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3AC0 mm TY JILL NEVELS-HAUN MANAGING EDITOR Email: jhaungannett.com Phone: 419-334-1040 SENIOR SPOTLIGHT Growing a marria 0 Couple married 66 years both came from farm families jt. i LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF Info needed for voter guide All candidates, including incumbents and candidates running opposed-only in the November election, should submit an email address and phone number to the News Herald in order for the newspaper to send you information needed for the online Voter Guide. Please email the information to pcnews deskgannett.com. In the subject line, type Voter Guide. The information must be submitted ASAP.

Call 419-734-7500 with questions. 'Tools for School' applications PORT CLINTON The Salvation Army-Port Clinton Service Unit is still accepting applications for the "Tools for School program." This program will assist local families in need of school supplies and book bags. Applications can be picked up at the Salvation Army Office, the Sutton Center, Ida Rupp Library, Oak Harbor Library and Genoa Library. Completed applications should be dropped off at the Salvation Army Office located in suite 800 at the Sutton Center. This program is completely supported by The Ottawa County Community Foundation and local donations.

To make a donation to this program, send or drop off your donation at The Salvation Army-PCSU, 1854 E.Perry Suite 800, Port Clinton, OH 43452. Board of Education to meet Aug. 28 OAK HARBOR There will be a regular meeting of the Benton- -Carroll-Salem Board of Education at 6 p.m. Aug. 28 in the Board of Education Office located at 11685 W.

Ohio 163. WiWmimtM, liiliti 'iVilV Carl and Phyllis Bensch have been married for 66 years. Both farm families. Catharine hadleynews herald By Catharine Hadley Staff writer SALEM TOWNSHIP Phyllis Bensch has been staying at Riverview Health Care Campus, recovering from a medical issue. On Friday afternoon, her husband Carl was visiting her.

He smiled at her several times. They have been married for 66 years. He is 91 and she is 90. She was born July 2, 1922, to Arnold and Esther (Hille) Krukemyer. She was born on the farm where she grew up.

Her father purchased a large farm that had a hog pen, chicken coop and apple orchards. In 1934, at the age of 39, he got an ear infection that turned into spinal meningitis. He died, leaving behind a wife and three children in the middle of the Great Depression. Phyllis Bensch graduated from Webster High School in Scotch Ridge in 1940. Despite having to work on the farm both before and after school, she excelled in class and was the valedictorian.

Carl Bensch also was born at home, on a farm on Lickert-Harder Road outside Oak Harbor, on June 27, 1921. His father, John Bensch, was a farmer. His mother, Ida (Lindner) Bensch, came from Germany when she was 16 years old. She was a homemaker. Carl Bensch had three siblings.

He attended school at Rocky Ridge and then Oak Harbor, and graduated in 1939. He was the senior class president. The future couple had HISTORY SPOTLIGHT came from hard-working They didn't travel much, except for a trip to Alaska and another to Europe, when Carl Bensch got the chance to meet a cousin. "I liked all of Germany," she said. Her husband enjoyed re-finishing furniture, reading, and, his wife says, eating.

"I could stir up anything from the fridge in a pan, and he'd eat it," she said. She is looking forward to going home. "We live on the same farm where he was born and raised. Not the same house. There was a house down the road, where nobody had lived for 33 years.

He fixed it up for us. Thirty years ago, we renovated it again," she said. chadleygannett.com 419-734-7504 Twitter: catharinehadley Genoa for 12 years. She retired in 1987. He retired from farming in 1993, and they rented the farmland after that.

Carl Bensch also had been active in the Woodville Mutual Insurance Company for more than 36 years, and was the president for several years. He sat on other boards of directors, and was a Boy Scout leader. He enjoyed playing sports with his grandchildren, and attended his grandsons' sporting events. Phyllis Bensch's hobbies include gardening and quilting and has made more than 80 since she retired. She also has been very active at the church, including being in the Ruth Circle and the sewing group, teaching Sunday school and singing in the choir.

They are the parents of Alan, born in 1947, Arlyn, born in 1949, and Rhonda, born in 1953. They became the grandparents of six, including one granddaughter who died in 1986 before she had turned 2 years old. The family's activities included church, Sunday school, 4-H and visiting relatives. Phyllis Bensch said the couple raised their children in the church. "They always were there with us, and I think to this day they all have a strong faith." After the children were raised, Phyllis went to work at the Agricultural Conservation and Stabilization service, now the Farm Service Agency, for 10 years.

