Obituaries

Shannon O'Neal Crawford
Jan 18, 2009
Shannon O'neal Crawford, 40, of Chillicothe and formerly of Cambridge, passed away Sunday (January 18, 2009) at the Adena Regional Medical Center. He was born on December 9, 1968 in Queens NY, son of Marie (Barkley) Crawford-Barbary of Louisville KY and the late Booker Thomas Crawford. Mr. Crawford worked as a cook in the food service industry. Mr. Crawford...
Glen Ellis Miller
Jan 13, 2009
Glen Ellis Miller, 83, of Cambridge, passed away Tuesday (January 13, 2009) at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge. He was born on June 1, 1925, in Cambridge, son of the late John Earl Miller and Lela (LaFollette) Miller. Mr. Miller was the founder of Milfair Linoleum & Carpet of Cambridge, operating the business for sixty years. He...
Wanda Leota Barclay
Jan 12, 2009
Wanda Leota Barclay, 78, of Cambridge, passed away Monday (January 12, 2009) at Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge. She was born on September 11, 1930 in Cambridge, daughter of the late Chauncey Otto Bench and Mary Moorehead. Mrs. Barclay was a homemaker. She was a member of the Christ United Methodist Church of Cambridge. In addition to her...
Mary Ann Holcomb
Jan 6, 2009
Mary Ann (Richards) Holcomb, 74, of Cambridge, passed away Tuesday (January 6, 2009) at the Red Carpet Health Care Center with her three daughters by her side. She was born on November 10, 1934 in Cambridge, daughter of the late John Richards and Margaret (Sonnefeld) Richards. Ms. Holcomb was a former employee of Champion Spark Plug. She was a...
Ritta Lucille Schaer
Jan 5, 2009
Ritta Lucille Schaer , 92, of Conway Arkansas, formerly of Byesville passed away Monday (January 5, 2009) at Conway Regional Medical Center. She was born December 22, 1916 in Byesville, daughter of the late Alfred Winafred and Martha (Dallas) Jeffrey. Mrs. Schaer was an avid bible reader and a member of Senior Citizens and Golden Sixties. In addition to...
Atla Macdonald
Jan 4, 2009
Atla MacDonald, 87, of Cambridge, passed away Sunday (January 4, 2009) at the Beckett House, New Concord. She was born on July 4, 1921 in Cameron, daughter of the late Jeremiah Hartline and Emma (McConnell) Hartline. Mrs. MacDonald was the owner/operator of a printing company for many years. She was an avid reader and was prolific with her needlework,...
Terry A. Leggett
Jan 4, 2009
Terry A. Leggett, 61, of Cambridge, passed away Sunday (January 4, 2009) at the Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge. He was born on June 19, 1947 in Dover, son of the late Waldon Leggett and Thelma (Hibbs) Leggett. Terry was a retired teacher, guidance counselor and basketball coach. He started his career at Millersburg, continued his career at...
Amanda "Mandy" Bay
Dec 29, 2008
Amanda "Mandy" Bay, 29, of Cambridge, passed away Monday (December 29, 2008) at the Cambridge Health & Rehabilitation Center. She was born on November 29, 1979 in Cambridge, daughter of Alan Bay and the late Josephine (Mihalik) Bay, who passed away in 1997. Miss Bay was a 1998 graduate of John Glenn High School. She attended Baldwin-Wallace for two...
Gary L. Kafury
Dec 28, 2008
Gary L. Kafury, 65, of Cambridge, passed away on Sunday (December 28, 2008) at his home. He was born on October 19, 1943 in Akron, son of Pauline (Ingram) Kafury Kahrig and the late Raymond Kafury. Mr. Kafury was a retired postal employee, having worked at the Byesville Post Office for many years. He was a life member of...
Betty Marlene Bell
Dec 27, 2008
Betty Marlene Bell, 63, of Cambridge, passed away Saturday (December 27, 2008) at The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus. She was born on August 16, 1945 in Quaker City, daughter of the late Charles Donald Smith and Lillian Merl (Williams) Smith. Mrs. Bell was a homemaker. She enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. She collected angels, Coca-Cola memorabilia...
