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Former Wayland City official Edith Weber dies

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Former Wayland City Clerk, Treasurer and Acting City Manager Edith Irene (nee Dean) Weber, 95, died Saturday, Jan. 13. Edith was born Aug. 18, 1928, in Pellston, the daughter of the Rev. Ralph M. and Hazel (nee Ayres) Dean. She was married to Gene H. Weber Sept. 23, 1950, in...
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Diane Wolf Simkins, WHS grad, dies at Virginia home

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Diane Marie (Wolf) Simkins, 74, of Norfolk, Va., died at home surrounded by family on Friday, June 30, after a lengthy illness. Born Jan. 23, 1949, near Ovid, MI she was the daughter of the late Jack A and Elizabeth E (Briggs) Wolf. Diane was a graduate of Wayland Union...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — July 14, 1997 Local historian James Levandoski died of a heart attack July 8. A graduate of Wayland High School, he had been a member of the Wayland Jaycees, Wayland Genealogy Club,...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now historical library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — Oct. 21, 1996 The Village of Hopkins considered buying the abandoned livestock auction, but eventually decided against it. Michigan State Police from the Wayland post are trying to solve a rash of...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — April 17, 1996 The Globe’s front page was graced by Wayland’s oldest building, Henika District Library, which is making plans to have its centennial observed three years hence. Northeastern Allegan County now...
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Bygone Days: A look at the past in NE Allegan County

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(Taken from the archives at the Then & Now Historical Library in downtown Dorr) 25 Years Ago — April 3, 1996 The Tree Tracers genealogy group had to leave its space inside the Henika District Library to make way for the new children’s wing of the library and becaue of...
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Sandra Pattock, Wayland High Class of ’55, passes

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Sandra Lee Pattok, age 82, of Hastings, died Aug. 26. She was a 1955 graduate of Wayland High School. Sandra was born on Aug. 3, 1938, in Kalamazoo, the daughter of Russell Fred and Irma Verl (Leggett) Keeney. On June 25, 1960, she married Gerald (Jerry) LeRoy Pattok, and they would...
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Visitation Saturday in Hopkins for Barbara Roxbury, 81

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Barbara Roxbury, 81, of Hopkins, died Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at her home. Born July 1, 1937 in Holland,  she was the daughter of the late Harry Raymond and Florence (VanderMeulen) Beekman and devoted wife of Thomas Lee Roxbury. Barbara was a member of Hopkins Community Reformed Church. She owned...
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Then & Now days numbered with property purchase

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The Then & Now Historical Library near the corner of 18th Street and 142nd Avenue in downtown Dorr may have only a couple of years to vacate the building in which it operates. The Township Board Thursday night disclosed a letter from William Fifelski Jr. of the Fifelski Marathon gas station and...
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Then & Now Library still looking for a permanent home

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The Then & Now Historical Library near the corner of 18th Street and 142nd Avenue in downtown Dorr again is in a precarious housing position. The service continues to operate Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week in providing historical documents, obituary information and data on veterans, but its longtime run...
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