Obituaries

Emery Devault
Feb 6, 2003
Emery Gene DeVault, 76, of Conover, North Carolina, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Thursday, February 6, 2003 at Catawba Valley Medical Center, Conover, North Carolina. He was born February 7, 1926 in Bridgeport, Ohio, a son of the late Clyde F. and Nellie Oliver DeVault. He was a member of the East Warren Street Church of Christ in Cadiz, and...

Keith Barnhart
Feb 6, 2003
Keith Allen Barnhart, 38, of Columbus, formerly of Cadiz, died Thursday, February 6, 2003 at his home in Columbus. He was born July 26, 1964 in Wheeling, West Virginia, a son of Ted Barnhart of Zanesville, Ohio and the late Penny Griffiths Barnhart. He was an employee of Gilson Construction Co. in Columbus and an avid fan of the Pittsburgh...

Arnold Merryman
Feb 1, 2003
Arnold ''Lou'' Merryman, 64, Cadiz, died Saturday, February 1, at his home after a 12 year battle with cancer. He was born December 5, 1938 in Cadiz, a son of the late Leonard and Enid Patterson Merryman. Lou was a member of Flushing Masonic Lodge and a retired self employed truck driver and former owner/operator of the Bullseye Lounge near...

Commella Cutshall
Jan 31, 2003
Commella Mae McKinney Cutshall, 90, Cadiz, died Friday, January 31, at Carriage Inn of Cadiz. She was born October 15, 1912 in Adena, Ohio a daughter of the late William McKinney and Dessie Wease McKinney. Commella was a homemaker and a member of the Pleasant Grove Apostolic Church. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by her...

Clinton Smith
Jan 30, 2003
Clinton Robert Smith, 86, Wooster, formerly of Cadiz, died Thursday, January 30, at his home in Wooster, Ohio. He was born October 5, 1916 in Mt. Plesant, Ohio a son of the late Emmett Smith and Nora Waller Smith. Mr. Smith was a member and Bishop at the Hands of Grace United Pentecostal Church in Wooster and also a member...

Richard Glessner
Jan 25, 2003
Richard L. Glessner, 56, Cadiz, died Saturday, January 25 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born January 17, 1947 in Wheeling, West Virginia a son of Gertrude Neville Glessner of Morristown, Ohio a the late William Glessner. Rich was a disabled career Army veteran having served during the Viet Nam era and a handyman in the Cadiz area. He...

William Ossman, Jr.
Jan 24, 2003
William B. Ossman, Jr., 79, Cadiz, died Friday, January 24 at Trinity West, Steuvbenville, Ohio. He was born September 5, 1923 in Wellsburg, West Virginia a son of the late William B. Ossman, Sr. and Ella Arimina Wilson Ossman. Bill was a member of the First Apostolic Church of God in Cadiz where he was a deacon and served on...

Eugene Heavilin
Jan 21, 2003
Eugene Vincent Heavilin, 82, was born at Bowerston on February 10, 1920, the eldest son of Robert Park and Winifred Barger Heavilin. A graduate of Scio High School, he enjoyed farming all his life. He was employed by Central Ohio Breeding Association and retired from R.& F. Coal Company. During WW II, he served in the Old Hickory Division (30th)...

Jackie Bailie
Jan 20, 2003
Jackie Bailie, 74, Cadiz, died Monday at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born October 1, 1928 in Steubenville, Ohio a daughter of the late W.R. ''Bill'' Bothe and Isabel Bray Bothe. Jackie was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz; former member Distaff; former PR director of Harrison Community Hospital; former circulation manager Freeport Press and Harrison...

Margaret Decker
Jan 19, 2003
Margaret I. Decker, 88, Cadiz, died Sunday at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born December 16, 1914 in Clarington, Ohio a daughter of the late Benjamin Edward Smith and Christina Blanche Smith Smith. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church, Cadiz where she was a member of the Lyle Jones Circle; Cadiz Business and Professinal Womens Club;...

