Obituaries

Jan 2, 2005

Gladys Lucille Reid, age 97 of Georgetown, Ohio died Sunday, January 2, 2005 at the Villa Georgetown in Georgetown, Ohio. Mrs. Reid was a homemaker. She was born on December 8, 1907 in Adams County, Ohio the daughter of the late John Wylie Sherman and Mary Etta (Malone) Morgan. She was also preceded in death by her husband,...

Dec 26, 2004

Allan James Magnusson, age 49 of Ripley, Ohio died Sunday, December 26, 2004 at his residence. He was a mechanic, a member of St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church and a member of the Knight's of Columbus. He was born on February 22, 1955 in Maryland the son of James and Marie (Wozniski) Magnusson, Sr.

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Dec 26, 2004

Tim E. Brooks, age 47 of Aberdeen, Ohio died Sunday, December 26, 2004 at the University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a sports writer for the Ripley Bee and News Democrat and a United States Navy Vietnam War Veteran. He was born on September 19, 1957 in Breckenridge, Texas the son of Phillip and Florence (Heatley) Brooks....

Dec 26, 2004

Laymon Royalty, age 76 of Hamersville, Ohio died Sunday, December 26, 2004 at the Anderson Mercy Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Royalty was retired from Cincinnati Milacron and was a Korean War Army veteran. He was born on August 15, 1928 in Brown County, Ohio the son of the late Prince and Lucy (Kurtz) Royalty.

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Dec 24, 2004

Mrs. Delcena Mae West, age 48 of Ripley, Ohio, died Friday, December 24, 2004 at the U.K. Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky. She was the manager at the River Crossing Marathon in Aberdeen, Ohio. She was born on September 17, 1956 in Georgetown, Ohio the daughter of the late Charles and Eva G. (Bloomhuff) Sidwell. She was also...

Dec 24, 2004

Gerald Wayne Lindsey, age 86 of Hamersville, Ohio died Friday, December 24, 2004 at the Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. Mr. Lindsey was a farmer, a former Clark Township Trustee, former Hamersville School Board member, a field reporter for the Brown County ASCS and served three terms on the ASCS Brown County board...

Dec 22, 2004

Rodney Fritz, age 75 of Hamersville, Ohio died Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at the Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio.  He was retired from Cincinnati Milacron and was a Korean War Army Veteran.  Mr. Fritz was born October 13, 1929 in Feesburg, Ohio, the son of the late Edward L and Isabel (Willson) Fritz.  He...

Dec 21, 2004

Mrs. Lois Jean Catron, age 73 of Ripley, Ohio, died Tuesday, December 21, 2004 at The Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. She was a homemaker and a member of The Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses in Maysville, Kentucky. She was born September 1, 1931 in Port Clinton, Ohio, the daughter of the...

Dec 20, 2004

Mrs. Helen W. Kropf, age 89 of Ripley, Ohio and formerly of of Mt. Healthy, Ohio died Monday, December 20, 2004 at the Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. She was a retired pharmacist. Mrs. Kropf was born on January 26, 1915 in Cincinnati, Ohio the daughter of the late Walter and Katherine (Honrath)...

Dec 16, 2004

Gerald Lloyd Fite, age 63 of Virden, Illinois, formerly of Brown County, Ohio died Thursday, December 16, 2004 at St. John's Hospice in Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Fite was a retired US Government employee with the federal Crop, Inc. in risk management. He was a 1959 graduate of Mt. Orab High School, a 1965 graduate of Wilmington...

Dec 12, 2004

Mrs. Flora Marie Behymer, age 94, of Abingdon, Virginia, formerly of Winchester, Ohio died Sunday, December 12, 2004 at the Grace Healthcare Center in Abingdon. Mrs. Behymer was a homemaker and a member of the Watauga Church of Christ in Abingdon. She was born in Arnheim, Ohio on September 23, 1910 the daughter of the late...

Dec 12, 2004

Ronald Lee Kidd, age 62 of Bethel, Ohio died Sunday, December 12, 2004 at the Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio. Mr. Kidd was  president of the Kidd Auto Dealer Group in Amelia, in Cincinnati on Colerain Avenue and in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, where he had worked for the past thirty years. He was a 1960 graduate of...

Dec 10, 2004

Russell Herman Seidel, age 88 of Georgetown, Ohio died Friday, December 10, 2004 at the Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio. Mr. Seidel was a farmer, a member of the Georgetown Presbyterian Church for seventy-six years where he served as an Elder and as a member of the Session. He also was a life time member of...

Dec 9, 2004

Daniel Harry Fithen, age 24 of Ripley, Ohio died Thursday, December 9, 2004 at Anderson Mercy Hospital.  He was a United States Navy Veteran and served aboard the U.S.S. Constellation during Operation Iraqi Freedom.  Daniel was a full-time student at Northern Kentucky University majoring in Radio and Television and a member of St. Michael The Archangel...

Dec 8, 2004

Mr. John Henry Dearth, age 65 of Ripley, Ohio, died Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at his residence. He was born on February 18, 1939, in Illinois, the son of the late Elijah and Lillian (Edmunds) Dearth. He was also preceded in death by four sisters - Anna Garrison, Eileen Dearth, Mary Louise Dearth and Dorothy White; two brothers,...

Dec 8, 2004

Mrs. Beulah T. Nehus, age 91, of Georgetown, Ohio died Wednesday, December 8, 2004 at the Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. Mrs. Nehus was a bookkeeper for the family businesses a member of the Georgetown United Methodist Church and a 1931 graduate of Georgetown High School. She was born in Ripley,...

Dec 5, 2004

Marion James Musser, age 77, of Georgetown, Ohio died Sunday, December 5, 2004 at the Brown County General Hospital in Georgetown, Ohio. Mr. Musser was retired from the US Shoe Corporation. He was born in Manchester, Ohio on May 25, 1927 the son of the late Robert and Bernice (Prather) Musser. He was also preceded in death by...

Dec 1, 2004

Mr. William H. Maynard, age 82 of Ripley, Ohio, died Wednesday, December 1, 2004 at his residence. He was a U.S. Army World War II Veteran. He worked as a farmer and construction worker and was a member of The Pilgrim Holiness Church in Maysville, KY. He was born on August 16, 1922 in Mason County, KY. the...

Nov 30, 2004

Mr. Verlin R. "Tiny" Beath, age 71 of Ripley, Ohio, died Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was a truck driver and farmer and could be seen selling peaches in front of the tobacco warehouses in Ripley for many years. He was born July 17, 1933 in Bourneville, Ohio the son of the...

Nov 29, 2004

John Aaron Yost, age 31, of Georgetown, Ohio died Sunday, November 28, 2004 at his residence in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Yost was a student at the University of Cincinnati, a member of the Georgetown Church of Christ and the Young Republicans of America. He was born on October 5, 1973 in Cincinnati, Ohio the son of...