Obituaries

Jeanette M. Rawlins

Jeanette M. Rawlins

Jan 5, 2011

Jeanette M. Rawlins, age 71, of Edon, Ohio, died at 7:05 P.M. on Wednesday, January 5, 2011, at Parkview Memorial Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana , where she was a patient. She was a graduate of Edon High School and was employed as a cook at Harborside Healthcare of Northwest Ohio in Bryan for ten years. She was also a...

Iris A. Moore

Iris A. Moore

Jan 4, 2011

Iris A. Moore, age 81, of Edon, Ohio, died on Tuesday, January 4, 2011, at 4:11 P.M., shortly after admittance to Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Montpelier, Ohio. Mrs. Moore was a 1947 graduate of Metz High School and attended Wayne University College of Cosmetology. She was employed by Lincoln National Life in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and retired in...

Lelamae Newman

Lelamae Newman

Jan 3, 2011

Lelamae Newman, age 91, of Edon, Ohio, died at 5:30 P.M. on Monday, January 3, 2011, at Hillside Country Living, near Bryan, Ohio, where she was a resident. A lifelong resident of the Edon area, she was a graduate of Edon High School, a member of the Edon United Methodist Church and the United Methodist Women. She was employed by...

Burton Hazlett

Burton Hazlett

Jan 1, 2011

E. Burton "Burt" Hazlett, Sr., age 91, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 6:35 A.M. on Saturday, January 1, 2011, in his home after an extended illness. Mr. Hazlett was employed by the G.C. Murphy Company, starting at the age of seventeen. He came to Bryan and opened the local G.C. Murphy store in 1957, and remained as its manager until...

Richard E. Harman

Richard E. Harman

Dec 28, 2010

Richard E. Harman, age 74, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 12:43 P.M. on Tuesday, December 28, 2010, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, where he was a patient, after an illness of three weeks. He was a graduate of Edgerton High School and served in the United States Army in post war Korea. Mr. Harman was employed as...

Christine I.M. McMaster

Christine I.M. McMaster

Dec 26, 2010

Memorial Mass for Christine I. McMaster, formally of Bryan, Ohio, who at age 90 died at 3:07 A.M. on Sunday, December 26, 2010, in Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan, where she had been a patient following a brief illness. She will finally be memorialized at a Mass at St. Patrick Church, Bryan, Ohio on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at...

Catherine M. Smith

Catherine M. Smith

Dec 25, 2010

Catherine M. Smith, age 83, of Butler, Indiana, and formerly a longtime resident of Edon, Ohio, died at 2:45 A.M. on Saturday, December 25, 2010, at DeKalb Memorial Hospital in Auburn, Indiana, where she was a patient, after a brief illness. Catherine M. Smith was born on December 14, 1927, in Hicksville, Ohio, the daughter of Lafayett and Harriett (Carrell)...

Vesta M. Bowen

Vesta M. Bowen

Dec 22, 2010

Vesta M. Bowen, age 81, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 11:15 A.M. on Wednesday, December 22, 2010, in her home after a brief illness. Mrs. Bowen was formerly employed by Knisley Cleaners in Edgerton for many years, Edgerton Metals, and Syncro-Tech, also in Edgerton. In recent years she was a private duty home health care provider for many elderly in...

Donna L. Rowe

Donna L. Rowe

Dec 21, 2010

Donna L. Rowe, age 72, of Edgerton, Ohio, died on Tuesday, December 21, 2010, at 1:25 A.M. at Community Hospitals and Wellness Center in Bryan, Ohio, where she was a patient after an extended illness. Mrs. Rowe was an active member of the Edgerton United Methodist Church throughout the years, serving as Church Historian and teaching Sunday School and Bible...

Jack J. Jackson

Jack J. Jackson

Dec 19, 2010

Jack J. Jackson, age 92, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 12:19 A.M. on Sunday, December 19, 2010, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan after a brief illness. Mr. Jackson was employed by Pet Milk in Bryan and retired with thirty-five years of service. He was a faithful member of Faith United Methodist Church in Bryan, where he was...

