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Dwayne E. Davis
Dec 28, 2005
Dwayne E. Davis, 43, of Midvale, died Wednesday December 28, 2005 at Union Hospital after a long battle with Synovial Cell Sarcoma.Born June 12, 1962 in Dover, O. He was the son of Shirley Regula Davis of New Phila. O. and the late Robert E. Davis. He graduated from Indian Valley North High School in 1980.Dwayne loved the outdoors and...
Cora M. Scott
Dec 27, 2005
Cora M. Scott, 102, of Dover and formerly of New Philadelphia, died Tuesday, December 27, 2005 in New Dawn Retirement Community at Dover.A daughter of the late Ernest and Ethel (Auman) Aebersold, Cora was born January 10, 1903 in Dundee, Ohio.She was a 1921 graduate of New Philadelphia High School and was also a graduate of Kent State University. Cora,...
Elizabeth A. Riker
Dec 27, 2005
Elizabeth A. “Betty” Riker, 92, of Roswell passed away Tuesday, December 27, 2005 in Park Village Assisted Living at Dover.A daughter of the late Steve and Mary (Vanyo) Farkas, Betty was born December, 10, 1913 in Roswell, Ohio.She attended Roswell School and was primarily a homemaker. She was employed at the Belmont Plant prior to her marriage.On October 24, 1936,...
Helga R. Radtke
Dec 27, 2005
Helga R. Radtke, 63, of New Philadelphia, died Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at Union Hospital in Dover.A daughter of the late Kurt and Gertrud Matthies Kiewaldt, Helga was born June 8, 1942 in Berlin, Germany. Her parent’s died when she was six and she was raised by foster parents, Walter and Emmie Kaatz Plautz.Helga emigrated to the United States in...
Georgia Miller
Dec 25, 2005
Georgia Miller, age 87 of New Philadelphia, died peacefully Christmas Morning, December 25, 2005 in Park Village Health Care Center at Dover, where she resided since 2003. Born at West Lafayette, Ohio, October 11, 1918, she was one of eleven children born to the late George Armstrong Barcus and his wife Lydia Belle Allison Barcus. Georgia was a homemaker for...
Margery T. Graeff
Dec 24, 2005
Margery T. Graeff, 84, of New Philadelphia, died Saturday, December 24, 2005 in Union Hospital in Dover.A daughter of the late Dr. John Vernon Taylor and Elsie Cooper Taylor, Margery was born November 11, 1921 in Glen Elder, Kansas.She was a 1938 graduate of New Philadelphia High School. Margery then graduated cum laude from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri in...
Carolyn E. Wertman
Dec 24, 2005
Carolyn E. “Nan” Wertman, 67, of Stone Creek, died Saturday, December 24, 2005 in Oak Point Nursing Home at Baltic, Ohio.A daughter of the late Ronald Bealer and Naomi Wertman, Carolyn was born June 10, 1938 in Morgan County, Pennsylvania.She was retired as a nurse’s aid from Doylstown Nursing Home. Carolyn enjoyed playing games on the computer as well as...
Oscar Francis Pritz
Dec 23, 2005
Oscar Francis Pritz, age 91, of Mount Holly, North Carolina, formerly of New Philadelphia, died Friday, December 23, 2005 in the Stanley Total Living Center at Stanley, North Carolina.Born at Morgan, Pennsylvania, February 23, 1914, a son of the late Oscar and Anna Pritz, he was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church at New Philadelphia. Mr. Pritz married the...
Christal M. Roth
Dec 22, 2005
Christal M. Roth, age 86, of Beacon Pointe Rehabilitation Center at Uhrichsville, entered her heavenly reward Thursday morning, December 22, 2005. Christal was born at Minerva, Ohio on September 20, 1919, a daughter of the late John Wesley Killinger and Christal P. Dick Killinger. Christal was one of seven children reared by John and Christal Killinger at Findley, Ohio. On...
Anna Ricker-Brannen
Dec 21, 2005
Anna Ricker-Brannen, 91, of New Philadelphia, died Wednesday, December 21, 2005 in Union Hospital in Dover.A daughter of the late Celeste and Clementina (Ballardini) Bertolini, Anna was born October 5, 1914 in Barnhill, Ohio.She attended Sunnyvale School in the Midvale area and was formerly employed at Litty’s Pastries in New Philadelphia for 22 ½ years.Anna was a member of Sacred...
