Obituaries
Obituaries
Mark E. Schudel
Apr 25, 2008
Mark Edward Schudel, 41 of Berlin Heights, died Friday, April 25, 2008 under the care of Stein Hospice in Sandusky, following a long illness. He was born August 23, 1966 in Cleveland and had lived in Vermilion most of his life. He graduated from Vermilion High School where he excelled in sports. He was employed as a design welder...
Josephine Repko
Apr 24, 2008
Josephine Repko, 84 of Lorain, died Thursday, April 24, 2008 in the emergency room at Community Health Partners in Lorain following a sudden illness. She was born March 2, 1924 in Lorain and has been a lifelong resident. She was a member of Local 880 Retail Workers, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church and also attended the...
Patricia Ann Bailey
Apr 23, 2008
Patricia Anne Bailey (nee Goodwin), 57 of Vermilion, died Wednesday, April 23, 2008 in Hospice of the Western Reserve, Cleveland after a lengthy battle with breast cancer. She was born December 18, 1950 in Lodi, OH and has been a Vermilion resident for the past 25 years moving from Sandusky. She worked as a sales associate for Kaplan's Furniture...
Jacob Andrew Thayer
Apr 21, 2008
Jacob Andrew Thayer, infant son of Joseph and Lindsay (nee Furci) Thayer, of Lorain, was stillborn on Monday, April 21, 2008 at Community Health Partners in Lorain. In addition to his parents, he is survived by a sister, Regan and his twin-brother, Evan Anthony Thayer; maternal grandparents, Rick and Donna Furci of Lorain and Jerry and Jeannie Webb of...
Gail F. Kotab
Apr 19, 2008
Gail F. Kotab (nee Westenhaver), 73 of Huron, died Saturday, April 19, 2008 in Firelands Regional Medical Center, Sandusky after a lengthy illness. She was born April 2, 1935 in Cleveland, OH. She had been a Vermilion resident for 14 years before moving to Avon Lake in 1992, and Huron in 1998. Gail worked as a Telemarketing Operator for...
Mildred A. Pinter
Apr 18, 2008
Mildred A. "Goby" Pinter (nee Duer), 96, of Vermilion, died Friday, April 18, 2008 in Kingston of Vermilion after a short illness. She was born April 30, 1911 in Philadelphia, PA. She has been a Vermilion resident for the past 17 years, moving from Altamonte Springs, Florida. She was a jazz singer and an accomplished pianist. She shared a...
Helen L. 'Adamowicz' Walentynowicz
Apr 18, 2008
Helen L. (Walenty) Walentynowicz (nee Adamowicz), 94 of Vermilion, died Friday, April 18, 2008 in Kingston of Vermilion after lengthy illness. She was born December 28, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio. She has been a Vermilion resident for the past 20 years, moving from Garfield Heights, Ohio. She worked as a dental assistant for Sagamore Hills Hospital. Helen was a...
Virginia Mildred Pezzin
Apr 15, 2008
Virginia (Ginny) Mildred Pezzin (Hall), 79, of Port Charlotte, FL died April 15, 2008 in peace at her home in Port Charlotte, FL. She was born January 18, 1929, in Alpena, Michigan. She moved to Detroit in 1941 then Toledo in 1960. She spent winters in Punta Gorda, Florida since 1986, moving to Port Charlotte, FL in 2004. Ginny...
Arnold Paul Bigler
Apr 14, 2008
Arnold Paul Bigler "Bee Man" , 83 of Vermilion , died Monday, April 14, 2008 in Community Health Partners, Lorain after a lengthy illness. He was born January 15, 1925 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and has been a Vermilion resident since 1989 moving from Elyria and Chillicothe, OH. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy serving during WWII....
Paul M. Peltz
Apr 14, 2008
Paul M. Peltz, 81 of Lorain, died Monday, April 14, 2008 in Community Health Partners in Lorain, following a sudden illness. He was born July 29, 1926 in Lorain and has been a lifelong resident. He graduated from Lorain High School class of 1944B, then enlisting in the United States Navy in the fall of the same year. He...
