Cheryl Scott Sheinin
Hurt in fall
Blame it on all that star bowling!
BJ Finance retiree (after 45 years) Cheryl Scott Sheinin,
who blames her “weak legs,” fell again “and my neighbor had to come over to help
(husband) Neil get me up. We owe him big time.
“Not hurt, just my pride.”
Garfield High graduate Cheryl and Neil both are bowling stars. Neil
had a high handicap for a 3-game series with 685. Cheryl had high series raw
score of 463!
Neil bowled Cheryl over the first time
she saw him. I’ll let Cheryl tell the story:
“We met at the Beacon. I worked the Public
Service counter when it was on the 2nd floor. This handsome guy got off the
elevator from the 3rd floor and came up to me to buy stamps. I looked at him,
leaned over to open the drawer to get the stamps and fell off the stool. Great
first impression.
“I found he was a copy runner in editorial
and the chase was on."
“He left the BJ to work in Pennsylvania for
Brunswick Bowling for a couple of years. When he returned to Akron he worked at
Fairlawn Lanes and that is where our BJ ladies bowling team bowled.
“We caught up again there and the dating
began. We got married in 1979.”
The math says that’s 44 years!
They did more than
park themselves together in bowling alleys.
Neil and Cheryl
have visited national parks like Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, Mount Rushmore in
South Dakota (with the 4 Presidents), Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota,
Devils Tower in Wyoming and Teddy Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Cheryl’s brother, Don Scott, passed away in
2020. Their parents were Louise and Everett Scott. Don was a Goodyear
supervisor for 35 years. During the 1950s when he was in the Army he got a tank
injury that caused continuous back problems, but not enough to keep him from
golfing, bowling and fishing.
Cheryl
is a remarkably constant friend to have, too.
When
former BJ security guard Anna Nitz passed away, Cheryl was in Myrtle Beach,
South Carolina in 2012 for the spreading of Anna’s ashes into the Atlantic
Ocean area Anna loved so much.
Anna’s
husband, Bill Nitz, was there. Bill’s cousin Albert Nitz was Bill’s chaffeur
for the seaside ceremony. Bill passed away in 2019.
Anna began with the Pinkertons for 42 years, starting in 1968, and migrated to spending much of her life greeting visitors to 44 E. Exchange Street. For those not in the dinosaur age that was where the BJ building was before moving into an former rubber shop 7th floor on Main Street in Akron.
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