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Teresa A Glassburn
Mar 1, 2017
Teresa Ann Glassburn, 52, of Gallipolis, passed away on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at her residence. She was born January 11, 1965 in Delaware, Ohio, daughter of Rev. Charles T. Glassburn and the late Bernice J. Meeks Glassburn. Teresa was a North Gallia High School graduate, a homemaker, and member of Garden of My Heart Tabernacle of Bidwell, Ohio. Surviving...
Eleanor Sue Porter
Mar 1, 2017
Eleanor Sue Porter, 79, of Bidwell, departed this life to her heavenly home on Wednesday, March 1, 2017 at her residence. Eleanor Sue was born May 6, 1937 in Wellsburg, West Virginia to Losia Lazetta Newell Givens and Richard Arthur Givens. She graduated from Cheshire High School in 1955. Eleanor Sue was married to John P. Porter for 51 years...
Georgia Jara Valencia
Feb 19, 2017
Georgia Jara Valencia, 88, of Pt. Pleasant, West Virginia, passed away on Sunday, February 19, 2017 in Gallipolis. She was born February 22, 1928 in Iloilo City, Phillipines, daughter of the late Marcelo and Consuelo Jara Obregon. Georgia married Willie G. Valencia Sr. and he preceded her in death. She was retired from Mason County Schools as a Pt. Pleasant...
Mable M Roush
Feb 13, 2017
Mable M. Roush, 85, of Gallipolis, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2017 at her residence. She was born August 25, 1931 in Casstown, Miami County, Ohio, daughter of the late John S. and Mary Belle Waugh Smith. Mable married George E. Roush and he preceded her in death on August 26, 2013. Mable had been employed at Holzer Hospital,...
Betty Leona Crouse
Feb 11, 2017
Betty Leona Crouse, 88, of Gallipolis, Ohio passed away on Saturday, February 11, 2017 at Walnut Creek Nursing Home in Kettering, Ohio. She was born on July 30, 1928 in Guyandotte, West Virginia, daughter of the late Brady and Belva Martin Angel. Betty was a teacher and an elementary school principal in the Mason County Schools in West Virginia. She...
Chera Michele Beaver Johnson
Feb 10, 2017
Chera Michele Beaver Johnson, 31, of Gallipolis, Ohio passed away on Friday, February 10, 2017 at Riverside Methodist Hospital. She was born on December 20, 1985 in Gallipolis, Ohio, daughter of Michael and Tarissa Beaver who survive her. Chera is also survived by her husband, Andrew Le Johnson; children, Audrie Marie, Piston Eugene, and Jessalyn Danni; sister Derecia (Bastiaan) Aarts;...
Farrell Rossiter
Feb 9, 2017
Farrell Rossiter, 76, of Crown City, Ohio passed away at his residence. He was born on March 27, 1940 in Gallia County, Ohio, son of the late Stanley and Lennie A. Boster Rossiter. He was self-employed. He is survived by two daughters, two sisters, Faye (Bobby) Unroe of Gallipolis and Beatrice Rossiter of Crown City, two brothers, Richard Rossiter of...
Jason F. Sommer
Feb 8, 2017
Jason F. Sommer, 49, of Gallipolis, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at his residence. He was born April 30, 1967 in Gallipolis, son of the late Jon Michael Sommer and Janice McKenzie. Jason was married to Tammi Comer Sommer and she survives him. He was a 1985 graduate of GAHS and was a carpenter and excavator. Surviving are...
William Eugene Siders
Feb 8, 2017
William Eugene Siders, 67, of Gallipolis, Ohio went home to be with the Lord on February 8, 2017. He was born on February 26, 1949 son of the late William and Virginia Patterson Siders. William was also preceded in death by his foster parents, Junior and Effie Siders, brother Earl Siders, two sisters, Irene Martin and Vickie Long, nephews Jackie...
