Fitch High School - Austintown, Ohio
Class of 1969 - In Memoriam
There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
"Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
"Have naught but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again."
He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in his sheaves.
"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child."
"They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacred blossoms wear."
And the mother gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love;
She knew she should find them all again
In the fields of light above.
O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is with regret and sorrow that we mark the passing of the following classmates
Edward Allen - 2001
James Anderson - 2017
Robert Barbone - 2007
Joan Barich
Dave Barnett - 2022
Alan Beaudis - 2016
Robert Beckett - 2021
Thomas Behnke - 2007
Henry Budaker - 2013
Larry Burgy - 2020
John Burke - 2013
George Byers - 2017
Raymond Capezzuto - 2009
Charles Caroline
Glendon Carroll - 2012
Kathleen Catello Kunkle - 2016
Tim Clymer - 2015
Robert Conroy
Karen Constantino Cuddy - 2014
Robert Corll - 2018
Philip Craciun - 2013
Mike Davis
James Dottavio - 1969
Larry Drennen - 2012
Robert Earl - 2013
Michael Egnor - 2018
Diane Ferguson Ellinos - 2023
Gail Fitch - 1991
Charmaine Flick Glaros - 2021
John Forbush - 2022
John Foreman - 2021
Robert Frederick - 1992
Robert Gahagan - 2017
Sandra Gorgie - 1999
Donald Greenawalt - 2008
Suzanne Grigsby Beadling - 2019
Daniel Hale - 2013
Roy Hale - 2004
Rhoda Hahn Loswego - 2022
Jane Haplea
Tim Harris - 1993
Diana Henderson Hare - 2010
SanDee Hendricks - 1972
Thomas Hines - 2019
Edward Hoffman - 2009
Larry Howard - 1998
Martha Husted Brandt - 2023
Kevin Jacobson - 2020
Diane Kane LaPaze - 2021
Thomas Kelty - 1996
Kathy Kish Brandt - 2023
Timothy Krogg - 2020
Edward Kruest - 2017
Irene LaBerto Vadjunec - 2006
Thomas LaPaze - 2008
Allyn "Lyn" Lazzaro - 2014
Candace Little Root - 2018
William MacKellar - 1997
Reginald Manigault - 2007
Fred Martin-Culet - 2000
Charlotte Martin Morris - 2020
Maureen McKenzie Meehan - 2018
Bruno Mezzatesta - 1980
Diana Miller
Susan Murray
Harry Myers - 2004
Michael Naples - 2019
Linda Neal - 1999
Linda Ortz Pallotta - 2023
Joseph Onder - 2007
Melvin Pelanda - 2001
Earle Pfund - 2019
Rocco Pochiro
John Reszke - 2020
Carole Robinson Bernard - 2016
Rebecca Sarsfield - 1970
Marla Schmader - 2014
Harry Shaffer
Richard Sheridan - 2011
John Snyder - 2012
Gerald Spatafore - 2009
David Stanton
Tim Tenney - 2018
Barbara Tingler - 2010
Edmund Thoresen - 1999
Mike Toporcer - 1994
Gary Trio - 1976
Gretchen Wade
Linda Jean Watt Betson - 2014
Cynthia Weaver Brady - 2017
Carol Williams - 1998
Matthew Wojtowicz - 1998
Barbara Wrobleski Kolcun - 2008
Betty Young Jones
Glenn Zimmerman - 2010