Obituaries
Alice Beeson
Jan 26, 2008
Alice E. ?Betty? Beeson, 83, died at 10:15 a.m. January 26, 2008, at The Ridge at Shawnee. She was born August 4, 1924, in Lima, Ohio to Louis T. and Leona B. McDonel Vermillion, who preceded her in death. On March 6, 1954, she married Thomas E. Beeson, who died October 26, 2006. Mrs. Beeson had been an optical assistant...
Richard Stotts,
Jan 23, 2008
Richard C. Stotts Sr. 60, died at 6:15 a.m. January 23, 2008, at St. Rita?s Putnam County Ambulatory Care Center, Ottawa, from a massive heart attack. He was born August 15, 1947, in Lima, Ohio to Wilbur C. Stotts and Victoria Jones Stotts Armentrout. His father preceded him in death. His mother and stepfather, Franklin Armentrout, survive in Lima, Ohio....
Marilyn Risner
Jan 23, 2008
Marilyn ?Marie? Risner 72, died at 9:30 a.m. January 23, 2008, at Lima Manor Nursing Home. She was born October 11, 1935, in Idaho to Lawrence and Dorothy Oatman Nichols, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Risner had been a nurse?s aide. She enjoyed playing cards with her friends and swimming at the YWCA with ?the girls.? Survivors include three...
James Ehresman
Jan 23, 2008
James Lee "Jim" Ehresman, 64, died at 7 p.m. Jan. 23, 2008, at St. Rita's Medical Center. He was born June 25, 1943, in Bloomington, Ill., to William and Josephine Thompson Ehresman. His father preceded him in death. His mother survives in Elida. On June 12, 1965, he married Jacqueline J. "Jackie" Black, who survives in Lima. Mr. Ehresman was...
Mildred Baka
Jan 22, 2008
Mildred H. ?Millie? Baka 78, died at 2:25 p.m. January 22, 2008, at her residence. She was born January 13, 1930, in the Bronx, New York City, to George and Rosa Sestorak Baka, who preceded her in death. Miss Baka retired from Westinghouse Electric Corp. where she began working in 1965. She was a member of St. Gerard Catholic Church....
Robert Coon
Jan 19, 2008
Robert D. ?Rob? Coon 46, died at 5:51 a.m. January 19, 2008, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born August 27, 1961, in Lima, Ohio to Raymond and Irene Eberle Coon. His father preceded him in death. His mother survives in Lima, Ohio. On January 21, 1998, in Lima, Ohio, he married Kim C. Weidel, who survives in Lima,...
Roma Thompson Bronson-Vermillion
Jan 19, 2008
Roma Janet ?Cobby? Thompson Bronson-Vermillion 50, died at 8:45 a.m. January 19, 2008, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born January 16, 1958, in Lima, Ohio to Richard Guy and Mary Margaret Martin Thompson,Sr., who preceded her in death. On July 4, 1991, she married Glen ?Dale? Vermillion in Circleville, Indiana, and he survives in Lima, Ohio. Her first...

Lewis Gaskill
Jan 19, 2008
Lewis Arthur ?Art? Gaskill 78, died at 1:20 p.m. January 19, 2008, at his residence surrounded by his loving wife and children. He was born May 23, 1929, in Spencerville, Ohio to Earl Owen and Frances Huber Gaskill, who preceded him in death. His wife, Barbara Gaskill, survives in Lima, Ohio. Mr. Gaskill was an automatic equipment operator at Ford...
Phyllis Priddy Smith
Jan 18, 2008
Phyllis M. Priddy Smith 85, died at 9:05 p.m. January 18, 2008, at her residence. She was born April 8, 1922, in Cleveland to Mildred J. Luther Frese. Her stepfather was Edward Frese. Both parents preceded her in death. On Sepember 23, 1929, she married O.J. ?Bud? Priddy in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He died in 1980. She the married Alonzo...
Boyd Hayes,
Jan 13, 2008
Boyd Hayes Jr. 83, died at 11:45 p.m. January 13, 2008, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. He was born January 14, 1924, in Exeter, Virginia, to Boyd, Sr., and Para Katherine Christian Hayes, who preceded him in death. On December 14, 1941, he married Nannie Ellen Jackson, who died April 4, 2005. Mr. Hayes retired as a supervisor from Textron,...
