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Stella Andrzejewski
Feb 9, 2004
Stella Andrzejewski, age 95, formerly of Lorain and Elyria, died Monday, February 9, 2004 at the Life Care Center of Orange Park in Orange Park, Florida, following a lengthy illness. She was born December 31, 1908 in Toledo, Ohio and had lived in Lorain for 62 years, moving to Elyria in 1996. She had lived in Orange Park, Florida...
Roger Wayne Perry
Feb 8, 2004
Roger Wayne Perry, 61, of Lorain, died Sunday, February 8, 2004 at his home after a lengthy illness. He was born March 2, 1942 in Huntington, West Virginia. He has been a Amherst and Lorain resident for the past 14 years. He worked as a supervisor for the State of Ohio Bureau of Employment Services in Lorain for 8...
Lillian C. Stockman
Feb 5, 2004
Lillian C. Stockman, (nee Reising), 92, of Vermilion, died Thursday, February 5, 2004 in Mill Manor Nursing Home, Vermilion, after a lenghy illness. She was born on September 28, 1911 in Lorain, Ohio and was a lifelong Vermilion resident. She worked at South Shore Packing, Vermilion for 25 years where she was a packer and a server. Survivors include...
John J. Donovan
Feb 4, 2004
John J. Donovan, 66, of Wakeman, died suddenly Wednesday, February 4, 2004 in Allen Memorial Hospital. He was born May 7, 1937, in Pittsburgh, PA, and had lived in Wakeman the past 10 years moving from Cleveland. He worked at Bettcher Industries in Birmingham for 25 years. He attended many trade schools including Polaris, Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, and...
William Lydic
Feb 1, 2004
William "Will" Gorman Lydic, 66 of Vermilion, died Sunday, February 1, 2004 in Akron City Hospital, after a sudden illness. He was born August 12, 1937 in Indiana, PA, and has been a Vermilion area resident for the past 60 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force serving between 1956-1959. He retired from Avon Ford Automotive...

Richard P. Michaels
Jan 31, 2004
Richard P. Michaels, 77 of Lorain, died Saturday, January 31, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a short illness. He was born September 22, 1926 in Lorain, Ohio. He lived in Bedford Heights, OH, for more than thirty years before returning to Lorain nine years ago. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1949. He worked as a...

Eugene Davis
Jan 28, 2004
Eugene "Leon" Davis, 76 of Vermilion, died Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at his home after a brief illness. He was born June 13, 1927 in Guntown, Mississippi and has been a Vermilion resident since 1960 moving from Memphis TN. He worked for Ford Motor, Lorain for 31 years retiring in 1991. He was a veteran of the US Army...

Jackson Andrew Focht
Jan 28, 2004
Jackson Andrew Focht, infant son of Jason and Annette (nee Neal) of Milan, was stillborn on, Friday, May 2, 2008 in Community Health Partners in Lorain. In addition to his parents he is survived by a sister, Alexandria Marie Focht; paternal grandmother, Donna Haller of Lorain; paternal grandfather, Mark Haller of Elyria; maternal grandfather, Vicky Neal of Vermilion; maternal...

Jesse L. Visci
Jan 28, 2004
Jesse L. Visci, 87 of Sandusky, formerly of Amherst, died Wednesday, January 28, 2004 in Parkvue Health Care Center in Sandusky following a brief illness. He was born September 9, 1916 in Lorain, Ohio, and had lived in Amherst and Lorain all of his life. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army. He worked for the U.S. Steel...
Charles Smith
Jan 26, 2004
Charles Eugene Smith, Sr, 81 of Wellington, died Monday, January 26, 2004 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph, Lorain after a lengthy illness. He was born November 27, 1922 in Nelsonville, OH and had been a Vermilion resident for 20 years moving from Lorain and had spent the last 5 years in Wellington. He had worked for...

Alyce Jaeger
Jan 26, 2004
Alyce M. Jaeger, 94 of Vermilion, died Monday, January 26, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a brief illness. She was born March 18, 1909 in Amherst, Ohio and has been a Vermilion resident since 1968. She was a graduate of Amherst High School and Oberlin College. She worked as a Teacher for Castalia, Amherst, and Elyria Public...

Charles Henry Loomis
Jan 23, 2004
Charles Henry Loomis (know best as "Henry), 96 of Vermilion, died Friday, January 23, 2004 at his home after a short illness. He was born July 9, 1907, on the family farm near Bowling Green, Ohio. His family later moved to Scotch Ridge, Ohio, and on to Perry, Michigan where he graduated from Perry High School. He attended Hiram...
Dennis Charlton
Jan 20, 2004
Dennis Clifford Charlton, 48 of Vermilion, died Tuesday, January 20, 2004. He was born May 16, 1955 in Huntington, WV. He has been a Vermilion resident for the past 5 years, moving from Oberlin. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army & Army National Guard. He worked as a Postal Worker for Cleveland Post Office for the past...

Sophia Rita Fackler
Jan 17, 2004
Sophia Rita Fackler (nee Warner), 93, formerly of Vermilion, died Saturday, January 17, 2004 at Parkvue Health Care Center in Sandusky after a long illness. Born December 15, 1910 in Lorain, Ohio, she was a Vermilion resident since 1948 before moving to Sandusky. She was co-owner with her husband of Lakeland Lodges in Vermilion and a former member of...

Florence Bommer
Jan 17, 2004
Florence Eleanore Bommer (nee Krute), 78 of Vermilion, died Saturday, January 17, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a sudden illness. She was born December 7, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. She was a life long resident of North Ridgeville before moving to Vermilion a year ago to the home of her granddaughter. She worked as an assembler for...

Lois A. Setzer
Jan 16, 2004
Lois A. Setzer (nee Siburt), 71, of Spencer, died Friday, January 16, 2004 in Grace Hospital, Amherst. She was born June 17, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio . She had lived most of her life in Medina before moving to West Virginia. She worked as a Licensed Practical Nurse for Willowood Nursing Home, Medina She enjoyed sewing, crafts, feeding humming...

Iva Bell Fischer
Jan 16, 2004
Iva Bell Fischer (nee Brabant), 90, of Vermilion, died Friday, January 16, 2004 in Mill Manor Nursing Home after a lengthy illness. She was born September 13, 1913 in Sandusky, Ohio. She has been a Vermilion resident for the past 67 years. She was a retired registered nurse for Good Samaritan Hospital (now known as Firelands Community Hospital) as...
Gwana Sigler
Jan 14, 2004
Gwana C. Sigler (nee Graham), 61 formerly of Vermilion, died Wednesday, January 14, 2004 in New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph after a 2 year illness. She was born November 21, 1942 in Logan, WV. She has been a Wellington resident for the past 7 months, moving from Vermilion where she had lived for 18 years. She had...
Nicholas Statford
Jan 13, 2004
Nicholas Vincent Statford, 18 of Vermilion, died Tuesday, January 13, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a life long illness with Cystic Fibrosis. He was born August 10, 1985 in Elyria, Ohio, and has been a life long Vermilion resident. He volunteered at Rainbows Babies and Children�s Hospital. He enjoyed drawing, reading, playing Nintendo and listening to music....
Patricia Ols
Jan 13, 2004
photo e-mailed Patricia L. Ols (nee Neal), 73 of Vermilion, died Tuesday, January 13, 2004 in Community Health Partners West after a sudden illness. She was born February 9, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. She has been a Vermilion resident since 1993 moving from Cleveland. She was a registered nurse for Deaconess Hospital in Cleveland for 25 years, and she...
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