Obituaries
Tuscarawas County, Ohio Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Dover, Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio & Surrounding Areas
Harold L. Limbacher
Feb 17, 2006
Harold L. Limbacher, 88, died Friday, February 17, 2006, in Park Village Assisted Living in Dover after a period of declining health. Harold was born May 9, 1917 in Franklin Township, the son of the late Walter L. and Ora E. Schlemmer Limbacher. He lived most of his life in the Strasburg area and attended Mt. Healthy and North American...
Thomas H. Seikel
Feb 16, 2006
Thomas H. “Tom” Seikel, 88, of Rose Lane Health Center, Massillon, died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, in Aultman Hospital Canton. Tom resided for many years, and, along with his wife, reared a family, in a home that he built at 510 E. Fifteenth St., Dover. Born January 25, 1918, in Dover, Tom was a retired carpenter who worked all of...
R. Irene Hostetler
Feb 16, 2006
R. Irene Hostetler, 81, of Dover, died peacefully Thursday, February 16, 2006 in the Hennis Care Centre, Dover. She was born February 26, 1924 in Mineral City, the daughter of the late William E. & Margaret McDonald Baker. Over the years, Irene had been active with the Dover Eagles Auxiliary, where she served as past president and was secretary for...
Susan Elizabeth France
Feb 12, 2006
Susan Elizabeth France, 91, a longtime New Philadelphia resident, died Sunday, February 12, 2006 in the St. Joseph Care Center at Louisville where she had resided for the last 4-½ years. Born October 8, 1914 in Midvale, she was the daughter of the late Steve & Barbara Molnar Yuhos. Susan was a proud homemaker whose home was always immaculate. She...
Carl L. Lisle
Feb 11, 2006
Ethel Rosalee Lisle, 93, died Thursday, February 9, 2006 and her husband, Carl Lester Lisle, 96, died Saturday, February 11, 2006 in the Park Village Health Care Center in Dover. They were residents of New Philadelphia. Ethel was born October 2, 1912 in Morgantown, West Virginia, the daughter of the late J. George and Ora (Barker) Dickinson. She was also...
Rachel B. Wires
Feb 9, 2006
Devoted mother, doting grandmother and determined Bingo player, Rachel B. Wires, 86, of New Philadelphia died Thursday, February 9, 2006 in Union Hospital. She was born on February 28, 1919, the daughter of the late James & Pearl Walker Ritenour. The title “Homemaker” does not begin to scratch the surface on what Rachel really meant to her family. Rachel�(TM)s husband,...
Ethel R. Lisle
Feb 9, 2006
Ethel Rosalee Lisle, 93, died Thursday, February 9, 2006 and her husband, Carl Lester Lisle, 96, died Saturday, February 11, 2006 in the Park Village Health Care Center in Dover. They were residents of New Philadelphia. Ethel was born October 2, 1912 in Morgantown, West Virginia, the daughter of the late J. George and Ora (Barker) Dickinson. She was also...
Ruth K. Crowell
Feb 9, 2006
Ruth K. Crowell, 86, of Dover, died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006, in Hennis Care Centre, Dover. Born Sept. 30, 1919, in Florence, Alabama, she was the daughter of the late Tommy and Nora Foust Gooch. Ruth graduated high school, and, on May 3, 1941, married her sweetheart, Lloyd W. Crowell, in Sheffield, Alabama. The couple moved to Dover in 1947....
Fay E. Lengler
Feb 7, 2006
Fay E. Lengler, 95, a long-time resident of E. Eleventh St., Dover, died Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2006, in Hennis Care Centre, Bolivar. Born May 26, 1910, in the family farmhouse on Broad Run Dairy Rd., Dover Township, she was a daughter of the late Luther and Salome Burky Miller. Fay attended Kent State Normal College (now Kent State University), and...
Donald Arnold Yenni
Feb 4, 2006
Donald Arnold Yenni, 82, of Park Village Health Care Center in Dover, went home to be with the lord on Saturday, February 4, 2006 after a long and fulfilling life. He was born March 19, 1923, in Dover to the late Arnold and Nora Swonger Yenni. He retired from the former Columbia Fire Brick after many years of service, and...
