Flood Warning issued September 19 at 10:54AM EDT until September 20 at 6:00PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
...The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a Flood Warning for the following rivers...
St. Marys River at Rockford.
Additional information is available at www.weather.gov/iln.
* WHAT...Minor flooding is forecast.
* WHERE...St. Marys River at Rockford.
* WHEN...From this afternoon to Sunday evening.
* IMPACTS...At 13.0 feet, State Route 117 near Route 118 north of Rockford is water-covered and closed.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - At 10:40 AM EDT Saturday the stage was 12.9 feet. - Forecast...The river is expected to rise above flood stage this afternoon to a crest of 13.2 feet this evening. It will then fall below flood stage early tomorrow afternoon. - Flood stage is 13.0 feet.
Today 80° Today 80° slight chance chance 69° 69° chance likely Tomorrow 78° Tomorrow 78° chance likely 59° 59° likely
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Arthur Hess
Former Mercer County resident Arthur H. Hess, 76, of Cleveland, Tenn., died at 9:30 a.m. Jan. 14, 2008, in Cleveland.
He was born July 6, 1931, to Henry and Margaret Hoelscher Hess. He was formerly married to Addy Jutte, who survives in St. Henry
Others survivors are four sons, Charles (Joan) and David (Teresa), all of St. Henry, Mark, Portland, Ind., and James (Barb), Fort Recovery; four daughters, Karen (Mike) Timmerman, Ridgeville, Ind., Joyce (Brian) Dicke, Rockford, and Susan Hess and Kathy (Charles) Voskuhl, all of Coldwater; a sister, Rita (Ben) Hoying, Montezuma; three sisters-in-law, Adella and Addie, both of St. Henry, and Eleanor, Coldwater; and 22 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Deceased are three brothers, Urban, Jerry and Art; a sister, Magdelena, and two sisters and their husbands, Bertha and Ernie Beckstedt and Monica and Gregor Grevenkamp.
Services were held Thursday at Grissom Funeral Home, Cleveland. Burial was at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Cleveland.
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Victor L. Hess, 82, 213 Hillcrest Drive, Coldwater, died at 8:30 a.m. Jan. 17, 2008, at Mercer County Community Hospital, Coldwater. [More]
Dorothy Muhlenkamp, 93, of Coldwater, died Jan. 18, 2008, at her daughter's residence in St. Henry. [More]
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