Obituary Listing

Greer, E. Earl, 80 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born at Findlay, Ohio on April 3, 1931 a son of the late Lincoln Earl Greer and Mary Louise Fink Greer. Earl was the first Director and former President of Belmont Technical College and was a retired sales agent from Metropolitan Life...

George Rimel, 75, of Pipe Creek, died Thursday, Aug. 7, 2003 at Belmont Community Hospital in Bellaire. He was born March 12, 1928, in Bellaire, son of the late George and Lillian Rimel. He was a retired coal miner from Consolidation Coal Company, Ireland Mine at Moundsville, and was a member of the United Church of God, Wheeling. He was...

Wilma Jean Funkhouser, 55 of Belmont, Ohio died Saturday, June 14, 2008 at Wheeling Hospital. She was born February 20, 1953 in Wheeling, a daughter of Alice Bernice McGilton Fulton and the late William Camby Fulton. She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother, a former employee of Bell Nursing Home and a Girl Scout volunteer. In addition to her...

VanHorn, Vivian Carol, 69 of Belmont, Ohio died Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at Cumberland Point Care Center, St. Clairsville. She was born in Goshen Township, Belmont County on April 20, 1942 a daughter of the late Earl Kennard Kinney and Bessie Rosanna Jarrett Kinney. Carol was a homemaker, a Protestant by faith and a member of the Belmont Better Hunting...

N. Elizabeth "Libby" Bethel, 90 of St. Clairsville, died Friday, August 26, 2005 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. She was born in Portsmouth, Ohio on August 8, 1915 a daughter of the late L. K. and Ann L. Pitzer. Libby was a school teacher in Portsmouth, Ohio, Fairpoint, Ohio and Bellaire, Ohio School Districts. She was a...

Richard Leroy Bell, 74 of Fairpoint, Ohio died Friday, January 9, 2004 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. He was born on October 4, 1929 in Ware Shoals, South Carolina, son of the late Mr. & Mrs. Monroe Jackson Bell. He was a retired carpenter and a Catholic. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death...

Theodore N. Cragulets, Sr., 81 formerly of New Athens died Thursday, October 21, 2004 at the Barnesville Health Care Center. He was born August 10, 1923 in Lafferty. A son of the late Nick and Sarah Skerkosky Cragulets. Ted was a retired coal miner from Consolidation Coal Co. at Georgetown and Cadiz and a member of Flushing Lodge No. 298...

William L. "Bill" Blon, age 73, of Stewartsville, died Thursday, August 10, 2006 at Belmont Community Hospital in Bellaire. He was born October 29, 1932 in Stewartsville, Ohio, son of the late Leslie "Pete" and Delcie Clear Blon. Bill was a retired employee from the former Rodefer-Gleason Glass Co. in Bellaire; he was a former employee of the Bellaire City...

Roman Borovich, 79, of Glencoe Rd., St. Clairsville, died Wednesday, October 19, 2005 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born December 17, 1925 in St. Clairsville. A son of the late Roman and Mary Moroski Borovich. He was a retired coal miner from Oglebay Norton?s Saginaw mine in St. Clairsville, a Navy veteran of WWII, served in the Civilian Conservation Corps,...

Burgy, Harold William, 87 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Thursday, December 30, 2010 at Acuity Specialty Hospital in Bellaire. He was born April 30, 1923 in Neffs, Ohio, the only child of William Burt Burgy and Laura Bell Reed Burgy. Harold was a retired employee of North American Coal Company, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of WWII serving in the...

Finney, Elinor Jean, 83, of St. Clairsville, died Friday, June 27, 2008 in Wheeling Hospital. She was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on August 16, 1924, daughter of the late William and Florence Stillwell Hanson. Elinor Jean was a retired employee of J.C. Penney and L.S. Good Company in Wheeling. She was a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church in St....

Kocher, Emmett W. "Pete", Jr., 83 of Dover Ridge Rd., Powhatan Point, Ohio died Sunday, October 31, 2010 at Belmont Community Hospital in Bellaire. He was born May 5, 1927 in Armstrongs Mills, Ohio, a son of the late, Emmett Kocher, Sr. and Maude Haught Kocher. Pete retired from the Belmont County Road Crew and he also retired as York...

Horsfall, LeRoy W. "Lee the Barber", 77 of St. Clairsville, Ohio died Monday, March 15, 2010 at his home. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 7, 1932 a son of William Henry and Anna Baechle Horsfall. He was owner/operator of Lee?s Barber Shop in St. Clairsville for 54 years and was a member of East Richland Friends Church....

Bennington, III, Herbert Roy. "Fonz", 33, of Jacobsburg, Ohio died Sunday, January 17, 2010 at City Hospital, Bellaire. He was born at Bellaire on November 18, 1976 a son of Herbert R. Bennington, Jr. and Albretta "Bertie" Arn Bennington. He was a self employed mechanic. He was preceded in death by his grandparents Herbert and Almeda Bennington, Sr.; John Arn,...

Whittelsey, Wilma "Peg", 77, of Bellaire, died Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at Country Club Retirement Center, Bellaire. Peg was born in Bellaire, Ohio, October 3, 1931, daughter of the late Thomas and Lucille Boughner Porter. Peg had worked as a secretary and she had worked as a restaurant hostess and was very popular with the owners and clientele. She also...

Sarah Eileen Briggs, 81 of O.K. Road, Belmont, Ohio died Friday, January 12, 2007 at Ohio Valley Medical Center in Wheeling. She was born April 2, 1925 in Wheeling, a daughter of the late Arthur Morris and Estella Heil Morris. She was a former employee of Sam?s Club in St. Clairsville and Valley Vending at Belmont Technical College. She was...

Simmons, John A. Sr., 89, of Los Angeles, California, died Saturday, August 29, 2009 in West Hills Hospital, West Hills, California. He was born in Byesville, Ohio on November 6, 1919, son of the late Thomas and Margaret Cooper Simmons. John was retired from Marx Toy Factory in Glen Dale, West Virginia. He was a member of Harbor of Hope...

Gereg, Josephine M., 88, of Kinsman, Ohio died Jan. 19, 2009 in East Ohio Regional Hospital. She was born July 15, 1920 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, daughter of the late Ladislav and Mary Butko Kraly. Josephine was a homemaker and a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church, Maynard. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,...

Alisha Yvonne Barton Labiche, 17 of Stewartsville, Ohio, beloved daughter and granddaughter went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, September 24, 2006 at Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown. She was born January 30, 1989 at Wheeling a daughter of Shawna Gargala Labiche and Okie Barton, Jr. She was a member of the Clarksburg United Methodist Church Alisha was preceded...

Lodge, Irma Louise Gillingham, 89, of Bannock, Ohio, died June 12, 2010 in Cumberland Pointe Care Center, St. Clairsville. She was born September 10, 1920 in Fern, Pennsylvania, daughter of the late John and Della Frederick Gillingham. Irma was a graduate of Flushing High School and attended West Liberty College. She married H. Barricklow Lodge in 1942. She loved and...