LOST CLASSMATES
IF YOU KNOW THE ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER, E-MAIL ADDRESS OR A RELATIVE OF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING 93 MISSING CLASSMATES, PLEASE SEND THE INFORMATION TO: prunevitch@aol.com
OR MAIL TO: DENISE RUNEVITCH, 365 WALLACE DR., BEREA, OH 44017
SPOUSES' NAMES AND LAST KNOWN CITY/STATE OF RESIDENCE ARE LISTED, IF KNOWN:
Christine Antes (Louisville, KY)
Alexander Barbato (Cleveland, OH)
Joseph Barbato (Maple Hts., OH)
Sandra Bina Montgomery (Don) (South Euclid, OH)
Debra Bozek Eagleson (Maple Hts., OH)
Kathy Chaloupka Caldwell (Reading, MI)
Robert Colbert (Maple Hts., OH)
Pamela Collins Lawson (Tom) (Maple Hts., OH)
Barbara Conrad (Grand Rapids, MI)
David Dacek (Maple Hts., OH)
Laurie Davis Wojtowicz (Maple Hts., OH)
Jerome Dozier (Maple Hts., OH)
Marlene Dozier (Maple Hts., OH)
James Drodouski
David Dzina (Maple Hts., OH)
Gerald (Rich) Fife (North Olmsted, OH)
Gayle Fitzgerald (Tampa Bay, FL)
Robert Fox (Maple Hts., OH)
Margaret Galbraith (Maple Hts., OH)
Frank Geletka (Pompano Beach, FL)
Donald Glinski (Cleveland, OH)
Gary Goetz (Shreveport, LA)
Chester Hejduk (Bedford Hts., OH)
Jeff Hoyt
Jeff Hruby
Richard Jambor (Parma, OH)
Tom (Fig) Jankowski (Bridget) (Cuyahoga Falls, OH)
Jacque Joyce Ferri (Garfield Hts., OH)
Marcia Juszkiewicz (Phoenix, AZ)
Michael Kalman (Independence, OH)
Janet Karius (Scottsdale, AZ)
John Kaszletan (Maple Hts., OH)
Linda Kelnhoffer Covington (Maple Hts., OH)
Robert Koubek (Streetsboro, OH)
Mark Kowalski (Maple Hts., OH)
Janet Ludlam Biering (Richard) (Seven Hills, OH)
Florence Mann (Garfield Hts., OH)
John Mauer (Aurora, OH)
Rick McAteer (Mentor, OH)
Dennis Miller (Solon, OH)
Dennis Maran or Moran (Gamaliel, AR)
Kathy Niemeier Goldstein (Morris) (San Francisco, CA)
Pat O'Hara (Maple Hts., OH)
Ray Orefice, Jr. (Suzanne) (Parma, OH)
Pat Osicka Nacht (Steve) (Las Vegas, NV)
Rose Pagliaro Cabot (Garfield Hts., OH)
Robert Palmer (Barbara) (Solon)
Bob Perdue (Maple Hts., OH)
Tom Petro (Jane) (Mantua, OH)
Cheryl Pientowski DeMichele (Maple Hts., OH)
Paula Reese Cerveny (Sagamore Hills, OH)
Chris Rusian (Maple Hts., OH)
Ed Rybak (Elaine) (Portland, OR)
Lance Sandy (Garfield Hts., OH)
Joe Santora (Marsha) (Aurora, OH)
Veeta Shipp (Maple Hts., OH)
Raymond Smith (Maple Hts., OH)
Charles Sroka (Maple Hts., OH)
Tom Stalzer (Maple Hts., OH)
Gerard Stipetich (Maple Hts., OH)
Terry Sukey Burch (Orville) (Mars, PA)
Pam Tatonetti (Maple Hts., OH)
Bob Thielman (Friendswood, TX)
Charles Toth (Maple Hts., OH)
Michele Valentino Snyder (Bedford Hts., OH)
Carol Vanek (Maple Hts., OH)
Richard Vaughan (Parma Hts., OH)
Bruce Verlinger (Barbara) (Garfield Hts. or Independence, OH)
Tonie Volk (Maple Hts., OH)
Daniel Watowicz (Cleveland, OH)
Fred Watson (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Terry White (Maple Hts., OH)
Dennis Wilk (Maple Hts., OH)
Jay Word (Maple Hts., OH)
Linda Worthington (Maple Hts., OH)
Marsha Wroniak Steele (David) (Blytheville AFB, AR)
Sharon Zelodec Jareb (Middlefield, OH)
Thomas Zgonc (Stow, OH)
IN MEMORY
We would like to pay tribute to our deceased classmates on this website and at the reunion. Please submit to prunevitch@aol.comany information you may have, such as how and when they died, cause of death, cemetery location, etc. Anything you might know would be helpful, since Richard Yahraus has kindly offered to follow up on any leads provided, so we can remember those classmates who are no longer with us. You may also submit details about their lives or family to be posted on the biographical page of this website. Their lives were important and their memory should be kept alive here, among their former classmates.
