Obituaries

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,...

Donald Mcwilliams
Mar 5, 2004
Donald R. McWilliams, 67, of Freeport, Ohio, died Friday, March 5, 2004 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born July 23, 1936 in Flushing, Ohio, a son of the late Alfred and Virginia McWilliams. He was a retired employee of Yackey Trucking in Morristown, and attended the Rock Hill Baptist Church near Flushing. In addition to his parents, he...

Dianna Kellaway
Mar 1, 2004
Dianna L. Kellaway, 48, of Cadiz, died Monday, March 1, 2004 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born January 22, 1956, a daughter of the late Arthur Wayne Barcus and Shirley Decker Kellaway. She attended the Cadiz Church of the Nazarene, and was a member of the Cadiz Jaycees. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Florence Carothers
Mar 1, 2004
Florence Virginia Carothers, 89, of Cadiz, formerly of Kenwood, died Monday, March 1, 2004 at her home. She was born January 22, 1915 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Charles W. And Bertha Beanie Mansfield. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Carothers; two infant children; three brothers, Charles (Bud), Burrell, and...

Lillian Shannon
Feb 25, 2004
Lillian Shannon, 87, of Dillonvale, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, died Wednesday, February 25, 2004 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. She was born November 9, 1916 in Hattiesburg, MS, a daughter of the late Steven and Jesse Dietz Russell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Shannon in 1986; and by...

Ruth Applegarth
Feb 17, 2004
Ruth L. Applegarth, 80, of New Athens, Ohio, died Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at Heartland Rehabilitation Center, Lansing, OH. She was born January 29, 1924 in Mt. Pleasant, Ohio, a daughter of the late James F. And Marie Snyder Kelley. She was a member of the New Athens United Methodist Church and the Flushing Chapter 369, Order of the Eastern...

Cathy Ball
Feb 17, 2004
Cathy Jean Ball, 56, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, died Tuesday, February 17, 2004 at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born January 27, 1948 in Cambridge, Ohio, a daughter of the late James Frederick and Audrey Ellen Shafer Ball. She as an accountant and a Baptist by faith. She was an active member of the American Payroll...

Robert Grim
Feb 16, 2004
Robert Eugene Grim, 87, of Jewett, Ohio, died Monday, February 16, 2004 at his home after a long courageous battle with Black Lung. He was born August 8, 1916 in Holbrook, PA, a son of the late Raymond and Nellie Longenette Grim. He was a member of the Jewett United Methodist Church and was a retired Shovel Operator for Consolidation...

Michael Eickleberry
Feb 7, 2004
Michael Richard ''Mikey'' Eickleberry, 23, of Hopedale, died Saturday, February 7, 2004 at Harrison Community Hospital, the result of a work related accident. He was born October 19, 1980 in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of Michael and Cathy Hawkins Eickleberry, with whom he resided. Mikey graduated from the Harrison Career Center in 1999, he was active in FFA and 4-H....

Keith Price
Feb 2, 2004
Keith Price, 56, New Athens, died Monday, February 2, 2004. He was born May 27, 1947 in Wheeling, West Virginia a son of Wayne and Mary Laverne Cross Price. He was a charter member of the New Athens Buck Club, a member of the Polish Club in Fairpoint, the American Legion, UMWA, attended the New Athens United Methodist Church as...

Luke Mallernee
Jan 26, 2004
Luke Clark Mallernee, 21, Cadiz, died Monday, January 26, 2004, as the result of a automobile accident. He was born March 10, 1982 in Dennison, Ohio a son of Dennis Mallernee and wife Susan of Cadiz and Nancy Martin Cunningham and husband Ed of Cadiz. He was a Specialist E-4 with the Ohio Army National Guard, 1485th Transportation Co., Steubenville...

Kimberly Bishop
Jan 26, 2004
Kimberly Evon Bishop, 19, Freeport, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, died Monday, January 26, 2004 as the result of an automobile accident. Kim was born May 3, 1984 in Steubenville, Ohio a daughter of John and Donna Jenkins Bishop of Freeport, Ohio. Kim attended the Uhrichsville Christian Temple; she was FFA Queen; Husky and Cardinal Mat Stat. She wrote poetry; was...

Ernest Hardwick
Jan 24, 2004
Ernest A. ''Ernie'' Hardwick, 64, of Cadiz, died Saturday, January 24, 2004 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born June 13, 1939 in New Cumberland, WV, a son of the late Ernest Wilbur and Alice Helene Boyles Hardwick. He was an associate member of St. James A.M.E. Church in Cadiz and was a retired employee of the Village of...

Neva Cope
Jan 23, 2004
Neva E. Cope, 91, of Cadiz, died Friday, January 23, 2004 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born January 25, 1912 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Harry and Florence Keesey Milliken. She was a member of the First Church of God of Cadiz and a former member of the Cadiz Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary. In addition to...