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Nancy J. Emrick
Sep 27, 2016
Nancy J. Emrick, 67, Perrysburg, fell ill and passed away suddenly Sept. 27 while traveling in San Francisco with her son, Chad. Nancy was born July 23, 1949 in Chicago to Lyman and Betty Prater. She met her future husband, David, while attending a West Toledo YMCA Friday night dance in 1966. They were married June 24, 1972 at...
Bonnie S. Brooks
Sep 27, 2016
Bonnie S. Brooks, 71, of Walbridge, Ohio, died Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in Mercy-St. Charles Hospital, Oregon, Ohio. She was born on August 14, 1945 to Charles E and Malta (Freeman) Conley. She had worked for many years in the Housekeeping Dept. of the Luther Home of Mercy in Williston, Ohio. Bonnie enjoyed playing Bingo, watching old movies and...
Elwood Jr Parker
Sep 27, 2016
Elwood JR Parker, 68, of Genoa, Ohio died Tuesday, September 27, 2016 in his residence after a lengthy illness. JR was born in Clay Center, Ohio on March 25, 1948 to Elwood S. and Ellen C. (Daly) Parker, Sr. and on June 15, 1968, in Walbridge, Ohio, he married Lavon E. Grape (Wright). Lavon preceded him in death on...
Elsie Ward
Sep 26, 2016
Elsie Ward, 83, of Port Clinton, OH, passed away, Monday, September 26, 2016 at Edgewood Manor Nursing Center. Elsie was born on July 31, 1933 in Port Clinton, OH, the daughter of Verrie and Doris (Elliott) Bovia. On December 29, 1951 in Port Clinton, OH, she married Richard J. Ward Sr. and he survives. Elsie was a homemaker. She...
Ada Lou Condon
Sep 25, 2016
Ada Lou Condon, age 82, experienced that Blessed Assurance on September 25, 2016 in her home surrounded by her family, and this is her story. The daughter of Alfred and Naomi Sanders, she was born February 21, 1934 in Hosford, FL. She came to Toledo in 1948 and graduated from Scott High School. She met the love of her...
Benjamin I. Ben Wagoner
Sep 25, 2016
Benjamin Ben I. Wagoner, 27, of Toledo, Ohio and formerly of Curtice, Ohio, died September 25, 2016 in the Edward & Marion Knight Hospice Center, Perrysburg, Ohio after a seven month illness. Ben was born in Oregon, Ohio to Thomas and Carol (Traver) Wagoner on July 12, 1989. Ben was a 2007 Genoa Area High School and Penta Career...
Michael L. Payden
Sep 24, 2016
Michael L. Payden, 57, of Northwood, OH passed away on Sept. 24, 2016 at St. Charles Hospital. He was born on July 19, 1959 to Don and Kathyrn (Persons) Payden in Oregon, Ohio. Michael retired as a track inspector for CSX Railroad with over 35 years of service. He was a member of Faith United Methodist Church and a...
Kenneth Ray Orwig, Jr.
Sep 24, 2016
Kenneth Ray Orwig, Jr. entered the Kingdom of Heaven at 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, September 24, 2016. He was surrounded by family. A lifelong resident of Ottawa Hills, Ken was born on July 31, 1948, and was a member of the Ottawa Hills High School Class of 1966. Ken attended The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, and...
Mary Lee Kasper
Sep 24, 2016
Mary Lee Kasper, 77, a resident of the Luther Home of Mercy in Williston, Ohio for the past 27 years died Saturday, September 24, 2016 in Mercy-St. Vincent Medical Center, Toledo, Ohio. Mary Lee was born in Steubenville, Ohio on August 11, 1939 to John and Helen Julia (Mehalko) Kasper. She lived most of her life in Steubenville and...
Lucille G. Lieske
Sep 23, 2016
Lucille G. Lieske, 81, of Oak Harbor, passed away peacefully Friday evening, September 23, 2016 at the Stein Hospice Care Center, Sandusky, Ohio. She was born May 16, 1935 in Oak Harbor, the daughter of the late Elsie M. (Hansen) and Homer R. Pierson. On June 12, 1954 she married her high-school sweetheart, Ruel “Buzz” C. Lieske, upon his...
