Obituaries
Virginia Bruch
Dec 27, 2016
Virginia Chiles Bruch, 96, passed away peacefully on December 27, 2016 at Fairmount Health Center, part of the senior community formerly known as Breckenridge Village, and now as Ohio Living, in Willoughby, Ohio. Longtime residents of Cleveland Hts., Ohio, she was preceded in death by her husband of more than 70 years, Karl F. Bruch Jr. She is survived by...
Katharine Sikorovsky
Dec 25, 2016
Katharine Dutro "Trina" Sikorovsky (nee Perry) age 75 of N. Ft. Myers, FL and formerly of Shaker Hts., OH passed away on December 25, 2016. She was the beloved mother of Andy Sikorovsky (Jane) of Shaker Hts., Cindy Sikorovsky Moore (Larry) of Chagrin Falls, OH and Jeffrey Sikorovsky of Charleston, WV; dear grandmother to Mary, Alison and Jimmy, Jessica, Dylan...
Marjorie Mehl
Dec 25, 2016
Marjorie G. Mehl (nee Gerwig). Beloved wife of Leo Mehl. Dear mother of Michael Mehl (Michelle) of Vancouver, Washington and Jennifer M. Marsico (Tony) of Ashville, North Carolina. Dear grandmother of Cameron and Victoria "Tori" Mehl; and Matthew, Benjamin and Annie Marsico. Twin sister of Jane H. Wharton (Terry) and sister Helen Albright of Parkersburg, West Virginia. The family prefers...
Bonnie Bruce
Dec 22, 2016
BONNIE BRUCE, beloved sister of Molly Bruce Downing, (George Downing deceased) and the late Heather Bruce Nevin (David H. Nevin). Bonnie is also survived by Matthew Downing (Debby) and Gwynne Downing Gretter (Craig), Heather Nevin (Christophe Arnaud), Bruce Nevin and Robert Nevin. She graduated from Hathaway Brown School in 1954 and attended Bradford Junior College in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The family...
Deborah Ungemach
Dec 21, 2016
Deborah (Debbie) Ungemach (nee Anderson) died on December 21st at the age of 59 after a lifelong battle with immune deficiency disorders. Debbie was born in Massachusetts and grew up in Ohio until her senior year of high school when her family moved to Florida. After graduating from high school, she attended Florida Technological University (now renamed UCF) where she...
Gerard DeOreo
Dec 17, 2016
Gerard A. DeOreo Jr., MD 75 years old of Shaker Heights passed away on December 17, 2016 of natural causes. Gerry was a lifelong resident of Shaker Heights and graduated from Gilmour Academy class of 1959. He graduated from Kenyon College with B.A. in French in 1963 and received his MD from Western Reserve University School of Medicine Class of...
Dorothy Hartley
Dec 17, 2016
Our mom was born at home on the family dairy farm in Northern Wisconsin, in a January snow storm. I always loved her stories of growing up on the farm - the second of 7 children, she and my Aunt Alice, as the two oldest, helped with the chores. She always told us the story of the pigs following them...
Anne Hauwaert
Dec 15, 2016
Anne van Hauwaert (née CREMER), beloved wife to Pierre M. van Hauwaert. Dearest Step-Mother to Pierre-François, Didier and Léo van Hauwaert. Dearest Sister to Claude Cremer. Dearest sister-in-law to Francoise Drykoning. Anne was born in Brussels, Belgium during WWII. Her first memory, as a toddler, is of cheering the U.S. Army as they liberated Brussels. Many other memories will be...
John Sweeney
Dec 13, 2016
John G. Sweeney, age 92 of Shaker Hts., OH was born May 13, 1924 in Fairmount, West Virginia. He was a professor at John Carroll University. Beloved husband for 65 years of the late Regina M. Sweeney (nee Milligan); loving father of Mary Foy (John) of Bryn Mawr, PA; Cecile Muehrcke (Mike Bell) of Willoughby Hills, OH, Rosemary Hsu (Albert)...
Sue Godfrey
Dec 10, 2016
Sue Godfrey was the beloved Mother of Alexander John Kundrat (Donna Negrelli) and Kathryn Sue Kundrat (Steve Gordon). She was a loving Grandmother to Nicholas Kundrat, Jamie Kundrat and Rebecca Gordon. Sue was an artist, naturalist, business owner, gardener, world traveler and feminist. She was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and graduated from Cleveland Heights High School. After high school,...
