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John S. Samarziya ✵ 1919-1998

John S. Samarziya

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.

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Georgia Elizabeth Rudd ✵ 1917-1995 

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

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William Howard Ross ✵ 1879-1966

William Howard Ross

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

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Humberto Antonio Rodriguez ✵ 1937-1999 

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.

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William Dante Rivelli ✵ 1965-1995 

Name at birth:    William Dante Rivelli 
Date of birth:    02/06/65 
Place of birth:   New York City, New York, USA 
Date of death:    30/04/95 
Place of death:   New York City, New York, USA 
Place of burial:  Cathedral of Saint John The Divine, NYC, NY USA

Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand wavin’ free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow.

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Nina Ribak-Rosenthal ✵ 1939-1998

Nina Ribak-Rosenthal

Name at birth:  Nina Beth Ribak
Date of birth: Dec. 12, 1939
Place of birth:  New York City – U.S.A.
Date of death:  April 4, 1998
Place of death:  Modesto – U.S.A.
Resting place:  Lakewood Memorial Cemetery, Hughson, California – U.S.A.
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Dr. Nina Ribak-Rosenthal was just “NINA”, the name she preferred to be called by all. A professor at Stanislaus State University California for 22 years, she was awarded posthumously the status of Professor of Education, Emeritus.
She is survived by a most loving and adoring family: husband, 4 children, 2 grandchildren, sister, and her beloved cat, Dr. Snufi.
She was much more than a teacher, a wife, a mother, a friend, a companion, or daughter. She was “NINA”; warm, kind, good, sensitive, loving, charitable, able, willing, generous, knowledgeable; an exceptional person who can never be replaced. A one of a kind, a LIGHT in a dim world.
We, her family, loved her dearly, and miss her greatly, each and every hour of every day.
SLEEP WELL NINA, SLEEP WELL

NINA MY NINA
Of all the wonderful things there are,
between the Earth and nearest star,
A soul is there, not meant to be
Be patient Nina, wait for me.

We wonder why, try not to cry;
we didn’t ask to say good-by.
A soul is there, not meant to be
Be patient Nina, wait for me.

Another day, another time,
and once again we will entwine.
A soul is there not meant to be,
Be patient Nina, wait for me.

With eternal LOVE, Edward

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John Francis Rethage ✵ 1925-1999

John Francis Rethage

Name at birth:  John Francis Rethage
Date of birth:  8-16-25
Place of birth:  Pittsburgh
Date of death:  4-1-99
Place of death:  Pittsburgh
Resting place:  St.Michaels, Pittsburgh, PA
Submitted by:  Christopher Rethage  (gallant@adelphia.net)

 

 

John was a loving husband, that deeply loved all of his children and grandchildren. They love him as much. Florance Rethage his wife and children, Florance Wilding, Mary McWreath, John Rethage, Donald Rethage, Nancy Hill, Christopher Rethage, David Rethage and man’s best friend Spitz, all love him and miss him very very much. Rest in peace Father.

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Dianne Arlene Reeves-Grune ✵ 1943-1997 

Name at birth:    Dianne Arlene Reeves 
Date of birth:    14 November 1943 
Place of birth:   Chicago,Illinois 
Date of death:    26 July, 1997 
Place of death:   Osceola, Iowa 
Place of burial:  Osceola, Iowa, USA

Submitted by: WES RICHARDS (GRYPHYN@webtv.net)

Taken from the Osceolo Sentinel-Tribune, Thursday August 7, 1997

DIANNE A GRUNE
 

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Dianne Arlene Grune, daughter of Herbert and Frances Reeves, was born Nov. 14, 1943, in Chicago, Ill. and died in the Clarke County Hospital in Osceolo. She was 53. (She died from ovavian cancer)

She married Robert Grune on Oct. 1, 1962, in Downers Grove, Ill. The couple lived in Downer Grove, Mount Ayr, and Osceolo. She worked as a beautician, nurses aid, and operated a Retail Store.

Mrs. Grune was an active member of the First Christian Church, the Clarke County Preservation & Resource Association, and the Clarke County Historical Society.

Mrs. Grune donated her body to the University of Osteopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in the hope that someday something could be learned from the study of her body that would benefit someone else.

She was preceded in death by her father, Herbert Reeves.

Mrs. Grune is survied by her husband, mother Frances Reeves of Downers Grove; a brother, Bill Reeves of Holcombe, Wis. and a sister Carol Carlquist of Downers Grove.

Memorial services for Mrs. Grune will be at 2 P.M. Aug 10 at the First Christian Church in Osceolo, the Rev Fred Rhoffs officiating. Loretta Carpe will be the organist and Linda Crawford will be the vocalist.

There is no interment scheduled.

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