Vernon Schulien
Jan 11, 2008
Vernon H. Schulien 87, died at 8:35 a.m. January 11, 2008, at Springview Manor Nursing Home. He was born July 31, 1920, in Delphos, Ohio to Hilary Joseph and Lena Wells Schulien, who preceded him in death. On June 16, 1956, he married Marjorie Quinn, who died June 9, 1975. Mr. Schulien opened Schulien Pure Oil Service Station in 1939...
Mildred Adams
Jan 11, 2008
Mildred Marie Adams 94, died at 8:20 p.m. January 11, 2008, at Lima Manor Nursing Home. She was born April 21, 1913, in Piqua, Ohio to Charles and Amelia Bryan Spayd, who preceded her in death. On October 8, 1934, she married Charles E. Adams, who died January 11, 1990. Mrs. Adams was a homemaker. She was a member of...

Eddie Miller
Jan 11, 2008
Eddie Lee Miller 65, of St. Petersburg, Florida, formerly of Lima, Ohio, died January 11, 2008, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was born September 22, 1942, in Lima, Ohio to Wilma Maxine Miller Yoakam, who preceded him in death. Mr. Miller had been a self-employed painter/contractor in Lima, Ohio until 1972. He has lived in Florida for the last 35...
Mary Akers Baxter
Jan 9, 2008
Mary E. Akers Baxter, 83, died at 5:05 a.m. Jan. 9, 2008, at Triumph Hospital, Lima. She was born May 13, 1924, in Paynesville, Ky., to Thomas and Lulu Stanbaugh Akers, who preceded her in death. Mrs. Baxter retired from Ex-Cell-O/Air Foil Textron, after 33 years. Survivors include three sons, David Baxter, of Santa Cruz, Calif., Tom (Mary) Baxter, of...
Dorothy Grimm
Jan 7, 2008
Dorothy M. Grimm, 83, died at 9:30 p.m. Jan. 7, 2008, at Baton Rouge Senior Health Facility. She was born May 22, 1924, in Allen County to James T. and Cecil M. Mowery Miller, who preceded her in death. On April 15, 1944, she married Lloyd D. Grimm, who survives in Elida. Mrs. Grimm was a homemaker. She was a...
Rosemary Smith
Jan 1, 2008
Rosemary Smith 87, died at 2:55 p.m. January 1, 2008, at Lima Memorial Health System. She was born January 2, 1920, in Lima, Ohio to Orville and Margaret Huber Bame, who preceded her in death. On July 2, 1938, she married David James Smith, who died November 17, 1999. Mrs. Smith had been a secretary for McBride & Kingsberry, Dr....
Kathleen Adams
Dec 29, 2007
Kathleen Gay Adams 77, died at 6:21 a.m. December 29, 2007, at St. Rita?s Medical Center. She was born December 11, 1930, in Rantoul, Ill., to Ralph and Erma Marshall Mc-Carty. Her father preceded her in death. Her mother survives in Dayton, Ohio. She was married to Oscar H. Adams, who died in March 2006. Mrs. Adams was retired from...
Gertrude Flarida
Dec 29, 2007
Gertrude Flarida 81, died at midnight December 29, 2007, at her residence. She was born May 26, 1926, in Royalton, Kentucky, to Vinson and Maudie Risner Marshall, who preceded her in death. She was married to Etna ?Hank? Hendrickson in 1955. He died in 1983. In 1990, she married Gail Flarida, who died in 2001. Mrs. Flarida retired from Lima...
Loella Ridgeway
Dec 29, 2007
Loella M. Ridgeway 85, died at 5:06 a.m. December 29, 2007, at her residence. She was born October 29, 1922, in Findlay, Ohio to H. Austin and Hulda L. Loveridge De-Haven, who preceded her in death. On August 17, 1941, she married Lowell P. Stewart, who died in 1946. She later married Joseph M. Ridgeway, who preceded her in death....
Frances LOVELL
Dec 29, 2007
FRANCES RUSSELL LOVELL, 93, died at 4:50 p.m. December 29, 2007, at Otterbein-Cridersville Retirement Community near Cridersville, Ohio. She was born November 16, 1914, in Wallonia, Kentucky, to Jesse Sterling and Ellen Gertrude P?Poole Russell, who have preceded him in death. She had been married to Lloyd Lovell. Mrs. Lovell was a school teacher, having taught home economics in Trigg...
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