George Minks
Jan 19, 2003
George ''Doc'' Arlie Minks, 81, Cadiz, died Sunday, January 19, at the Harrison County Home. Doc was born November 1, 1921 in Byumville, Missouri a son of the late John Preston Minks and Matilda Henrietta Harmon Minks. Doc was protestant by faith and a member of the VFW and American Legion. He was a veteran of the Airforce having served...

Robert Butler, Sr.
Jan 18, 2003
Robert L. ''Buzz'' Butler, Sr., 67, New Athens, Ohio, died Saturday, January 18, at Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling. WV. He was born February 22, 1935 in Crabapple, Ohio a son of the late Roy and Pearl Abel Butler. He was a was a retired employee of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation in Martins Ferry; a pitcher for the Fairpoint-Lafferty baseball leagues...

Grace Higgins
Jan 13, 2003
Grace B. Higgins, 82, Navarre, Ohio, formerly of St. Clairsville and Cadiz, Ohio, died Monday, January 13, at Country Lawn Nursing Home, Navarre, Ohio. Grace was born August 19, 1920 in Jefferson County, Ohio a daughter of the late Charles F. and Mellisa Ann Polen Busby. Grace was a retired employee of Columbia Gas having worked in Cadiz and St....

Jerry Hill
Jan 10, 2003
Jerry Spurling Hill, 61, formerly of Wheeling, WV, and now living with her close friend Tom Coultrap at Cadiz, died Friday, January 10, 2003 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, OH. She was born December 12, 1941 in Tennessee a daughter of Verna Hassinger Valentine Taylor of New Martinsville, WV and the late Gerald Valentine. She was the former owner of...

Grace Souders
Jan 7, 2003
Grace Ann Souders, 69, of Steubenville, Ohio, died Tuesday, January 7, 2003 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, Ohio. She was born January 29, 1933 in Unionvale, Ohio, a daughter of the late Earl and Hazel Cox Souders. She was a retired medical secretary. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Souders and...

Raymond Mcconnell
Jan 4, 2003
Raymond A. ''Mac'' McConnell, 89, lifelong resident of New Athens, died Saturday, January 4, at the Harrison County Home, Cadiz. Mac was born August 28, 1913 in New Athens a son of the late George C. and Laura Minnie McConnell. Mac was a retired Union Carpenter and Protestant by faith. He was preceded in death by a son, Sonny McConnell;...

John Bowersock
Jan 2, 2003
John E. Bowersock, 53, Williamsburg, Kentucky, died Thursday, January 2, in Corbin, Kentucky. He was born June 3, 1949 in Ohio a son of Velma Bowersock and the late Charles Bowersock. He is survived in additon to his mother of Moorefield are two children: John Jason Bowersock and Jamie Bowersock both of Dover; 2 brothers: Russell Bowersock and his wife...

Lucille Houze
Dec 27, 2002
Lucille Huntsman Houze, 85, of Cadiz, Ohio, died Friday, December 27, 2002 at the Harrison County Home, Cadiz. She was born May 6, 1917 in Deersville, Ohio, a daughter of the late G. Howard and Ida L. Freeburn Smith. She was a member of the Asbury Chapel United Methodist Church near Cadiz and the Unionport Chapter 360, Order of the...

Donald Norris
Dec 26, 2002
Donald Norris, 72, of Cadiz, Ohio died Thursday, December 26, 2002 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was a loving father and husband, and will be missed by all. He was born August 18, 1930 in Woodsfield, Ohio, a son of the late Forrest and Ada Ullman Norris. He was a former coal miner with R. & F. Coal Co.,...

William Mann
Dec 17, 2002
William Aaron (Bo) Mann, 22, Cadiz, died Tuesday, December 17 in Cadiz as the result of an automobile accident. Bo was born October 16, 1980 in Steubenville, Ohio a son of William E. Mann and Brenda Kay Hartley Mann. Bo was a senior at Tri State University majoring in Golf Management; employed by Game of Your Life Foundation of Coldwater,...