Day: March 7, 2024

Ethel “Ruth” Ford, mother extraordinaire, died Sunday, March 3, 2024, exactly one month short of her 100th birthday. She was born on April 3, 1924, in Latrobe, PA, the daughter of Joseph A. and Ethel (Hopkinson) Greaves, who had both emigrated from England, ultimately settling in Scio, OH. She graduated from Jewett High School in 1942. In December of that year, she married Lloyd Kenneth “Kenny” Ford of Minerva, OH, before

  John D. Douglass passed away unexpectedly on Sunday, March 3rd 2024, in Malvern, Ohio. He was born to parents John I. Douglass Jr. and Marian Douglass (Myers) on October 5, 1962. John grew up with his brother Bob in Bunker Hill, Indiana.    After High School, John joined the Airforce where he served as a Staff Sargent for 10 years.  After an honorable discharge, he moved to Southwest Florida where he had a long career