Lima News Tuesday, May 25, 1982 Deaths Beatrice L. Fitzpatrick Former Lima resident, Beatrice Fitzpatrick, 67, died at 4:45 p.m. Sunday at Richland Memorial Hospital in Columbia, S. C. She was born Nov.
25, 1914, in Lima, the daughter of Almond and Lydia Drew Holten. On July 12, 1948, she married Woodrow Fitzpatrick, who survives. Mrs. Fitzpatrick was former assistant manager of Lima Towers. Survivors also include two sons, Dale Copus of Ada and Leonard W.
Copus of Jackson Center; a daughter. Lydia E. McElroy of Lima: nine grandchildren; four great grandchildren; a brother, Richard E. Holten of Lima; and two sisters, Dorothy Shepherd and Marjorie B. Spees, both of Lima.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Hanson-Neely Funeral (lome, Ada, Rev. Michael Dixon officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 tonight, 2 to 4 and to 9 p.m.
Wednesday and until time of services Thursday. James F. Ramsey BUCKLAND James F. Ramsey, 70, died at 3:17 a.m. Tuesday In the Lima Memorial Hospital emergency room.
He was born May 5, 1912, in Auglaize County, the son of Theodore and Westa V. Gobel Ramsey. On Nov. 14, 1936, he married Anna Ziegenbusch, who survives. Mr.
Ramsey was retired manager of Republic Creosoting Co. He was a member of Buckland United Church of Christ, Hamer Lodge 167, Free and Accepted Masons of Wapakoneta and the Buckland Volunleer Fire Department. Survivors also include a son, James F. Ramsey of Chardon; a daughter, Linda Chrismer of Wapakoneta; three grandchildren; a brother, John Ramsey of Bloomdale; and a sister, Mrs. Earl (Verda Campbell of St.
Marys. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Bayliff and Son Funeral Home, Cridersville, Rev. Carl Miller officiating. Burial will be in Buckland Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Frank Van Horn VAN HORN, Frank Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Chiles and Sons-Laman West Wayne Street Chapel with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 7 to 9 tonight and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. SAUM, John J. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St.
John's Catholic Church, Delphos, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Kolkmeyer-Helmkemp-Siferd Funeral Home, Delphos, until 4 and from 7 to 9. today. Parish wake service will be at 8 tonight at the funeral home. McDANIEL, Elva E.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Shields Funeral Home, Forest, with burial in Jackson Center Cemetery, near Forest. Friends may call at the funeral home anytime today and until time of services Wednesday. WILLIAMS, Emma C. Services will be at 2 p.m.
Wednesday at Woodlawn United Methodist Church, Oakwood, with burial in Sherman Cemetery. Friends may call at Taylor Funeral Home, Oakwood, anytime today and at the church an hour before services Wednesday. HOOD, Edwin' H. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Yoder-Long and Folk Funeral Woman from grave testifies against rapist Shirley Ann Delph, 46, of 113 Olentangy Road died at 7:10 p.m.
Monday at St. Rita's Medical Center following an extended illness. She was born Sept. 18, 1935, in Lima, the daughter of Frank and Clara Fisher. Her mother survives in Portage, Ind.
Mrs. Delph was a homemaker. Survivors include a son, James E. Mason of Lafayette, two daughters, Susan A. Wilson and Jo Kleefish, both of Lima; 10 grandchildren; and two brothers, Richard Butler 'of Portage, and Edward Butler of Van Wert.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lewis Memorial Chapel of Chiles and Sons-Laman, Rev. Phil McKeown officiating. Burial will be in Walnut Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6 to 9 tonight and until time of services Wednesday.
Mavis L. Bever Shirley A. Delph Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Chiles and SonsLaman West Wayne Street Chapel for Mavis L. Bever, 75, of Lima.
She died Friday at her home. She was born April 26, 1907, in Mercer County, the daughter of William L. and Estella G. Putman Hinton. Survivors include a sister, Mabel Skrock of Berkeley, and several nieces and nephews.
Rev. Darrell E. Fox will officiate for the services. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until 4 and from 7 to 9 today.
Muriel E. Fredrick Graveside services were held Monday at Shawnee Cemetery for former Lima resident, Muriel Evans Fredrick, 75, of Wellston. She died Friday at Oak Hill General Hospital. She was born June 23, 1906, in Lima, the daughter of John J. and Vyrta Arthur Evans.
She married Carl A. Fredrick, who died Nov. 17, 1978. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Jim Betty) Swonger of Wellston; and three grandchildren.
Rev. Willard Thomas officiated for the services. Home, St. Marys, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Wapakoneta. Friends may call at the funeral home until 4 and from 7 to 9 today.
