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Joyce Shultis enjoys a moment in the sun on the bench dedicated to her late husband, Bruce, by the Goodyear Lake Association. (Photo by Bill Bellen)

GYLA Installs Memorial for Former President Shultis

By BILL BELLEN
MILFORD

On Saturday, September 20, members of the Goodyear Lake Association gathered beside the group’s records shed on Lake Shore Drive North. Beginning around noon, attendees sat down in the shade of pop-up canopies and awaited freshly-grilled burgers and hotdogs at the annual GYLA picnic.

Before sitting down for casual banter, GYLA Board Member and recently-designated historian Lori Michaels and Joyce Shultis, former longtime treasurer and secretary for the association, took the short drive down the street to one of GYLA’s designated lake access sites—affectionately dubbed “Journey’s End”—where they visited a recently-installed bench along the waterfront. Placed on September 15 at roughly 10 a.m., the bench was dedicated in loving memory to Bruce Shultis.

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