Ralph Windsor

Ralph L. Wind­sor, age 91, passed away Sep­tem­ber 20, 2012.

He was the son of Alvin and Myrta Wind­sor, born on July 4, 1921 at the Wind­sor home­stead, pur­chased in 1919. The home no longer stands, but was located on Town­ship Road 218 in Marengo, Ohio. He grew up in the area and grad­u­ated from Marengo High School in 1939. His father was a farmer and his mother taught at the very schools that he attended. He spoke fondly on his child­hood mem­o­ries of grow­ing up on the farm and going by horse and buggy to school with his mom. Grow­ing up dur­ing the depres­sion, he felt he never lacked for any­thing as they always had food to eat from the farm and he had many friends through­out the small community.

He met his wife Bon­nie Jeanne Gad­dis in high school and they were later mar­ried in 1945 fol­low­ing his hon­or­able dis­charge after serv­ing in WWII, Army Air Corps in Eng­land, France and Bel­gium. He had attended Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity. After he and Bon­nie mar­ried, they moved to Colum­bus where he was employed by the Clark Grave Vault Co and retired after 36 years of ser­vice. In the 1950’s Ralph and Bon­nie moved to Dublin, Ohio where he built there home and raised their four daughters.

He became known for his love of bird­ing and his ded­i­ca­tion to help­ing save the endan­gered East­ern Blue Bird. In his retire­ment years, Ralph made hun­dreds of blue bird boxes and feed­ers that were installed around Dublin.

He was pre­ceded in death by the love of his life, Bon­nie Jeanne, who passed away in 1999 after 53 years of mar­riage. Also pre­ced­ing him in death, were his par­ents Alvin and Myrta Wind­sor, sis­ter Pearl West­brook, sis­ter Erma Rob­son and son in law David Prebenda.

He is sur­vived by daugh­ters Bon­nie (Jeff) Gahris, Chicago, Carol Smith, Colum­bus, Vicki (Brian) Moran, Dublin, and Sandy O’Shaughnessy (John) Ply­mouth, MI. Also, sur­vived by his grand­chil­dren, Patrick and Michael Moran, Mor­gan and Ryan Prebenda, and many nieces and nephews.

Friends and rel­a­tives may call at the Ruther­ford Corbin Funeral Home, 515 N. High St., Wor­thing­ton, Ohio on Wed., Sept. 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. Inter­ment ser­vice will be held at Union Ceme­tery on Sept. 27 at 10:00 a.m. A memo­r­ial ser­vice will be held at Friend­ship Vil­lage of Dublin on a date yet to be determined.

In lieu of flow­ers, a memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tion may be made to Amer­i­can Can­cer Soci­ety, Franklin Co. Unit, 900 Michi­gan Ave., Colum­bus, Ohio 43215 or to the Amer­i­can Heart Asso­ci­a­tion, PO Box 163549, Colum­bus, OH 43216 in Ralph’s mem­ory. Con­do­lences to fam­ily may be sent to www.rutherfordfuneralhome.com.

Posted by Taylor Kaser on Sep 25 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.