Obituaries
Phyllis Priddy Smith
Jan 18, 2008
Phyllis M. Priddy Smith 85, died at 9:05 p.m. January 18, 2008, at her residence. She was born April 8, 1922, in Cleveland to Mildred J. Luther Frese. Her stepfather was Edward Frese. Both parents preceded her in death. On Sepember 23, 1929, she married O.J. ?Bud? Priddy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He died in 1980. She the married Alonzo...
Boyd Hayes,
Jan 13, 2008
Boyd Hayes Jr. 83, died at 11:45 p.m. January 13, 2008, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born January 14, 1924, in Exeter, Virginia, to Boyd, Sr., and Para Katherine Christian Hayes, who preceded him in death. On December 14, 1941, he married Nannie Ellen Jackson, who died April 4, 2005. Mr. Hayes retired as a supervisor from Textron,...
Vernon Schulien
Jan 11, 2008
Vernon H. Schulien 87, died at 8:35 a.m. January 11, 2008, at Springview Manor Nursing Home. He was born July 31, 1920, in Delphos, Ohio to Hilary Joseph and Lena Wells Schulien, who preceded him in death. On June 16, 1956, he married Marjorie Quinn, who died June 9, 1975. Mr. Schulien opened Schulien Pure Oil Service Station in 1939...
Mildred Adams
Jan 11, 2008
Mildred Marie Adams 94, died at 8:20 p.m. January 11, 2008, at Lima Manor Nursing Home. She was born April 21, 1913, in Piqua, Ohio to Charles and Amelia Bryan Spayd, who preceded her in death. On October 8, 1934, she married Charles E. Adams, who died January 11, 1990. Mrs. Adams was a homemaker. She was a member of...

