TERRY CONSIDINE WILLIAMS, BJ COPY GIRL AND NEW YORK TIMES REPORTER, PASSES AWAY

 

Terrific, prolific Terry Considine Williams, once BJ copy girl, passes away

Terry Considine Williams passes away 2022 former BJ copy girl

Teresa “Terry” Considine Williams, once a copy girl for the BJ, passed away Saturday, March 26.

After the BJ St. Mary’s High graduate Terry was Cleveland Health Museum public relations director, wrote a Guarding Your Health column for the PD, writing radio and TV scripts for United Appeal, Cleveland WERE radio publicity director, John Carroll University news bureau chief, radio/TV reporter/columnist for the PD, where she she met her husband, journalist William Brian Williams, Griswold Eshleman advertising and public relations firm speech writer, Mike Douglas TV show public relations director, United Nations writing blurbs about their books, Hoke Communications contributing editor, New York Times’ Long Island reporter.

Terry had an amazingly active journalism life.

Terry’s obituary:

 

HUDSON - Teresa (Terry) Considine Williams, of Hudson, youngest of the 11 children born to Edward J. and Catherine C. Considine of Akron, died March 26, 2022. Preceding her in death, her newspaperman husband, William Brian Williams; their daughter, the remarkable Katy Considine Williams; brothers: James, Edward, Robert, Richard, William, Howard, and Paul and sisters: Mary Reymann, Kathleen Ostroski, and Jeannette McCormick. She is survived by many nieces and nephews.

 

Terry began her journalism career as a copy kid at the Akron Beacon Journal, while still at St. Mary’s High School (Akron) and covered traffic and police courts and wrote features. She later became public relations director for the Cleveland Health Museum, and wrote a Sunday column, “Guarding Your Health” for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

 

Her varied career included writing radio and TV scripts for United Appeal; publicity director for the original Cleveland radio station WERE; first woman head of theNews Bureau at John Carroll University; radio/TV reporter and columnist for the Plain Dealer, where she met her husband. Company policy held that one of them had to leave when they married. Brian became Suburban Editor of the Plain Dealer and wrote a popular Sunday column, “Crab Grass”.

 

In addition to free-lancing magazine and newspaper articles, she became a speech writer at Griswold Eshleman, Ohio’s largest advertising and public relations firm; and was then invited to become Public Relations Director for the syndicated Mike Douglas TV Show.

 

When the family relocated toNewYork, Terry first worked for the United Nations, writing clarifying blurbs about their new books. She then became a Contributing Editor for Hoke Communications, Inc. which published Direct Marketing and Fund-Raising Management magazines and news letters. For five years she covered the U.S. Postal Service and its effect on those fields, traveling frequently toWashington DC.

Finally, for over 11 years, she was a reporter and writer for The New York Times, covering Long Island. Her ashes will be sent for burial on Long Island where she lived for 30 years.

 

Memorial service will be 5:00pm Friday at the Hummel Funeral Home 500 E. Exchange St. Akron, Ohio 44304, where friends may call one hour prior.

 

She suggests contributing to your favorite charity in her name.

CIRCULATION'S GARY FOLEY PASSES AWAY

 

Circulation retiree Gary Foley passes away

BJ Circulation retiree Gary Foley passed away Thursday, March 24. He retired earlier this year after 27 years at the Beacon Journal where he was a dispatch customer service specialist for the Circulation Department.

His widow is Stephanie Foley.

Gary started at the Beacon Journal in May 1995. He was a telemarketing supervisor in Circulation before transferring to the call center as a customer service representative and dispatcher with Debbie Fox as his Circulation Director. 

Gary’s obituary:

AKRON - Gary A. Foley, 73, passed away March 24, 2022. He was born in Akron and lived in Goodyear Heights for the past 23 years. Gary attended Firestone High School and graduated from Emporia College in Kansas.

 

He was employed by the Akron Beacon Journal for 27 years, until his retirement in early 2022.

