Obituaries

Obituaries

Mark E. Schudel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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