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Wife Of Open Shelter Founder Passes Away

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published August 22, 2017 at 9:35 AM EDT
The Open Shelter

Funeral services are scheduled Saturday afternoon for one of the operators of The Open Shelter for homeless men in Columbus. 

65-year-old Mary Beittle died over the weekend of cancer. She helped run the facility for more than three decades with her husband and shelter founder Kent Beittle. 
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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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