Obituaries
David Conine
Jun 10, 2009
David Ray Conine 31, died at 10:04 p.m. June 10, 2009, at Bridge Home Health & Hospice, Findlay, Ohio, following an extended battle with Wilson?s disease. He was born January 1, 1978, in Lima, Ohio to Larry Conine and Lisa Emerson. His father preceded him in death. His mother survives in Harrod, Ohio. Mr. Conine had been a cook at...
Grace Heaston
Jun 4, 2009
Grace Colene Heaston , 91, died at 10:30 a.m. June 4, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born July 1, 1917, in Lima, Ohio, to Earl F. and Lela M. Harsh Curtis Sr., who preceded her in death. On January 24, 1937, in Lima, Ohio, she married Richard A. Heaston, who died August 2, 1997. Mrs. Heaston was...
Virginia Lewis
Jun 3, 2009
Virginia Adair Lewis, 92, died at 1:37 p.m. June 3, 2009, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born December 1, 1916, in Lima, Ohio to Noble L. and Elaine Meuser Martin, who preceded her in death. On October 22, 1935, she married Jasper Claude Lewis, who died December 26, 1996. Mrs. Lewis was a homemaker. She enjoyed traveling, playing...
Blenna Brown Beach
Jun 1, 2009
Blenna I. Brown Beach, 86, died at 2:07 a.m. June 1, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born December 28, 1922, in Lima, Ohio to Earl B. and Inez Bailey Brown, who preceded her in death. She married Donald Mertz, who preceded her in death. She then married Marvin Beach Sr., who also preceded her in death. Mrs....
Marie Sadler
May 31, 2009
Marie A. Sadler 85, died at 2 a.m. May 31, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born October 26, 1923, in Chattaroy, West Virginia, to Charles L. and Alice Webb Wellman, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Sadler had worked on airplane parts during World War II. She loved visiting with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved the...
Lois Knous
May 30, 2009
Lois Ellen Knous, 84, died May 30, 2009, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born July 17, 1924, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Henry and Elsie Ruck Bierly, who preceded her in death. She married Arthur Knous, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Knous was a member and had been an honorary commander of Trinity Chapter 16 Order of Eastern...
Thomas Bourne
May 27, 2009
Thomas Bourne,86 of Scottsdale, Arizona died on Wednesday, May 27, 2009, at Hospice of the Valley-Brighton Gardens in Scottsdale, Arizona. Born Monday, September 11, 1922, he was the son of the late John Bourne and the late Mary Jones Bourne. He was the husband of Marjorie Renner Bourne. He was employed by Buckeye Pipeline. He served in the Army from...
Elbert Cookie Hunter
May 24, 2009
Elbert J. ?Cookie? Hunter , 79, died at 10:59 a.m. May 24, 2009, at his residence. He was born October 26, 1929, in Pineville, Kentucky, to Henry Harvey and Dora Baker Hunter, who preceded him in death. On May 5, 1953, he married Lois Tennyson, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Hunter retired from Ford Motor Co. in 1989. He...
Margaret Maggie Metzger
May 20, 2009
Margaret Ann ?Maggie? Metzger, 52, died at 4:30 a.m. May 20, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born October 9, 1956, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, to Frank and Betty Aikens King, who preceded her in death. Her stepmother lives in Troy, Michigan. In October 1986, she married William Metzger, who died March 18, 2001. Mrs. Metzger was owner...
Richard Rigali,
May 20, 2009
Richard John Rigali Sr. 82, died at 6:20 a.m. May 20, 2009, at Lima Convalescent Home. He was born June 20, 1926, in Lima, Ohio to Ray and Rovina Falke Rigali, who preceded him in death. On June 26, 1948, he married Norma Wiemer, who died August 13, 1970. Mr. Rigali was a laborer and owner of Fishbaugh-Rigali Door Frame...
LaVerne Crites
May 18, 2009
LaVerne L. ?Buzz? Crites 87, died at 5:50 p.m. May 18, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. He was born October 28, 1921, in Lima, Ohio to Zeldon and Lilly Mae Edgington Crites, who preceded him in death. He had been married to Ruth Elizabeth Beamand Crites-Schlinder, who survives. Mr. Crites had been a laborer for Tuttle Construction. He had...
Richard Davis
May 17, 2009
Richard E. ?Dick? Davis , 89, died at 4:56 p.m. May 17, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born March 22, 1920, in Lima, Ohio to Royden Jones and Eleanor Faye Detrict Davis, who preceded him in death. He married Kathryn M. Schafer, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Davis had been an automotive painter. He was a...
Donald H.
May 14, 2009
Donald H. Cox,63, died at 3:01 a.m. May 14, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born February 23, 1946, in Auburn, Indiana, to Donald H. and Zelma L. Grinnell Cox Sr., who preceded him in death. Mr. Cox was a member of Gamma Sigma Delta. He was a 1964 graduate of Lima Senior High School, attended Kent State...
Chyeanna & Makayla Jean Haywood
May 14, 2009
Chyeanna Kathryn and Makayla Jean Haywood were stillborn at 1:45 a.m. May 14, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Chamberlain-Huckeriede Funeral Home.
Jack Hill
May 13, 2009
Jack E. Hill,45,died at 9 a.m. May 13, 2009, at his residence. He was born March 16, 1964, in Lima, Ohio, to Jack and Ladonna Sellers Hill Jr., who survive in Lima, Ohio. On Nov. 13, 2007, he married Michelle Grenig Hill, who survives. Mr. Hill was a 1982 graduate of Elida High School and a 2000 graduate of Rhodes...
Cynthia Hunter
May 6, 2009
Cynthia O. Hunter , 47, died at 1:23 a.m. May 6, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born May 7, 1961, in Lima, Ohio to Harold and Shirley Spicer Dorsett. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Hunter was a homemaker. She attended Pilgrim Holiness Church. She enjoyed reading her Bible and...
Thomas Tom Brookman
May 3, 2009
Thomas L. ?Tom? Brookman,72, died at 2:30 p.m. May 3, 2009, in Georgetown, Kentucky. He was born February 6, 1937, in Lima, Ohio to Clifford Brookman and Eleanor Fink, who preceded him in death. On October 5, 1963, he married Lois M. Sites, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Brookman retired in November 1987 as a platoon chief from the...
Steven Jankow
May 1, 2009
Steven A. Jankow Steven A. Jankow, 52, died at 2:32 a.m. May 1, 2009, at Cleveland Clinic Hospitals. He was born April 27, 1957, in Detroit to Robert and Diane Greenough Jankow, who preceded him in death. On Nov. 18, 2005, in Las Vegas he married Denise Frueh Switzer, who survives in Lima. Mr. Jankow worked at Honda of American...
Jean Owens
Apr 29, 2009
Jean Anne Owens,76, died at 5:25 p.m. April 29, 2009, in Las Vegas. She was born January 27, 1933, in Lima, Ohio to Eugene and Vesta Elizabeth Johnson White, who preceded her in death. In 1951, she married Fred Emanuel Owens, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Owens had worked at Ex-Cell-O Corp., Shawnee Manor, RMS of Ohio, Blue Cross/Blue...
John Meyer
Apr 28, 2009
John Robert "Lurch" Meyer, 45, died at 4:35 p.m. April 28, 2009, at St. Rita's Medical Center, following a brief but brave battle with lung cancer. He was born Dec. 26, 1963, in Methuen, Mass., to John and Alice Collette Meyer. His father survives. His mother preceded him in death. Mr. Meyer had been a truck driver and a cement...
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