Name at birth: Marvin G Sherrer Date of birth: Feb. 4th 1909 Place of birth: Paris Texas Date of death: July 8th 1985 Place of death: Bonham,Texas Place of burial: Willowwild Cemetery Bonham.Tx.75418 U.S.
Submitted by: C. L Sherrer (clsherrer@texoma.com)
He loved Nature gods creatures and creations and life.
Name at birth: Robert Edward Scott Date of birth: March 22, 1928 Place of birth: Baltimore, Maryland Date of death: April 20, 1982 Place of death: Baltimore, Maryland Place of burial: Gardens of Faith, Baltimore, Maryland
Submitted by: Kim Hepfer (hepfer@pa.net)
He was a man who enjoyed life, and was the best father anyone could ever hope to have.
Sadly missed by his daughter Kim.
Name at birth: Jon W. Scholl Date of birth: 2/29/1968 Place of birth: Atlantic, IA USA Date of death: 5/26/1999 Place of death: Council Bluffs, IA USA Place of burial: Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Council Bluffs, IA USA (Cedar Lawn Section)
Submitted by: Jodi A. Scholl (JoniSmith2001)
To my only sibling my Brother Jon. My your memory never be forgotten 5/26/99!!!
Love, your Sister Jodi (2003)
Name at birth: June Marie Thigpen Date of birth: August 12, 1930 Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA Date of death: June 10, 1996 Place of death: Mercy Hospital, Detroit, Michigan Place of burial: Her own home, 5056 Cooper Detroit, Michigan
Submitted by: Venus Sanders (Almalthea@aol.com)
Beloved wife of Arthur Sanders, Mother of Robert and Venus, Grandmother (nanny) to Remecco, Shalun and Corrinne. A Beautiful, sweet, kind, gracious and loving lady that will be greatly missed by her friends and family.
She asked to be placed on this because her daughter, Venus was just teaching her about the internet and computers. She was just discovering this new world and learning it, before she was given relief from this life.
| Name at birth: | John S. Samarziya |
| Date of birth: | 31 December 1919 |
| Place of birth: | Bessemer MI USA |
| Date of death: | 11 January 1998 |
| Place of death: | Bessemer MI USA |
| Resting place: | Hillcrest Cemetery Bessemer MI USA |
| Submitted by: | Dan Chupinsky (dchup@flash.net) |
John was a simple man with simple pleasures. He enjoyed friends and relatives. He liked to garden and cut firewood from the 40 acres his father owned. He stopped at the local tavern for a glass of beer after a day in the iron mines in the Gogebic Range. When the ravages of time crippled his body, he found pleasure in a day of fishing, or a long ride through the country he loved in the Upper Penninsula of Michigan.
He was a cook in the Navy during WW2, an iron miner in the mines in and around Bessemer. He ran the machinery at Big Powderhorn Ski Hill, and in the summer, he could be found on a lawnmower cutting grass. John is missed by more friends and relatives than he could recall if he were put to the test.
Rest in peace, John.
Name at birth: Anthony Andreas Ruffer
Date of birth: 25/07/70
Place of birth: New Westminster, BC. Canada
Date of death: 21/08/1995
Place of death: White Rock, BC, Canada
Place of burial: Tony was cremated in White Rock, BC.
His ashes were placed in the ocean.
Submitted by: Angela and Petra Ruffer (exec@whistlerweb.com)
Requiem For Tony
Although we mourn his passing
Let us celebrate his life, Remembering all the good times
Of which his years were rife.
He had not an enemy,
For he made of each a friend,
He was a young free spirit,
Let not his memory end.
He so loved the great outdoors,
The high mountains and the seas,
His life shall be remembered
In the waves and in the trees.
And now we here are gathered
On the constant rolling sea
To let the winds and waves he loved
Care for him in eternity.
For Angela, Horst and Petra.
Tony, my Son we miss you so deeply, every day. forever Mom.
You are forever missed by: your Mom, your Dad, Your Sister Petra; Your Oma Hartl, und Oma Ruffer, Your Tante Beate, Tante Mary, Tante Sonya, Tante Ursula, Tante Irene, Onkel Richard, Onkel Otto, Onkel Franz, Onkel Heinz, Onkel Peter Ruffer, onkel Peter Kaufman, Cousin Rick, Cousin Heidi, Cousin Tina, Cousin Richy, Cousin Tommy, Cousin Chad and Cousin Ina.
