Obituaries
Marybell Savage
Feb 14, 2010
Marybell Ross Savage 67, died at 11:05 p.m. Feb. 14, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born July 10, 1942, in Muncie, Indiana, to Edna L. Carter Savage, who preceded her in death. She had been married to Kenneth Ross Sr., who survives. Ms. Savage retired from Ball Memorial Hospital. She had lived in Yorktown, Indiana. Survivors also...
Norval Wannemacher
Feb 14, 2010
Norval Albert Wannemacher ,95, died at 2:10 a.m. Feb. 14, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born Feb. 4, 1915, in Ottoville to Sylvester J. and Regina M Wurst Wannemacher, who preceded him in death. On Aug. 28, 1946, in Columbus Grove, he married Cecelia Agnes Fuerst, who preceded him in death. Mr. Wannemacher was self-employed as a...
Elizabeth Betty Christoff Graham
Feb 13, 2010
Elizabeth Marie ?Betty? Christoff Graham 74, died at 6:10 p.m. Feb. 13, 2010, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born March 21, 1935, in Lima to James and Barbara Sciranka Christoff, who preceded her in death. On July 4, 1955, she married Donald Graham, who died Jan. 11, 1979. Mrs. Graham retired in 1999 from International Brake. She was...
James Sterling,
Feb 13, 2010
James D. Sterling Sr. 82, died at 2:48 p.m. Feb. 13, 2010, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Facility. He was born Aug. 11, 1927, in Lima to James D. and Mildred Keller Sterling, who preceded him in death. On Sept. 11, 1948, he married Mary Lou Pohlabel, who survives in Lima. Mr. Sterling had worked as a lineman for Lima...
Evelyn Armstrong
Feb 12, 2010
Evelyn L. Armstrong 85, died at 6:08 p.m. Feb. 12, 2010, at her residence surrounded by her family. She was born Jan. 10, 1925, in Lima to Charles and Blanche Caldwell Leppla, who preceded her in death. On April 16, 1945, she married Russell Armstrong, who died Aug. 6, 1976 Mrs. Armstrong worked for Elida schools in the cafeteria as...
Helen Diller Lucas
Feb 11, 2010
Helen Jeanette Diller Lucas 83, died at 6:54 p.m. February 11, 2010, at her residence. She was born October 12, 1926, in Columbus Grove, Ohio to Virgil and Juanita Neuenschwander Diller, who preceded her in death. On October 17, 1967, she married Virgil Lucas, who died in October 1982. In 1983, she married Lavon Myers and they later divorced, but...
Jean Brenneman
Feb 9, 2010
Jean D. Brenneman 82, died at 7:50 a.m. February 9, 2010, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born January 18, 1928, in Columbus, Ohio to John D. and Zelma Stewart Yant, who preceded her in death. On April 21, 1946, she married Simon P. Brenneman, who died February 9, 2005. Mrs. Brenneman was a member of Lima Community Church...

Kevin Koogler
Feb 8, 2010
Kevin Scott Koogler 40, died at 6:07 p.m. February 8, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born May 29, 1969, in Lima, Ohio to Kenneth and Rosaline ?Roz? Butcher Koogler, who survive in Vaughnsville, Ohio. Mr. Koogler attended Wapakoneta schools for 11 years and was a 1988 graduate of Elida High School. He worked at the YMCA when...
Robert Betts
Feb 7, 2010
Robert Betts 79, died at 10 a.m. February 7, 2010, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born August 12, 1930, in Lima, Ohio to Francis E. and Daisy A. Carney Betts, who preceded him in death. On November 20, 1947, he married Mary Elizabeth Young, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Betts was an Army veteran, serving from October...
Louise Meringleo
Feb 6, 2010
Louise M. Meringleo Louise M. Meringleo, 88, died at 2:35 p.m. Feb. 6, 2010, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born Jan. 1, 1922, in Lima to William and Rose Andosco Page, who preceded her in death. On Nov. 4, 1944, in Ohio, she married Joseph John Meringleo, who survives in Lima. Mrs. Meringleo was a very active life...