 

Gary loved entertaining family and friends with his Fall deck parties and his annual spaghetti dinners. He was always the life of the party.

 

He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister. Gary is survived by his wife of 46 years, Stephanie; children, Scott Marshall of Akron, Christopher (Robin) Marshall of Tallmadge; grandchildren, Jessica, Jonathan (Jenny), Patrick, Nola, Sebastian; great grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

 

Visitation will be 3:00 until 4:00 p.m., Thursday, March 31, 2022 at the Donovan Funeral Home, 17 Southwest Ave. (On the Historic Tallmadge Circle). Memorial service will follow visitation at 4:00 p.m. at the funeral home with Rev. Jim Case officiating. Interment will be at Hillside Memorial Park at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to One of a Kind Pet Rescue, 1929 W Market St. Akron, OH 44313

JOHN McMILLION, BJ PUBLISHER FOR 3 YEARS, PASSES AWAY

John McMillion passes away

Former BJ publisher John McMillion passed away Tuesday, March 15 in Two Harbors, Minnesota.

McMillion switched the BJ from an afternoon to a morning newspaper to “stop the erosion in operating profit,” as he put it, including eliminating double-time pay for working on Sundays during his 3 years at 44 E. Exchange Street.

He began at the BJ in 1986. The Beacon won another Pulitzer, for coverage of James Goldsmith’s greenmail attack on Goodyear that put hundreds out of work, in 1987. Chris Harte replaced him as publish in 1989.

John’s obituary:

John M. McMillion was born Dec. 25, 1929 and left this world peacefully in his sleep at his home on March 15, 2022 at the age of 92 years.

John McMillion got his first newspaper job over 80 years ago, if you give him credit for his first paper route, which he obtained in junior high school.

Since then, he’s been a police reporter, a sports writer and editor, covered county, district and federal courts, politics, the legislature and just about every type of news story you can imagine, from the sublime to the ridiculous.  He wrote a political column for several years in New Mexico.

In the process, he’s talked to millionaires, paupers, high government officials and some well-known sports and entertainment figures.  In his home library, he has a picture of him talking to Bobby Kennedy, a picture of Mamie Eisenhower standing on the rear platform of a Santa Fe train in Clovis, New Mexico, where he was Managing Editor, and an autographed Snoopy story board from Charlie Schultz.

John started his career as a police reporter in Amarillo, Texas after obtaining a journalism degree at the University of Kansas, after four years in the Navy during the Korean War, serving three years in Korea and Japan. He has worked for newspapers in Texas, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Ohio.

He also did a stint as United Press International Bureau manager in New Mexico and ran a Gubernatorial campaign for two years in New Mexico.

He came to Duluth in 1975 as General Manager of the Duluth News-Tribune and the then Duluth Herald and became publisher three months later.  In 1986 he was transferred as publisher to another Knight Ridder paper, the Akron Beacon Journal.  He did extensive labor relations work at both Duluth and Akron.

During his tenure in Akron the Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer prize.  He retired at Akron in 1990 and lived in Albuquerque ten years before returning to the Duluth area in 1998.  He said he missed the winters.

John and his wife of 36 years, Melanie, lived in Two Harbors, Minnesota.  They have a daughter, Amanda (Brian) Kerrigan who graduated in Education from the University of Kansas and is a teacher in Colorado.  John has three older children, a son John McMillion who is a retired airline pilot for Southwest Airlines, a daughter Johanna McMillion who is a banker in Ignacio, CO and a daughter Jennifer (Andrew) Jelson who works for the Univ. of New Mexico Foundation in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   John has five grandsons, Sean (Kailey) McMillion, Macon (Kelly) Jelson, Garrett Jelson, Benjamin Kerrigan and Liam Kerrigan. 

John grew up in southeast Kansas, and that is why he talked funny.

A special thank you to friends Tami Magnuson, Scott Jasperson, Debbie Waterhouse, Dr. Debbie Allert, “The Boat Club”, and to Pastor Susan Berge and John’s Knife River Lutheran Church family, who loved and sustained John & Melanie through John’s many years of disability.

