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Shirley A. (Palm) Decker, 98, a resident of the Danville area since 1996, passed peacefully from life to life eternal on Wednesday morning at the Emmanuel Center in Danville. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of the late John C. and Edyth (Weidel) Palm. While she was an infant, her parents returned to the Altoona area where her mother had family. Shirley had fond memories of growing up in the Lakemont Park neighborhood where she had many friends. She graduated from Altoona High School in 1940 and attended Penn State University.
On Sept. 26, 1943, she married A. Monroe Decker Jr. of Red Bank, N.J. Two years later a son, John C. Decker, was born. In 1949, they moved to Clifton, N.J., where Shirley lived for close to 50 years. She was employed by Automatic Data Processing Inc. for 27 years, retiring in 1994. Her husband preceded her in death on Oct. 29, 1974.
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CHICAGO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Main Street America (MSA) launched Main Street Online, a new tool to help businesses grow and strengthen their online and e-commerce capabilities. Supported by GoDaddy, the tool assesses the unique needs of individual small businesses through a series of questions and offers customized guidance for implementing and maximizing solutions to improve their digital presence.
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The tool was conceived after MSA s survey of nearly 6,000 small business owners in the spring of April revealed that nearly 67 percent had no e-commerce component to their business. Of the one-third that did have e-commerce sales, all indicated that it made up less than 25 percent of their sales volume. Extrapolated out, of the nearly 2.6 million retail businesses with less than 20 employees, more than 1.7 million businesses are in need of an e-commerce sales channel in order to survive during and post-COVID. When as
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Offutt’s Ford Bridge – Located over Little Blue River in Rush County near Arlington. It was built in 1884.
Photo by John V. Pontiere Jr.
John Wilson
By John D. Wilson
Rush County Historian May 10, 2021 1 of 2
Offutt’s Ford Bridge – Located over Little Blue River in Rush County near Arlington. It was built in 1884.
Photo by John V. Pontiere Jr.
John Wilson
RUSH COUNTY – This is the 13th article I have written to commemorate the Rush County Bicentennial in 2022. Thank you to former Rush County Historian Eleanor Arnold for providing information about Rush County Heritage. Most of my research came from telephone conversations with Eleanor and a hard copy summary that she sent to me.
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