Jerry Lee Tidrick
Dec 20, 2005
Jerry Lee Tidrick, 59, of New Philadelphia, died Tuesday, December 20, 2005 in Union Hospital at Dover following a 1 ½ year battle with cancer.A son of the late Robert and Betty (Barcus) Tidrick, Jerry was born October 2, 1946 in Dover, Ohio.He was a 1965 graduate of Tusky Valley High School and was formerly employed by Ravens Trailer Sales.Jerry...
Ula Nell Mako
Dec 18, 2005
Ula Nell Mako, 82, of New Philadelphia, passed away Sunday, December 18, 2005 in New Dawn Retirement Community at Dover following several months of illness.Ula was born January 15, 1923 in Bloomingburg, Fayette County, Ohio to the late Carlton Wayne Davey and Alice (Straley) Davey. She enjoyed her childhood growing up with very loving parents and two brothers, Ned of...
David Thomas Jones
Dec 16, 2005
David Thomas Jones, 65, of Uhrichsville, died Friday, December 16, 2005 in Aultman Hospital in Canton following a brief illness.A son of Ann (Mravic) Jones Mange and the late Billy Jones, David was born October 2, 1940 in Dover, Ohio.He graduated from Dover High School in 1958 and retired from Chenevey Construction. David enjoyed the company of is dog, Eichmann,...
Wilma C. Everett
Dec 16, 2005
Wilma Clara Everett, 78, of Magnolia, passed away peacefully, December 16, 2005, at her residence.A daughter of the late Walter and Emma Timmerman Eckhardt, Wilma was born December 9, 1927 in Monroe township, Harrison Co., Ohio.She is survived by two sons, Don B. Everett, of Ravenna and Larry L. Everett, of Canton, Georgia.In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Dale L. Testerman
Dec 12, 2005
Dale L. Testerman, 71, of New Philadelphia, died peacefully in his sleep on Monday, December 12, 2005.A son of the late Jarvis Testerman and the late Mary (Blevins) Claxon, Dale was born July 14, 1934 in Konnarock, Virgina.Dale, who attended Galax Public Schools in Virginia, moved to Akron in 1950 where he resided for nearly 30 years. During this time,...
Eleanor Marsh Kirk
Dec 12, 2005
Eleanor Marsh Kirk, age 80, a longtime resident of New Philadelphia, died peacefully early Monday morning, December 12, 2005 in Foundations Health Care Center at Toledo, Ohio.Born on the dining room table of her parent’s Orchard Avenue home on August 17, 1925 she was a daughter of the late Victor R. and Gladys P. Snyder Marsh. Better known as Elly...
Jerry Phillips
Dec 11, 2005
Jerry Lee Phillips, 74, of New Philadelphia, died Sunday, December 11, 2005 in Union Hospital at Dover.Born April 25, 1931 in Dover, Ohio, Jerry was the son of the late Lelind Joseph and Flora (Murphy) Phillips.After graduating from New Philadelphia High School, Jerry continued his formal education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio graduating with an accounting degree. He spent...
Lucille C. Mushrush
Dec 11, 2005
Lucille C. Mushrush, 84, New Philadelphia’s famous Cookie Lady, died peacefully Sunday afternoon, December 11, 2005 in Aultman Hospital at Canton following an illness of one week. Mrs. Mushrush was widely known for hew culinary skills Â? and for her generosity in sharing her baked goods. From a basement kitchen built just for her decades ago, Lucille has touched the...
Jeffrey Robert Thrush
Dec 8, 2005
Jeffrey Robert Thrush, 53, of Indianapolis, IN., formerly of New Philadelphia, died Thursday, December 8, 2005, at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. He had resided in Indianapolis for the past 16 years. A son of, Samuel Robert and Mary Lou Thrush, of Tuscarawas, Jeff was born June 4, 1952.He was a 1970 graduate of New Philadelphia High School, attended Kent State...
Mary Lou Sponseller
Dec 5, 2005
Mary Lou Sponseller, age 72 of New Philadelphia, died peacefully Monday afternoon, December 5, 2005, in Union Hospital at Dover. Born at Corning, Iowa, she was a daughter of the late John W. and Louise Chappell Patterson. Mary Lou grew up in the Scio, Ohio region, and graduated high school from there in 1951. She worked at Scio Pottery for...
