Obituaries

James Ross
Dec 5, 2003
James F. Ross, Sr., 73, Flushing, died Friday, December 5, at East Ohio Regional Hospital, Martins Ferry. He was born December 19, 1929 in Harrison County, Ohio a son of the late James Raymond and Mary Jane Vannest Ross. He was retired from Fairpoint Coal Company, a member of Ridge Presbyterian Church, and was a U.S. Army veteran. He was...

Ila Blake
Dec 5, 2003
Ila Gatts Blake, 66, Cadiz, died Friday, December 5 in Pittsburgh. She was born January 17, 1937 in Pine Hill, West Virginia a daughter of the late Alden Gatts and Beryl Ray Gatts. She was a former employee of Carriage Inn of Cadiz, Penny's Place, and The Place restaurant; and a member of the Harrison County Board of Elections; the...

Olive Wilson
Dec 1, 2003
Olive Roiene ''Peg'' Wilson, 87, of Canton, formerly of Jewett, died Monday, Dec. 1, 2003 at Manor Care Nursing Home in Canton. She was born July 18, 1916 in Jewett, a daughter of the late John Roy and Mary Edith Gruber Gotschall. She was a member of the Annapolis Presbyterian Church, the Unionport Chapter 360, Order of the Eastern Star...

Ernest Bailey
Nov 28, 2003
Ernest E. ''Bill'' Bailey, 90 of Jewett, died Friday, November 28, 2003 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born October 27, 1913 in Harrison County, Ohio a son of the late Oscar Price Bailey and Mary Martha Thompson Bailey. Bill was a member of the Cadiz FOE, Aerie #2162 and the UMWA. He was a former employee of R....

Verner Mckibben
Nov 27, 2003
Verner McKibben, 72 , of Cadiz, died Thursday at his home. He was born May 21, 1931 in Harrison County, Ohio, a son of the late David E. and Bessie Stevens McKibben. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, the Harrison County Antique Tractor Club and a retired member of the Army Reserve 660th Transportation Unit after...

James Flaherty
Nov 20, 2003
James Lee Flaherty, 69, of Cadiz, Ohio, died Thursday at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born June 14, 1934 in Ohio County, West Virginia, a son of the late James H. and Virginia Crawford Flaherty. He is a retired coal miner and a member of the East Warren St. Church of Christ in Cadiz. In addition to...

Anna Kidder
Nov 9, 2003
Anna J. Kidder, 86, Cadiz, died Sunday, November 9, at the Harrison County Home, Cadiz. She was born May 29, 1917 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Lloyd McFadden and Viola (Ola) Icenhood McFadden. She was a member of the First Church of Christ on North Main Street, Cadiz; the Cadiz Business and Professional Womens Club, and Harrison Community...

Charles Grimes
Nov 7, 2003
Charles William Grimes, 64, of Cadiz, Ohio, died November 7, 2003 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He was born May 31, 1939 in Harrison County, Ohio a son of Frances L. Grimes Jones of Cadiz, and the late Howard W. Grimes. He was a Truck Driver for Fraley and Schilling Trucking of Brilliant, Ohio, and was...

Wilma Perry
Nov 5, 2003
Wilma E. Perry, 84, Cadiz, died Wednesday, November 5 at Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born October 12, 1919 in Hopedale, Ohio a daughter of the late Willard Thompson and Elsie Fawcett Thompson. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz and a retired Janitor having worked at the Harrison County Court House. She was preceded...

Mae Arris
Nov 1, 2003
Mae Elizabeth Arris, 92, of Cadiz, died Saturday, November 1, 2003 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born June 8, 1911 in Steubenville, Ohio, a daughter of the late John Edward and Emily Ethel Clark Parfitt. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church. She was employed by Harrison County for 14 years, until her retirement in 1976...

Myrtle Christian
Oct 30, 2003
Myrtle Christian, 83, of Cleveland, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, died Thursday, Oct. 30, 2003 at Cleveland. She was born April 25, 1920 in McIntyre, Ohio, a daughter of the late William and Jessie Helen Smith Freeman. She was a member of St. James A.M.E. Church in Cadiz. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,...

Edna Mcdevitt
Oct 27, 2003
Edna Naomi McDevitt, 88, Cadiz, died Monday, October 27, at the Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born January 31, 1915 in Kenwood, Ohio a daughter of the late Wilbur and Sarah Stevens Twigg. She was a homemaker, a member of AARP, enjoyed her family and playing cards. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by her...

Patrick Erbacher
Oct 20, 2003
Patrick F. Erbacher, 64, Cadiz, died Monday, October 20, at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville. Pat was born August 28, 1939 in Wheeling, a son of the late Joseph D. Erbacher, Sr. and Alma Schafer Erbacher Welty. Pat was a past member of Cadiz Jaycees and the Cadiz Lions Club, a member of F.O.E. #2162, Cadiz, and Catholic by faith....

Dorothy Milliken
Oct 19, 2003
Dorothy Jane Milliken, 46, of Deersville Ridge Rd., Cadiz, died Sunday at her home. She was born April 18, 1957 in Dennison, Ohio, a daughter of Marilyn Hursey Kellar of Cadiz, and the late Orion D. Kellar. She was an employee of Nottingham Twp. in Harrison County, Ohio. She volunteered for experimental Breast Cancer studies, in the interest of helping...

Mary Raber
Oct 5, 2003
Mary Elizabeth Raber, 72, of Steubenville, formerly of Hopedale, died Sunday at Labelle View Nursing Home, Steubenville. She was born May 28, 1931 in Adena, Ohio a daughter of the late Leo Kugler and Edith Thompson Kugler. She was a homemaker, a member of Hopedale American Legion and a Christian by faith. She was preceded in death in addition to...

Clarence Harrah
Oct 1, 2003
Clarence C. Harrah, 93, Cadiz, died Wednesday, October 1, 2003 at Gables Care Center, Hopedale, Ohio. He was born November 9, 1909 in Green Twp., Harrison Co., Ohio, a son of the late Frederick C. and Lena Stringer Harrah. Mr. Harrah was a member of the Harrison County Farm Bureau, attended Kent State University where he played baseball and majored...

Marjorie Moore
Sep 22, 2003
Marjorie Cunningham Moore, of Frederick, MD, formerly of Derwood, MD, died Sept. 22, 2003. She was born Dec. 18, 1931, a daughter of the late David and Grace Nutter Cunningham. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by:her brother, David S. Cunningham, Jr. Surviving are her husband, David C. Moore; 3 sons, Stephen Craig, Brian Kincaid and...

Ed Paryzek
Sep 22, 2003
A MEMORIAL service will be held Oct. 11 to recall the life of Ed Paryzek, a Freeport resident who died suddenly last month. Paryzek died on Sept. 22 in Cleveland, from which he originally hailed, and was being remembered at a service there on Oct. 8. Friends and family will be welcomed at the local service, which will be held...

Clara Sinfield
Sep 22, 2003
Clara Sinfield, 89, of Gaslight Villa Apts., Canal Fulton, formerly of Navarre and Hopedale, Ohio died Monday at Massillon Community Hospital. She was born October 31, 1913 at Beallsville, Ohio a daughter of the late Charles and Mary Blanche Decker Stidd and the last of 9 children. She retired from Scio Pottery. She enjoyed Horseback riding, quilt making, walking, bingo,...

Emily Eckley
Sep 18, 2003
Emily Jean Sickle Eckley, 64, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on September 18, 2003 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio on February 27, 1939, a daughter of the late Alvie W. and Emily Fern McCue Sickle. She was a member of the First Church of Christ of Cadiz, a past...