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...
Helen Bagley
Jan 24, 2015
Helen Margaret Elizabeth (Bricker) Bagley, 101, of Van Wert died on January 24, 2015, at the Van wert Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born March 13, 1913, in Payne, Ohio, the daughter of the late Daniel A. and Emma B. (Marquardt) Bricker. The family moved to Convoy when she was four years old. The day of her birth was...
Lana Lautzenheiser
Jan 24, 2015
Lana Lou Lautzenheiser, 63, of Van Wert and formerly of Ohio City, died at 5 a.m., Saturday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on November 4, 1951, in Willshire, the daughter of the late Victor Roland and Mary Juanita (Shinn) Lautzenheiser. Family survivors include two brothers, Ronnie J. Lautzenheiser of Convoy and Roy Lautzenheiser of St....
Stephen Dailey
Jan 18, 2015
Stephen Brent Dailey, 63, of Van Wert, died at 9:17 a.m., Sunday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born on January 14, 1952, in Van Wert, the son of the late Betty (Miller) Dailey and Thomas Dailey who survives in Van Wert. Steve married the former Leilani L. Krieger who also survives. Other family members include his...
Alta Zinn
Jan 17, 2015
Alta Eileen Zinn, 93, of Van Wert, died at 8:34 a.m., Saturday at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on February 9, 1921, in Hoaglin Township, the daughter of the late Albertus "Bert" and Caroline (Akom) Bashore. On October 27, 1946, she married Gale Willard Zinn who preceded her in death on June 1, 2010. She was...
Tony Swander
Jan 16, 2015
Tony Allan Swander, 55, died at 7:22 a.m., Friday at the St. Rita's Medical Center in Lima. He was born on August 9, 1959, the son of the late Paul W. and Rhea Bernice (Boroff) Swander. One June 28, 1988, he married the former Lori L. Knittle-Delgado who survives in Rockford. Other family members include his step-children, Ginny (Clint)...
David Hoverman
Jan 8, 2015
David A. Hoverman, 74, of Van Wert, died at 9:53 p.m., Wednesday at the Van Wert Manor Nursing Home. He was born on December 25, 1940, in Fostoria, Ohio, the son of the late Doyt Russell and Gertrude G. (Kreischer) Hoverman. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Danny Hoverman. Family survivors include two brothers, Richard A....
Tammy Tribolet
Jan 8, 2015
Tammy Marie "Mammy" (Blackmore) Tribolet, 55 of Van Wert, died at 10:04 a.m., Thursday, at the CHP Inpatient Hospice Center. She was born on June 15, 1959, in Hampton, Virginia. She is survived by her mother, Peggy L. Parsons of Van Wert and father and step-mother, Jack R. (Gwenda) Blackmore of Van Wert. On May 13, 1987, she married...
