Margaret Mary Schaad
Jan 15, 2013
Margaret Mary Schaad, 91, of Lowell, died Tuesday, January 15, 2013, at Marietta Center. She was born June 17, 1921 in Marietta to Raymond and Elizabeth Schilling Arnold. She was a 1940 graduate of Marietta High School. Margaret had lived all of her married life in Lowell, and enjoyed making quilts and pillows for her family. She was a member...
Arthur L. Coffman
Jan 10, 2013
Arthur L. Coffman, 95, of Waterford, died Thursday, January 10, 2013, at his home. He was born June 6, 1917 in Dungannon, Ohio to Clarence and Della Cowell Coffman. He was a 1936 graduate of Beverly High School. Art retired from the Detroit, Michigan Police Department in 1969. Following retirement, he and his wife moved back to Waterford and built...
Opal Bertram
Jan 6, 2013
Opal Bertram, 95, of Marietta, died Sunday, January 6, 2013 at her residence. She was born to Allie and Flossie Holland Beardmore on July 20, 1917 in Bethel Township, Monroe County, Ohio. Opal was preceded in death by her parents, husband Paul, brothers, Clarence and Ernest Beardmore, sister, Gladys Theobald, niece, Karen Beardmore, and son, Paul Gates Bertram. Opal helped...
Roma Eileen Bergen
Jan 5, 2013
Roma Hopp Bergen (Worthington, OH), formerly of 904 Glendale Road in Marietta, died on Saturday, January 5, 2013. She was born in Marietta on August 23, 1917, to Edgar and Winifred Meister Hopp. After spending much of her childhood in Shaker Heights, OH, she returned to Marietta with her mother and brother (Bruce) upon the death of her father. She...
Leahann Cochran
Dec 30, 2012
Leahann Cochran, 61, of Williamstown, WV, died Sunday, December 30, 2012, at her home. She was born November 27, 1951 in Marietta to Lewis and Anna Morrison DeMarco, Sr. She was a graduate of Williamstown High School. Leahann had been employed in home health care. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church. Leahann cherished time spent with her...
Alma Irene Bowers
Dec 28, 2012
Alma Irene Bowers, 90, of Marietta, Ohio, formerly of Lehigh Acres, Florida, died Friday, December 28, 2012 in Marietta. She was born on September 22, 1922, in Evans City, PA, to William John and Nora E. Nelson Marburger. Alma was a member of Lehigh Boulevard Baptist Church, in Lehigh Acres. She is survived by two sons, Ronald Bowers (Connie) of...
Martha Elizabeth Gerhart
Dec 4, 2012
Martha Elizabeth Gerhart, 98, of Marietta, died Tuesday, December 4, 2012, at Emeritus in Marietta. She was born January 17, 1914 in Marietta to Carl Balthasas and Hattie Phaff Stephan. She was a graduate of Marietta High School. Martha was a member of St. Luke's Lutheran Church. She is survived by her son, Stephen Gerhart (Joan) of Marietta, daughters, Melissa...
Robert Brady Doan
Dec 2, 2012
Robert Brady Doan, 89, of Marietta, died Sunday, December 2, 2012, at Harmar Place. He was born May 3, 1923 in New Matamoras, to George Brady and Theora Scherber Doan. He had been a station manager for the Standard Oil Company for 36 years. He was a 1941 graduate of New Matamoras High School. Mr. Doan was a U.S. Army...
Julie Ann Moat
Dec 2, 2012
Julie Ann Moat, 51, of Fleming, died Sunday, December 2, 2012, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. She was born January 25, 1961 in Parkersburg, WV to Clinton and Barbara Dunn Dotson. She was a graduate of Williamstown High School. She had worked as an operator at ORION Engineered Carbons, and was a member of the Steelworkers Union. Julie loved farming, the...
Charles Griffin Johnson
Dec 1, 2012
Charles Griffin Johnson, 89, of Fleming, died Saturday, December 1, 2012, at Harmar Place. He was born June 30, 1923 in Marietta to Thomas William and Martha Lenington Johnson. Charles was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II, serving from 1943 to 1946. He was employed by Elkem Metals where he retired after many years of service. He was...