She then worked at Landmark grain elevator in Ottawa County judge served on selective service board several similarities in their young lives both grew up on farms, worked hard, were used to frugal lifestyles, and were very good in school. They also both attended Lutheran churches, which is how they met. His family was active in St. John's Lutheran Church in Rocky Ridge, where he sang in the choir for 67 years and taught Sunday school for nearly 40 years. As a young man, he was the president of the Portage Valley District of the Luther League.

Phyllis Bensch said at the time during World War II not everyone could attend the league's national conference. Carl Bensch went, representing the district, and returned to hold meetings with the different churches. "I remember going to this meeting. I thought he was really somebody," she said with a smile. "Then I found out he was a dirt farmer." She later became the secretary of the organization, and one day he needed directions so he could deliver a trophy to someone.

He asked her to ride in the car with him. Carl Bensch said he realized he wanted to marry her "pretty suddenly." Having grown up on a farm, she had not intended to marry a farmer. "I always said, 'I did everything on the farm but haul My brothers said that wasn't women's work. So, I got married and I hauled manure," she said. Her husband preferred raising crops to raising livestock.

"All types of grain, soybeans, corn, hay," he said. not safe duty. He was shot out of the sky and perished leaving wife and child. "Tragically his older brother Bob, also a good friend, was killed a few years earlier in the crash of a fighter jet he was piloting at Oxnard, Calif. So the whole thing was doubly tragic.

Clyde was a great person and I miss him to this day," he wrote in an email. Several men from Ottawa County were Vietnam War veterans. Some were mentioned in previous "History Spotlight" articles. Readers have emailed information about two others. "I served in the navy withMCB-58 Quarry company, we were in Vietnam 8 mos.

in cam lo village-where we supported the marines, our company had a stone crusher and equipment with 90 personal and built road for the marine in the dmz." Ron Bordner, Port Clinton High School Class of 1965 "Sgt. Thomas R. Bryan, USAF, served in Phan Rang, Viet Nam arriving on Christmas Day in 1969 and served through 1970 as Crew Chief on the F100 Fighter Bomber aircraft." Tom and Emmy Bryan chadleygannett.com 419-734-7504 Twitter: catharinehadley elected officials to a citizen board. The issue was prompted by complaints that Republicans who controlled the recent once-per-decade process gerrymandered lines in their party's favor. The GOP says it drew fair lines.

The Bureau represents 214,000 members statewide. i I mm I FOR THE RECORD OTTAWA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE THURSDAY 1:39 a.m. III person died in the 2200 block of South Dan-bury Station Road, Danbury Township. 6:26 a.m. Car and deer crash on Portage River South Road, Salem Township.

10:51 a.m. Person broke into a barn in the 4100 block of North Stange Road, Benton Township. 12:55 p.m. Unruly juvenile in the 13100 block of West Schiller Road, Benton Township. The boy was found after a foot chase through fields and he was taken to juvenile detention.

7:49 p.m. Fire in the 2700 block of South Muddy Creek Road, Salem Township. 8:33 p.m. Inmate injured with a pencil at the detention facility. 9:53 p.m.

Telephone harassment in the 3200 block of North Genoa Clay Center Road, Allen Township. 10:02 p.m. Telephone harassment in the 900 block of Main Street, Genoa. 10:38 p.m. Prowlers in the 300 block of Fifth Street, Clay Center.

Complete logs from the Port Clinton Police Department are not available due to problems with the department's new software. No one covers Port Clinton and Ottawa County like the News Herad. From breaking news and comprehensive watchdog reporting to job creation, Lake Erie tourism, downtown restoration and community pride the News Herald brings you everything Port Clinton and Ottawa County, across multiple devices, including: By Catharine Hadley Staff writer An Ottawa County judge, Paul C. Moon, served on the selective service board in Ottawa County during the Vietnam War. "After I returned from the U.S.

Army in Europe in 1965 and after commencement of the Vietnam War I became the appeals agent for the Ottawa County Selective Service Board. It was my duty to counsel with and advise of appeal rights for those who had been selected (drafted) to serve in the military. "The appeal rights from the decisions of the Selective Service Board were pretty minimal (perhaps even non-existent!) so that part of the job was pretty straight forward, but over time I got to listen to a lot of unhappy young men about to leave the safety of their homes. It was not altogether pleasant duty! "Personally, I was extremely opposed to that terrible war. The war took my best high school friend, Clyde W.

Enderle. We both were graduated from Port Clinton High School in 1955. Clyde was in the air force and flew Boeing 707's safe duty. When the war heated up he volunteered for piloting helicopters fails to make government more transparent, ethical and accountable to rural voters. They called for conducting a thorough review aimed at improving the current system.

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