Obituaries

E. June Friskney, age 92, of Camden, Michigan, and longtime Edon, Ohio, area resident, died on Tuesday, July 7, 2015, at Northern Lakes Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Angola, Indiana, where she was a patient. Mrs. Friskney was a 1941 graduate of Metz, Indiana, High School. After living in Edon, …

Robert N. Wagner Jr. passed away on Monday July 6, 2015 from cancer; he was 74. Robert was a 1959 graduate of Central Catholic High School in Toledo, OH. He was a veteran of the US Army, and was stationed at Ft. Lewis Washington where he met and later married …

James Eugene Thornton, age 85, of Wauseon passed away early Saturday July 4, 2015 at the Fulton County Health Center. Mr. Thornton was born on March 19, 1930 in BonJelico, Kentucky the son of the late James and the late Judy (Moses) Thornton. He married the former Betty Berryhill and …

Suellen Schad, age 69, of Bryan, Ohio, passed away at 10:55 A.M. on Friday, July 3, 2015, at Genesis HealthCare-Bryan Center where she had been a resident. Suellen was the co-owner and bookkeeper at Suburban Golf Course for many years. She had also been a bookkeeper at Isaac Tire and …

Dennis M. Johnston, age 95, of Edgerton, Ohio, passed away at 9:55 A.M. on Friday, July 3, 2015, at Parkview Regional Medical Center in Fort Wayne. Mr. Johnston was the mayor of Edgerton for 16 years. He worked as a milkman for Callender Dairy in Edgerton and Benner Dairy in …

Irma L. Lowery, age 80, of Wauseon, passed away Thursday, July 2, 2015 at Heartland of Wauseon. Mrs. Lowery was born on January 17, 1935 in Chesterfield, Oh, the daughter of Paul and Martha (Whitehead) Campbell. Mrs. Lowery was a homemaker. She was a member of First Christian Church. Surviving …

Harold J. Wheeler, 84 years, of West Unity, passed away Wednesday, July 1, 2015 at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers, Bryan.  Harold was born November 14, 1930 in Waldron, Michigan, the son of the late Clifford and Velma (Fulk) Wheeler.  He married Lois “Arlene” Kuney on November 17, 1951 in West Unity, …

Louise H. Haye, age 69, of Stryker, Ohio, died at 10:40 P.M. on June 27, 2015, at Community Health Professionals Inpatient Hospice near Defiance, Ohio, where she was a patient, after an extended illness. Mrs. Haye was a graduate of Indiana University and had been employed by the Ohio State …

Richard L. “Jake” Reas, age 66, of Hesperia, Michigan, died at 6:35 A.M. on Sunday, June 28, 2015, at Trinity Health Mercy Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan, after an extended illness. Mr. Reas was a graduate of Eastside High in Butler, Indiana, and upon graduation joined the United States Navy and …

Margaret “Peggy” Atkinson Kimble, 74, of Montpelier, passed away Thursday at Hospice of Northwest Ohio in Perrysburg. She was born on Aug. 13, 1940 in Pinehurst, North Carolina to Henry Lee and Virginia Caroline (Hensley) Butner. On March 6, 1966 she married Robert John Kimble and he survives. Peggy was …