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TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2000
Earl Lease
Rural Tiffin dairy farmer
Earl Lease, 78, died early Monday morning, June 26, 2000, at his home at 5251 E. CR 16.
He was born March 2, 1922, to Bert and Fern Iva (Fogleman) Lease. On Nov. 25, 1941, in Sandusky, he married Winifred Windau, who survives.
Other survivors include: two daughters, Mrs. Mervin (Becky) WIlhelm of Tiffin and Mrs. Thomas (Bobbie) Miller of Bloomville; three sons, Rick, Ron and Ray Lease, all of Tiffin; 18 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren; and a brother, Carl Lease of Toledo.
Also preceding him in death were a son, Roger; a sister, Iva Miller and a grandson, John Wilhelm.
Mr. Lease, a 1939 graduate of Bloomville High School, worked as a dairy farmer all his life.
He was a member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Republic; the Rock Creek Cemetery Board and the Seneca County Farm Bureau.
He was a former member of the Republic Elevator Board and Bloom Grange and served as a former A.S.C. Committeeman.
A Celebration of Life Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Aloysius Catholic Church, with the Rev. Joseph Szybka officiating. Burial will be in Rock Creek Cemetery, Tiffin.
Visitation is 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. today in the Lindsey-Olds Funeral Home, 3085 S. SR 19, Bloomville, where a Christian wake service will be at 4 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Community Hospice Care or the church.
Anna C. Stacklin
Former Attica resident
Anna C. Stacklin, 88, 182 St. Francis Ave., died Monday, June 26, 2000, in St. Francis Home. Visitation will be 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Wednesday in the Hoffmann-Gottfried Funeral Home and services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Attica. Further arrangements are pending.
Frances Sternal
Former hospital employee/restaurant worker
Frances Sternal, 87, 235 E. Market St., died at 3:45 a.m. Thursday, June 22, 2000, at her residence.
She was born April 14, 1913, in Mansfield, to James and Violet (Chevinski) Sternal.
Her friend and caregiver, Helen Krupp, survives in Tiffin.
Miss Sternal, a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church, had worked at the Pines Restaurant and at the former Tiffin State Hospital.
A memorial Mass will be celebrated at a later date. The body has been cremated.
There will be no visitation. The Hannay-Traunero Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Memorials may be made to the church or Calvert Foundation.
Donald A. Nieset
Adult education computer teacher
Donald A. Nieset, 55, died Saturday, June 24, 2000, at his residence on Sandusky CR 223, Fremont.
He was born July 22, 1944, in Fremont to the late Bernard and Lillian (Corneluis) Nieset. His wife, Dorothy (Bernard) Nieset, whom he married July 19, 1969, survives.
Survivors also include: a son, Nicholas Nieset of Fremont; a daughter, Heather Nieset, also of Fremont; a brother, Gerald Nieset of Clyde; and five sisters, Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Karr, Mrs. Vincent (Laurene) Golembiowski, Mrs. Don (Eileen) Leffler and Mrs. Herman (Betty) Raths, all of Clyde and Mrs. Richard (Eulalia) Foos of Georgia.
A brother, Norbert Niese, also is deceased.
Mr. Nieset, a 1963 graduate of St. Joseph High School and a 1989 graduate of Terra Community College, was employed as an adult education computer teacher at the Tech Center.
Also a Jack of All Trades, he was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Fremont and the American Federation of Teachers.
A lifelong Fremont area resident, he also was an avid reader and computer dabbler.
The Rev. Mark Herzog will be the celebrant at the 11 a.m. Thursday funeral Mass in Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Interment will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Clyde.
Visitation will be 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday in the Mitchell-Auxter Funeral Home, Clyde, where a Christian wake service will be at 8:30 p.m.
Memorials may be made to Habitat for Humanity or the Clyde Public Library.
Charles 'Skip' Junior Kline
Area residents father/brother
Charles "Skip" Junior Kline, 78, of 5505 W. Bar S, Tucson, Ariz., died at 2:30 a.m. Saturday, June 24, 2000, at his residence in Pima County.
He was born Oct. 30, 1921, in Tiffin, to Virgil P. and Glenda (Shuff) Kline. On Nov. 21, 1940, in Covington, Ky., he married Louise Covert, who survives.
Other survivors include: a son, Robert C. Kline of Lake Havasu, Ariz.; two daughters, Mrs. Harold (Betty) Whipple of Tiffin and Mrs. Kenneth (Suzette) Hineline of Fremont; five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild; a brother, Donald Kline of New Riegel; and a sister, Mrs. Leonard (Dorothy) Watson of Bascom.
A former Bascom Lions Club member, Mr. Kline retired as a machinist and tool and die maker.
A World War II U.S. Navy veteran, he formerly lived in rural Tiffin, moving to Tucson in 1982.
The Rev. Paul Eichar will be the officiant at the 10:30 a.m. Thursday service in the Turner-Engle Funeral Home. Burial will be in Sand Ridge Cemetery, Bascom.
Visitation will be 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the Nick Watson Fund.