Obituaries

Cheryl Ledger
Jun 15, 2008
Cheryl Kelley Ledger, 51, Dalton, Ohio formerly of Flushing, died Sunday, June 15, 2008 at Aultman Hospital, Canton, Ohio. She was born September 15, 1956 in Wheeling, West Virginia a daughter of the late William and Patricia Flory Kelley. She was a member of the Massillon Church of the Nazarene. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents;...

Wilda Gibson
Jun 12, 2008
Wilda Ann ''Sadie'' Gibson, 84, of Cadiz, died Thursday, June 12, 2008 at the Valley Hospice Palliative Care Unit in Steubenville, Ohio. She was born December 20, 1923 in Scio, Ohio, a daughter of the late Charles and Lucy Millinger Thompson. Sadie owned and operated the Home Restaurant in Cadiz for many years. She was a member of the Presbyterian...

Arvella Delloma
Jun 6, 2008
Arvella Delloma, 72, of Jewett, died Friday, June 6, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born March 8, 1936 in Jewett, a daughter of the late Forrest Perry Hoobler and Eva Dorothy Snyder Hoobler Joseph. She was an active member of Bethel United Methodist Church, and the retired Secretary of the WIC Program at Harrison Community Hospital. She...

Sylvia Randolph
Jun 6, 2008
Sylvia Ann Reppart Randolph, 68, Bloomingdale, Ohio died Friday, June 6, 2008 at her home. She was born November 20, 1939 in Wheeling, West Virginia a daughter of the late Merwin Reppart and Sally Skinner of New Lexington, Ohio. She was a former waitress at Bessies' 250 Drive Inn. She was preceded in death in addition to her father; by...

Raymond Hubbard
Jun 4, 2008
Raymond ''Sead'' Hubbard, 53, of Bloomingdale, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at the Valley Hospice Palliative Care Unit in Steubenville. He was born February 17, 1955 in Follansbee, WV, a son of Raymond Wiley Hubbard of Byesville and Cora Jean Lucas Hubbard of Bloomingdale. He was a Navy Veteran of the Viet Nam Era, and for twenty nine years was...

Doris Mccann
Jun 4, 2008
Doris J. McCann, 84, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born January 24, 1924 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Roy and Odessa Dickerson Thompson. She was an active member of Scott United Methodist Church, where she was involved in the Choir, the Women's Missionary Society and was a Sunday...

Wilbur Dunlap
May 30, 2008
Wilbur S. Dunlap, 89, of Willoughby, Ohio and Bradenton, FL, formerly of Cadiz and Akron, Ohio, died Friday, May 30, 2008 at Lake West Hospital in Willoughby. He was born November 1, 1918 in Cadiz, Ohio, a son of the late Adam and Edith Lamborn Dunlap. He was a Retail Distributor for the Archway Cookie Company in Cleveland, Ohio and...

Kenneth Lawthers
May 29, 2008
Kenneth M. ''Whitey'' Lawthers, 78, of Jewett, Ohio, formerly of Follansbee, WV, died Thursday, May 29, 2008 at Acuity Specialty Hospital in Steubenville, Ohio. He was born January 27, 1930 in Wheeling, WV, a son of the late Paul and Marguerite Nash Lawthers. He was a retired Steelworker at Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Company's Mingo Plant. He was a member of the...

Richard Rotkoski
May 28, 2008
Richard Stanley Rotkoski, 68, of New Philadelphia, formerly of Cadiz, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, May 28, 2008. He went peacefully in his sleep at his home after a long battle with lung disease with his loving family surrounding him. He was born May 13, 1940 in Cadiz a son of the late Stanley and Ruby...

Donald Barnhart
May 22, 2008
Donald W. Barnhart, 75, Cadiz, died Thursday, May 22, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. He was born September 26, 1932 in Cadiz, Ohio a son of the late David Franklin and Sophie Marie Mazeroski Barnhart. Don was a member of the Cadiz American Legion, Post 34 and the Cadiz Aerie 2162 of the FOE. He was a retired...

