Obituaries
Tuscarawas County, Ohio Obituaries
Local Obituaries for Dover, Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio & Surrounding Areas
Mildred L. Owens
Jan 9, 2000
Mildred L. Owens, 88 of New Philadelphia died Sunday, January 9, 2000 at Union Hospital following a brief illness. She was a retired restaurant and cafeteria employee having worked at Kaufmann's Restaurant in Bowling Green, Wooster Highway Elementary and Park Elementary both in Dover. Born April 25, 1911 in Hiawatha, Kansas she was a daughter of the late John and...
Jmaes B. "Jim" Orum
Jan 2, 2000
James B. "Jim" Orum, 50, of Carrollton died Sunday, January 2, 2000. He had worked for the past five years as a welder and fitter for Minerva Welding & Fabricating. Born October 24, 1949 at Pleasant Grove, WV, he was a son of the late James Clifford & Gladys Palmer Orum. Jim enjoyed flying, and loved working on the family...
James B. Orum
Jan 2, 2000
James B. "Jim" Orum, 50 of Carrollton, died Sunday, January 2, 2000 at Mercy Medical Center after a short illness. He had worked the past five years as a welder and fitter for Minerva Welding & Fabricating. Born October 24, 1949 at Pleasant Grove, WV, he was a son of the late James Clifford & Gladys Palmer Orum. Jim enjoyed...
John A. Forstrom
Dec 31, 1999
John A. Forstrom, 47 of Dover died Friday, December 31, 1999 at the Holy Family Cancer Center in Parma following a brief illness. Born September 23, 1952 in Dover he was a son of Veronica MacLain Forstrom of Dover and the late William "Whitey" Forstrom. He was a veteran of the United States Marine Corp., and a member of the...
Edward "Turk" Robinson
Dec 30, 1999
Edward L. "Turk" Robinson, 81 of Mineral City died Thursday, December 30, 1999 at his home following an extended illness. He retired in 1975 as an Elementary School Teacher having taught at Lake, Dover South and New Cumberland Elementary Schools. Born January 1, 1918 in Rainelle, West Virginia he was a son of the late Elmer and Mamie Burns Robinson....
Roy Junior Lantzer
Dec 30, 1999
Roy Junior Lantzer, 49, of 306 W. 4th St., Uhrichsville, Ohio died Thursday, December 30, 1999 in his home. Born October 18, 1950 in Dover, Ohio, he was the son of the late Roy S. and Florence DiGenova Lantzer. Junior enjoyed training and caring for horses. He formerly was employed at the Wooster Fairgrounds working with race horses. He was...
Catherine D. Brown
Dec 28, 1999
Catherine D. Brown, 94, of Middletown, New Jersey and formerly of Dover, Ohio died Tuesday, December 28, 1999 in New Jersey. Born August 28, 1905 in Bronx, New York, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Catherine Bleuler Passe. Catherine was a gray lady at Union Hospital in Dover for more than 30 years. She was a member...
Nora Artus
Dec 26, 1999
Nora V. Artus, 96 formally of Ricksecker St. in Dover died Sunday, December 26, 1999 at the Country Club Retirement Center. Born February 19, 1903 in Newark, New Jersey she was a daughter of the late Alexander and Pauline Schmidt Boutilier. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church in New Philadelphia and the New Philadelphia Eastern Star. Nora...
Dominic (Mick) Greco
Dec 24, 1999
Dominic E. (Mick) Greco, 59, of 7083 Winfield-Strasburg Rd., Strasburg, Ohio died Friday, December 24, 1999 at Aultman Hospital following a brief illness. He was an account executive for the Independent at Massillon for 5 years and had previously been in the advertising dept. at the Times Reporter for 27 years. Born September 24, 1940 at Dover, he was the...
Mary A. Totten
Dec 21, 1999
Mary A. Totten, 85, of Venice, Florida and a former Dover resident died Tuesday, December 21, 1999 in her home. She volunteered her time for many years at Union Hospital. Born October 15, 1914 at Chatham N.B. Canada, she was a daughter of the late Fred & Elizabeth Veneau Wilt. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star...
