Obituaries

Janet Bedway

Janet Bedway

Aug 21, 2014

Janet Dickerson Bedway, 92, of Cadiz, Ohio, died August 21st, 2014 at Kobacker House hospice in Columbus, Ohio with her five children at her side. Mrs. Bedway was born in Adena, Ohio on August 17, 1922 to Robert and Zera Dickerson. In Adena, she met John Bedway, and began the most enduring of romances until his passing in 2007. She...

Lula Toney

Lula Toney

Aug 18, 2014

Lula Christian Palmer Toney, 96, of Hopedale, died Monday, August 18, 2014 at her home. She was born September 17, 1917 in Stillwater, Ohio a daughter of the late Grant and Maude Christian. She was a member of Bethel Methodist Church near Hopedale and was a former cook at the former Cadiz Pike Inn Hopedale and worked at Bethel Church....

Andrew Bobot

Andrew Bobot

Aug 16, 2014

Andrew Bobot, 94, of Harrisville, died Saturday, August 16, 2014 at Autumn Health Care Center near Harrisville. He was born August 23, 1919 in Maynard, Ohio, a son of the late George J. and Julia Roslaynk Bobot. Mr. Bobot was a retired Welder, having worked at Hanna Coal Co., R.&F. Coal Co., and Boich Mining Co. He was a volunteer...

Perry Parrish

Perry Parrish

Aug 12, 2014

Perry J. Parrish, 49, of Cadiz, died Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at his home. He was born June 9, 1965 in Steubenville, Ohio a son of the late John Stanley and Alberta Hawthorne Parrish. Perry was a member of Mt. Shiloh Baptist Church in Cadiz, was the former Director of Patient Accounts at Harrison Community Hospital and was a former...

Ross Worrell

Ross Worrell

Aug 12, 2014

Ross I. Worrell, 61, of Freeport, formerly of Cadiz, died Tuesday at his home following a courageous battle with cancer. He was born February 4, 1953 in Cadiz, Ohio, a son of the late Adrian and Mildred Harris Worrell. Ross was a former Coal Miner with Y. and O. Coal Company in Cadiz and a member of the UMWA. He...

Richard Reppart

Richard Reppart

Aug 10, 2014

Richard Dean Reppart, 77, of Cadiz, died Sunday, August 10, 2014 at Hospice House in New Philadelphia, Ohio. He was born December 8, 1936, a son of the late Ellsworth "Doc" Reppart and Lena Swann Reppart Nation. Rich was a former employee of Consolidation Coal Company and was a retired Shooting Engineer with R & F Coal Company. He was...

Anna Dickinson

Anna Dickinson

Aug 7, 2014

Anna Mae Dickinson, 97, of Dover, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Thursday, August 7, 2014 at Park Village Health Care Center in Dover. She was born March 12, 1917 in Hopedale, Ohio, a daughter of the late James H. and Frances Rebecca Snyder Laughrige. Mrs. Dickinson was a member of the First Church of Christ of Cadiz, where she...

Harold Alexander, Jr.

Harold Alexander, Jr.

Jul 31, 2014

Harold Victor Alexander, Jr. "Mr. A.", 71, of Cadiz, died Thursday, July 31, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born April 15, 1943 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, a son of the late Harold Victor Alexander, Sr. and the late Edith May King Alexander. Mr. Alexander worked at Roger's Western Auto in Cadiz for sixteen years and was a...

Roy Jones

Roy Jones

Jul 24, 2014

Roy Eugene Jones, 83, of Cadiz, died Thursday at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. He was born July 23, 1931 in Unionvale, Ohio, a son of the late Eugene Bruce and Estella Coffman Jones. Mr. Jones was employed at Y. & O. Nelms # 1 Mine for 18 1/2 years, the last five years as Chief Electrician. He retired...

Paul Culver, Sr.

Paul Culver, Sr.

Jul 24, 2014

Paul E. Culver, Sr., 88, of Hopedale, Ohio, died Thursday, July 24, 2014 at Gables Care Center, Hopedale. He was born May 17, 1926 in The Plains, Ohio, a son of the late George Leonard and Ethel Hungerford Culver. Mr. Culver was a retired Coal Miner from the Nelms #2 Mine of Y. & O. Coal Company at Hopedale. He...