BROWN, Eugene Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at HansonNeely Funeral Home, Alger, with burial in Preston Cemetery there. Friends may call at the funeral home anytime today and an hour before services Wednesday. The family will be present until 4 and from 7 to 9 today. The body will lie in state at the church from 1 p.rh.
until time of services Wednesday. Ada' American Legion Post 185 will conduct full military graveside' services. PONTIUS, Margaret V. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Coldwater, with burial in Riverside Cemetery, Rockford.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 9 today and until time of services Wednesday. REESE, Walter M. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday fat Siferd Westwood Chapel with burial in Woodlawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until 4 and from 7 to 9 today.
RUPERT, Corrine G. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Miller Funeral Home, St. Marys, with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery, Wapakoneta. Friends may call at the funeral home until 5 and from 7 to 9 today.
FLICK, Althea M. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Bliss-Peoples Funeral Home, Leipsic, with burial in Sugar Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until 5 and from 7 to 9 today. MERCER, Helen Dunn Graveside services will be at 10 a.m.
Saturday at Woodlawn Cemetery, Ada. Local arrangements are handled by Hanson-Neely Funeral Home, Ada. COY, Alfred E. Services and burial will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday under the direction of Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Lexington, Ky.
Friends may call at the funeral home until 5 and from 7 to 9 today. ST. MARYS Nora F. Moehring, 77, died Sunday at her home. She was born Feb.
26, 1905, in Mercer County, the daughter of William and Flossie Sheely Howell. In 1963, she married Ferd Moehring, who is deceased. Mrs. Moehring was retired from Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. She was a member of the Eagles Auxiliary.
Survivors include a son, John Ashbaugh of Dayton; six grandchildren; a great -grandchild; a brother, Gerald Howell of New Weston; and a sister, Mrs. Harry (June) Huey of St. Marys. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Swamp Colleges Cemetery, Celina, Rev.
H. Hugh Brown officiating. Friends may call at Miller Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Arraignment held in robbery Nora F.
Moehring Kenneth L. Fitzgerald COLUMBUS GROVE Kenneth L. Fitzgerald, 42, was dead on arrival at St. Rita's Medical Center Sunday. Putnam County Coroner Dr.
James Overmier ruled cause of death was respiratory arrest. He was born June 1, 1939, in Baltimore, the son of Robert o1 L. and Mattie Williams Fitzgerald, who survive in Lima. On Sept. 1, 1975, he married Cecile Dorn, who also survives.
Mr. Fitzgerald was employed for 17 years by General Motors at Defiance. He was a member of Second Baptist Church and United Auto Workers Local 211. Survivors also include two sons, Thomas M. and Kenneth both at home; two daughters, Valerie L.
and Stephanie both of Lima; a grandchild; maternal grandmother, Margaret M. Williams of Newport News, three brothers, John Bagley Jr. and William M. Bagley, both of Lima, and Russell A. Fitzgerald of Defiance; and two sisters, Bertha A.
Fitzgerald of Lima and Nannie L. Fitzgerald of Defiance. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Second Baptist Church, Rev. Melvin Woodard II officiating.
Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Chiles and Sons-Laman West Wayne Street Chapel from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and 2 to 4 and 7 to p.m. Thursday. The body will lie in state at the church from 9 a.m.
until time of services Friday. Death notices Word has been received of the death Friday in San Jose, of former Lima resident, Hazel Dotson Juarez, 65. Among survivors are three sons, including James Dotson of Lima; three daughters, including Jean Ann Brown of Spencerville; and 19 grandchildren. Services and burial were to be today in San Jose, Calif. Word has been received of the death Sunday in Delaware of former Auglaize County resident, John William Shultz 71, of Galena.
Among survivors are a son; two daughters; 13 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and four sisters. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church, Sunbury, with burial in Sunbury Memorial Park. Graveside military services will be conducted. Friends may call at the family residence from 7 to 9 tonight and 2 to 4 and 7 to! 9 p.m.
Wednesday. Memorial contributions may be made to the church, the Sunbury Community Library or to the charity of the donor's choice. Word has been received of the death Monday in Alpena, of former Lima resident, Dale Roeder, 81. Among survivors are his wife, Mary Louise; a son; a stepson; two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Art (Mary) Sheeley and Idella Buchanan, both of Lima; and three brothers, including Carl Roeder of Lima and Eldon Roeder of Columbus Grove.
Services will be at 8 tonight at Wachterhauser Funeral Home, Alpena, Mich. Committal services will be at 2 p.m.. Wednesday at White Chapel Cemetery in Troy. Memorial contributions may be made to the Ohio 'Northern University General Scholarship Fund, Ada. Fire today destroys 3 Cincy buildings CINCINNATI (AP) An early morning fire today in the Fairmount section of western Cincinnati destroyed three buildings, including several apartments and a pizza parlor.
