{"id":344,"date":"2005-06-14T23:12:27","date_gmt":"2005-06-14T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/ticket_taker_a.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:50","slug":"ticket_taker_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/06\/ticket_taker_a.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Ticket taker a legend at Stranahan Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toledo Blade ran this nice article<\/a> about my Grandmother on Friday, June 10, 2005. This was in addition to her obituary<\/a>. I’ve copied the article in its entirety since newspaper articles have tendency to disappear from the web.<\/p>\n

AUDREY WHITMORE, 1914-2005
\nTicket taker a legend at Stranahan Theater
\nAudrey Whitmore, 90, head ticket taker at the Stranahan Theater, where she’d worked for more than three decades, died Monday in Medical University of Ohio Medical Center.
\nShe was trimming rose bushes two weeks ago when she fell and broke a hip. She developed an infection while in the hospital.
\nMrs. Whitmore had taken tickets for countless graduations, lectures, concerts, and stage shows.
\nWhile in the hospital, “She just fretted that she was not going to be there for all the graduations,” daughter Denise Shumway said.
\nMrs. Whitmore was a legend at the Stranahan, and not just for her longevity.
\n“People [told] me how she remembered their names and details about them,” her daughter said.
\nLiz Sudheimer, marketing director for the Stranahan Theater and Great Hall at the Masonic Complex, said: “She was kind of like everybody’s mom.”
\nAbout two months ago, Mrs. Whitmore said to Ms. Sudheimer, “Come to my car. I have something for you.”
\nThe head ticket taker had a box filled with programs from nearly every show that had been at the Stranahan.
\n“We did not have an archive. Now we have one,” Ms. Sudheimer said.
\nMrs. Whitmore’s affiliation began when her daughter Denise was in the Masonic group, the Rainbow for Girls. Ushering at the theater was the group’s money-making project, and Mrs. Whitmore volunteered to be an adult supervisor. When the theater converted to a volunteer workforce, she knew the job and was asked to stay.
\nThe job later became a paying position and she was promoted to head ticket taker.
\nMrs. Whitmore was a 1932 graduate of Libbey High School. She did not work outside the home as her children were growing up.
\n“She was a homemaker. She put her family first,” her daughter said. “She was a very giving person. From a biblical standpoint, she just had a gift of giving. There was no fanfare. She just took care of what she saw needed to be done. I feel I have a very special heritage, my sister and I both do, and we have passed that on.”
\nMrs. Whitmore was a longtime member of the Ohio State University Home Extension Club.
\nShe was especially proud that the glass decorating business begun by her husband, George, and taken over by their late son, Jack, remained in the family.
\nShe and her husband, George were married for 33 years until his death in 1966.
\nShe attended Holland Free Methodist Church.
\nSurviving are her daughters, Beverly Schaefer and Denise Shumway; sister, Doris Shepler; 10 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren, and a great-great-granddaughter.
\nServices will be at 11 a.m. today in the Walter Funeral Home.
\nThe family suggests tributes to Family Outreach Ministries in care of Westgate Chapel or a charity of the donor’s choice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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