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Jean Van Atta was co-owner of Hal and Jean's Restaurant, Ada

I. Jean Van Atta, age 90, died at 10:25 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, at the Mennonite Memorial Home in Bluffton, Ohio.

She was born on May 14, 1924, in Ada, Ohio to Floyd D. and Anna Ethel (Pugh) Crowe and they are both deceased. She married Harold F. “Hal” Van Atta on Dec. 20, 1942, and he died Aug. 1, 2006.

Mrs. Van Atta was co-owner and co-operator with her husband, Harold, of Hal & Jean’s Restaurant of Ada, and also owners and operators of 302 Carry-Out of Ada. She was a member of the Sugar Grove United Methodist Church of Ada.

Beacon Realty Home of the Week is Kenton listing

Beacon Realty's Featured Home of the Week is at 50 Resch St., Kenton. The list price is $79,000.

For complete details on the listing open the attachment at the bottomof this story.

Over 2,400 visitors expected for music feast

By Torie Wright, Icon intern
The Ada Music Boosters 37th annual Music Feast is Saturday, Nov. 8.

This year’s program features high school students from 14 visiting show choirs from Ohio and Indiana. The Ada Varsity Singers, under the direction of Abigail Glenn, Vocal Music Director, and Jonathan Lischak, Director of Instrumental and co-director, will provide an exhibition performance as the host school for this day-long event.

All day long

The 37th annual Ada Music Boosters music feast is Saturday at the Ada school. See the story below for details.

Ada's Community Health Professionals celebrate National Home Care and Hospice Month

November is National Hospice and Home Care Month, but most of us would never know it.

Home care and hospice services continue to be shrouded in mystery and are frequently misunderstood, despite it touching hundreds of area families, and despite the many volunteers who devote hours of their precious time to it.

Alphabet soup

Q-w-e-r-t. A student at Ready, Set, Grow Preschool, Ada, learns the alphabet on an very ancient device called a typewriter.

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