Fire officials believed that all occupants were evacuated safely. Five alarms were sounded for the -blaze, which kept firefighters at the scene more than five hours and disrupted morning rush hour traffic. LOS ANGELES (AP) A man was sentenced to 27 years in prison for raping a 26-year-old woman, stabbing her 20 times and then burying her alive in a shallow grave on the campus of a Hollywood college. The woman later testified she kept herself alive by jamming dirt and leaves into her wounds to stem the bleeding until she was discovered. She was rushed to a hospital where a surgeon performed what a prosecutor termed "some nearly miraculous work." Superior Court Judge Kathleen Parker imposed the maximum sentence on James Earl Gibbs, who was convicted of raping and stabbing his victim on Nov.
20, 1980, and burying her on the campus of Hollywood's Immaculate Heart College. Dr. Eugene Flaum testified at Gibbs' trial that "the stab wounds severed her jugular vein, carotid artery and larynx." He said she was so seriously injured he thought he was "probably operating on a The woman testified that she accepted Gibbs offer to drive her home from a Hollywood bar and that she did not suspect "the nightmare that was to happen" when he told her he had to first stop at his apartment. Once inside, she said, he grabbed her by the throat, punched her, tore off her dress and raped her. She passed out, she testified.
Later, he tossed her nude body into his car, took her to a wooded area near the college and went into a frenzy of stabbing, she said. "I kept screaming until I began gurgling with blood," she testified. She said that Gibbs buried her in a shallow grave, covering her with dirt and leaves. After she was discovered by a security guard, she was rushed into surgery at Holywood Presbyterian Hospital. Deputy district attorney Marissa Batt said that Gibbs, 38, came to California in 1979 after serving a three-year prison term for stabbing his wife to death in Saginaw, Mich.
In that slaying, the body also was discarded in a wooded area, said Ms. Batt. "But in this case, the victim survived and she clawed and crawled her way out of the grave," said Ms. Batt. "With some miraculous work by a surgeon, she lived to testify against Mr.
Gibbs." Woman, 75, sentenced in smuggling LOS ANGELES (AP) A 75- year-old grandmother described by an assistant U.S. attorney as "a liar with uttermost contempt" for the court was sentenced to three years in prison for smuggling cocaine into the United States. U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter imposed a three-year prison term Monday on Heliodora Saenz, who customs officials said carried a false-bottomed suitcase containing pounds of cocaine, worth about $480,000 on the street, into Los Angeles International Airport.
Hatter said he imposed the sentence to give narcotics traffickers a message, and said customs agents may have to start searching everyone arriving from Colombia, and perhaps even "the diapers of babes in arms." Mrs. Saenz, a Colombian citizen who had been living in the Orange County community of Costa Mesa, was seized Feb. 26 after a trip to Colombia, where she said she had visited relatives. She said she had met a woman who offered her the use of a newer suitcase than the one she had, to be reclaimed by the woman in the United States. At her trial, Mrs.
Saenz said she A 33-year-old Lima man was arraigned in municipal court Monday on a charge of robbery in connection with an incident early Saturday morning at a West Market Street supermarket. Ronald E. Coleman of 121 E. Eighth St. was assigned for a preliminary hearing, and Judge William Lauber set bond at $15,000.
Coleman will be represented by court attorney Dan Carducci. According to police reports, Coleman was arrested shortly before 3 a.m. Saturday at Clyde Evans Market at 325 W. Market St. Reports show an employee of the store observed a man conceal two T-bone steaks down the front of his pants, and pick up two sirloin strip steaks and walk to the front of the store.
The employee approached the man, who dropped the meat and attempted to assault the employee, according to reports. He attempted to run through the front door, where he was caught by three employees and detained until police arrived, reports show. 19-year-old man arraigned Monday A 19-year-old Lima man was arraigned in municipal court Monday on a charge. of breaking and entering in connection with a May 9 incident at a West North Street business. Jimmy Lee Owens of 405 Hubbard Place was assigned for a preliminary hearing, and Judge William Lauber set bond at $2,500.
Owens will be represented by court-appointed attorney Greg Novak. According to reports by city police, someone smashed a window at Hayes Tools 539 W. North sometime between 5 p.m. May 7 and 12:30 a.m. May 9 and ransaked a desk and cabinets.
