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Tuesday, June 16, 1998 8A OBITUARIES NEWS JOURNAL FredW. Woods Jr. EPA promises early warning of megafarms Desmond E3 Donnenwirth SHELBY Desmond Donnenwirth, 67, of Myer Meadows, Apt 14, died Monday, June IS, 1998, in Brecksville Veteran's Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, from the Barkdull Funeral Home. Bishop Jeffrey Kennedy will officiate with interment in Oakland Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday from 6-9 p.m. MANSFIELD Fred W. Woods 54, of 1240 Canteberry Lane died Friday evening, June 12, 1998, at Ohio State University Hospitals in Columbus after a long illness. Masonic services will be held today at 8:30 p.m. at the Diamond Street Home of Wappner Funeral Directors conducted by the Shiloh Lodge and the Mansfield Commandery.

I if' VI1 lJ 4 V. 1 Doris J. Zerby 1 MANSFIELD Former resident, Doris J. Zerby, 75, of Mont-clair, died Thursday, May 28, 1998, at home. Private services were held.

Draper Mortuary of Ontario, is in charge of ,1 appealed the agency's decision to allow that farm to expand. Residents of the area surrounding the Croton farm say they were never told the company wanted to add more chickens. The permit granted in April lets Buckeye Egg add 4.5 million birds, for a total of 11 million chickens. The egg farm already is among the world's largest The Licking County group is concerned about the impact the extra chicken manure would have on soil, water and air quality in the area, about 35 miles northeast of Columbus. Neighbors have complained about strong odors and swarms of flies originating from Buckeye Egg.

The EPA, which is responsible for overseeing wastewater handling facilities at large agricultural operations, said the expansion poses, no environmental risk. Still, the controversy caused agency officials to rethink their policies, said spokeswoman Carol Hester. COLUMBUS (AP) The Ohio Environmental, Protection Agency has promised to tip off the public to the expansion plans of large-scale livestock operators. "Clearly, there are concerns around Ohio about the potential environmental impacts of very large farms, and people want to know more about what's going on in their communities, EPA Director Donald Schregardus said Monday in a news release. Beginning July 1, Schregardus said, the agency will notify local media, health departments, soil and water conservation districts, state lawmakers, county" commissioners, township trustees and mayors that a livestock operator has applied to expand or locate in their areas.

The notices will go out at several steps in the process, and public hearings will be held if there is significant public interest, Schregardus said. Neighbors of the Buckeye Egg Farm in Licking County Harley and Sylvia Utz take a stroll through the grounds at the Breth-ern's Home in Greenville, Ohio, on June 2. They are both 99 and celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary Monday. (AP photo) Crestview BOE rejects natural gas, oil testing Couple mar! Garnet M. Shifley BUCYRUS Former Bucyrus resident Garnet M.

Shifley, 85, died Sunday, June 14, 1998, at Village Care Center in Galion. She was born Jan. 13, 1913, in Crawford County, the daughter of the late Glenn Monroe Cot-samire and Clara Louise (Ebner) Cotsamire. A 1931 graduate of Whetstone High School, she was a homemaker and a member of First United Church of Christ in Galion. Shifley is survived by four daughters, Mary Louise Zimmerman and husband William of Galion; Janet Marie Oehler of Galion; Connie Kay Stickdorn and husband Robert of Lancaster; Natalie Gay Stull and husband David of Mansfield; one son, Fred Shifley and wife Evelyn of Galion; 15 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren; two sisters, Thelma Steiner of New Port Richey, and Mrs.

John (Betty) Phahler of Bucyrus. Shifley was preceded in death by her husband, Harold E. Shifley, whom she married on Aug. 14, 1932; one daughter, June Elaine Stoney; one brother, Glenn M. Cotsamire and one sister, Evelyn Beach.

The funeral will be Wednesday at 11 a.m. at Wise Funeral Home with the Rev. Frank Isaacs officiating. Burial will be in Crawford County Memory Gardens. Friends may call at Wise Funeral Home today from 24 and 7-9 p.m.

Memorials may be made to First United Church of Christ of Galion or to the donor's choice through the funeral home. Donald G. Smith ASHLAND Memorial services for Donald G. "Smitty" Smith will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Denbow-Primm-Kemery Funeral Home by the Rev.

