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Monday, December 12, 2016VINCENNES, Ind. -- A southwestern Indiana funeral home that's believed to be the state's oldest continuously operated business is celebrating its 200th year.The Gardner-Brockman Funeral Home traces its roots to 1816, when Andrew Gardner began making cabinets in Vincennes but quickly switched over to making coffins.The business will celebrate its long history with a Dec. 3 open house in the historic city about 40 miles north of Evansville.Chris Sievers is one of funeral home's three partners. He tells the Vincennes Sun-Commercial (http://bit.ly/2fkFiKe ) the Gardner Funeral Home was merged with the Brockman Funeral Home in 1998 after both were purchased by another company.Sievers says the business was corporation-owned until 2011, when it was acquired by Goodwin Funeral Homes and became locally-owned once again.___Information from: Vincennes Sun-Commercial, http://www.vincennes.com...
Monday, July 04, 2016Reagan presides over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.Singer-actor Rudy Vallee dies at his North Hollywood home at age 84.1988: The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.1996: Russians go to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in a runoff.A blaze destroys a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio, filled with Fourth of July shoppers, killing nine people and injuring 11.2006: A subway train derails in Valencia, Spain, killing 43 people.Annika Sorenstam ends 10 years of frustration by winning the U.S. Women’s Open, her 10th major championship.2011: A chartered fishing boat, the Erik, sinks in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, leaving one Northern California man dead and seven missing.2015: The Solar Impulse 2, a plane powered by the sun’s rays, lands in Hawaii after pilot Andre Borschberg makes a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.VINDICATOR FILES1991: General Motors announces plans to add a third shift at the Lords- town plant, boosting its annual capacity for the hot-selling J-Car from 380,000 a year to 480,000.Gov. George Voinovich is bringing key department heads to Youngstown for a one-day conference during which chambers of commerce from Youngstown and Warren are expected to present a regional economic development proposal for the Mahoning Valley.More than 6,200 fans attend a Youngstown Pride game at Beeghly Center that honored Operation Desert Storm veterans. The Pride fell to the Saskatchewan Storm, 113-111.1976: Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes a bill that would provide free breakfasts and lunches to eligible needy pupils in public schools, saying the measure was not funded, and many schools would be unable to comply with its provisions.Campbell opens the Bicentennial weekend with a parade of 90 units, led by U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney.Trumbull County sheriff’s detective Ronald Baldine buys $100 worth of fireworks at a Vienna home, as the department cracks down on illegal fireworks sales over the Bicentennial weekend.1966: Nearly 90 boys between the age of 11 and 15 are registered for Youngstown’s annual Soap Box Derby on Midlothian Boulevard, between South Avenue and Park Road.Articles of incorporation are granted to the newly formed Mahoning County Community Improvement Corp., designed to develop commercial, industrial, educational and cultural growth in the county.1941: Youngstown plans a grand and glorious Fourth of July. Events include: a Mahoning County American Legion post celebration at Canfield Fairgrounds and fireworks a...
Vincennes News
Monday, December 12, 2016VINCENNES, Ind. -- A southwestern Indiana funeral home that's believed to be the state's oldest continuously operated business is celebrating its 200th year.The Gardner-Brockman Funeral Home traces its roots to 1816, when Andrew Gardner began making cabinets in Vincennes but quickly switched over to making coffins.The business will celebrate its long history with a Dec. 3 open house in the historic city about 40 miles north of Evansville.Chris Sievers is one of funeral home's three partners. He tells the Vincennes Sun-Commercial (http://bit.ly/2fkFiKe ) the Gardner Funeral Home was merged with the Brockman Funeral Home in 1998 after both were purchased by another company.Sievers says the business was corporation-owned until 2011, when it was acquired by Goodwin Funeral Homes and became locally-owned once again.___Information from: Vincennes Sun-Commercial, http://www.vincennes.com...
Monday, July 04, 2016Reagan presides over a gala ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.Singer-actor Rudy Vallee dies at his North Hollywood home at age 84.1988: The USS Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.1996: Russians go to the polls to re-elect Boris Yeltsin president over his Communist challenger, Gennady Zyuganov, in a runoff.A blaze destroys a fireworks store in Scottown, Ohio, filled with Fourth of July shoppers, killing nine people and injuring 11.2006: A subway train derails in Valencia, Spain, killing 43 people.Annika Sorenstam ends 10 years of frustration by winning the U.S. Women’s Open, her 10th major championship.2011: A chartered fishing boat, the Erik, sinks in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, leaving one Northern California man dead and seven missing.2015: The Solar Impulse 2, a plane powered by the sun’s rays, lands in Hawaii after pilot Andre Borschberg makes a record-breaking five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean from Japan.VINDICATOR FILES1991: General Motors announces plans to add a third shift at the Lords- town plant, boosting its annual capacity for the hot-selling J-Car from 380,000 a year to 480,000.Gov. George Voinovich is bringing key department heads to Youngstown for a one-day conference during which chambers of commerce from Youngstown and Warren are expected to present a regional economic development proposal for the Mahoning Valley.More than 6,200 fans attend a Youngstown Pride game at Beeghly Center that honored Operation Desert Storm veterans. The Pride fell to the Saskatchewan Storm, 113-111.1976: Gov. James A. Rhodes vetoes a bill that would provide free breakfasts and lunches to eligible needy pupils in public schools, saying the measure was not funded, and many schools would be unable to comply with its provisions.Campbell opens the Bicentennial weekend with a parade of 90 units, led by U.S. Rep. Charles J. Carney.Trumbull County sheriff’s detective Ronald Baldine buys $100 worth of fireworks at a Vienna home, as the department cracks down on illegal fireworks sales over the Bicentennial weekend.1966: Nearly 90 boys between the age of 11 and 15 are registered for Youngstown’s annual Soap Box Derby on Midlothian Boulevard, between South Avenue and Park Road.Articles of incorporation are granted to the newly formed Mahoning County Community Improvement Corp., designed to develop commercial, industrial, educational and cultural growth in the county.1941: Youngstown plans a grand and glorious Fourth of July. Events include: a Mahoning County American Legion post celebration at Canfield Fairgrounds and fireworks a...
