Edna Fondessy Edna Fondessy, 93 passed away Friday, March 14, 2003 at the Lodge at Cypress Cove. The hospital is adjacent to an assisted living residence where she had resided for 3 years in Fort Myers, Florida at the Inn at Cypress Cove. The Fondessy home was at Croft Street in Oregon, Ohio before she became a permanent resident of Fort Myers. Edna enjoyed remarkable good health until a few months ago and often visited her three sons and their families at their homes in the Fort Myers area and Miami, Florida. She particularly looked forward to time spent with her great-grandson, J.R., son of Rollie and Rebecca Fondessy of Orlando, Florida. She enjoyed travel, especially if it involved a family gathering. For her 90th birthday anniversary an Alaskan cruise was a family celebration in her honor. She also enjoyed time spent at the Fondessy home at Round Lake, Michigan for over 50 years. Edna, known for her keen business sense and extraordinary ambition, was for 31 years the secretary / treasurer of Fondessy Enterprises in Oregon, Ohio, the landfill and environmental business, and treasurer of Jeffers Crane Service, family businesses owned and operated by her sons, Robert, Richard and Roland Fondessy. In early life Edna was active in community events and was willing to stand up for what she believed would better the community. An example, which was one of her lifetime prides, was when she was president of the Clay Center Parent Teachers Association in the 1930s.Through her leadership the Clay Center and Allen one room schools with coal stoves were condemned. Their replacement, also, accomplished largely through her determination to get levies passed, was the building of the Allen Central School on Genoa Clay Center Road. In later years her interest in the community was shown when she worked on committees instrumental in the incorporation of the City of Oregon. Edna enjoyed competition. When Raceway Park was an auto racetrack, she drove stock cars in Powder Puff Derbies and in Toledo and Florida she excelled in shuffleboard tournaments at the S.W. Florida competition. As the daughter of Fred and Charlotte (Williams) Dombrowsky, she received an eight grade education at Brandville School on Grasser Street. Edna was a devout Christian who read the Bible daily. She was confirmed at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Toledo, Ohio and was a longtime member of St. John's United Church of Christ in Genoa where she taught kindergarten Sunday school. Edna and Walter Fondessy were married in 1925 and after a short time in Curtice, Ohio they moved to Clay Center. Her sons remember growing up in a home with love and prayer, rarely missing a Sunday service at St. Johns. Memories also recall their parents difficult financial times during the depression on an income or $30.00 a month. That Edna supplemented the income by selling Larkin products door to door in an example of the work ethic that continued through her life. Fellowship and good food were very much a part of the Fondessy home. Edna was preceded in death by her husband Walter in 1989 by her parents and 4 brothers, Johnny, Edward, Edwin and Charles Dombrowsky. She is survived by her 3 sons; Robert L. of Oregon, and Miami and Fort Myers, Florida, Richard (Brenda) of Curtice, Ohio and Naples and Roland (Pat Peterson) of Naples, Florida, 5 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. The Family will receive friends at the Eggleston-Meinert Funeral Home, Coy Road Chapel, Oregon, Ohio on Monday from 5 to 9 pm and on Tuesday from 2 to 9 pm. Funeral services will be conducted by Rev. Steven Simpson on Wednesday at St. Johns United Church of Chirst, Genoa, Ohio at 11:00 am where the family will greet friends one hour prior to the service. Interment will follow in Clay Township Cemetery. Those wishing to make an expression of sympathy in Ednas memory are asked to consider St. Johns United Church of Christ, Genoa, Ohio; First St. Marks Lutheran Church, Oregon, Ohio, Hope Hospice, 9470 Health Park Circle, Ft. Myers, Florida, 33908, St. Mark Lutheran Church, Toledo or Brandville Historical Society. Visitation: Visitation Times 5-9 Monday 2-9 Tuesday Coy Road Chapel