Obituaries

Daniel Clyde Saling

Monday, June 8, 2009

SALINEVILLE, Ohio — Daniel Clyde Saling Jr., 46, of SR 39, died at 2:20 a.m. June 7 at East Liverpool City Hospital.
Born Feb. 24, 1963, in Salem, he was the son of the late Daniel C. and Helen Rae (Beers) Saling.
An electrician by trade, he taught apprenticeship classes. He was a football coach and […]

Captain Gilbert Russell Evans

Monday, June 8, 2009

NORFOLK, Va. — Captain Gilbert Russell Evans, 95, of the 5000 block of Gosnold Avenue, Norfolk, Va., a retired U.S. Coast Guard Officer and aviator, died June 3, in Norfolk, at home.
Captain Evans was a native of Elizabeth City, N.C., and had lived in Norfolk since 1963. He was the son of the late […]

Harold Ellsworth Ferguson

Friday, May 22, 2009

CALCUTTA, Ohio — Harold Ellsworth Ferguson, 82, of Old Fredericktown Road, Calcutta, died at St. Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, May 10, 2009, from a sudden illness and resulting complications with a long-standing heart condition.

Harold was born on Kountz Avenue in Wellsville, Ohio, May 17, 1926, and was a son of the late Ralph E. […]

Leslie ‘Les’ Howard Howell

Friday, May 22, 2009

BEACH CITY, Ohio — Leslie “Les” Howard Howell, 72, of Beach City died May 19, 2009, at his home following a brief illness.

Les was born Jan. 8, 1937, in Somerton, Ohio, the son of J. Blanche Skinner Howell of Beach City and the late Howard R. Howell.

He retired from Norfolk & Western Railroad in Brewster, […]

Donald R. Staley

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

MOUNT GILEAD, Ohio — Donald R. Staley, 66, of Mount Gilead, Ohio, passed away May 7.
Staley was born August 14, 1942 in Marion, Ohio, the son of the late Richard “Dick” and Edna Ivalue (Allbaugh) Staley.
A 1961 graduate of Mount Gilead High School, Staley met his wife-to-be, Patricia Geyer. They married Oct. 3, […]

Donald C. Rupert, 1913-2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

SEBRING, Ohio — Donald Charles Rupert, 95, of 800 South 15th Street, Sebring, Ohio, died April 21, 2009, in the Crandall Medical Center of Copeland Oaks.
He was born to Willis and Emma Van Skiver Rupert Dec. 14, 1913, on the Rupert family farm outside of New Waterford, Ohio.
After graduating from Fairfield Centralized […]

Kenneth Allen Seamans

Monday, April 6, 2009

NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — Kenneth Allen Seamans, 69, of Pulaski Mercer Road, Wilmington Township, Mercer County, New Wilmington, Pa., died March 29 in Horizon Hospital.
Born July 29, 1939, in Edinburg, he was a son of John Cory and Mary Elizabeth Salzman Seamans.
Seamans graduated from Union High School in 1957. He married the former Kay […]

Virginia M. “Sis” Sayre

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

RANDOLPH, Ohio — Virginia M. “Sis” Sayre, 79, of Randolph passed away March 1 at Akron City Hospital. Born May 6, 1929 in Batavia, N.Y., to the late Carl and Pat Snyder, Sis was a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
While living in Florida, she worked many years for Gressinger and Sons as a secretary […]

Wilbur G. Hawthorne

Monday, March 2, 2009

LISBON, Ohio — Wilbur G. Hawthorne, 81, of West High Street, died at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 6 at his home following a lengthy illness.
Hawthorne was born Jan. 23, 1928 in Broadacre, Ohio, a son of the late Avery and Grace (Peggs) Hawthorne, and had lived in the Lisbon area since 1938.
He owned and […]

Gary Vermeer

Thursday, February 5, 2009

Gary Vermeer, 90, founder and chairman emeritus of Vermeer Corporation in Pella, Iowa, died Feb. 2, 2009, at the Comfort House of Pella.
Born Sept. 29, 1918, he was the son of the late Jacob and Anna Vermeer.
Mr. Vermeer and a cousin started the business in 1948, after inventing a wagon hoist five years earlier, […]