Eddie Miller
Jan 11, 2008
Eddie Lee Miller 65, of St. Petersburg, Florida, formerly of Lima, Ohio, died January 11, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was born September 22, 1942, in Lima, Ohio to Wilma Maxine Miller Yoakam, who preceded him in death. Mr. Miller had been a self-employed painter/contractor in Lima, Ohio until 1972. He has lived in Florida for the last 35...
Mary Akers Baxter
Jan 9, 2008
Mary E. Akers Baxter, 83, died at 5:05 a.m. Jan. 9, 2008, at Triumph Hospital, Lima. She was born May 13, 1924, in Paynesville, Ky., to Thomas and Lulu Stanbaugh Akers, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Baxter retired from Ex-Cell-O/Air Foil Textron, after 33 years. Survivors include three sons, David Baxter, of Santa Cruz, Calif., Tom (Mary) Baxter, of...
Dorothy Grimm
Jan 7, 2008
Dorothy M. Grimm, 83, died at 9:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 2008, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Facility. She was born May 22, 1924, in Allen County to James T. and Cecil M. Mowery Miller, who preceded her in death. On April 15, 1944, she married Lloyd D. Grimm, who survives in Elida. Mrs. Grimm was a homemaker. She was a...
Rosemary Smith
Jan 1, 2008
Rosemary Smith 87, died at 2:55 p.m. January 1, 2008, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born January 2, 1920, in Lima, Ohio to Orville and Margaret Huber Bame, who preceded her in death. On July 2, 1938, she married David James Smith, who died November 17, 1999. Mrs. Smith had been a secretary for McBride & Kingsberry, Dr....
Kathleen Adams
Dec 29, 2007
Kathleen Gay Adams 77, died at 6:21 a.m. December 29, 2007, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born December 11, 1930, in Rantoul, Ill., to Ralph and Erma Marshall Mc-Carty. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Dayton, Ohio. She was married to Oscar H. Adams, who died in March 2006. Mrs. Adams was retired from...
Gertrude Flarida
Dec 29, 2007
Gertrude Flarida 81, died at midnight December 29, 2007, at her residence. She was born May 26, 1926, in Royalton, Kentucky, to Vinson and Maudie Risner Marshall, who preceded her in death. She was married to Etna ?Hank? Hendrickson in 1955. He died in 1983. In 1990, she married Gail Flarida, who died in 2001. Mrs. Flarida retired from Lima...
Loella Ridgeway
Dec 29, 2007
Loella M. Ridgeway 85, died at 5:06 a.m. December 29, 2007, at her residence. She was born October 29, 1922, in Findlay, Ohio to H. Austin and Hulda L. Loveridge De-Haven, who preceded her in death. On August 17, 1941, she married Lowell P. Stewart, who died in 1946. She later married Joseph M. Ridgeway, who preceded her in death....
Frances LOVELL
Dec 29, 2007
FRANCES RUSSELL LOVELL, 93, died at 4:50 p.m. December 29, 2007, at Otterbein-Cridersville Retirement Community near Cridersville, Ohio. She was born November 16, 1914, in Wallonia, Kentucky, to Jesse Sterling and Ellen Gertrude P?Poole Russell, who have preceded him in death. She had been married to Lloyd Lovell. Mrs. Lovell was a school teacher, having taught home economics in Trigg...
Robert Slechter
Dec 27, 2007
Robert H. "Bob" Slechter, 82, died at 9:45 a.m. Dec. 27, 2007, at Lima Convalescent Home. He was born March 22, 1925, in Lima to Von Kyle and Eva Marie Jones Slechter, who preceded him in death. On Feb. 14, 1947, he married Jeanette Ballinger, who survives in Lima. Mr. Slechter was a maintenance supervisor at Standard Oil for 35...
Joyce Mccluer
Dec 27, 2007
Joyce Ann McCluer, 60, died at 8:14 a.m. Dec. 27, 2007, at St. Rita's Medical Center. She was born June 1, 1947, in Lima to Robert Wehner and Nellie Gossard. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Lima. On Sept. 3, 1965, she married David McCluer, who survives in Lima. Mrs. McCluer was a deputy clerk for...
Bonnie REEDER-GELO
Dec 27, 2007
Bonnie J. Reeder-Gelo, 55, died at 12:20 a.m. Dec. 27, 2007, at St. Rita's Medical Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was born July 15, 1952, in Lima to Emanuel "Dewey" and Mary McGinnis Fosnaugh, who preceded her in death. On March 19, 1993, she married Jim Gelo, who survives in Elida. Mrs. Reeder-Gelo was a project administrator at...
Donald Hohl
Dec 27, 2007
Donald William Hohl, 95, died at 11:53 p.m. Dec. 27, 2007, at Lima Manor Nursing Home. He was born Sept. 3, 1912, in Lima to Edward and Lena Archinal Hohl, who preceded him in death. Mr. Hohl had worked as a trainman, brakeman and conductor for Nickel Plate Road and Norfolk & Southern Railroad. He was a member of Zion...

Edward Nungester
Dec 23, 2007
Edward Everett Nungester, 75, of Moyock, N.Carolina, formerly of Lima, Ohio, died at 5 a.m. December 23, 2007, at his residence. He was born May 11, 1932, in Lima, Ohio to Everett and Mary Hawk Nungester, who preceded him in death. On September 13, 1952, in Lima, OHio, he married Marilyn Sue Stokes, who survives in Moyock, N.Carolina. Mr. Nungester...

Mary Hogan
Dec 22, 2007
Mary Virginia ?Jinny? Hogan 93, died at 5:50 p.m. December 22, 2007, at St. Rita?s Medical Center, following a fall and a broken hip. She was born July 14, 1914, in Delphos, Ohio to William and Mary Slater Reed, who preceded her in death. In 1940, she married John F. Hogan, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Hogan held many...
Kathleen Cushman
Dec 19, 2007
Kathleen Ann Cushman 59, died at 8:20 p.m. December 19, 2007, at Lost Creek Care Center. She was born December 6, 1948, in Cincinnati, Ohio to John and Joyce Schaerges Dahlheimer. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Cincinnati, Ohio. She married Thomas Cushman, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Cushman had been a real estate agent...
Jeanne Hoover
Dec 15, 2007
Jeanne E. Hoover 57, died at 5:01 p.m. December 15, 2007, at Lima Memorial Health System, following a valiant battle with stomach cancer. She was born September 24, 1950, in Lima, Ohio to Xonophone F. and Vida B. Miller Hoover, who preceded her in death. Ms. Hoover retired June 30, 2007, as a day care worker from Learning Tree Child...
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