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By Bob Dyer Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Saturday, Nov 24, 2007
A husband and father who once counseled families on coping with death was killed Friday in a traffic crash.
Scott Fetterolf, 57, of Springfield Township, died in a one-car accident only a quarter-mile from his home.
The State Highway Patrol said he was eastbound on Killian Road, just past state Route 241, when he lost control, went off the left side of the road and hit a railroad tie, which caused the car to flip several times. It then hit a tree and came to rest on its top.
The crash took place about 11:30 a.m. He was transported to the coroner's office, where he was pronounced dead at noon.
The patrol said he was not wearing a seat belt. His car, a 1999 Saturn SL, was heavily damaged on both sides and the top. The investigation is continuing.
Fetterolf spent most of his career as a counselor. He worked with the criminally insane and was a social worker and a therapist before abrupt
ly changing direction in 2004 and launching a collectibles store.
Leaving his post as director of Caring Ministries at Greensburg United Methodist Church, he opened Scott'sFolkatorium in a strip plaza off Arlington Road, just outside the Akron limits in Springfield Township.
He and the shop were the subject of a Beacon Journal feature story that year. Writer Kim Hone-McMahan called Fetterolf a ''friendly proprietor (who) peddles the old and the odd. And on certain nights in this slick little joint, bands entertain patrons with foot-stomping tunes.''
But the store had not been making money, and he closed it for good on Friday.
Fetterolf had spent a lifetime collecting things that earned him the label ''eccentric'' — a term he accepted with pride. Among the items: 10,000 license plates, strange ashtrays, salt-and-pepper shakers, old newspapers, cigar boxes, antique bottles, odd trinkets and a full can of Billy Beer.
His wife, Judy, a case manager for the Portage County Board of MRDD, tolerated his quirks good-naturedly. ''There's a fine line between collecting and obsessive-compulsive,'' she joked in 2004.
Fetterolf also leaves two college-student daughters, Emily and Carly.
While at the Akron Child Guidance Center, he conducted eight-week programs for children on how to deal with the loss of a loved one.
In 1994, he was interviewed for a Beacon Journal feature about how parents can help their children overcome troubles at school.
Among Fetterolf's good friends was Beacon Journal Managing Editor Doug Oplinger.
''He was intense about everything,'' Oplinger said. ''He was a great musician and cared about people. He knew details about people's lives that let you know he cared about them.''
The Rev. Bruce Bequette, who retired from Greensburg United Methodist Church and now lives in Michigan, talked with Fetterolf the day before the crash.
''Scott was as honest as they come — honest to a fault,'' Bequette said. ''Great sense of humor and very artistic in birthday cards or just a letter. He was very creative with the English language and expressing ideas and humor.''
While at the church, Fetterolf counseled, directed the choir and did visitations, primarily with the elderly. He also occasionally got behind the pulpit.
''When I had him preach,'' Bequette said, ''he did a wonderful job and captured the people's mind and heart.''
The retired pastor said Fetterolf had been planning to close his store for a couple of months. In a phone call on Thanksgiving, Bequette tried to console him by saying, ''It didn't go as successfully as you may have liked it to go, but you did your dream.''
Much of the time, though, Fetterolf was the one doing the consoling.
''He was so trustworthy,'' Bequette said. ''He was somebody as a pastor that I went to with my problems.''
Bob Dyer can be reached at 330-996-3580 or bdyer@thebeaconjournal.com.
A husband and father who once counseled families on coping with death was killed Friday in a traffic crash.
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