Obituaries
Tuscarawas County, Ohio Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Dover, Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio & Surrounding Areas
Donald D. Marks
Feb 28, 2006
Donald D. Marks, 79, of Dover, died suddenly Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2006, in his home. Born Feb. 27, 1927, in Dover, he was a son of the late Margaret Henney Marks. Donald graduated from Dover High School in 1945, and entered the United States Army. He served his country honorably during the last days of World War II. On Oct....
Kim Marie Homman
Feb 24, 2006
Kim Marie Homman, 50, of New Philadelphia died suddenly on Friday, February 24, 2006 at Union Hospital. She retired from Tuscarawas Ave. School in New Philadelphia where she taught first grade for 25 years. Born December 29, 1955 in Dover she was a daughter of Jessie “Jack” and Connie Zifer Reese of Dover. She was a member of St. Joseph...
Larry B. Rentsch
Feb 24, 2006
Larry B. Rentsch, 62, of Strasburg died Friday, February 24, 2006 at Aultman Hospital in Canton following an extended illness. He retired from Rees Cast Stone in Dover after 25 years of service. Born March 8, 1943 in Dover he was a son of the late Robert and Beulah Hostetler Rentsch. In his spare time, Larry enjoyed woodworking. Larry is...
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...