Richard V. Streeter

Richard V. Streeter

Dec 16, 2010

Richard V. Streeter, age 86, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 16, 2010, at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan, Ohio, where he was a patient after a brief illness. Mr. Streeter was employed as a Rolling Mill operator with Bryan Metals and retired in 1987, with thirty-two years of service. He briefly served in the...

Phyllis E. Dietrich

Phyllis E. Dietrich

Dec 16, 2010

Phyllis E. Dietrich, age 74, of Williams Center, Ohio, died at 5:44 P.M. on Thursday, December 16, 2010, at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where she was a patient, after a two-month illness. Mrs. Dietrich was a 1954 graduate of Edon High School and was a longtime 4-H advisor. She attended Calvary United Methodist Church in Williams Center, Ohio,...

Helene Houck

Helene Houck

Dec 10, 2010

Helene Houck, age 95, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 5:40 P.M. on Friday, December 10, 2010, at Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center, where she was a resident. Mrs. Houck was a 1933 graduate of Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Ohio, and moved to Bryan in 1937. She was employed as manager of the dress department at the Charles Store in Bryan,...

Lueray Weaver

Lueray Weaver

Dec 9, 2010

Lueray Weaver, age 77, formerly of Garrett and Butler, Indiana, died at 1:35 A.M. on Friday, December 10, 2010, at the Laurels of Defiance, where she was a resident after an extended illness. Lueray Waever was born on January 16, 1933, in Philippi, West Virginia, the daughter of Stanley and Pearl (Bryan) Delauder. She married Burlin L. "Jimmie" Weaver in...

Richard C. Boucher

Richard C. Boucher

Dec 7, 2010

Richard C. Boucher, age 93, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 10:50 A.M. on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at Hillside Country Living near Bryan, Ohio, where he was a resident. He was a graduate of Bryan High School and later graduated from Tri-State University with a degree in mechanical engineering. He joined the Bryan Canning Company in 1939 as a partner...

Freda Mae Polter

Freda Mae Polter

Dec 7, 2010

Freda Mae (Skeens) Polter, age 75, of West Unity, Ohio, died at 11:50 P.M. on Tuesday, December 7, 2010, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where she was a patient after a brief illness. Mrs. Polter was employed by Mohawk Tools in Montpelier, Ohio, and then by Spangler Candy Company, in Bryan, Ohio, for ten years until...

Ialeene Theisen

Ialeene Theisen

Dec 6, 2010

E. Ialeene Theisen, age 99, former longtime resident of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:40 P.M. on Monday, December 6, 2010, at Betz Nursing Home in Auburn, Indiana, where she was a resident. She was employed for many years at Spangler Candy Company in Bryan, Ohio, retiring in 1978. She also attended the Edgerton United Methodist Church. E. Ialeene Theisen was...

Mary R. Kimpel

Mary R. Kimpel

Dec 5, 2010

Mary R. Kimpel, age 85, of Edgerton, Ohio, died at 9:00 P.M. on Sunday, December 5, 2010, at the home of her niece, in Edgerton, after an extended illness. Mrs. Kimpel was employed in customer service and office administration with General Telephone Company, retiring with twenty years of service. She was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Edgerton,...

Miriam (VanBuskirk) Laytart

Miriam (VanBuskirk) Laytart

Dec 3, 2010

Miriam Nancy Rosalita (VanBuskirk) Laytart, age 41, of Warsaw, Indiana, died at 5:57 A.M. on Friday, December 3, 2010, shortly after admittance to Kosciusko County Hospital in Warsaw. Miriam was a 1987 graduate of Bryan High School and had formerly been employed by L.S. Ayres and Barbara’s New Beginnings in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was a former member of St....

Kingston Ray Bays

Kingston Ray Bays

Nov 30, 2010

Kingston Ray Bays, infant son of Heidi Marie Funk, of Montpelier and and Jesse Steven Bays, of Toledo, Ohio, was stillborn at 2:47 A.M. on Monday, November 30, 2010, at Toledo Hospital. He is survived by his parents, one brother, Kea’Veon Funk, his maternal grandparents, Shirley Funk, of Defiance, Ohio and Tony Funk, of Bryan, Ohio, his paternal grandparents, Maxine...