Donald Joseph Shaffer
Nov 30, 2012
Donald Joseph Shaffer, 87, of Lang Farm Road, Marietta, died Friday evening, November 30, 2012, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. Born September 19, 1925, in Zanesville, OH, he was a son of the late Charles Austin and Alvina Ranft Shaffer. Following graduation from New Lexington High School, he attended and graduated from Ohio University. He served with the U S Navy...
Mary G. Welch
Nov 30, 2012
Mary G. Welch, 85, of Marietta, died Friday, November 30, 2012, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. She was born April 30, 1927 in Dunbar, WV to Floyd and Hazel Richardson Steele. She is survived by one son, Edwin Mathers of Seattle, WA, two daughters, Michele Garretson (Gary) of Little Hocking and Monique Maxson (Bill) of Columbus, six grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren,...
Leslie M Caffey
Nov 29, 2012
Leslie M. Caffey, 88, died Thursday, November 29, 2012 in Marietta, OH. She was born September 17, 1924 in Willowbrook, CA to William Jay Croose and Vera Johnson Parry. She moved to San Dimas, CA with her parents in 1939 and spent her life there. In 1943, she married Wilbur "Gene" Caffey, they celebrated their 69th wedding anniversary on November...
Steven Charles Barrett
Nov 26, 2012
Steven Charles Barrett, 50, of Columbus, Ohio, died Monday, November 26, 2012, at Riverside Methodist Hospital. He was born May 11, 1962 in Marietta to Charles and Dorothy Woodruff Barrett. He was a 1980 graduate of Marietta High School. Following high school, he pursued other education and employment in Columbus. Steven was a member of St. Michaels Catholic Church in...
Douglas Riffle
Nov 24, 2012
Douglas Riffle, 80, of Cutler, died Saturday, November 24, 2012 in McConnelsville, Ohio. He was born on April 5, 1932 in Cannelton, WV to Gilbert and Margaret McGill Riffle. Doug served in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict. He retired from Union Carbide after 37 years of employment. Doug is survived by three children, seven grandchildren, one sister and...
Julia Ann Engle
Nov 15, 2012
Julia Ann Engle, 57, of Williamstown, WV, and formerly of Lowell, OH, died Thursday, November 15, 2012, at OSU Medical Center in Columbus. She was born March 18, 1955 in Marietta to William Phillip Engle, Jr. and Eileen Frances Potter Engle. Julia was a 1973 graduate of Fort Frye High School and a 1982 graduate of Washington State College with...
Sally Juanita Schafer
Nov 14, 2012
Sally Juanita Schafer, 81, of Marietta, OH passed away peacefully at Marietta Care and Rehabilitation Center on Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Sally was born on August 30, 1931 in Marietta, OH to Homer and Kathryn Stephan Erb. Sally was married to her high school sweetheart, Robert (Bob) Schafer on August 25, 1951 in Marietta, OH. Being a military wife, Sally...
Jerome Joseph Dunn
Nov 13, 2012
Jerome Joseph "Jerry" Dunn, 79, died this week in Marietta. He was born August 23, 1933 in Susquehanna, PA to Joseph and Anna Mae Bradstreet Dugan. Jerry received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from General Motors Institute and his Masters in Trade and Industrial Education from Kent State. He worked for GM in Elyria from 1945 to 1970. He...
David Knox
Nov 12, 2012
David Knox, 49, of Parkersburg, WV, died Monday, November 12, 2012, at Camden Clark Memorial Hospital. He was born November 16, 1962 in Las Vegas, NV to Janece E. Scoggins and Claude B. Knox, Sr. He was a graduate of Warren High School and the Culinary Arts Academy of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He had worked at Pastime Pizza and...
James Joseph Ruf
Nov 10, 2012
James J. "Joe" Ruf, 77, Lombardy Drive, Williamstown, died Saturday, November 10, 2012. A servant of God, and a servant of the community, Joe was born March 28, 1935, in Marietta, Ohio, a son of the late Carl J. and Violet Fenton Ruf. Following graduation from Williamstown High School in 1954, he served in the US Army from 1954 to...
