Obituaries

Mark Smith

Mark Smith

Oct 2, 2009

Mark D. Smith, 68, of Belle Center, Ohio, formerly of Mount Blanchard, passed away Friday, October 2, 2009, in Galion Community Hospital. He was born on March 23, 1941, the son of the late Ralph and Violet (Cowan) Smith. He is survived by his wife, Sharon D. (Putnam) Smith, whom he married on June 10, 1962 in Hardin County Ohio....

Wilda Forsythe

Wilda Forsythe

Sep 29, 2009

Wilda Marie Forsythe, 97, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, September 29, 2009, at Logan Acres Care Center in Bellefontaine. She was born September 19, 1912, in Marion County Ohio to the late Clifford and Mary (Manley) Beaver. On August 21, 1945, she married Elmer Forsythe in Marion, Ohio, and he preceded her in death March 17, 1982. Also preceding...

Donald Robinson

Donald Robinson

Sep 27, 2009

Donald E. “Don” Robinson, 70, of Belle Center, Ohio, passed away Sunday, September 27, 2009, at Lima Memorial Hospital in Lima, Ohio. He was born November 3, 1938, in Clark County Ohio, to the late George E. and Evelyn (Parkinson) Robinson. On May 21, 1965, he married Carole A. Smith in Logan County Ohio, and she preceded him in death...

William Woodruff

William Woodruff

Sep 26, 2009

William Howard Woodruff, 89, of Zanesfield, Ohio, passed away on Saturday, September 26, 2009, at his residence. He was born on April 16, 1920 in Champaign County Ohio, to the late Owen and Edna (Wade) Woodruff. On June 9, 1942, he married Betty Jane Keller in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and she preceded him in death on July 6, 2001. Also preceding...

James Wells

James Wells

Sep 25, 2009

James Dale Wells, 63, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away on Friday, September 25, 2009, at his residence. He was born on July 10, 1946 in Waynesfield, Ohio, to the late Russell and Mary Ellen (Nichols) Wells. He is survived by a son, Nelson (Beth) Wells of Springfield, Ohio; two daughters, Patty Wells of Kokomo, Indiana, and Terri (Dewey) Mason of...

Juanita Johnson

Juanita Johnson

Sep 24, 2009

Juanita Alicia Johnson, 31, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away Thursday, September 24, 2009. She was born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on January 2, 1978, a daughter of Randolph Cochenour, who survives in Bellefontaine, and Victoria Galindo Alavarez, who survives in San Bernardino, California. On September 13, 1998, she married Seon Johnson in Columbus, Ohio, and he survives, along with...

Billy Maynard

Billy Maynard

Sep 22, 2009

Billy Maynard, 79, of Lakeview, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, September 22, 2009, at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was born on October 16, 1929, in Kermit, West Virginia to the late Carl and Ethel (Davis) Maynard. In April of 1949, he married Lucille Quinn in Indiana, and she preceded him in death in November of 1977. Also preceding...

Karyn Sopher

Karyn Sopher

Sep 21, 2009

Karyn Marie Sopher, 34, of Urbana, Ohio, passed away on Monday, September 21, 2009, at Mt. Carmel West Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She was born on June 12, 1975 in Bellefontaine, Ohio, to Lester James and Kimberly (Chambers) Sopher whom survive. Also surviving are her sons, Je'Ree and Tariq Sopher; a daughter, Brookiah Bunley all of Bellefontaine; a brother, Jeremy...

Phyllis Mech

Phyllis Mech

Sep 13, 2009

Phyllis Kay Mech, 71, formerly of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away on Sunday, September 13, 2009, at the Earl B. Hadlow Center for Caring Hospice in Jacksonville, Florida. She was born on June 21, 1938 in Logan County, to the late Ralph and Dorothy (Goodson) Stinson. On October 10, 1969, she married Lawrence L. Mech in Reno, Nevada, and he survives...

Ernest Richards

Ernest Richards

Sep 10, 2009

Ernest “Dan” Richards, 61, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away at his residence on Thursday, September 10, 2009. He was born on May 7, 1948, in Bellefontaine to the late Emil L. and Anna J. (Richardson) Richards. He married Deborah Foulk on December 31, 1992 in Bellefontaine, and she survives along with a daughter, Kandi (Brian) Blakeslee of Orlando, Florida; two...

