Obituaries

Benjamin Rice

Benjamin Rice

Jan 25, 2015

Benjamin Rice, 85, of Pittsburgh, PA, died Sunday, January 25, 2015 at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling, WV. He was born June 25, 1929 in Cordova, AK, a son of the late John and Ann Caseroff Rice. Mr. Rice was a member and volunteer of Valley View Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh and a retired groundskeeper at the University of...

John Ford

John Ford

Jan 24, 2015

John Edwin Ford, 93, of Cadiz, passed away on Saturday, Jan 24, at the Harrison Community Hospital after a brief illness. Born January 10, 1922, in Doddridge County, West Virginia to Lily Gay (Conwell) and John Samuel Ford, John Edwin, along with his four brothers and five sisters, spent his youth on the family farm tending crops, hunting squirrel, and...

Sharon Decaminada

Sharon Decaminada

Jan 23, 2015

Sharon L. DeCaminada, 65, of Hopedale, died Friday, January 23, 2015 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born October 6, 1949 in Steubenville, a daughter of the late David and Anna Leone DeCaminada. Sharon attended the Hopedale Church of Christ and was a Secretary at Polen Insurance Agency and the Cadiz Insurance Agency. She was an avid knitter, collected...

Thelma Ramsey

Thelma Ramsey

Jan 14, 2015

Thelma A. Ramsey, 83 of New Athens, died January 14, 2015 at her home. She was born October 7, 1931 in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late Clark O. Adams and Carrie Simpson Adams Barrett. Thelma was a retired employee of Harrison Community Hospital and attended the House of the Shepherd in New Athens. In addition...

Rodney Vernon

Rodney Vernon

Jan 13, 2015

Rodney James Vernon, 61, of Cadiz, formerly of Adena, died Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. He was born September 10, 1953 in River Rouge, MI, a son of the late Charles Daniel and Neila June Lewis Vernon. Rodney was a self employed master plasterer and was Methodist by faith. He was a member of...

Beverly Henderson

Beverly Henderson

Jan 12, 2015

Jean Henderson, 79, of New Athens, went to be with the Lord on Monday, January 12, 2015. She was born February 6, 1935 in Parkersburg, WV; she was the daughter of Joseph M. Garvin and Alma Drain. She was a member of the New Athens Presbyterian Church, where she served as an elder. She was a 1954 graduate of Cadiz...

Roger Davis

Roger Davis

Jan 7, 2015

Roger William Davis, 88, of Cadiz died Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at his home. He was born November 19, 1926 in Somerton, Ohio a son of the late William and Goldie Mae Saffell Davis. He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater from 1944-1946. He worked for Consol for 34 years, retiring as the Assistant Superintendent of Reclamation....

Donald Grim, Jr.

Donald Grim, Jr.

Jan 1, 2015

Donnie Grim, Jr., 64, of Cadiz, died Thursday, January 1, 2015 at Valley Hospice Care Center, North in Steubenville. He was born March 28, 1950 in Canton, Ohio, a son of the late Donald E. Grim, Sr. and Renee Alice Dulkoski Grim. Donnie was a former employee of Y. & O. Coal Company and a was a member of Bethel...

Delmas Davis

Delmas Davis

Dec 26, 2014

Delmas Lee Davis (Junior), 53, of Cadiz, died Friday at his home following a lengthy illness. He was born January 13, 1961 in Hawthorne, CA, a son of Delmas Davis of Cadiz and Arlene Marsh Davis Lamp of Utah. Del was an owner and operator of 4D's Trucking and a member of the Cadiz Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. He was...

Norma Kimmel

Norma Kimmel

Dec 23, 2014

Norma June Kimmel, 83, of New Philadelphia, formerly of Cadiz, died Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at Amberwood Manor Nursing Home, New Philadelphia. She was born January 22, 1931 in Hopedale, a daughter of the late Fred and Clara Hall Richards. Norma was a former employee of the Scio Pottery and Belmont College North Center. She was a member of the...

