By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 1 A tight cell of extremely severe weather pounded a path across southeast Michigan and northwest Ohio last night, spawning funnel clouds, one tornado that touched down along the Lake Erie coastline, and injuring at least 30 people. Ottawa County’s Carroll and Erie townships – near the Davis-Besse […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 21 Janet Skeldon, mother of Toledo city councilwoman Tina Skeldon Wozniak whose loves included her family, her hometown, and baseball, died yesterday at Mrs. Wozniak’s home of complications from respiratory disease. She was 74. Born and reared in Toledo, Mrs. Skeldon attended Libbey High School. It was there […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 20 This is the first in an occasional series that looks at how people are savoring the pleasures of summer around the Toledo area. A kiddie pool is a glorified puddle. Let’s be clear about that – it’s some cement, a foot of water, and a ton of […]
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By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 22 A veterans’ tradition may be dying with the men who fought World War II. For years, just before Memorial Day, veterans have placed American flags on the graves of their deceased comrades at Calvary Cemetery. Now there aren’t enough living veterans to do the job, leaders say, […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 16 Rita “Robin” Halbert, a mother and worker with an interest in journalism, died Saturday at Lake Park Nursing Home, Sylvania. She was 85. Born in 1912 in Fremont, she attended St. Joseph High School. There she developed an early interest in writing, and served as the first […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 15 DEFIANCE — Margene Steingass, a pharmacist who had worked for four decades in area drug stores, died Saturday at her home. She was 71. She had faced a lengthy battle with cancer, according to her son, Paul. Mrs. Steingass was born and raised in Tiffin, until her […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 16 NAPOLEON — Margaret Sloan, a retired can inspector at the Campbell Soup plant here, died suddenly Friday after a cardiac arrest at her home. Mrs. Sloan was born in Spangler, Pa., and attended Seton Hill College in Greensburg, Pa. She married Gail Sloan in 1940, and when […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 Carl Florian, a World War I veteran who ran his family’s insurance business for more than 70 years, died Saturday in St. Luke’s Hospital, Maumee. He was 99. He was born and raised in Toledo, his son Jack said, attending St. John’s High School and St. John’s […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 3 At least three Toledo-area high school athletic teams – in Tennessee for spring-break competitions – were caught in the severe weather that swept through Nashville yesterday. None of the area athletes or their coaches was hurt. Two Toledo schools, Woodward and St. Ursula, sent their girls’ softball […]
By Joshua Benton Blade Staff Writer Page 14 Shirley Nischwitz of Sylvania, a receptionist whose smiling face greeted thousands during her career at the Jewish Community Center of Toledo, died yesterday in Toledo Hospital. She was 59 and had been hospitalized with liver failure for about three weeks, family members said. Born and reared in […]