Howard E. Gruber
Feb 8, 2017
Howard E. Gruber, 77, of Cheshire, passed away on Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at his residence. He was born June 12, 1939 in Marion, Ohio, son of the late John C. and Rosalie Graff Gruber. Howard married Gerry L. Handley on April 2, 1983 and she survives him. He was a graduate of Marion Harding High School. He was retired...
Maxine Boggs
Feb 5, 2017
Maxine Boggs, 93, of Florida, formerly of Gallipolis, passed away on February 5, 2017 in Florida. She was born June 9, 1923 in Gallipolis, daughter of the late Ira and Addie Rose Shato. Maxine was married to James L. Boggs and he preceded her in death on February 5, 2004. Surviving are grandchildren, Shari (David ) Sheets of Plant City,...
Carl S. Cheney
Jan 30, 2017
Carl S. Cheney, 85, of Gallipolis, passed away on Monday, January 30, 2017 at Holzer Senior Care Center. Carl was born November 1, 1931 in Gallipolis, son of the late John L. and Georgia Hilton Cheney. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps serving during the Korean conflict. Carl was a retired school bus driver and a TPW...
Clyde Elmer Elliott
Jan 27, 2017
Clyde Elmer Elliott, 81, of Scottown, Ohio, Passed away on Friday, January 27, 2017 at the Abbyshire Nursing Home, Bidwell, Ohio at 9:40 p.m. He was born on August 5, 1935 in Huntington, WV, son of the late Clyde and Zella Fulks Elliott. In addition to his parent, Clyde was preceded in death by a brothers Ferrell Elliott and Steven...
Virgie Lucille Carter
Jan 25, 2017
Virgie Lucille Carter, age 93, of the Cadmus Community passed away after a short illness on Wednesday, January 25, 2017. She was born in Guyan Township, October 10, 1923, the daughter of the late Chauncey E. and Iva Suthers Harrison. Lucille attended Low Gap Elementary School and graduated as her class valedictorian from Mercerville High School in 1942. She married...
Homer Jennings Halley
Jan 20, 2017
Homer Jennings Halley, 101, of Gallipolis, Ohio went home to be with the Lord, on Friday, January 20, 2017 at his residence. Homer was born on November 27, 1915 in Gallia County, Ohio son of the late Tracy Morgan Halley and Ella G. Brumfield Halley. He was a farmer and a construction worker, and an avid Cincinnati Reds and Ohio...
Helen L. Holley
Jan 18, 2017
Helen L. Holley, 76, of Gallipolis, Ohio went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, January 18, 2017 at the Holzer Medical Center. Helen was born in Gallia County, daughter of the late Hollis and Follie M. Cox Brown. She was employed at Arbors at Gallipolis as a Rehab Specialist for 36 years. Helen was a member of the...
David Lee Rutherford
Jan 16, 2017
David Lee Rutherford, 73, of Gallipolis, Ohio passed away on Monday, January 16, 2017 at the Holzer Medical Center. David was born on October 1, 1943 in Lincoln County, West Virginia, son of the late James Frank and Myrtle Lee Burdette Rutherford. He retired from the A.E.P. Philip Sporn Power Plant. In addition to his parents he was preceded in...
Thelma L. Elliott
Jan 13, 2017
Thelma L. Elliott, 93, of Gallipolis, Ohio passed away on Friday, January 13, 2017 at the Emogene Dolin Hospice House in Huntington, West Virginia. Thelma was born on March 4, 1923 in Circleville, Ohio daughter of the late John R. and Pearl (Boster) Russell. Her family moved back to Mudsoc, Gallia County in 1927. Thelma retired after 33 years of...
Lana Sue Wasem
Jan 11, 2017
Lana Sue “Raven Eyes” Wasem, 70, of Gallipolis, passed away on Wednesday, January 11, 2017 at her residence. She was born September 30, 1946 in Columbus, Ohio, daughter of the late Carl R. Wasem and Betty Workman Wasem who survives her. Also surviving are her children, Dawn Ward, Brock Cash and Brett Cash, all of Gallipolis; four grandchildren, Misty, Brandon...
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