Ted Shelby

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued March 22 at 8:49PM EDT until March 22 at 9:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

At 849 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles southwest of Spencerville In Allen County to near Union City, moving east at 50 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible.
Locations impacted include... Celina, St. Marys, Coldwater, St. Henry, Fort Recovery, Rockford, Wabash, Mendon, Osgood, Chickasaw, Burkettsville, North Star, Montezuma, New Weston, Yorkshire, Kossuth, Tama, North Dayton, Maria Stein, and Neptune.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued March 22 at 8:44PM EDT until March 22 at 9:15PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

SVRILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Shelby County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Logan County in west central Ohio... Northern Darke County in west central Ohio... Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Southeastern Mercer County in west central Ohio...
* Until 915 PM EDT.
* At 843 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near Spencerville In Allen County to 6 miles northwest of Ansonia, moving east at 70 mph.
HAZARD...Half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible.
* Locations impacted include... Sidney, Celina, Wapakoneta, St. Marys, Fort Shawnee, New Bremen, Minster, Versailles, St. Henry, Newport, Cridersville, Anna, Fort Loramie, Jackson Center, Russells Point, Ansonia, Botkins, Lakeview, New Knoxville, and Waynesfield.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 90 and 118.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued March 22 at 5:43PM EDT until March 23 at 12:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 73 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
FAYETTE UNION WAYNE
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
DEARBORN FRANKLIN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND
IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 3 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE CAMPBELL KENTON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 32 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
ADAMS HIGHLAND PIKE ROSS SCIOTO
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
BROWN BUTLER CLERMONT CLINTON HAMILTON WARREN
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
AUGLAIZE CHAMPAIGN CLARK DARKE GREENE HARDIN LOGAN MERCER MIAMI MONTGOMERY PREBLE SHELBY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, ADA, ALEXANDRIA, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, CAMDEN, CELINA, CHILLICOTHE, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LOGAN, LONDON, MANCHESTER, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OXFORD, PEEBLES, PICKERINGTON, PIKE LAKE, PIKETON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, PORTSMOUTH, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SEAMAN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TROY, URBANA, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WAVERLY, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WEST UNION, WHEELERSBURG, WILMINGTON, WINCHESTER, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Ted Shelby

"Terrible" Ted E. Shelby, 57, Mendon, passed away July 17, 2013, after losing his long battle with cancer.

Ted was born in St. Marys to Ned and Dorothy "Dot" Shelby.

He is survived by a son, Ty Shelby of Celina; a daughter, Erin (Jeff) Klein of Weston, Wisc.; a granddaughter, Ella Shelby of Celina; sisters, Cheryl (Don) Stahler of Wapakoneta; Judy (Ron) Miller of Fort Myers, Fla., and Lynn Montero of Miami, Fla.; his girlfriend, Teresa Dorsten of Celina; and many other family members and friends who, in Ted's own words, "either hate that you love me or love that you hate me."

Before graduating from St. Marys Memorial High School in 1973, Ted had already developed a strong interest in cars (he was very proud that, as a teenager, he owned not one but two 1970 Pontiac Trans Ams). After high school, he went on to attend the GM Automotive Service Education Program. Ted's early automotive mechanic training proved to be the start of a lifelong career in transportation, though he dabbled in other work along the way. His side careers included working at Huffy Corporation, several sales positions, including a stint selling copy machines, and managing a produce store. In the early 1980s, Ted also began driving trucks at night as supplemental support for his young family. In 1983, Ted became a full-time commercial driver, working for several different trucking companies before founding his own, Transonic Express, in 1985. He used his natural charm, charisma and mechanical ingenuity to grow the business, eventually employing multiple drivers and hauling everything from fresh produce and lift trucks to funeral caskets.

Ted worked hard, but played harder. To avoid misdemeanor charges friends and family will surely plead the fifth on some stories about him. Without incriminating ourselves, we can safely tell you that he loved rock 'n' roll music, NASCAR, and football played by the "Roughest Riders in the land," the Buckeyes and Miami Dolphins. He also enjoyed annoying his in-laws while playing euchre, setting off extremely loud fireworks of questionable origin and using his aforementioned charm and charisma to raise money for Special Olympics in Celina's annual Polar Plunge. While running Transonic Express from the home base in Van Wert, he also continued to drive. During the summer months, his family joined him for west coast deliveries. Because of this, his children received very special extracurricular lessons in geography (how to read a map in order to avoid weigh stations when a load was over the legal weight limit), physical education (how to sleep sitting up in the driver's seat or curled around the stick shift of an 18-wheeler because mom and dad fully occupied the truck's bunk) and social studies (how to keep elbows off the table while eating so one didn't actually look like a truck driver, and how to be nice to state highway patrol officers who caught you going 90 mph in a 55 mph speed zone). Largely because of this on-the-road education, he ensured his children were uniquely prepared to grow into successful, fun-loving adults with the confidence and wherewithal to stand on their own two feet.

"Terrible" Ted's last party for family and friends will be Saturday at Miller-Long and Folk Funeral Home in St. Marys.

Funeral services are 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Calling is noon until time of services.

Condolences may be sent to Millerfuneralhomes.net.

The family asks that donations be made to the Mercer County Cancer Association.

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