Obituaries
Tuscarawas County, Ohio Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Dover, Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio & Surrounding Areas
Diana L. Meese
Dec 10, 2009
Diana L. Meese, 55, of Massillon died Thursday, December 10, 2009 at her home surrounded by her loving family. She had retried from Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority after 15 years of service. Diana had also obtained her Realtors License and worked for Royal Estate Management. Born April 20, 1954 in Dover, Ohio she was a daughter of the late Gayle...
Martha Mae Reynolds
Dec 9, 2009
Martha Mae Reynolds, 83, of Milford, and a former resident of New Philadelphia, died Wednesday, December 9, 2009, in Cincinnati. Born June 10, 1926 in New Philadelphia, she was a daughter of the late Leo Emerson and Ida Mae Umstott McNeeley. Martha was a member of the First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia for seventy-eight years, fifty of them as...
Otto P. Kaiser
Dec 5, 2009
Otto P. Kaiser, 84, of Strasburg passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at Park Village Health Care Center following an extended illness. Born on December 30, 1924 in Woodsfield, Ohio he was the son of the late Henry and Rena Hughes Kaiser. He married his wife, Lillian Kahrig on April 18, 1959. Together they had four children. Otto was...
Beatrice Cato
Dec 4, 2009
Beatrice Cato, 92, of Dover, died Friday, Dec. 4, 2009, in Elyria Memorial Hospital, following an extended illness. Born Mar. 12, 1917 in Little Woods, Louisiana, she was the daughter of the late Quillie and Leona Davis Jackson. Beatrice attended school in Little Woods, and then moved to Ohio. In 1942, she married Luther E. Cato, Jr. in Dover. The...
Michael E. Kuecher
Dec 3, 2009
Michael E. Kuecher, 51, of Strasburg, Ohio died Thursday, December 3, 2009 in Aultman Hospital at Canton following a brief illness. Mike was a schoolteacher at Tusky Valley thru the Buckeye Career Center and had taught at Fairless High School in Navarre. Mike also coached Strasburg boys eighth grade basketball for many years and was an assistant coach for the...
Nadine L. Wagner
Dec 1, 2009
Nadine L. "Deanie" Wagner, 80, a life-long resident of Dover, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, in Park Village Health Care Center surrounded by her family. Born, May 17, 1929, on Chestnut St., she was a daughter of the late Ray and Opal Robinette Kreighbaum. Nadine graduated in 1949 from Dover High School and went to work for Marsh Industries, followed...
Denver E. Sowards
Nov 27, 2009
Denver E. Sowards, 72, of the Hennis Care Centre and formerly of Eberhart Rd. N.W., Dover died Friday, November 27, 2009 in Union Hospital following an extended illness. Denver was a retired employee of the former Republic Steel Company in Massillon. Born November 15, 1937 in Tango, West Virginia, he was the son of the late Oscar and Bertha Jeffreys...
Donald E. Ritter
Nov 23, 2009
Donald E. Ritter, 74, of Strasburg died Monday, November 23, 2009 at his home surrounded by his family. Donald retired as the manager of the Radiology Department at Union Hospital after 37 years of service. Born July 5, 1935 in North Lawrence, Ohio he was a son of the late Milton and Ruth Longworth Ritter. His brother, Ronald Ritter, also...
Agnes Marie Case
Nov 23, 2009
Agnes Marie Case, 83, of Uhrichsville, died on November 23, 2009 at Schoenbrunn Healthcare in New Philadelphia following an extended illness. Born on May 22, 1926 in Dover, she was the daughter of the late George and Susie Price Solley. She married the love of her life, Paul E. Case, on November 1, 1942. Paul preceded her in death on...
Angeline C. Amistadi
Nov 23, 2009
Angeline C. Amistadi, 81, of Dover passed away on Monday, November 23, 2009 at her home. She had retired from Reeves Steel and Mfg. Co. in Dover. Born July 22, 1928 in Dover she was a daughter of the late Guiseppi and Caterina Princiotta DiGiorgio. She was also preceded in death by a son, Adam Amistadi Jr.; granddaughter, Amber Nicole...
