Obituaries

Jan 22, 2013

Clark Anderson Godby, age 82 of Georgetown, Ohio died Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at the Hospice Inpatient Care Center at Licking Memorial Hospital in Newark, Ohio. He was retired from Cincinnati Milacron, but had worked many other jobs. Clark was a milk truck driver, a meat cutter, life insurance agent and delivered oil. He was a Hamersville High...

Jan 19, 2013

Gerald Smitson, age 82 of Georgetown, Ohio died Saturday, January 19, 2013 at the Meadowwood Nursing and Rehabilation Center in Georgetown, Ohio. He worked at the Sullivan Shoe Factory in Georgetown, Ohio and the Shoe-Zees Shoe Factory in Higginsport, Ohio and was a United States Army Veteran. Mr. Smitson was born January 11, 1931 in Georgetown, Ohio the...

Jan 14, 2013

Bonita Leigh Steele, age 59 of Decatur, Ohio died Monday, January 14, 2013 at her residence. She was a homemaker. Bonnie was born November 12, 1953 in Cincinnati, Ohio the daughter of the late John and Betty (Becker) Steele.

Ms. Steele is survived by three children - Tina Brannock-Flinchum and husband Stanley of Alexandria,...

Jan 14, 2013

George Daniel Klump, age 83 of Ripley, Ohio, died Monday, January 14, 2013 at his residence. He was a farmer and a member of St. Michael Catholic Church in Ripley, Ohio. Mr. Klump was born September 13, 1929 in Ripley, Ohio the son of the late August and Anna (Schwallie) Klump. He was also preceded in death by...

Jan 13, 2013

Laura Ann Cooper White, age 52 of Ripley, Ohio, lost her long battle with cancer on Sunday, January 13, 2013 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Laura took care of her twin daughters Nicole and Sarah but also had worked for Browning Manufacturing, the American Cancer Society and Ripley Union Lewis Huntington Schools. She was a 1978 graduate...

Jan 7, 2013

Beulah Mae Slater, age 90 of Georgetown, Ohio died Monday, January 7, 2013 at the Eastgatesprings of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a homemaker and had been employed in retail clothing sales at Woolworth Department Store and Big Wheel. Mrs. Slater was born May 3, 1922 in Falmouth, Kentucky the daughter of the late Jeremiah and Margaret...

Jan 7, 2013

Mary Louise DeVore Koerner, age 85 of Ripley, Ohio, died Monday January 7, 2013 at Hospice of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. She worked at the former U.S. Shoe factory in Ripley for many years until its closing. She then became a certified nurse aide and worked at area nursing homes, Hospice of Hope and provided home healthcare. Mrs....

Jan 6, 2013

John Martin Chambers, Sr., age 87 of Georgetown, Ohio died Sunday, January 6, 2013 at the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown, Ohio. He was a farmer, a retired inspector for the General Electric Company, a United States World War II Navy veteran, a member of the Carey Bavis American Legion Post #180, the Disabled American Veterans and the...

Jan 3, 2013

Beulah "Berneice" Fryer, age 86 of Georgetown, Ohio died Thursday, January 3, 2013 at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Fryer was born April 16, 1926 in Fleming County, Kentucky the daughter of the late Martin and Jewell (Mauk) Wagoner. She was also preceded in death by her husband Franklin...

Dec 31, 2012

Lawrence Daniel Decker, age 67 of Georgetown, Ohio died Monday, December 31, 2012 at the Southwest Regional Medical Center in Georgetown, Ohio. He was retired from the Ford Motor Company after forty years of service and served in the Air National Guard. Mr. Decker was born March 3, 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio the son of the late Ambers...

Dec 30, 2012

Duane C. Neu, age 79 of Hamersville, Ohio, died Sunday, December 30, 2012 at the Ohio Veterans Home in Georgetown, Ohio. He was a retired truck driver from Cincinnati Gas and Electric, a United States Army Korean War Veteran, former mayor, police officer and clerk for the Village of Hamersville, a member of the Hamersville Bible Chapel U.C.C.,...

Dec 24, 2012

Rebecca Carol (Simpson) Watson, age 56 of Russellville, Ohio died Monday, December 24, 2012 at the Hospice of Cincinnati East in Anderson Township, Ohio. She was a case reviewer for the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services and a member of the Bethel Church of the Nazarene in Bethel, Ohio. Rebecca was born February 3, 1956 in...

Dec 23, 2012

Gladys Irene Bruist, age 92 of Georgetown, Ohio died Sunday, December 23, 2012 at the Hospice of Cincinnati East in Anderson Township, Ohio. She was a homemaker, a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. She accepted the Lord at a young age and was a member of the Higginsport Christian Church. Gladys was born December 27, 1919 in Higginsport,...

Dec 22, 2012

Betty Cordelia Brown, age 79 of Hamersville, Ohio died Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the Hospice of Hope Ohio Valley Inpatient Center in Seaman, Ohio. She was a homemaker and a bartender for 35 years at the Feesburg Tavern in Feesburg, Ohio. Betty was born March 7, 1933 in Point Isabel, Ohio the daughter of the late Wesley...

Dec 22, 2012

Paul Edward Winkle, age 65 of New Paris, Ohio and formerly of Bracken County, Kentucky died Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the Foundations in New Paris, Ohio. He was a driver for the Pepsi Cola Company. Mr. Winkle was born August 6, 1947 in Pendleton County, Kentucky the son of the late Zeno and Myrtle (Fredrick) Winkle.

Dec 22, 2012

Phyllis Marie Edmisten, age 86 of Ripley, Ohio died Saturday, December 22, 2012 at the Hospice of Hope Ohio Valley Inpatient Center in Seaman, Ohio. She was retired from the US Shoe Corporation after twenty-nine years of service and was a member of the Ripley Church of Christ and the Disabled American Veterans auxiliary. Mrs. Edmisten was born...

Dec 15, 2012

Mary "Ruth" Atherton King, age 93 of Aberdeen, Ohio, passed away Saturday, December 15, 2012 with the grace and mercy of the angels in uniforms at the Hospice Care Center at Kenton Pointe in Maysville, Kentucky. She was a homemaker, a former employee of Browning Manufacturing in Maysville, Kentucky, a devout member of the Ripley First Presbyterian Church...

Dec 10, 2012

Thelma Walker Huston Bishop left to be with her Lord Jesus on December 10, 2012 at Anderson Mercy Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was born December 2, 1931 in Lewis County, Kentucky the daughter of the late Wilbur Alvin Walker and Grace Walker Swanger. She lived most of her life in Ripley. She was a former employee of...

Dec 8, 2012

Fern Edith Abbott, age 79 of Georgetown, Ohio died December 8, 2012 at the Southwest Regional Medical Center in Georgetown, Ohio. She was retired secretary. Fern was born July 3, 1933 in New Richmond, Ohio the daughter of the late Fred and Edith Franz.

Mrs. Abbott is survived by one son Jerry Hale of Amelia, Ohio....

Dec 7, 2012

Ruby Ree Baker, age 91 of Hamersville, Ohio died Friday, December 7, 2012 at the Villa Georgetown Nursing and Rehabilation Center in Georgetown, Ohio. She was born September 13, 1921 in Panola, Kentucky the ninth of ten children born to the late Beechum and Nettie (Walton) Thomas. In 1934, at the age of thirteen, she was baptized in...