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Lancaster Eagle-Gazette, Saturday, January 4, 1997A5 OBITUARIES ON THIS DAY Karen Hayes dence. He is survived locally by a daughter and son-in-law, Vickie and Jerrold S. Dcrr; and grandson, Aaron Snyder, all of Lancaster. Funeral service was Dec. 26 at Law-Baker Funeral Home, Utica.

elected Walnut Township Board of Education president. Fred Gerling was named vice president. A breaking and entering at Hickle's department store, 140 W. Main resulted in the theft of eight radios, several sets of luggage and money from cash registers for a loss of more than $330. 40 YEARS AGO The Fairfield County Board of Elections named James S.

Peterson of Bremen clerk and Willam C. Dagger of Lancaster a board member. Burglars opened safes at A.B. Van Gundy Co. general building contractors; Fairfield Paint and Oil; and Dinsmore Buick all on Lincoln LOOKING BACK 10 YEARS AGO The American Business Women's Association local chapter held its meeting at the local Holiday Inn, where it presented gilts to The Lighthouse, a local shelter.

Bremcn-Rushcreek Fire Department promotions included Richard Campbell and Robert Suer to lieutenant and Lt. Joe Westenbarger to captain. 20 YEARS AGO Raymond Young became one of the youngest school board presidents in the state after he was elected Lancaster Board of Education president. Joseph Campbell was named Carroll Village Council president, replacing Marsh Cotner. 30 YEARS AGO Chester Hempleman was re- TODAY IN HISTORY The Associated Press Beatrice Bcntz Beatrice A.

Bentz, 86, Lancaster, passed away Thursday, Jan. 2, I W7, at Mount Carmel East Hospital, Columbus. She was retired from the decorating department of Lancaster Glass Corp. and a member of First Methodist Church and Friendly 60s. She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Charles and Phyllis Bent, of Lancaster and Paul and Ruth Bcntz of Sugar Grove; daughters, Peggy Elkins and Gail Ward, both of Lancaster; two sis-lei's, Bernice Meeks of Athens and Dorothy Duecker of Wooster; and nine grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ward Bentz; parents, Charles and Addie Randolph; four brothers; and six sisters. Funeral service will be at 11:30 a.m. Monday at Sheridan Funeral Home, with the Rev. Melvin Truex officiating. Burial will be in Bentz Cemetery, Meigs County.

Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. grandchildren; and sisters, Jean (Emery) Hendon of Mingo Junction and Lois (Jack) Coe of Mount Vernon. Friends may visit from 3 to 8 p.m.

today at Dwayne R. Spence Funeral Home, Canal Winchester, where funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, with Pastor Craig Jones officiating. Interment will be in Union Grove Cemetery. Friends who wish may contribute to Peace United Methodist Church Building Fund, 122 W.

Church Pickerington 43147, in Ted's memory. Constance Probasco-Thompson Constance Probasco-Thompson, 73, Gahanna, formerly of Lancaster, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1997, at Mount Carmel East Hospital. Additional survivors include sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, Quentin and JoAnn Hargus, Jayne Maynard, Bonnie Probasco and Dorothy Probasco; and special friends, Dorothy Everhart and Clara Haley, all of Lancaster. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Franklin Probasco.

Funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Halteman-Fett Dyer Funeral Home. Burial will be in Floral Hills Memory Gardens. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m.

Sunday at the funeral home. There will be a memorial service at Sugar Grove United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. Sunday for Karen Morris Hayes. Karen entered heaven Dec. 18, 1996, and her body was put to rest Dec.

23 in Georgia Karen was the daughter of Ralph Morris of Sugar Grove and Nancy Morris of Columbus. Her family wishes to extend an invitation to all those who knew and loved Karen to come to the church and be a part of this tribute to Karen's life. Theodore Kohler Theodore E. "Ted" Kohler, 80, Canal Winchester, passed away Friday, Jan. 3, 1997, at Heritage Manor Nursing Facility, Findlay.

A retired farmer, he was a 1933 graduate of Groveport High School and a 1937 graduate of The Ohio State University. He was a member of Peace United Methodist Church, American Guernsey Cattle Club, Farm Bureau and Alpha Gamma Rho Fraternity. He is survived by his wife, Mary Kohler of Canal Winchester; daughter, Kay (William) Kose of Rawson; sons, Ronald (Gretchen) Kohler of Canal Winchester and Lee F. Kohler of Baltimore; 13 grandchildren and three great can claim Social Security o. Today is Saturday, Jan.

4, the fourth day of 1997. There are 361 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 4, 1896, Utah was admitted as the 45th state. On this date: In 1809, Louis Braille, inventor of a reading system for the blind, was born in Coupvray, France.

In 1821, the first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, Md. In 1885, Dr. William W. Grant of Davenport, Iowa, performed what's believed to have been the first appendectomy, on Mary Gartside, 22. In 1948, Britain granted independence to Burma.

In 1951, during the Korean War, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured Seoul. In 1960, French author Albert Camus died in an automobile accident at age 46. In 1965, President Johnson outlined the goals of his "Great Society" in his State of the Union Address. In 1965, poet T.S. Eliot died in London at age 76.

In 1974, President Nixon refused to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. In 1990, Charles Stuart, who claimed to have been wounded and his wife shot dead by a black robber, leapt to his death off a Boston Harbor bridge after he himself became a suspect. In 1995, the 104th Congress Wanda Eslinger Wanda M. Stout Eslinger, 63, Lancaster, died Friday, Jan. 3, 1997, at Fairfield Medical Center.

