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BITS AND PIECES: Wooster’s longest operating funeral home Ann Gasbarre Sleek wrote that the first McIntire Funeral Home started in 1902 when A.C. McIntire became associated with the Christine Brothers Funeral Parlor ... operating at the time in rooms above the McIntire Furniture Store on West Liberty Street. Several years later, the establishment became known as Danford, McIntire and Nixon Funeral Home ... then as McIntire and Nixon. In 1927, McIntire became the sole owner and in the early 1930s he opened a funeral home at the current Larwill Street location after purchasing the property fr...

BITS AND PIECES: Barbershop 'trio' - Pete, Carl and Vernon Woods Ann Gasbarre After reading a recent column about the Black presence in Wooster, Jim Hudson wrote he was disappointed the name of barber Carl Woods had been omitted. “The barbershop,” he wrote, “was located on the south side of East Liberty Street in the vicinity of where the Best Western sits today. Growing up, my Dad and I went there for years. Carl was in the first chair with his cousin Vernon Woods in the second and Clay Mitchell in the third … super nice people and highly thought of in the community.