K. Guy Creager graduated from West Alexandria High School in the class of 1914. He graduated from Heidelberg College at Tiffin, Ohio in 1918, majoring in biological sciences. He wanted to go to Kirksville, Missouri to take up osteopathy as he�d also majored in physical education. However, he joined the army in 1918 and was stationed in Little Silver, New Jersey. He received his discharge in 1920.
He married Ruth Neota Crosser on August 26, 1921 and they went to Huntington, Virginia where he taught physical education. Then they moved to Bluffton, Ohio in 1922 and taught there when Dick was born. A teaching contract disagreement prompted him to quit there, and they moved to Columbus, Ohio where he took up barbering. (Barbering was his way of financing his college year sat Heidelberg.) Divorce followed, and he went to Versailles, Ohio where he went back into teaching.
In later years he was Manager of Employment Office in Troy, Miami County, Ohio and Sidney, Shelby County, Ohio. He then worked for the War Manpower Commission out of Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. He was transferred to Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana in that capacity. His job ended there at the end of the Second World War, whereup he returned to Piqua, Miami County, Ohio. He sold Banker�s Life Insurance for a time, and then went into business as a manager for Seal-Tite Storm Windows in Piqua.
During all this time, he was a good Democrat and worked at it many ways. Through 1979, he still worked at the polls. His many letters-to-the-editor in local papers, Dayton papers, and Columbus papers stirred up political issues for both parties. He was well-known around six immediate counties for presenting his view on issues of that time.
He had a �great mind,� wit and humor that no one else could match. His wisdom and knowledge was never shown at their greatest potential.
H. Keith Creager, born in Middletown, Indiana, spent his boyhood in the West Alexandria, Ohio area. He graduated from West Alexandria High School in 1916 and then attended Ohio State University, majoring in architectural engineering. He became a registered architect and engineer in Ohio.
Keith was employed by the Aviation Corporation in Buffalo, New York. He then moved to Columbus, Ohio, to work as an architect in the Ohio Fuel and Gas Company. Among his projects was the detailed work for the new Columbus Gas Office.
In 1941, he resigned from the Columbus Engineering Corporation to be employed by Goodyear Aircraft Corporation, in Akron, Ohio. Here he worked on the fighter plane, the Corsair, and the Goodyear blimp. For a few months he enjoyed working in the Goodyear Division at Litchfield Park, Arizona.
After the war, his main work was architectural and engineering projects for different firms. He retired when he was seventy years old. Keith never lost his interest in flowers and shrubs.
Myra was born in West Alexandria, Ohio and attended school there graduating from the West Alexandria High School 1918. Myra and her mother attended Preble County Normal School in West Alexandria at the same time, and both became teachers in the West Alexandria area.
Myra married Otto A. Lange at the age of twenty-two. They had no children. They owned a farm northeast of West Alexandria for a number of years. Myra and Otto lived in their home at 21 West Dayton Street for thirty-five years. O. A. Lange was employed at General Motors Frigidaire for thirty years. Myra was Deputy Clerk of Courts at the Preble County Court House, Eaton, Ohio, from July 1943 to October 1949. In 1963, Myra accepted the position of Assistant Registrar at the Preble County Board of Elections. Otto died the following year. Myra continued in her position at the Board of Elections until 1968.
When her large home and lawn became too much for her to care for, Myra sold it and on July 11, 1974 moved to Friendship Village, a life care center, in Dayton, Montgomery County, Ohio. She is in good health and enjoys her retirement and the many activities of Friendship Village.
Lois, was born in Brookville, Ohio, but spent most of her younger years in West Alexandria, Ohio, where she graduated from High School in the class of 1923.
Lois married Louis Gross who worked for RKO Theatres until his death in 1961. She was a housewife until she opened her own cosmetic studio in Cincinnati [Hamilton County, Ohio] in 1938. In the 1940s, she was an assistant buyer at Lazarus Department Store in Columbus, Ohio. Then until her retirement in 1973, she was a Corporate Receptionist and PBX Operator.
Following her first husband's death, Lois remarried in 1971 to James E. Mansperger, Sr., who until his retirement was a highway patrolman, policemen and Sheriff.
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