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Monday, April 03, 2017June Carter Cash. Their longtime passion and 35-year marriage were chronicled in the 2005 movie “Walk the Line.”The Bihls’ life was decidedly less volatile, but no less romantic.Elmer Bihl started college during World War II but was called away to work on his father’s vegetable farm in Wheelersburg in southern Ohio, said the couple’s daughter Joanne Minor, 66, of Circleville, Ohio.The Bihls married on Sept. 25, 1948, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Wheelersburg, and Elmer Bihl became the owner and manager of Andrew Bihl Sons produce farm, which grew sweet corn, tomatoes and other crops. Ruth Bihl raised their children, Donald, Joanne, Dolores, Paul and Roger, cooked, sewed, gardened and kept house.At the end of the workday, Elmer played badminton, croquet, baseball and pinochle with the children, and the family took occasional trips to Florida, which they loved.“They were wonderful (parents) — strict but fair, said their son Roger Bihl, 57, of St. Cloud.Family, church and hard work were at the center of their world, but the base that supported everything was Elmer and Ruth Bihl’s devotion to each another.When she stood at the stove, sometimes with a smudge of flour on her face, he’d give her a hug and a kiss as he headed back to work on the farm after lunch. Whenever he looked at her, it was obvious that he adored her, their children recalled.Once they moved to Florida, Elmer Bihl took a job as superintendent at a water and sewer utility in Kissimmee, and they joined St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Cloud, where Ruth was the women’s-group treasurer and baked and crocheted for the holiday bazaar and Elmer was in charge of bingo.After Elmer Bihl retired, it was rare to see either Bihl without the other, whether they were sitting on their porch admiring the yard where Ruth grew her head-turning poinsettias, shopping at the grocery store or entertaining family and friends.Then Ruth Bihl began to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and Elmer learned to do the cooking, cleaning, ironing and other household chores she’d never let him touch in their younger days.When his wife’s dementia reached the point where he could no longer care for her at home, Elmer Bihl arrived at the nursing home every day precisely at noon to sit with her as she ate lunch.“He wanted to make sure that she was taken care of and safe,” said Dudgeon, 38, also of Circleville. “He doted on her every second of every day until he couldn’t do so anymore.”The couple’s joint funeral Mass was March 13 at St. Thomas Aquinas. Their remains will be cremated and laid to rest together at Osceola Memory Gardens. Besides their children, they a...
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Monday, January 23, 2017Yvonne M. Gray, 10 a.m., Curran-Shaffer Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., ApolloEdward J. Hendricks, 10 a.m., Church of the Good Shepherd, Kent, (James F. Ferguson Funeral Home Inc.)Patricia M. LaMantia, 1 p.m., Bolivar First Church of Christ, (J. Paul McCracken Funeral Chapel Inc.)Nora Jane (Wagner) Lantzy, 1:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, Indiana, (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Indiana)Josephine “Josie Ann” Anntoinette Morganti, 11 a.m., St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church, Indiana (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Indiana)Marjorie E. Stadtmiller, 10:30 a.m., Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, IndianaJulia Nathalie Stupic, 10 a.m., St. Patrick Church, Camerons Bottom (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Clymer)...