Memorials, in lieu of flowers, may be directed to Knife River Lutheran Church, or to a favorite charity of John’s these past 50+ years, St. Labre Indian School, PO Box 216, Ashland, MT 59003-9989.

Services will be held at 11 AM on Monday, March 28, 2022 at Knife River Lutheran Church.  The service will also be live-streamed on Knife River Lutheran Church’s Facebook page.    To share your memories or condolences online please visit www.cavallinfuneralhome.com .

BE AT O'CONNOR'S HOUSE MAY 29 TO REMEMBER MICKEY PORTER

 May 29 Celebration of Life memorial for Mickey Porter

Mickey Porter’s sons Mike and Ben will hold a memorial to celebrate his life at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29 at the home of former BJ features writer Bill O’Connor, 1108 Rambling Way in Bath Township.

It is open to “all Beacon Journal folks, past and present, and their spouses, partners, significant others, boy toys and trophies,” O’Connor tells me.

Bill added:

“We'll have a few drinks and enjoy the wonderful legacy we have from that magical time that is too-fast fading. No one enjoyed our newsroom and the people in it more than Mickey Porter.” 

Sorry to disagree, Bill, but I think I’m neck-and-neck with Mickey on that one. I would RUN to work because it was so exciting and enjoyable. The camaraderie was astounding!

Mickey, one of the best columnists in BJ history, passed away Friday, March 18.

He spent 40 years at Ol’ Blue Walls at 44 E. Exchange Street.

TOM HUNSICKER, AL'S SON, JOINS TOO-LARGE BJ CROWD IN HEAVEN

Tom Hunsicker, son of the late BJ printer Al Hunsicker, passed away Friday, March 18. Al passed away in 2015.

Tom’s sister, Pam Hunsicker Coy of Norton, and my daughter, Monnie Ann, attended Falls High together. Pam’s father-in-law, the late Al Coy, and I were involved in the Cuyahoga Falls Amateur Baseball Association, often at CFABA board meetings when Al and his best friend, the late Glenn Winsett, were on the CFABA board and in charge of cooking hamburgers during Falls High baseball doubeheaders at Waterworks Park.

 

Tom’s other sister is Brenda Hunsicker Hoover.

 

Al was at the BJ for 32 years. I was there for 26, retiring in 1996.

 

I was at a 2009 Papa Joe’s monthly gathering of BJ retirees that included Dave Boerner, Tom Moore, Harry Liggett, Calvin Deshong, Gene McClellan, Al Hunsicker, Ken Wright and Joe Catalano. Tom Hunsicker will find his father in Heaven having gatherings with Dave, Tom, Harry, Cal, Gene, Ken and Joe. Too many gone too soon. Dammit!

 

Al’s wife, Lillian, passed away in 2021.

 

Tom’s obituary:

 

Thomas W. Hunsicker, 56, of Cuyahoga Falls, passed away on March 18, 2022. He was born in Akron on December 8, 1965 to the late Alfred and Lillian Hunsicker. Tom lived in San Antonio for the past twenty plus years, where he worked as a network engineer and vice president at Wells Fargo.

Tom played recreational volleyball for many years and loved dogs, particularly the labrador retrievers that he rescued. He was an avid sports fan of San Antonio and Cleveland teams.

In addition to his parents, Tom was preceded in death by his grandparents and his great-niece, Raegan.

He will be dearly missed by his sisters, Brenda (Dale) Hoover and Pamela (Don) Coy; niece, Jillian (Brandon) Foster; nephews, Ryan (Laura) Coy, Jeremy Hoover, and Jeffrey Hoover; and thirteen great-nieces and great-nephews.

Visitation will be held on Friday, March 25, 2022 from 5-7 followed by a 7:00 p.m. memorial service at NEWCOMER FUNERAL HOME, 131 N. Canton Rd., Akron. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the San Antonio Humane Society, 4804 Fredericksburg Rd., San Antonio, Texas 78229 . 