Chester B. Haas
Dec 20, 1999
Chester B. Haas, 90, of 342 Reeves Ave., Dover, Ohio died Monday, December 20, 1999 in the New Dawn Health Care Center following an extended illness. He retired in 1972 from the Payroll Dept. at Reeves Steel Company at Dover where he worked for 46 years. Born April 29, 1909 in Zoar, Ohio, he was the son of the late...
Timothy Michael Ankrom
Dec 20, 1999
Timothy Michael "Tim" Ankrom, 27, of 5407 Kinsey Valley Rd. SW, New Philadelphia, died Monday, December 20, 1999 in his home. Tim was employed as a subcontractor with SEI. Born September 9, 1972, at Dover, he was the son of Gilbert Ankrom of New Philadelphia and Helen Vaughn of Dover. He enjoyed the outdoors, whether it was riding his 4...
Patricia Ann Pace
Dec 17, 1999
Patricia Ann "Patty" Pace, 63, of Shafer Ave., Dover, died Friday, December 17, 1999 at Hennis Care Centre. She was a Registered Nurse and had worked with Union Hospital for more than twenty years. Born January 30, 1936 at Dover, she was a daughter of the late Joseph & Dorothy Miller Pace. Patty was a member of the St. Joseph...
Megan Marie Mcmullen
Dec 17, 1999
Megan Marie McMullen the precious angel of Edward J. and Kelly L. Buehler McMullen of Dover was stillborn on Friday, December 17, 1999. Megan is survived by a sister: Rachel McMullen of the Home. Maternal grandparents: John and Janie Buehler of Dover. Paternal grandparents: Edward and Eunice McMullen Sr. of Staten Island, New York. Maternal great grandparents: Jim and Betty...
Juanita Howell
Dec 15, 1999
Juanita "Jean" Howell, 77, of 1216 Walnut St., Dover, died Wednesday, December 15, 1999 at Union Hospital following a brief illness. She was an employee of the former Stallard's IGA at Dover and the Reeves Bank in Dover. Born July 23, 1922 in Dennison, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Martin & Emma Huston. She was a member...
Doris V. Couts
Dec 10, 1999
Doris V. Couts, 83, of the Walnut Hills Retirement Home and formerly of Dover Avenue, Dover, Ohio died Friday, December 10, 1999 in her residence following a brief illness.Doris attended Muskingum College and Edinburgh University in Scotland. She served in the Womens Army Corp from 1944-46. She had worked at New Philadelphia Public Library before and after military service. In 1947, she moved...
Lawrence W. Menges Jr.
Dec 10, 1999
Lawrence W. (Larry) Menges, Jr., 59, of 212 Lloyd St. Apt. 5, Dover, Ohio died Friday, December 10, 1999 at Mercy Medical Center in Canton following an extended illness.Larry was an employee of the former Invincible Vacuum Company at Dover and had previously worked for over 20 years at Sparta Mfg. Company in Columbia.Born July 26, 1940 in Dover, he...
Helen L. Smith
Dec 8, 1999
Helen L. Smith, 85, formerly of Beach City, died Wednesday, December 8, 1999 in Heartland of Mentor, where she had resided for the past year and a half.Born December 29, 1914 at Farmerstown, Ohio, Helen was daughter of the late William and Verna Gonter Baker.Helen was longtime local correspondent for The Times Reporter and the Massillon Evening Independent. A member of...
Dorothy E. Dessecker
Dec 8, 1999
Dorothy E. Dessecker, 101, of 4264 Boy Scout Rd. NE, Dover, Ohio died Wednesday, December 8, 1999 in the Park Village Health Care Center. She was a retired schoolteacher having taught in Bolivar, New Philadelphia, and Wooster Highway Schools. She was an educator for 31 years.Born June 27, 1898 in Dover, she was the daughter of the late Sylas and Nellie...
Clara L. Ries
Dec 7, 1999
Clara L. Ries, 90, of Dover, passed away Tuesday, December 7, 1999 in the Park Village Health Care Center.Born February 28, 1909 at Dover, she was a daughter of the late Alex and Mary Warther Feutz.She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond E. Ries.Survivors include: sisters, Alma Loibl & Edna Boltz of Dover, several nieces and nephews.In addition...
