All Obituaries

Karrie Dee (Gay) Householder, age 52, of 26581 Idlewood Lane, Piedmont died at 3:42 p.m. Saturday, October 17, 2020 in Community Hospice Truman House, New Philadelphia, Ohio. She was born April 28, 1968 in Midland, Michigan; a daughter of the late Orville John “Jack” Gay, Jr. and Carol Edith Champine Gay. Karrie was a 1986 graduate of Lakeland High School then graduated with a degree in Mental Health from Belmont Tech in 1995. After graduation she went to work for Jenkins...

Artie Smith Lawson, age 96, of Bose Road, Freeport died at 7:26 a.m. Wednesday, October 7, 2020 in Cleveland Clinic Justin T. Rogers Hospice Facility on Ridgewood Road in Akron. Born October 4, 1924 in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee; she was a daughter of the late Jeff Smith and Emma Bice Smith. She worked at a Dickey-Grabler Company in Cleveland where she polished casket moldings and handles. Artie was an animal lover. She was obsessed with cats, dogs, turkeys, peacocks, burros, and anything...

Phyllis Yvonne Dickey Gardner, age 85, of Newcomerstown, formerly of Tippecanoe went to heaven to be with the Lord at 9:34 a.m. Friday, September 25, 2020 in Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital, Dover, Ohio. Born June 19, 1935 in Ross County, Ohio, she was a daughter of the late Simon Sylvester Pool and Ida Pearl Mustard Pool. Phyllis was a 1952 graduate of Freeport High School. She was a protestant by faith belonging to the Assembly of God Church in Tippecanoe. In the last five years she...

Eleanor Louise Campbell, age 94, of Dover, originally from Cadiz and Freeport died at 10:40 p.m. Thursday, June 18, 2020 in Park Village Nursing Home, Dover, Ohio. Louise was born May 20, 1926, a daughter of the late Harold Adams and Ruth Alberta Dunlap Adams. She was a 1944 graduate of Cadiz High School. She was the first woman district manager for Silco Stores Inc.  where she worked for several years. She retired in 2000 after 25 years as the CFO for the Freeport Press in Freeport,...

Judy Kay Gorby, age 53, of Dennison went home to Jesus at 11:00 p.m. Saturday, May 30, 2020 in her home after a courageously fought battle with stage IV lung cancer. She was born November 5, 1966 in Dover, Ohio to Judy Kay (Lowe) Sullivan of Tippecanoe and the late Charles “Bud” Reynolds.  Judy Kay was a 1985 graduate from Lakeland High School, Freeport. After graduating she attended Belmont Tech in Cadiz and St. Clairsville receiving a typing certificate. Later, she took...

George Ferris, age 77, of 25177 Cadiz Road, Freeport died Tuesday, May 5, 2020 in Aultman Hospital, Canton, Stark County, Ohio from complications after a heart procedure. He was born February 22, 1943 in Shippenville, Pennsylvania. He was a son of the late Floyd Bernard Ferris and Edna May Brown Ferris. George worked for Schwebel’s Baking Company in Solon, Ohio for thirty years in sanitation on the bread line. After retirement, they moved to the Piedmont area for their love of...

Connie Jean Fritter, age 70, of 203 East Main Street, Holloway died at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 21, 2020 in St. Cloud Regional Medical Center, St. Cloud, Florida from pneumonia, a complication of the COVID-19 virus. She was born July 11, 1949 in Wheeling, West Virginia; a daughter of the late Eva Jean Bradley VanFossen and Thomas Wayne VanFossen. Connie graduated in June of 1967 from Lakeland High School, Freeport, Ohio where she played the clarinet in the band. On August 5, 1967 she...

Mary L. Baker, age 93 of Coshocton, formerly of Freeport, died on April 14, 2020, in her apartment at Windsorwood Place, Coshocton, Ohio. Born in Massillon, Ohio March 9, 1927, she was a daughter of the late John Homer Ferrell and Marion Elizabeth Culberson Ferrell. She was a 1946 graduate of Freeport High School where she had been a cheerleader. She was preceded in death by her husband of nearly 68 years, Lewis E. (Ed) Baker, who died September 8, 2015.  They were married October...

Liam Mathew Cunningham was born on Thursday, April 9, 2020 at 12:45 p.m. at OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He soon was welcomed into the arms of Jesus. He was the infant son of Scott and Kayleigh Cunningham of Freeport.   Surviving in addition to his parents are his grandparents: Harlen and Rebecca Smith of Freeport and Charlie and Donna Cunningham of Quaker City; great-grandparents: Larry and Shirley Wells of Freeport, Mark and Sherri Kramer of Tippecanoe, and Donald and...

Jack Edward Roehrich, age 17, of 25611 Cadiz Road, Freeport died Sunday, March 22, 2020 on Skullfork Road near Freeport, as a result of a tragic accident associated with flood waters. Jack was born February 16, 2003 in Cambridge, Ohio; a son of Mark Allan Roehrich and Leila Ann McCarty Roehrich. Jack's primary education was provided all through his sophomore year of high school by homeschooling. This year, Jack's junior year, he began attending Mid-East Career and Technology Center...