Donna Jean Betts, 91, of Whipple, died peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. She lived near Marietta her entire life, being raised in Norwood and then always living near Stanleyville. She was a woman of varying interests and dedications over the years. She always wore her trademark black ...
Chilean journalist Eva Vergara, who in her four decades at The Associated Press covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died Tuesday. She was 68. Vergara died as a result of a recently diagnosed cancer, said her son Camilo Torres Vergara. As a correspondent in Chile, Vergara reported extensively on the end of the Pinochet era and the country’s transition to democracy in 1990. She covered the many human rights violations and the thousands of missing ...
Beverly K. Heddleson, 78, of Caldwell, Ohio, died Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, at Altercare Summit Acres. Visitation, 2 - 4 and 6 - 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, McVay-Perkins Funeral Home, Caldwell. Funeral, 11 a.m. Oct. 5.
Rebecca “Becky” McMains Merka Holdren, 71, succumbed to complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease on August 28, 2024, at Camden Clark/WVU Hospital in Parkersburg, WV. She was the daughter of Ray E. and Kathryn Fulton McMains, late of Fleming, OH. Becky was a dear wife, ...
Elenore G. Skidmore, 90, of St. Marys, passed away Sept. 24, 2024, at Stonerise Belmont. A private cremation will take place at Mid-Ohio Valley Cremation Society.
Wanda May Waite, 85, passed away peacefully and entered Heaven’s gate on September 23, 2024, to see her blessed Savior face to face and all the loved ones who have gone before her. She was born on August 18, 1939, a daughter of the late Ivan and Ada Waite. Wanda was a graduate of Bartlett ...
