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Mires, Rolla I.
Born: 23 Mar 1929	Died: 24 Jan 2004
Part: 2 Section: NB Lot: 079 Grave: 3

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Remarks: Married 28 Oct 1950
Obituary: MIRES Rolla Irene (McMaster) Rolla Irene (McMaster) Mires, age 74, lost her battle with cancer on Saturday, January 24, 2004, in the Hospice Unit at the Birchaven Retirement Village. Born March 23, 1929, in Toledo, Ohio, to Rolland and Lucille (Rahrig) McMaster. In 1947, she graduated at the top of her class from Liberty Center High School, Liberty Center, Ohio. After graduation, she worked at The Toledo Hospital in the laboratory. On October 28, 1950, she married David W. Mires in Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. Mires and her husband settled in Findlay, Ohio, where they raised four children. Over the years, she was active in the Findlay Art League, the Republican Women's Organization and the Republican Party, the American Cancer Society, and was a writer for the Fostoria Review Times, covering Findlay city council and school board meetings. Her past times included flower and vegetable gardening, cooking, reading , horses and thoroughbred horse racing, and Audie Murphy movies and memorabilia. Mrs. Mires' parents and her husband precede her in death. She is survived by daughters, Mrs. Dennis (Laurie Ann) Brown of Kouts, Indiana; Mrs. R. Michael (Melissa A.) Gephart of Findlay, Ohio; Mrs. Michael (Lucinda E.) Peebles of Columbus, Ohio; and son David S. Mires and his wife, Beth of Centerville, Ohio. Also surviving are her siblings Duane McMaster of Howe, Indiana, John McMaster of Pembroke, New Hampshire, Russell McMaster of Paulding, Ohio, Mrs. Richard (Estaline) Kimerer of Liberty Center, Ohio, and Gary McMaster of Napoleon, Ohio; 8 grandchildren; 1 great-grand child; many nieces, nephews, great-nieces, great-nephews, and many, many friends both young and old alike . Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at the College First Church of God, the Reverend William H. Reist officiating. Interment will be in Young Cemetery, Liberty Center, Ohio. Visitation will be held from 5-8 p.m. Monday at Coldren-Crates Funeral Home, 205 West Sandusky Street, Findlay and one hour prior to services at the church. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Humane Society of Hancock County or the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Elm and Carlton Sts., Buffalo, NY 14263 in her memory. Condolences may be sent to www.coldrencrates.com ROLLA MIRES, 1929 ? 2004 Mother of 4 participated in art league, Findlay GOP FINDLAY -- Rolla Mires, 74, a mother of four who had been active with the Findlay Art League and the local Republican Party and who had once covered Findlay City Council and the Findlay Board of Education for the Fostoria Review Times, died Saturday in Birchaven Retirement Village here. She had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer in February, her daughter Melissa Gephart said. She'd been at Birchaven about two weeks and in a Columbus nursing home, where she received cancer treatment earlier. She was born Rolla Irene McMaster in Toledo and grew up in Liberty Center, the oldest of six children born to Rolland McMaster, a Champion Spark Plug employee, and his wife, Lucille. Mrs. Mires loved to read and recalled to her daughters how as a child she would hide under bed covers with a flashlight or escape with a book to the peace and quiet of a cemetery. "She liked mental puzzles," her daughter Laurie Ann Brown said of her mother's love of mysteries, crossword puzzles, and horse racing. Mrs. Mires graduated from Liberty Center High School at the top of her class in 1947 and went to work in the Toledo Hospital laboratory. She married David Mires in 1950. He became an engineer with Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. in Findlay. She dabbled in painting and made jewelry from enamels. She was active with the local art league in the 1970s. Mrs. Mires volunteered for the local Republican Party for decades and was a judge at the polls. She helped the Red Cross collect and pack bags of personal items for soldiers in Vietnam and went door to door to raise money for the American Cancer Society. In the 1970s she wrote for the Fostoria Review Times. She was an editor of her high school newspaper and had ?almost a photographic memory,? Mrs. Gephart said. Later she helped compile information on World War II hero Audie Murphy for author Boyd Magers. She was a fan of jazz pianist Erroll Garner. She was a proponent of organic gardening before it became popular. Her husband died in 1989. Surviving are her daughters, Laurie Ann Brown, Melissa Gephart, and Lucinda Peeples; son, David Mires; brothers, Duane, John, Russell, and Gary McMaster; sister, Estaline Kimerer; eight grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. Visitation will be from 5-8 tonight in Coldren-Crates Funeral Home, Findlay, and one hour before the funeral at College First Church of God at 1 p.m. tomorrow. The family suggests tributes to the Hancock County Humane Society or the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry.