Through the Years: 1972 - The Owen Valley Stars semi-pro baseball team routed Martinsville, 22-1

Deaths: Donald Berry, 82; Mary Martin, 95; Lawrence Evans, 76; Juanita Kelley, 87; Phillip Barnes, 55; Frank Mumma, 94.

For the 2nd consecutive year, Jodi Hicks won the Individual Outdoor Archery contest at the U.S. Collegiate Archery Association’s National Championship

John Fuhs won the Ken Bucklew work of butterflies on an ironweed branch raffled off by Delta Theta Tau sorority.

Alvin McFadden retired as Pastor of the Spencer United Methodist Church.

10 years (2012)

Deaths: William Brown, 77; Ronald York, 71; Lillie Lockwood, 87; Rosemary Hamilton, 82; Shirley Grimes, 76; Wallace Porter, 74; Nina Sips, 68; Tilman Sharr, Jr., 92; Theodore McIntosh, 80.

Rikki Fender, 26, of Martinsville, was killed when her 2001 Dodge Caravan left US 231N and struck a steel I-beam.

Steve Buckman was the new Director at the Owen County Humane Society.

Todd and Michelle Sevier opened Hoosier Arms gun shop at 414 South Jefferson Street, Bowling Green.

The Archer Brick on North Main Street, Spencer, owned by Mary Ann Hanlon, won an award from Owen County Preservations as did the New Union Carolina Church in Adkinsonville.

Lewis Fender grew a broccoli measuring 12 inches across and standing 15 inches high.

Doris Stephens was remembered on the 2nd anniversary of her death by her sister, Carolyn Hurt.

Vicki Klaiber was remembered by family on the 9th anniversary of her death.

25 years (1997)

Births: A son born to David and Jane Schneider; a daughter born to Danny and Toni Bowman.

Deaths: Richard Haysley, 67; Vivian Root, 71; Ella Medicus, 85; Oscar Frederick, 57; Hazel “Tootsie” Medley, 74; John Allis, 73; Robert Osborne, 65; Neva Blunk, 91; Isaac Watkins, 74; Robert Mason, 47; Edna Trump, 102.

Anniversaries: Dennis and Patricia (Freeman) Gunderman celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Roy and Delores (Higgenbotham) Ringler celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Herman and Bliss (Asher) Fox celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Anthony and Flora (Campbell) Zaglen celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary. Wade and Margurite (Goss) Quick celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary. Earl and Jessie (Jones) Fyffe celebrated their 77th wedding anniversary.

Christopher Huffman, 20, of Indianapolis, allegedly confessed to investigators that he had killed his stepfather, Robert Uffman, who was found shot to death June 4th at his rural Gosport home.

Much to the chagrin of neighbors, the old Dwight Johnson house, located at the corner of North Montgomery and North streets, was torn down and a large tree removed to make way for an expansion of West & Parrish & Pedigo Funeral Home’s parking lot.

Sky the black-and-white Husky was missing.

Gone Fishin’ starring Joe Pesci and Danny Glover was playing at the Tivoli Theater.

Juanita Anderson was remembered by family on the 1st anniversary of her death.

50 years (1972)

Birth: A daughter, Michelle Lynn, born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shouse.

Deaths: Ronald “Ronnie” Allee, 28; Dan Neese, 83; Samuel “Ed” Faulkner, 92; Russell McCarty, 55; Eva Allen, 90; Verna Spurgeon, 75; Lloyd Legge, 68; Herbert Summers, 94; Russell “Rex” Coffey, 78.

Debbie McGuire broke her right arm in a dune buggy accident at “the Ralph Rogers sand and gravel area southwest of Spencer just off Road 67.”

Robert Hines took over as pastor of the Church of Christ, East Morgan Street, Spencer, following the resignation of Henry Smith.

Two foster children, a boy and a girl, ages 5 and 6, were found wandering on Road 67, near the El Patio Motel, and taken to jail where they were given milk and cookies.

Records Drive-In was showing the horror film Frogs, starring Ray Milland, Sam Elliot, and Joan Van Ark.

Houston Johnson, Everett Miller, and Robert Dowdy, all of Spencer, were hospitalized following an automobile accident on Interstate 70, in Indianapolis.

The Owen Valley Stars semi-pro baseball team routed Martinsville, 22-1.

As the winner of the Owen County Art Guild door prize, Opal Ruth, Lake Graybrook, Poland, selected a landscape in oil by Tomiko Oberholtzer.

Prosecutor Vern Petri sought to have Stuart Becker, indicted for non-support of three children, extradited from Ottawa, Canada.

Archie Bunker t-shirts were selling for $2.50 each at Tresslar Department Store.

Lewis Schafer, of Coal City, wrote in to say that he first voted in 1904, had voted in every election since then and, in all that time, had voted for only two Democrats, “and if the Good Lord will forgive me, I will never do it again.”

Herman Mitten was remembered by family on the 3rd anniversary of his death.

75 years (1947)

Births: A daughter born to Ern and Shirley Walden; a daughter born to Steve and Ola Rucker; a son, Thomas Allen, stillborn to Paul and Gertrude Hucheson.

Deaths: Earl Franklin, 64, Hazel Small, 57, Lillie Morris, 25, Sarah Sims, 95.

James Wells, of Coal City, received a scholarship to Butler University.

Jane Close, of Spencer, graduated Indiana University with a Bachelor degree in Mathematics.

William Nutter was hired as English teacher and coach at Gosport High School.

Martha Nanny, 75, of Gosport, broke her collarbone when a 1937 Chevrolet operated by her son, Jeff Nanny, collided with a half-ton Dodge truck operated by Robert Hancock, 17, Spencer, on Hyden Road.

Relationships became complicated in Sullivan County when, in a double ceremony, Paul Maxey, 26, married Wilma Bedwell, 20, and his father, William Maxey, 50, married Wilma’s sister, Doris Bedwell, 36.

Spencer lads Tommy Drescher and Charles Johnson won a trip to Coney Island from the Indianapolis Star.

By a 331-83 vote, the House of Representatives overrode President Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley labor bill.

The State of Indiana acquired 50,000 acres around Cagle Dam in order to establish a new state forest that would straddle the Owen – Putnam County line at a cost of around $8 an acre.

A 1940 Cadillac was completely destroyed after catching fire at the crest of Optimist Hill, leaving a group of prize fighters stranded enroute from Indianapolis to Little Rock, Arkansas.

Clara Hester was remembered on the 1st anniversary of her death.

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