Clarice Bernadine Mcvicker
Dec 25, 2008
Clarice Bernadine McVicker, 77, of Cambridge and formerly of Batesville, passed away Thursday (December 25, 2008) at Victorian Oaks Assisted Living, Cambridge. She was born January 24, 1931, on a farm near Batesville, in Noble County, the daughter of the late Edgar and Edna (Watson) Douglas. She was a graduate of Batesville High School, and enjoyed sewing and was...
Rex Roberts
Dec 25, 2008
Rex Allen Roberts Sr., 56, of Cambridge, passed away Thursday (December 25, 2008) at his home. He was born on June 26, 1952 in Cambridge, son of the late Marion Junior Roberts and Lula Pauline (Hupp) Roberts. Mr. Roberts was a self-employed carpenter & craftsman. He enjoyed wood-working. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Vivian K. Barber
Dec 21, 2008
Vivian K. Barber, 54, of New Concord, passed away on Sunday (December 21, 2008) at her home. She was born July 21, 1954 to Roy and Mildred Marshall of New Concord. She was employed at the Guernsey County Department of Job & Family Services. She also was formerly employed at Pike Elementary School and the Fred Raymond & Co....
Terry K. (Nobeko Kaneko) Morris
Dec 18, 2008
Terry K. Morris (Nobeko Kaneko), 80, of Old Washington and formerly of Derwent, passed away Thursday (December 18, 2008) at Southeastern Ohio Regional Medical Center, Cambridge. She was born on July 20, 1928 in Tokyo Japan, daughter of the late Tokutaro Kaneko and Sue (Mutohashi) Kaneko. She married William Morris on August 15, 1954. Mrs. Morris worked as a...
Robert Louis Metzger
Dec 16, 2008
Robert "Bob" Louis Metzger, 91, of Cambridge and a former resident of Dublin Ohio for over thirty years, passed away Tuesday (December 16, 2008) at the Genesis-Good Samaritan Medical Center, Zanesville. Bob was the youngest and third child of Mary "Mayme" Mulholland Auchey Metzger and Charles Henry "Harry" Metzger. He was born October 18, 1917 and raised in Greenville,...
Richard Blaine Smith
Dec 13, 2008
Richard Blaine Smith, 73, of Quaker City, died Saturday (Dec. 13, 2008) at his residence. He was born May 5, 1935, in Guernsey County, son of the late Delbert Mahlon and Esta Belle (Tennant) Smith. Mr. Smith was retired from Arrow Molded Plastics. He was a truck and van driver for the Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center. He was...
Terry Pyers Jr.
Dec 12, 2008
Terry Pyers Jr., 38, of Lore City, died Friday (Dec. 12, 2008) as the result of an automobile accident. He was born Sept. 25, 1970, in Shelby, son of Terry (Linda) Pyers Sr., of Lake Port, Calif., and Brenda (James) Taylor of Cambridge. Mr. Pyers was a 2007 graduate of Zane State College in machine and engineering. He was...
Joseph S. Boncaldo
Dec 11, 2008
A wake service will be 3:30 p.m. today (Sunday) at Thorn-Black Funeral Home, Cambridge, for Joseph S. Boncaldo, 83, of Cambridge, who died Thursday (Dec. 11, 2008) at Southeastern Med, Cambridge. A Mass of Christian burial will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Benedict Catholic Church, Cambridge, with the Rev. Fr. Robert Borer officiating. Burial will follow at...
Effie Eliopulos
Dec 8, 2008
Effie Eliopulos, 69, of Old Washington, Ohio passed away comfortably on Monday, December 8, 2008 at Southeastern Regional Medical Center with her family by her side. She was preceded in death by her parents, Konstantinos "Gus" and Ella Eliopulos of Byesville. Effie retired in 2001. She was an entrepreneur and owner of several local businesses: Rent-A-Vision (Cambridge), Shenandoah Inn...
Ruth Alma (Kesterson) Harbin
Dec 7, 2008
Ruth Alma (Kesterson) Harbin, 92, of Cambridge passed away Sunday (December 7, 2008) at Trumbull Memorial Hospital in Warren. She was born April 20, 1916 in Hooker, Ohio, daughter of the late John and Margaret (Johnston) Kesterson. Ruth was a homemaker, former employee of Universal Pottery and a member of Beckett United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents...
