Margaret June (Matheny) Cole, 93, died on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 1:04 a.m. at the Mennonite Memorial Home, Bluffton.
She was born on October 9, 1920 in Monongalia County, W.Va. to Charles and Sarah (Phillips) Matheny and they preceded her in death. On April 16, 1938 she married James Cole and he survives in Ada.
Margaret worked at Westinghouse Corp. of Lima. She helped her husband with Cole's Service Station in Alger. They lived in South Carolina for 22 years, where they owned and managed rental property.
She was active in church service in various ways; as treasurer, Sunday School teacher, and in Women's Missionary Group.
Johnny A. Pierce, Sr. age 67, died on Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 6:18 p.m. at his residence in Ada.
He was born on March 6, 1947, in Ross County, Ohio to Earl and Florence (Rhinehart) Pierce and they preceded him in death.
He is survived by a son, Johnny Pierce, Jr. of Findlay; three daughters, Jill Pierce of Ada, Jody (Rusty) Miller of Marysville and Joy Pierce of Hilliard; eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren; four sisters: Rowenna (Gene) Harrell of Chillicothe, Delcia Wright of Marysville, Clara Thomas of Chillicothe and Kathry Cress of Cumberland, Ky. He was preceded in death by numerous brothers and sisters.
Michael Harnishfeger, Ada police chief, provided the Icon with the Ada police call logs from April 7 to April 13. They are in the two attachments at the bottom of this story.
By Darlene Bowers
“If I retired, I’d have a weed-free yard,” exclaims Mark Shull, whose dentistry practice has been a part of Main Street in Ada since 1962.
Mark has absolutely no plans to retire, though. Ask him how he got started in dentistry and he laughs and then relates the events. “Well my birthday is on Halloween so I started school at age 5 and then entered college at age 17.”
Mark began as a pre-pharmacy student at Capital University in Bexley, Ohio, but after the first semester decided he was then terrible at math so he changed to pre-med with a chemistry minor.
