Obituaries
Lois Knous
May 30, 2009
Lois Ellen Knous, 84, died May 30, 2009, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born July 17, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Henry and Elsie Ruck Bierly, who preceded her in death. She married Arthur Knous, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Knous was a member and had been an honorary commander of Trinity Chapter 16 Order of Eastern...
Thomas Bourne
May 27, 2009
Thomas Bourne,86 of Scottsdale, Arizona died on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at Hospice of the Valley-Brighton Gardens in Scottsdale, Arizona. Born Monday, September 11, 1922, he was the son of the late John Bourne and the late Mary Jones Bourne. He was the husband of Marjorie Renner Bourne. He was employed by Buckeye Pipeline. He served in the Army from...
Elbert Cookie Hunter
May 24, 2009
Elbert J. ?Cookie? Hunter , 79, died at 10:59 a.m. May 24, 2009, at his residence. He was born October 26, 1929, in Pineville, Kentucky, to Henry Harvey and Dora Baker Hunter, who preceded him in death. On May 5, 1953, he married Lois Tennyson, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Hunter retired from Ford Motor Co. in 1989. He...
Margaret Maggie Metzger
May 20, 2009
Margaret Ann ?Maggie? Metzger, 52, died at 4:30 a.m. May 20, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born October 9, 1956, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, to Frank and Betty Aikens King, who preceded her in death. Her stepmother lives in Troy, Michigan. In October 1986, she married William Metzger, who died March 18, 2001. Mrs. Metzger was owner...
Richard Rigali,
May 20, 2009
Richard John Rigali Sr. 82, died at 6:20 a.m. May 20, 2009, at Lima Convalescent Home. He was born June 20, 1926, in Lima, Ohio to Ray and Rovina Falke Rigali, who preceded him in death. On June 26, 1948, he married Norma Wiemer, who died August 13, 1970. Mr. Rigali was a laborer and owner of Fishbaugh-Rigali Door Frame...
LaVerne Crites
May 18, 2009
LaVerne L. ?Buzz? Crites 87, died at 5:50 p.m. May 18, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born October 28, 1921, in Lima, Ohio to Zeldon and Lilly Mae Edgington Crites, who preceded him in death. He had been married to Ruth Elizabeth Beamand Crites-Schlinder, who survives. Mr. Crites had been a laborer for Tuttle Construction. He had...
Richard Davis
May 17, 2009
Richard E. ?Dick? Davis , 89, died at 4:56 p.m. May 17, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born March 22, 1920, in Lima, Ohio to Royden Jones and Eleanor Faye Detrict Davis, who preceded him in death. He married Kathryn M. Schafer, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Davis had been an automotive painter. He was a...
Donald H.
May 14, 2009
Donald H. Cox,63, died at 3:01 a.m. May 14, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born February 23, 1946, in Auburn, Indiana, to Donald H. and Zelma L. Grinnell Cox Sr., who preceded him in death. Mr. Cox was a member of Gamma Sigma Delta. He was a 1964 graduate of Lima Senior High School, attended Kent State...
Chyeanna & Makayla Jean Haywood
May 14, 2009
Chyeanna Kathryn and Makayla Jean Haywood were stillborn at 1:45 a.m. May 14, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Chamberlain-Huckeriede Funeral Home.
Jack Hill
May 13, 2009
Jack E. Hill,45,died at 9 a.m. May 13, 2009, at his residence. He was born March 16, 1964, in Lima, Ohio, to Jack and Ladonna Sellers Hill Jr., who survive in Lima, Ohio. On Nov. 13, 2007, he married Michelle Grenig Hill, who survives. Mr. Hill was a 1982 graduate of Elida High School and a 2000 graduate of Rhodes...
Cynthia Hunter
May 6, 2009
Cynthia O. Hunter , 47, died at 1:23 a.m. May 6, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born May 7, 1961, in Lima, Ohio to Harold and Shirley Spicer Dorsett. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Hunter was a homemaker. She attended Pilgrim Holiness Church. She enjoyed reading her Bible and...
Thomas Tom Brookman
May 3, 2009
Thomas L. ?Tom? Brookman,72, died at 2:30 p.m. May 3, 2009, in Georgetown, Kentucky. He was born February 6, 1937, in Lima, Ohio to Clifford Brookman and Eleanor Fink, who preceded him in death. On October 5, 1963, he married Lois M. Sites, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Brookman retired in November 1987 as a platoon chief from the...
Steven Jankow
May 1, 2009
Steven A. Jankow Steven A. Jankow, 52, died at 2:32 a.m. May 1, 2009, at Cleveland Clinic Hospitals. He was born April 27, 1957, in Detroit to Robert and Diane Greenough Jankow, who preceded him in death. On Nov. 18, 2005, in Las Vegas he married Denise Frueh Switzer, who survives in Lima. Mr. Jankow worked at Honda of American...
Jean Owens
Apr 29, 2009
Jean Anne Owens,76, died at 5:25 p.m. April 29, 2009, in Las Vegas. She was born January 27, 1933, in Lima, Ohio to Eugene and Vesta Elizabeth Johnson White, who preceded her in death. In 1951, she married Fred Emanuel Owens, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Owens had worked at Ex-Cell-O Corp., Shawnee Manor, RMS of Ohio, Blue Cross/Blue...
John Meyer
Apr 28, 2009
John Robert "Lurch" Meyer, 45, died at 4:35 p.m. April 28, 2009, at St. Rita's Medical Center, following a brief but brave battle with lung cancer. He was born Dec. 26, 1963, in Methuen, Mass., to John and Alice Collette Meyer. His father survives. His mother preceded him in death. Mr. Meyer had been a truck driver and a cement...
Linda Skelly
Apr 26, 2009
Linda Sue Skelly , 70, died at 9:30 a.m. April 26, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born March 20, 1939, in Effingham, Illinois., to Earl and Beaulah Ware Miller, who preceded her in death. On September 5, 1958, in Spencerville, Ohio she married Robert Dean Skelly, who survives in Lima, OHio. Mrs. Skelly was a member of...
Marian Salsburey
Apr 25, 2009
Marian ?Jean? Salsburey , 85, died at 9:47 p.m. April 25, 2009, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Services Community. She was born January 23, 1924, in Allen County to Harvey and Elizabeth Haverstick Crites, who preceded her in death. On July 1, 1944, she married Virgil ?Abe? Salsburey, who died November 12, 2007. Mrs. Salsburey retired as an importing/exporting supervisor...
Alyce Jenkins
Apr 24, 2009
Alyce Wroe Jenkins , 105, died at 1:36 a.m. April 25, 2009, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Facility. She was born September 2, 1903, in Manchester, England, to Albert and Amanda Biggs Wroe. Mrs. Jenkins became a U.S. citizen when she was 27. After graduating from Ohio Northern University with a life certificate in elementary education, she began a long...
Jack Wierman
Apr 24, 2009
Jack L. Wierman, , 72, died at 6:44 p.m. April 24, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born January 27, 1937, in Marion, Ohio to Pearl Wierman, who preceded him in death. On September 11, 1981, he married Linda Market, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Wierman was retired from Monsanto. He served in the Navy from October...
Joel Felkey
Apr 23, 2009
Joel G. Felkey , 74, died at 5:33 p.m. April 23, 2009, at Parkview Memorial Hospital, Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was born November 24, 1934, in Kalida, Ohio to Merle G. and Norma Siniff Felkey, who preceded him in death. On January 16, 1953, he married Charlene McClain, who survives in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Mr. Felkey was retired from VME,...
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