Richard Dick Landers
Feb 5, 2010
Richard P. ?Dick? Landers 75, died at 3:45 a.m. February 5, 2010, at Triumph Hospital, Lima, Ohio. He was born October 5, 1934, in Urbana to Joseph and Eleanor Shaw Landers, who preceded him in death. On January 10, 1959, he married Florella ?Sue? Mumaugh, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Landers was a member of Fraternal Order of Eagles...
Barbara Nickells Swickrath
Feb 4, 2010
Barbara A. Nickells Swickrath 62, died at 11:03 a.m. February 4, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born July 15, 1947, in Belding, Michigan, to Sammie and Virgie Williams Nickells. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Edgerton. On October 1, 1966, she married Lester C. Swickrath, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Swickrath was...
Virgil Coffman
Feb 3, 2010
Virgil J. Coffman 79, died at 2:14 p.m. February 3, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born September 1, 1930, in Lima, Ohio to John and Emma Coffman, who preceded him in death. On March 6, 1949, he married Darlene Bok, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Coffman was a member of Westside United Methodist Church. He was...
Phyllis Hermanson
Feb 2, 2010
Phyllis Ann Hermanson 88, died at 9:14 a.m. February 2, 2010, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born November 20, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York, to Abraham Horton and Naomi Davenport Barr, who preceded her in death. On August 23, 1947, she married Roy Hermanson, who died in July 1992. Mrs. Hermanson retired in 1982 from Sprint Telephone Co....
Dean Swartz
Jan 30, 2010
Dean E. Swartz 82, died at 12:49 p.m. January 30, 2010, at his residence. He was born February 21, 1927, in New Hampshire, Ohio, to Albert Elroy and Leota Rashial Morris Swartz, who preceded him in death. April 7, 1948, he married Fredora Stocker, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Swartz retired from Ohio Steel after 43 years. He was...
Pearl Niemuth Renelt
Jan 28, 2010
Pearl E. Niemuth Renelt 89, died at 4:32 p.m. January 28, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born Septtmber 15, 1920, in Taylor County, Wisconsin, to Herman and Helen Tindula Niemuth, who preceded her in death. She married Robert L. Wieneke Sr., who preceded her in death. She then married Walter J. Renelt, who preceded her in death....
Betty Coleman
Jan 28, 2010
Betty B. Coleman 81, died at 11:30 p.m. January 28, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born June 19, 1928, in Marion, Indiana, to Orville and Mary Orsborn Van Ness, who preceded her in death. On March 19, 1966, she married Joseph Henry Coleman, who died April 20, 2002. Mrs. Coleman had been a secretary and accountant for...
Bessie Brown
Jan 28, 2010
Bessie Mae Brown 77, died at 6:15 a.m. January 28, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born July 29, 1932, in Forkland, Alabama, to Roy and Betty Smith Wright, who preceded her in death. She married Matthew Johnson, who preceded her in death. She then married Lonzo Brown, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Brown was a homemaker...
Helen Custer Hullinger Earehart
Jan 27, 2010
HELEN I. CUSTER HULLINGER EAREHART 93, died at 1:38 A.M. January 27, 2010 at St. Rita?s Medical Center, Lima, Ohio. She was born on January 18, 1917, in Allen County, Ohio to Clyde & Irene (Iiames) Custer, who preceded her in death. She married Charles Edwin Hullinger, Sr. in 1936, he preceded her in death on June 28, 1978. She...
Truman Overly
Jan 25, 2010
Truman Cloyce Overly 84, died at 7:11 p.m. January 25, 2010, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born December 17, 1925, in Kenton, Ohio to Truman Cloyce and Irene Kinnear Overly Sr., who preceded him in death. On July 13, 1947, he married Helen L. Reth, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Overly was a member of Zion Lutheran...
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