obituaries
Obituaries
Eleanor Jean (Mcelfresh) Kuntz
Jan 6, 2018
Eleanor Jean Kuntz 87, of Malta passed away at 5:30 a.m. Saturday, January 6, 2018 at Genesis Hospital in Zanesville. She was born April 7, 1930 in Morgan County the daughter of the late, Earl McElfresh and Bessie Walker McElfresh. She grew up in Morgan County and graduated from M&M High School in 1947. She moved to Zanesville and...
Michael Dulaney
Jan 4, 2018
Michael Alan Dulaney, 67, of Malta, passed away on Thurs. Jan. 4, 2018 at his residence surrounded by his family. He was born on Jan. 29, 1950 in Chesterhill, Ohio to the late Calvin and Wilma Jean Weatherby Dulaney. He retired from Gould Inc. in McConnelsville. He attended the Malta United Methodist Church and was a member of the...
Kenneth W Vernon
Jan 1, 2018
Kenneth W. Vernon, 93, of Amesville, passed away on Mon. Jan. 1, 2018 at his daughters home in Vincent, Ohio. He was born on April 21, 1924 in Amesville to the late Fred and Myrle Linscott Vernon. He retired from ODOT and then worked as a janitor and bus driver for the Federal Hocking School System. He was a...
Hayward “Rabbit” Goins
2018
Hayward "Rabbit" Goins, 96, of Malta passed away peacefully at home on the 1st of December 2018. He was born May 13, 1922 in Morgan County, a son of the late Sherman and Olive "Ollie" Mayle-Goins and was a founding member of the Malta Baptist Holiness Church also known as "Boxer Norman's Church". He was joined in holy matrimony...
Mollie Moellendick
Dec 31, 2017
Mollie Jane Moellendick, 65 of Canal Fulton, formerly of McConnelsville, passed away on Sun. Dec. 31, 2017 at the Chapel Hill Retirement Center in Canal Fulton. She was born on Nov. 28, 1952 in Nelsonville, Ohio to the late Gerald and Mary McKibben Maffin. She was a member of the Malta United Methodist Church, OCCL Mothers Club and a...
Annette Snider
Dec 31, 2017
Annette "Nettie" L Snider, 82, of McConnelsville, passed away on Sun. Dec. 31, 2107 at her residence. She was born on April 1, 1935 in Chillicothe, Ohio to the late Herbert and Ruth Zisler Pierce. She was a homemaker and enjoyed raising her family. She was a member of the Port Morgan Boat Club, Morgan County Senior Citizens and...
James F Locke
Dec 27, 2017
James F. Locke, 74, of Stockport, died in his home on Weds, Dec. 27, 2017. He was born on April 7, 1943 to the late James Lee and Opal Pauline Bachelor Locke. He was married on Oct. 28, 1966 to the late Cheryl Diane Allberry Locke. After high school he served 4 years in the U.S. Navy. He was...
Freda Thompson
Dec 24, 2017
Freda Virginia Thompson was born on March 5, 1925 to John and Bernice (Smith) Tate of Sharpsburg, Ohio. Freda was valedictorian of Amesville High school in 1942. She trained under Lena Gitter in the Montessori method of teaching and taught for many years at John Burroughs Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Freda loved books and she loved children and...
Roy E. Patterson
Dec 24, 2017
Roy E. Patterson, 72, of McConnelsville passed away at 11:40 p.m. Sunday, December 24, 2017 at his home surrounded by his loving family. He was born October 16, 1945 in Zanesville to the late Clifford D. Patterson and Frances Spencer Patterson. Roy was retired from Gould Corporation of McConnelsville after 38 years of service. He was a life long...
John L Blind
Dec 23, 2017
John L. Blind, age 67, of Waterford, Ohio, died at 6:05 p.m. on Saturday, December 23, 2017 at Marietta Memorial Hospital. He was born on July 20, 1950, in Marietta, a son of the late Ralph and Evelyn Waite Blind. John retired from Burkhart Trucking and Excavating in Lowell, Ohio as a Heavy Equipment Operator. He attended the Dale...
