Class of ''57-55th reunion at River City Bar and Grill. L to R: Paul Metcalf, Russ and Barb Towne Geiger, Walt Bankes, Gary Swartout
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3/17/2024
Shirley Earnest Row has passed
Shirley died on March 13th, 2024.
This is the link to the ABJ.
https://www.beaconjournal.com/obituaries/pwoo0757204?fbclid=IwAR3T5w4jfsO55xi9bjuEikIeBABf4f_NwAlCSlAl0J7NgubXb5hG613wfr0
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10/7/2023
Gary's funeral service
Gary's funeral service will be on Friday, October 13 at 11:00 am.
It will be at the Restland Cemetery in Brimfield beside his parents.
The entrance to the cemetery is off St. Rt. 43. There
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8/8/2023
Gary has passed - Aug 7, 2023
Gary Swartout's son Jim just posted on his FB page that Gary passed today in WVa. He was on a week-plus many thousand mile road trip to see friends and relatives. Here is a copy and paste of
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Ernest Cole |
Just checking in, havent heard or seen a |
Thu 6/29/2023 10:34 PM |
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Gary and Walt, hope all is well with you |
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I was in hospital over holidays, had a b |
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Just checking in, that time of year, BIR |
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Ernie & Walt (& anyone else that happens |
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Gary L. Swartout |
Ernest, Glad to hear that the "pacemaker |
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Ernest Cole |
welllllllllllll happened, finally I had |
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welllllllllllll happened, finally I had |
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celebrated 82nd Birthday, went square da |
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Ernest Cole |
Still alive and kickin (dancing), anyone |
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Ernest Cole |
Still alive and kicking, hope all is wel |
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Ernest Cole |
Still alive and kicking, hope all is wel |
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Ernie: It appears that it is just the th |
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Are Walt, Gary and I only ones keeping u |
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Walter Bankes
Oh my gosh! Can I remember back that far? Okay, here goes :)
After I graduated from Stow High, I attended University of Cincinnati and had a coop job at B F Goodrich in Akron. That only lasted for a year and a half, mainly because I didn't have the level of math preparation that my classmates had from larger schools. I struggled real hard to make it but the only up side to my time at U of C was getting to see Oscar Robinson play basket ball. So I dropped out and beat the draft by enlisting in the Army for three years (and 19 days – but who counts?). It was peacetime and the only problem was I got extended for that 19 days because of the Berlin Wall going up. Oh yeah, there was another problem – I got married – dumb move – too immature. I married Cindy Merrill of Stow class of '59 about a year before I was released from active duty. Went to Kent State for three years and then got a job at White Sands Missile Range, We had two kids, Stacy and Steve. Somewhere in there I went to graduate school at U of Ariz. in Tucson. We got divorced in '73 and I moved to Schenectady, New York to work at Knolls Atomic Power Lab – doing R & D on Naval Reactors. I met my current wife there soon after arrival. We became friends and she introduced me to about half of the women that I dated for the next ten years. I only worked there for five years before I changed careers and started teaching computer electronics at the local community college for two years. Then got a job teaching at a state college in Utica for three years. In the meantime, Nan and her longterm boyfriend parted and I came back from my usual summer road trip visiting my kids in Calif. and proposed. Well sort of :) I told her that she could have what ever she wanted: a short term, medium term, or long term relationship. She said “ yeah, right. I know your history. I'd believe short term, maybe medium term is a stretch, but long term is not believable. Well here we are 30 years later. We both found jobs teaching at Rochester Inst. of Tech. , moved to Rochester and got married and retired from there 10 years ago (Jean Allen told me not to wait too long to retire- so I did it). We got to take two sabbaticals, in 1992-93 and 1999-00 that allowed us to travel extensively in Europe, Africa, and Australia. The last 30 have been great! Retirement is good. Still lots of road trips, skiing, visiting friends and relatives (who are also friends) and playing with our toys at home. I guess that is most of it.
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