Rhoda Christian

Rhoda Christian

Jul 19, 2014

Rhoda E. Strother Christian, 78, of Cadiz, died Saturday, July 19, 2014 at her home. She was born May 28, 1936 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Frank Edgar and Rosetta Hython Strother. Rhoda was a homemaker and a member of the Cadiz Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...

Jennifer Alexander

Jennifer Alexander

Jul 16, 2014

Jennifer Renee Harris, age 33, Gavin William Alexander, age 7, and Gracey Kay Alexander, age 6, all of Cadiz died Wednesday, July 16, 2014 the result of a fire in their home. Jennifer was a Registered Nurse at Cigna Health Care in Robinson Twp. She had also worked at Allegheny General Hospital, Critical Care and Trinity Medical Center West, ICU....

John Stevenson

John Stevenson

Jul 13, 2014

John Robert Stevenson, 74 of Cadiz, died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Acuity Specialty Hospital, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born July 12, 1940 in Dennison, Ohio a son of the late Charles Peter Stevenson and Sally Charlton Stevenson Perry. John was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz and was retired from food marketing in California and retired...

Mary Ray

Mary Ray

Jul 13, 2014

Mary M. "Aunt Mickey" Ray, 91, of Cadiz, died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born October 8, 1922 in Bay City, Michigan a daughter of the late Pete and Blanche Davia. She was a former member of the Springdale Friends Church and the Cadiz Church of God. She was preceded in death in...

Connie Wheeler

Connie Wheeler

Jun 30, 2014

Connie L. Wheeler, 58, of Cadiz, died Monday, June 30, 2014 at her home. She was born February 6, 1956 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, a daughter of Rhoda Strother Christian of Cadiz and the late Clarence Christian. Connie was a cook at the Alameda Inn in Hopedale and Vickie's Place in Cadiz and a former employee of Shurfast in Cadiz....

Paul Albaugh

Paul Albaugh

Jun 29, 2014

Paul Leonard Albaugh, 88, of Cadiz died Sunday, June 29, 2014 at his home. He was born November 12, 1925 in Weirton, WV, a son of the late Denton and Margaret Beale Albaugh. Mr. Albaugh was an active member of the East Warren Street Church of Christ. He was a retired Mill Wright from Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp. A pilot,...

Sherry Miller

Sherry Miller

Jun 24, 2014

Sherry L. Miller, 63, of Freeport, Ohio, died Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born March 15, 1951 in Akron, Ohio. She was a member of the United Church of God. Surviving are her husband, Robert Miller; three daughters, Wendy (Tim) Weems, Killen, AL, Malia (Benji) Barnes of Panama City, FL and Denise (John) Bellamy...

Sylvia Visser

Sylvia Visser

Jun 23, 2014

Sylvia Anne Visser, 77, died Monday, June 23, 2014 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born July 3, 1936 at Manchester, Ohio, the daughter of Rev. Fred and Mildred Norton Eastman. Her family in her childhood years moved where her father served Presbyterian churches in Kansas, Minnesota , and in several towns in Ohio, including the Congress...

Lavonda New

Lavonda New

Jun 22, 2014

Lavonda Louise New, 75, of Cadiz, died Sunday, June 22, 2014 at Kobacker House in Columbus following a valiant battle with cancer. She was born June 24, 1938 in West Union, WV, a daughter of the late James and Erma Ash Hutton. Lavonda was a 1956 graduate of Cadiz High School and attended the Cincinnati Bible Seminary. She was a...

Darwin Swelbar

Darwin Swelbar

Jun 18, 2014

Darwin Lane (Blackie) Swelbar, of Cadiz, died suddenly at his home on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. He was born February 9, 1936 in Tippecanoe, Ohio, a son of the late Albert and Anna Exton Swelbar of Cadiz. He was a retired Superintendent at Consol. He belonged to the Cadiz Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Wheeling Shrine Club. He was also...