This was Bill Ruth’s America.
The trees were ablaze in glorious colors as we drove along Route 183 through hilly Northeast Ohio last October.
Forests of vivid reds, yellows and orange enchanted us.
So did the villages.
Like Mineral City, Magnolia and Malvern, with old homes and porches, mom-and-pop stores and sunlit church steeples. And Minerva, festooned in scarlet and gray for the high school homecoming game.
Bill must’ve made that trip countless times, zipping down Route 183, his dad’s Plymouth packed with crewcut pals from Alliance, his hometown eight miles away.
That was our destination on this beautiful fall day.
A melancholy journey.
Dating back to 1930, Fairmount Memorial Park is a 40-acre cemetery with 6,300 grave sites.
Bill’s was one of them.
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