"30" FOR MICKEY PORTER, FAMED BJ COLUMNIST WHO PASSED AWAY FRIDAY

Mickey Porter, one of the best columnists in BJ history, passed away Friday, March 18. He would have been 85 in May.

Bill O’Connor, a pretty good columnist and feature writer himself at the BJ, gave me the sad news. Bill’s post to me:

“Mickey suffered a few minor strokes over the past few years, but a major one about a year ago that left him paralyzed on one side, and made it difficult to talk. Since then, he's been bed-ridden at home.

“He often spoke with great fondness and humor about our days at the Beacon. I don't know about services yet. Mickey discouraged them.

“I'll be sitting down with his son, Mike, soon and will let you know if there's anything further. His other son, Ben, of course, will be arriving. Ben's son Jack, a toddler, and his daughter Leyla, an infant, are Mick's two grandchildren.

“Mike's wife is Amy, Ben's is Natalie. Mike, who works in financial services, lives in Colorado. Ben, a lawyer, in North Carolina. Mick's wife, Suzy, died a few years ago. As you probably know she, too, once worked at the Beacon and was a good reporter.”

Mickey retired after 40 years at the BJ in 2006 on the day that 24 left 44 E. Exchange Street jobs forever with their combined 335 years of newspaper experience. In 2016 the BJ lost more than 500 years of experience in another mass exodus. In 2001 492 years of experience said bye-bye BJ on one day. By the time the exits ran out of bodies more than 2,000 years of experience was lost, including my 43 years, 26 at the BJ.

His columns, which went by Mickey at Large and Porter’s People, depending on the decade, were read and enjoyed by nearly everyone who got the BJ.

In 2015 Mickey surfaced in a story by BJ business writer Betty Lin-Fisher about FirstMerit Corporation closing 16 bank branches. Mickey gave FirstMerit a major demerit because it closed the Copley branch where Mickey banked for 50 years.

Mickey, like so many of us, frequently showed up at BJ reunions on the late chief artist Bud Morris’ farm in Medina County. That was before Bud and wife Joan moved to Lillian, Alabama, where Joan had relatives, after his BJ retirement. Bud passed away in 2000, Joan in 2010. Bud came up with the name of Channels, the TV guide that I gave birth to in 1980.

Mickey’s wife, Suzanne, retired as a lawyer for the Scanlong and Gearinger law firm.

Mickey lead the founding of the Akron Press Club in 1971. He also played on the Beacon Bombers softball team which was aptly named because it bombed in most of its games. I at times helped them lose.

Sharon Shreve Lorentzen, the famous Farkle who put the sparkle in the BJ, once decribed Mickey as "the best there. Funny, sardonic, so intelligent. He was ahead of his time. And a pretty good bowler, too."

Sounds like the Mickey I knew.

AN UGLY TALE OF MANAGEMENT PREFERRING PROFITS OVER INTEGRITY

 Price of integrity in Athens:

Firings and resignations!!!

Nearly every professional journalist at the Athens News and Athens Messenger, in the shadow of Ohio University, has either resigned or been fired because management sided with a shady advertiser rather than protecting its readers.

Adams Publish Group is the culprit. In Klamath County in Oregon at the Herald and News APG lost its entire staff. Maybe APG stands for Appalling Putrid Gutless.

The wealthy Adams family purchased the Athens newspapers in 2014 so it didn’t take the ugly corporation long to destroy, dismantle and demoralize.

APG Media of Ohio president Mark Cohen declined comment. Look for exodus from its 27 daily newspapers, more than 90 non-daily and more than 220 media-related products and associated websites in 20 states to be next to take the burn-it-to-the-ground hit.

The Adams family – I can hear Lurch in the background in the TV series based on Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons even though they left one d out of their Addams name – buys newspapers like trinkets. Integrity, morality and superb media investigations are foreign to the Adams family, though.