Donald Earlenbaugh. Burial will be in the Ashland Cemetery. There will be no calling hours. The family suggests that memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of North Central Ohio 1605 Co. Rd.

1095, Ashland, Ohio 44805 or to the Alzheimer's Association, 1 Marion Suite 108, Mansfield, Ohio 44903. By Karen Vargo News Journal 80th weddlm amuversary Mabel M. Bechtel FREDERICKTOWN Mabel M. Bechtel, 98, of Fred-ericktown died Sunday, June 14, 1998, at the Morrow Manor Nursing Home after a long illness. I She was born May 23, 1900, in Bellville, the daughter of John and Nora Stewart Robinson and had been a lifetime resident of the Bellville-Frederick-town area.

She was a member of the Fredericktown First Presbyterian Church and the Women's Society there and had attended Owl Creek Church of the Brethren. She was a graduate of the Bellville High School and attended the Kent State University for two years. She taught school at the Honey-creek and Walnut Hill one-room schools and at Plymouth High School. She had been a member of the Ankenytown Garden Club. I She is survived by a daughter, Wilma (Charles) Evans of iStevensville, Michigan; three 'sons, Paul (Dorothy) Bechtel 'and Dean (Betty) Bechtel of Fredericktown and Earl Bechtel of Columbus; 15 grandchildren; and four great-grandchil-dren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Elmer in 1969; an infant daughter, Doris Eileen; two brothers and three sisters, Friends may call Tuesday from 6-9 p.m. at the Snyder Home in Fredericktown. Funeral services will be field at 11 a.m., Wednesday, at the Fredericktown First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Marlon Redding will officiate and purial will follow in Owl Creek Church Cemetery in Ankenytown.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Frederick-town First Presbyterian Church, 17 South Main Fredericktown, Ohio 43019. I on the land, we would all have to go from there." Such testing is not unusual in the region, Harraman said. Results from any testing would be turned over to geologists, he said. The process would be "very exploratory," Harraman said, and, if approved, would be done only on the 50 empty acres of land the district purchased last fall. "Obviously we wouldn't want to have anything like this going on close to our buildings," Harraman said.

The land adjoins the district's campus, which is on Ohio 96. School board members voted in November to buy the land for $158,000. They have not determined how they will use the additional property. OLIVESBURG A private company won't be testing for natural gas or oil on land the Crestview Local Schools purchased last fall after all. The Crestview Board of Education, at Monday's regular meeting, discussed the request by the company to do the testing, but decided against it.

"I just think we're not in that kind of business," Superintendent Roger Harraman said. The process would mean drilling holes 10 feet deep and 3 inches in diameter into the ground, Harraman said. "Then they would drop a charge in there and see what they came up with," Harraman said. "If they found gas or oil Crestline votes to give raises to council, mayor "I think it's a record," he said, adding it would be hard to prove. "Of course, you don't try to set a record.

You just live a day at a time, and let time take care of itself." The Utzes have been members of the Pitsburg Church of the Brethren since their youth. They attribute their success in marriage mainly to their religious faith. "You find so many people have a very negative attitude in life, without any association with church," Utz said. "Take your marriage vows seriously," added Mrs. Utz.

The couple has three children, all involved in lengthy marriages: Doris Jean Brown, 77, lives in Phoenix and has been married for 55 ye'ars; Harley Utz 74, of Carson City, has been married for 49 years; and Emerson Utz, 70, of Monroe Township in Darke County, for 47 years. "I've been fortunate to have my parents for 70 years," said Emerson Utz. "I don't try to make them any more dependent on me than is necessary. Dad's had a couple of hospital bouts in the last couple years, and he bounces right back." Harley Utz, who lost his eyesight in 1977, has another big milestone in his future he turns 100 on July 3. Mrs.

Utz doesn't hit the century mark until March 9. "I'm a young girl living with an old man," she joked. Gloria Jean Zeigler cQuillen GREENVILLE, Ohio (AP) When Harley and Sylvia Utz think back to their wedding day, it's a long way. America was locked in World War I and Babe Ruth was running the basepaths. The couple, both 99, marked their 80th wedding anniversary Monday.

The Utzes married June 15, 1918, in the western Ohio village ofPitsburg. "Oh yes, I can remember it all," Utz said Sunday. "It was right there in the house, in the front room of her parents' house. About 25 people, mostly family, attended." The couple lived in their own home in Arcanum until September. Now they live in the Brethren's Home in Greenville, where family and friends gathered to celebrate their 80th anniversary on Sunday.