Monday, January 02, 2017Bachelor Mother.”After the Taylor-Fisher-Reynolds scandal, Ms. Reynolds rode on a crest of good will and was a popular co-star in a long string of films, mostly lighthearted romantic comedies, including “The Gazebo” (1959), “Say One for Me” (1959) and “The Pleasure of His Company” (1961). She also played the title role in “The Singing Nun” (1966), appeared in “Divorce American Style” (1967) and was part of the all-star ensemble cast of “How the West Was Won” (1963), a rare drama among her more than three dozen movie credits.“Drama’s unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy,” she told The Boston Globe in 1990. “Ain’t for me, honey.”She took a stab at series television with a sitcom, “The Debbie Reynolds Show” (1969), in which she played a wacky Lucy Ricardo-like wife who wanted to be a journalist like her husband. It lasted only one season. But she soon achieved a kind of immortality as the voice of Charlotte the selfless spider in the animated film version of E. B. White’s children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” (1973).She had married Harry Karl, a wealthy shoe retailer, in 1960, but by the time they divorced in 1973, he had gambled away or otherwise misspent his fortune and hers. Ms. Reynolds set out to re-establish herself financially.She headed to New York that year to make her Broadway debut in a revival of the 1920s musical “Irene,” for which she received a Tony Award nomination for best actress in a musical. In 1976, she had a short-lived one-woman Broadway show, “Debbie.” She made her last Broadway appearance in 1983, taking over the role originated by Lauren Bacall in the musical version of “Woman of the Year.” She later toured the country with stage shows including “Annie Get Your Gun” and a new version of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”She had taken her musical and comedy talents to Las Vegas as early as 1960 and became a fixture there in the ’70s and ’80s. She and her third husband, Richard Hamlett, a Virginia real estate developer, established their own hotel, casino and movie-memorabilia museum there. But there were financial problems, and the property had to be sold in the ’90s.A decade or so later, it looked as if Ms. Reynolds would finally find a permanent home for her Holly...
Monday, January 02, 2017Carrie Fisher’s career meant ]Ms. Fisher established Princess Leia as a damsel who could very much deal with her own distress, whether facing down the villainy of the dreaded Darth Vader or the romantic interests of the roguish smuggler Han Solo.Wielding blaster pistols, piloting futuristic vehicles and, to her occasional chagrin, wearing strange hairdos and a revealing metal bikini, she reprised the role in three more films — “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980, “Return of the Jedi” in 1983 and, 32 years later, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” by which time Leia had become a hard-bitten general.Lucasfilm said on Tuesday that Ms. Fisher had completed her work in an as-yet-untitled eighth episode of the main “Star Wars” saga, which is scheduled to be released in December 2017.Winning the admiration of countless fans, Ms. Fisher never played Leia as helpless. She had the toughness to escape the clutches of the monstrous gangster Jabba the Hutt and the tenderness to tell Han Solo, as he is about to be frozen in carbonite, “I love you.” (Solo, played by Harrison Ford, caddishly replies, “I know.”)Offscreen, Ms. Fisher was open about her diagnosis of bipolar disorder. She gave her dueling dispositions the nicknames Roy (“the wild ride of a mood,” she said) and Pam (“who stands on the shore and sobs”). She channeled her struggles with depression and substance abuse into fiercely comic works, including the semiautobiographical novel “Postcards From the Edge” and the one-woman show “Wishful Drinking,” which she turned into a memoir.For all the attention she received for playing Princess Leia, Ms. Fisher enjoyed poking wicked fun at the character, as well as at the fantastical “Star Wars” universe. “Who wears that much lip gloss into battle?” she asked in a recent memoir, “The Princess Diarist.”Having seen fame’s light and dark sides, Ms. Fisher did not take it too seriously, or consider it an enduring commodity.As she wrote in “The Princess Diarist”:“Perpetual celebrity — the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture — is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali.”Carrie Frances Fisher was born on Oct. 21, 1956, in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was the first child of her highly visible p...
Monday, December 26, 2016Wednesday, Dec, 7 at Magnolia Funeral Home.Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the funeral home.Mrs. Schumucker died Wednesday, Nov. 30 in Bountiful, Utah.Fagin Lamar SweatmanTIPPAH COUNTY – Funeral services for Fagin Lamar Sweatman, 83, of the Ripley Community were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3 in the heritage Chapel of Ripley Funeral Home.Mr. Sweatman died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Collierville, Tenn.
