; two grandchildren; a sister Mrs. Don (Doris) Will of Ft. Wayne; and a brother Dennis Egbert of Sidney. Services will be at 2 p.m. in First United Church of Christ. Burial will be in Pilger Ruhe Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Vornholt funeral Home and at the church after 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

The Lima News
Jan. 3, 1996

George Phillip Ramga, 88, died at 6:30 p.m., Dec 29, 1995 in Rittman.He was born Sept. 16, 1907 in Buckland to Phillip A. and Lucy Belle (Kurtz) Ramga. Survivors include a sister Florence Ramga Wertenberger of Orange City, Fla.He was preceded in death by three brothers, Harold, Earl, and Cecil Ramga; and three sisters, Mildred Ashdown, Edith Showalter and Eva Coon.Services were Tuesday at Hillard Cox and Mullaney Funeral Home, Wadsworth. Burial will be held at 11 a.m. today at Greenlawn Cemetery, Wapakoneta.

The Lima News-January 10, 1950

Mrs. Louise M. Bibler, 77, died at 11 p.m. Monday at her home, here, following an extended illness. Mrs. Bibler was born in Pusheta-tp, and had been a lifelong resident of Wapakoneta and vicinity. She was married to Charles Bibler Jan. 17, 1903. He died in 1940. Several nieces and nephews survive. The body will be removed from the Siferd and Brookhart funeral home, here to the residence of a brother-in-law, L.A. Myers, 217 E. Auglaize-st, at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Final rites will be in the Myers home at 2 p.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery.

he Lima News- Dec 21, 1974

Christian F. Bartenstein, 83, Rt. 1, died at 1:20 a.m. Friday in Valley Nusing Home, St. Marys. Surviving are his wife Caroline; a son. Carl W. of Rt. 1; a daughter, Mrs. Emerson (Mildred) Eubank of Dayton; and a grandson. Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Vornholt Funeral Home, New bremen, Rev. Carl W. Knoch officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens, St. Marys. Friends may call at the funeral home Sunday and until time of services Monday.

Opal Moots Dicke, 91, died at 6:50 p.m., Mar 8, 2002, at the St. Marys Living Center. She was born in Middleburg to Lee and Hattie M. (Organ) Seaman. On Sep 29, 1929, she married Elza Moots, who died Jan. 3, 1964. She then married Louis Dicke, who died Dec. 31, 1978. Services will begin at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, St. Marys. The Rev. David Woodyard will officiate. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

The Lima News- Jan. 19, 1981

Wapakoneta

Kittie L. Dingler, 93, died at 4 a.m. Sunday at her home following a two- month illness.She was born Feb. 13, 1887, in Wapakoneta, the daughter of George and Elizabeth (Sumerhalter) Nuss. She married Edward Dingler, who died Nov. 5, 1964.Mrs. Dingler was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church.Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Heinl-Long and Folk Funeral Home, Rev. William C. Winzeler officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn cemetery.

Jan 8, 1940
Wapakoneta

Charles F. Elsass, 61, of Wapakoneta Route 4, died at 4:30 a.m. Monday at Memorial hospital, from injuries received Dec 29 in an auto accident four miles east of Uniopolis. He is survived by his widow, Emma and one son, Fred, at home; four brothers; John and Samuel, of Wapakoneta; Michael of Jackson Center, and Christ of Wapakoneta, Route 5, and five sisters; Mrs. Adam Rinehart, Mrs. Lewis Blank and mrs. Mary Kemper, of Wapakoneta; Mrs. Lewis Mann, of Wapakoneta, Route 5, and Mrs. William Schuman of St. John's, Route 1. The body will remain at the Umbaugh and Bayliff funeral home where funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. rev. E.J. Penhorwood, pastor of the South Side Church of Christ, will officiate and burial will be in Fairmount cemetery, near Uniopolis.

The Lima News - Oct 2, 1993

Sarah Maxine Frysinger, 77, died at 7:33 a.m. Oct. 1, 1993, at Shawnee Manor Nursing Home.She was born Sept. 26, 1916, in Wapakoneta, to Charles and Mildred (Wieler) Kinse. On July 29, 1939, she married Donald O. Frysinger, who survives.Mrs. Frysinger was a homemaker. She was a member of High Street United Methodist Church.Survivors include a son, Donald of Lima; a sister Mary Detty of Buckland; three grandchildren and a great grandchild. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Wayne Street Chapel of Chiles and Sons-Laman Funeral Home. Rev. David Dayton will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Lima.

The Lima News - Dec. 24, 1978
New Hampshire

Guy E. McKinney, 76, died at 2:50 p.m. Friday in Lima Memorial Hospital. He was born Feb., 21, 1902, here. He was married July 15, 1930, to Martha E. Knief, and she died June 4,1968.Survivors include two sons, Duaine of Bangor, Maine, and Lonnie of Rt. 1, Waynesfield; two daughters, Mrs. William (Ila) Wolfe of here and Mrs. George Ed (Marilyn) Morris of Rt. 1, Lakeview; 15 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He was a retired employee of Auglaize County Highway Department.Services will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Van Horn Funeral Home, Lakeview, Rev. Russell E. Smith and Rev. Gregory A. Leigh, officiating. Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery.

The Lima News -Jan, 14, 1940
Wapakoneta

Funeral services for John Puthoff, 70, native of Minster, who died Friday in the Auglaize-co Infirmary, will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in St. Joseph Catholic church with Rev. Henry Balster officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph cemetery.
He was born Nov 1, 1869, in Minster. He died at noon Friday following an extended illness due to complications of diseases. No immediate relatives survive.

The Lima News- January 15, 1950

Mrs. Nora Thrush, 81, of Wapakoneta, died at 4:10 p.m. Saturday in Lima Memorial hospital. She had been a patient at the hospital for the past two months suffering from complications. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Hazel Wilcox, Wapakoneta; Mrs. Altha  McPheron, Bellefontaine and Mrs, Cleta Coates, Dayton. Four sons, Grover, Wapakoneta, Harley, Convoy, Percy, Route 4, Wapakoneta and Cecil, Jackson Center. Twelve grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren also survive. Mrs. Thrush was born in Clay-tp and had been a resident of Auglaize-co all her life. She was a member of the Bethel M.P. church. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Mt. Tabor church, with Revs. A.E. Oliver, of Ridgeway and Stanley Miller, of New Hampshire officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor mausoleum. The body will remain at the Weygandt funeral home in Waynesfield until time of services. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Sunday.