Sandra L. Cline
Sep 23, 2016
Sandra L. (Marland) Cline, 45, of Holland, Ohio passed away unexpectedly at St. Vincent’s Hospital on September 23, 2016. She was born in New Buffalo, Michigan on February 16, 1971 to Terry Marland. Sandy married the love of her life, Edwin Cline, in Bowling Green, Ohio on May 27, 2000. Together they raised their three children. She loved spending...
Diane L. Kearney
Sep 23, 2016
Diane L. Dee Kearney, age 71, passed away Friday, September 23, 2016 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio. The daughter of Kenneth and Doris Wilcox, she was born December 8, 1944 in Toledo. After high school she worked for Columbia Gas and later began a medical management career starting at Flower Hospital and retiring from Alliance Healthcare out of Ft....
Shelley Marie Killen
Sep 21, 2016
Shelley Marie Killen, age 62, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, September 21, 2016 at Ebeid Hospice in Sylvania. Shelley was born October 16, 1953 in Toledo to Stanley and Gladys Trabbic. She attended Gesu and St. Pius X Elementary Schools and was a graduate of St. Ursula Academy. Early in her career, Shelley utilized her artistic skills with the...
Shannon Kusian
Sep 21, 2016
Shannon (Saggese) Kusian, 43, peacefully went home to God on September 21, 2016. Born July 20, 1973, in Toledo, Ohio, to Paul and Barbara Saggese she graduated from Sylvania Southview High School, in Sylvania, Ohio and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio in 1997. She worked as an accountant for the...
Marcelo Cortez
Sep 20, 2016
Marcelo Cortez, 84, of Port Clinton, OH , went home to be with the Lord on, Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at Riverview Healthcare Campus, Oak Harbor, surrounded by his loving family. Marcelo was born on May 21, 1932 in Taft, TX, the son of the late Melchor and Florencia Cortez. On January 23, 1961 in Elsa, TX, he married...
Mary K. Appelhans Browne
Sep 20, 2016
Mary K. Appelhans Browne died September 20, 2016, in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was born in Perrysburg, Ohio, on May 21, 1930. Mary raised her family in Toledo, Ohio, and in later years lived in Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Las Vegas, Nevada. She was a graduate of Mary Manse College, Toledo, Ohio. She was an English teacher and...
Roger E. Reif
Sep 20, 2016
Roger E. Reif, 87, of Graytown, Ohio, died Tuesday, September 20, 2016, at Parkcliffe Alzheimers Community Home, Northwood, Ohio. He was born on December 18, 1928, in Benton Township, Ohio, to Fred and Edna (Wittman) Reif. Roger served in the U.S. Army from 1950-1952. On June 11, 1954, at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Martin, Ohio, he married Marilyn Guth,...
Beverly Jane Harris Merkle
Sep 20, 2016
Beverly Jane Harris Merkle (nee Fowler), 84, of Fort Myers, Florida died peacefully on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at Stein Hospice in Sandusky. “Jane” was born July 18, 1932 in Ashland, Oh where she spent her early years working in her Mom’s restaurant at the livestock auction house. She was proud of her employment at Cresco where she learned...
Frank C Jackson
Sep 20, 2016
Frank C. Jackson, 67, of Walbridge, passed away on September 20, 2016 at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. Frank was born on October 23, 1948 in Toledo to Bernard and Elizabeth “Betty” (Calmes) Jackson. He married his beloved wife, Martha “Marty” (Bacon) Jackson on May 5, 1989. He was a veteran of the Army during the Vietnam War...
Alice Kirk Hemminger
Sep 19, 2016
Alice (Kirk) Hemminger, 82, of Oak Harbor, passed away peacefully at her home early Monday, September 19, 2016. She was born on February 16, 1934, at the family home in Port Clinton, Ohio, to Edward and Lorena (Miller) Kirk. On July 24, 1954, at Trinity United Methodist Church, Port Clinton, Ohio, she married Carl Hemminger and he survives. Alice...
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