She was a former employee of Essex Wire. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Brenda Eslinger, grandson, Eric J. Eslinger; sister, Mary K. Freeman; brother and sister-in-law, Carl "Pete" and Anna Mary Stout; sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Evans and Katherine Eslinger; brother-in-law, Thomas Eslinger, all of Lancaster; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles H.

Eslinger father, Carl Stout; parents, Charles and Pearl Lindsay; and granddaughter, Ericka Marie Eslinger. Funeral service will be at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home chapel, with Lt. Richard Wallace of The Salvation Army officiating.

Burial will follow in Forest Rose Cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today and 2 to 4 and 7. to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

Ex-spouses DEAR BRUCE: When my ex-husband of 20 years started getting his union pension, he remarked that I was to get nothing, and he said his Social Security wasn't enough to share with me or his first wife. I would like to know, since I was married to him when he was getting the pension, why I don't get some of it? D.G.W., Gibson City, 111. DEAR D.G.W.: First of all, if you were married to your ex for 10 years or more, you have every right to claim against his earnings for Social Security benefits. You must first, however, make up a claim against your earnings. If they do not reach a certain bene-, fit level, then you'll receive a benefit against his (as can his first wife if she was married to him for 10 years or more).

As to his pension: What interest, if any, the ex-spouse will have in that money generally is addressed during the divorce. If it wasn't addressed then, I suspect you are out of luck. DEAR BRUCE: I read in your Internal Medicine Pickaway Troy "Edwards, DO Health ard Jiams, DO Services Arnold Tatmtr, DO James Sammons, DO Ollic Conlcy Ollie Conley, 74, Homer, passed away Dec. 22, 1996, at his resi- Passing scene Wesley Addy NEW YORK (AP) Wesley Addy, whose acting career ran the gamut from the classics of Shakespeare to Broadway, Hollywood and television soap operas, died Tuesday. He was 83.

Addy launched his stage career with his 1935 appearance beside Orson Welles in Archibald MacLeish's "Panic." His Shakespearean roles included a stint as Benvolio in "Romeo and Juliet," alongside Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Addy spent most of the 1940s and 50s on Broadway, playing leading roles in the Jed Harris production of "The Traitor," by Herman Wouk, "Another Part of the Forest," by Lillian Hellman, and Louis Callhern's "King Lear." Sam Narron MIDDLESEX, N.C. (AP) Sam Narron, a baseball catcher whose major league career spanned 3 1 years, died Tuesday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. experts (and I don't classify my- self as one), share my point of view.

May I draw an analogy? People used to race out to buy insurance because they were jumping on an airplane. That also was, in my judgment, foolish. If you need insurance, then you need insurance on an airplane, on a bus, or sitting in your kitchen. The same thing is true of health insurance. If you need additional health insurance, and it's available, then purchase it.

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34680. E-mail to: bethlil.gte.net. Questions of general interest will be answered in future columns. Owing to the volume of mail, personal replies cannot be provided. Bruce Williams Syndicated columnist column that you didn't recommend buying specialty insurance policies.

I'd like to know why. My husband and I have health insurance and also a cancer policy. With the high cost of cancer treatments, the policy seems like a good bet to us. C.H., St. Paul, Kan.

DEAR C.H.: While I have never, ever suggested that proper insurance is not a good idea, I do feel that buying specific disease insurance barring some special circumstances is not wise. I would prefer to buy additional health coverage that would cover any disease, rather than one specific one. As a practical proposition, I think that if you research this subject you will find that most convened, the first entirely under Republican control since Eisenhower era. Newt Gingrich was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ten years ago: Sixteen people were killed when an Am-trak train bound from Washington to Boston collided with Conrail engines approaching from a side track in Chase, Md.

Five years ago: President Bush, visiting Singapore as part of a Pacific trade tour, announced plans to shift the Navy logistics command that was being evicted from the Philippines to Singapore. One year ago: Bowing to pressure from NATO and the United States, Bosnian Serbs freed 16 civilians who had entered Serb-held territory after NATO forces had declared roads in Bosnia open to all. Today's Birthdays: Actress Jane Wyman is 83. Actress Barbara Rush is 70. Football coach Don Shula is 67.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Floyd Patterson is 62. Actress Dyan Cannon is 60. Opera singer Grace Bumbry is 60. Maureen Reagan is 56. Country singer Kathy Forester (The Forester Sisters) is 42.

Rock musician Bernard Sumner (New Order) is 41. Country singer Patty Loveless is 40. Rock singer Michael Stipe (R.E.M.) is 37. Actor Dave Foley is 34. Tennis player Guy Forget is 32.

Country singer Deana Carter is 31. Actor Jeremy Licht is 26. Thought for Today: "Sometimes history takes things into its own hands." Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1908-1993). Dr.

Ron Beal i is happy to announce the addition of Dr. Karen Heilman to his Optometric practice at 1611 Tiki Lane in Lancaster Dr. Heilman graduated from Cornell University in 1991 with a degree in mathematics. In 1995, she received her Doctor of Optometry and Master's Degree in Physiological Optics from the Ohio State University College of Optometry. Most recently, she has completed a residency in ocular disease at the Cincinnati Eye Institute.

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