An undisclosed amount of cash was removed from a metal cash box at the business, reports show. Man arraigned on charge A 21-year-old Lima man was arraigned in Lima Municipal Court Monday on a charge of breaking and entering in connection with an incident Saturday at a West High Street business. Ellis P. Houston, 219 N. Park was assigned for preliminary hearing on the charge and Judge William Lauber set bond at $2,500.
Houston will be represented by a court-appointed attorney. According to city police reports, someone entered Hart Audio, 126 W. High St. The reports show nothing was missing. The Lima News (USPS 313-260) 121 East High Street, Lima, Ohio 45802.
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Vol. 98, No. 145 did not know there were narcotics in the false bottom of the suitcase. But Assistant U.S. Attorney James P.
Walsh Jr. said she had acknowledged at an earlier hearing that she suspected the suitcase contained drugs. Man, 38, enters plea in fireworks sale case An Akron attorney pleaded innocent Monday in Lima Municipal Court to seven charges in connection with a fireworks operation closed Friday by deputies of the Allen County Sheriff's Department. Howard M. Allison, 38, pleaded not guilty to one count of failure to, obtain a permit, one count storage of fireworks, one count permit to sell at wholesale and four counts sale and use of fireworks.
Bond was set by Judge William Lauber at $600 on four of the charges. Each of the charges are misdemeanors and carry a fine of between $25 and $500. An estimated $100,000 worth of fireworks was confiscated at a vacant Lima Farm Equipment Store, 1875 Harding Highway, and taken a safe storage area, according to a sheriff's department spokesman. The arrest was made after four officers of the department made four separate fireworks purchases at the location. Sheriff's deputies were tipped to the existance of the operation by individuals who interviewed for work at the location.
Daily record MUNICIPAL COURT Felony Arraignment Monday Frances Gross, 613 N. Jefferson receiving stolen property, assigned for preliminary hearing, 500 bond. (Judge Lauber) Dispositions Monday Jan Newland, 1234 N. Union assault, sentencing, fined $500, 180 days city jail, $450 and 180 days suspended on conditions imposed by the court. (Judge Heeter) Paul L.
Burden, 425 S. McPheron criminal mischief, sentencing, fined $500, 60 days city jail. (Judge Heeter) Jeff A. Hight, 585 N. West criminal damaging, sentencing, fined $750, 90 days city jail, $500 suspended on conditions imposed by the court.
(Judge Heeter) Mark A. Stockwell, Elida, driving while under the influence, withdrew innocent plea, pleaded no contest, fined $200, 96 days county jail, 90 days suspended on conditions imposed by the court, operator's license suspended one year and until compliance with Ohio Financial Responsibility Law. (Judge Lauber) Geneva Horne, 700 S. Broadway, driving while under the influence, withdrew innocent plea, pleaded guilty, fined $200, 14 days county jail, operator's license suspended two years and until compliance with Ohio Financial Responsibility Law; driving while under the influence, withdrew innocent plea, pleaded guilty, fined $400, 14 days county jail, operator's license suspended two years and until compliance with Ohio Financial Responsibility Law, sentences to be served concurrently. (Judge Lauber) Jerry C.
Horne, 700 S. Broadway, driving while under the influence, withdrew innocent plea, pleaded guilty, fined $500, 14 days city jail, operator's license suspended two years and until compliance with Ohio Financial Responsibility Law. (Judge Lauber) MARRIAGE LICENSES 1 William R. Bly, 20, 906 Berryman and Crystal L. Wolfe, 19, 5135 Marcella Drive.
Dean E. Davis, 27, 614 Shock and Robin E. Pease, 24, 614 Shock Ave. Gregg A. Ballard, 22, Ada, and Kathy S.
O'Connor, 22, 1101 Melrose Ave. Michael J. Fox, 30, Toledo, and Pamela A. Conaway, 23, 133 E. Murphy St.
BIRTHS St. Rita's Today Mr. and Mrs. James McNamara, 956 W. North girl.
Monday Mr. and Mrs. George. Sellati, 2837 Shadowood Drive, boy; Mr. and Mrs.
Glenn Troth, Ada, boy; Mr. and Mrs. John Evans, Van Wert, boy; Mr. and Mrs. Scott J.
Grothouse, Fort Jennings, boy. May 18 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crum, 1436 W. High girl.
Memorial Monday Mr. and Mrs. Robert; Gabriel, Spencerville, girl; Mr. and Mrs. Steven Moore, Ottawa, girl.
La RESCUE SQUAD Monday 10:20 a.m. 1401. Allentown Road, J.R. Westhoff of Columbus, injured, examined, taken to. Rita's by private ambulance.
FIRE CALL Monday 5:36 p.m. West Street andO'Connor Avenue, Judy Avery, address unknown, auto fire, extinguished, $150 loss..
