Obituaries

Hilda Norris
May 14, 2008
Hilda M. Norris, 65, of Cadiz, died Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville. She was born November 2, 1942 at Brushy Fork, a daughter of the late Howard Grimes and the late Frances L. McAfee Grimes Jones. She was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church near Jewett. In addition to her parents, she was...

Faye Taggart
May 12, 2008
Faye Suzanne Taggart, 49, of Deersville, died Monday, May 12, 2008 at Kindred Hospital, Oakdale, PA. She was born May 27, 1958 in Dennison, Ohio, a daughter of William Frank Taggart of Deersville and the late Marguerite Anderson Taggart. Faye was a member of the Deersville United Methodist Church. Surviving, in addition to her father, are two sisters, Fern and...

William Barcroft, Sr.
May 9, 2008
William M. ''Mr. Clean'' Barcroft, Sr., 65, Cadiz, died Friday, May 9, 2008 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville, Ohio. Bill was born May 19, 1942 in Cadiz, Ohio a son of Edwin Barcroft, Sr. of Cadiz and the late Nellie M. Lyon Barcroft. Bill was a retired miner having worked at Y& O Coal Company, a member of the...

Roy Snyder
May 8, 2008
Roy H. Snyder, 90, Cadiz, died Thursday, May 8, 2008 at his home. He was born July 31, 1917 in Hopedale, Ohio a son of the late William Edward Snyder and Eva Fox Snyder Sizemore. Roy was a member of the First Church of Christ in Cadiz; a retired farmer and ''B'' Shovel operator for Hanna Coal Company; UMWA; and...

Deborah Ramsey
May 1, 2008
Deborah Strother Ramsey, 59, of Cadiz, died Thursday, May 1, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz. She was born August 1, 1948 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Wayne West and Vivian Jackson West Wilson. Debbie was an employee of McDonald's in Cadiz and was a member of St. James A.M.E. Church. In addition to her parents, she was...

Orven Ruckman
Apr 28, 2008
Orven V. Ruckman, 84, Adena, Ohio died Monday, April 28, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. He was born March 16, 1924 in Adena, Ohio a son of the late Claude and Mabel Furbee Ruckman. He was a retired coal miner having worked at the Saginaw Mine in St. Clairsville; a supporter of the Ohio State Highway Patrol; and...

Elizabeth Howes
Apr 26, 2008
Elizabeth J. ''Betty'' Howes, 78, Cadiz, died Saturday, April 26, 2008 surrounded by her loving family and the caring staff of Aultman Hospital in Canton, Ohio. She was born January 23, 1930 in Cadiz, Ohio a daughter of the late Joseph and Julia Lukacina Kovacik. Her most cherished membership was at the First Church God where she was a member...

Richard Furmanski
Apr 20, 2008
Richard P. Furmanski, 47, of Cadiz, died Sunday, April 20, 2008 in Wintersville, Ohio. He was born February 15, 1961 in Trenton,NJ, a son of William Furmanski of Freeport, OH and the late Victoria Scalogna Furmanski.. He was employed as a cook at King's Restaurant in Wintersville, Ohio. In addition to his father, he is survived by his wife, Gina...

Sharon Freeman
Apr 20, 2008
Sharon Rose Freeman, 44, of Cadiz, died Sunday, April 20, 2008 at Aultman Hospital, Canton, Ohio. She was born August 20, 1963 in Steubenville, Ohio, a daughter of the late Charles L. and Lillian Banks Freeman. She worked at KFC/Taco Bell in Cadiz, where the public knew her as ''Big Mama''. She was a former employee of Harcatus and the...

Freda Mellott
Apr 12, 2008
Freda M. Mellott, 90, New Athens, died Saturday, April 12, 2008 at Southeastern Ohio Medical Center in Cambridge, Ohio. She was born December 8, 1917 in Belmont County, Ohio a daughter of the late A.W. and Maude Mae VanFossen Hefling. She was a member of the New Athens United Methodist Church where she served as president of the United Methodist...

