Mary Krugh
May 16, 2015
Mary Lue Krugh, 86, of Ohio City, passed away at 11:47 p.m., Saturday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center in Van Wert. She was born on July 9, 1928, in Ohio City, the daughter of the late John Elroy and Grace Elma (High) Prichard. On September 13, 1947, she married Ned D. Krugh who survives. Other family members include...
Ray Burk
May 10, 2015
Ray M. Burk, 67, of Pleasant Township. passed away Sunday evening shortly after arrival at the Van Wert County Hospital. He was born on September 18, 1947, in Scott, Ohio, the son of the late Richard and Thelma (Schwartz) Burk. On September 30, 1967, he married the former Carol L. DeMaderios who survives. Other family members include two sons,...
Darlene Ditto
May 7, 2015
Darlene N. Ditto, 81, went to be with Jesus Thursday morning, May 7, 2015, at Woodcrest of Decatur. She was born on September 4, 1933, in Guymon, Oklahoma. She was the 13th of fifteen children born to the late Gustave W. and Della (McCaskey) Sinning. During the Dust Bowl, she moved with her family to Mountain Grove, Missouri, when...
Marjorie Arn
Apr 27, 2015
Marjorie Ruth Arn, 93, of rural Convoy, passed away peacefully at 2:40 p.m., Monday at the Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on December 8, 1921, in Ohio City to William O. and Ruth Marie (Stewart) Blush. On August 26, 1940, she married Walter H. Arn who died on January 19, 1997. She later married David Roger...
James Foster
Apr 17, 2015
James Michael Foster, 60, of Van Wert, died at 1:10 p.m., Friday at St. Joseph Hospital in Fort Wayne. He was born on March 3, 1955, the son of the late Ralph Albert and Betty Catherine (Case) Foster. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Eugene Wayne Foster and Marvin Lee Foster. Family survivors include two sisters...
Fritz Stewart
Apr 3, 2015
Frances M. "Fritzi" Stewart, 83, of Convoy, passed away at 6:20 p.m., Friday at the home of her daughter near Fort Wayne. She was born on January 6, 1932, in Van Wert County, the daughter of the late H. Robert and Dorothy (Gordon) Hummel. On May 5, 1951, she married Bryan A. Stewart who preceded her in death on...
Nancy Jo Laukhuf
Mar 31, 2015
Nancy Jo Laukhuf, 64 of Paulding, Ohio, died at 3:06 p.m., Tuesday March 31, 2015 at the Bucyrus Community Hospital in Bucyrus, Ohio. She was born on August 20, 1950 in Paulding, Ohio, the daughter of the late Ernest and Iva (Leonard) Adkins. On August 24, 1968, she married David L. Laukhuf, who survives at the residence. Nancy had...
Janet O'Neill
Mar 23, 2015
Janet Louise (Shaffer) O'Neill, 73, of rural Middle Point, went home to be with her Lord and Savior at 2:09 p.m., Monday, at the Van Wert Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on July 24, 1941, near Rockford, the daughter of the late Hoyt and Edith (Whittenbarger) Shaffer. On November 18, 1961, she married T. James O'Neill who survives....
Betty Owens
Mar 16, 2015
Betty Louise Owens, 94, of Van Wert, died at 1:20 p.m., Monday at VanCrest of Convoy. She was born on November 3, 1920, in Adams County, Indiana, the daughter of the late Joseph William and Pearl (Imler) Feasby. On June 15, 1946, she married Dale Gribler who died on June 15, 1957. She married Jacob Owens, Sept. 4, 1974,...
Donald Sutton
Mar 15, 2015
Donald C. Sutton, 85, of Liberty Township, died at 11:25 a.m., Sunday at the Van Wert County Hospital. He was born on June 26, 1929, in Van Wert County, the son of the late Archie Clifford and Bertha Mae (Farling) Sutton. On December 11, 1948, he married his high school sweetheart and love of his life, the former Darlene...
