Larry C. Sommers

1941 - 2004  (63 years)

• Name	Larry C. Sommers
  Born	1941
  Gender	Male
  Died	2004
  Person ID	I61278	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	9 Nov 2013

  
  

  Family	Living
  Last Modified	10 Feb 2012
  Family ID	F23838	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  [[ Obituary: Blade, The (Toledo, OH) - April 30, 2004 Deceased Name: LARRY C. SOMMERS, SR., 1941-2004 Blade's press chief a whiz at machinery Larry C. Sommers, Sr., superintendent of The Blade's pressroom for about five years where he was known by the nickname Gomer, died Tuesday in Toledo Hospital. He was 62 and apparently died of a blood clot after being taken to the hospital the previous day with pain, his stepfather, Lorne Trainor, said. Mr. Sommers' career with The Blade started when he was a boy, delivering about 100 papers in the Erie, Mich., area by bicycle after school, said his stepfather, a former Blade employee. Mr. Sommers of South Toledo was employed at The Blade for about 42 years, starting part-time taking papers off the press and checking proofs - a position called a fly boy. As superintendent, he was responsible for all pressroom operations, including payroll and purchasing. Thirty-five pressmen and three supervisors reported to him. When Alexis Hager became production director of The Blade, and Mr. Sommers' supervisor, Mr. Sommers generously shared his knowledge gained from years of what Mr. Hager called extreme attention to detail. Mr. Sommers, he said, had 200 settings of the press committed to memory. He enjoyed working on cars, training himself with what his stepfather called a natural curiosity. "Anything mechanical," his stepfather said. He was born in Toledo to Charles and Vivian Sommers. He was a child when his family moved to Erie, and he attended a one-room school there before graduating from Monroe High School. He married the former Naomi Hoar in 1965. Surviving are his wife, Naomi; son, Larry, Jr.; daughters, Christine Johnson and Cheryl Sommers; mother and stepfather, Vivian and Lorne Trainor; stepmother, Viola Sommers; brother, Robert Sommers; half brothers, James and Lorne Trainor, Jr.; half sister, Louane Villhauer, and five grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in Neville Funeral Home's Southwest Chapel in Springfield Township, where the body will be after 2 p.m. Sunday. The family suggests tributes to Bethel Lutheran Church.