Obituaries
Helen Avery
Jan 27, 2009
Helen Josephine Avery, 80, died at 5:55 a.m. Jan. 27, 2009, at her residence. She was born Sept. 26, 1928, in Delphos to William and Josephine Yochum Carder, who preceded her in death. On Oct. 6, 1945, she married Ralph E. Avery Sr., who died July 26, 2001. Mrs. Avery was a homemaker. She was a member of Lima Baptist...
Steve Horvath
Jan 24, 2009
Steve Horvath, 78, died at 2:01 p.m. Jan 24, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born June 13, 1930, in Harmer County, Pa., to George and Elizabeth Schvarcz Horvath, who preceded him in death. On March 10, 1951, he married Marilyn Nancy Hahn, who survives in Lima. Mr. Horvath retired from the Allen County Sanitary Engineer?s Office in...
Carole Work
Jan 23, 2009
Carole L. Work, 69, died at 11:25 p.m. Jan. 23, 2009, in Richland Manor Nursing Home. She was born Nov. 5, 1939 in Moorefield W.Va. to Earl W. and Freda Powell Zirk, who preceded her in death. On Dec. 1, 1963, she married Robert L. Work Sr., who died May 13, 1979. Mrs. Work had been a waitress at Westgate...
Betty Burkholder
Jan 22, 2009
Betty L. Burkholder, 70, died at 11:10 a.m. Jan. 22, 2009, at her son?s residence. She was born Sept. 8, 1938, in Lima to Lawrence and Dorothy Oatman Nichols, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Burkholder had been a customer service representative at Time Warner and had also worked at The Leader Store. She was a life member of Westminster...
Robert Norton
Jan 22, 2009
Robert Norton, 92, died at 9:07 p.m. January 22, 2009, at Springview Manor Nursing Home, Lima, Ohio. He was born April 14, 1916, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Edward T. and Thecla C. Keller Norton, who preceded him in death. On December 7, 1943, he married Emily Virginia Wilkerson, who preceded him in death. Mr. Norton retired from Union Carbide. Following...
Howard Point
Jan 22, 2009
Howard Clayton ?Clay? Point, 80, died at 6:05 p.m. Jan. 22, 2009, at his residence. He was born Dec. 28, 1928, in Union City, Ind., to John J. and Ada Rebecca Taylor Point, who preceded him in death. On Dec. 10, 1949, he married Kathleen Link, who survives in Lima. Mr. Point retired from National Life Insurance Co., United Insurance...
Jean Brookman
Jan 21, 2009
Jean Brookman, 72, died at 4:20 p.m. Jan. 21, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center, surrounded by her loving family. She was born March 7, 1936, in Cloverdale to Leonard and Verena Brinkman Martin, who preceded her in death. On April 11 1959, she married John C. Brookman, who survives in Lima. Mrs. Brookman was a homemaker and had assisted...
Robert Nolan
Jan 20, 2009
Robert L. Nolan, 72, died at 8 a.m. Jan. 20, 2009, at his residence. He was born April 29, 1936, in Lima to Wilford and Mabel Weinmann Nolan, who preceded him in death. On March 5, 1984, he married Starlie J. Burkholder-Starr, who survives in Lima. Mr. Nolan retired as a maintenance supervisor from Lima Manor Nursing Home. He had...
Helen Taylor
Jan 20, 2009
Helen Lucille Taylor, 90, died at 1:40 p.m. Jan. 20, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born Jan. 10, 1919, in Lima to Patrick H. and Lena Mary Alberding Mooney, who preceded her in death. She married Charles Peter Taylor, who died Sept. 8, 1993. Mrs. Taylor had been a wrapper at a cigar factory. She helped her...
Charles Ellis
Jan 19, 2009
Charles Edwin Ellis, 90, died at 1:25 p.m. January 19, 2009, at VanCrest Health Care Center, Delphos, Ohio. He was born March 12, 1918, in Lafayette, Ohio to Harry P. and Myrtle I. Osborn Ellis, who preceded him in death. On July 3, 1938, he married Roweena ?Rosie? Conrad, who died October 26, 1987. On May 5, 1988, he married...
