obituaries

Jan 24, 2009

MCCONELSVILLE - Jay L. Nesselroad, 65, of McConnelsville, died at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital in Zanesville. He was born Nov. 10, 1943, in McConnelsville to the late Kenneth E. and Helen L. Parks Nesselroad. He retired in 2003 as a maintenance production superintendent from American Electric Power Muskingum River Plant after 36...

Jan 21, 2009

McCONNELSVILLE - Donna Gaile Dew, 71, of Melody Lane, McConnelsville, passed away at 9:10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2009, at her home. Born Jan. 12, 1938, to the late William Guild and Katherine Mell Kester, she retired from the Ohio Department of Human Resourses after 20 years and after several years at the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles. She...

Jan 18, 2009

McCONNELSVILLE - Fred Scott Baker, 78, of Ohio 377, Pennsville, passed away at 5:32 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital. He was born July 10, 1930, in Stockport, to the late Clyde Baker and Bella Goodwill Baker. He was a retired laborer for Taylor Woodcraft in Malta and a Korean War Army veteran. He was...

Jan 15, 2009

McCONNELSVILLE - Florence E. Hook, 75, of Ohio 78, McConnelsville, went to be with our Lord at 1:20 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, at her daughters' residences after a battle with cancer. She was born Jan. 5, 1934, in Snowden Township, Pa., a daughter of the late Edward and Florence Fellabaum. Mrs. Hook was a loving wife, mother, grandmother...

Jan 13, 2009

McCONNELSVILLE - Harold Lee Murphy, 73, of Ohio 376 SE, McConnelsville, passed away at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009, at his home. He was born Oct. 12, 1935, in Malta, to the late Fredie Harold Murphey and Mary E. Green Murphey. He retired from ITT Higby's in New Lexington and graduated from M&M High School in 1953. He...

Jan 10, 2009

CHESTERHILL - Lola E. "Mitty" Carnes, 60, of Canton, passed away at 11:05 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center in Canton. She was born Aug. 17, 1948, in Chesterhill, to the late Leonard W. Carnes and Iva L. Dalton Carnes. She was a member of the Bethel Wesleyan Church near Bartlett, attended the Starlight School in...

Jan 5, 2009

CHESTERHILL - Allen Christopher Goins, 32, of Ohio 377, Chesterhill, passed away at noon Monday, Jan. 5, 2009, at his home. He was born Aug. 9, 1976, in Marietta, to the late Donald L. Goins Sr. and Rita D. Lucas Goins. He is survived by two daughters, Dashia Goins of Zanesville and Daelynn Abigail "Abby" Matheney of Stockport; two...

Dec 23, 2008

McCONNELSVILLE - Edythe Teressa Hemry, 91, of Summerville at North Hills, formerly of McConnelsville, passed away at 2:10 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008, at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital. She was born Oct. 6, 1917, in Bloom Township in Morgan County, to the late Earl C. Roberts and Gertrude Sines Roberts. She was an operator of Holbein Feed and Supply...

Dec 20, 2008

McCONNELSVILLE - Richard L. Adkins, 84, of Stockport, died at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, in his home. He was born Sept. 10, 1924, in East Liverpool, a son of the late John L. and Margret Parr Adkins. Mr. Adkins was a lifetime farmer and retired from Taylor Woodcraft in Malta. He was a World War II Army...

Dec 14, 2008

McCONNELSVILLE - Richard Melvin Galloway, age 81, of 9th St., McConnelsville died December 14, 2008 at 5:26pm in the Good Samaritan Hospital, Zanesville. He was born August 23, 1927 in Thorpe, WV, the son of John and Vaisie (Edwards) Galloway. Richard worked as a Construction Worker. He is survived by his wife, Violet Tabler of Galloway; three daughters, Barbara...

Dec 9, 2008

McCONNELSVILLE - Dana L. "Pete" Clemens, 78, of Malta, passed away at 7:55 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at Genesis Good Samaritan Hospital. He was born April. 22, 1930, in Malta, to the late Raymond and Laura Fleming Clemens. He was a meat cutter for A&P Groceries and retired custodian after 14 years with Morgan High School. He was...

Carl "Fred" King, 73, of McConnelsville, passed away on Tues, June 3, 2025 at the Ohio State University Hospital in Columbus.  He was born on Sept. 25, 1951 in Zanesville, Ohio to the late Frances and Dorothy Bartimus King.  He proudly served his country in the U.S. Army.  He worked at the Central Ohio Coal Company and then retired...

David Alan Bell, 67, a child of Boston, Massachusetts and most recently of Stockport, Ohio passed from this life Sunday, November 14, 2021.  He was born in 1954 to the late Alfred S. and Althea Elizabeth (née Hunt) Bell.  The second of five children, he is pre-deceased by his brother Charles Frederick Bell.  Surviving siblings are his two sisters,...