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Article: ANGELS OF BLUFFTON IN REMEMBRANCE: CODY, DAVID, SCOTT, TYLER, ZACH, JEAN AND JERRY
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- August 10, 2007
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ZACH H. AREND
4/30/1988 to 3/9/2007
Age: 18 Hometown: Oakwood, Paulding County Position: Pitcher
Zach entertained dreams of one day playing in the major leagues.
But just in case that didn't materialize, he had a back-up plan:
running a pro franchise.
When he'd go with his parents to see his beloved Cleveland Indians
play, he'd point to the doors of their front office and say, "I'm
going to work there some day."
"We loved him so much -- maybe too much," said his mother,
Caroline. "The greater the love, the greater the pain."
Zach had three younger sisters.
The Arends spent a week in an Atlanta hospital with him before he
succumbed to ...