Obituary Listing

Sara C. "Sally" Leasure, 84 of Coroline Drive, St. Clairsville died Friday, June 13, 2003 at Wheeling Hospital. She was born at Fairpoint on March 16, 1919 a daughter of the late Joseph and Bernice Grobelny Jesalosky. Sally was a homemaker, a member of Calvary Presbyterian Church, St. Clairsville and Bridgeport Chapter #452 Order of Eastern Star. In addition to...

Florence L. Baker DeVaul, 84, of Colerain, Ohio died Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry. She was born at Wheeling, West Virginia on April 11, 1923, a daughter of the late Charles H. and Ethel Shrader Baker. Florence was a retired cook from Martins Ferry High School and Belmont County Head Start. In addition...

Stephen, John David, 71 of Morristown-Flushing Rd., Flushing, Ohio died Saturday, May 7, 2011 at East Ohio Regional Hospital in Martins Ferry, Ohio. He was born December 17, 1939 in Boston, Ohio, a son of the late Harold Stephen and Freda Wells Stephen Fankhauser. John was a retired coalminer from Oglebay Nortons Saginaw Mine and former truck driver for J.W....

Shunk, Penny Jo "Do Do", 48 of Lansing, Ohio passed away Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at Cumberland Pointe Nursing Home, St. Clairsville, Ohio after a long battle with Diabetes. She was born at Martins Ferry Hospital on July 11, 1960 at a daughter of Alvin Leroy "Zig" Shunk and the late Donna Marie Davis Shunk. Do Do was a former...

Virginia Mae Kirkland, 96 formerly of Shadyside, Ohio died Saturday, July18, 2009 at Park Health Center in St. Clairsville. She was born October 7, 1912 in Bellaire, Ohio, a daughter of the late Alonzo Phillips and Alta Meek Phillips. She was a member of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church on Key Ridge, Bellaire. In addition to her parents, she was...

Donda, Frank, 89, of St. Clairsville, died Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 at his home. He was born in St. Clairsville on April 20, 1920, son of the late Anton "Andy" and Frances Vild Donda. Frank was a retired die setter from the International Harvester Plant in Shadyside, Ohio. He attended the East Richland Friends Church; he was a U.S. Army...

John Yemich, 85 of Fairpoint, Ohio died Sunday, September 2, 2007 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born January 19, 1922 in Fairpoint, a son of the late Marco Yemich and Josephine Zagoric Yemich. John was retired from Consolidation Coal where he was an underground miner for 35 years, working at Willow Grove, Dun Glen, Glen Castle, Franklin 25, and Franklin...

Robert H. Willard, 81, passed away on October 17, 2006 at Belmont Manor in St. Clairsville, OH. He was born on February 8, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio to the late Harry and Clara Nichols Wakefield Willard. Surviving are one sister, Annie Wakefield Sherman of Palatka, FL, one niece and husband, Joanne and Larry Hammond of Clarksburg, WV, and one nephew...

Robert "Bob" Bonnell, 83 of Hutchinson Drive, St. Clairsville died Monday, May 5, 2003 at Forest Hill Nursing Home, St. Clairsville. He was born at Wheeling on November 29, 1919 a son of the late Harry and Clara Belle Baker Bonnell. Bob was an employee of C & P Telephone at Wheeling, retiring due to illness in 1974 with 33...

Cooper, Dan Alan, 45 of New York City, New York died Friday, July 1, 2011 at Roosevelt Hospital, New York. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio on September 15, 1965, a son of the Donald Cooper and Sandra Brown Cooper. Daniel was an employed by Lake Research, Washington D.C. in the New York City Office. He was preceded in death...

Walter W. Trytko, 53 of South Marietta St., St. Clairsville formerly of Atlanta, Georgia died Thursday, December 15, 2005 at Belmont Manor, St. Clairsville. He was born September 12, 1952 the son of Mary Visnic Trytko and the late Walter Trytko. Walt was an auto mechanic having worked in the Atlanta, Georgia area for many years. He was preceded in...

Saffell, Delbert Eugene Sr., 72, of Dilles Bottom, died Tuesday at home. He was born Feb. 22, 1935 at Pipe Creek, son of the late Delbert Perry and Lula Ambler Saffell. Delbert was a retired coal miner from Oglebay Norton and Y & O Coal Company. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Martha...

Blake, Muriel Dorothy, 85 of Lloydsville St., St. Clairsville, Ohio died Monday, August 23, 2010 at Cumberland Pointe in St. Clairsville. She was born November 5, 1924 in England, a daughter of the late Thomas King and Edna Dove King. Muriel was a retired cook for Belmont Hills Country Club in St. Clairsville and a Methodist. In addition to her...

Stephen Layne Harris, Jr., infant son of SPC Stephen Layne and Kristin Michelle Hudy Harris of Alexandria, VA died Friday, Dec. 19, 2003 at Bethesda, MD. In addition to his parents he is survived by paternal grandmother, Deborah McCormick of Belmont; maternal grandparents, Jim and Ellen Hudy of Fairpoint; maternal great grandmother, Helen Hudy of Fairpoint; aunts and uncles, PFC...

Virginia E. Stukey, 82, of Alledonia, Ohio, died Monday, March 22, 2004 at Shadyside Care Center, Shadyside, Ohio. She was born at Armstrongs Mills, Ohio, on May 3, 1921, a daughter of the late Harry and Annabelle Dawson Good. Virginia was a homemaker and a member of the Armstrongs Mills United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was...

Norma Brooks Peel, age 85, of Canton, Ohio and Jacobsburg, Ohio died Sunday, February 20, 2005 at her home. She was born June 20, 1919 at Jacobsburg, Ohio, daughter of the late Sherman Brooks and Gertrude Harlan Brooks. Norma was a retired employee from Timken Roller Bearing in Canton and a Methodist by faith. In addition to her parents, she...

Doris Jean Long Ramsey, 78, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, died Wednesday, July 27, 2005 at Shadyside Care Center. She was born on January 22, 1927 in Fairmont, West Virginia, daughter of the late Hobert Elsworth Long and Jaursia Drusilla Ash Long. In addition to her parents, Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Dean D. Ramsey Sr.; two sons, Robert...

Richard Allen Sykes, Sr., 64 of Morristown, Ohio died Monday, March 21, 2005 at his home. He was born June 25, 1940 in Bellaire. A son of the late Oscar and Grace Sykes. He was a former employee of Consolidation Coal Co. in Cadiz and Coronet Foods in Wheeling. A Catholic and an Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War....

Rose Antionette Vcelka, 84 of Markatan St., Flushing, Ohio died Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at Forest Hill Retirement Center in St. Clairsville. She was born November 4, 1922 in Lafferty, Ohio, a daughter of the late Joseph Peroni and Gaetana Greco Peroni. She was a retired employee of Oak View Nursing Home in St. Clairsville, a member of St. Paul?s...

Mary C. Heddleson, 84 of Dennis Lane, St. Clairsville died Friday, August 8, 2003 at East Ohio Regional Hospital, Martins Ferry. She was born at Glencoe, Ohio December 30, 1918 a daughter of the late Charles J. and Ethel Mayhugh Vannest. Mary was a retired employee of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel?s Martins Ferry Plant, a member of Weyer Chapter #515 Order of...