Hilda Norris
May 14, 2008
Hilda M. Norris, 65, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born November 2, 1942 at Brushy Fork, a daughter of the late Howard Grimes and the late Frances L. McAfee Grimes Jones. She was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church near Jewett. In addition to her parents, she was...

Faye Taggart
May 12, 2008
Faye Suzanne Taggart, 49, of Deersville, died Monday, May 12, 2008 at Kindred Hospital, Oakdale, PA. She was born May 27, 1958 in Dennison, Ohio, a daughter of William Frank Taggart of Deersville and the late Marguerite Anderson Taggart. Faye was a member of the Deersville United Methodist Church. Surviving, in addition to her father, are two sisters, Fern and...

William Barcroft, Sr.
May 9, 2008
William M. ''Mr. Clean'' Barcroft, Sr., 65, Cadiz, died Friday, May 9, 2008 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. Bill was born May 19, 1942 in Cadiz, Ohio a son of Edwin Barcroft, Sr. of Cadiz and the late Nellie M. Lyon Barcroft. Bill was a retired miner having worked at Y& O Coal Company, a member of the...

Roy Snyder
May 8, 2008
Roy H. Snyder, 90, Cadiz, died Thursday, May 8, 2008 at his home. He was born July 31, 1917 in Hopedale, Ohio a son of the late William Edward Snyder and Eva Fox Snyder Sizemore. Roy was a member of the First Church of Christ in Cadiz; a retired farmer and ''B'' Shovel operator for Hanna Coal Company; UMWA; and...

Deborah Ramsey
May 1, 2008
Deborah Strother Ramsey, 59, of Cadiz, died Thursday, May 1, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born August 1, 1948 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Wayne West and Vivian Jackson West Wilson. Debbie was an employee of McDonald's in Cadiz and was a member of St. James A.M.E. Church. In addition to her parents, she was...

Orven Ruckman
Apr 28, 2008
Orven V. Ruckman, 84, Adena, Ohio died Monday, April 28, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. He was born March 16, 1924 in Adena, Ohio a son of the late Claude and Mabel Furbee Ruckman. He was a retired coal miner having worked at the Saginaw Mine in St. Clairsville; a supporter of the Ohio State Highway Patrol; and...

Elizabeth Howes
Apr 26, 2008
Elizabeth J. ''Betty'' Howes, 78, Cadiz, died Saturday, April 26, 2008 surrounded by her loving family and the caring staff of Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio. She was born January 23, 1930 in Cadiz, Ohio a daughter of the late Joseph and Julia Lukacina Kovacik. Her most cherished membership was at the First Church God where she was a member...

Richard Furmanski
Apr 20, 2008
Richard P. Furmanski, 47, of Cadiz, died Sunday, April 20, 2008 in Wintersville, Ohio. He was born February 15, 1961 in Trenton,NJ, a son of William Furmanski of Freeport, OH and the late Victoria Scalogna Furmanski.. He was employed as a cook at King's Restaurant in Wintersville, Ohio. In addition to his father, he is survived by his wife, Gina...

Sharon Freeman
Apr 20, 2008
Sharon Rose Freeman, 44, of Cadiz, died Sunday, April 20, 2008 at Aultman Hospital, Canton, Ohio. She was born August 20, 1963 in Steubenville, Ohio, a daughter of the late Charles L. and Lillian Banks Freeman. She worked at KFC/Taco Bell in Cadiz, where the public knew her as ''Big Mama''. She was a former employee of Harcatus and the...

Freda Mellott
Apr 12, 2008
Freda M. Mellott, 90, New Athens, died Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Southeastern Ohio Medical Center in Cambridge, Ohio. She was born December 8, 1917 in Belmont County, Ohio a daughter of the late A.W. and Maude Mae VanFossen Hefling. She was a member of the New Athens United Methodist Church where she served as president of the United Methodist...