Cold Weather Advisory issued December 13 at 12:42PM EST until December 15 at 11:00AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Very cold wind chills as low as 17 below zero expected.
* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Indiana, northeast and northern Kentucky, and central, south central, southwest, and west central Ohio.
* WHEN...From 7 PM this evening to 11 AM EST Monday.
* IMPACTS...The cold wind chills as low as 15 below zero could result in hypothermia or frostbite if precautions are not taken.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Cold wind chill will occur late tonight into Sunday morning.
Winter Weather Advisory issued December 13 at 12:40PM EST until December 14 at 7:00AM EST by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)
* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 3 and 5 inches.
* WHERE...Delaware, Union, Auglaize, Champaign, Darke, Hardin, Logan, Mercer, Miami, and Shelby Counties.
* WHEN...Until 7 AM EST Sunday.
* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions.
Today 27° Today 27° 6° 6° Tomorrow 16° Tomorrow 16° 4° 4°
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
James Hess
Coldwater native James P. Hess, 79, of Bellefontaine, died at 7:10 a.m. Dec. 18, 2007, at his home.
He was born Aug. 4, 1928, in Coldwater, to Carl Zeno and Mary Margaret Dugan Hess. On Dec. 29, 1956, he married Ann Elizabeth Elder, who survives.
Other survivors are two sons, Patrick (Cymbria), Cincinnati, and Daniel (Patricia), Bellefontaine; a daughter, Jane (Michael) Collins, Alexandria, Va.; and several grandchildren.
He formerly worked as a salesman for Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, and for his father at the Coldwater Lumber Company, before owning and operating the Hess Lumber Company, Bellefontaine, until his retirement in September 2000. He sent a percentage of his lumberyard profits for years to poor villages in Haiti, South America and Romania, as well as along the Amazon River. He graduated from Coldwater High School and Miami University, Oxford, in 1950, majoring in business. He also was a U.S. Air Force veteran, assigned as a finance officer at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, and Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho and was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church, Bellefontaine.
Funeral Mass is 11 a.m. Saturday at the church, the Rev. Patrick Sheridan officiating. Burial is at Calvary Cemetery, Bellefontaine.
Calling is 6-8 p.m. Friday at Eichholtz Funeral Home, Bellefontaine.
Contributions can be made to St. Vincent dePaul Society of St. Patrick Catholic Church or any hospice organization.
Condolences can be made at www.eichholtzfuneralhome.com.
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