Douglas Holman
Mar 15, 2015
Dr. Douglas N. Holman, 70, of Van Wert, died at 4:15 p.m., Sunday at the St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima. He was born on September 17, 1944, in Defiance, Ohio, the son of the late Virgil and Erma (Kennedy) Holman. On December 10, 2000, he married the former Donna Kyle who survives. Other family members include his daughter...
Mark Ainsworth
Mar 11, 2015
Mark Allen Ainsworth, 59, of Ohio City, passed away at 8:58 p.m., Wednesday at the Van Wert County Hospital. He was born on October 11, 1955, in Ohio City, with son of the late Hugh V. and Martha Helen (Wiseman) Ainsworth. On April 24, 1977, he married the former Deborah Ellen Lehman who survives. Other family members include two...
Louis Ryan
Mar 9, 2015
Louis James Ryan, 99, of Convoy, died at 9:25 a.m., Monday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born on December 5, 1915, in Convoy, the son of the late Walter and Bessie (Baxter) Ryan. On June 14, 1941, he married the former Eileen Louise Weck who preceded him in death on November 28, 1998. He was also...
James Johnson
Mar 7, 2015
James A. Johnson, 69 of Middle Point, Ohio, died at 8:20 a.m., Saturday March 7, 2015 at the Lima Manor Nursing Home, only recently being moved there (Lima Manor) after spending seven months at St. Rita's, the Cleveland Clinic and Kindred Hospital in Lima following complications from surgery. He was born on March 22, 1945 in Massillon, Ohio, and...
Gaylord Taylor
Mar 4, 2015
Gaylord Lynn Taylor, 88, of Van Wert, died at 4:32 p.m., Wednesday at his residence. He was born on April 15, 1926, in Ohio City, the son of the late Cecil Calvert and Florence Lillian (Shindeldecker) Taylor. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Coral Evelyn Marbaugh and brother, Maurice Calvert Taylor. Family survivors include his son...
Cecile O'Daffer
Feb 28, 2015
Cecile Marie O'Daffer, 98, of Middle Point, died at 4 p.m., Saturday, shortly after arrival at Van Wert County Hospital. She was born on May 27, 1916, in Auglaize County, the daughter of the late Melbourne and Nettie (Warmon) Overley. On February 15, 1936, she married William O'Daffer who preceded her in death in 1974. She was also preceded...
Susan Leiendecker
Feb 17, 2015
Susan Joan Leiendecker, 57, of Venedocia, died at 5:43 p.m., Tuesday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne. She was Born on October 27, 1957, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of the late Robert Arthur Bridgman and Joan (Cusmano) Van Metre. She was formerly married to Thomas L. Leiendecker of Ohio City. Family survivors include her four daughters, Brandy Leiber...
Dana Plotts
Feb 7, 2015
Dana Ray Plotts, 71, of Van Wert, died at 8:30 p.m., Saturday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born on July 13, 1943, in Mandale, the son of the late Emmett Francis and Hazel Fern (Lieber) Plotts. He was also preceded in death by a sister, Ruth Brown and three brothers, Paul, Harvey and Gary Plotts. Family...
Iola Huffine
Jan 26, 2015
Sumter, SC Iola May Roth Huffine, 96, widow of John Phelan Huffine, died Monday, January 26, 2015 at Tuomey Regional Medical Center. Born in Van Wert, OH, she the daughter of the late Charles Martin Roth and the late Ethel P. Mace Roth. Mrs. Huffine was a member of the Ohio City United Methodist Church in Ohio City, OH...
Blanche Bush
Jan 25, 2015
Blanche June (Hughes) Bush, 94, of Convoy, died at 10:24 a.m., Sunday at the Van Wert County Hospital. She was born on March 14, 1920, in Ranger, Texas, the daughter of the late Clark Chester and Allie Victoria (Hopkins) Hughes. Blanche traced her linage back three generations to Nancy Elizabeth Hopkins who assisted John Saunooke, a Cherokee Indian and...
