Minerva High School Ohio Alumni Obituaries

The Lord has called his faithful servant and matriarch of our family home. Minerva L. Giffen went to meet Jesus on January 9 2025. How is it possible to rejoice in sadness. We are sad because we have lost a mother a grandmother great and greatgreatgreat grandmother and friend. However in the mist of...

Age 28 of Minerva went to be with the Lord on December 25 2025 at the Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital in Canton. He was born May 221997 in Alliance to Thomas Sara Ward of Wellsville and Michelle Polen Ward of Minerva. He was a shop manager and a mechanic for The Shop a mechanic for the City of Canto...

At age 93 of Minerva passed away Friday Oct. 3 2025 in Altercare of Louisville. She was born July 19 1932 in Findlay Ohio to Forest and Josephine Dick Slough. She was the clerk and treasurer for the Minerva Public Library for 18 years had worked for Peddicord Insurance and was the former secretary f...

Sybbie R. Ile age 74 of Minerva passed away on Monday November 10 2025. She was born on September 15 1951 in Fairfield Illinois to the late Fay and Leona Mayberry Garner. Sybbie was a homemaker and had also worked for Designs by Terry in Minerva. She was a member of the Wayne City Baptist Church and...

Age 90 of Minerva completed his final shift on Tuesday December 2 2025 and clocked out at 820 am in the home of his daughter Vanessa in South Carolina. He was born November 19 1935 in Minerva Ohio to Chester and Dorothy Anthony Mitchell. A Corporal in the United States Marines in the Korean War Era ...

Age 86 of Minerva passed away Friday October 24 2025. He was born September 5 1939 in Canton Ohio to William Joseph and Mary Lois Klotz Norris. He retired from the Timken company where he was a carpenter for 30 years had formerly worked for Burns Cold Forge Canton Drop Forge and as a dairy farmer. H...

Age 80 of Alliance passed away on October 22 2025 in the Bel Air Care Center in Alliance. He was born on September 27 1945 in Canton Ohio to Joseph and Norene McDowellHeath Casale. He graduated from Minerva High School in the 1960s and went on to graduate from Ohio University and the University of A...

Age 63 of Minerva passed away Friday December 26 2025 in the Aultman Compassionate Care Center surrounded by loving family. He was born August 22 1962 in East Liverpool Ohio to the late Sandra McKee Needham and John Tad Needham. He was employed for many years at Tip Top Cleaners in Minerva and Blair...

Age 64 of Minerva passed away Saturday Nov. 1 2025 in the Cleveland Clinic Mercy Medical Center in Canton. He was born on Aug. 11 1961 in East Liverpool to Carl and Helen Martin Brewer. He worked on the road department for the West Twp. Columbiana County for 14 years. He graduated from Southern Loca...

Age 47 of Hanoverton Ohio passed away November 8 2025. He was born in Salem Ohio to Karen Ann Watson Arnoto of Leetonia and Anthony Kathy Arnoto of Ravenna. He was a 1996 graduate of United High School and received his Masters of Electronic Engineering from Devry University. He had formerly worked f...

Age 80 of Minerva passed away Wednesday Oct. 1 2025 in the Aultman Compassionate Care Center. She was born March 22 1945 in Bergholz to Willis and Helen LeMoine Paisley. She was a housewife and loved cooking and graduated from Minerva High School in 1963. She and her husband Jack were members of the...

Age 79 of Paris passed away Sunday October 26 2025 in the Minerva Healthcare Center in Minerva. She was born October 18 1946 in Cornelia Georgia to Jacob and Hazel Vincent Eller. She was a housewife and a 1965 graduate of Lincoln High School. She married the love of her life Theodore Ted Norman whom...

Harriet A. Jones passed away peacefully at home on Saturday January 3 2026 surrounded by her family and son Tim Miller and caregiver Tonya Fry who took such wonderful care of her these last 3 years. She was born January 3rd 1922 at Hamilton Ohio daughter of Harry Mrs. H.R. Rutledge Kiehl. She marri...

Age 90 of Minerva passed away Tuesday Dec. 16 2025 in the Arbors of Minerva. She was the youngest of three daughters born to Chester Dean Haynam and Erla Hirst Haynam in Minerva on December 6 1935 and was a life long resident of the area. An honor graduate with the Class of 1953 of Minerva High Scho...

Age 90 of Minerva passed away Saturday Nov. 1 2025 at the Inn at University Village in Massillon. She was born May 18 1935 in Powhatan Point OH to Charles and Julia Thompson Walker. She worked at Tip Top Cleaners. She is a member of Peace United Methodist Church in Louisville and had participated in...

Age 92 of Minerva passed away Sunday December 14 2025. He was born Feb. 26 1933 in Alliance to Herman and Hazel Loomis Lacher. He graduated from Alliance High School. Dale was a machinist for 60 years at Alliance Machine. He was a member of St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Minerva and a US Army Veteran ...

age 69 of Carrollton passed away Thursday November 6 2025 in Aultman Hospital. She was born August 18 1956 in Canton to Nancy Humbertson King of Canton and the late William King Sr. She was a housewife and member of the Robertsville Wesleyan Methodist Church. She graduated from Timken High School in...

Age 102 of Carrollton passed away Saturday December 20 2025 in the Centreville Village in Carrollton. She was born October 10 1923 in Salineville to Harold and Myrtle Waugh McGhee. She was coowner of Henris Hat and Bridal Shop in Minerva and Lisbon for many years. She graduated from the Canton Acade...

Age 88 of Kensington passed away Tuesday October 28 2025 at Aultman Compassionate Care. She was born on October 11 1937 to Lucy and Earl Fisher Dinger. She worked as an aide and transcriptionist at Timken Mercy Hospital for 29 years and worked for Nationwide Insurance and Ekco Products. She graduat...

Age 89 of North Canton passed away Sunday Oct. 26 2025 in Cleveland Clinic Mercy Hospital in Canton. She was born Feb. 26 1936 in Malvern to Gregory and Katharine Booth Casper. She graduated from Malvern High School and worked many years for Ohio Bell and ATT from where she retired. She was a member...

Kevin Lee Spriggs 64 of Port St. Lucie FL went home to be with his Heavenly Father on November 25 2025 after a courageous three year battle with bladder cancer fought with unwavering grace and faith. Kevin was born June 30 1961 in Frankfort IN the oldest child of Garry and Junice Williams Spriggs. K...

Age 99 of Carrollton and formerly Malvern passed away Saturday Oct. 11 2025 in Centreville Village in Carrollton. She was born March 23 1926 in Waynesburg PA to Paul and Enda Polen Kelsey. She was a housewife and a member of the Malvern United Methodist Church and loved spending her time helping wit...

Age 78 of Hanoverton passed away peacefully Tuesday October 22 2025 in Centreville village in Carrollton. She was born on December 12 1946 in John Moores Branch Elkhorn City KY to Oscar and Lucille Estep Wright. She was 1964 graduate of United High School and has worked at the Hanoverton Christian P...