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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1998
James David Daniels
Coinmach employee
James David Daniels, 40, of Bradner, died Monday evening, Dec. 14, 1998, in an automobile accident on Rt. 6 in Wood County. Arrangements are pending at the Hoening Funeral Home, Fostoria.
Major Levi W. Olmstead
Retired Salvation Army officer
Major Levi W. Olmstead, 78, of Belpre, died at 3:35 pm. Sunday, Dec. 13, 1998, in Marietta Memorial Hospital.
He was born Jan. 6, 1920, in West Pittstown, Pa., to Levi William Sr. and Liltas Blanche (Newhart) Olmstead. His parents died when he was a child and he and his brother were sent to the Junior Order of United American Mechanics National Orphans Home in Tiffin, where he graduated in 1937.
His wife, the former Captain Syble Goudy, whom he married Oct. 6, 1952, died Dec. 15, 1992.
Surviving are a daughter, Mary Cathryn Olmstead, at home; and a brother, Wesley Olmstead of Batavia, Ill.
Also preceding him in death were two infant sons and a brother, Chester Olmstead.
Following his graduation from the Junior Home he worked at various jobs including employment on a dairy farm, a cook at an elite hotel in Connecticut, service man and as a clerk in the Library of Congress before enrolling in the Salvation Army School for Officer Training. At one time he had worked at the Salvation Army in Tiffin.
He was commissioned in 1941 and had various appointments in Illinois, Indiana and Missouri and he and his wife later held corps appointments in southwest Ohio, northern New Jersey and Northern New England. They retired from the Portland, Maine, Divisional Headquarters and were assigned to the Marietta Corps as officers 1963-67. After retirement there, they returned to Marietta, where they resided until they moved to Belpre in 1988.
Maj. Olmstead was an active member of the Kiwanis Club and the Boy Scouts of America and in 1960 was appointed as a relationship aid at the National Boy Scout Jamboree in Denver, Colo. He also was a talented musician.
Services are 2 p.m. today at the Salvation Army Hall. Burial will be in East Lawn Memorial Park.
Visitation will be until noon today at the McClure-Schafer Funeral Home, Marietta and at the Salvation Army Hall one hour prior to the service.