4A SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 LANCASTER EAGLE-GAZETTE Richard Lee 86 29-Aug Shaw-Davis Funeral Homes andCremation Services David E. 62 Amanda 01-Sep Taylor-Theller Funeral andCremationService Dilo, Patricia Sue 57 Newark 25-Aug HendersonVanAtta Stickle -NewarkChapel LisaG. 61 Lancaster 29-Aug JoyceElaine 83 Lancaster 31-Aug Frank E. Smith Funeral Home Additional information in display obituaries Obituaries appear in print and online at www.lancastereaglegazette.com/obituariess OBITUARIES AND DEATH NOTICES Name Age Town, State Death Date Arrangements April 16, 1936 August 29, 2022 Richard L. Behrens, age 86, long-time resident of CanalWinchester, Ohio died onAugust 29, 2022.
He was born at home onApril 16, 1936 to the late Harry and Ethel (Oyler) Behrens of Lithopolis, Ohio. He met the love of his life, Dolores Ripley, in Groveport and graduated fromGroveport High School in 1954. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1954 to 1956 on the USS Robert L. Wilson.
He was a Columbus Firefighter from 1959 1995 and retired after 36 years of service.He was amember of St. Lutheran Church in Lithopolis OH. He helped at St. in many ways over the de- cades mowing, making coffee, helping with the chicken noodle dinner, pulling up carpet, painting or whatever needed done.He volunteered for the Lancaster Food Pantry andMeals onWheels. For years, he worked the Bloom-Township Fire De- Memorial Day Fish Fry, usually in the back washing dishes.
In his prime, he enjoyed vis- iting family in Florida and California, swimming, boating, and water-skiing at Park at Buckeye Lake with Dolores and the 4 kids. It was common for him to help family, churchmembers and neighbors with whatever chore was needed. Surviving are his children Denise (Mike) Fink, Deanna (Gale) Glendenning, Douglas (Cecelia) Behrens, and Dallas (Lorrie) Behrens; grandchil- dren, John Stevenson II, Douglas (Jaimie) Ste- venson, Logan (Abby) Glendenning, Blake (Al- lei) Behrens, Jessica Behrens, and step-grandson Jeremy Glendenning and 4 great- grandchildren. He is also survived by his brothers-in-law Robert Ripley, Gary (Marilyn) Ripley, and Roger (Jerri- lyn) Ripley and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his beloved wife of years Dolores (Ripley) Behrens, his brother Robert (Virginia) Behrens and sister Hattie (Royal) McCune and brother-in-law, John LaVern (Alice) Ripley and sister-in-law, Ruth Ripley.
At request, private internment will take place at the discretion. Interment will be at the Lithopolis Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in name to St. LutheranChurch Building Fund, P.O. Box 206, 43136 or Columbus Firefighters Foundation at 379 Broad Street Columbus, Ohio 43215.
Richard Lee Behrens LANCASTER Joyce Elaine Stoppenhagen went home to be with her Lord on August 31, 2022, surrounded by her family. She was born on November 20, 1938 to the late CharlesW. and Freda Lorena (Fry) Gregg just out- side Union She was the oldest, and only surviving, of three children. She met the love of her life and husband of 62 years, W. Gene Stoppenhagen, in June of 1955, at Pokagon State Park when her friends dared her to talk to cute The two attended DePauwUniversity in Greencastle, Indiana, where she was in the Delta Zeta sorority and earned a BA in Education.
Joyce and Genemarried in 1960 and had two children. Theymoved to in 1972. She was an activemember of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church where she was in the choir and the Circle. first teaching job was in Renton, Washington in 1960, where she taught Spanish for a year while Gene attended graduate school.
She returned to teaching Spanish full-time at Pickerington High School from 1983-1998 and was much loved by her students and colleagues. Joyce also loved to travel. After her retirement, she and Gene traveled all over the world, visiting Alaska, and The Dominican Republic. They were among the last tourists to walk on the continent of Antarctica. Joyce was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Douglas Dean and Michael Chester Gregg; and a cousin, Janet Swain.
She is survived by her husband, W. Gene Stoppenhagen; two children, Kristine (Timothy) Williams of Athens, Ohio, and Jeffrey (Denise) Stop- penhagen of Richfield, Ohio; two grandchildren, ErikaWilliams of Brook- lyn, New York, and Jackson Williams of Denver, Colorado; a sister-in law, Kay (Bert) Schulz of Angola, Indiana; a niece, Amy (Scott) Spooner and their son, Sean, of Saline, Michigan; and a cousin, Gloria Gregg of Sterling Heights, Michigan. The family would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff in the ICU at Fairfield Medical Center for their care and for the many hugs and tears they shared with the family. Amemorial service will be held Saturday, September 10, at St. Paul Evan- gelical Lutheran Church, at the corner of E.Wheeling St.
and S. Eastwood Lancaster, Ohio. Visiting hours will be from 9-11 a.m. There will be a service at 11:00 a.m., with a light lunch to follow. Funeral arrangements have beenmade through FRANK E.
SMITH FUNERALHOME, Lancaster, Ohio. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the LSS Fairfield County Food pantry, https://lssnetworkofhope.org/donate, your local food pantry, or Fairhope Hospice and Palliative Care. To leave an online condolence, and sign the guestbook, please visit www. funeralhome.com. Joyce Elaine Stoppenhagen AMANDA David E.
