Obituaries

Jennifer Alexander
Jul 16, 2014
Jennifer Renee Harris, age 33, Gavin William Alexander, age 7, and Gracey Kay Alexander, age 6, all of Cadiz died Wednesday, July 16, 2014 the result of a fire in their home. Jennifer was a Registered Nurse at Cigna Health Care in Robinson Twp. She had also worked at Allegheny General Hospital, Critical Care and Trinity Medical Center West, ICU....

John Stevenson
Jul 13, 2014
John Robert Stevenson, 74 of Cadiz, died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Acuity Specialty Hospital, Steubenville, Ohio. He was born July 12, 1940 in Dennison, Ohio a son of the late Charles Peter Stevenson and Sally Charlton Stevenson Perry. John was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz and was retired from food marketing in California and retired...

Mary Ray
Jul 13, 2014
Mary M. "Aunt Mickey" Ray, 91, of Cadiz, died Sunday, July 13, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born October 8, 1922 in Bay City, Michigan a daughter of the late Pete and Blanche Davia. She was a former member of the Springdale Friends Church and the Cadiz Church of God. She was preceded in death in...

Connie Wheeler
Jun 30, 2014
Connie L. Wheeler, 58, of Cadiz, died Monday, June 30, 2014 at her home. She was born February 6, 1956 in Martins Ferry, Ohio, a daughter of Rhoda Strother Christian of Cadiz and the late Clarence Christian. Connie was a cook at the Alameda Inn in Hopedale and Vickie's Place in Cadiz and a former employee of Shurfast in Cadiz....
Paul Albaugh
Jun 29, 2014
Paul Leonard Albaugh, 88, of Cadiz died Sunday, June 29, 2014 at his home. He was born November 12, 1925 in Weirton, WV, a son of the late Denton and Margaret Beale Albaugh. Mr. Albaugh was an active member of the East Warren Street Church of Christ. He was a retired Mill Wright from Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corp. A pilot,...

Sherry Miller
Jun 24, 2014
Sherry L. Miller, 63, of Freeport, Ohio, died Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born March 15, 1951 in Akron, Ohio. She was a member of the United Church of God. Surviving are her husband, Robert Miller; three daughters, Wendy (Tim) Weems, Killen, AL, Malia (Benji) Barnes of Panama City, FL and Denise (John) Bellamy...

Sylvia Visser
Jun 23, 2014
Sylvia Anne Visser, 77, died Monday, June 23, 2014 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born July 3, 1936 at Manchester, Ohio, the daughter of Rev. Fred and Mildred Norton Eastman. Her family in her childhood years moved where her father served Presbyterian churches in Kansas, Minnesota , and in several towns in Ohio, including the Congress...
Lavonda New
Jun 22, 2014
Lavonda Louise New, 75, of Cadiz, died Sunday, June 22, 2014 at Kobacker House in Columbus following a valiant battle with cancer. She was born June 24, 1938 in West Union, WV, a daughter of the late James and Erma Ash Hutton. Lavonda was a 1956 graduate of Cadiz High School and attended the Cincinnati Bible Seminary. She was a...

Darwin Swelbar
Jun 18, 2014
Darwin Lane (Blackie) Swelbar, of Cadiz, died suddenly at his home on Wednesday, June 18, 2014. He was born February 9, 1936 in Tippecanoe, Ohio, a son of the late Albert and Anna Exton Swelbar of Cadiz. He was a retired Superintendent at Consol. He belonged to the Cadiz Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Wheeling Shrine Club. He was also...