Ronald E. Fleming
Apr 13, 2008
Roland "Ron" E. Fleming, Sr. Roland E. Fleming, 79, Englewood,Florida; formerly of Vermilion, Ohio, died April 13, 2008. Memorial Services will be announced by the Riddle Funeral Homne at a later date.
Roland E. Fleming
Apr 13, 2008
Roland "Ron" E. Fleming, 79 of Vermilion, died Sunday, April 13, 2008 in Englewood, FL. He was born May 28, 1928 in Birmingham. He joined the Vermilion Police Department as a patrolman in 1955. He served as Chief of Police from 1967-1989. He was instrumental in starting the Harbor Patrol and donated the use of his own boat until...
Donald John Kishman
Apr 11, 2008
Donald John Kishman, 87 of Huron, died Friday, April 11, 2008 in Community Health Partners in Lorain following a short illness. He was born January 15, 1921 in Vermilion Township and has been a lifelong resident. Donald was a graduate of Vermilion High School class of 1938. In 1943 he entered the Army Air Corp., and was taken as...
E. Linwood Creel
Apr 10, 2008
E. Linwood "Lin" Creel, Jr, 91 of Vermilion, died Thursday, April 10, 2008 at his home, after a lengthy illness. He was born February 2, 1917 in Morgantown, WV and moved to the Cleveland area when he graduated from West Virginia University with a B.A. in 1938. He attended Spenserian College for a year while working as a sales...
Pamela J. Dobbins
Apr 10, 2008
Pamela J. Dobbins (nee Eldridge) 53, of Vermilion died Thursday, April 10, 2008 in Community Health Partners West, Lorain. She was born October 25, 1954 in Memphis, TN and been a Vermilion resident most of her life. She worked in the May Company Credit Office in Sheffield.. She is survived by 2 sons, Justin Dobbins of Colorado Springs, CO...
Ruth E. Benn
Apr 7, 2008
Ruth E. Benn (nee Smith) 86, of Vermilion, died Monday, April 7, 2008 at Kingston of Vermilion after a lengthy illness. She was born July 6, 1921 in Fishkill, New York, and has lived in Vermilion 3 years moving from Waretown, New Jersey. She was an assembler for Blonder-Tougne Manufacturing in New Jersey. She enjoyed traveling, and playing with...
Nancy C. Shulte
Apr 7, 2008
Nancy C. Summers Nancy C. Schulte (nee Summers), 73, of Pompano Beach, FL died Monday, April 7, 2008 in Imperial Point Medical Center, Ft. Lauderdale. She was born November 21, 1934 in Lorain, grew up in Vermilion, and has been a resident of Pompano Beach, FL the past 24 years. Nancy graduated from Vermilion High School and St. Joseph...
Joseph Patrick Gioffredo
Apr 3, 2008
Joseph Patrick Gioffredo, 71 of Vermilion, died Thursday, April 3, 2008 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph after a lengthy illness. He was born December 9, 1936 in Sandusky, Ohio and has been a Vermilion resident since 1959. He worked as a custodian for the Vermilion High School and retired after 28 years as the head custodian...
John E. Dinger
Apr 2, 2008
John E. Dinger, 75 of Vermilion, died Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at his home after a lengthy illness. He was born June 11, 1932 in Heathville, PA and has been a Vermilion resident for the past 45 years moving from Lorain. John graduated from Brookville High School, Brookville, PA in 1949. He was a veteran of the US Air...
Samuel Markman
Mar 27, 2008
Samuel "Sam" Haskel Markman, 60 of Vermilion, died Thursday, March 27, 2008 after an automobile accident. He was born October 3, 1947 in New York City, NY and has been a Vermilion resident most of his life. He had also lived in Oberlin and Summerville, SC. He attended Vermilion High School and graduated from Lorain Community College with a...
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