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Rose Broske spent a decade in Hawaii during her Dash Between

March 7, 2010

Rose Broske, the subject of “The Dash Between” in the March 7, 2010, edition of the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram, used to tell her children, “Go with the flow.”

The flow took her, her husband, Bud, and several other young adults from Elyria, Ohio, to Hawaii during World War II. The men went as civilian employees of the Navy shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Rose and some of the women who followed took jobs in Honolulu with the War Department.

The Broskes remained in Hawaii for a few years after the war, but their decade in the U.S. territory before it became a state left its imprint. They decorated the rec room in their house with bamboo furniture and furnishings. Rose was cooking stirfry — with pineapple — before it became a popular dish in the states and gave hula lessons to family, friends and students at St. Mary Catholic School in Elyria. (Click headline for more.)





Oberlin College’s Maggie Terry is Elyria Chronicle’s Dash Between

February 21, 2010

Maggie Terry “touched thousands and thousands of students, who came through the door in one way or another,” said Rick Panfil, general manager of Campus Dining Services at Oberlin College.

Maggie, who worked in food service at the college in Oberlin, Ohio, for 42 years — most recently running the Lord-Saunders Dining Hall at Oberlin College’s Afrikan Heritage House — made students feel at home with her comfort foods and personal attention.

“She was like their mother away from home to a lot of students, and I think they felt that,” Panfil said.

Read more about “The Dash Between” December 31, 1947, when she was born Maggie Edwards in Demopolis, Ala., and Jan. 25, 2010, when the hard-working, no-nonsense mother of two died at age 62, in the February 21, 2010, edition of The Elyria Chronicle. (Click headline for more.)





Donald W. Gumble Sr., 82, of Avon Lake, worked for Midland Steel Products in Cleveland

February 20, 2010

Donald W. Gumble Sr., 82, of Avon Lake, Ohio, who died Thursday, February 18, 2010, worked as a millwright for Midland Steel Products in Cleveland, Ohio, for 32 years until 1976.

Don, a member of UAW Local 486 in Cleveland, worked for American Ship Building in Lorain for two years. He retired in 1989 after 10 years as manager of the maintenance department at Ohio Extended Care in Lorain, Ohio.

He was a ham radio operator, whose call letters were KB8SHN. (Click headline for more.)





Dash Between spotlight: Ann Brand, retired Avon school bus driver

February 7, 2010

Ann Brand packed a lot of living into “The Dash Between” Feb. 13, 1924, when she was born Anna Ivka in Cleveland, Ohio, and Jan. 16, 2010, when she died at St. John Westshore Hospital in Westlake, Ohio.

She raised five kids, drove a school bus in Avon, Ohio, worked as a cashier at Discount Drug Mart in Westlake and volunteered at the Senior Center in North Ridgeville, Ohio, during her “Dash,” a.k.a. life.

Her life story is featured in the Sunday, February 7, 2010, edition of The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram. (Click headline for more.)





Cynthia Harsa, 54, of Lorain, 1973 North Olmsted High School graduate

January 29, 2010

Cynthia Harsa (nee Grego), 54, of Lorain, Ohio, a 1973 North Olmsted High School graduate, died Thursday, January 28, 2010.





Tom Kuns, Lorain barber, Clyde native: Subject of Elyria Chronicle “Dash”

January 24, 2010

Today - Sunday, January 24, 2009 - The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram features “The Dash Between” Dec. 20, 1941, when Tom Kuns was born in Sandusky, and Jan. 2, 2010, when the Lorain barber died at home of a heart attack at age 68.

Tom groomed the heads of many Lorain politicians, clergymen and children and could carry on conversations of interest to each of them. Politics became his favorite topic in recent years. (Click headline for more.)





Ray Church, Wellington VFW chaplain, radio/TV repairman, packrat

January 10, 2010

My feature about “The Dash Between” October 9, 1918, when Wellington VFW chaplain Ray Church was born, and December 23, 2009, when the retired radio and TV repairman died, landed on the front page of the Elyria Chronicle on Sunday, January 10, 2010.

The 91-year-old lifelong resident of Wellington, Ohio, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service as a radio operator with the 176th Field Artillery Battalion in France during World War II.

Ray was honored in October 2009 by the Wellington Fullbackers for his more than 50 years of raising the flag at Wellington Dukes home football games. (Click headline for more.)





Bill Powell, 93, founded Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, hall of fame inductee

January 1, 2010

Bill Powell, 93, who designed, built, owned and operated the Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, Ohio, died December 31, 2009.

Powell, the great-grandson of Alabama slaves, received the PGA Distinguished Service Award, the organization’s highest honor, in August 2009. He was inducted into the Northern Ohio PGA Hall of Fame in November 2009. (Click headline for more.)





Leo J. “Jerry” Sayles, 77, opened Sullivan Market, worked at Sayles Pharmacy in Strongsville

December 15, 2009

Leo J. “Jerry” Sayles, 77, who died December 15, 2009, opened the Sullivan Market with his wife, Shirley, after moving to Sullivan, Ohio, in October 1977.

The 1950 Strongsville High School graduate developed his business skills while working alongside his mother, Anne, at Sayles Pharmacy in Strongsville, Ohio.





The walking man of Elyria

December 13, 2009

Sylvester Cooper didn’t drive a car, but that didn’t stop him from getting around.

Friends say he walked wherever he wanted to go. Perhaps you saw him, dressed in a suit, hat and tie, strolling the streets of downtown Elyria, Ohio.

Or you may have seen him in a commercial for the Elyria Public Library’s Project Read literacy program, in which he shared his story about re-learning to read.

You can read about “The Dash Between” Oct. 16, 1925, when the Harr Plaza resident was born in Ripley, Tenn., and Nov. 24, 2009, when he died at age 84, in the Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009, edition of the Elyria Chronicle. (Click headline for video and more.)





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