Obituaries
Obituaries
Gladys H. Hoadley
Feb 21, 2005
Gladys H. Hoadley (nee Smith), 93, of Lorain, died Monday, February 21, 2005 in Community Health Partners West after a short illness. She was born October 19, 1911 in Elyria, OH and has been an Elyria resident for most of her life. She was a member of the Elyria Eastern Star. She enjoyed leather work, gardening, cooking, canning and...
Melvin Niggle
Feb 18, 2005
Melvin E.L. Niggle, 96, of Lorain, died Friday, February 18, 2005 in Anchor Lodge Retirement Village, Lorain. He was born April 17, 1908 in Cleveland. He was a self employed fruit farmer. He was a member of Brownhlem United Church of Christ, the Farm Bureau and the Grape Growers Association. He was proud of his many ribbons and awards...
Nancy Hobson
Feb 17, 2005
Nancy Puckett Hobson, 49, of Vermilion, died Thursday, February 17, 2005 at her home after a lengthy illness. She was born April 30, 1955 in Nashville, TN, and had lived most of her life in Vermilion. She graduated from Lorain County Community College of Nursing. She was a registered nurse and worked most recently for Serateck Biological, Amherst, as...
Charles C. Costello
Feb 16, 2005
Charles C. "Charlie" Costello, age 85, of Lorain, died Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at his home. He was born on May 17, 1919 in Stanford, PA and has lived in Lorain most of his life. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving during World War II. He was employed as a mill worker for the US...
Ray G. Bullion
Feb 16, 2005
Ray G. Bullion, 67, of Vermilion, died Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at his home after a sudden illness. He was born September 7, 1937 in Burdine, KY. He has been a Vermilion resident for the past 45 years, moving from Kentucky. He retired in 1992 from Ford Automotive Plant in Lorain after 33 years, as a line supervisor. After...
Addean Hershberger
Feb 9, 2005
Addean P. Hershberger, 85 of Sheffield Lake formerly of Vermilion, died Wednesday, February 9, 2005 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph, Lorain, after a short illness. She was born December 21, 1919 in Cleveland, and has been a Vermilion resident since 1984 moving from Cleveland. She worked as an accounting clerk for the Board of Cuyahoga County...
Myles Robert Stull
Feb 9, 2005
Myles Robert Stull, infant son of Mark and Patricia (nee Hasley) Stull of Vermilion, died Wednesday, February 9, 2005 at his home. He was born January 6, 2005 in Elyria, Ohio. Survivors include his parents; brother, Calvin Stull at home; maternal grandparents, Robert and Mary Hasley of Berlin Hts.; paternal grandmother, Fae Stull of Vermilion, and several aunts and...
Wanda M. Canon
Feb 7, 2005
Wanda M. Canon, age 82, of Lorain, died Monday, February 7, 2005 at Kingston of Vermilion following a longtime illness. She was born on December 16, 1922 in Copperhill, TN and has been a Lorain resident for over 50 years, moving from Tennessee. She had resided at Kingston of Vermilion since 2001. She worked as an assembler for the...
Katherine Alice Laub
Feb 3, 2005
Katherine Alice Laub (nee Buell), 93, of Vermilion, died Thursday, February 3, 2005 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph, Lorain. She was born May 31, 1911 in Vermilion, and had been a Vermilion resident over 30 years. She had lived in Elyria, Pompano Beach, Florida and Cleveland Heights. She was an office worker at Thew Shovel, Lorain....
William Mcphillips
Jan 28, 2005
William J. McPhillips, 69, of Wakeman, died Friday, January 28, 2005, in Allen Memorial Hospital, Oberlin after a lengthy illness. He was born September 5, 1935 in Lorain, where he lived for 38 years before moving his family to Wakeman. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked as a stationary engineer for Ford Motor Company, Lorain,...
Douglas Kennedy
Jan 27, 2005
Douglas Kennedy, 76 of Vermilion, died Thursday, January 27, 2005 in Community Health Partners West after a four year illness. He was born November 20, 1928 in Elyria, Ohio and has been a Vermilion resident for the past 17 years, moving from North Olmsted. He graduated from North Eaton High School and Oberlin College. He was a member of...
Joseph J. Carrier
Jan 25, 2005
Joseph "Pep" J. Carrier, age 91, of Lorain, died Tuesday, January 25, 2005 at Amherst Manor following a long illness. He was born on August 15, 1913 in Lorain and has been a lifelong resident. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving during World War II. He worked as a millwright for the US Steel Company...
Annie Davis
Jan 17, 2005
Annie "Lillian" Davis (nee Smith), age 74, of Vermilion, died Monday, January 17, 2005 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph after a short illness. She was born on March 21, 1930 in McCool, MS. She has been a Vermilion resident since 1959 moving from Memphis, TN. She was a member of the Eversprings Missionary Baptist Church in...
Loretta Jean Jeancola
Jan 16, 2005
Loretta Jean Jeancola (nee Gabriel), 69 of Vermilion, died Sunday, January 16, 2005 at her home after a two year illness. She was born August 15, 1935 in Athens, Ohio. She has been a Vermilion resident for the past 6 years, moving from Lorain. She had been a dance instructor for Arthur Murry Dance Studio in the 1950's. She...
Harriet Somers Smith
Jan 8, 2005
Harriet Somers Smith, 90, of Vermilion, died Saturday, January 8, 2005 in Doctors Hospital, Columbus. She was born December 15, 1914 in Elyria where she lived most of her life. She had lived in Vermilion the past 15 years, but had also lived in La Jolla, CA and Marco Island, FL. She graduated from Elyria High School in 1934...
Jack R. Kleinhans
Jan 7, 2005
Jack Raymond Kleinhans, Sr., 77 of Vermilion, died Friday, January 7, 2005 in Specialty Hospital of Lorain after a lengthy illness. He was born May 3, 1927 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served during World War II and the Korean Conflict. He worked for Cleveland Yacht and Supply Co. and later was...
Kenneth Mcdaniel
Jan 5, 2005
Kenneth L. McDaniel Sr., 87 of Homestead, FL, died Wednesday, January 5, 2005 in Hialeah, FL after a short illness. He was born September 12, 1917 in Mt. Blanchard, OH and had lived in Vermilion and Bells, TN before moving to Homestead, FL. Mr. McDaniel was a Sergeant for the Vermilion Police Department for 25 years, retiring in 1979....
Roscoe Ellis
Jan 4, 2005
Roscoe Ellis, age 61, of Lorain, died Tuesday, January 4, 2005 in St. John West Shore Hospital in Westlake, following a brief illness. He was born on October 9, 1943 in Switzer, West Virginia and raised in Chapmanville, West Virginia. He moved to Cleveland in 1964 and then to the Lorain County area in 1969. Ellis was employed as...
Ann M. Miller
Jan 3, 2005
Ann M. Miller (nee Flesher), 75, of Vermilion, died Monday, January 3, 2005 at her home after a 1 1/2 year illness. She was born November 2, 1929 in New Martinsville, WV and had been a Vermilion resident since 1957 moving from Lorain. She retired as the Director Human Resources for Bettcher Industries where she had worked from 1969...
Emil Jeancola
Dec 30, 2004
Emil A. Jeancola, 82 of Vermilion, died Thursday, December 30, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a lengthy illness. He was born August 17, 1922 in Lorain, OH and has been a Vermilion resident for the past 6 years. He was a veteran of the US Army serving in Germany and France during WWII. He received various metals...
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