Martha Heavilin

Martha Heavilin

Dec 23, 2014

Martha Wehrs Heavilin, 78, of Cadiz died Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital in Cadiz. She was born March 31, 1936 in West Jefferson, Ohio a daughter of the late Thurman and Thelma Parthemore Wehrs. She was a farmer, a member of Asbury Chapel UMC and the Harrison County Farm Bureau and very active in the Harrison County...

Eugene Raber

Eugene Raber

Dec 18, 2014

Eugene L. Raber, 87, of Hopedale, died Thursday, December 18, 2014 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. He was born June 27, 1927 in Wintersville, the eldest of four children to the late Leslie and Gladys Dawson Raber. Mr. Raber was retired from Harrison Hills City School District after 27 1/2 years as Head Custodian, Bus Coordinator, and School...

Cecil Christian

Cecil Christian

Dec 16, 2014

Cecil H. Christian, 72, of Cadiz, died Tuesday at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. He was born March 15, 1942 in Scio, Ohio, a son of the late Wesley J. and Myrtle Jane Freeman Christian. Cecil was a retired employee of the AEP Cardinal Plant in Brilliant. He was a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam Era and was a...

Elaine Molloy

Elaine Molloy

Dec 14, 2014

Elaine K. Molloy, 64, of Washington Court House, formerly of Cadiz, died Sunday, December 14, 2014 at Mt. Carmel West Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She was born June 20, 1950 in Steubenville, a daughter of the late Jack A. and Lois Kathleen Osburn Johnson. She was a clerk at the former Big Bear Department Store. She was preceded in death...

Robert Coulson

Robert Coulson

Dec 11, 2014

With that contagious laugh, those steel blue eyes, and the quickest wit, Bob Coulson could charm anyone - or any fish for that matter. Born on September 3, 1931, in Piedmont, Ohio, Robert George Coulson's love for fishing began at an early age. His greatest passion was casting his line in the waters of Ohio, Florida and Canada; and when...

Dolly Hennis

Dolly Hennis

Dec 10, 2014

Dolly J. Hennis, 55, of Jewett, died Wednesday, December 10, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born July 7, 1959 in Dennison, Ohio, a daughter of the late William and Ida M. Beamer Booth. Dolly was a Bus Aid at Harrison Central High School and a member of the Harrison County Antique Tractor Club. In addition to her...

Helen Hayest

Helen Hayest

Dec 8, 2014

Helen G. Hayest, 95, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Monday, December 8, 2014 at the Convalarium of Dublin. She was born May 21, 1919 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Donald and Hettie Baker Grimes. Mrs. Hayest was a former member of the Drummond United Methodist Church and the Harrison Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star...

Dwight Pettay

Dwight Pettay

Dec 7, 2014

Dwight Cheever Pettay, Jr., a Cadiz native, died Dec. 7 at his home in Northern Virginia of a stroke. He was born April 10, 1942 to Dwight Cheever Pettay, MD, and Helen Sadler Pettay. "Butch", as he was known as a kid, was a star student and football player who always had a big smile and optimism for his many...

Kathy Wurschum

Kathy Wurschum

Dec 5, 2014

Kathy Lynn Wurschum , 57, of Cadiz, formerly of Hopedale, died Friday, December 5, 2014 at her home. She was born November 23, 1957 in Steubenville, a daughter of the late Charles Richard and Helen Jeannie Souders Wurschum. Kathy was a waitress and a devoted grandmother. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Brittany...

Ruth Copeland

Ruth Copeland

Nov 24, 2014

Ruth Ann Campbell Copeland, 86, of Scio, formerly of Cadiz, died Monday, November 24, 2014 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born December 4, 1927 in Cadiz Twp., Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Fred C. and Deane Riggs Martin. Mrs. Copeland was a retired Dispatcher for the Harrison County Highway Department and a member...