Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for August 29th, 2007
Helen A. Super
Helen A. Super (nee Disien), 83, of Elyria, died on Monday, August 27, 2007, at her home.
Mrs. Super was born in Cleveland, on June 1, 1924, and made her home in Elyria since 1946.
She was employed as a secretary for the Lear Siegler Company in Elyria for 31 years, retiring in 1988.
She was a [...]
North Ridgeville police blotter: Aug. 30, 2007
Saturday, Aug. 18 5:43 p.m. — 5900 block of Lear-Nagle, theft of a four-wheeler, valued at $7,000.
Sunday, Aug. 19 9:45 a.m. — 34600 block of Plantation Place, a vehicle hit a house and a man was found passed out inside the garage. Michael Frazier, 48, North Ridgeville, was charged [...]
Robert D. Fenton
Robert D. Fenton, 78, of Lorain, formerly of Cleveland and Corry, Pa., passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at his home following a lengthy illness.
Friends may call at Busch Funeral Home, 32000 Detroit Road, Avon, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday. A Mass of Christian Burial [...]
Art offers a sense of history
JASON MILLER / CHRONICLE
Local artist David Pavlak in his Elyria home, where he is working on completing a series of murals that will hang on the walls of the North Ridgeville branch library.
NORTH RIDGEVILLE — Strategically placed inside David Pavlak’s art studio are huge paintings so real, you feel a part of them.
What started out [...]
Cyrus Lee Mason, Jr.
Cyrus Lee Mason, Jr., 74, a resident of Amherst Township, passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at his home following a four-month illness.
He was born June 29, 1933 in Benton Co., Mo.. He was raised in Memphis. He moved to Vermilion in 1964 and has been a resident of Amherst Township for the last [...]
Michael Vick cards used as chew toys go for $7,400
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The woman who paid $7,400 on eBay for 22 Michael Vick football cards, chewed up and slobbered on by two Missouri dogs, acknowledges she hadn’t heard of the star football player before he was indicted for dogfighting.
But Laura Norton-Dye, 40, of Cape Girardeau, wanted to send [...]
Richard Jewell, wrongly accused of Olympics bombing, dies at 44
ATLANTA (AP) — Richard Jewell lived for more than a decade with the shame caused by being wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing. The former security guard died Wednesday without closure with the newspaper he accused of starting the frenzy.
Jewell, who had diabetes, kidney problems and was on dialysis for several days recently, [...]
Caller sparks fear with threats to large stores across U.S.
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Large grocery and discount stores across the country have been targeted by a caller who threatens to blow up shoppers and workers with a bomb if employees fail to wire money to an account overseas, authorities said.
Frightened workers have wired thousands of dollars — and [...]
Want to see the Apollo moon landing? Hit the Internet
NEW YORK (AP) — NASA’s images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.
The archive will spend millions of [...]
Thomas Edward McCarty
Thomas Edward McCarty, of North Olmsted, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family and friends on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, joining daughter, Stephanie Ann.
Tom was a veteran of World War II, a lifetime member of VFW Post 1079, Disabled American Veterans and a Purple Heart recipient.
Tom is survived by his beloved wife [...]