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Port Colborne resident raised in Sherkston marks 100th birthday today The Port Colborne resident celebrates her 100th birthday today and will continue over into the weekend as she has separate parties with her family, at a relative's home, and then friends, at the Friends Over 55 Centre on Fielden Avenue in Port Colborne. Photo: Tribune / Orca [Henry Loomis] shows a photo of the home that she was born in 100 years ago today. Loomis, who was born in Sherkston, celebrates her birthday today with two separate parties this weekend, one with family and one with friends. ;

In 1972 President Richard M. Nixon appointed Mr. Loomis to be president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit organization created by Congress to be responsible for channeling money to public television stations.

Mrs. Loomis was born in Sherkston, growing up in a home on Sherkston Road where her grandfather had settled on 200 acres of land. She attended school in Sherkston and went to high school in Ridgeway. Mrs. Loomis later remarried to Henry Loomis and the couple had only eight months together before he died from a sudden heart attack. It was then she returned to Port Colborne in 1975. Mrs. Loomis is survived by her three children Jack Coopman and his wife Carol of Vineland, Charlotte Moon and her husband Bill of Belleville and Mary Margaret Bowman and her husband Don of Bolton along with eight grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Loomis was born in Sherkston, growing up in a home on Sherkston Road where her grandfather had settled on 80 hectares (200 acres) of land. She attended school in Sherkston and went to high school in Ridgeway. Loomis later married Henry Loomis and the couple had only eight months together before he died from a sudden heart attack. It was then, in 1975, she returned to Port Colborne. Loomis is survived by her three children, Jack Coopman and his wife Carol of Vineland; Charlotte Moon and her husband Bill of Belleville; and Mary Margaret Bowman and her husband Don of Bolton. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and 11 great- grandchildren.

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, he became an instructor at the Navy's Oahu radar training school, teaching senior officers how to use an air-to-surface-vessel radar system that had been developed at his father's laboratory. Toward the end of the war, when Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, were trying to decide which Japanese cities to bomb, a chance visit by Mr. Loomis helped persuade the two men to spare the ancient city of Kyoto.

Passed away peacefully Tues., Nov. 28, 2005, age 98. Preceded in death by her beloved son, Thomas Henry Loomis. Loving mother of William \"Barney\" (Denita) Loomis. Cherished grandma of Shana Loomis. Beloved aunt of Sandy (Robert) Otto and Colleen Wenland.

Corrects wording of language in minutes of 15th Psychological Strategy Board meeting, noting that PSB rejected Loomis report but agreed that intra-agency and department coordination for research needs development.