Obituaries

Anna Hiller

Anna Hiller

Dec 7, 2008

Anna M. Greer Hiller, 68, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Sunday, December 7, 2008, at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Urbana, Ohio. On December 12, 1939 she was born to the late Warren & Catherine Holden Greer in Paola, Kansas. She married Paul E. Hiller September 14, 1958 in Olathe, Kansas and he survives. She was preceded in death by one...

Elaine Weiss

Elaine Weiss

Dec 2, 2008

Elaine Ramona Mathewson Weiss, 80, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, December 2, 2008, at the Green Hills Care Center in West Liberty, Ohio. She was born on December 23, 1927 in Derby, Colarado, to the late Gene and Hilda Bahl Mathewson. On July 28, 1951, she married Aldine Weiss, Jr. in Kenton, Ohio, and he preceded her in...

Wilbur Kiser

Wilbur Kiser

Dec 1, 2008

Wilbur M. Kiser, 89, died peacefully on Monday, December 1, 2008 at his West Liberty, Ohio residence. Born September 24, 1919 in Logan County, he was the son of the late Eathel Adella Dysert and Marvin Weaver Kiser. He spent his childhood years in West Liberty and Oregon, and attended Monroe High School. On October 20, 1941 he married Gertrude...

Ruth Elliott

Ruth Elliott

Nov 23, 2008

Ruth Gladys Elliott, 95, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Sunday, November 23, 2008, at the Green Hills Retirement Center in West Liberty, Ohio. She was born in Logan County April 4, 1913, a daughter of the late George and Lenna Shafer Swonger. On September 27, 1934, she married Carl Elliott in Richmond, Indiana, and he preceded her in death May...

John Sullivan

John Sullivan

Nov 21, 2008

John L. Sullivan, 69, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, is a peace with his Lord, after passing away on Friday, November 21, 2008, after a valiant battle with Alzheimer’s at Logan Acres Care Center in Bellefontaine. He was born on September 23, 1939, to the late Emmett and Emma (Ackworth) Sullivan in Bellefontaine. On September 26, 1965, he married Joyce K. Smith...

James Samples

James Samples

Nov 21, 2008

James R. Samples, 73, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, died Friday, November 21, 2008, at his residence. He was born in Bellefontaine on February 21, 1935, a son of the late John Robert and Dorothy Eileen Berry Samples. Survivors include two sons, James Brian (Sandra Kay) Samples of Bellefontaine and Brent (Lori) Samples of West Liberty, Ohio; three grandchildren, Joshua, Michael and...

Donald Garman

Donald Garman

Nov 18, 2008

Donald Max Garman, 83, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at the Dayton Veterans Administration Hospital. He was born August 31, 1925, to the late Ora Allan & Mabel Wilgus Garman in Bellefontaine, Ohio. On January 28, 1950 in Bellefontaine, he married Irene Simmons Garman and she survives along with a son, Doug (Janice) Garman of...

Richard Smith

Richard Smith

Nov 15, 2008

Richard D. “Hatchet Jack” Smith, 58, of Zanesfield, Ohio, died Saturday, November 15, 2008, at The Ohio State University Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Bellefontaine on August 15, 1950, a son of Richard H. Smith, who survives in East Liberty, Ohio, and the late Lois J. Sampson, who died August 9, 2005. He also was preceded in...

Mary Dodge

Mary Dodge

Nov 11, 2008

Mary Agnes Elshoff Dodge, 85, of West Liberty, Ohio, and formerly of Bellefontaine, passed away Thursday, September 11, 2008, at The Laurels of Worthington, in Worthington, Ohio. She was born in Logan County September 21, 1922, a daughter of the late Claude and Inez Cordrey Tanger. On August 3, 1947, she married Orlando Carl Elshoff and he passed away March...

Charles DeMarsh

Charles DeMarsh

Nov 7, 2008

Charles L. DeMarsh, 74, of Huntsville, Ohio, passed away Friday, November 7, 2008, at his residence. He was born in Ada, Ohio, March 19, 1934, a son of the late Louis J. and Mozelle Burnett DeMarsh. On July 20, 1962, he married Elaine Brueck in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, and she survives. Also surviving are a son, John J. (Amy) DeMarsh...

