Republican of the Month for September was Charles Sheets, who was called instrumental in supplying the equipment for the Civic Division prize winning GOP float in the recent Marion Popcorn Festival Parade. He was selected by the Marion County GOP Central and Executive Committee.
Sheets, a retired farmer, is a member of the Delaware Farm Bureau and the county Historical Society and Genealogical Society. He is a 70-year member of the K of P Lodge and a 38-year member of the Masonic Lodge.
The selectee served in the Army in WWII from February 1945 to November 1946. After service, he attended farm school for 3 years and graduated from Brown Township School in 1944.
Active in the Delaware community, Sheets served on the Delaware Farmer’s Exchange Cooperative, Delaware Rural Electric Cooperative Board for 18 years and chairman for 5 years, represented Delaware on the Rural Electric Board for 2 years, Delaware Soil and Water Conservation Board for 7 years and as its chairman for two years, Delaware County Stabilization Committee 8 years and its chairman for 3 years, and was named Delaware Chamber of Commerce Farmer of the Year in 1978.
For 16 years he was Oxford Township Trustee and represented the township on the Emergency Management Agency, and served on the Ashley Cemetery Board for 16 tears.
Sheets started the Railroad Crossing Task Force, serving 10 years and assisted Marion County begin its railroad task force. He testified on House Bill 25 which was signed by Gov. Robert Taft to protect farm drainage systems from rural development.
He and his wife have a daughter and son-n-law, Margie and Fred Saull, living in Marion County.
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