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Monday, April 03, 2017June Carter Cash. Their longtime passion and 35-year marriage were chronicled in the 2005 movie “Walk the Line.”The Bihls’ life was decidedly less volatile, but no less romantic.Elmer Bihl started college during World War II but was called away to work on his father’s vegetable farm in Wheelersburg in southern Ohio, said the couple’s daughter Joanne Minor, 66, of Circleville, Ohio.The Bihls married on Sept. 25, 1948, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Wheelersburg, and Elmer Bihl became the owner and manager of Andrew Bihl Sons produce farm, which grew sweet corn, tomatoes and other crops. Ruth Bihl raised their children, Donald, Joanne, Dolores, Paul and Roger, cooked, sewed, gardened and kept house.At the end of the workday, Elmer played badminton, croquet, baseball and pinochle with the children, and the family took occasional trips to Florida, which they loved.“They were wonderful (parents) — strict but fair, said their son Roger Bihl, 57, of St. Cloud.Family, church and hard work were at the center of their world, but the base that supported everything was Elmer and Ruth Bihl’s devotion to each another.When she stood at the stove, sometimes with a smudge of flour on her face, he’d give her a hug and a kiss as he headed back to work on the farm after lunch. Whenever he looked at her, it was obvious that he adored her, their children recalled.Once they moved to Florida, Elmer Bihl took a job as superintendent at a water and sewer utility in Kissimmee, and they joined St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in St. Cloud, where Ruth was the women’s-group treasurer and baked and crocheted for the holiday bazaar and Elmer was in charge of bingo.After Elmer Bihl retired, it was rare to see either Bihl without the other, whether they were sitting on their porch admiring the yard where Ruth grew her head-turning poinsettias, shopping at the grocery store or entertaining family and friends.Then Ruth Bihl began to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and Elmer learned to do the cooking, cleaning, ironing and other household chores she’d never let him touch in their younger days.When his wife’s dementia reached the point where he could no longer care for her at home, Elmer Bihl arrived at the nursing home every day precisely at noon to sit with her as she ate lunch.“He wanted to make sure that she was taken care of and safe,” said Dudgeon, 38, also of Circleville. “He doted on her every second of every day until he couldn’t do so anymore.”The couple’s joint funeral Mass was March 13 at St. Thomas Aquinas. Their remains will be cremated and laid to rest together at Osceola Memory Gardens. Besides their children, they a...
SATURDAY FUNERALS - Indiana Gazette
Monday, January 23, 2017Yvonne M. Gray, 10 a.m., Curran-Shaffer Funeral Home and Crematory Inc., ApolloEdward J. Hendricks, 10 a.m., Church of the Good Shepherd, Kent, (James F. Ferguson Funeral Home Inc.)Patricia M. LaMantia, 1 p.m., Bolivar First Church of Christ, (J. Paul McCracken Funeral Chapel Inc.)Nora Jane (Wagner) Lantzy, 1:30 p.m., Christ Episcopal Church, Indiana, (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Indiana)Josephine “Josie Ann” Anntoinette Morganti, 11 a.m., St. Bernard of Clairvaux Catholic Church, Indiana (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Indiana)Marjorie E. Stadtmiller, 10:30 a.m., Bowser-Minich Funeral Home, IndianaJulia Nathalie Stupic, 10 a.m., St. Patrick Church, Camerons Bottom (Rairigh-Bence Funeral Home of Clymer)...
