COOKEN Silent Keys
COOKEN Silent Keys
Cooken honors the following deceased hams who were members of our Club.
We honor their memory and what they brought to our shared hobby.
A memorial
service for Richard
D. Winbigler, age
69, of Newark, was
held at 4:00 p.m. on
Sunday, July 10,
2011 at
the Newark Chapel of
Henderson-Van
Atta-Stickle Funeral
& Cremation Service
with Pastor Eric
Miller officiating. The Licking County
Veterans Alliance
will provide
military honors. Mr. Winbigler passed
away on Thursday,
July 7, 2011 at the
Selma Markowitz Care
Center (operated by
Hospice of Central
Ohio). He was born
December 11, 1941 in
Youngstown, Ohio to
the late Fred R.
Winbigler and Marcia
(Norton) Winbigler
Rasbold.
Mr. Winbigler worked
as a truck driver
for many years. He
served in the
United States Navy
for 10 years and
retired from the Air
Force Reserves after
11 years of service.
Mr. Winbigler was an
avid ARRL Amateur
Radio enthusiast. He
loved his motorcycle
and enjoyed bike
riding, travel,
boating, camping and
model airplanes. He
was a member of both
Cooken and NARA and
was active in ARES
and both VHF and HF
operating.
Surviving are his
wife, Lois Jean (Mohler)
Winbigler; daughter,
Christine Breffle;
step-children,
Phillip (Deanna)
McMannis, Brenda
(Jack) Brooks, Debra
(Randy) Rhinehart,
Tye (Katrina)
McMannis, Cloyd
(Randy) McMannis,
Nita (Dave) Bonifant;
step-son-in-law,
Ronnie Albright; six
grandchildren;
twenty-one
great-grandchildren;
brothers and sister,
Tom Atkinson,
Charlie Atkinson and
Sandy (Robert) Moull,
all of Pennsylvania;
many nieces and
nephews; and many
friends.
In addition to his
parents, he was
preceded in death by
a step-daughter,
Barb Albright; and a
step-grandson, T.J.
McMannis.
Friends may call
from 2-4 p.m. on
Sunday, July 10, at
the funeral home, 59
North Fifth Street,
Newark.
Memorial
contributions may be
made to the Oncology
Floor at Licking
Memorial Hospital or
Hospice of Central
Ohio.
Additional
photos of Dick
can be found on
our
Photo Gallery.
Dick At K8NQ antenna raising in spring 2011.
Dick and good friend Russ Payne take a break during KD8DZ Antenna Party.
Dick and his brother Tom Atkinson at the Tour de Cure in June,
2011, about one month before he died. He hadn't seen Tom in many, many
years until this occasion.
Obituary Courtesy of Henderson Vanata-Stickle
Randy Smith,
N8KBE (1941-2010
)
A funeral service for Randolph "Randy" (Shag) Smith was held Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the Criss-Schoedinger Funeral Home with the burial in Hanover Cemetery.
Randy was born in Columbus, Ohio on December 20, 1941 to Ralph and Agatha Gay (Hoff) Smith. He died Thursday September 16, 2010 at Genesis Hospital in Zanesville. He was 68. He was preceded in death by his father, Ralph Smith.He is survived by his wife, Eva (McKee) Smith; mother, Gay Hoff; daughters, Cynthia of Pataskala, Samantha (Patrick) Cost and Lindsay Magers; step-daughter, Jeanne Magers of Newark; grandchildren, Averyanna Magers, Rick, Patricia, and Kristin Rutter, Jade Borgerson, Jeremiah and Juliana Magers; brother and sister in law, Geoffrey and Sandra Smith; niece, Michele Smith; special longtime friends, Jim "Uncle B" Benson and Patty Coyle, and a host of friends.
Randy was a firefighter and EMT with the Hanover Volunteer Fire Dept., a member of the IBA, Pirate Radio Club, COOKEN, NARA, NRA, and a Vice Commodore of the Coast Guard Auxiliary Post # 184. He loved to ride motorcycles as he was a Harley-Davidson enthusiast, and enjoyed amateur radio. He will be sadly missed by all that knew him.
Eva Smith, KD8HWC (1952-2011)