They fired editor Corinne Colbert for exposing companies claiming to sell high-value collectible coins that ran ads in the Athens newspapers! Isn’t that the media’s job, to expose frauds? Some readers who called Colbert said she never got the coins they ordered but the frauds kept their money. Colbert complained to management, which shrugged their shoulders and said they couldn’t do anything about the ads (they own the damn papers, don’t they?).

 

So Colbert published an article in the two newspapers explaining the ads to their readers. Two days later, the axe fell on Colbert’s head and she was out of a job.

 

To paraphrase “The Addams Family” theme song:

They're creepy and they're kooky
Mysterious and spooky
They're all together ooky
The Adams family

Strange
Deranged
The Adams family

 

You better hope the Adams family doesn’t buy the newspaper in your town. It won’t be long before you won’t have any respectable, moral and honest reporter and editor left.

 

Strange, deranged indeed. Maybe they’re related to Trump or in business with him?

 

Just another reminder that money and power corrupt.

SID SPRAGUE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. (970) 420-5034

 

Retired printer Sid Sprague, who lives in Loveland, Colorado, is dealing with prostate cancer again and “would love to hear from” his former  BJ co-workers.

Phone him at (970) 420-5034 and make him happy. Colorado is a LONG way from Ohio and even Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where Sid was living when is wife passed away.

Sid goes in for his PhSA (prostate-specific antigen) test March 15 and has an appointment with his oncologist March 25.

I reported his cataract surgery for his eyes in 2020.

Sid’s significant other for 17 years, Nancy, is “doing well,” Sid said.

Nancy, who is from Canton, was neighbor and friend to Sid’s late wife, Sandra. After Sandy passed away, Sid and Nancy moved in 2005 from Pawleys Island to Loveland.

Sid moved from Cuyahoga Falls to Pawleys in the late 1990s. BJ Accounting Department retiree Harold McElroy and wife Linda joined them in 1999. Retired printer Dick Latshaw and Dick’s wife Pat, joined them in 2000. They all lived on the same street, which is only three blocks long. It was BJ south.

Latshaw and McElroy have passed away.

Sid’s granddaughter married July 3, 2021 in Connecticut.

His daughter, Suzanne Sprague Rutherford, lives in Costa Mesa, which is 37 miles southeast of Los Angeles, and is working toward being a veterinarian (docs for animals).

Sid’s other sons are Jeffrey Sprague, whose two sons live in the Columbus area, and Steve, who passed away in Middleburg, Virginia at the age of 38 in 2010.

Sid’s brother, Ken Sprague, passed away in 2010 in Cuyahoga Falls, where I often had meals with Sid on Front Street.

Sid has taken cruises to Alaska, the Caribbean (both Eastern and Western) and the “Mexican Riviera” on the Yucatan Peninsula with Cozumel as a jumping off point for the cruise ships before you take a tender to the mainland and the “Mexican Riviera.”

Sid once explained why he left warm and sunny South Carolina for Colorado where he’s up to his butt in snow for month after month:

 

“We had to evacuate (from Pawleys Island) every time there was a hurricane and that was a disaster. So I told myself, one more time and I’m out of here. The next hurricane came, a big tree fell on my house. As soon as I fixed the house, I sold it and we moved to Colorado.”

 

Sid was among the 45 retired BJ printers who benefitted from the successful healthcare lawsuit that the late Dave White filed against the BJ that restored retirement day medical coverage.

 

I piggybacked on Dave’s lawsuit by filing on behalf of retired BJ Guild newsroom members.

 

It saved me $80,000 because I got $4 90-day prescriptions not matter what that total cost of the pills were.

 

Canadian billionaire got out from under the lawsuit requirements 8 years later by making the BJ a shell corporation, stacked the debt ot it, filed bankruptcy to stop the $4 lawsuit benefits for Guild and retired printers.

 

As if he needed another million by taking thousands of dollars from BJ retirees.

 

Since the late BJ State Desk assistant editor Harry Liggett created this blog there have been 1.2 million pageviews. It’s my way of upholding Harry’s tradition of keeping BJ folks informed about each other.

