Obituaries

Lois Blackburn
Sep 30, 2007
Lois M. Blackburn, 78, Hopedale, died Sunday, September 30, 2007 at Trinity West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born February 14, 1929 in Stock Township, Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late Edward and Florence Rogers Rogers. Lois was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Hopedale; the Democratic Womens Club; and a member of the Hopedale and Cadiz American...

Everett Best
Sep 30, 2007
Everett Leroy Best, 70, Cadiz, died Sunday, September 30, 2007 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born December 28, 1936 in Harrison County a son of the late Hazel L. Mansfield Kelley and Thomas W. Kelley. He was a member of the House of the Shepherd Church in New Athens and the UMWA having retired from Consolidation Coal Company. He is...

Darrell Mills
Sep 29, 2007
Darrell Edward Mills, 53, Summersville, West Virginia formerly of Jewett, died Saturday, September 29, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital. He was born April 22, 1954 a son of the late Edward and Lorena Collins Mills. He was a disabled coal miner. He is survived by his wife Janet Hutton Mills; 2 sons: Rodger Mills of Port St. Lucie, Florida and...

William Henderson
Sep 27, 2007
William Murray Henderson, 84, of Cadiz, died Thursday, September 27, 2007 at his home on his sixtieth wedding anniversary, thereby completing the circle of love. He was born August 31, 1923 in Cadiz, a son of the late Norman and Opal Murray Henderson. Mr. Henderson was a lifelong member of the First Church of Christ on North Main St. in...

Judy Cunningham
Sep 8, 2007
Judy Cunningham, 64, of Cadiz, died Saturday, September 8, 2007 at Presbyterian Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. She was born August 31, 1943 in Steubenville, Ohio a daughter of the late Thomas and Thelma Patterson Snyder. Judy attended the First Church of Christ in Cadiz, and worked in serveal service jobs in the Cadiz area. She loved bingo and garage sales. In...

Mary Gotshall
Sep 1, 2007
Mary J. Gotshall, 96, Jewett, died Saturday, September 1, 2007 at Union Hospital, Dover, Ohio. She was born November 24, 1910 in Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late Thomas and Zula B. Neregan Ferrell. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Cadiz and a housewife. She was preceded in death in addition to...

David Gregory
Sep 1, 2007
David A. Gregory, 56, of East Springfield, formerly of Hopedale, died Saturday, Sept. 1, 2007 near Londonderry, Ohio, the result of a traffic accident. He was born March 22, 1951 in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of the late Vincenze and Virginia Manno Gregori. He was a Truck Driver for PJAX Freight Line of Columbus, and for sixteen years was a...

Miriam Roemich
Aug 31, 2007
Miriam J. Long Roemich, 72, of Aurora, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Friday, August 31, 2007 at her home following a brief illness. She was born October 31, 1934 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Hugh MacLaren and Marion McCool Long. Mimi was a graduate of Cadiz High School and The Ohio State University. She was a retired...

Don O'Bradovich
Aug 26, 2007
Donald O'Bradovich, 74, of Cadiz, died Sunday, August 26, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center, East, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born June 16, 1933, a son of the late Mike and Katherine Sall O'Bradovich. He was a retired Blaster with R. & F. Coal Company in Cadiz, a member of the First Church of Christ of Cadiz, a Veteran, and a...

Preston Nation
Aug 22, 2007
Preston Scott Nation, 38 of Barnesville, formerly of Cadiz, died Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born September 15, 1968 in Steubenville, Ohio a son of and Joyce Thompson Nation Wierzbicki and her husband Ted of Flushing, Ohio and the late Ansil Odell Nation. He was an Habilitation Specialist for Voca Corporation in St. Clairsville and a...

Carl Laughrige
Aug 14, 2007
Carl Raymond Laughrige, 100, of Cadiz, formerly of Falmouth, Maine, died Tuesday, August 14, 2007 at his home in Cadiz, Ohio. He was born March 3, 1907 in Hopedale, Ohio a son of the late James H. and Frances R. Snyder Laughrige. Mr. Laughrige was a retired Branch Manager for Motors Insurance Corporation in Portland, Maine, a member of Woodfords...

Helen Gatto
Jul 31, 2007
Helen Gatto, 88, Cadiz, died Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh. She was born July 4, 1919 in Cadiz, Ohio a daughter of the late Dominic and Josephine Schirippa Gatto. She was a member of St. Teresa Catholic Church in Cadiz and a retired Medical Assistant and a retired Federal Program Manager. She...

Dorothy Merryman
Jul 17, 2007
Dorothy Rogers Merryman, 94, Cadiz, died Tuesday July 17, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born February 12, 1913 in Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late J. Bert and Bertha Palmer Rogers. Mrs. Merryman was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz where she was a life member of the Lisle Jones...

Caroline Douglas
Jul 13, 2007
Caroline E. Douglas, 92, of New Athens, died Friday, July 13, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born January 30, 1915 in Belmont County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Pete and Anna Barton. Mrs. Douglas was a member of the New Athens Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary and the Senior Citizens Center in Flushing. She was preceded...

Dave Morgan
Jul 10, 2007
Dave Morgan, 58, of Cadiz, died Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at the Cleveland Clinic. He was born September 19, 1948 in Pittsburgh, PA, a son of Lois Russell Morgan of Cadiz and the late Eugene D. Morgan. Dave was an Exploration Geologist and a Land Agent for Consolidation Coal Company for 28 years. He was a member of St. Teresa's...

John Bedway
Jul 8, 2007
John Andrew Bedway, 86, retired president of Bedway Coal Company and a longtime community leader, died July 8, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital. His wife and five children were with him. Mr. Bedway was born in Adena, Ohio on November 30, 1920, one of nine children of George and Mary Bedway, immigrants from Tourza, Lebanon who owned a grocery store...

Tom Edwards
Jul 7, 2007
Tom Edwards, 79, passed peacefully, Saturday, July 7, 2007 at his home in New Athens, Ohio. He was born March 30, 1928 in New Athens, the son of Norval and Beatrice Swindell Edwards. Tom supported the New Athens United Methodist Church and the New Athens Volunteer Fire Department; he was a member of the United Mine Workers of America having...

Marion Smith
Jun 30, 2007
Marion William ''Bud'' Smith, 86, of New Athens, died Saturday, June 30, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born June 2, 1921 near Germano, Ohio, a son of the late J.H. and Jessie Hoobler Smith. He was a Presbyterian, and an Army Air Corps Veteran of WW II. He was a retiree of Consolidation Coal Company...

Martha Paige
Jun 28, 2007
Martha Jane Paige, 89, of Carrollton, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Thursday, June 28, 2007 at the Carroll Health Care Center, Carrollton. She was born April 5, 1918 in Bridgeport, WV, a daughter of the late Arlis Earl and Virchie Childers McIntyre. She was a member of the First Apostolic Church of Cadiz, and was a retired restaurant employee....

Gloria Mccleary
Jun 23, 2007
Gloria McCleary, 52, of Holloway, died suddenly Satruday, June 23, 2007 at home. She was born March 31, 1955, a daughter of the late William Stoneking and Arvanna Able Stoneking Goodrich. She was a private duty Nurses Aid. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her step-father, Wilbert Goodrich. Surviving are her husband, William McCleary; two...