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Marion Lawrence served in the Korean War

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, April 16, 2015

Marion Lee “Buzz” Lawrence, age 83, died Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 1:33 a.m. at St. Rita’s Medical Center.

He was born March 28, 1932 in Hardin County, Ohio to Oliver Clay and Idorah Norma Jean (Johnson) Lawrence. He was preceded in death by his father, mother and step father, Forest Eugene Donnal. On September 15, 1954 he married Madonna Jean Dirmeyer and she survives in Alger.

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Betty Watkins operated Watkins Florist in Alger

Posted by Mary Pannabecke... on Thursday, April 16, 2015

Betty M. Watkins, 72, died Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 6:11 p.m. at Lima Memorial Health System.

She was born January 28, 1943 in Lima, Ohio to Theodore and Hazel (Marshall) Newland and they preceded her in death. She married Leroy C. Watkins on April 11, 1959 and he survives in Alger.

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Joseph M. Theodore was on the ONU pharmacy faculty for 32 years

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 12, 2015

Joseph M. Theodore, Jr., 83, died Friday, April 10, 2015 at his residence in Ada, Ohio. He was born April 29, 1931, to Joseph Medeiros Theodore Sr. and Lillian Lima Theodore in Fall River, Mass.

Accepted to the New England Conservatory of Music after high school, he continued his musical training there before changing direction to a career in Pharmacy and Education.

He earned a BS from the New England College of Pharmacy in 1955  and married Theresa Rouleau that same year.

He received a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1958.

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Helen Pyatt lived to be 103 years old

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 12, 2015

Helen M. Pyatt, 103 died on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 8:13 p.m. at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton, Ohio.  

She was born on Oct. 21, 1911, in Bedford, Pennsylvania, to Elmer and Blanche (Diehl) Diehl and both are deceased. She married Albert Meier in 1937 and he died. She then married Leroy Pyatt in June 1966 and he died in September 1982.

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Dora Dyer 1921-2015

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, April 10, 2015

Dora (Minix) Dyer, 93 died on Thursday, April 9, 2015, at 7:15 p.m. at residence in Alger.

She was born on December 6, 1921, in Carver, Kentucky, to Kim and Doris (Williams) Minix who preceded her in death. On November 2, 1940 she married Dexter Dyer and he died on May 14, 2001.
She was a homemaker. 

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Wilma Pitts 1940-2015

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, April 9, 2015

Wilma J. Haney Pitts, 74 was born in Harrod, Ohio, on Sept. 13, 1940, to LeRoy and Bonnie (Arnett) Haney who preceded her in death. One sister, Lillimae Whitaker of Kenton, Ohio, preceded her in death and one brother, Donald Haney of Lafayette, Ohio, passed the day of her death.

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