Janice Mae Pongrat
Nov 21, 2009
Janice Mae Pongrat, 77, of New Philadelphia passed away on Saturday, November 21, 2009 in Akron City Hospital. Born on March 31, 1932 she was the daughter of the late Edgar and Myrta Gartrell Beans. She graduated from New Philadelphia High School and later married the love of her life, Harry D. Pongrat on October 28, 1956. Together they had...
Mabel Edna Hoy
Nov 20, 2009
Mabel Edna Hoy, 95, of New Philadelphia, Ohio died Friday, November 20, 2009 in the New Dawn Health Care Center lovingly surrounded by her family. Mabel worked as a secretary for the Wooster Farm Bureau, New Philadelphia Mayor Harold Evans, Scott Supply, First United Methodist Church in New Philadelphia, and Richard Hoy Insurance. She had also been employed at Jean...
Linda S. Feutz
Nov 19, 2009
Linda S. (Spencer) Feutz, 64, of Dover died peacefully Thursday, November 19, 2009 in the Park Village Health Care Center lovingly surrounded by her family. Linda served as the first activity director at Park Village. She was also an employee of the former Potschner Ford in Dover. Born May 19, 1945 in Dover, she was the daughter of the late...
Betty M. Gallagher
Nov 18, 2009
Longtime Dover resident, Betty M. Gallagher, died Wednesday evening, November 18, 2009, in the Fairmont (WV) General Hospital. She was 85. Born May 13, 1924 at Dover, she was the daughter of the late John Charles and Betty Evelyn Hooper Nichols LaCroix. A 1942 graduate of Dover High School, Betty spent most of the next eight years working with the...
Jerry L. Plunk
Nov 18, 2009
Jerry L. Plunk, 64, of Dover passed away suddenly on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at Union Hospital in Dover. Born on June 25, 1945 in Beaumont, Texas, he was the son of the late Roger Marcus and Flora Nella Hodgkinson Plunk. He graduated from Garaway High School in 1963. Shortly after graduation, he entered the United States Navy where he...
Wava Marjean Demuth
Nov 17, 2009
Wava Marjean Demuth, 83, of New Philadelphia, died Tuesday, November 17, 2009, in Union Hospital following a brief illness. Born, March 23, 1926, in Canal Fulton, she was a daughter of the late Simon and Rachel Seward Burson . Marjean was a loving homemaker, whose life revolved around her family. She enjoyed dancing, knitting, crocheting and all good things involving...
Raymond Mills
Nov 16, 2009
Raymond “Skin” Mills, Jr., 82 of Canton and formerly of Dover died Friday, November 13, 2009 at Aultman Hospital. He had retired from Empire-Detroit Steel in Dover after 25 years of service. Born October 13, 1927 in Dade, Georgia he was a son of the late Raymond Sr. and Lillie Mae Cole Mills. He was also preceded in death by...
Thelma Finzer Huff
Nov 15, 2009
Thelma Fae Huff, 84, of Dover went to be with our Lord on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 at Union Hospital surrounded by her loving children. She was born in Sugarcreek on March 26, 1925 to Ed and Edith (Menges) Finzer. Thelma lived a very full life. After graduating from Sugarcreek, she was "Rosey the Riveter" in Canton during the war...
Donna L. Mizer
Nov 15, 2009
Donna L. Mizer, 68, of Canton and formerly of Dover died Sunday, November 15, 2009 at her home surrounded by her family. She had retired from Greer Steel after 14 years of service and had also worked as a Dental Assistant for several dentists throughout the area. Born September 30, 1941 in Dover she was a daughter of the late...
Eugene N. Petricola
Nov 13, 2009
Eugene "Gene" N. Petricola, age 79, a lifelong resident of Dover passed away Friday, November 13, 2009 at Wesley Glen in Columbus. Gene was an employee of the Invincible Vacuum Plant for 13 years and then worked at the Dover Light Plant where he retired after 25 years of service as an operating engineer in generation. Born December 10, 1929...
