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8A OBITUARIES NEWS JOURNAL Thursday, July 4, 2002 Michael M. Conway Splishing and splashing tr Anna M. Hagel Heidecker MANSFIELD Anna M. Hagel Heidecker, 93, formerly of 665 Woodville Road died Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at New Albany Gardens and Care Center in New Albany, Ohio. Mrs.

Heidecker was born September 28, 1908 in Richardton, N.D. Anna and her husband lived on a farm near Werner, N.D. until moving to the Mansfield area in 1954. She worked as a cook at Isaly's and at Roberts Cafeteria. Mrs.

Heidecker was a member of St. Peter's Catholic Church and a member of Hungarian Club in Dickinson, N.D. Anna loved gardening, flowers and crocheting. Surviving are four daughters and sons-in-law, Mildred Twing-ley of Helena Dorothy and Gaylord Barnes of Fort Wayne, Jackie and Milton Yarbor-ough of Lake Dallas, Texas and Delores and Denny Kaye of Columbus; two sons and daughters-in-law, Joseph and Lorraine Heidecker of Dickinson, N.D., and Donald J. and Pauline Heidecker of Mansfield; 15 grandchildren, Evyonne, Elaine, Joey, Keith, Geraldine, Kim, Douglas, David, Michael, Matthew, Cathy, Cheryl, Tony, Shannon and Jimmy; 30 great-grandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Katherine and Clifford Alpert of Dickinson, N.D.; and brother and sister-in-law, Tony and Margaret Hagel of Yakima, Wash.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph and Anna Hagel; her husband, William F. Heidecker in December of 1963; son, Marvin Heidecker; and four brothers and five sisters. Friends may call at the Diamond Street Home of Wappner Funeral Directors on Friday, July 5, 2002 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the funeral home.

Burial will be in Mansfield Catholic Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation. Online guest registry at Z- '3 off Wednesday by sliding down closes part of downtown Tobacco flag at Statehouse angers activists Jana Conway NEW WASHINGTON Jana Conway, 29, of West Main Street died Sunday, June 30, 2002, after an automobile accident west of Lodi. Jana is now born to eternal life. She was born September 21, 1972 in Bucyrus, Ohio, and has lived all of her life in New Washington.

She was a payroll clerk for Mansfield Brass and Aluminum in New Washington. She was a member of St. Bernard Catholic Church in New Washington. She was a graduate of Buckeye Central High School in New Washington. Surviving are her son, Evan Michael Conway; parents, Donald J.

and Irene (Barnett) Heydinger of New Washington; brother, Derrick J. Heydinger of New Washington; grandfather, Harold C. Heydinger of New Washington; several aunts, uncles and cousins. Her husband, Michael M. Conway, was born to eternal life due to the same accident.

Visitation will be Thursday from 24 and 7-9 p.m. at Secor Funeral Home in New Washington. Funeral Mass will be Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Bernard Catholic Church in New Washington, with Fr.

Robert Dendinger officiating. Burial will be at St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery, New Washington. Memorials may be made to Evan's Education Fund. Sheron Kay Heydinger NEW WASHINGTON Sheron Kay Heydinger, 52, of West Main Street died Sunday, June 30, 2002, after an automobile accident in Homer Township, Medina County.

She was born Jan. 18, 1950 in Willard, where she lived most of her life. She was an employee at Home Savings Loan in Willard. She was a member of First United Methodist Church in Willard, where she was in the church choir. Surviving are her husband, Larry J.

Heydinger; son, Chad Keaton of Bucyrus; parents, George and Joyce (Kochel) Yacob of Willard; sister and brother-in-law, Rhonda and Tom Grama of Newark; and three nieces. Visitation will be Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Secor Funeral Home in New Washington, where the funeral service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. with the Rev. Ken Gifford officiating.

Burial will be at St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery in New Washington. Memorials may be made to Evan Conway's Education Fund or to First United Methodist Church in Willard. Valerie B. Matusik FREDERICKTOWN Valerie B.

Matusik, 53, died July 3, 2002, after a long illness. She was born on May 27, 1949 in Knox County to Bill and Shirley (Ackerman) Burgett. Valerie taught school for 12 years and for the past 16 years has worked at her family owned business, Kokosing Construction Company, Inc. She was a member of the Waterford United Methodist Church where she served as administrative council chair, played the piano and enjoyed singing in the choir. She served on the boards of Knox County United Way, Knox County Habitat for Humanity and the Mount Vernon YMCA.