Olga Oddi
Feb 3, 2006
Olga Oddi, 92, of Dover, Ohio died Friday, February 3, 2006 in the Hennis Care Centre at Bolivar following an extended illness. During World War II, she was employed by the Standard Oil Company in Dover and had previously worked at the former Sadiron. Born October 1, 1913 in Faeto, Italy, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and...
Amy Pennington Becker
Feb 1, 2006
Amy Pennington Becker, 89, of New Philadelphia, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2006. Born Jun. 4, 1916, in Crestview, TN, she was a daughter of the late Jacob and Ida Pennington. Amy moved with her family to New Philadelphia in 1928 and graduated from New Philadelphia High School. She married the late Earl F. Becker...
Margaret H. Mitchell
Feb 1, 2006
Margaret H. Mitchell, 86, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, formerly of Sugarcreek, Ohio, died Wednesday, February 1, 2006, in Uniontown Hospital, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, following a short illness. Born March 22, 1919, in Coatbridge, Scotland, she was the only child of the late John and Ann Murdoch Marshall. Margaret graduated in 1937 from the Chauncey-Dover High School, Chauncey, Ohio. After emigrating with her...
Charles H. Whitten
Feb 1, 2006
Charles H. Whitten, 84, of Bolivar died Wednesday, February 1, 2006 at Union Hospital. He retired from US Ceramic Tile in Canton after many years of service. Born June 15, 1921 in Mineral City, Ohio he was a son of the late Harold and Mabel Rood Whitten. Charles is survived by two sons, Harold (Brenda) Whitten of Canton and Phillip...
Ruth Pfeiffer
Jan 31, 2006
Ruth Pfeiffer, 101, died Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at the Country Club Center in Dover. Ruth was born on April 11, 1904 in Newark, Ohio and was the daughter of the late Maurice and Minnie Secrist Peter. Most of her youth was spent in Gnadenhutten, which is the community many of her ancestors had helped settle. She was a lifelong...
Patricia A. Griesen
Jan 28, 2006
Patricia A. Griesen, 63, of Dover, Ohio died Saturday, January 28, 2006 following a period of declining health. She was a retired bookkeeper for All American Healthcare. Born December 14, 1942 in Dover, she was the daughter of the late Leo and Mildred Rieger Weigand. Pat was a member of the St. John United Church of Christ in Strasburg. She...
Freda A. Reed
Jan 28, 2006
Freda A. Reed, 96, of Strasburg and formerly of Wilmot and Massillon died Saturday, January 28, 2006 in Amberwood Manor at New Philadelphia after a long illness. Born August 31, 1909 in Gilmer County, West Virginia she was a daughter of the late Robert and Eva Short Nicholson. Freda truly celebrated life through her family and faith. She had accepted...
Mary Josie Sayre
Jan 26, 2006
Mary “Josie” Estes Sayre, 96, of Spartanburg, SC and formerly of Akron and Dover, Ohio died Thursday, January 26, 2006 at her home in Spartanburg. She worked through World War II and many years afterwards at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. in Akron. She retired from Goodyear in 1972. Born December 4, 1909 in Marshall County, Kentucky, she was...
William Alan Reed
Jan 25, 2006
William Alan “Bill” Reed, 47, of Strasburg, died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2006, in Union Hospital, Dover, following a long illness. Born Jun. 22, 1958, in Dover, he was a son of the late John W. and Edna Mae Peeper Reed. Bill graduated from Garaway High School in 1977 and went on to pursue training in the culinary arts. He had...
James R. Low
Jan 23, 2006
James R. Low, 75, of Milford, Ohio died on Monday, January 23, 2006 at Green Meadows Health and Wellness Center in Louisville. Born August 12, 1930 in Strasburg, Ohio he was a son of the late Robert and Eva Low Aul. He retired from Cincinnati Industries after many years of service. James was preceded in death by his wife, Lorraine...
