Obituary Listing

Giffen, Ruth S., 93, of St. Clairsville, died Thursday, April 16, 2009 at Lancia Villa Royale Nursing Home in Steubenville, Ohio. Ruth was born in St. Clairsville, Ohio on August 15, 1915, daughter of the late John M. Giffen and Mary Edith Stewart Giffen. She was a retired teacher from the St. Clairsville-Richland City School District. Ruth was a member...

Matis, Irma J., 87, of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Friday, Nov. 12, 2010 in Country Club Retirement Center, Bellaire. She was born in Adena, Ohio on November 20, 1922, daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Novak Kalan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, John J. Matis; a daughter, Linda...

Rachel A. Conaway, 42 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at Cumberland Pointe in St. Clairsville. She was born January 10, 1967 in Martins Ferry, a daughter of the late Kenneth H. Conaway and Elsie M. Brown Conaway. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by nephews, David L. Younkins, Jr., Roy C. Conaway,...

Alston Woodrow "Skiggs" Soles, 85 of Burwood Dr., St.Clairsville died Wednesday, August 20, 2003 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. He was born June 22, 1918 in Shadyside, Ohio. He was a retired coal miner from Windsor Power House Coal, a member of the Church of Christ in St.Clairsville, an Army veteran of WWII and a member of...

Ronald Lewis "The Old Man" Allen, 63 of Pipe Creek, Jacobsburg, Ohio died Friday, October 16, 2009 at Aspinwall Veterans Hospital in Pittsburgh. He was born May 27, 1946 in Bellaire, Ohio, a son of the late Charles "Monk" Allen and Eileen Marie Bellville Allen. He was a retired welder, a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, life member of...

Heather Ann Dewey, 19 of Rand Avenue, St. Clairsville died Monday, August 4, 2003 at Wheeling Hospital. She was born March 14, 1984 at Fort Campbell, KY the daughter of John W. and Melody Austin Dewey. Heather was a 2003 graduate of St. Clairsville High School, a waitress at the Newellstown Diner, St. Clairsville and was enrolled as a student...

Mildred "Kate" Rusin, 94 of Powhatan Point, Ohio died Monday, January 8, 2007 at Shadyside Care Center. She was born December 9, 1912 in Montclair, West Virginia, a daughter of the late Pete and Mary Visnic. She was a former employee of Ohio Edison R.E. Burger Plant in Dilles Bottom and a member of the Jacobsburg Bible Church. In addition...

Janet Marie Hicks, age 58, formerly of Kentucky and Georgia, died Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 in Steubenville, Ohio. She was born June 10, 1947 in Kentucky, a daughter of Dorothy Spencer and the late Jesse Spencer. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Cain. Surviving are her mother, Dorothy Spencer of Valley Station,...

Hudson, Bernard "Dale", 82 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at Ohio Valley Medical Center, Wheeling. He was born at Hundred, WV on December 29, 1926 a son of the late Harry and Margaret Anderson Hudson. Dale was a retired foreman from East Ohio Gas Co., attended Thoburn United Methodist Church in St. Clairsville and was an...

Pearl E. Nusser Stewart, 69 of Bull Run Rd., St. Clairsville, Ohio died Saturday, June 25, 2005 in Knightdale, NC. She was born March 11, 1936 in Georgetown, Pennsylvania. A daughter of the late Gabriel Cooley Nusser and Cora Adine Duncan Nusser. She was a former employee at the National Church Envelope Factory on Rt. 30 in West Virginia and...

Twila C. Shaw, 67 of Steubenville, Ohio died Monday, May 2, 2005 at Trinity Medical Center West, Steubenville. She was born at Dillonvale, Ohio January 15, 1938 a daughter of the late Eldred and Roberta Walters Manteau. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband William Shaw; a son, Daryl VanCuren and brothers Gary and...

Nancy Ann Bopp, 68 of Wheeling, formerly of Neffs died Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at Country Club Retirement Center in Bellaire. She was born April 29, 1935 in Neffs, a daughter of the late Knox Alexander and Matilda "Tillie" Butler Alexander. Nancy was the former owner and operator of Bopp?s Florist of Wheeling and a member of the Fourth Street...

William C. Yardley, age 61, of Bridgeport, died Thursday, August 5, 2004 at Sunset Health Care Center, Harrisville, Ohio. He was born January 21, 1943 at Columbus, Ohio, son of the late Milton Yardley and Mary Jane Schmitt Yardley. He was a retired school teacher from Buckeye Local Schools where he taught the 5th and 6th grades. William also was...

Joseph J. Jingle, Sr., 83 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Thursday, September 2, 2004 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born February 20, 1921 in Maynard, Ohio a son of the late John and Sophia Snyder Dziegiel. Joe was a an employee of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel for 19 years and was retired from Ormet in Hannibal, Ohio and was a past president...

Laura G. Morrison, 87 of Fairpoint-Maynard Rd., St.Clairsville died Monday, June 30, 2003 at the Park Health Center in St.Clairsville. She was born April 28, 1916 in Fairpoint. A daughter of the late Otto Kasik and Mabel Findlay Kasik. She was a former employee of A&P, Reicharts, and the Belmont Hills Country Club; a member of House Of The Shepherd...

Ricky Layne Tomlinson, age 58, of Farmington Road, died Saturday, July 14, 2007 at his home. He was born March 30, 1949 in Bellaire, Ohio, son of Gladys Graham Tomlinson and the late Harry Edison "Poke Root" Tomlinson. Ricky was an employee of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel?s Yorkville Plant. He was a U. S. Army Veteran of the Vietnam War; a...

Lantz, Geraldine Jerry Weekley of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Monday, July 25, 2011 at the House of Hearts in St. Clairsville. She was born November 14, 1917 in Armstrongs Mills, Ohio, a daughter of the late Thomas J. Weekley and Anna C. Taylor Weekley. Jerry was a 1935 graduate of St. Clairsville High School, a lifelong member of Thoburn United...

PARR-LUTZ, Dorothy M., 93, went home to be with her Lord on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. She was born April 7, 1915 to William and Sarah McCloud and lived in the Akron area most of her life. She was a member of the Akron Baptist Temple for over 40 years. Some of the many things she loved were her cats,...

BROWN, Harce M. Sr. Brownie, age 93, of Shadyside, Ohio, died Sunday, April 10, 2011 at his home. He was born in Briceville, Tennessee, on June 12, 1917, son of the late Isaac and Martha Ault Brown. Harce was a retired dispatcher from North American Coal Company # 3 Mine. He was an Army veteran of World War II receiving...

Dale W. "Foxy" Palmer, Sr., 72 of Gamble-Hughes Rd., Jacobsburg died Wednesday November 24, 2004 at the Belmont Community Hospital in Bellaire. He was born February 29, 1932 in Powhatan Point, a son of the late Leroy "Carb" Palmer and Mildred Virginia Freeholder Palmer. Foxy was a retired steelworker from Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel at Martins Ferry and an Army veteran...