Obituaries
Elijah Peters
Jul 17, 2012
Elijah T. Peters, 4 of Wapakoneta, Ohio died 1:45 P.M. Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo Ohio He was born May 5, 2008 in Lima to Daniel Peters and Sara Wiswasser who survive in Wapakoneta, Ohio. Elijah was the most adventurous little boy. He feared nothing and loved everyone. His smile would light up a...
Dorothy Smith
Jul 16, 2012
Dorothy Elaine Smith, 78 of Lima, Ohio died on Monday, July 16, 2012, at 7:13 p.m. at the Lima Convalescent Home in Lima, Ohio. Born Friday, September 29, 1933 in Meigs Co., Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Earl Werner and the late Kathryn (Gibbs) Werner. Dorothy married Rolland D. "Rollie" Smith on September 6, 1953. He preceded...
Arthur Heidenescher
Jul 15, 2012
Arthur A. Heidenescher, 94, of Lima, Ohio died on Sunday, July 15, 2012, at 6:00 P.M. at Elmcroft Assisted Living, Lima, Ohio. Born March 1, 1918 in Delphos, Ohio, he was the son of the late John Heidenescher and the late Frances (Weiging) Heidenescher. He married Bernadine Marie Schnipke on February 19, 1941. She preceded him in death on October...
Gladys Sarakaitis
Jul 13, 2012
Gladys "Eileen" Sarakaitis, 94, of Lima, Ohio died on Friday, July 13, 2012, at 4:30 a.m. at Burton's Ridge Assisted Living in Lima, Ohio. Born March 12, 1918 in Dayton, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Edmond Foster and the late Goldie (Franks) Foster. She married Joe Sarakaitis on September 4, 1937, in Lima, Ohio. He preceded her...
Dorothy Hopkins
Jul 12, 2012
Dorothy M. Hopkins, 87 of Lima, Ohio died at 2:40 A.M. Thursday, July 12, 2012, at Shawnee Manor Nursing Home She was born Wednesday, June 17, 1925 in Marion, Ohio, She was the daughter of the late Walter Sanderson and the late Flora (Riley) Sanderson. On September 23, 1945 she married Noble Hopkins and he died on September 5, 1969....
Carolyn Frail
Jul 12, 2012
Carolyn Ann Frail, 77, of Lima, Ohio died on Thursday, July 12, 2012, at 9:42 P.M. at Lima Memorial Health System (LMH) in Lima, Ohio. She was born January 30, 1935 in Lima to Elsie (Wetzel) Cantieny and Richard H. Cantieny. Carolyn married Thomas E. Frail on December 22, 1956; they had been married 56 years. She graduated from Central...
Clyde Henderson
Jul 12, 2012
Clyde David Henderson, 78, of Lima, Ohio died on Thursday, July 12, 2012, at 10:54 A.M. at Lima Memorial Health System in Lima, Ohio. Born Tuesday, December 19, 1933 in Continental, Ohio, he was the son of the late Jesse Henderson and the late Edyth (Wagner) Henderson. On July 4, 1951 he married Leota Mae Dennison who survives in Lima,...
Matthew Avery
Jul 12, 2012
Matthew T. Avery, 30 of Lima, Ohio died on Thursday, July 12, 2012, at his residence in Lima, Ohio. Born Saturday, December 19, 1981 in Lima, Ohio, he was the son of Thomas W. Avery and Jan K. (Quick) Avery. Matthew loved basketball and animals, including several of his own pets. He had an infectious smile and never met a...
Albert Becker
Jul 10, 2012
Albert Clarence Becker, 99, of Lima, Ohio died on Tuesday, July 10, 2012, at 1:45 P.M. at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, Ohio. Born Thursday, April 24, 1913 in Port Arthur, Texas, he was the son of the late August Becker and the late Bertha (Fleming) Becker. Mr. Becker married Edna L. Saff on February 23 1946. She preceded him...
Linda (Castle) Motter-Alderton
Jul 9, 2012
Linda K. (Castle) Motter-Alderton, of Lima, Ohio died on, Monday July 9, 2012 , at her residence in Lima, Ohio. Born Thursday, September 18, 1969 in Lima, Ohio, she was the daughter of the Mary K. (Mangette) Loudenback and the late Dennis G. Castle. Linda was a homemaker and was a member of St. Gerard Catholic Church. She loved spending...

