Ironworkers Local 55 -- 100 Years in Toledo, 1903-2003

1080 Atlantic Avenue • Toledo, OH • 43609 • ph (419) 385-6613 • fx (419) 385-6041

Ironworker's Prayer

Please take a minute and remember
our members that have gone onto their
eternal resting places. We will miss
them one and all, on and off the job.

DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2008

Elmer Kovacs
Howard Hurt

Albert Biller

DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2007

Timothy Mavis
Oscar R Harris Jr
William Nyari
Eugene Krieger

Terry Walters
Walter "Joe" Minarik
Don Holder Jr

DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2006

William A Douglas Jr
William H Fisher
David R Wise
Robert "Blackie" Tatro Sr
Matthew J Patterson

Charles Meinke
James E Wagner
Robert Walters Jr
Luther G Bee
Ronald J Leary

DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2005

Bernard R Parker
Donald Leonhardt
David L Walters
Walter R Fuller
Ben Searle
Joseph Steck
Scott Huddy

Thomas E Lease
Paul E Ricksecker
Ernest V Kovacs
David W Lewis
Bob Borer
Robert M Scanlan

DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2004
Marvin L Corwin
Owen P Johnson Jr
Clemens G Walby
Arden D Clark II
Michael H Phillips
Michael F Moreau
Robert W Lipinski, Jr
Phillip C Penhorwood Sr
Leonard S Reynolds
John M Ray
Clyde Stack
Michael Peer
John P Kralovic
Richard V Barteck
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2003
Paul S Vas
Paul D Mowry
Terry L Linkey
Thomas W Tipton
William C Brown, Sr.
Michael V Simon
Cletus B Hoffman
Clifford E Scofield
Leonard D Blockowski
Leroy E Rife
Alex S Vislay
Bobby S Montgomery
James S Casey
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2002
Julius Z Kovacs
Melvin L Hand
Louis J Leirer
Don E Nopper
Thomas St John Jr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2001
Ralph R Diekman
Alex M Szabo
Thomas J Salpietro
John J Kasap
Virgil W Heishman
Robert H Branyan Sr
Paul D Mikola
Robert J Kachmarik Sr
Emery A Takacs Sr
Arthur M Gonia
Fred V Garza
Michael J Tkaczyk
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 2000
Oscar Kops
Max S Rosonowski
Steve J Kertesz
Anthony Legeza Sr.
Charles F Nosker
Benjamin H Williams
Joseph Kives
Calvin H Wiley
Joseph A Baker
Donald L St Julian
Paul R Simpson
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1999
Baldwin O Yeager
George E Taylor
La Vern J Bellair
Wayne Abner
Clarence Wallington Jr
Chester L Terpinski
Robert E Enright
Hugh F Squires
Fred Newkirk
Jack L Canale
Lloyd A Caldwell
Roy J Harvey
Clayton A Benadom
Homer R Brooks
Donald H Hirzel
Theodore S Budd
Anthony Kocica
Raymond Brooks
Edward R Yantz
Jimmy C Price
Fred J Merrill
John D Angus
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1998
William N Floyd
Robert D Brown
Melvin S Wise
Garnet F Harris
James L Hamilton
Edwin B Wagner
Bela J Vas
Charles Steck
Herbert L Snyder
Charles Laytart
Walter J Armstrong
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1997
Freddie L Middaugh
John E Cipriani
Donald G Ruch
William W Hohl
Raymond E French
James F Ruble
Sandor J Legeza Sr
Kenneth G Bahnsen
Frank Kuron
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1996
William F Taylor Jr
Daniel T Riggs
William L Heisman
Albert M Haas
Howard C Jacobs
Joseph Fekete Sr
Robert C Schultz
Harry H White
Andrew J Nyitray
Herman S Loso
William E Kelly
John E Middaugh
Richard L Garczynski
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1995
James L Hostottle
Andrew Reviere
John W Laytart
Stephen R French
Joseph F Vislay Jr
Floyd D Sawyer
James A Borer
Kenneth B Dauster
Normond C Meinen
Donald E Jaques Sr
Joe W May
Thomas I Sieler
Glen A Miller Jr
Lawrence A Kenner
Carl J Cicerella Sr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1994
Robert C Walter Sr
Daniel J Cipriani
Louis A Calevro
Elmer Flory
Peter Ruble
Valens L Barteck
Duncan Spence
Julius Csehi
David M Tillman
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1993
George Herbac
Charlie H Schaub
Paul G Mackaman
Robert L Johnson
Julius Balazs
James D Corson
Frank J Wills Jr
Lawrence Musser
John Mobley
Stephen Takacs Sr
Fred Middaugh
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1992
Gregory Walters
Sherman L Michael
Joseph C Marshall
Ronald R Dowe
Thomas E Allen
William F Taylor Sr
Neil Douglas
Richard W Rohr
James M Leary
John Geis Jr
Robert Brown
Robert E Coffield Sr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1991
Joseph A Barbara
Versal B Hall
Chester Turski
Walter H Haberland
James Ferguson
Harold D Kurth
Gerald E Dombroff
Carson Paulsen
John A Hoare
Woodrow H Stewart
John F Gurtzweiler Sr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1990
Paul R Babione
William P Vas
Milan G Walter
Andrew Giaimo
Louis W Ross
Russell Miller
William E Appleby
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1989
John V Grant
James E French
Walter E Strattan
Stanley R Walters
Kenneth Heil
Daniel J Walters
William J Healy
Edgar L Keedy
William Jarvis Jr
Herbert J Hackenburg Sr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1988
Joseph Zak
Leo P Rado
Guy P Stacey
Yves Brule
James L Oler
John E Miller
Gene Wise
John J Steck
Wilbur O Fizer
William Beatty Jr
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1987
Robert Reichert
Virgil C Smith
Orris P Outland
Lewis Mitchey
Frank B Mapes
Alfred J Falk
Bert J Bacho
Robert A Vislay
Clarence P Sherman
Kenneth A Rohrbach
John J Burkhardt
Frank M Petkus
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1986
Clark W Gray
Claude E Butz
Dale C Hartley
Ernest Pappajohn
William Jarvis Sr
David H Hardy
Clarence Smith
Carl W Schumaker
Frank Blazic
Ernest J Krauzer
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1985
Lester J Schroer
Raymond J Rublaitus
Edmund Jendris
Chris L Entsminger
Donald J Sidle
William J Matriciano
William E Middaugh
Robert C Henry
Bert Britton
Roy S Stevens
Ray A Pratt Sr
Louis R Highiet
Olen M Double
Daniel P Velliquette
Donald Saam
Ervell H Lewis Jr
Eugene L Kennedy
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1984
James E Mc Anally
James B Cowan
Louis Sabo
Jeffery L Clark
Robert C Wright
Foster F Dreier
Phillip E Rose
Thomas Koogan
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1983
Richard Peer
Edwin Baugher
Danny Hannibal
Donald J Brown
Eugene L Ruble
Lafayette Avaritt
Lawrence E La Beau
Gino J Mattoni
Chris Sterger
James J Leary
Max L Dauer
Ora Scott
Don A Armstrong
Vincent Massa
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1982
Nelson Krienbrink
Roland L Stephenson
Edward C Wilde
Paul E Squires
Carl Wierzba
Clifford L Manning
Paul Dimodica
R T Clark
DEPARTED MEMBERS IN 1981
Marion Middaugh Jr
Earl Scofield
Nick Schunk
Thomas P Kralovic Jr
Irvin R Hogg
Donald T Wise
Dale L Ellis
John P De Bien
Austin E Pate
Julius Csomos
Paul Vislay