Latshaw memorial May 12 on Manchester Road

There will be a Celebration of Life service for former BJ printer Dick Latshaw at 2-5 p.m. Saturday, May 12 at the Allenside Athletic Club, 2533 Manchester Road.

Dick and Pat Latshaw

Dick passed away March 1 on Pawleys Island, South Carolina.

Dick and wife Pat, who asked me to post this information on the BJ Alums blog so that Dick's friends can share in the event, lived for two decades on Pawleys Island two blocks from Linda McElroy, widow of BJ business department retiree Harold McElroy.

Dick thought he had escaped snow when he left Ohio. But in 2010 Pawleys Island got snow for the first time since 1989 . . .  four inches worth.

CF Consolidated Freightways retiree Larry Ray Latshaw, Dick’s brother, predeceased him. Another brother, Ken Ronk, lives in Pennsylvania with wife Lucinda.

Their parents were Doris Denny Ronk and Ken Ronk. Dick returned to Ohio to help his mom celebrate her 97^th birthday shortly before Doris passed away in 2014. Ken predecreased Doris.

Retired printer Sid Sprague, who also lived near the Latshaws on Pawleys Island, moved to Loveland, Colorado with his new bride after his first wife died.

Sid was the first to move to Pawleys Island (from Cuyahoga Falls) around 1997 or 1998. Then Harold and Linda McElroy moved around 1999. Dick and Pat moved to Pawleys in 2000. They all lived on the same 3-blocks-long street.