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Article: Bits and Pieces Wooster flower seller remembered
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- Daily Record, The Wooster, OH
- Article date:
- September 25, 2009
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After Becky and Emerson Stoll asked if anyone knew the name of
the older gentleman who used to sell glads, dahlias and calla lilies
on Cleveland Road, Betsy (Franks) Bower responded.
"His name was Russell Stauffer," Bower wrote. "I knew Mr.
Stauffer through Valley College Grange when I was a teen. He was a
tiny man, but had a tremendous voice that reached some of the
lowest, deepest octaves you could imagine. I was always amazed when
he sang."
Stanley Orr remembered Stauffer, too. "Just about everybody in
town bought flowers from him. He went to Central Christian Church
... I think he lived west of town."
"We were just talking about him the other day," said Bonnie
Slicker of Orrville. "He ...