Obituaries

Lailah Basnett
Feb 28, 2016
Lailah V. Basnett, 65, of Kissimmee, Florida died Sunday, February 28, 2016 in Florida Hospital, Kissimmee. She was born December 3, 1950 in Bulacan, Phillipines a daughter of the late Felix and Noren Falcon Benedictos. She was a retired Logistics officer for the state government and a member of Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Kissimmee where she served on the...

Marjorie Blake
Feb 11, 2016
Marjorie M. Blake, 85, of Cadiz, formerly of Freeport, died Thursday, February 11, 2016 at Valley Hospice Care Center, North in Steubenville. She was born October 10, 1930 in Tippecanoe, Ohio, a daughter of the late Clyde and Tacy Smith Jenkins. Mrs. Blake was a retired Nurses Aid at the Harrison County Home and was a Presbyterian by faith. In...

Regina Cunningham
Feb 5, 2016
Regina J. Cunningham, 87 of Kenwood, died Friday, February 05, 2016 at her home, surrounded by her family. She was born October 21, 1928 in Florence, Ohio a daughter of the late Joseph and Ruth Bowen Yeater. Mrs. Cunningham was a homemaker and attended the First Church of God in Cadiz. She served in the WACs during WW II, was...

Gertrude Rogers
Jan 24, 2016
Gertrude V. "Gert" Rogers, 75 of Cadiz, died Sunday, January 24, 2016 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born August 26, 1940 in New Athens, a daughter of the late Thomas A. and Wilma Lucas Keyser. She was a member of the New Athens UMC, an avid Facebook user and the retired superintendent of the Harrison County Home....

Ronald Bland
Jan 18, 2016
Ronald Eugene Bland, 73 of Cadiz, died Monday, January 18, 2016 at Trinity Medical Center West in Steubenville, Ohio. He was born February 5, 1942 in New Rumley, Oho a son of the late George and Bernice Mattern Bland. He was a former coal miner at Consol Franklin HIghwall Mine and retired steel worker from American Steel Foundaries in Alliance,...

Homer Smith
Jan 17, 2016
Homer Guy "Butch" Smith, Jr., 64, of Las Vegas, Nevada, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Sunday, January 17, 2016 in Las Vegas. He was born April 9, 1951 in Wheeling, WV, a son of the late Homer Guy Smith, Sr. and the late Lydia West Smith Mallory. Butch was affiliated with St. James A.M.E. Church when he was in Cadiz....

Curtis Bauer
Jan 16, 2016
Curtis Alan Bauer, 43, of Alliance, OH, formerly of Cadiz, OH, died Friday evening, the result of an automobile accident. He was born March 3, 1972 in Wheeling, WV, a son of Dennis and Suzanne Daugherty Bauer of Cadiz. Curtis worked at Allied Heating and Cooling as an HVAC Technician in Mansfield, Ohio. He was a former employee of Harrison...

Eva Liggett
Jan 13, 2016
Eva Lee Liggett, 89, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, January 13, 2016 at Harrison Community Hospital. She was born May 10, 1926 in Preston County, WV, a daughter of the late Willis and Lesta Butcher Davis. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Albert Ross Liggett; a son, Terry Liggett; a sister, Alma Howes; a...

Keith Mcdowell
Jan 13, 2016
Keith M. McDowell, 64, of Zanesville, formerly of Cadiz, died Wednesday, January 13, 2016. He was born June 17, 1951. Private services will be held at the convenience of the family at Clark-Kirkland Funeral Home, Cadiz.

Donald Watson
Jan 4, 2016
Donald C. Watson, 85, of New Athens, died Monday, January 04, 2016 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born October 17, 1930 in New Athens, a son of the late James W. and Gussie Cannon Watson. Don was the former owner/operator of the Sinclair Service Station in New Athens. He was a mechanic at the Consolidation Coal Co. Lower Garage; and...

Doris Brown
Dec 19, 2015
Doris M. Brown, 80, of Deersville Ridge, Cadiz, died Saturday, December 19, 2015 at Hospice House in New Philadelphia. She was born January 6, 1935, a daughter of the late Thomas "Tony" Millinger and Ruth Abel Palmer. Mrs. Brown was a member of the Hanover United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women's Club. She was a retired District Program...
William Starkey
Dec 13, 2015
William C. "Bill" Starkey, 54, of Harrisville, died Sunday, December 13, 2015 at his home after a long battle with cancer. His family was by his side. He was born December 17, 1960 in Wheeling, WV, a son of George Daniel (Mary Jane) Starkey of Harrisville and the late Joann Stanco. Bill was a former Truck Driver with Knight Trucking...

Helen Harrah
Dec 12, 2015
Helen Pettay Harrah, 97, of Glendale, Arizona, formerly of Cadiz and Canton Ohio, died Saturday, December 12, 2015 at the Hospice Sanctuary at Palso Highland in Phoenix, Arizona. She was born January 17, 1918 in Cadiz, Ohio, a daughter of the late Brice and Effie Ice Pettay. Mrs. Harrah began her career as a School Teacher at Ourant School in...
Frances Hawthorne
Dec 7, 2015
Frances Jean Foresha Hawthorne, 87, of Cadiz, died Monday, December 7, 2015 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born October 31, 1928 in Follansbee, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Alvia LeRoy and Dessie May Thompson Foresha. Mrs. Hawthorne was a retired Telephone Operator from GTE in Cadiz and the former Ohio Consolidated Phone Company in...
Marilyn Alexander
Dec 4, 2015
Marilyn S. Knight Alexander, 77, of Cadiz, died Friday, December 4, 2015 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born June 22, 1938 in Barnesville, Ohio, a daughter of the late Arthur and Virginia Pittman Knight. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Cassidy in 1975 and her husband, Harold Alexander,...
Christine Mencer
Nov 21, 2015
Christine Ann McKibben Mencer, age 41, of McGee Rd., Cadiz, died Saturday evening November 21 as the result of a car accident. She was born March 16, 1974 in Wheeling, WV, a daughter of Jay and Florence Dunlap McKibben of Cadiz. Christy was a 1992 Cadiz High School graduate and a 1997 graduate of Belmont Technical College. She was an...

Allen Bobot
Nov 16, 2015
Allen J. Bobot, 68, of Harrisville, Ohio, died suddenly at his home Monday, November 16, 2015 He was born July 10, 1947 in Martins Ferry, a son of Carolyn Yablonski Bobot of Harrisville and the late Andrew Bobot. He was retired from GTE after 30 years of service. He was a self-employed building contractor since 1979. He was a member...

Melvin Howell
Nov 5, 2015
Melvin L. Howell, 87 of Cadiz, died Thursday, November 5, 2015 at the Community Hospice House in New Philadelphia surrounded by his family. He was born August 21, 1928 in Harrison County a son of the late Chester William and Susie Thompson Howell. He was a retired Dozer Operator and Oiler in the Moutaineer Pit of Consolidation Coal Co. and...
John Baumgardner
Oct 28, 2015
John Edison "Big John" Baumgardner, 85, of Cadiz, formerly of Dennison, died Wednesday at his home. He was born August 21, 1930 in Londonderry, OH, a son of the late Marion Dewey and Laurel Opal Hardy Baumgardner. John was a retired laborer at Superior Clay Works in Uhrichsville and a Pentecostal by faith. He attended Boot Camp for the US...

Inez Weekley
Oct 22, 2015
Inez Weekley, 91 of Cadiz died Thursday at Carriage Inn of Cadiz. Private service at Clark-Kirkland Funeral Home, Cadiz.