Lyle L. “Bud” Everetts, 94, of Bryan passed away Saturday afternoon at Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born on October 5, 1921 in Troy Township, Indiana to Gilbert and Maude (Betts) Everetts. Bud married June Ann Pike on May 3, 1948 in Angola, Indiana. Bud was a heavy …

John Arthur Lougheed, 81, of North Webster, Indiana and formerly of Williams County, passed away on Dec. 26, 2015, at Millers Merry Manor in Syracuse, Indiana. He was born June 21, 1934 in Montpelier, Ohio to Lester A. and Mary Isabelle (Fischer) Lougheed. He married JoAnn (Psurny) Long on October …

Evelyn M. Fielitz, 93 years, of Alvordton, passed away Wednesday, December 23, 2015 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan. Evelyn was born August 16, 1922 in Albany, New York, the daughter of the late Alva and Christina (Speiser) Reed. She married Jack Hill and the marriage ended in divorce. …

Alta L. Rohers, age 43, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 9:07 P.M. on Tuesday, December 22, 2015, at the Cleveland Clinic where she was a patient after a brief illness. Mrs. Roehrs was a stay at home mom who enjoyed camping, cooking and baking and spending time with her family …

Lola V. Hoffman, 102, of Pioneer passed away Wednesday evening at Hillside Country Living in rural Bryan. She was born on May 9, 1913 in Kunkle, Ohio to Melville H. and Myrtle M. (Parsons) Swank. Lola married Arnold S. Hoffman in September of 1935 and he preceded her in death …

Glema Elvira Treer, 95, left this earth on Friday, December 18 at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres, Florida. She was born in Ft. Wayne, Indiana to Howard J. Sayles and Della Pearl (Teller) Sayles. She married Robert E. Treer on June 24, 1939. She had 2 brothers Clare and Kenneth …

Defi­ance County Com­mis­sioner Otto Nicely has been selected as trea­surer of the 2016 County Com­mis­sion­ers Asso­ci­a­tion of Ohio. Nicely has served on the board for the past 15 years. He was elected by the annual win­ter con­fer­ence in Colum­bus. He is vice-chairman of the association’s Health and Human Ser­vices committee.

Two oth­ers were arrested for OVI over Christ­mas Eve. 37-year-old Michael Culp of Wauseon was charged with OVI, dri­ving under sus­pen­sion and hav­ing an open con­tainer dur­ing a traf­fic stop about 2 a.m. at Clin­ton and River Dr. Defi­ance Police say other charges are pending. A lit­tle later Thurs­day morn­ing, …

Police arrested Tracy Lowe, a 39-year-old Pauld­ing man, for DUI and other charges on Thurs­day. Lowe was involved in a pur­suit that began at Clin­ton and Fourth streets, and was arrested a short time later. He’s in the CCNO, charged with dri­ving under the influ­ence, fail­ure to com­ply, assault on …

A Cor­win St. man was arrested on mul­ti­ple charges late last week. 28-year-old Gabriel Gutier­rez is charged with escape, resist­ing arrest, mar­i­juana pos­ses­sion and parpher­na­lia, a parole vio­la­tion and was wanted on an active war­rant out of Defi­ance Munic­i­pal Court.