Mrs. Utz said people at the home knew about the anniversary and were excited about it. But she took it in stride. "It's just another day to me," she said. "We're moving (to a different room) closer down to the dining room.

And everybody knows about that too." Mrs. Utz said she had no answers for people who want to know what it feels like to achieve 80 years as husband and wife. "We live a day at a time and enjoy it," she said. Utz, a retired accountant, echoed his wife's sentiment, but also expressed pride in their marital longevity. Man dies in fire COLUMBUS (AP) Firefighters found a smoke detector without batteries sitting on top of a stereo in the home of a man killed in a fire.

Bruce Gromen, 47, apparently died of smoke inhalation early Sunday, city fire investigator Len Durham said Monday. The fire started in the living room of his one-story home. Investigators said the man apparently dropped a lit cigar on his couch. The smoke detector was in the living room. Two rooms in the house were damaged.

By Cindy Swavel News Journal correspondent CRESTLINE The Crestline mayor and Village Council members will get a pay raise effective January 2000. Legislation boosting the salary of the mayor from $7,500 to $8,500 and council's annual income from $1,400 to $2,000 was passed Monday by council members on its third reading. First and second readings were given at two previous meetings. The raises can be adopted now but cannot go into effect until the end of the current term. Council members Michael Blais-ing and Denise Jeffrey hold the two seats which will be up for election at the end of 1999.

The other four council members Mike Morton, Robert Wozniak, Ken Frisby and Jerry Harbaugh will not be eligible for the increases until 2002 because they are in the first year of their hew four-year terms. Mayor Rita Middleton, who was appointed by council to fill the remaining two years of a term vacated by Vernon Henderson, would have to win reelection in 1999 to benefit from the increase. There was little discussion from council about the raises once legislation was presented last month. However, a Finance Committee study last year revealed the average salary for council members in communities the size of Crestline is $1,781. MANSFIELD Gloria Jean eigler McQuillen, 72, formerly of 1073 Seminole died Monday afternoon, June 15, (1998, in Mifflin Care Center after a long illness.

I Mrs. McQuillen was born March 17, 1926, and was a life jlong resident of Mansfield. She Retired from Therm-O-Disc and was a cook for the Mans- Seld City School Systems. Surviving are two grand daughters and a grandsOn-in- MANSFIELD May 13 Son to Carrie and David Wood, Mansfield. May 22 Son to Tabatha L.

and William D. Head, 6250 Rome Greenwich, Shiloh. May 27 Son to Stacey D. and Bradley I Hocker, .419 Shepard Road, Mansfield. Junel Daughter to Nicky and John Ather-ton, 155 N.

Ford, Apt. 18, Mansfield. June 4 Daughter to Cheryl and Michael Gray, 110 Priscilla Lane, Ashland. June 5 Daughter to Jennifer and Steve Shaffer, 892 Tanglewood Drive, Mansfield. June 7 Son to Jenifer and Daniel Houston, 332 Muth Road, Mansfield.

June 8 Daughter to Wendy and Richard Tommelleo, 566 Highland Mansfield. Son to Beth R. and Michael A. Hoffman, Bucyrus. June 11 Daughter to Ann and Scott VanScoy, 315 Samaritan law, Dawn and Jeff Wymer of Canton, Michigan, and Rebecca McQuillen of Chicago, Illinois; one grandson, Calvin Earl James McQuillen of Ontario; two great-grandchildren, Caitlyn and Mitchell of Canton, Michigan; wo brothers.

Charles and obert Schultz, both of Mans- leld; and one sister, Nell Par- ion of Red Oak, Texas; and a umber of nieces and nephews, and great-nieces and 1111 MBIII IMIIHII Ji7 si- kjg -m A I HEfMiroiai 4 Make Bad Report Cards a thing of the past at Sylvan I great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Lester Zeigler and Thelma Zeigler; her husband, Earl Junior McQuillen; and her son, Robert Earl McQuillen. Friends may call at the Ontario Home of Wappner Funeral Directors one hour prior to funeral services, which will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. conducted by the Rev. Cannon David S.

Sipes. Burial will be in Mansfield Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Visiting Nurses Hospice, 188 W. Third Mansfield, Ohio 44902-1217. Jili.

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