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RECORDS The News-Messenger, Fremont, Ohio, Saturday, December 25, 1993 Risingsun man killed in Christmas Eve crash Deaths Daily Log said. Rathburn is survived by two daughters, Gena, 22, and Monica, 24, who lived with their parents in Risingsun. "We all loved him very much," Sandy Rathburn said Friday afternoon. "He was looking forward to coming home and spending some extra time with his family over Christmas. That's all he ever talked about." condition at St.

Vincent Medical Center in Toledo, where he was taken by Life Flight helicopter. Rathburn was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. The accident remains under investigation. Rathburn, a 1960 graduate of Risingsun High School, was also an artist, his wife said. Several of Rathburn's works are displayed in the Risingsun Park office, she in Lima, was on his way home from work when he was killed, his wife said.

Rathburn was northbound on Interstate 75 just after midnight Friday when a car driven by Robert Johns, Toledo, lost control and crossed the median strip into Rathburn's path, the Find-lay post of the Highway Patrol reported. Johns, 49, was listed in serious New-Mestnger reports BLUFTON A 51-year-old Risingsun man was looking forward to a family Christmas and a holiday vacation when he was killed early Friday morning in a two-car crash near Blufton. Frank C. Rathburn, 534 Main was described as a loving family man by his wife of 31 years, Sandy. Rathburn, an employee of General Dynamics Traditions enliven Christmas Real Estate Katherine K.

Viock April 19, 1932 Dec. 23, 1993 Katherine K. Viock, 61, 514 Lynn died Thursday at Cleveland Clinic. She was born in Norwalk to Clarence and Mae (Scott) Fritz. She married Dee Viock in July 1976, in Fremont.

He died in 1978. Mrs. Viock was a homemaker. Surviving are her mother, Mae Fritz of Fremont; daughters Frances Beekman of Clyde, Carol A. Longoria of Crystal Rock and Kathy Collinsworth and Bil-lie Jo Viock of Fremont; brothers Norbert Fritz of North Carolina and LeRoy and Leonard Fritz of Lancaster; sisters Grace Williams, Marie C.

Priddy, Kur-tis Ann Hensley and Lois Mae Dickey, all of Fremont; and 12 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Her father and son Ernest Viock are deceased. Services will begin at 2 p.m. Monday at Wonderly-Horvath Funeral Home, where visitation will begin at 11 a.m. until the time of services.

Burial will be at Oakwood Cemetery. Martin said. Most of the time the gifts were inexpensive, but one year her future sister-in-law found an engagement ring in the sleigh, Martin said. She explained her mother kept extra gifts in case unexpected guests came for the holiday. Sometimes the gifts were embarrassing, like the time Martin opened a pair of sexy underwear in front of her new boyfriend and future husband.

Another time her father saved his lunch money and bought an expensive watch for her mother. As each of the five children left home, her father gave them their own handmade sleighs so the tradition could continue. Martin plans to present her oldest daughter Ardith, who was married in September, with her own sleigh. decided to wrap small gifts for the family and pile them in the varnished 9-inch by 6-inch sleigh and use it as a decorative table centerpiece, Martin said. After Christmas dinner, her mother cleared the table and placed the sleigh on the table.

She explained that she would take a gift with her name on it and pass it on to the next family member. Since the family opened gifts from under the tree on Christmas Eve, the small treats were an "extra surprise," according to Martin. In the beginning her parents shopped for all of the gifts and put names on the gifts. As the children grew older they began to buy sleigh gifts, only putting the name of the recipient on the gift. The family had fun trying to guess who the gifts were from, Births Memorial Dec.

24 Araceli Popoca, 107 S. Wayne Fremont, a son, born at 8:46 a.m. Dec. 24 Jody and Thomas Bowes, 1121 Western Fremont, a son, born at 8:28 a.m. Dec.

24 Janelle and Vincent Billings, 120 Court Fremont, a son, born at 2:52 p.m. Kimberly S. Reineck to Kevin W. Pinkerton and Pamela J. Pinkerton, 132 St.

'Paul Drive, Fremont, $65,000, Dec. 13. Tenneb Inc. to Ralph E. Green and Jeanne E.

Green, building lots on Maple Street, Clyde, $15,000, Dec. 13. Dolores Nord to John D. and Jennifer M. Roberts, 1121 W.

State Fremont, $25,000, Dec. 13. Estate of Naomi Lucille Lisle to Christopher S. Elfring, 316 S. Pennsylvania $50,877, Dec.

13. Richard W. Miller trustee, to LaMar B. Wolf Jr. and Laura M.

Wolf, lot on Tiffin Road, Bal-lville Township, $5,750, Dec. 13. David A. Miller to Lamar B. Wolf and Laura M.

Wolf, lot on Tiffin Road, Ballville Township, $5,750, Dec. 15. Estate of Michele L. Taylor to Billy E. Adkins and Gearlene Adkins, 203 Belle, Bellevue, $48,000, Dec.

13. Robert R. Coll to Stewart W. Smith and Dana L. Smith, 6662 Sandusky County Road 175, Bellevue, $95,000, Dec.

13. Glen W. Hawk to William T. McGrady, 616 and 622 S. Wood $27,300, Dec.

14. Henry R. Jarrett Jr. to Richard A. and Christie A.

Harper, 5488 Sandusky County Road 113, Bellevue, $79,000, Dec. 14. Richard L. Witte II and Michelle L. Witte to Robert J.

