Nelda Estella Gladden
Aug 19, 2020
Nelda E. Gladden, 83, of Genoa, Ohio, died Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at Heartland of Perrysburg, following a long illness. She was born April 18, 1937 in Sandusky, Ohio to Fred and Florentina (Welling) Dorfmeyer. She married William D. Gladden in Luckey, Ohio on August 29, 1954 and he preceded her in death on April 18, 2011. Nelda had...
Joseph Albert Duerringer
Aug 18, 2020
Joseph A. Duerringer III, age 94, died on August 18, 2020. What follows is Joe’s life story told in his own words. I was born in Toledo on August 6, 1926 to Joseph A. Duerringer, a lieutenant in the city fire department and to Oveta Messmore, a secretary. I also had a younger brother William (Bill). I attended Auburndale...
Nancy C. Kubasek
Aug 18, 2020
Nancy C. Kubasek, 83, of Oregon, passed away on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. She was born a coal miner’s daughter in Long Branch, West Virginia to Roby and Iva (Underwood) Billings on January 9, 1937. Nancy graduated from Pax High School. She married her husband, Joseph V. Kubasek, and they spent 50 wonderful years together before his passing in...
Merrie Elizabeth Kendrick
Aug 18, 2020
Merrie Elizabeth “Merrie Lib” Kendrick, notable Toledo piano teacher, longstanding member of the Ohio Music Teacher’s Association, and mother of four, died peacefully on August 18, 2020 in her home. She was 98. She was born in Canyon, Texas on May 22, 1922 to Joseph and Elizabeth Duflot. She credits her father, a professor of Sociology at the West...
Richard John Hanley
Aug 17, 2020
His teenaged children tried to sink into the pavement when Dick Hanley did a little dance in front of a historic monument. They had seen these bouts of exuberance before. But in the middle of the street? That dance, and the love of life it symbolized, will live on in the hearts of his family, now that Richard John...
Gerald Alan Kallenbach, Sr.
Aug 17, 2020
Gerald Alan “Gerry” Kallenbach, Sr., 92, of Port Clinton, Ohio passed away on Monday, August 17, 2020 at Edgewood Manor Nursing Center, Port Clinton, Ohio. He was born on April 8, 1928 on the family farm near Grand Mound Iowa, the son of the late Alfred and Martha (Stankee) Kallenbach. On September 16, 1950 he married Claire Joan Mayer...
Ethel Clara Smith
Aug 15, 2020
Ethel C. “Hunky” Smith passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 15, 2020 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg at the age of 89. Ethel was born on July 31, 1931 in Toledo, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her father, John; mother, Margaret; sister, Betty; brother, John Jr.; her son, Jack Gross Jr; daughter, Brenda Grzechowiak; and...
Bruce Alan Demers, Iii
Aug 15, 2020
After fighting very hard for two and a half years, on Saturday, August 15, 2020, Bruce A. Demers III, 46, lost his battle to cancer. He was born on February 16, 1974 to Bruce Demers Jr. and Judith (Coyne) Demers. Bruce could always be found watching football, whether that be his favorite professional teams, the L.A. Raiders and the...
Joann Sylvia (Bigford) Nelson
Aug 14, 2020
Joann Sylvia (Bigford) Nelson, died August 14, 2020, of COVID-19, in Toledo, Ohio. She was born May 14, 1934, in Appleton, Wisconsin, to Bert and Viola Bigford. In 1952, Joann married Robert Arthur Nelson, of Racine, Wisconsin. Together they raised five sons: Michael Allen, Steven Arthur, Daniel Alvin, Thomas Allen, and James Andrew. In addition to raising a large...
Theadore P. Piotrowski
Aug 14, 2020
Theadore P. Piotrowski, 79, of Genoa, Ohio and formerly of West Virginia, died late in the evening on August 14, 2020 at the Hospice of Northwest Ohio facility in Toledo, Ohio. He was born on April 8, 1941 in Toledo, the son of Felix and Florence (LaCourse) Pietrowski. He served in the U.S. Army and returned to take up...