 

The number of hits shows BJ folks are tuning in. If you want to see if there are articles on this blog about your former co-workers just go to the top left of this page where you see a white “b” on a red background, type in their name and hit your “Enter” key. EVERY article ever published with that name in it will show up!

NICE GUY BILL HUNTER PASSES AWAY

 

Bill Hunter, 93, passed away Friday, March 4. He lived in New Franklin in southern Summit County.  Bill was born August 5, 1928.

Bill and the late Jean’s son, Steven, passed away in 2018 at the age of only 57. Widower Bill married Lucy Green Hunter. Other children and stepchildren were Sue Hays of Charlotte, North Carolina, Stacy Hunter Ticoras of Warren, Ohio, Carol Caldwell, Dave Green and Dan Green.

Bill made his points quietly, like the gentleman he was.

Retired BJ artist Art Krummel “loved going out to his house on the lake to see 4th of July fireworks.”

Retired BJ Reference Librarian echoed Art’s thoughts about Hunters lake: “I would see Bill & Lucy out and about the (Portage) lakes, always smiling and always happy to see and TALK to you. Bill, you were a good friend.”

Former BJ sports editor Tom Giffen, the man Phoenix native who took his Roy Hobbs seniors baseball tournament from Akron, after 29 years there under Tom’s founding and supervision, to Fort Myers in 1993, called Bill “a consummate professional who protected his staff and worked hard to find solutions to the demands of editors and reporters. And always with a smile and an open door.”

Roy Hobbs World Series was in Orlando and bankrupt when Tom rescued it and moved it to Fort Myers. By the 20-teens Tom had built it up to 245 teams with 4,400 amateur players from 43 states and 6 foreign countries participating in more than 850 games on major league baseball quality fields for 30 days.  

Former BJ copy desk and other environs occupant Charles Montague, who aka was Chasm to those who worked with him for decades, recalled a situation that SO explains how Bill handled situations without yelling or punchouts:

Chasm posted:

“Bill Hunter was a soft-spoken guy, but a long time ago when tempers were high at the Cuyahoga Falls School Board offices on first day of the first ever teacher strike, Bill started shooting and I took notes when this real loudmouth guy walked up and shouted: ‘What gives you the right to take my picture?’

“Bill softly said: ‘This is a public street you’re on.’ The guy replied, ‘I think I’d like to take that effing camera from you and knock your ass out.’ Stlll softly, Bill said ‘What you do is your choice. But if you assault me I — and the Beacon Journal will back me up — will make sure you are dealt with on criminal charges and I will sue you and take your house and car.’

“ ‘What’s your name?,’ I asked. ‘FU,’ he said. ‘No matter,’ I said. ‘One of those board folks looking at you with binoculars will tell me.’

“At that point, a really big guy came over and pulled the jerk away. Big guy looked over and said, ‘Hi, Bill.’ ‘He’s a coach, Bill told me.’ “

Former BJ sportswriter Ed Meyer noted, “He always treated me with respect.”

Cheryl Scott Sheinin, who with husband Neil Sheinin were bowling superstars among BJ folks (and Cheryl in golf, too), Susan Gippin, former BJ chief librarian Cathy Tierney and my former Features Department co-worker Betsy Lammerding when I was Television Editor sounded like an echo chamber:

Cheryl: “Really nice guy.” Susan: “Such a nice guy.” Cathy: “Good, kind man.” Betsy: “You were a good man.”

Sharon Lorentzen, the Farkle who put the sparkle in the BJ newsroom: “He was kind, funny, smiling and patient.”

Gloria Irwin added: “A very long life well-lived.” Tim Smith, once in BJ management: “Great guy and a fine shooter” with his camera.

Let me repeat myself: “Bill made his points quietly, like the gentleman he was. “

It’s unanimous. Proof that you don’t have to be loud and menacing to be an effective manager.