Vivian Singer
Jun 16, 2014
Vivian I. Stamm Singer, 90, of Cadiz, died Monday, June 16, 2014 at the Harrison County Home, Cadiz. She was born November 9, 1923 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Lewis J. Stamm and Clara Mae Sheets Stamm Petty. Vivian was a retired Clerk for CSX Railroad. She attended the First Church of Christ in Cadiz and was avidly...
Esther Eberhart
Jun 13, 2014
Esther Eberhart, 96 1/2, of Cadiz died Friday at the home of her son in Cadiz. She was born December 19, 1917 in Nottingham Twp., Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Sherman and Jennie Hamilton McKibben. Mrs. Eberhart was a member of Nottingham Presbyterian Church and was a retired housekeeper in the Cadiz area. In addition to her...
Margaretta Ferguson
Jun 3, 2014
Margaretta Ferguson, 88, of Cadiz died Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at Cumberland Pointe Nursing Home in St. Clairsville, Ohio. She was born October 20, 1925 in Harrison County, Ohio a daughter of the late Leslie Lorraine and Mary Mildred Clemons Dunlap. She was a member of Pleasant Valley United Methodist Church and a foster grandmother at the former Westgate Elementary...

Florence Hayest
Jun 2, 2014
Florence "Bo" Hayest, 88, of Cadiz, died Monday, June 2, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born March 11, 1926 in Cadiz, Ohio, a daughter of the late Roy and Odessa Dickerson Thompson. Bo was a retired Ward Clerk from Harrison Community Hospital and a member of Scott United Methodist Church, where she was active in the Bethany...

Max Booth
Jun 1, 2014
Max L. Booth, 78, of Cadiz, died Sunday, June 1, 2014 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. He was born July 1, 1935 in Mannington, WV, a son of the late Charles and Genevieve Pearl Gray Booth. Max was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, Harrison Lodge 219 F.&A.M., the U.S. Army Reserve, a volunteer at the Cadiz Food...
Ruth Anderson
May 25, 2014
Ruth A. Taggart Anderson, 82, of Quaker City (Antrim), Ohio, formerly of Freeport, Londonderry and Scio/Cadiz areas, died Sunday, May 25, 2014 at the Red Carpet Health Care Center, Cambridge, where she had been for the previous four days. She was born August 4, 1931 in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late William and Harriet Edna Dunlap Taggart....
Albert Phillips
May 16, 2014
Albert Troy Phillips, Sr., 87, of Georgia, formerly of Piney Fork, Ohio, died Friday, May 16, 2014 . Mr. Phillips was born in Bellaire, Ohio, a son of the late Troy Phillips and Opal Brock Dean. He was a retired Foreman from Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp, with more than 30 years of service. He and his wife moved to Georgia over...

Audrey Ferris
May 7, 2014
Audrey A. Ferris, 93, of Massillon, Ohio, formerly of Cadiz, Ohio, died Wednesday, May 7, 2014 at Amherst Meadows in Massillon, surrounded by her family. She was born September 9, 1920 in Unionvale, Ohio, a daughter of the late Harvey and Jessie Bell Waller. Mrs. Ferris was a retired Teachers Aid and Secretary from Westgate Elementary School in Cadiz. She...
Lucille Dowdle
May 6, 2014
Lucille M. Dowdle, 81, of Cadiz, died Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born May 28, 1932 in Barnesville, Ohio a daughter of the late B. K. Stephen and Lula Fitzgerald. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a granddaughter, Taylor Dowdle; a grandson, Ashton Fatula; a brother, Wayne...
Marguerite Christy-Davia
May 4, 2014
Peggy Christy-DaVia, 54, of Ashley, Ohio, formerly of Hopedale, died Sunday, May 4, 2014 at OSU Medical Center in Columbus. She was born October 2, 1959 in Wheeling, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Ralph "Spider" and Geraldine Gabel Christy, Sr. Peggy was an Export Documentation Analyst in Worthington, Ohio and was an honorary member of the Daughters of...
Thomas Miles
Apr 25, 2014
Thomas G. Miles, 57, of Cadiz died Friday, April 25, 2014 in Cadiz, Ohio. He was born September 6, 1956 in Cleveland, Ohio a son of the late Sterlie A. and Dorothy Leisenheimer Miles. He was a 1974 graduate of Cleveland Heights High School in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. He worked for Scio Pottery, Consolidation Coal Company and Westport Axle in...