Obituaries
Donna Morrison
May 4, 2019
Donna L. Morrison, 64, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away Saturday morning,May 4, 2019, at Southern Ohio Medical Center Hospice Center in Portsmouth, Ohio. She was born in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on March 20, 1955, to the late Juanita Muncy. She attended Wellston High School and was an excellent soft ball player in her youth. She enjoyed planting flowers...
Dainty Speraw
Apr 12, 2019
D. Lorraine Speraw, 90, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 12, 2019, at Jenkins Care Community in Wellston. She was born August 24, 1928, in McArthur, Ohio, to the late Floyd Albert Murray, Sr. and Cora Bishop Murray. She was a 1946 graduate of Allensville High School and married her husband, who died in 1989, Robert...
John Martindill, Sr.
Apr 8, 2019
John W. Martindill, Sr., 94, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away Monday morning, April 8, 2019, in Wellston. He was born in Wellston on March 11, 1925, to the late Ralph and Christine Ruffner Martindill. He was a 1943 graduate of Wellston High School and a U.S. Army veteran of WWII. He married his first wife of 57 years, the...
James "Jim" Rice
Apr 2, 2019
James Dale " Jim" Rice, 79, of Wellston, Ohio, surrounded by his family, passed away on Tuesday evening, April 2, 2019, at Ohio Health Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus Ohio. He was born in Wellston on April 12, 1939, to the late Wendell Sanford Rice and Dorothy Mae McDaniels Rice. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Sergeant...
Rita Rife
Mar 30, 2019
Rita Johnson Rife, 61, of Wellston, Ohio, went home with her Lord on Saturday evening, March 30, 2019, at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She was born in Wellston, Ohio, February 11, 1958, to the late Raymond Johnson and her mother, Lillian Burke Johnson, who resides in Texas. Rita attended Wellston High School and married her...
Patricia Canada
Mar 28, 2019
Patricia Canada, 72, of Wellston, Ohio, went home with her Lord on Thursday morning,March 28, 2019, at Jenkins Care Community in Wellston. She was born in McArthur, Ohio, on May 3, 1946, to the late John Dixon Sr. and Carolyn June Chesser Dixon. She was a 1964 graduate of Vinton County Consolidated High School. She was employed for 18...
Clyde Barnett Jr.
Mar 9, 2019
Clyde " Wort " Barnett Jr., 70, passed away Saturday, March 9, 2019, at his home in Hamden, Ohio, following an extended illness. He was born in McArthur, Ohio, September 10, 1948, to the late Clyde W. Barnett Sr. and Dorothy Thacker Barnett. He was an equipment operator for several area sawmills. He was a U.S. Army veteran and...
David Scott
Feb 26, 2019
David L. Scott, 61, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away peacefully, while surrounded by his family, on Tuesday afternoon, February 26, 2019, at Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe.He was born, along with his twin brother, in Chillicothe, Ohio, on February 8, 1958, to the late Ray K. Scott and Rosella Marie McGinnis Scott. He was a 1976 graduate of...
Viola Bail
Jan 27, 2019
Viola Marie Bail, 80, of Middletown, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, January 27, 2019, at Hawthorne Glenn Nursing Home. She was born in Hamden, Ohio, February 18, 1938, to the late Herman and Esther Klaker Sorrell. She was a homemaker. She is survived by: her son, Jeffery ( Debbie ) Bail, of Middletown; two daughters, Linda Odunkesenler of Kennesaw,...
Lelah Murdoch
Jan 6, 2019
Lelah Mae Gettles Murdoch, 97, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, January 6, 2019, at Jenkins Care Community in Wellston. She was born July 4, 1921, in Wellston to the late Homer E. and Ella Davis Gettles. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Bayard Murdoch, and three brothers: Donald E. Gettles,...
Mae Gueltig Ring
Dec 7, 2018
Mae F. Payne Gueltig Ring, 92, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away on Friday morning, December 7, 2018, at Erlanger Medical Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She was born at Glen Avenue in Sciotoville, Ohio, March 9, 1926, to the late James and Audrey Cahoon Payne. At age two, she moved to Jackson County. She worked for Western Union during WWII...
Anthony Robinson
Nov 22, 2018
Anthony F. " Tony " Robinson, 78, of Wellston, Ohio, went to Heaven on Thursday morning, November 22, 2018, at Ohio Health Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He will someday again meet in Heaven his wife of 53 years, Lena Williams Robinson, who survives. He is also survived by a son and daughter-in-law, John and Tracey Robinson, of...
Dorothy Sickles
Sep 10, 2018
Dorothy Jane Sickles, 77, of Columbus, Ohio, passed away peacefully at Arlington Court Skilled Nursing and Rehab Center on Monday afternoon, September 10, 2018. She was born in Kentucky on August 16, 1941, to the late James and Etta Mae Wollett Sullivan. She was a 1959 graduate of Wellston High School and a retired nurses aid. She enjoyed reading,...
Karen Christner
Jul 9, 2018
Karen Lynn Christner, 62, of Columbus, following an extended illness, passed away on Monday afternoon, July 9, 2018, at OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. She was born in Wellston, Ohio, August 5, 1955, and was preceded in death by her father, Oron Lee Christner, in 1963, and her mother, Elma Griffith Christner Tucker, in 2012. She was...
Craig Midkiff
Jun 1, 2018
Craig E. Midkiff, 58, of Lancaster, Ohio, passed away Friday morning, June 1, 2018, at Fairfield Medical Center ER. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 14, 1959, to James E. Midkiff, who passed away in 2010, and Mary A. Saunders Midkiff of Wellston. He was a 1977 graduate of Wellston High School where he was a member...
Delbert Beckner
May 23, 2018
Delbert L. Beckner, 89, of Hamden, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday May 23, 2018, surrounded by his family, at Edgewood Manor of Wellston. He was born near Petroleum in Ritchie County, West Virginia, on January 9, 1929, to the late Thomas S. Beckner and Helen Nutter Beckner. He was a veteran of the US Army Air Force and served...
Mary Perkins
May 12, 2018
Mary Louise Rupert Perkins, 92, of Wellston, surrounded by her family, passed away peacefully on Saturday evening, May 12, 2018, at Holzer Assisted Living in Jackson, Ohio. She was born in Wellston on February 17, 1926, to the late John E. Rupert and Edith Carr Rupert. She was a 1944 graduate of Wellston High School and married her husband,...
Mary Mulhern
Apr 30, 2018
Mary " Bub" Mulhern, 42, of McArthur, Ohio, while surrounded by her family, went home peacefully with her Lord on Monday, April 30, 2018, at Holzer Medical Center-Jackson ER. She was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, on January 12, 1976, to William W. Mulhern and Robin West Mulhern of McArthur. She was a 1994 graduate of Vinton County High School...
Robert Wiles
Apr 19, 2018
Robert " Bob" Wiles, 81, of Richmond Dale, Ohio, after being together with his wife, Betty Preston Wiles, for the past 64 years, passed away April 19, 2018, at Hamden Nursing and Rehabilitation. He was born in Richmond Dale , where he was raised and lived his entire life, on March 19, 1937, to the late Asa Wiles and...
Betty Matteson
Apr 15, 2018
Betty L. Matteson, 94, of Wellston, Ohio, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, April 15, 2018, at Jenkins Care Community. She was born in Wellston on November 24, 1923, to the late Ebon Bert Merrill and Allie Whetstone Merrill. She was a graduate of Wellston High School and retired from Frick-Gallagher Manufacturing where she was a bookkeeper for over...
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