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Undermines any closure the victims may have h. Jenna the family of autumn elgersma says t ty plan to attend all future parole h hrings so the iowa parole board is aware of the impact sapps crimes had on them and their community in general. Tim the elgersma family is honoring the memory of autumn by helping start a center for children who have been abused. Autumns center, will be the newest addition to the Seasons Center for Behavioral Health located in spencer. Theyve just recently received a gr...

From the committee to commemorate Elbert Dubenion. An informal group of Bluffton University alumni is working on a project to recognize Elbert Dubenion, 1959 Bluffton College graduate, who played for nine seasons with the Buffalo Bills professional football team. He is the only Bluffton athlete to play professional football. The first step in the recognition took place at the

May 29, 2024, Press Release from Fred Steiner: Bluffton Village Council will designate a section of Bentley Road in Bluffton as “Honorary Elbert Dubenion Drive.” The action that took place

May 28, 2024, Press Release from Fred Steiner: Four separate grants make up The R.L. and Etta L. Triplett Foundation’s 2024 grant distribution, which totals $5,520, according to Tomm Triplett,

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com In November 1945 Bluffton resident Betty Steinman experienced a brush with history like no other person in Bluffton. It is one of several interesting brushes with history that Bluffton residents reported in The Bluffton News. Some of those account follow Betty’s. Each of the account in this feature are from the mid-1940s. ` Betty, whose

PHOTO from the Bluffton Public Library Digital archive: https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p15005coll28/id/1936 By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Name the top Bluffton controversies of all time. Is dancing at the high school on your list? Probably not. However in 1939 this issue was so divisive that one school board member threatened to resign and the First

April 2, 2024 Press Release from the Hancock Historical Museum: Findlay, OH – Pack a lunch and head to the Hancock Historical Museum for its monthly Brown Bag Lecture Series

By Fred Steiner Bluffton Icon and Ada Icon founder www.BlufftonForever.com Adella Steiner Oyer Dec. 6, 1900 – Nov. 27, 1964 Bluffton High School class of 1920 Adella Steiner Oyer’s teaching career begin at age 21 in a one-room rural Richland Township school, driving a horse and buggy to school each day. By the end of her career she had attained an impressive 37½ years of

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Roscoe Evans April 21, 1889-Sept. 13, 1968 Bluffton has a long history of persons with outstanding musical talents. But only one, Roscoe Evans, can claim he tamed the king of instruments, the organ. He spent 23 years of his career as caretaker of the world's largest organ. Born in Delphos, Roscoe Evans' family moved to Bluffton where

By Fred Steiner www.BlufftonForever.com Ralph Sidney Locher July 24, 1915 – June 18, 2004 1932 Bluffton High School graduate 1936 Bluffton College graduate Using politic jargon, he’s Bluffton’s Favorite Son. Ralph S. Locher, a 1932 Bluffton High School and 1936 Bluffton College graduate, as a Democrat, earned this title by becoming mayor of Cleveland and later a member of the