It Happened in Crawford County: A funeral to remember
Mary Fox
While honoring the passing of brother firefighter Carl Easterday at his funeral, no one could have imagined the series of events that happened. The story as told by historian Barry Herschler.
Barry and Casey Easterday met at Wise Funeral Home late in March to discuss arrangements for Carl and the role the fire department would have for the funeral. The pallbearers would include Carl’s grandsons, Clay and Chase Easterday, Bucyrus Chief Chad Schwemley and firefighters Barry Hershler, Rob Meredith, Grey Hershey, Kevin Phillips, Brett Young, Jeremy Gillam, Eric McNutt and Casey Gillen.
Dec. 13, 2020 in News Photo: Crawford County Now
BUCYRUS Not even the rain could dampen the spirit behind this year’s toy drive hosted by the Bucyrus Fire Department.
“We started this because we like to do small things to help the community with this and Spooktacular. We didn’t really have anything that we did this time of year, so we started doing it,” Captain Casey Gillen said. “The first year we made about one thousand dollars and filled up one, eight-foot table with toys.”
Now in its eleventh year, the toy drive was as strong as ever with over 1,600 dollars in donations and multiple eight-foot tables stacked high with toys to be donated.