Bill’s obituary:

Bill Hunter, 93, passed away on March 4, 2022, his loving wife Lucy by his side. He was born in Akron on August 5, 1928, to the late E.J. and Flonnie Hunter.  A 1946 graduate of North High School, Bill attended Kent State University.  In 1950 he was drafted into the Army, serving with an engineering unit that surveyed and made maps of the German countryside through 1952.  After his honorable discharge, he was promptly hired by the Akron Beacon Journal as a staff photographer, later promoted to head the department as Chief Photographer at the height of this newspaper’s journalistic heyday, retiring in 1993 after 41 years.

 

Bill moved to the Portage Lakes in 1958 and has resided on the east shore of Turkeyfoot Lake ever since, eventually becoming its elder statesman, default historian and expert on its ecology (even if he would have modestly protested those titles). It was here he developed a passion for restoring and maintaining antique wooden boats, which led to active and rewarding membership in the North Coast Ohio Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society, winning many awards over the years for his impeccable workmanship. That fine eye for detail and craftsmanship translated as well to his woodshop, where he was known to while away the hours “making sawdust.” He enjoyed membership in both the Turkeyfoot Island Club and Sportsman’s Club. On temperate evenings, friends knew to find him with a drink on his front deck, admiring the spectacular sunsets.

 

He married Jean Hagenbush on August 22, 1959, and they raised three children over 38 years filled with love and laughter and the warm conviviality of many dear friends, before her death in 1997.

 

Love returned when Lucy Green came into his life, and they married on June 29, 2001. She took on the role of affectionate matriarch and “Grandma,” warmly gathering their collective families together monthly. They enjoyed over 20 loving and affectionate years together.

An avid reader, Bill was admired by so many for his often encyclopedic, deep well of knowledge in subjects ranging from aviation to WWII, and seemingly everything in between, from nature and ecology to sociology and politics. He held a deep curiosity for all things and maintained a keen sense of humor. He remained steadfastly proud of his children and grandchildren for accomplishments great and small.

 

Besides his parents and his first wife, Jean, Bill was preceded in death by his son, Steve Hunter, and sisters, Betty Lou (George) Quillin, Nancy Lee (Jerry) Hurd, and Shirley (Richard) Drew. He is survived by his wife, Lucy Hunter; daughters, Sue (Ron) Hays and Stacy (George Ticoras) Hunter; stepdaughter, Carol (Brian) Caldwell; stepsons, Dave (Cindy) and Dan Green; sister, Karen (Lou) Leo; his adoring grandchildren, Brandon Hunter, Zachariah (Olga) Hays, Jacob (Andriana) Hays, Katina Ticoras; stepgrandchildren, Jacqueline Diamond, Daniel Green, Cristin Caldwell, and Matthew Smith; step-greatgrandchildren, Aleena and Tom Diamond, Kaiden Huffman, George and Penelope Green; sisters-in-law, Sarah Hagenbush and Lorraine Fox; as well as many beloved nieces, nephews, and countless friends, all of whom will miss him dearly.

 

Friends and family may visit from 4 - 7 P.M. on Friday, March 11, 2022, at Schermesser Funeral Home, 600 E. Turkeyfoot Lake Road, Akron, Ohio 44319 (SR 619).  A memorial service will follow at 7 P.M. with Pastor Brett Faris officiating.  Memorial contributions can be made in Bill’s name to Turkeyfoot Sportsman Club Ladies Auxiliary, 4551 Dusty’s Road, Akron, Ohio 44319, note scholarship fund on the memo line, or to VeloSano, Cleveland Clinic's Cancer Research Initiative, 9500 Euclid Avenue DV, Cleveland, Ohio 44195.  To leave a special message online for the family, visit our website at www.schermesserfh.com .

 

SCHERMESSER
(330) 899-9107
www.schermesserfh.com

Memorial Contributions:

Turkeyfoot Sportsman Club Ladies Auxiliary
4551 Dusty’s Road
Akron, Ohio 44319 
note scholarship fund on the memo line  

 

OR 

 

VeloSano   
Cleveland Clinic's Cancer Research Initiative 
9500 Euclid Avenue DV 
Cleveland, Ohio 44195