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OBITUARIES
Barbara Lochner Barbara, better known as B. Lee, was born in Yellow Springs and graduated from Bryan High School in 1964. She was always passionate about her art, and she worked in many mediums, giving special attention to minute detail. B. Lee was most widely known for her two- and three-dimensional renderings of suns for the CBS television show “Sunday Morning,” whose producers showed over 60 of her creations. In St. Augustine, B. Lee exhibited in several galleries and was featured a number of times on WJCT’s “Picture This” and “Art Auction” programs. In collaboration with her husband, B. Lee also owned and operated the B. Lee Bird Handcrafted Sterling Silver Jewelry shop for 27 years. She was preceded in death by her brother, Hans (Tony) Riedel, and her father, Hans Anton Riedel. She is survived by her husband, Merle, daughter, Angelika, and mother, Elaine Riedel, all of St. Augustine, and numerous aunts, uncles and cousins from around the country. A memorial gathering and tree planting will occur at her home in St. Augustine on Sunday, Sept. 5, at 1 p.m. Craig Funeral Home and Crematory is handling arrangements. Evelyn Bell She was born Evelyn Clara Barr on Dec. 26, 1932, to Marion Whiting Barr and Ira Robert Barr of Yellow Springs. She attended secondary school in Springfield, and college at the University of Chicago and Highlands University in Las Vegas, N.M. In New Mexico, she met and married Demitrius Daniel Klips (D.D. Klips) of Rochester, N.Y., in 1951. The pair moved back to Ohio in 1960, and lived in Vandalia, until they divorced in 1979. Evelyn returned to Yellow Springs and found a civilian position as a secretary at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She retired from that position in 1992. Evelyn was a woman of contrasts. She belonged to the Daughters of the American Revolution and the National Wildlife Federation. She loved to knit, ride horses and, of course, smoke cigarettes. She had a delightful and sometimes wicked sense of humor. She loved Bible study and church services with singing and dancing. She loved ocean beaches, thunderstorms and trees of all varieties. She loved birds and had many bird feeders and kept no less than four cats. Evelyn was a generous, patient, kind spirit. She was hilarious, quirky and intelligent. She was beautiful. She will be missed. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Abigail and Michael Corbet, and her dear friends, Marlene and Bob Johnson and Sheila Blackman. Services will be private. Donations may be made to the Arbor Day Foundation or Mercy Hospice of Springfield, or people can plant a tree. Gay Houston Born in Yonkers, N.Y., in 1929, Gay grew up on Manhattan Island during the Depression and World War II. After graduation from Illinois Wesleyan University she taught high school as a Methodist missionary in Nagasaki, Japan, from 1950 to ’53. Her commitment to peace and her opposition to nuclear weapons were deepened by the experience of having some of her students die as a delayed reaction to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. On her return to the U.S. she studied social work at Boston University, where she received a master’s degree in 1955. In Yellow Springs, she and her then-husband Bill Houston raised two daughters. She was active in peace and civil rights groups here, and worked for child welfare agencies in Montgomery and Greene Counties. Gay started and directed a nursery school in New Denver, British Columbia, in 1977, retiring around 2000. In British Columbia she was active in political, environmental and peace groups and in Argenta Friends Meeting. Gay is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Alice Houston of Colville, Wash., and Judy and Jerry Lucks of Stevenson, Wash.; ex-husband, Bill of Yellow Springs; her partner of 15 years, Eric Day of Burton, British Columbia; brother, David Hendrixson, mayor of Wells, British Columbia; and nieces, nephews and friends. A memorial service will be held in a few weeks in New Denver. |
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