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Dr. Arthur R. “Doc” Ebert – Fort Morrow Volunteer Fire Department – Line of Duty Death, 1997

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Dr. Arthur R. Ebert
12/12/1933-1/14/1997
Arthur Ebert was born December 12 ,1933, in Marion Ohio, to Homer and Ida (Heimlich) Ebert. On June 23,1957, he married Carol L. (Longanbach), in Columbus Ohio.
Arthur graduated from The Ohio State University School Veterinary Medicine, in early June of 1957. After the marriage to Carol, they lived in Glasgow Kentucky, where Dr. Ebert practiced Veterinary Medicine, at the Glasgow Veterinary Clinic. In 1959, Dr. Ebert moved to Waldo, to work at the Waldo Animal Clinic.
Dr. Ebert was a person who wanted to help people. It ranged from 4-H to helping at the county fair with kids’ animals that they were showing and with his Church. He also had a passion in helping people through the fire service. He volunteered at Fort Morrow Fire Department since 1959, until his death.

On January 1, 1997, at 6:30 Pm, Fort Morrow Fire Department responded to a fire at 7262 Brundage Rd Waldo, Ohio. The fire started in an attached garage and then spread to the house. Upon the arrival of the fire department, the garage was fully involved. As members began to attack the fire, Dr. Ebert, who was staffing the pump, collapsed in cardiac arrest. He was rendered aid by other members of the fire department and transported to Marion General Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. This was the second fire the department was on that evening.
Dr. Ebert was survived by his wife Carol, a son John Ebert, three daughters, Kate Brown, Sarah Hancock and Ruth Ebert, a brother Edward Ebert and nine grandchildren.
He was laid to rest in Waldo Cemetery, Waldo Ohio.
Article researched and contributed by Marion County Firefighter Memorial

Tech5 John G. Snyder – World War Two MIA

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John Grover Snyder was born 15 February 1919, in Marion, Ohio. His parents are Grover C. & Cleah J. (Harmon) Snyder. John had a brother, George W. Snyder, who was also a World War Two veteran. George served with the 82nd Airborne Division. John G. Snyder attended Waldo High School. It appears he was a Sophomore at Harding High School in 1935. He would go on to attend Ohio Northern University. He was employed with Employed Hanley Engineering Service Co., in Prospect, prior to being drafted into service. He married Glenna H. (Conkle), of Waldo, in May 1942.
John G. Snyder took training at Camp Forrest, Tennessee and Camp Gordon, Georgia. He served in the European Theater with the 12th Field Artillery Observation Battalion. He attained the rank of Technician 5th Grade (Tech 5). Tech 5 John G. Snyder was listed as missing in action on 29 June 1944, somewhere over the English Channel. His body was never recovered. His name is listed on the Tablets of the Missing, Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, Cambridgeshire, England.
Tec 5 John G. Snyder is remembered on the Honor Roll, at the Veterans Memorial Park, in Marion, Ohio; on the west wall of the Marion County Courthouse; and on the World War II Veterans Memorial Wall, at the Marion Cemetery.

Colonel T. E. Andrews – Spanish American War Veteran, World War One Veteran & Former Mayor of Marion, Ohio.

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A young Capt. Thomas E. Andrews circa 1900

Thomas E. Andrews was born 5 July 1875, in Union County, Ohio. His parents were Marion A. Andrews of Delaware, & Angeline (Leonhardt) Andrews of Union County.
T. E. Andrews was listed on 30 May 1893, as a private with Co. G, 14th Infantry, Marion, Ohio. On 1 September 1893, he would be promoted to Corporal; to sergeant on 2 February 1894; and he would serve as first sergeant beginning 1 July 1896. T. E. Andrews would begin his career as an officer on 27 April 1898, as a second lieutenant. While G Company was serving with the 4th O. V. I., he would receive his promotion to First Lieutenant on 21 August 1899. He would become a Captain on 7 August 1900.
T. E. Andrews would see active service on 6 – 9 June 1894, during the Wheeling Creek Strikes and in August of 1900, during the Akron Riots. He would serve with G Company, 4th O. V. I. during the War with Spain, seeing action 5 August and 8 August of 1898. While in Puerto Rico, he would also lead Musician Harry Love and Private Shaffer in capturing a Spanish flag. On 7 – 23 October 1898, he would be assigned special duty with K Company. He would be mustered out on 20 January 1899.
His service would continue with the Ohio National Guard up to and beyond the First World War. He would again be commissioned a first lieutenant in World War One. He would return after World War One to hold office as Mayor of Marion, Ohio. He would resign this post to accept the appointment as Assistant Adjutant General on the staff of Governor Harry L. Davis with the commission of lieutenant colonel. He would train recruits at Camp Perry and serve on the administrative staff of the Ohio National Guard until his retirement in 1938.
He also served a superintendent of the The Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home in Xenia and for four years as mayor of Waldo, Ohio.
He married Gertrude Michel Andrews on 9 March 1941. He would died on 27 April 1960.
He is buried in the Waldo, Cemetery, Waldo, Ohio.

T. E. Andrews, Retired Guard
Officer and Ex-Mayor, Dies
Col. T. E Andrews, retired National Guard career soldier, and former mayor of the city, died Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Willits Convalescent Home. He had been ill five years.
Col. Andrews served as a second lieutenant in Company G of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry of Marion during the Spanish American War and as a first lieutenant in World War I,
After Word War I, he returned to Marion in 1919 to be elected mayor. Short before his term expired he was appointed assistant adjutant general on the staff of Gov. Harry L. Davis with the commission of lieutenant colonel. He was a trainer of recruits at Camp Perry and on the administrative staff of the Ohio National Guard until his retirement at the age of 64 in 1938.
He also served a superintendent of the Soldiers and Sailors Home in Xenia and as mayor of Waldo for four years. He was a member of the American Legion.
He was born July 5, 1875, in Union County to Marion A. Andrews of Delaware and Angeline Leonhardt Andrews of Union County.
His wife, Gertrude Michel Andrews, whom he married March 9, 1941 in Waldo, survives.
He was a member of the Christ Methodist Church in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Marion Lodge 70 F&AM.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 3 p.m. in the Schaffner-Denzer Funeral Home. The Rev. Harry G. Myers of the Waldo Methodist Church and the Rev. A. A. Turner of the Waldo church, will officiate. Burial will be in the Waldo Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 tonight.
Note: Willits Convalescent Home was on North Prospect Street, Marion, Ohio

From The Marion Star dated 4-28-1960 pg. 12