Catching up with . . . Steve Mace

Steve Mace, who left the Beacon Journal and a printer career behind in 1978, is alive and well in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Steve took a BJ buyout and switched to construction work, which in Vegas is a job that never ends. Hotel/casinos are imploded and built-over more often than some people change their underwear. He retired in recent years.

Steve was at the University of Akron on a football scholarship, after his successful Springfield Schools athletic career, before he began his printing apprenticeship at the Beacon Journal. UA is where he met Marylouise Carroll, a St. Vincent High graduate who was learning to be a nurse but instead became his wife. Marylouise was a teacher at Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary in Cuyahoga Falls for a while.

Steve and Marylouise are still together in Vegas.

On some of the trips to Ohio over the decades Steve has reunited with retired printers Gene McClellan and Mike Jewell and accounting retiree Mickey Dimeff, usually at the Hiberian Club. Steve also has talked on the phone with retired printer Sid Sprague, who moved to Loveland, Colorado after residing on Pawleys Island, South Carolina till Sid’s wife died and Sid married again.

Steve also keeps in touch with BJ folks, he volunteered, by reading the BJ Alums blog. “It’s on my Favorites” list of online websites, he said.

If you want to contact Steve or Marylouise, their email address is

Microjo80@msn.com

Their phone number is (702) 873-5071

The U.S. mail address is

Stephen H. Mace
6204 Obannon Drive
Las Vegas, NV 89146

My original reason for trying to contact Steve was to see if he was related to James E. Mace, Sr., 81, a Lakemore resident and General Tire retiree who died Aug. 14. Jim was Steve’s brother. To see the obituary for Jim Mace, click on the headline.