Obituaries

John Moore
Dec 1, 2002
John Duncan Moore, 84, of Cadiz, passed away with his childen at his bedside on Sunday, December 1, 2002 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. He was born September 13, 1918 in Georgetown, Ohio, a son of the late John Henderson and Mary Ellen (Mae) Sergeant Moore. He was a member of the Georgetown United Methodist Church and the Hanover...

John Rogers
Dec 1, 2002
John E. Rogers, 90, of Cadiz, Ohio, died Sunday, December 1, 2002 at his home. He was born September 30, 1912 at Tappan Lake, Ohio, a son of the late George W. and Gay Hayes Rogers. He owned and operated the Rogers Western Auto in Cadiz for 58 years. He was an active member of Scott United Methodist Church where...

Helen Sparkman
Nov 26, 2002
Helen J. Sparkman, 84, New Athens, died Tuesday, November 26, at Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling, West Virginia. She was born, January 13, 1918 in Porter Falls, West Virginia a daughter of the late Elmer and Mary Hoskinson Cross. Helen was a former secretary having worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton and a member of the House of...

Marie Davis
Nov 18, 2002
Marie Byrn Davis, 88, of Arizona, formerly of Cadiz, died November 18 in Arizona. She was born June 13, 1914 in Minnesota a daughter of the late Jerry Martin and Maude Lou Brooks Byrn. She was a retired employee of the federal government. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edward E. Davis in April of 1999 and a...

Upton Brownfield
Nov 17, 2002
Upton Sinclair Brownfield, 96, of Cadiz, Ohio, died Sunday, November 19, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born June 2, 1906 in Belmont County, Ohio, a son of the late Charles and Flora VanDyne Brownfield. He was a self employed Construction Worker in the Coal Industry, and an Army Veteran of WW II. He attended the...

James Ourant
Nov 17, 2002
James D. Ourant, 81, of the Harrison County Home, formerly of Freeport, Ohio, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 2002 at the County Home. He was born June 5, 1921 in Moorefield Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio, a son of the late James C. Ourant and Lydia Scott Ourant. He was a former sexton of Greenmont Cemetery, Freeport, a former employee of the...

Edward Bach
Nov 16, 2002
Edward J. Bach, 90, of Sunnyslope Retirement Center, Bowerston, formerly of Cadiz, OH, Nokomis, FL and Rochester, NY, died Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002 at Sunnyslope. He was born December 10, 1911 in Rochester, NY, a son of the late Edward J. Bach, Sr. and Louise Bach. He was a retired employee of Eastman Kodak Corp. in Rochester, and was an...

Jacob Behner
Nov 11, 2002
Jacob Behner, 51, of Hopedale, Ohio, died Monday, November 11, 2002 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. He was born August 27, 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah, a son of the late Robert and Dorothy Riggs Behner. He is survived by his wife Linda Wood Behner; 3 stepdaughters, Sheilla Beach of Pensacola, FL, Sherry Scott of Scio and Sandra...

Audrey Ball
Nov 9, 2002
Audrey Ellen Ball, 88, Cadiz, died Saturday, November 9, at Harrison Community Hospital. She was born July 30, 1914 in Mt. Ephriam, Ohio a daughter of the late Grant and Martha Carpenter Shafer. Audrey was a retired employee of Y & 0 Coal Company; executive secretary for American Cancer Society in eastern Ohio; a member of Scott United Methodist Church;...

Charles Glover
Nov 8, 2002
Charles D. Glover, 68, Cadiz, died Friday at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. Chuck was born June 13, 1934 in Belmont County a son of the late Edgar and Grace Hinkle Glover. Chuck was a retired truck driver from Howard Bowers Trucking of Steubenville; a former employee of Lumber Wholesalers; and former co-owner of Radio Shack, Cadiz. He was preceded in...

Ruth Thompson
Nov 8, 2002
Ruth Anne Huston Solvey Thompson, 70, Cadiz, died Friday, November 8, at her home in Cadiz. She was born June 15, 1932, in Navarre, Ohio a daughter of the late Julius and Mary F. McMullen Huston. Ruth Anne was a homemaker and a member of the East Warren Street Church of Christ, Cadiz. She was preceded in death in addition...

David Kovacs
Nov 5, 2002
David Lee Kovacs, infant son of Dan and April Howell Kovacs of Cadiz, died November 5, 2002 at Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling, West Virginia. In addition to his parents, he is survived by grandparents: Debbie and Bob (Curly) Dixon of Cadiz, and Cheryl and Ken Kovacs of Flushing; great grandparents, David and Judy Barker of Cadiz, Maxine and John...

Graydon Hendershott
Nov 4, 2002
Graydon A. Hendershott, 83, of New Philadelphia, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz and Canton, Ohio, died Monday at Morning View Care Center, New Philadelphia. He was born June 18, 1919 in Harrison County, Ohio, a son of the late Marion and Hazel Lee Hendershott. He was a Steelworker for Republic Steel Company in Canton, Ohio, and an Army Veteran of WW...

Faye Carter
Nov 4, 2002
Faye Nichols Carter, 88, of Piqua, formerly of Cadiz and Dennison, Ohio, died November 4, 2002 at Piqua. She was born December 13, 1913, in Moorefield, Ohio, a daughter of the late Charles O. Edwards and Rowena Quinn Edwards. She was a retired Florist at the former Bow-Kay Flower Shop in Cadiz, a graduate of Moorefield High School in 1931,...

Eva Lloyd
Nov 2, 2002
Eva ''Peggy'' Lloyd, 86, of Adena, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Saturday at her home. She was born July 18, 1916 in Detroit, Michigan, a daughter of the late John and Caroline Barcon Renbacz. She was a member of the Springdale Friends Church, and was a retired Machine Operator for the R.L. Polk Publishers in Detroit. In addition to...

John Banks, Sr.
Nov 1, 2002
John Kenneth Banks, Sr., 73, of Steubenville, Ohio, died Friday, Nov. 1, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center, East, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born October 6, 1929 in Cadiz, Ohio a son of the late Silas and Mildred Smith Banks. He was a member of St. James A.M.E. Church in Cadiz, the United Steelworkers of America, and was a social member...

William Sproul
Oct 28, 2002
William R. Sproul, 65, of Cadiz, died Monday, October 28, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born July 15, 1937 in Flushing, Ohio, a son of the late John F. and Gladys Marie Cordner Sproul. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, John Sproul, Jr. Surviving are 4 aunts, Wilma...

Iola Long
Oct 17, 2002
Iola M. Long, 78, of Tappan Lake, died Thursday, October 17, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born February 22, 1924 in Belmont County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Wayne and Hazel Gatten Bell. Surviving are her husband, Van W. Long; a son, Vance and his wife, Rosemary Long of Cadiz; a daugter, Sharon and...

Gladys Sproul
Oct 10, 2002
Gladys Marie Sproul, 86, Cadiz, died Thursday, October 10, at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. Marie was born August 13, 1915 in Flushing, Ohio a daughter of the late Charles and Fedelia Wagner Cordner. She was a housewife and attended the Christian Church. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by her husband John Sproul, Sr.;...

Robert Muze, Sr.
Oct 8, 2002
Robert W. Muze, Sr., 75, Cadiz, died Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born April 27, 1927 in Whitchazel, Ohio a son of the late William Joseph and Florence Mercer Muze. Bob was a retired coal miner from Y&O Coal Company and a retired truck driver and a member of the UWMWA. Bob...