She is survived by her husband James Matusik of Fredericktown, two daughters Michelle and Renee Matusik, a sister Marsha (Dean) Rinehart, two brothers Brian (Carol) Burgett and Barth (Sarah) Burgett, a sister-in-law, Janenne Burgett, and 18 nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a brother Brad Burgett. The calling hours will be Friday July 5th from 2-4 pm and 6-8 pm at the Kokosing Training Center, 125 Mount Vernon Avenue, Fredericktown. The family will hold a private interment service at North Fork Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made in lieu of flowers to the Waterford United Methodist Church Family Life Center co Kay Hines 156 Elm Street, Mt.

Gilead, Ohio 43338-1315. The Snyder Funeral Home, Fredericktown is assisting the family with arrangements. This obituary and guest registry are online at www.snyderfuneral-homes.com. Pauline E. Scott GALION Pauline E.

Scott, 81, of 331 Sixth Apt. 601, died Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at Altercare of Bucyrus after a king illness. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 6, 2002, conducted by the Rev. Marlyn C.

Busdcker. Burial in Iberia Cemetery Calling hours 7 to 9 m. Friday at Richardson-Davis Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to Home Care Connection, 401 Harding Way West, Galion 44833 or Bucyrus Kidney Dialysis Center, 701 Tiffin Bucyrus 44820. NEW WASHINGTON Michael M.

Conway, 32, of West Main Street died Sunday, June 30, 2002, after an automobile accident west of LodL Michael is now born to eternal life. He was born May 18, 1970 in Omaha, moved to Willard in 1976 where he lived until 1995, when he then married Jana Hey-dinger and moved to New Washington. He graduated from Willard High School in 1988 and from Creighton University in Omaha, in 1992, with a major in marketing. He was a claims adjuster for Ohio Mutual Insurance Co. in Bucyrus.

Michael was a member of St. Bernard Catholic Church in New Washington. He was a member of Elks Lodge. Surviving are his son, Evan Michael Conway; parents, Michael E. and Gloria J.

(Brincks) Conway of New Washington; brother, Thomas J. Conway of Mason, sister, Kathleen D. Bugajski of Leroy, N.Y.; and grandfather, Louis H. Brincks of Winter Park, Fla. His wife, Jane Heydinger Conway, was born to eternal life due to the same accident.

Visitation will be Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Secor Funeral Home in New Washington. Funeral Mass will be Friday at 10 a.m. at St. Bernard Catholic Church in New Washington, with Fr.

Robert Dendinger officiating. Burial will be at St. Bernard Catholic Cemetery, New Washington. Memorials may be made to Evan's Education Fund. Reid Maurice Pittenger CRESTLINE Reid Maurice Pittenger, 98, of 1018 N.

Park Road died Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at Village Care Center, Galion after a brief illness. He was born April 24, 1904 Richland County, Ohio to the late Sherman W. and Dora G. (Creveling) Pittenger, on homestead land that had been continuously in the PITTENGER Pittenger family for five generations. He was country schooled in the one-room Ganges schoolhouse and at Bunker Hill School.

He graduated from Shelby High School. Mr. Pittenger was associated for 40 years with Ohio Steel Tube Division of Copperweld Steel Company in Shelby, beginning his career there as a mill worker. He retired as president of the Shelby Division. He served on the board of directors of Copper-weld Steel Corporation, and was a member of American Iron and Steel Institute and numerous steel-related organizations.

Active in civic affairs, he was a board member of First National Bank in Shelby, a member of the board of directors of Crestline Memorial Hospital and served three terms on city council. He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Crestline, a member of of Msgr. Leo W. Frye Council, Crestline, Fourth Degree of Pope John XXIII Council, Bucyrus, Crestline Chamber of Commerce, BPOE 1191, Galion and Galion Country Club.

He married his first wife, Mary Agnes (Holzbach) Pittenger, on Jan. 12, 1935 and she preceded him in death Aug. 7, 1984. He is survived by his second wife, Doris Hartman Corman Pittenger, whom he married April 19, 1985. He is also survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Jane and James Miller, Louise and Patrick Murray, both of Huron; stepdaughter and step-son-in-law, Dolores and James Cass, Galion; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, two brothers and three sisters. Friends may call from 2-5 p.m. with Vigil Services being held at 5 p.m. Friday, July 5, 2002 at Mark A. Schneider Funeral Home, Crestline.

