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Glenda Joyce Blake - Visitation, 6 - 8 p.m. today at McClure-Schafer-Lankford Funeral Home with cremation following. Lowell E. ‘Buster’ Foreman - Service, 1 p.m. Saturday at Leavitt Funeral Home, Belpre. Burial, Barlow Central Cemetery. Visitation, 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Friday. Shirley Marie Catherine Roddy - Funeral Liturgy with Mass, 10 a.m. Friday, at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption, with the Rev. Fr. Edward Maxfield officiating. Graveside service, Barlow Central Cemetery. Visitation, 4 - 7 p.m. today, at the Marietta Chapel of Cawley & Peoples Funeral Homes with a Vigil ...

Glenda Joyce Blake

Glenda Joyce Blake, 64, of Marietta, passed away at 2:30 pm. Monday, March 10, 2025, at Marietta Memorial Hospital. She was born February 7, 1961 in Lexington, Kentucky a daughter of Lewis and Mary Maxwell. Glenda was employed at Magnum Magnetics. She enjoyed her dogs, “Doddle” and “Baby” and Molly” and being around family and friends. She had a big heart and will be missed by many. She was married 19 wonderful years to Randy “her Darlin” Blake who survives with 3 children: Roger (Ashley) Adams, Seth (Deanne) Adams and Lindsey Lightfritz; grandchildren: mason, ...

Martha Louise Clark Farson

Martha Louise Clark Farson departed from us on Sunday March 9, 2025 at Charter Senior Living of Godfrey, Illinois. She was born May 9, 1927 in Ava, Noble County, Ohio, the second of Helen and Paul Clark’s three children. She graduated from the Caldwell, Ohio high school in 1945, and from Ohio State University in 1949 with a degree in Home Economics. She worked as a County Extension Agent in Brown County, Ohio. Martha married Robert F. Farson on September 13, 1953 in Caldwell, Ohio. They settled in Lowell, Ohio where they were members of the United Methodist church, and raised four ...

Lowell E. ‘Buster’ Foreman

Lowell Foreman, 84, of Vincent, Ohio, died Monday morning, March 10, 2025, at Marietta Memorial Hospital following a brief illness. He was born June 18, 1940, in Barlow, to Clarence William and Mary Alice Hayes Foreman. He graduated from Vincent High School in 1958. He served many years on ...

Robert “Bob” Allen Henthorne

Robert “Bob” Allen Henthorne departed this life on Saturday, March 8, 2025, at the age of 87. He was born on September 29, 1937, in Marietta, Ohio to Harold Emerson Henthorne and Virginia Mae Roush Henthorne. A lifelong resident of Marietta, Bob was a graduate of Marietta High School, ...

Ava Perdue

Ava Perdue, 67, of Vienna, passed away March 8, 2025, in Parkersburg. Arrangements have been entrusted to Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.