Name at birth: GEORGIA ELIZABETH WITCHER Date of birth: 9-24-1917 Place of birth: MERTZON, [ IRAAN COUNTY ] TEXAS Date of death: 12-10-95 Place of death: LINDEN, [ CASS COUNTY ] TEXAS Place of burial: LINDEN, TEXAS
Submitted by: ELIZABETH KANE-ALFF (talffgeo@hotmail.com)
MY BELOVED MOTHER…RAISED FOUR SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER, IS NOW ASLEEP IN THE ARMS OF JESUS
| Name at birth: | William Howard Ross |
| Date of birth: | 18 09 1879 |
| Place of birth: | Holmes County, Ohio, USA |
| Date of death: | 18 06 1966 |
| Place of death: | Wooster, Ohio, USA |
| Resting place: | Wooster, Ohio, USA |
| Submitted by: | Margaret G. Brauer nee Hawken (brauer@interaccess.com) |
I remember my grandfather as a wise and compasionate man who provided consistency and a sense of security to my childhood. He also taught me the value of hard work and perserverance and instilled an appreciation for education. The notes below are based upon a paper written by my uncle, Ford Ross, entitled “Reflections of half a century of change”.
His father was a school teacher and his mother also taught school until her marriage. When he was 13, his father died leaving his mother a few acres of land and little else. His formal education consisted mostly of the eight grades at the nearby one-room country school, but before many years, after a term at ADA (now Ohio Northern University), he was teaching the school himself, as well as raising strawberries to sell and helping his brother raise food crops for home use. He had a good memory, a quick mind, and a natural talent for public speaking, which he sharpened at community debates at the school and at political rallies. After a few years of teaching, he had saved enough money for one year of law school at the Northern Indiana Law School at Val Paraiso. He always said that he went there instead of William and Mary because he didn’t have to change trains to get there. He could get on a Pennsylvania train at Shreve and get off at Val Paraiso. With intensive work and perhaps equally intensive persuasion he received a degree after one year instead of the usual two and after passing the Ohio bar examination was admitted to the Bar in 1903 at the age of 24. Then, being doubtful of his ability to make a living at his intended profession, he taught school again and then became a partner in a grocery store in Shreve before finally opening a law office in Shreve in 1906 having acquired a wife and daughter in the mean time. He also had a real estate liscence and with the aid of some commisions managed to make a living.
Court proceedings were a form of public entertainment. Since there was no television, people had to settle for the real thing and many a farmer on a trip to town spent a few hours as a spectator in the court room. His talent soon came to the attention of older lawyers and he was invited to join a prestigious firm in Wooster (Smyser, Weygandt and Wiser). Through hard work during this time they built up a substantial practice. Notwithstanding his modest background and limited education, he was comfortable with all classes of people and represented many leading citizens in their personal and business affairs, as well as corporations such as the electric company, the gas company and the railroads.
He always took to heart other peoples troubles and he worked very hard at his profession until he attained the age of 50. Then, on the advice of his physician, as he stated, “I ceased working so hard, and from that time on, I did just what I wanted to do.” He lived to be 86 years old.
Your loving grand-daughter,
Margaret
| Name at birth: | Marcello Romano |
| Date of birth: | 04/07/1894 |
| Place of birth: | Assoro, Italia |
| Date of death: | 10/01/1972 |
| Place of death: | Catania, Italia |
| Resting place: | Cimeterio Monumentale di Catania, Italy |
| Submitted by: | Ennio Romano (enniorom@tiscali.it) |
Uomo che visse sopratutto di bontà, padre di famiglia
esemplare che tutto diede al figli ed alla sposa, coraggioso
patriotta combattè eroicamente nella prima e nella seconda
guerra mondiale per la grandezza della Patria, Aviatore,
Squadrista, decorato al valore militare. Si è sempre distinto
come un ottimo educatore dei suoi figli con un comportamento
esemplare nell’adempimento integgerrimo del suo lavoro
di dirigente bancario. La famiglia e quanti vissero con lui
lo ricordano con profondo amore e lo additano quale
esempio alle nuove generazioni.
Name at birth: Humberto Antonio Rodriguez Date of birth: 15 May 1937 Place of birth: Smelter, Texas USA Date of death: 16 March 1999 Place of death: Mission Hills, California USA Place of burial: Big Bear, California
They don’t make men like this anymore. He worked so that his family would have everything they wanted. His family never knew what is was to want. Thanks to his hard work and dedicated family life his wife and son will never forget him for, not only what he left them, but for all the memories he left behind.
Save us a place up there. We’ll be there before you know it.