Obituaries

May 16, 2010

AWSUMB, Kenneth Paul, 91, of Bemidji, Minnesota passed away Sunday May 16, 2010 at Hospice of Dayton. Ken was born on July 3, 1918 in St. Paul, Minnesota to the late Ardin I. and Petra Johnson Awsumb. After graduating from St. Paul Central High School in 1936, he was employed as timekeeper for the Union Stockyards in South St. Paul....

May 16, 2010

SMITH, Frederick Coe, age 93 of Washington Twp., passed away on Sunday, May 16, 2010. Fred graduated from Cornell University and Harvard Business School. He served his country in the Army Air Corps where he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1941. During WWII he came to Wright Patterson AFB to work on its budget committee. After the war,...

May 15, 2010

SAKAR, Josip, age 80 of Dayton, formerly of Croatia, passed away on Saturday, May 15, 2010. Josip was a mechanical engineer with special interest in metals. He was a long time employee of Hobart, Dayton Scale Division and was a member of The Dayton Inventors Club, South Slavic Club and VFW Post 9927 in Kettering. Josip was a very creative...

May 13, 2010

JONAS, Jan (Georgeanne) nee Hanzel, age 67, passed away Thursday, May 13, 2010. A graduate of Wooster High School (1960), Jan received her B.A. from The Ohio State University, M.S. and Ed.D. degrees from Indiana University, and attended the Institute for Educational Management at Harvard University. During her career, she worked as a student personnel administrator at both Indiana University...

May 12, 2010

Norma A. Vandeneynden, 89, of Daytona Beach, Florida, passed away on Wednesday, May 12, 2010. Mrs. Vandeneynden moved to Daytona Beach in 1986 from Dayton, OH. She is a former member of Holy Angel's Catholic Church in Dayton. She was a graduate of Oakwood High School, Dayton. She was a homemaker who loved cooking, baking and gardening. She was preceded...

May 9, 2010

May 9, 2010

SORTMAN, Aletha "Louise", age 82, of Washington Twp., passed away Sunday, May 9, 2010. She was born and raised in Cincinnati. After marriage she and her husband, Don, lived in the Dayton area. Louise was a current member of Fountain Gate House Church and previously attended Centerville Community Church and Normandy United Methodist Church. Years ago, she was active in...

May 8, 2010

CATO, Leonard C., age 94 of Oakwood, passed away on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at Hospice of Dayton. Leonard received his Bachelor’s Degree from Miami University in 1942 and his Master’s Degree in Industrial Arts from Miami University in 1950. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during WWII. Leonard was a retired teacher from Oakwood High School...

May 8, 2010

FABER, (Sue) Patti Suzanne, age 89 of Linden, Michigan, formerly of Dayton, passed away on Saturday, May 8, 2010. Patti graduated from Steele High School in 1939. She retired from Lorenz & Williams Architects and Engineers after 25 years of service. Preceded in death by her husband, Irvin Faber; son, David Faber; sister, Jane Ford Smith and brothers, Robert and...

Apr 30, 2010

SAKAL, Aileen Helen, age 68 of Kettering, formerly of Cincinnati, passed away on Friday, April 30, 2010 at Bethany Village. Aileen was a member of the Ascension Catholic Church and the ladies auxiliary of the American Legion Post 598. She worked for many years at Key Bank in their private banking division. Preceded in death by her mother, Antoinette Wenz...

Apr 30, 2010

JOY, John R. of Beavercreek, Ohio died April 30th after living an honorable life and serving his country and community with courage, compassion and character. He was 73. A native of Quincy, Illinois, John grew up creating adventures on the Mississippi River. He loved aircraft of all kinds and joined the US Air Force at the age of 17. His...

Apr 29, 2010

OLIVER, Marianna K., age 87 of Kettering, formally of OLIVER, Marianna K., age 87 of Kettering, formally of Oakwood, passed away on Thursday, April 29, 2010. Marianna was an active member at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Oliver. Marianna is survived by daughter Sara K. Alexander of Durham, NC; daughter Polly Mayhew...

Apr 27, 2010

SMITH, Dorothy, age 92, from Centerville, passed away Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Dorothy, formerly from Brookville, was a loving and giving wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She loved homemaking, cooking, gardening, and her special passion and talent was artistic painting. She was a member of the Dayton Society of Painters & Sculptors, and won numerous awards for her work in...

Apr 24, 2010

BOYKIN, Sara M., age 93 of Floyds Knobs, IN, formerly of Centerville, OH passed away Saturday, April 24, 2010. Sara's memberships include: being an active Girl Scout leader, member of Westminister Presbyterian choir, the Dayton Women's Club, the Women's Officers Club, the Brush and Pallet Art Group, and a docent at the Dayton Art Institute. She was a member of...

Apr 21, 2010

PATE, James I., Jr., age 92 of Dayton, passed away Wednesday, April 21, 2010. He was born in Fayetteville, NC to James Irby and Bessie Cope Pate. James was a US Army veteran, 8th Infantry Division during the European Theater where he received four battle stars. He retired from NCR in 1980 after 42 years of service. James was a...

Apr 20, 2010

SIMMS, Agnes Louise, age 85, passed away on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at Crestview Care Facility in Beavercreek, Ohio where she had resided for the past five years. She was preceded in death by her parents, Nellie (Wardrop) and Edward Simms, and sister Betty J. Dilg (William Dilg, Jr.). She is survived by her nieces Beverly Igleburger (Gary) Dayton, Ohio,...

Apr 20, 2010

BITZKO, Irene, age 84, of Centerville, formerly of Johnstown, PA, passed away on Tuesday, April 20, 2010. Irene graduated from Conemaugh High School and was a member of Holy Trinity Byzantine Catholic Church. Preceded in death by her parents, Paul and Julieanna Mitroka. Irene is survived by her loving husband of 62 years, Joseph Thomas Bitzko and her daughter, Donna...

Apr 19, 2010

FERRANTE, Caterina (nee Pasini) was almost 92 years old when she passed away peacefully on April 19, 2010. With her parents and siblings, she immigrated to the US from Lipari, Italy and lived in Brooklyn, New York for over 50 years. On a visit to her family home in Italy in 1953, she met and married Antonino with whom she...

Apr 14, 2010

STEVENS, Lloyd "Bruce", Jr., age 91, of Dayton, passed away Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Born September 11, 1918, Bruce graduated from the University of North Dakota with a B.S. in chemical engineering and received a J.D. from John Marshall University. He retired from Monsanto Corporation where he worked as a patent attorney. Bruce was a member of Westminster Presbyterian Church....

Apr 14, 2010

FRECH, Myrtle, "BeBe," age 88, of Kettering (formerly of Oakwood), passed away Wednesday, April 14, 2010. She was born in Elizabeth, NJ, to Jennie and Arthur Bie, Norwegian emigrants. She was preceded in death by her husband, John "Jack" Frech and her siblings, Arthur Bie, Eleanor Love, and Connie White. She is survived by her brother, Eugene Bie, N. Palm...