Obituaries

Mary Tkac
Jun 9, 2004
Mary Murray Tkac, 86, of Freeport, formerly of St. Clairsville and Scotland, died Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born March 12, 1918 on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, a daughter of the late Norman and Matilda Murray. She was a member of the Tippecanoe Church of the Nazarene and was a retired employee...

Margaret Edwards
May 29, 2004
Margaret H. Edwards, 87, of Dennison, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Saturday, May 29, 2004 at Twin City Hospital, Dennison. She was born December 31, 1916 in Hopedale, OH, a daughter of the late Archer Fremont and Grace Schultz Hedges She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church, and was a past Worthy Matron of the Unionport Chapter 360,...

Cynthia Mcmaster
May 23, 2004
Cynthia B. McMaster, 57, Cadiz, died Sunday, May 23, at University Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Cindy was born November 24, 1946 in Wheeling, West Virginia a daughter of the late Robert H. McMaster and Virginia L. Stevens McMaster. Cindy was a former employee of the Harrison News Herald and Sally Buffalo Park both in Cadiz and a member of FOE #2162,...

Carlie Williams
May 18, 2004
Carlie Taniesha Marie Williams, infant daughter of Daniel Williams and Dawn Andears of Jewett, died Tuesday, May 18, 2004 at Trinity Medical Center, East in Steubenville. In addition to her parents, she is survived by a brother, Daniel Kindt; two sisters, Krista Williams and Alissa Williams; grandparents, Conrad Andears, Jr. of Jewett, Sharon Andears of Cadiz, and Irene Kindt of...

Deborah Meyer
May 18, 2004
Deborah Eckley Meyer, 38, Cadiz, died Tuesday, May 18, at Allegheny General Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Debbie was born June 20, 1965 in Wheeling, West Virginia a daughter of the late Homer W. and Emily Sickle Eckley. Debbie was a skilled laborer at the Timken Company in Canton, Ohio, a member of the Harrison County Baseball Association, and a member...

Marcella Ballard
May 10, 2004
Marcella Brooks Ballard, 95, of Cadiz, died Monday, May 10, 2004 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born December 28, 1908 in Cadiz a daughter of the late Eleanor Jones. She was a member in good and regular standing of St. James A.M.E. Church in Cadiz. She was the former owner of the Brooks Barber Shop and retired...

T.C. Anderson
May 4, 2004
T.C. ''Pat'' Anderson, 88, of New Athens Road, Cadiz, died Tuesday, May 4, at his home. He was born May 16, 1915 in Cannonburg, Pennsylvania a son of the late Rev. Alexander and Elva Maud Weaver Anderson. Pat was a miner having worked at Consol and the Goodyear Mine and was a self employed business owner having owned a couple...

George Jenkins
May 2, 2004
George A. Jenkins, born August 15, 1908 in Cadiz, Ohio, and died May 2, 2004 in Dublin, Ohio. He worked in the coal fields in the Cadiz area for over 50 years in a variety of capacities. Employed by Harmon Creek Coal Co., Apex Coal Co., Hanna Coal Co., Consolidated Coal Co., and the State of Ohio. Member of the...

Donald Clark
Apr 27, 2004
Donald Ryan Clark, 25, of Cadiz, Ohio, formerly of New Athens and Freeport, died Tuesday at his home. He was born December 13, 1978 at Wheeling, WV, a son of Donald and Connie Dickerson Clark of New Athens. Ryan was a 1997 graduate of Lakeland High School and the Belmont Career Center, and was a Coal Miner at the Cam-Ohio...

Martha Vandyke
Apr 23, 2004
Martha K. Ellis VanDyke, 96, of Cadiz, died Friday, April 23, 2004 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born April 25, 1907 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Sherrod and Lillian Dickerson Porter. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church, and was the former owner of Colonial Jewelers and the Ellis Florist, all in Cadiz....

Jane Meneely
Apr 22, 2004
Jane Louise Meneely, 77, of Cadiz, died Thursday, April 22, 2004 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born August 17, 1926 in Front Royal, Virginia, a daughter of the late Robert and Ruth Manuel Hockman. She was a retired Payroll Clerk for Y. & O. Coal Company, and was a member of the Cadiz Fraternal Order of...

Mark Rago
Apr 19, 2004
Mark Carl Rago, 48, of Country Garden Manor, Cambridge, formerly of Hopedale, died Monday, April 19, 2004 at Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center in Cambridge. He was born September 3, 1955 in Steubenville, Ohio a son of Mary Lucich Rago Fowler of Cadiz and the late James Rago. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Vincent Rago, and...

Marga Christian
Apr 12, 2004
Marga Else Christian, 58, of Cadiz, died Monday, April 12, 2004 at Sunset Health Care Center, Adena. She was born October 7, 1945 in Althutten, Germany, the only daughter of Else Sauter Semmelman, and the late Kurt Sauter. She was a former employee of Coffy's Bi-Lo Supermarket in Cadiz. She also worked as a waitress, and loved children, cooking and...

Donald Johnson
Mar 27, 2004
Donald Johnson, 65, Flushing, died Saturday, March 27 at his home. He was born July 29, 1938 in Martins Ferry, Ohio a son of the late Wayne Major Johnson and Clara Belle McFadden Johnson. He was a diesel mechanic for Cravat Coal Company and served in the United States Army during the Berlin Crisis. He is survived by his wife,...

Ethel Mchugh
Mar 21, 2004
Ethel W. McHugh, 89, of Hopedale, Ohio, formerly of Smithfield and Mt. Pleasant, Ohio died Sunday, March 21, 2004, at Gables Care Center, Hopedale, where she had resided for four years. She was born April 23, 1914 in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio the daughter of the late Oscar and Mary Belle Davis Woodford. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Mary Wallace
Mar 17, 2004
Mary Elizabeth Wallace, 79, of the Harrison County Home, died Wednesday, March 17, 2004 at the Harrison County Home, Cadiz. She was born October 13, 1924 in New Philadelphia, Ohio, a daughter of the late Edward Hayes and Florence Vera Rogers. She is the retired Administrator of the Harrison County Home, a member of the Asbury Chapel United Methodist Church...

Virginia Aspenwall
Mar 15, 2004
Virginia Clair Johnston Aspenwall, 95, of Cadiz, died Monday, March 15, 2004 at Sunnyslope Retirement Center in Bowerston. She was a former resident of Smithfield, and was the last in the line of the Johnston pioneer family of Jefferson County. She was born February 4, 1909 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Edwin C. And Mary Elizabeth Howard Johnston....

Ruth Shumard
Mar 12, 2004
On March 12, 2004, after 17 years alone, Ruth Elizabeth Still Shumard rejoined her husband of fifty years, Charles Howard Shumard, Sr. Ruth was born in Steubenville, July 14, 1917 and was preceded in death by her mother Ura Ritchie Still and father Daniel Still, one son Donald, five sisters, one brother, and two grandchildren. Ruth was a member of...

June Albaugh
Mar 8, 2004
June Albaugh, 86, of Cadiz, formerly of Scio, died Monday, March 8, 2004 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born June 20, 1917 in Scio, Ohio, a daughter of the late Charles and Lucy Millinger Thompson. She was the former Manager of the former Home Restaurant in Cadiz, and was a member of the Scio Presbyterian Church. In...

Homer White
Mar 7, 2004
Homer White, 89, of Cadiz, died Sunday, March 7, 2004 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born July 11, 1914 in Cannonsburg, PA, a son of the late James and Myrta Griffith White. He was a retired farmer, and a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz. He was a member of the Harrison County Farm Bureau and Grange,...