BUTLER: Mary Frances Stupka, age 17 passed away Tuesday, January 14, 2025. She was born September 12, 2007 in Parma to parents David and Janice (Rugan) Stupka. She was a junior at Clear Fork High School, and was currently a College Credit Plus Student at Ashland University. Mary was an excellent scholar who thrived academically. […]
Obituaries
Brian Judd
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.” James 1:17 Brian Judd, age 67, of Lexington, Ohio, passed peacefully on December 7, 2024, at Country Meadow Nursing Center in Bellville, succumbing to brain cancer. He […]
Ellen Connelly
Ellen Lousie (Wise) Connelly, age 75, passed away Thursday, January 16, 2025, in her home surrounded by those she loved most. Ellen was born March 24, 1949, to Robert E. and Rosemary M. (Eller) Wise. A 1967 graduate of Shelby Senior High School, Ellen attended the North Central State College in Mansfield, Ohio. On New […]
David Allen Carson
David Allen Carson, 67, of Lexington passed away peacefully, Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at Lexington Court Care Center. He was born on January 21, 1957, in Mt. Vernon, OH to the late Kathryn J. (Hughett) and Thomas W. Carson. He graduated from Madison High School in the class of 1975. Throughout his career he worked […]
Betty Clegg
Betty K. (Schmidt) Nething-Clegg, 78, passed away Thursday, January 16, 2025, at Avita Health System-Ontario. She was born October 3, 1946, one of two children, to the late Wilbert R. and Dorothy G. (Lohr) Schmidt in New Matamoras, OH. Betty grew up on the Ohio River. She graduated from River High School in Hannibal, OH. […]
Gerald “Jerry” Bickert
Gerald “Jerry” Arthur Bickert, 83, of Crestline, passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 16, 2025, at Crestline Nursing Home, surrounded by his loving family. Born on July 28, 1941, in Dayton, Ohio, he was the son of the late Henry and Margarete (Sharp) Bickert. At just two months old after the passing of his mother, […]
Clara Bachelder
Clara M. Hoover Bachelder, age 99, passed away on January 14th, 2025. She was born in Bellville, OH on July 31, 1925 to Lee and Irene Hoover and lived in the Bellville – Mansfield area all of her life. Upon the death of her parents, she was raised by her Aunt and Uncle, Artie and […]
Hazel Smith
Hazel Marie Smith, 95, resident of Shelby, passed away peacefully in her home Thursday, January 16, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on November 23, 1929, in Cleveland, Ohio and raised by her loving parents Leroy and Bernice (Horwith) Baum. A 1949 graduate of Savannah High School, she married the love of […]
Betty Bartley
Betty Bartley, 95 of Polk passed from this life on Wednesday evening, January 15, 2025 in University Hospitals Samaritan Medical Center. She was born on May 20, 1929 in Ashland County, the only child of the late Clair and Vera (nee Welch) Spencer. Betty graduated from Polk High School, Class of 1947. She married the […]
Laura Brown Milhoan
Laura Louise Brown Milhoan, age 85 of Ontario, went to meet her Savior on Monday, January 13, 2025 at Mercy Health-Willard Hospital in Willard, Ohio. Laura was born on December 17, 1939 to the late James Glenn and Veda Evelyn (Cain) Brown in East Chicago, Indiana. Laura got an associate degree from North Central State […]