Randy Klinger

Randy Klinger

Sep 10, 2009

Randy L. Klinger, 50, of Belle Center, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, September 10, 2009 at the Ohio State University Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He was born on September 7, 1959 in Kenton, Ohio, to Don L. and Lois Ann (Richardson) Klinger of Belle Center. On April 27, 1987, he married Polly Kinney in Bellefontaine, Ohio, and she survives along...

Vera Seward

Vera Seward

Sep 7, 2009

Vera L. Seward, 72, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away on Monday, September 7, 2009, at the Mary Rutan Hospital in Bellefontaine. She was born on September 12, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio, to the late George and Helen (Mabra) Deslandes. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Deslandes and a brother in infancy, and two sisters, Beverly Clark and...

Joel McCullough

Joel McCullough

Sep 5, 2009

Joel McCullough, 58, of Sidney, Ohio, passed away Saturday, September, 5, 2009, at Heartland of Indian Lake. He was born November 11, 1950 in Greenville, Mississippi, the son of Frank R. and Lillian (Burks) McCullough whom both survive of Bellefontaine. In addition to his parents, he is survived by four brothers; Frank (Maxine) McCullough, Jr. of Detroit, Michigan, Verne (Tonya)...

Emmett Welch

Emmett Welch

Sep 5, 2009

Emmett “Kelly” Welch, 50, of Lewistown, Ohio, passed away Saturday, September 5, 2009 in the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He was born on November 17, 1958, the son of Emmett Welch Jr., who preceded him in death and Betty L. (Scott) Kinney, who survives in West Mansfield, Ohio. He is also survived by his wife, Bobbie...

Donald Westfall

Donald Westfall

Sep 4, 2009

Donald “Bo” Westfall, 60, of Bellefontaine, Ohio, passed away at his residence on Friday, September 4, 2009. He was born on April 28, 1949 in Logan County, Ohio to the late Donald and Mildred Louise (Chess) Westfall. He married Kendra Plank on November 11, 1967 in West Liberty, Ohio, and she survives along with a daughter, Dina Westfall, Preceding him...

Joan Schultz

Joan Schultz

Sep 4, 2009

Joan Lee Schultz, 84, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away on Friday, September 4, 2009 at the Green Hills Care Center in West Liberty. She was born on June 25, 1925 in Defiance, Ohio, to the late Lester and Irma (Tate) Ensign. Also preceding her in death were two brothers. On August 21, 1954, she married Ralph Schultz in Defiance,...

Zelma Cooke

Zelma Cooke

Sep 3, 2009

Zelma Agnes Cooke, 101, formerly of Belle Center, Ohio, passed away Thursday, September 3, 2009, at the Hardin Hills Health Center in Kenton, Ohio. She was born October 2, 1907 in Crawfordsville, Iowa, to the late James E. and Elizabeth (Scott) Cooke. She was preceded in death by her brother, Roe Cooke and sisters, Frances Nadine Cooke, Zenaide Phillips and...

Elizabeth Shellhaas

Elizabeth Shellhaas

Sep 2, 2009

Elizabeth “Betty” J. Shellhaas, 87, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, passed away September 2, 2009 in Littleton, Colorado. Pastor Bryan Meadows will conduct a graveside service at 1:00 P.M. in the Bellefontaine Cemetery Saturday, May 29, 2010. The staff at the Eichholtz Funeral Home in Bellefontaine handled the arrangements.

Herbert Foreman

Herbert Foreman

Sep 1, 2009

Herbert E. Foreman, 81, of West Liberty, Ohio, passed away Tuesday, September 01, 2009, at his residence. He was born April 25, 1928 in Logan County, Ohio to the late George Guy and Mary May (Hudson) Foreman. On January 31, 1950, he married Phyllis M. Hudson in Angola, Indiana, and she survives along with their children, Stephen (Kaylee) Foreman of...

Kenneth Barrett

Kenneth Barrett

Aug 27, 2009

Kenneth B. Barrett, 71, of Rushsylvania, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2009, at Logan Acres Care Center in Bellefontaine, Ohio. He was born on October 14, 1937 in Union County, Indiana, to the late Ernest and Cora (Wilder) Barrett. On July 7, 1957, he married his first wife, Donna (Logan) Barrett in Andersonville, Indiana, and she preceded him...