Glenna Hover Kriewald passed away peacefully Feb. 19, 2019. She was born to Scot and Martha Hover near West Newton, Ohio, on Dec. 15, 1931. She graduated in 1949 from Harrod High School. She earned a nursing degree from Lima Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1953.
Glenna married Don Smith of Harrod, Ohio. They spent several years working in the Quaker City area in southern Ohio. In 1960, they moved to Mesa, Arizona. Don was a prison guard near Florence and Glenna was a surgical nurse for an eye doctor.
ADDED AT 9:50 A.M. - ADA PUBLIC LIBRARY CLOSED - NO POWER.
Major electrical power outages are causing disruptions in Ada this morning (Monday, Feb. 25).
Portions of the village are without power and late Sunday evening power lines were down on the 500 block of East Lincoln. Those lines have since been secured but power was not able to be restored until the winds subsided, according to a Facebook announcement by the Ada police department.
Ada schools are closed due to lack of power. In addition, the following message was released by the village at 8:39 a.m.:
News - Village office phones affected by power outage
High winds causing power outages in Ada has affected the Ada schools. At 5:45 a.m., according to Ohio Alerts, Ada cancelled school because the power is out.
The Ohio Northern University Wind Orchestra will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28, in the Freed Center for the Performing Arts. Music Director Antoine T. Clark will conduct a program titled “British Wind Band Classics,” featuring works by William Walton, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Gustav Holst, Gordon Jacob and Percy Grainger. Erin Helgeson Torres, flute instructor at ONU, will feature as soloist on Martin Ellerby’s “Neapolitan Serenade.”