Cordle, age 62 of Amanda, passed away on Thursday, Septem- ber 1, 2022, at his resi- dence. He was born on September 25, 1959, in Delaware, Ohio, son of the late Carl and Lolita (Young) Cordle. David is survived by his children, Eli McCa- rtney, Daniel Cordle, and Joseph Cordle, all of Lancaster; brothers, Carl (Pam) Cordle and Chuck Cordle, both of Lancaster; sisters, Pa- mela Wolgamont, of Lancaster, and Joyce Dusing, of Southern Ohio; several grandchil- dren, nieces, and neph- ews. He is preceded in death by his parents; his Cordle; brothers, Rick and Rus- sell Cordle. A private celebration of his life will be held at the convenience of his family and friends.
Cremation has been arranged in the care of Taylor-Theller Funeral and Cremation Service. David E. Cordle LANCASTER Lisa G. Paskins, 61 of Lancast- er passed on August 29 2022 at Fairfield Med- ical Center. She was a belovedmother, grand- mother, sister, aunt, and friend.
Lisa worked forWas- serstrom in Columbus for 20 years. She was a Lancaster High School graduate and a mem- ber of theMoose Lodge She enjoyed trav- eling, attending retreats and helping anyone in need. She is survived by daughter Wendy Ash- ton; son and daugh- ter-in-law, Dustin (Sa- mantha) Ashton; six beautiful grandchildren (Bryce England, Elias Milbaugh, Addison England, Camden En- gland, Ashton England and SavannahAshton); sister Penny (Bob) Hammond; brother Scott Frye and many nieces and nephews. Lisa was preceded in death by husband Rod- ney Paskins, sister-in- law Jerrie Frye her par- ents Kenneth (Eileen) Frye. A memorial service will be held Tuesday September 6, 2022, at the Lancaster United Brethren Church, 1125 Pleasantville Lan- caster, Ohio at 1 pm with refreshments fol- lowing after the service at the Moose Lodge 1201 Sugar Grove Rd SE, Lancaster, OH May you spread your wings and fly until we see you again! Lisa G.
Paskins Obituaries TITUSVILLE, Fla. A decade ago, Space Coast was in the doldrums. The space shuttle program had ended, and with it the steady stream of space enthusiasts who the restaurants and hotel and motel rooms during regular astronaut launches. The Kennedy Space 7,400 shuttle workers struggled to jobs in their and many left for other states. The unemploy- ment rate skyrocketed to almost and foreclo- sures were rampant in the aftermath of a housing cri- sis that struck Florida harder than most states.
The Miracle City Mall, a once-thriving shopping destina- tion that had been around since the Apollo moon shots in the 1960s, was abandoned in the mid-2010s, and other stores and restaurants were shuttered. was devastating. Along with the fact that our nation was going into a recession, we had lost our bread and butter. We had lost our said Daniel Diesel, the mayor of Titusville, which sits across the Indian River from the Kennedy Space Cen- ter. Nowadays, the unemployment rate is un- der and the Space Coast is humming with jobs and space launches.
launch of its new moon rocket set for Saturday was expecting to attract hundreds of thousands of visitors like Ed Mayall. He traveled more than 4,300 miles from London to wit- ness the scrubbed launch attempt on Monday. just so exciting, the thought of being able to go to space, myself, potentially with all the commercial programs going on, it just makes you want to live Mayall said. just exciting to be While most of the past six decades of space busi- ness in Florida was orchestrated by NASA and the Air Force, this recent rejuvenation on the Space Coast has been powered in the past decade by private, commercial companies like Space and Blue Origin, founded by two of the richest men, Elon Musk and Bezos. Several launches a month are now taking place along the Space Coast, with Space launching its Starlink internet satellites every few weeks.
Perhaps nothing best captured the Space comeback than Space astronaut in spring 2020, which put central coast back in the business of catapulting humans into space and marked the time a private company had launched people into orbit. The drew hun- dreds of thousands of visitors from around the world and ended a nine-year launch drought for NASA. As of last year, the Kennedy Space Center had more than 12,300 civil servants, private contractors and other employees working at the spaceport, just a few thousand employees short of the 15,000 workers during the heydays of the shuttle program. Along the Space Coast, new subdivisions have been permitted, new hotels have been built, small manufacturing plants supporting the space industry are under construction in industrial parks and a gleaming outdoor shopping area recently opened in the footprint of the Miracle City Mall. Last year, the Milken Institute ranked the Space Coast metro area as having the second strongest economy in the U.S.
using an index based on jobs, wages and high tech growth. The ranking for the metro was up 47 spots from three years prior. Besides the growth of the commercial space com- panies, the Space economy has in the past decade beyond its traditional reliance on space, and includes defense contractors, cruise ships, automobile parts manufacturing and nature tourism. are growing from so many the mayor said. economy thrives when the space program thrives.
just no question about that, but we also like to be able to say we are more diverse than we used to He said he was a growing up and was familiar with the boom and bust nature of the space business ever since his family moved to the Space Coast in 1965 so his father could take a job with the Apollo program. NASA budgets from the White House and Congress greatly impacted life on the Space Coast, he said. Jessica Costa, owner of restaurant in Titusville, remembers how quiet the Space Coast be- came following the end of the space shuttle program. Now that there are rocket launches all the time, not taking them for granted. just happy booming the way it Costa said.
happy they got the program back up now. happy people can come out and enjoy it with The NASA moon rocket stands on Pad 39B before the Artemis 1 mission to orbit the moon at the Kennedy Space Center, Thursday in Cape Canaveral, Fla. BRYNN Florida coast hums with space launches Tourism revives economy bruised by NASA end Cody Jackson and Mike Schneider ASSOCIATED PRESS.
