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- Mrs. [Opal] Cretora MIARS, 83,
of 105 Morgan St., died Sunday, March 12, at
- the Edgerton Memorial Hospital.
- Mrs. MIARS was born Aug. 2,
1905 in Jackson Center, Ohio, the daughter of John
- and Ilea (HUGHES) LEININGER.
She married Granville J. MIARS in 1925. He died in 1958.
She was a member of the Jackson Center Seventh Day Baptist Church,
Women's Circle of the Milton Seventh Day Baptist Church and a
guide at the Milton House for many years. She was also a cook
at Camp Wakonda.
- Mrs. MIARS is survived by four
daughters, Mrs. Ilou (Don) SANFORD of Milton,
- Mrs. Joy (Sandford) COLE of
West Caldwell, N.J., Mrs. Carol (Neil) AIKEN of Burlington,
and Mrs. Mary (Keith) BURDICK of Sanger, Texas; 14 grandchildren;
five great-grandchildren; one brother, Hyatt LEININGER
of Jackson Center, Ohio; one son-in-law, K. Spencer HOWARD
of Milton. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Mrs. Adeline
Lee HOWARD.
- Memorial services will be held tonight,
March 16, at 7 p.m. at the Milton Seventh Day
- Baptist Church. Burial will be at a
later date in the Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Jackson Center,
Ohio. Albrecht Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
[Thursday edition, p. 24]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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