Mass of the Resurrection will be at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Crestline at 10 a.m. Saturday, July 6, 2002 with the Rev. Frederick Schill officiating. Burial will be in St.

Joseph's Cemetery, Crestline. Memorial contributions may be made to Crestline Shunk Museum, 211 N. Thoman Crestline OH 44827 or to St. Joseph's Catholic Church, 331 N. Thoman Crestline OH 44827.

Richard P. Johnson ASHLAND Richard P. Johnson, 72, died early Wednesday morning, July 3, 2002, at The Good Shepherd Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Denbow-IYimm Ke-mery Funeral Home. Olivia Simmons, 4, cools home.

(AP photo) Utility fire Power out to several traffic lights, buildings News Journal staff report MANSFIELD A utility vault fire under Park Avenue West closed a portion of downtown Wednesday afternoon. "We had a report of smoke coming out of the manhole and sent a crew down to check it," said Glen Kramer area manager for Ohio Edison. "As they Enter Bicentennial Commission: www.ohio200.orgobc fourth-generation tobacco farmer and president of the Brown County Agricultural Society. "It's a legal product. If some people think that flying a tobacco flag over the Statehouse is a protest, well, I guess you can look at it that way.

They got a right to their opinion." Al Rhonemus, president of the Brown County Historical Society, said the tobacco flag is a symbol "that we're fighting for our livelihood down here." Ed Cruttenden, director of the state Agriculture Department's tobacco office, said the flag "is a statement that they need some focus on the problems down there. Right now, their whole way of life is on the verge of coming apart at the seams." "But they said we want you to double your personnel, because we're going to have a lot of work to do to study the new vaccines that come along." The pediatric hospital, where Dr. Albert Sabin invented his oral polio vaccine, has been studying vaccines for many years. In 1994, the hospital became one of five NIH-designated Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units and received a grant of $12 million over seven years. There are now seven of the vaccine units around the country.

The centers have conducted vaccine clinical trials in a vari IS37 car while he wat getting a got can for women to help her get her car started. The billfold had 1 8 in according to police reports. Cook Road toptitl Church, 54 I. Cook Road, Mansfield A man associated with the church reported Wednesday mot two guitars worth total of $1,989 were stolen from the church. The instruments, which hod been tent to him for 1 GEORGETOWN, Ohio (AP) A county's flag that features a burley tobacco plant will fly at the Statehouse during Ohio's bicentennial next year, upsetting smoking opponents.

Brown County's flag heralding its tobacco-growing history along the Ohio River will fly at the Statehouse along with flags from Ohio's other 87 counties. That upsets smoking opponents. "Those people have tricked Ohio into saying it's proud of a crop that has killed millions of people. They ought to be ashamed," said John F. Banzhaf III, executive director of ASH, a national anti-smoking group.

"If they can do that, why not fly a flag with a marijuana plant, or something with a bottle of gin on it?" he said. Tobacco backers said smoking is legal, and Brown County has a right to select its own flag. "We aren't bootlegging or growing marijuana and cocaine," said Orville Whalen, a a water slide at her Ashland Walnut streets and Ohio Edison cut power to that section of downtown so firefighters could access the vault and transformer. Several buildings were to be without power into the evening as another transformer was shipped from Marion and installed, Kramer said. The Mansfield Police Department expected traffic lights to be out most of the evening on Park Avenue West at the Mulberry, North Walnut and North Main street intersections.

