Special Weather Statement issued February 2 at 2:37AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
Sub-zero temperatures and wind chill values are occurring this morning. While most locations will have values in the negative single digits, some isolated temperatures and wind chills will be as low as 10 degrees below zero. Temperatures improve across western and southwest Ohio over the next few hours as clouds move in.
4° 4° Mon 28° Mon 28° chance 16° 16° Tue 28° Tue 28° slight chance
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Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Ruth Walker
Former Portland, Ind., resident Ruth Alice Walker, 94, Celina, died Feb. 21, 2012, at Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, St. Marys.
She was born Oct. 6, 1917, in Bath County, Ky., to Rens and Edna McGlothin Sorrell. On March 17, 1945, she married Cecil "Shorty" Walker, who died April 12, 1987.
Surviving are three daughters, Linda (Charles) McClung, Wichita, Kan., Connie (Robert) Snyder, Celina, and Nancy (Bill) Fabian, Fincastle, Vir., and three grandchildren.
She had worked as a hospital aide at Portland Hospital for 23 years.
Private family service will be held at Baird-Freeman Funeral Home, Portland. Burial will follow in Claycomb Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the donor's choice.
Condolences may be left at bairdfreeman.com.
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