Marylynn Lusby

Marylynn Lusby

Nov 6, 2008

Marylynn Lusby, 48, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, died Thursday, November 6, 2008, at Mary Rutan Hospital in Bellefontaine. She was born in Bellefontaine on July 18, 1960, a daughter of James Furby, who survives in Bellefontaine, and the late Catherine Taylor Furby. A 1979 Bellefontaine High School graduate, she was a cook at the Homecoming Restaurant. She enjoyed spending time with...

Larry Morgan

Larry Morgan

Nov 5, 2008

Larry E. Morgan Larry E. Morgan, 70, of Russells Point, Ohio, died Wednesday, November 5, 2008, in The Ohio State Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, as a result of a September 19 auto accident at the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty, Ohio. He was born in Dayton on May 2, 1938, a son of Ruth Bailey, who survives in Kettering,...

Audrey Bates

Audrey Bates

Nov 4, 2008

Audrey Suzanne Bates, 82, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at Heartland of Bellefontaine, Ohio. She was born in Nottingham, England, on October 11, 1926, a daughter of the late Herbert William Baker and Dorothy Lydia Cooper. On November 23, 1946, she married John Henry Bates Jr. in Nottingham, and she then arrived in the...

Delpha Yoder

Delpha Yoder

Nov 2, 2008

Delpha Elizabeth Yoder, 89, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2008, at Green Hills Center in West Liberty. She was born in West Liberty on June 11, 1919, a son of the late B. Leonard and Leona Cooper Yoder. On June 6, 1937, she married A. Ray Yoder in West Liberty and he preceded her in death...

Jane Ansley

Jane Ansley

Oct 30, 2008

Jane Ansley, 88, of Patoka, Illinois, and formerly of Rushsylvania, Ohio, passed away Thursday, October 30, 2008, at the Twin Willow Nursing Center in Salem, Illinois. She was born in Cleveland, Ohio December 12, 1919, a daughter of the late William and Maude Nellie Webber Bohley. On March 22, 1942, she married George William Ansley in Rushsylvania and he preceded...

Eunice Boykin

Eunice Boykin

Oct 29, 2008

Eunice F. Boykin, 87, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Wednesday, October 29, 2008, at the Green Hills Retirement Community in West Liberty, Ohio. She was born in Springfield June 22, 1921, a daughter of the late Humbert A. and Nancy J. Stevens Linkinhoker. On July 19, 1947, she married Joseph “Bud” E. Boykin and he passed away November 11, 1993....

Mary Ferree

Mary Ferree

Oct 28, 2008

Mary Louise Ferree, 76, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, and formerly of Toledo and Inverness, Florida., passed away Tuesday, October 28, 2008, at Mary Rutan Hospital in Bellefontaine. She was born in Oregon, Ohio, April 3, 1932, a daughter of the late Francis Herbert and Alberta Cole. On September 9, 1950, she married Glenn E. Ferree in Toledo, Ohio, and he passed...

Donald Klinker

Donald Klinker

Oct 22, 2008

Donald E. Klinker, 79, of Russells Point, Ohio, died Wednesday, October 22, 2008, in his home. He was born in Detroit on May 31, 1929, a son of the late George William and Edna Belle Murphy Klinker. On October 5, 1952, he married the former Doris Erlyne Schreiber and she died July 19, 2000. He also was preceded in death...

Robert Houchin

Robert Houchin

Oct 20, 2008

Robert F. Houchin, 89, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Monday, October 20, 2008, at Mary Rutan Hospital. He was born in Logan County February 3, 1919, a son of the late Lewis and Mary Austin Houchin. On September 15, 1946, he married the former Alice V. Turner in Bellefontaine, and she preceded him in death in 2001. He also was...

Dorothy Short

Dorothy Short

Oct 19, 2008

Dorothy M. Short Dorothy M. Short, 76, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, died Sunday, October 19, 2008, in her home. She was born in Logan County on January 30, 1932, a daughter of the late Harold and Cora Flickinger Kilgore. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Linda Sue Short; two brothers, Robert and Donald Kilgore; and three sisters, Mary...