Obituaries

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...

Nov 26, 2004

Anna Rumple, age 64 of Georgetown, Ohio died Friday, November 26, 2004 at the Meadowwood Nursing and Care Center in Georgetown, Ohio. She was born on February 14, 1940 in London, Kentucky the daughter of the late Samuel and Maggie (Smith) Rice.

Ms. Rumple is survived by one sister - Nannie Ruder of Richmond,...

Nov 26, 2004

Jack Henry, age 78, of Georgetown, Ohio died Friday, November 26, 2004 at the Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. Mr. Henry was an inspector for the Ford Motor Company and a World War II Army veteran. He was born in Madisonville, Ohio on March 1, 1926.

Mr. Henry is...

Nov 24, 2004

Mrs. Eva Ernst Palmer, age 83, of Georgetown, Ohio died Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at the Villa Georgetown Nursing Home in Georgetown, Ohio. Mrs. Palmer was born April 10, 1921 the daughter of the late Gus A. and Mary Minta (Monroe) Ernst. She married Frank Shepherd on April 15, 1944. They operated Day & Nite Garage...

Nov 23, 2004

Rosella Pettit Ward, age 69 of Ripley, Ohio died Tuesday, November 23, 2004 at the Ohio Valley Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Ripley, Ohio. She was a homemaker, a member of the Ripley Church of Christ and the Courts-Fussnecker American Legion Post #367 Auxiliary. She was born on September 15, 1935 in Ripley, Ohio the daughter of...

Nov 20, 2004

Mrs. Nancy H. Romanello, age 71, of Ripley, Ohio formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio died Saturday, November 20, 2004 at the Villa Georgetown Nursing Home in Georgetown, Ohio. Mrs. Romanello was a Stenographer. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 1, 1933 the daughter of the late Martin and Augusta (Koeppl) Henneke. She was also preceded in death...

Nov 17, 2004

Mrs. Elva Parker, age 79, of Georgetown, Ohio died Wednesday, November 17, 2004 at the Clermont Mercy Hospital in Batavia, Ohio. Mrs. Parker was employed as a cook for the Brown County Sheriff's office for 24 years. She was born in Felicity, Ohio on October 9, 1925 the daughter of the late Forrest and Elva Sargent. She was...