Esker and Kelly J. Esker, 329 E. Stone Gibsonburg, $45,000, Dec. 14. Randal J.

Lanning to Glendon Anthony Miller, 508 Second Fremont, $17,000, Dec. 14. Paul J. Rodgers and Mary Louise Rodgers to Gene A. Mead and Cindy L.

Boskovich, 53 Adams Drive, Fremont, $94,000, Dec. 15. Sandra L. Russell to Michael G. Wolford and Elizabeth A.

Wol-ford, 704 Lueke Woodville, $43,000, Dec. 15. Margaret C. Hughes to Abigail R. Aten, 317 N.

Wayne Fremont, $39,000, Dec. 16. USPS 210-020 Saturday, December 25, 1993 Vol. 138- No.22f Hospital By PAT GELLER Staff writer Family traditions abound at Christmas and the origins of many are rather simple. The Christmas stocking tradition took on a twist for the Ann Marquis family of Fremont.

Marquis said her family's tradition of hanging a Christmas stocking for each member of the family started when her oldest daughter, now Molly Velez, was in junior high school. Velez, who was in a home economics class in school, did not have money one year to spend on Christmas presents, so she made seven Christmas stockings, one for each family member. That year the family hung the stockings across the stairway railing. When family members get married or have babies a new stocking is added at Christmas time. The family just added the 17th stocking, and they now hang all the way up and around the edge of the stairs, Marquis said.

Every year Marquis fills the stockings for Christmas. She continues her father's tradition by putting an orange in each stocking every year. During pre-holi-day visits the kids feel to see if there is anything in their stockings yet, she said as she laughed. "It's a neat thing to see on the railing," she said. Another tradition her children are carrying on with their kids is gathering around the nativity scene Christmas morning and singing happy birthday to baby Jesus, Marquis added.

Oranges were also part of Christmas tradition for Charlotte Hottinger of Fremont. When she was a child her grandfather would bring a bag of oranges and peppermint sticks or candy canes for Christmas. She and her siblings would stick the peppermint sticks in a hole in the orange and suck the juice out through the stick. The Willard and Ardith Guntsch family of Fremont uses a variation of the stocking as a Christmas tradition, according to their daughter, Candace Martin of Toledo. During the winter of 1953, Willard Guntsch made a wooden sleigh in his basement wood shop that changed the Christmas tradition for his family.

Her mother Sheriff Vandalism Nina Aldridge, 2075 Sandusky County Road 62, Gibsonburg, reported Thursday juveniles in a light blue Chevette smashed her mailbox valued at $50. Suspicious man Cellular caller reported a suspicious man on River Run Drive. Caller said a man in his 20's was seen walking along River Rune Drive toward Cole Road. Caller said man seemed to be highly intoxicated and was falling down on the road. Nothing was found.

Fremont police Vandalism Wilber G. Isner, 826 Sixth reported Friday someone drove across his yard and struck his mailbox post. Property found Pamela C. Broshious, 619 Napoleon reported Friday she found a leather briefcase on the roof of her garage. Briefcase belonged to Kandy J.

Thurn, 1950 Sandusky County Road 264, Clyde, who had reported it stolen earlier in the dav. Theft Cathy J. Elswick, 3008 Sandusky County Road 198, reported Friday her purse, containing $120 in cash was stolen while she was visiting Delaware Acres apartments. Theft Money bag containing $350 in cash and $50 in checks reported stolen Friday from Marcos Pizza East, 500 E. State St.

Crowded cells spur number of plea deals, officials say Associated Press COLUMBUS Overloaded court dockets and crowded prisons are forcing attorneys to make deals and judges and probation boards to shorten sentences. In one recent example, Columbus Police Officer Chris Clites and Bryan Davis, who had a criminal record, were killed in a shootout Dec. 10. Marques Lamar Sawyer, 16, who also has a record, was with Davis. Davis, 29, and Sawyer had benefited from plea bargains, which are negotiated by the attorneys and approved by judges.

The deals can lead to reduction or dismissal of some charges and make defendants eligible for shorter sentences or probation. When Sawyer was charged with a delinquency count of gross sexual imposition, he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. The deal meant he could not be imprisoned by the Ohio Department of Youth Services. Sawyer also received probation to a delinquency charge of attempted aggravated robbery. He initially was charged with a delinquency count of aggravated robbery in the armed robbery of a cab driver.

Gail Brothers, supervisor of the county's juvenile probation, said too many potentially dangerous juveniles are put on probation. Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Dale Crawford had sentenced Davis to six months in prison for possession of burglary tools. But he granted shock probation, which freed Davis after two months. Crawford said it is unusual to sentence a nonviolent, first-time offender to prison. CIRCULATION Customer Service Ext.

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The couple's son, Zachary, 8, was treated and released at Lima Memorial Hospital, said Trooper J.D. Williams of the State Highway Patrol's Lima post. The family was on its way to visit relatives in Detroit. Ten others who received minor injuries in Wednesday's accident were treated at Lima Memorial Hospital. The pileup closed the freeway for more than five hours.

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