Freedom Festival Schedule (All events today) 7 am: Pancake breakfast fly-in 1 1 a.m.: Car-show registration Noon: Grand opening featuring Misty Blues Skydiving team, Static Display and Wings of Valor exhibit opens. Kids rides open 12:20 p.m.: Stage opens with Johnny Porrazzo as MC 12:40 p.m.: 4 Like One concert 1 p.m.: Pure Country Dance Team 1:40 p.m.: Miss Ohio and Miss Mansfield Show 2 p.m.: Samantha Maxwell Show 2:30 p.m.: Johnny Porrazzo Show 3 p.m.: Start of air show: 179th Air Lift Group C1 30 Cargo Drop, Misty Blue Precision Girls Skydiving Team, Star and Stripes Aerobatics Team, Pepsi Skywriter, F-15 Demo Team 4 p.m.: Kids Games 5 p.m.: Ed Jonnet and The All Stars 6 p.m.: Presentation of the National Colors followed by car-show awards 6:30 p.m.: 4 Like One 7 p.m. Pure Country Dance Team 7:40 p.m.: Samantha Maxwell 8:30 p.m.: H.R. Gam 9:40 p.m.: Pepsi Skywriter 10 p.m. Freedom Festival Salute to America fireworks display Note: Free bus rides will be provided by Richland County Transit to and from Freedom Festival leaving from in front of the City Building in downtown Mansfield every 30 minutes from 11:30 a.m.

to 7:00 p.m. Last bus from the airport wi leave at 7:15 p.m. sion June 27 after receiving a report of pedestrians near the city park who seemed to be intoxicated. Suspected cocaine was found in a von owned by a 50-year-old Willard man. The substance was be forwarded to a crime lob for onalysis.

The 50-yeor-old was orrested on charges of disorderly conductintoxication ond drug possession. A 49 year-old Morv roeville mon was orrested on chorges of drug possession ond physical control of motor vehicle. The News Journal don not idem. fy people charged with misdemeanor offenses the Emergency Calls. Thit a fairness issue retoted to me large number of mc idenfi (hat we cannot report in me wide peo-graph yto being covered Ood-nj ore identified through subsequent court istings.

went into the hole, the flames began to come up, so they backed out and called the fire department." The fire department responded around 3 p.m. and found a fire in the vault, beneath the street at the North Walnut Street intersection, according to Assistant Fire Chief John Harsch. Downtown power is provided from power lines beneath the street instead of utility poles. The street was closed between North Main and North Al Rhonemus, president of the Brown County Historical Society, unfolds the Brown County flag at the Brown County Fairgrounds on June 29 In Georgetown, Ohio. The flag heralding Brown County's tobacco-growing history will fly at the Statehouse along with flags from Ohio's other 87 counties next year, upsetting smoking opponents.

(AP photo) Lee Yoakum, a spokesman for the Ohio Bicentennial Commission, said the choice of a flag was up to each county. "There's no way we can stop it now, because we accepted it," he said. ety of populations through the years, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Tuesday. "More recently, part of this network's mission has been to evaluate vaccines against possible agents of bioterrorism," he said.

After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the network began a mul-ticenter clinical trial of 660 adult patients to evaulate the feasibility of diluting existing smallpox vaccine. The Cincinnati hospital and researchers at UCLA will soon conduct a similar study for children. church use, were gone by Sunday, according to reports. Malabar Middle School, Mansfield Two boys were token to MedCentralMansfield Hospital for treatment of minor injuries after they got into a fight at the school around 8 Wednesday.

The 13-year-old told police he got angry at the 1 4 yeor-old because of on incident in the classroom. He followed the older boy into the bathroom and began pushing him. The 14 year-old admitted getting ongry and punching the younger boy in the face Bom were charged with disorderly con-dud. Woodbine Street at High Street, Willard Willard pol.ee arrested two men for cocaine posses Hospital pursues vaccine study CINCINNATI (AP) Children's Hospital Medical Center has received a five-year, $21.7 million federal grant for vaccine study as part of a national effort to improve defenses against bioterrorism, the hospital said. The grant from a unit of the National Institutes of Health will be used to expand the hospital's study of vaccines especially those for smallpox and viruses that might be used as weapons.

"In our budget, we originally asked for about the same amount we already were receiving," said Dr. David Bernstein, director of the hospital's division of infectious diseases. Police 500 block of Woodville toad, Mansfield The mother of 13-yearold boy who ran away from Downs Hall on June 24 told police Wednesday Ihe boy apparently broke into her home Sunday night or Monday morning by kicking in a north basement door. The boy, who has been mining since he ran away from ihe Children Services-operated facility, removed hit perjonol items from hn mother home, according to police report. Jones Automotive, West Longvtew Avenue, Mansfield A 38yeorold mon reported Wednesday morning lomeone Hole hit bllUd, which he'd left inside.