Patricia Spencer Maneri (Patty), beloved wife, mother and grandmother, passed away peacefully on April 4, 2021, at the age of 89 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Patty was born on Nov. 2, 1931, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Thomas Ray Spencer and Mary Ellen Harrington Spencer. As Patty liked to put it, she was “as welcome as a skunk at a garden party,” the sixth child of a dying mother in the middle of the Great Depression. Nonetheless, Patty was a welcome addition to her large and exceptionally loving family.
Patty met the love of her life, Carl Maneri, in high school when a matchmaking English teacher contrived to have them both working on the Parma Schaaf High School newspaper. Patty and Carl graduated from high school in 1950 and married in 1953, when Carl was a student at Case Institute of Technology. Patty and Carl moved from Cleveland to Columbus, Ohio, when Carl entered graduate school in mathematics. As Carl’s career advanced, they moved to Chicago and then to Syracuse, N.Y., before se
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Apr 5, 2021
ASHLAND, Ohio Bob Archer does not come from wealth and he’s the first to admit that.
Even though he was the valedictorian of his class at Uhrichsville High School, Archer’s parents had little money, certainly not enough to afford to send their son to college.
Then came the Case Institute of Technology – and a scholarship to pay for it.
“If I had not received that scholarship,” said Archer, “I wouldn’t be here today.”
“Here” is in Ashland, where he lives with his wife, Jan (also a high school valedictorian). The couple moved to the city with their children in the mid-1970s in order for Bob to take a position with Brown Group/Eagle Rubber/Kent. Jan, who earned a degree in church music from Baldwin-Wallace College, eventually went on to receive a Master’s degree in health and social services planning from the University of Akron and took a position leading the United Way of Ashland County and later Leadership Ashland, among her many civic roles o
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