Shirley Chaney
Apr 10, 2008
Shirley A. Chaney, 77, of Cadiz, Ohio and Avon Park, Florida, died Thursday, April 10, 2008 at Trinity Medical Center, West in Steubenville, Ohio. She was born June 12, 1930 in West Finley, PA, a daughter of the late Nelson S. and Beatrice E. Mahan Travis. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church of Cadiz, the King Coal CB...

William Miller
Apr 8, 2008
William Miller, 76, of Cadiz, died Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at the Valley Hospice Palliative Care Unit in Steubenville. He was born September 26, 1931 in Toledo, Ohio, a son of the late Floyd and Dorothy (Sue) Debrosse Miller. He was a retired factory worker at Gulf Chemical Company in Jewett, Ohio. In addition to his parents, he was preceded...

Valeria Kurucz
Apr 8, 2008
Valeria Kurucz, 89, New Athens, Ohio died Tuesday, April 8, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born March 1, 1919 in Maynard, Ohio a daughter of the late Steve and Marie Mikulic Hrica. She was a member of the Cadiz Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, a homemaker, and enjoyed making quilts and giving them to her grandchildren....

Priscilla Palumbo
Apr 6, 2008
Priscilla DeCorte Palumbo, 96, of Cadiz, died Sunday, April 6, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital. She was born December 13, 1911 in Westmoreland County, PA, a daughter of the late John and Lucy DeFlorin DeCorte. She was a Catholic by faith and was a retired employee of Coutrap's Restaurant and a retired clerk at the DeCorte Coal Co. She was...

Mary Ellenbaugh
Apr 3, 2008
Mary Elizabeth Ellenbaugh, 81, Cadiz, died Thursday, April 3, 2008 at Harrison Community Hospital, Cadiz, Ohio. She was born January 25, 1927 in Uhrichsville, Ohio a daughter of the late Samuel and Bessie Briggs Maple. She was a member of the First Apostolic Church in Cadiz and a housewife. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents, by...

Eboni Mcafee
Apr 2, 2008
Eboni Marie McAfee, 4 month old daughter of Joshua Michael McAfee and Daniela Latisha Golsby died Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at her home. She was born November 25, 2007 in Steubenville, Ohio She is survived in addition to her parents; by a brother, Cameron Michael McAfee of the home; maternal grandparents, Ed and Janet Golsby of Cadiz; paternal grandparents, Ralph...

Norma Kaiser
Mar 29, 2008
Norma Westfall Kaiser, 71, of Massillon, died Saturday, March 29, 2008 at Aultman Hospital, Canton, Ohio. She was born December 11,1936 in Watertown, PA, a daughter of the late Harvey and Nellie Sears Collins. She was a former Hospital Aid at the Apple Creek Developmental Center and was a retired CNA from Massillon State Hospital. She loved to fish and...

Ellenora Norris
Mar 23, 2008
Ellenora Maxwell Norris, 70, Cadiz, died Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008 at her home. She was born July 12, 1937 in Bloomingdale, Ohio a daughter of the late James Darwin Maxwell and Cleoda McKinney Maxwell Bennett. She was a member of the Christian Lighthouse in New Philadelphia and was an avid country music singer and fan. In addition to her...

Betty Tyler
Mar 21, 2008
Betty L. Tyler, 74, of Cadiz, died Friday, March 21, 2008 at Mercy Medical Center, Canton. She was born August 9, 1933 in Cadiz, a daughter of the late Ronald and Mary Wallace Banks. Mrs. Tyler was a retired School Librarian for Harrison Hills City School District. She was a active member of St. James AME Church in Cadiz, where...

Wilda Telfer
Mar 17, 2008
Wilda D. Telfer, 76, of Leesburg, Florida and Cadiz, Ohio, died Monday, March 17, 2008 at Leesburg Regional Medical Center. She was born February 7, 1932 in Harrison County, Ohio, a daughter of the late George S. and Sadie Kelley Dowdle. She was a member of Scott United Methodist Church in Cadiz, Ohio, the Unionport Chapter 360 Order of the...