Edward Pembroke
Dec 5, 2016
Edward C. Pembroke, II, age 66, beloved father of Edward C. Pembroke, III, Rev. Earle Pembroke (Vanessa), Erica C. Young, and Eileen C. Mills (Cisco); beloved grandfather of five; dear brother of Felecia Pembroke, Marc Pembroke, Lenice Giargiana (nee Buford) (Joe), and the late Tanya. Ed is survived by his mother Winifred Buford (nee Pope), and by his former wife,...
Jorge Boisset
Dec 5, 2016
Jorge Felipe Boisset Boisset, 93, died Monday, December 5, 2016 at South Pointe Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, due to heart failure. He passed peacefully, and doctors assured the family he didn't suffer. He leaves his wife, Victoria Therencia (Silva) Boisset; his daughter, Rosa Boisset-Brindle; his son-in-law, Brad R. Brindle; his granddaughter, Maya Liza Brindle; nieces, nephews and many close friends....
Olga Dietrich
Dec 4, 2016
Olga Helen Dietrich (nee Cordula), age 97, of Cleveland Heights, passed away December 4, 2016 at Golden Living in Kirtland, Ohio from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She is preceded in death by her beloved husband of 55 years, George Winfield Dietrich. Dear mother of George, Richard, William, and John; dear grandmother of 15 and great-grandmother of 18. A Memorial Service...
Charles Kehres
Dec 3, 2016
Charles (Charley) Kehres of Beachwood, Ohio passed away on Saturday, December 3, 2016. A lifelong Clevelander, he was the son of the late Margaret Pitts and Edward Beople Kehres and brother of the late Jim Kehres (Marcia). He is survived by his loving and devoted wife, Mary, his admiring sons, Charles P. , Jr of Newport, Rhode Island and Christopher...
Jacobus Severiens
Nov 29, 2016
Jack was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on August 6, 1936, the second child of Johannes and Cornelia Severiens. The family moved to the Dutch East Indies in 1938 but had to flee when the Japanese overran the islands in 1942. They were in the last convoy to escape safely. Their journey to the U.S. was circuitous: first Australia, then...
David Kay
Nov 28, 2016
David A. Kay 1943-2016 David A. Kay, age 73, of Chagrin Falls, OH died on Monday, November 28, suddenly and unexpectedly while working in his garden. David was an avid gardener and environmentalist. He attended Hawken School in Cleveland and graduated from Orange High School in 1962. Shortly after graduation from Denison University in 1966, David began working for the...
Lille Mortensen
Nov 27, 2016
Lille was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Senatobia, Mississippi, 35 miles south of Memphis, where her family had cotton farms and owned the local department and hardware store. That was a different time for the South and the country. Because Lille was named for her mother, she became known in the family as "Baby Lille", or just...
Francis Appeldorn
Nov 26, 2016
FRANCIS R. APPELDORN, the beloved father of Stephen E. Appeldorn (Val) of Geneva, OH and the late Laura Zver; dear grandfather of Rebecca Dea (Matthew); Douglas and Kimberly Appeldorn; Alexandra, Christopher and Thomas Zver; dear brother of Jerry Appeldorn (Rosemary) and Nancy Moore. Francis graduated from St. Vincent High School (now known as St. Vincent/St. Mary) in Akron in 1953....
Carol Mau
Nov 25, 2016
Carol E. Mau (nee Belding), age 90 of Shaker Heights, OH. Dear wife of the late William L. Mau; loving mother of Bryan W. Mau (Tina Gramm) of Arlington, MA, Merrill E. Mau of Shaker Heights, and Kenyon M. Mau of Shaker Heights, OH; dear grandmother of Kailey E. Mau and Kenyon W. Mau. The family prefers that those who...
Jane Fossan
Nov 23, 2016
Jane Van Fossan, age 85 of Shaker Hts., OH died of natural causes 11/23/2016. Graduate of Hathaway Brown School and Hood College. Active in Civic Affairs of Shaker Hts., The Shaker Hts. Historical Society, The Nature Center, Friends of Shaker Towne Center and The Welcome Wagon. Long time employee of the Cleveland Skating Club and Potter & Mellen. Beloved daughter...
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