Scott Alston
Allen Burns
Doreen Cornell
Tom Davis
Joseph Fortunato
Gary Gatskie
Franklin Hruby (06/2002)
Janice Jindra Pasternak
Donald Kocsis-Marrs (08/19/2008)
Rick Kozma
Raymond Mattie
Marteenus McAfee
Marcia Mildenberger Papczun (04/20/2008)
Dennis Moran
Karen Walsh Reville
Dale Witkowski
Roy Woodworth
OBITUARY
Thanks to classmate Joe Klamar for submitting the following obituary for a former teacher from West Junior High School:
Posted on Wed, Apr. 27, 2005, Akron Beacon Journal
Forrest A. Merriam
Forrest A. Merriam was the beloved husband of Frances K.; loving father of Forrest David Merriam (Susan) and Krista Merriam New (Jeff); loving grandfather of Carolyn Rose Merriam and Allison Grace New; dearest son of Forrest H. Merriam and the late Becky; brother of Susan Marie Curkendall (Tom) and the late David H. Merriam; dear uncle of five.
Forrest coached and taught at Maple Heights, West Junior High, Painesville Harvey High School, and Woodridge High School, where he was the former athletic director. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials in his name to either the Woodridge Foundation Board/Office, 4411 Quick Rd., Peninsula, Ohio 44264, or the United Methodist Church of Macedonia. Friends may call at the FERFOLIA FUNERAL HOME, 356 W. AURORA RD. (ROUTE 82), SAGAMORE HILLS, FOR VISITATION WEDNESDAY, 5 to 8 p.m. Graveside services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at Riverside Cemetery in Painesville. Memorial services will follow at the United Methodist Church of Macedonia, 1280 E. Aurora Rd., Macedonia, Thursday at 11:30 a.m., with a reception following. Please sign the guestbook atwww.ohio.com/obituaries.
Posted on Wed, Apr. 27, 2005
Woodridge High loses quiet leader Memorial garden planned at stadium for teacher
By Marilyn Miller, Akron Beacon Journal staff writer
Forrest A. Merriam was a quiet leader. And his idea of having a good time was to do something for someone else. Mr. Merriam, 62, had planned to retire from Woodridge High School in the next five weeks and wrap up a 31-year teaching career. But he died Sunday of a heart attack. His family said Mr. Merriam had been fighting cancer, undergoing chemotherapy for the past six weeks, and was working out at the time of his death. The high-energy math teacher and former athletic director at Woodridge High attended every sporting event, play and concert to support his students. He was also the golf coach and a former assistant football and track coach. For the past five years, he ran the vocational program, finding jobs for students and teaching them how to get jobs. Seniors at the school plan to start a memorial garden for Mr. Merriam at the football stadium.
Mr. Merriam was born in Painesville, where he met his future wife in junior high school. "We just knew from the beginning we would marry. It was a done deal,'' said Frances, his wife of 41 years. "We married the weekend after I finished my student teaching."
The couple have two children, two grandchildren and two more grandchildren on the way. Mr. Merriam also taught and coached in Maple Heights and Painesville, then left teaching for 10 years to run a sporting goods business. "He came back to teaching because he missed being with the kids. He was so into the kids,'' said his wife. "When he went back to teaching, he said, `I may not make a lot of money, but I'm doing what I love.' He enjoyed it even more the second time around.' 'He picked up a nickname in college. When he was introduced as Forrest, his football teammates at Ohio Northern University took one look at him and renamed him Woody. The name stuck. He was a linebacker and still holds Ohio Northern's varsity record for the most tackles. Family and friends said he wouldn't want anyone to make a fuss over him, even in death. "You followed him because you admired him,'' his wife said. "He never stood up and said he was your leader, you just knew it. "He was selfless, always taking pleasure in everyone's else's success.
Co-worker Cindy Dilley of Kent said: "He was Woody from Woodridge... he played such an important role here at the school. He was a caring person, someone the kids and the teachers could depend on and always seemed to say just the right thing.''
Phil Hatton, Woodridge High's principal, said Mr. Merriam was the first person he met when he came to the school five years ago. "He was a steady guy, very dependable. He never missed school, he was a hard worker, conscientious and very diplomatic -- he did his best to please everyone,'' Hatton said. "He was a quiet, gentle man, very patient with his students, with a great sense of humor.''
Dilley said Mr. Merriam was proud at Woodridge teacher meetings to sit next to his daughter, who also taught in the district but in a different building. "He was considerate of people and always there to help if something wasn't going right in your life,'' Dilley said. "In all my 24 years at Woodridge, we have never had a faculty member die. If he were here, he would be the one helping us through this.''
Marilyn Miller can be reached at 330-996-3098 or 800-777-7232 or mmiller@thebeaconjournal.com The full article will be available on the Web for a limited time: http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/obituaries/11499745.htm
c) 2005 Beacon Journal and wire service sources. All Rights Reserved.
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