PHOTO: Port Washington High School Superintendent - Paul O. Cochran (1926-1933)*
EAST SPARTA - A heart seizure Saturday morning claimed the life of Paul O. Cochran, 55, executive head of the Sandy Valley Local School District for three years. Well-known in Tuscarawas County school circles, Cochran died at 6PM in Aultman Hospital at Canton. A native of Lore City, Cochran has been in school administrative work for more than 30 years. Following graduation at Muskingum College, he taught in Guernsey County before taking over as superintendent at Port Washington where he served seven years. He was superintendent at Midvale for eight years and then served 12 years in a similar capacity at Bolivar before taking the Sandy Valley post created in the consolidation of Waynesburg, Magnolls and East Sparta schools. A member of the East Sparta Methodist Church, he served as chairman of the church's commission on social relations and was a steward. He held memberships in Caldwell Lodge 330, F. & A.M. of Bolivar, Ancient Accepted Order of Scottish Rite of Canton, Tadmore Temple Shrine of Akron and the Canton Shrine Club. He was vice president of the Waynesburg Rotary Club and belonged to the National and Ohio Associations of School Administrators. He was past president of the Bolivar Lions Club and held membership in the East Sparta Civic Association and the Northeast Ohio Teachers Association.
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Surviving are his widow, Audree M.; his mother, Mrs. Daisy Cochran of Lore City, and a brother, Earl of Canton. Calling hours at the Gordon Funeral Home here will be today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9PM and again Tuesday at the same time. Funeral services will be held Wednesday in the Scott Funeral Home at Cambridge at 1:30PM with burial in Northwood Cemetery there. Rev. William Simmons will officiate. Caldwell Lodge will hold memorial services tonight at 8. Active pallbearers will include Paul and Harold Williams; Chester Corbett and James Moffett, all of the Sandy Valley Board of Education, Stark County School Supt T.C. Knapp and Maurice Helwick, Strasburg school head.
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Monday, August 17, 1959
The Daily Reporter
Dover, Ohio
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