Mary A. Zimmer
Aug 13, 2020
Mary Zimmer (nee Krafcik), 94 years young, went home to be with Jesus on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Mary was born on January 24, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio, and lived her final years in Marblehead, Ohio. She was preceded in death by her parents, Matej and Maria (Orosz) Krafcik, her husband William Zimmer, her son Jerry Zimmer (Lydia survives),...
Richard Leon Lautzenheiser
Aug 12, 2020
Richard Leon Lautzenheiser Jr., age 54, passed away Wednesday, August 12, 2020 at home in Toledo. Richard was born in Toledo on October 21, 1965. He was a graduate of Libbey High School where he played the trumpet and fell in love with his future wife, Theresa. After graduation, Richard enlisted in the Navy in 1984. He then married...
Anna L. Demas
Aug 12, 2020
Anna L. Demas Exceptional & Extraordinary Woman - Wife - Mother Anna was a fighter from the start! She was born in February 1946 in Fulda, West Germany. The hospital staff told her mother to leave her behind at the hospital since baby Anna was not going to survive. Her mother refused and took her home. We know that...
Betty Irene Dotson
Aug 12, 2020
Betty Irene Dotson, age 92, of Toledo, Ohio passed away on Wednesday, August 12, 2020. She was born on April 15, 1928 to John Ezra and Sarah Frances (Barnes) Myers in Lakeview, Ohio. Betty was married to Charles Dotson from 1947-1956. Betty graduated from Stokes Rural High School. She was a clerk at a hardware store, and drycleaners. Betty...
Richard Peth
Aug 11, 2020
Richard "Dick" Peth, 81, of Genoa, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Tuesday, August 11, 2020. Richard retired from LOF (Libbey Owens Ford). On July 8, 1961, Richard married Sherry Adams; she survives. Also surviving is his daughter, Pam Schall; grandchildren, Britnee Powell and Hayley & Jake Gargac; son-in-law, Randy Gargac; brother, Melvin Peth; and many loving...
Donna M. Farley
Aug 10, 2020
Donna Farley, age 86, passed away on August 10, 2020 at her home in Toledo, Ohio. Donna was born in Pemberville, Ohio on August 3, 1934. Preceded in her death was her loving husband of 48 years, Richard. Donna was a wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, entrepreneur, and a friend of everyone who knew her. Donna also was the...
Dorothy A. Vroman
Aug 10, 2020
Dorothy A. Vroman, 89, of Maumee, passed away at Aspen Grove on Aug. 10 under the care of her family and Hospice of Northwest Ohio. She had been in declining health for several months. She was born June 26, 1931 in Albion, Nebraska to Paul and Alice (Jones) Zucker. When she was 3 years old the family moved to...
Cynthia S. Cline
Aug 10, 2020
Cynthia S Cline,75, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Monday August 10, 2020 at Toledo Hospital. Cindy was born August 4, 1945 in Toledo, Ohio. She was the daughter of the late George and Elizabeth (Glander) Kuohn. Cindy was a graduate of DeVilbiss Highschool where upon graduating she attended Mercy School of Nursing...
Paul Tilson
Aug 10, 2020
Raymond Paul Tilson, 69, of Lakeside-Marblehead, Ohio peacefully passed away on Monday, August 10, 2020 at his residence surrounded by loved ones. He was born on October 17, 1950 in Port Clinton, Ohio, the son of the late Gertrude (White) Tilson. Survivors include his daughter, Kristina Willoughby, Fremont, Ohio; son, Michael (Sherri) Tilson, Port Clinton; grandchildren, Amber (David) Brown,...
Kurt F Hennigs
Aug 10, 2020
Kurt Frederick Hennigs, age 73, passed away Monday, August 10, 2020 at Toledo Hospital Toledo, OH. The son of Albert and Ella Hennigs, he was born January 27, 1947 in Belleville, IL. He attended Signal Hill Elementary School and Belleville Township High School West. Shortly after graduation, Kurt joined the U.S. Air Force. He was honorably discharged as a...