Violet Galloway
Dec 21, 2017
Violet Galloway, 89, of McConnelsville, formerly of Chesterhill, passed away on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017 at the Genesis Hospital in Zanesville, Ohio. She was born on June 27, 1928 in Rutland, Ohio to the late Vinton and Sara Tabler. She retired from the Mark Rest Center Nursing Home where she worked in the housekeeping department. She was a member...
Janet S. (Downing) Eddleblute
Dec 19, 2017
Janet S. Eddleblute 67, of Malta , passed away December 19, 2017 at Genesis Hospital in Zanesville. She was born December 20, 1949 in Zanesville the daughter of Russell Downing and the late Florence June Clapper Downing. She was a Barber for 50 years and worked in Morgan County since 1984. She is survived by her father, Russell Downing...
Robert Mckee
Dec 16, 2017
Robert (Bob) McKee, 95, of Zanesville, passed away on Dec. 16, 2017 at the Bethesda Hospital surrounded by his family. He worked for 35 years and retired from Gould National Battery. He was born Feb. 12, 1922 in Sharpsburg, Ohio to the late Frances J. Gibson and Robert M. McKee Sr. He was raised in Bartlett by his maternal...
Blanche Lucille Weaver
Dec 16, 2017
Blanche Lucille Weaver of McConnelsville, 88 years of age, passed away at 4 :08 p.m. Saturday, December 16, 2017, at Riverside Landing.Lucille was the daughter of John and Bertha Linscott Weaver. She was born April 18, 1929 and grew up in Marion Township until her family moved to Malta. She graduated from M&M High School in 1947. She was...
Betty-Lou Eisenman
Dec 15, 2017
Betty-Lou Eisenman, 81, of McConnelsville, passed away on Friday, Dec. 15, 2017 at the Highland Oaks Nursing Home in McConnelsville. She was born on November 3, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to the late Harry and Helen Kitsos Eisenman. She retired after 44 years of service working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She is survived by her sister, Rose-Ann And Myron...
Joseph Sheridan “Joe” Elliott
Dec 10, 2017
Joseph Sheridan "Joe" Elliott , 77 of McConnelsville, formerly of Stockport, died at 4:32 a.m. Sunday, December 10, 2017, at Highland Oaks Health Center in McConnelsville. He was born July 26, 1940 at the Elliott family home located between Reinersville and Woodgrove in Manchester Township, Morgan County, Ohio the third child of Finely Orvill and Olive Grace Rohrbough Elliott....
Rena Pearl (Patterson) Bingman
Dec 2, 2017
Rena Pearl Bingman, formerly of McConnelsville passed away December 2, 2107 at Mt. Carmel East Hospital. She was born April 8, 1922 in Deerfield Twp, Morgan County to the late Perley W. and Rose Taylor Patterson and graduated form M. & M. High School, Class of 1939. She retired after more than 30 years as bookkeeper for the Morgan...
William R. Beatty
Dec 1, 2017
William R. Beatty, age 69, of Chesterhill, Ohio, passed away at 5:10 a.m. Friday, December 1, 2017 in McConnelsville at the Highland Oaks Health Center. He was born December 31, 1947 in Chesterhill, a son of the late Durward and Faye Steffy Beatty. Bill was a graduate of Wright State University in Dayton. He was a Bookeeper for the...
Carol J Maxwell
Nov 30, 2017
Carol J. Maxwell, 80, of McConnelsville passed away Thursday, November 30, 2107 at the Marietta Memorial Hospital. She was born May 9, 1937 in Athens County to the late, Paul Jarvis and Wilden Bennet Jarvis. Carol was a retired nurse's aid having worked for 30 years. She was a member of the Kingdom Hall Of Jehovah's Witness of McConnelsville....
Howard N. Cox
Nov 29, 2017
Howard N. Cox age 94 of Malta , passed away Weds. Nov. 29, 2017 at 1:10 p.m. at Highland Oaks Nursing Home in McConnelsville. He was born July 6, 1923 in Parkersburg, West Virginia, a son of the late Leonard and Leona Taylor Cox. Howard was employed at Ohio Power in Beverly for 26 years as a master maintenance...
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