Obituaries

Adam Kokovich
Apr 17, 2007
Adam Kokovich, 79, of Cadiz, died Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at East Ohio Regional Hospital. He was born in Adena, Ohio on March 20, 1928 a son of the late Charles and Josephine Kokovich. Adam was a employee of Consolidated Coal Company and owner and operator of the Starlite Inn and Kenwood Tavern for 40 years. A member of the...

Debbie Ott
Apr 17, 2007
Debbie L. Ott, 52, of Hopedale, died Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at East Ohio Regional Hospital, Martins Ferry. She was born December 8, 1954 on Deersville Ridge in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Ralph and Edna Smith Abel. She was a Cook at the Harrison County Home for 27 years, was a member of the Church of...

Helen Dressel
Apr 17, 2007
Helen Davis Shaw Dressel, 90, Cadiz, died Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born August 1, 1916 in Jefferson County, Ohio a daughter of the late Ray and Emma Johnston McKee Davis. She was a former Deacon and member of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz; a former member of Cadiz Women' Civic Club; a...

Cora Nelson
Apr 9, 2007
Cora Belle LeMasters Norris Nelson, 90, Cadiz, died Monday, April 9, 2007 at Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born February 16, 1917 in West Virginia a daughter of the late Delbert and Cora Jane Young LeMasters. She was a nurse, homemaker, and attended the Church of Christ. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by her...

Joanna Dagan
Apr 5, 2007
Joanna R. ''Mama Dagan'' Dagan, 62, Cadiz, died Thursday, April 5, 2007 at her home. She was born August 13, 1944 in Martins Ferry, Ohio a daughter of the late William Percy and Anna N. Riley Hesford. She was a homemaker. She is survived by 2 sons: John W. Dagan of Loudonville, Ohio and Gus Dagan and his wife Renee...

W. Reppart
Mar 31, 2007
W. Craig Reppart, 84, Cadiz, died Saturday, March 31, 2007 at his home. He was born January 8, 1923 in Georgetown, Ohio a son of the late Willard Henry and Emma Carter Reppart. He was a retired employee of Consolidation Coal Company where he helped build and was one of the operators of the Silver Spade; a member of the...

Grace Kernya
Mar 20, 2007
Grace Irene Kernya, 82, Cadiz, formerly of Cherry Valley, died Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at Trinity West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born July 9, 1924 in Adena, Ohio a daughter of the late Orville and Grace Waldren McMannis. She was a retired employee of Scio Pottery Company, an avid Bingo player, enjoyed her family, especially her children, grandchildren and great...

Joseph Young
Mar 9, 2007
Joseph Oliver Young, 84, McConnellsville, Ohio formerly of Jewett, died Friday, March 9, 2007 in Stow, Ohio. He was born January 8, 1923 in Harrison County, Ohio a son of the late John Young and Mary Ferrell Young Conaway. He was the retired Superintendent of Schools in Morgan County. He was a 1941 graduate of Scio High School and recieved...

Emma Pena
Mar 7, 2007
Emma Jean Pena, 44, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. She was born December 23, 1962 in Dennison, Ohio a daughter of Rodney Graham of Logan, Ohio and the late Elsie Given Graham. In addition to her mother, she was preceded in death by her grandparents, Frank and Ravella Given. In...

Maxine Snode
Mar 5, 2007
Maxine Porter Snode, 85, of Cadiz, died Monday, March 5, 2007 at the Harrison County Home. She was born July 13, 1921 in Athens Twp., Harrison County Ohio, the oldest daughter of Francis J. and Martha Bernice Ramsey Porter. She attended the Irish Ridge one room school and graduated from Cadiz High School and Kent State University. She taught in...

Cathryn Lacross
Feb 28, 2007
Cathryn B. Evans LaCross, 85, Carriage Inn of Cadiz, formerly of Parlett, passed into eternity Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born July 25, 1921 in Parlett, Ohio, the only child of the late Mary Jane Pulliman and raised by her grandparents, George E. and Jane E. Evans. As well as being blessed with...

Mary Moore
Feb 12, 2007
Mary Ann Moore, 66, of Cadiz, died Monday, Feb. 12, 2007 at the Valley Hospice Palliative Care Unit at Trinity East in Steubenville. She was born December 26, 1940 in New Rumley, Ohio a daughter of the late Robert and Opal Huff Garrett. She was a former employee of the Scio Pottery Company and was a member of the First...

Richard Smith
Feb 11, 2007
Richard Dwight Smith, 70, of Cadiz, died Sunday, February 11, 2007 at Carriage Inn of Cadiz. He was born October 8, 1936 in Nottingham Township, Harrison County, Ohio a son of Esther Johnson Smith of Cadiz and the late Ralph ''Red'' Dwight Smith. He graduated from Freeport High School in 1954 and worked at the First National Bank of Cadiz,...

Jess Manbeck, Jr.
Feb 10, 2007
Jess Sheldon Manbeck, Jr., 77, of Cadiz, died Saturday, February 10, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born December 6, 1929 in Green Twp., Harrison Co, Ohio, a son of the late Jess and Anna Baker Manbeck. He was a retired truck driver in the coal industry. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in...

Dorothy Albright
Feb 4, 2007
Dorothy Haney Albright, 84, Scio, formerly of Cadiz, died Sunday, February 4, 2007 at Sunnyslope Retirement Center, Bowerston, Ohio. She was born September 27, 1922 in Harrisville, Ohio a daughter of the late Ted and Eva Leona Evans. She was a member of the First Church of Chirst in Cadiz. She was an LPN, and worked at the former Preston...

Ross Young
Jan 29, 2007
Ross Gene Young, 73, of Cadiz, Ohio, formerly of Short Creek, West Virginia, died Monday, January 29, 2007 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born May 10, 1933 in Short Creek, a son of the late Ross John and Violet White Young. He was a retired Steel Worker from the 45'' Blooming Mill, Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Co. in Steubenville, and...

Edward Mosser
Jan 28, 2007
Judge Edward Donald Mosser, 87, of Cadiz, died Sunday, January 28, 2007 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz, Ohio. He was born April 17, 1919 in Newell, WV, a son of the late Newton and Florence Tice Mosser. He leaves his wife, Margaret Bird Mosser; a son, Geoffrey and his wife, Janice Mosser of Cadiz; two grandchildren, Shawn and her...

Dolly Rose
Jan 28, 2007
Dolly A. Rose, 76, Cadiz, died Sunday January 28, 2007 at her home. She was born May 27, 1930 in Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late Ross and Alice B. Rinehart Dosson. She was a member of Asbury Chapel United Methodist Church, a retired bookkeeper for Scio Pottery and McCombs Chevrolet, a foster grandparent at Westgate Elementary School...

Ruby Jimison
Jan 22, 2007
Ruby D. Jimison, 85, of Cadiz, Ohio, died Saturday, January 20, 2007 at Harrison Community Hosptial, Cadiz. She was born May 25, 1921 in West Union, WV, a daughter of the late Moses D. and Pearl Mason Smith. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...

Virginia Harrah
Jan 21, 2007
Virginia H. Harrah, 89, of Cadiz, died Sunday, January 21, 2007 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born Dec. 23, 1917 in Cadiz Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio, a daughter of the late Walter A. And Mary Smith Holliday. She and her late husband, Clarence, owned and operated a crop and livestock farm in Green Twp. for over...