Jeanette Flick
Jul 9, 2012
Jeanette E. Flick, 84, of Lima, Ohio died on Monday, July 9, 2012, at 12:41 P.M.at Lima Memorial Health System. Born Friday, December 30, 1927 in Columbus Grove, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Glen Huber and the late Sarah (Sylvester) Huber. She retired from Warner and Swasey as an executive secretary in the mid 1980's after over...
George "Dick" Hastings
Jul 8, 2012
George Richard "Dick" Hastings, 73, of Lima, Ohio died on Sunday, July 8, 2012, at 7:55 P.M. at St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, Ohio. Born Thursday, June 22, 1939 in Denver, Colorado, he was the son of the late Carmen Hastings and the late Marjorie Maple Hastings. He married Cecil Spangler on March 12, 1960 in Indiana. She survives in...
Lawrence Rhoad
Jul 5, 2012
Lawrence Virgil Rhoad, 81, of Lima, Ohio, died at 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, July 5, 2012, at Paulding County Hospital, in Paulding, Ohio. Born on Tuesday, January 27, 1931 in Latty, Ohio, he was the son of the late LeRoy "Roy" Rhoad and the late Rosa Marie (Boroff) Rhoad. He married Barb J. Lytle and she survives in Lima. He...
Douglas Daly
Jul 3, 2012
Douglas Lowell Daly, 93, of Lima, Ohio died on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, at 8:50 P.M. at Lima Memorial Health Systems. Born Thursday, October 24, 1918 in Port Huron, Michigan, he was the son of the late Lowell V. Daly and the late Zola Allen Daly. He married Ruth Urhan who preceded him in death and on May 11, 1974...
Georgia Purdy
Jun 29, 2012
Georgia Purdy, 89, surrounded by family, was taken from her residence, to her heavenly home at 4:20 a.m., June 29, 2012. She was born in 1923, in Paulding to George and LuLu Chloe Ashenfelter-Loar, who preceded her in death. On February 7, 1943, she married the love of her life, Clifford Purdy, who died in 2000, after 57 years of...
John Randall Berry
Jun 28, 2012
John Randall Berry, 82, of Cridersville, Ohio died on Thursday, June 28, 2012, at 1:20 P.M. at Kindred Hospital in Lima, Ohio. Born Wednesday, April 4, 1930 in Lackey, Kentucky. John married Carolyn A. Helmlinger on September 4, 1987. She survives in Cridersville, Ohio. He was a maintenance man at several local offices. He attended The Four Mile School in...
Marge Westfall- Briggs
Jun 26, 2012
Marge Ann Westfall-Briggs, 80, of Lima, Ohio, died on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at 6:25 A.M. at Lost Creek Care Center in Lima, Ohio. Born Tuesday, February 10, 1932, in Findlay, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Albert Watson and the late Eunice (Hickle) Watson. Marge had been a Girl Scout leader and a member of Civil Defense....
Ronald "Ron" Moore
Jun 25, 2012
Ronald L. "Ron" Moore, 73, of Lima, Ohio died on Monday, June 25, 2012, at 5:20 A.M. at Baton Rouge in Lima, Ohio. Born Friday, May 26, 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, he was the son of the late Earl Moore and the late Wilta (Howell) Moore. After 34 years of service, Ronald retired from General Motors as an inspector. He...
L. Nesbitt
Jun 24, 2012
Geneva L. "Gene" Nesbitt, 92, of Elida, Ohio died on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at 7:25 P.M. at Otterbein Nursing Home - Cridersville in Cridersville, Ohio. Born Friday, August 1, 1919 in Bluffton, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Henry Leonhard and the late Carrie (Koch) Leonhard and lived most of her childhood in Ft. Recovery, Ohio. Gene...
Michael Maus
Jun 22, 2012
Michael J. Maus, 62, of Lima, Ohio died on Friday, June 22, 2012, at 10:59 A.M. St. Rita's Medical Center, Lima, Ohio. He was born Saturday, August 13, 1949 in Lima, Ohio. He was the grandson of the late Beatrice Anderson. Mr. Maus married Susan K. Recker on October 4, 2008 in Lima, Ohio. She survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr....
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