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Shirley’s Angel
By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter cmattingly@registerpublications.com
For decades a wing and a head of an angel lay in Shirley Meyer's keeping. Broken from a small marble monument for Cecil Peters, who died before her third birthday, the pieces were spirited away from Meyer's Aurora home in July by Ben and Nancy Turner. Then the Aurora couple snatched the angel's blackened body from River View Cemetery as well, said Nancy Turner. All the pieces were delivered into the care of the Turners' son Matthew Turner, a lead fabricator at Acsent, Cincinnati. Turner then cleaned and restored the little angel, using white concrete over epoxy as he attached the head and wing. The concrete will age with the marble, he explained. “I put pins in so even if the concrete cracks, it will stay on,” he said. Acsent evolved from
Napolitano (1909) and J. Kraig monument companies, as well as 3-G Window and Stonecraft, and deals in decorative stone, glass and metal. Saturday, Sept. 20, Meyer's daughter Annie Meyer Kaplan brought her mother to River View where the Turners presented her with her aunt's angel. She was stunned. “Grandma Peters, she would be so thrilled,” said Meyer. Cecil, whose whole name was Mary Cecil Peters, was born July 23, 1889 to Meyer's grandparents. Cecil died less than three years later, Feb. 18, 1892, of whooping cough, said Meyer. At the time, Cecil was their only child. “She would have been the oldest,” said Meyer, explaining her dad and her aunt Rebecca's births followed Cecil's death. The toddler had deep red hair, a color later shared by Meyer's dad, her sister Tessie Lischkge and Lischkge's oldest daughter
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Top: not only had a mowing accident knocked off this angel’s head and wing, the marble statue had blackened with dirt through the years. Bottom: Ida Peters had a portrait drawn of her first and at the time only child Mary Cecil Peters, who died of whooping cough at just 2 ½. Above left: The marble angel memorializing Cecil Peters stands whole for the first time in over 50 years, graced with red carnations.
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Town hall with Gov. in Aurora Wed.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will hold a town hall meeting Wednesday, Oct. 1, in Aurora. Open to the public, the meeting will begin at 10 a.m. The governor will speak at 10:30 a.m., said Aurora City Manager Guinevere Several Aurora Emery. S t a t e streets will be Reps. Randy closed for Aurora Frye, who Farmers Fair, and r e p r e s e n t s on Saturday, Oct. Aurora and 4, Ind. 56 traffic to several DearRising Sun will be born County townships re-routed. as well Ohio For more see County, and Page 3. Jud McMillin, who represents most of Dearborn County including Lawrenceburg, also will attend the meeting. The meeting will be in Aurora City Council Chambers upstairs in the city building, 235 Main St. An elevator provides handicapped access. Aurora Mayor Donnie Hastings said the governor's office did not specify any particular topics in advance.
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Left: As his twin sons, wife and mother Nancy Turner, center, watch, Matthew Turner shows Shirley Meyer, right, the restored marble angel at River View Cemetery, Aurora.
Aurora councilman arrested on felonies were written between July 9, 2013, and Nov. 18, 2013. Solar, Babe Ruth treasurer for 2013, said he was certain he had not given cmattingly@registerpublications.com permission for Milish to sign these specific Charged with taking thousands of dollars checks, while indicating other checks also from South Dearborn Babe Ruth, Inc., Auro- were suspicious, wrote Prarat. ra City Councilman Joe Milish bonded out of Information for the theft charges specify jail on $5,000 cash Friday, Sept. 26, accord- $2,200 was taken by Milish between June ing to a Dearborn County Law Enforcement 25, 2013, and Dec. 25, 2013. The spokesperson. obstruction of justice and conspiraMilish was arrested Thursday, cy charges stem from receipts MilSept. 25, and faces multiple felony ish allegedly presented to Prarat to charges, according to circuit court mislead him during the investigarecords. tion, wrote Prarat. His arrest came a day after his One, from JC Craig Excavating, wife Erin Milish's arrest on a proindicated that company had spread bation violation charge related to dirt on the Babe Ruth field at Dillsher sentence for forgery, a Class C boro. Prarat said Blake Hamilton felony. later said he'd made the receipt at Joe Milish, 37, booked as KenMilish's request but wasn't going to neth Joseph, faces 13 counts of forglie anymore: he had never done any ery, a Class B felony; six counts of Kenneth “Joe” work on that field. Further investitheft, a Class D felony; two counts Milish gation showed Dillsboro town emof obstruction of justice, a level 6 ployees had spread the dirt for free. felony; two counts of conspiracy, a Class D Meanwhile, Casey Roberts of Impact felony; and four counts of false information, Sports said he'd changed invoices to match a Class A misdemeanor. His initial hearing Milish's records so Milish could do an acwas Friday, Sept. 26, before Dearborn Cir- counting for a grant received from Dearborn cuit Court Judge Jim Humphrey, according Community Foundation, wrote Prarat. to the prosecutor's office. South Dearborn Babe Ruth actually reThe charges are related to checks alleg- ceived two grants in April 2012, one for edly written by Milish as president of South $1,770 and another for $9,600, DCF Director Dearborn Babe Ruth, and his alleged ac- Denise Sedler told Prarat, he wrote. Milish tions during the investigation, according to picked up and deposited both checks, but the affidavit of probable cause by Dearborn never turned in the required accounting for County Sheriff's Major Jack Prarat. the grants to Sedler by September 2012, as Milish wrote multiple checks on the South required. Sedler said he'd turned in the acDearborn Babe Ruth, Inc., account, purport- count reports for previous grants so knew ing them to have been signed by Randy Solar, the process. thus resulting in the 13 forgery charges, Milish provided various false accounts of wrote Prarat in the affidavit. The 13 checks By Chandra L. Mattingly Staff Reporter
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expenditures and missing money to Prarat during interviews in March, May and June 2014, resulting in the four misdemeanor counts, according to the probable cause affidavit. Prarat served a search warrant on Milish's residence May 19, and obtained the SDBR records in his possession, which included a list of umpires and what they'd been paid in the 2012 and 2013 seasons, said the affidavit. Some of the umpires listed coincided with expenditures from one of the grants. “There were other checks written to Mr. Milish, usually noting for a specific umpire or just saying, 'umpire,' there were other checks written directly to umpires, there were three invoices from Impact Sports and another receipt,” wrote Prarat. Further review of United Community Bank records for SDBR revealed several checks written directly to Joe Milish on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day 2013, totaling $1,850, said the affidavit. Milish told Prarat the checks were for baseballs and uniforms but he could not find receipts, said Prarat. Milish then offered to re-pay the money.
Wife arrested
Erin Milish was arrested in January 2012 on charges of theft, a Class D felony, and fraud on an institution and forgery, both Class C felonies, according to Dearborn County Circuit Court records. Under a negotiated plea agreement, she was convicted of forgery as a Class C felony in March 2013 and sentenced to eight years probation. Erin Milish also was ordered to make restitution of $30,000 to Lawrenceburg UPS
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