Rodney E. Criswell, 64, of 535 Center Street Bryan died Sunday afternoon in Cameron Community Hospital. Born Dec 6 1912 in Defiance County he was a son of Oliver and Olive (Dietsch) Criswell. The deceased had been employed as a mechanic at the Bryan Electric Department from 1963 until retiring in 1976. His marriage 1934 was to Neva Miller who survives with a daughter Mrs. Gerard (Nancy) Thibedeau, Scottsdale Ariz., a son Stanley Criswell, Toledo, One brother Douglas Criswell; Springfield; two sisters, Mrs. Edith Phillips of Stryker, and Mrs. Dora Brown of Tiffin and four grandchildren. Services at 2pm Wednesday from the Greenisen & Tilton Funeral Home in Bryan will be officiated by the Rev. William Zeller from the Church of The Cross United Methodist Church, Toledo. Interment is to be in Maple Grove Cemetery, Edgerton. The family will receive friends in the funeral home after 2pm Tuesday.

**Note**My Grandfather Rodney, Criswell. It seems funny to say that. We never called him Grandfather, Grandpa or any of those familiar terminologies. My brother and I called him DoDo. Pronounced DoeDoe. Where that nickname ever came from, I don't know. Why we used it, I don't know. All I do know is he wore the nickname proudly. In our presence all immediate family members referred to him the same.

He was a quiet man. Fun to be around, but quiet. He was a "tinkerer". He tinkered with just about everything. One of my fondest memories is playing with him in the basement with the model train layout that he had built. It was amazing. He also was intrigued by the building of the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant. When he and my Grandmother would come to pick us up or take us home, he would check out the progress of the cooling tower that was under construction. He named the cooling tower "the cloud maker". A name that stuck well after my own children were old enough to ask about it. They know it as "the cloud maker".

As part of the celebration of my graduating high school, my Grandma and DoDo took me to the Cedar Point Amusement Park for a day of fun. I don't remember who all went but we had a blast. My Grandfather had had a heart attack a year or two before so my Grandma was a bit over protective of him when it came to exerting himself. Well, DoDo was excited by all the rides at the park. I am not sure if the CorkScrew rollercoaster was new that year or maybe the year before. DoDo wanted to ride it. Needless to say, Grandma was not happy. DoDo convinced her though that he was the man that was going to take his Granddaughter on her first ride on the Corkscrew. (Alittle secret) I didn't want to go, I disliked rollercoasters immensely, but if he wanted to ride it, I was going. Anyways, there is a section of the ride (the corkscrew) where the rollercoaster passes almost directly over the park visitors. As we were riding the rollercoaster and came to that section over the park visitors I could hear the voice of my Grandma hollering "Rodney!! Put your arms down!!" over the screams of the other riders. I looked over at him and he had a grin from ear to ear and his arms were extended out as far as he could reach. I'll never forget the look he had on his face or hearing my Grandma holler out to him.