Monday, January 02, 2017Bachelor Mother.”After the Taylor-Fisher-Reynolds scandal, Ms. Reynolds rode on a crest of good will and was a popular co-star in a long string of films, mostly lighthearted romantic comedies, including “The Gazebo” (1959), “Say One for Me” (1959) and “The Pleasure of His Company” (1961). She also played the title role in “The Singing Nun” (1966), appeared in “Divorce American Style” (1967) and was part of the all-star ensemble cast of “How the West Was Won” (1963), a rare drama among her more than three dozen movie credits.“Drama’s unhappy, and playing someone unhappy would make me unhappy,” she told The Boston Globe in 1990. “Ain’t for me, honey.”She took a stab at series television with a sitcom, “The Debbie Reynolds Show” (1969), in which she played a wacky Lucy Ricardo-like wife who wanted to be a journalist like her husband. It lasted only one season. But she soon achieved a kind of immortality as the voice of Charlotte the selfless spider in the animated film version of E. B. White’s children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” (1973).She had married Harry Karl, a wealthy shoe retailer, in 1960, but by the time they divorced in 1973, he had gambled away or otherwise misspent his fortune and hers. Ms. Reynolds set out to re-establish herself financially.She headed to New York that year to make her Broadway debut in a revival of the 1920s musical “Irene,” for which she received a Tony Award nomination for best actress in a musical. In 1976, she had a short-lived one-woman Broadway show, “Debbie.” She made her last Broadway appearance in 1983, taking over the role originated by Lauren Bacall in the musical version of “Woman of the Year.” She later toured the country with stage shows including “Annie Get Your Gun” and a new version of “The Unsinkable Molly Brown.”She had taken her musical and comedy talents to Las Vegas as early as 1960 and became a fixture there in the ’70s and ’80s. She and her third husband, Richard Hamlett, a Virginia real estate developer, established their own hotel, casino and movie-memorabilia museum there. But there were financial problems, and the property had to be sold in the ’90s.A decade or so later, it looked as if Ms. Reynolds would finally find a permanent home for her Holly...
Monday, January 02, 2017Carrie Fisher’s career meant ]Ms. Fisher established Princess Leia as a damsel who could very much deal with her own distress, whether facing down the villainy of the dreaded Darth Vader or the romantic interests of the roguish smuggler Han Solo.Wielding blaster pistols, piloting futuristic vehicles and, to her occasional chagrin, wearing strange hairdos and a revealing metal bikini, she reprised the role in three more films — “The Empire Strikes Back” in 1980, “Return of the Jedi” in 1983 and, 32 years later, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” by which time Leia had become a hard-bitten general.Lucasfilm said on Tuesday that Ms. Fisher had completed her work in an as-yet-untitled eighth episode of the main “Star Wars” saga, which is scheduled to be released in December 2017.Winning the admiration of countless fans, Ms. Fisher never played Leia as helpless. She had the toughness to escape the clutches of the monstrous gangster Jabba the Hutt and the tenderness to tell Han Solo, as he is about to be frozen in carbonite, “I love you.” (Solo, played by Harrison Ford, caddishly replies, “I know.”)Offscreen, Ms. Fisher was open about her diagnosis of bipolar disorder. She gave her dueling dispositions the nicknames Roy (“the wild ride of a mood,” she said) and Pam (“who stands on the shore and sobs”). She channeled her struggles with depression and substance abuse into fiercely comic works, including the semiautobiographical novel “Postcards From the Edge” and the one-woman show “Wishful Drinking,” which she turned into a memoir.For all the attention she received for playing Princess Leia, Ms. Fisher enjoyed poking wicked fun at the character, as well as at the fantastical “Star Wars” universe. “Who wears that much lip gloss into battle?” she asked in a recent memoir, “The Princess Diarist.”Having seen fame’s light and dark sides, Ms. Fisher did not take it too seriously, or consider it an enduring commodity.As she wrote in “The Princess Diarist”:“Perpetual celebrity — the kind where any mention of you will interest a significant percentage of the public until the day you die, even if that day comes decades after your last real contribution to the culture — is exceedingly rare, reserved for the likes of Muhammad Ali.”Carrie Frances Fisher was born on Oct. 21, 1956, in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was the first child of her highly visible p...
Monday, December 26, 2016Wednesday, Dec, 7 at Magnolia Funeral Home.Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 6 at the funeral home.Mrs. Schumucker died Wednesday, Nov. 30 in Bountiful, Utah.Fagin Lamar SweatmanTIPPAH COUNTY – Funeral services for Fagin Lamar Sweatman, 83, of the Ripley Community were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 3 in the heritage Chapel of Ripley Funeral Home.Mr. Sweatman died Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Collierville, Tenn.
