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Honey Zimmerman, 71, of Macedonia, Ohio, a bugarija player who died of complications from ovarian cancer March 5, 2010, performed in tambura orchestras since childhood.
She played with her family’s Trivanovich Sisters Orchestra, the Seceri Orchestra and Šarena Tamburitza Orchestra.
Honey was inducted into the Tamburitza Hall of Fame in 2008. (Click headline for more.)
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.)
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, 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.)
Stanley Mason, who was openly and proudly gay back when the majority of his peers stashed their sexual orientation in closets, served as an Army stenographer during the Korean War.
Mason had told friends that he had met a large number of gays in uniform after he was drafted into military service in the early 1950s.
He said he found that fact surprising. He was even more amazed that heterosexual servicemen treated him and other gay comrades with respect.
Mason believed the reason for the lack of testosterone-filled hubris was simple. During wartime, soldiers were more preoccupied with staying alive than worrying about their fellows’ sexual preferences. (Click headline for more.)
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 (nee Grego), 54, of Lorain, Ohio, a 1973 North Olmsted High School graduate, died Thursday, January 28, 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.)
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.)
Dick Zunt, 78, of Cleveland, Ohio, retired Plain Dealer sportswriter and champion of all high school athletes, coaches and athletic events, died January 2, 2010.
After retiring with more than 40 years of shining a spotlight on high school sports, Dick performed assorted duties for various Ohio High School Athletic Association’s state tournaments and state track meets.
He also served on the Sports Advisory Council for the Ohio Bicentennial Commission. (Click headline for more.)