Carrie Davis
Jan 18, 2009
Carrie M. Davis, 82, died at 1:47 p.m. January 18, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born November 8, 1926, in Johnson County, Kentucky, to Walter A. and Marie Lyon Ross Sr., who preceded her in death. On March 12, 1943, in Paintsville, Kentucky, she married Willard Davis, who survives in Lima, Ohio. They had been married for...
Joan Dingledine
Jan 18, 2009
Joan Dingledine, 76, died at 5:22 a.m. January 18, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born October 27, 1932, in Lima, Ohio to Oscar and Eva Burgner Ward, who preceded her in death. On September 25, 1953, she married Morris Dingledine, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Dingledine retired from housekeeping at the Lima Baptist Temple. She was...
Mary Dershem
Jan 15, 2009
Mary Lou Dershem. 78, died at 2:46 a.m. January 15, 2009, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born November 24, 1930, in Allen County, Ohio to Walter B. and Tracy Van Pelt McClain , who preceded her in death. On July 3, 1948, she married Adrian D. ?Abe? Dershem, who died October 6, 2000. Mrs. Dershem retired from financial...
Clinton Hurd,
Jan 13, 2009
Clinton Hurd Jr., 83, died at 5 a.m. January 13, 2009, at the Villa at Baton Rouge, Lima, Ohio. He was born July 21, 1925, in Cairo, Illinois, to Clinton and Virgalee McNish Hurd, who preceded him in death. On March 17, 1951, he married Lady Alice Cooper, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Hurd served in the Navy as...
Virginia Rupe- Cox-Lambert Davenport
Jan 11, 2009
Virginia L. Rupe Cox Lambert Davenport, 89, died at 2:58 p.m. January 11, 2009, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Services Community. She was born October 3, 1919, in Eno, Ohio to Chester and Garnet Roush Rupe, who preceded her in death. She married Franklin Cox and then Lawrence Lambert. In 1968, she married Homer ?Hank? Davenport, who died in 1984....
Pamela Clawson
Jan 10, 2009
Pamela E. Clawson, 47, died at 5:31 p.m. January 10, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born August 24, 1961, in Lima, Ohio to Ted and Elaine Clawson, who survive in Spencerville, Ohio. Miss Clawson was a homemaker. She loved hummingbirds. Survivors also include a brother, Jeff (Teresa) Clawson, of Westminster, Ohio; and three nephews and several aunts...
Leon Meyer
Jan 10, 2009
Leon L. ?Skip? Meyer, 76, died at 5:45 p.m. January 10, 2009, at St. Rita?s Medical Center, Lima, Ohio. He was born August 20, 1932, in Wabash, Ohio to Orland and Mary Fetters Meyer, who preceded him in death. On July 31, 1987, he married Barbara Knipe, who survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Meyer retired in 1991 after 32 years...
Oren Dickason
Jan 6, 2009
Oren E. Dickason, 95, died at 4:20 a.m. Jan. 6, 2009, at Lima Convalescent Home. He was born Aug. 29, 1913, in Lima to Oren and Bertha Dicus Dickason, who preceded him in death. On Dec. 29, 1939, he married Margaret S. Steiner, who preceded him in death. Mr. Dickason was a lawyer and had practiced law in Lima for...
Edna Matter
Jan 6, 2009
Edna K. Matter, 97, died at 9:38 a.m. Jan. 6, 2009, at Sunrise Assisted Living, Gahanna. She was born Dec. 11, 1911, in Jackson Township, near Beaverdam, to William H. and Emma K. Bridges Cool, who preceded her in death. On July 16, 1933, in Springfield, she married Raymond O. Matter, who died Feb. 22, 1994. Mrs. Matter was a...
Judith Hendrickson
Jan 3, 2009
Judith ?Judy? Hendrickson, 61, died at 3:40 p.m. January 3, 2009, at her residence. She was born December 12, 1947, in Buckhannon, W.Virginia, to Frank and Lillian Quick Perrine. Her father preceded her in death; her mother survives in Lima, Ohio. Mrs. Hendrickson was a military wife and worked at various places as her husband moved around. She loved to...
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