Obituaries
James Thomas Cox, III
Apr 17, 2023
James Thomas Cox, III, age 89 of Shaker Hts., OH. Beloved husband of Ann L. Foreman; dear uncle of 7; son of the late James and Bridget Cox; brother of the late John Cox.
For more than a half century, Jim Cox, 89, was a fixture in Cleveland media and politics. A native New Yorker who was lured to...
H. Virginia Maver
Apr 12, 2023
H. Virginia Maver (Marks). Daughter of Charles E. and Kathryn (Coan).
Wife of the late Captain Robert J Maver, founder and chief of the Cleveland Heights Fire Prevention Bureau.
Mother of Judith Anne, the late Mary Virginia Robertson , Maureen Rock (Ed). Grandmother of Joseph Maver Robertson, Kathryn Chadwick Mervine (Scott), Heather Janor, Trish Lewis.
Great...
Prudence Wellington Hatch
Apr 10, 2023
Prudence Wellington Hatch, 94 of Olmstead Township, Ohio passed away peacefully on April 10th 2023.
Aunt Prue, as she was known by her family and friends, was born in Cleveland Ohio on April 20th, 1928 to the late Ralph Arthur John Wellington (d. 1962) and Clyde Adelaide Mathewson Wellington (d. 1981). She was predeceased by her husband, Paul...
Rita de Quercus (aka Rita Coriell)
Apr 7, 2023
Rita de Quercus (aka Rita E. Coriell) died at home on April 7th after a valiant two-year struggle with leukemia. Rita was a dedicated community organizer focusing on feminism, food, music and building sustainable communities. Her impact was felt far and wide.
Family and friends will be receiving people Saturday April 8th and Sunday April 9th from 1pm to 5pm at her...
Thomas William Sumner
Apr 4, 2023
Tom Sumner , 78, of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, passed away at the Cleveland Clinic on Monday, April 4, 2023, after a brief illness.
Tom was born October 28, 1944 in Cleveland to Phil and Anne Sumner. He grew up in Shaker Heights.
He married Christine Morgan Sumner in 1971. She predeceased him by three years.
Tom graduated from University...
Martine (Marty) Vilas Conway
Apr 1, 2023
Martine Vilas Conway (Marty), born in Cleveland, Ohio on February 15, 1931, quietly passed away on April 1st, 2023 after a brief vigil, joined by several friends and family who had a chance to say their goodbyes and pray at her bedside. Marty was a dedicated mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, a pious Christian, a model of camaraderie and a paradigm...
Irene Chalko
Apr 1, 2023
Irene Chalko (nee Wicinski), 97, passed away peacefully in her sleep on April 1, 2023.
Beloved wife of 52 years to the late Paul, mother of Christopher (Eleanor Smith) and Paula Rownd (Jim). Grandmother of Matthew (Shannon Trimble), William (Hannah Moore) and Maureen Chalko; Scott (Krista Hollingsworth) and Kathryn Rownd. Great grandmother to Margaret Chalko and Emily Rownd.
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Richard Van Petten
Mar 30, 2023
Richard Van Petten (known to his friends as “Van”) peacefully passed away on March 30th, 2023, at Metro Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio. He was three hours short of his 91st birthday, a celebration he was happily anticipating.
Richard (Van) was born in Fairlawn, Ohio, on March 31, 1932, to Virginia and Harold Van Petten and grew up...
Constance Perotti
Mar 30, 2023
Constance Perotti, (nee Inglesby) passed away peacefully at the Hamlet Retirement Community in Chagrin Falls on March 30th, surrounded by her family. She was 86 years old. Connie was born in Camden, NJ on September 21st, 1936. She and her twin sister Carol attended Merchantville HS, and they both graduated from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia in 1958. While in...
Martha (Marcie) Patt Thompson
Mar 24, 2023
Martha Patt Thompson (Marcie), devoted daughter, sister, wife, mother, aunt, grandmother, great grandmother (proudly taping a picture of baby Eli with scrawled height and weight statistics onto her front door to announce his arrival to the world), loyal and steadfast friend (if you were her friend, she genuinely cared about your whole extended family…this is not an exaggeration), dedicated gardener,...
Barbara Jean Vero
Mar 21, 2023
Barbara Jean Vero (nee Squire) “Barbie”, 83, beloved wife, mother, sister, and coach passed away Tuesday, March 21, 2023.
Barbara was born April 6, 1939 in Cleveland, Ohio. From an early age Barbara was dedicated to figure skating. In her early years she trained year round honing her craft and briefly skated with the Ice Follies as a young woman. For...
Alan DeWolfe Wright
Mar 16, 2023
Alan DeWolfe Wright, devoted husband, father and grandfather, passed away on March 16 at the age of 93, having resided in Waite Hill Village since 1971. Born in Youngstown, Ohio on October 11, 1929, Alan’s proudest accomplishments were his extended family, his 55 years of employment, the many people whom he mentored and his lifetime study of baseball and jazz, which he began...
Joseph Anthony Vero
Mar 13, 2023
Joseph Anthony Vero, a beloved husband and father, passed on March 13, 2023 after a lengthy battle with dementia.
Joe was born September 25, 1937 in Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from St. Joseph High School, Joe proudly served in the U.S. Marine Corps. He began working as an engineer at Towmotor Corporation while completing his degree in Engineering at Cleveland State...
William Charles McCoy
Mar 9, 2023
WILLIAM CHARLES MCCOY, intellectual property lawyer, former mayor of Hunting Valley, Ohio, beloved father, uncle, step-father and mentor, passed away on March 9 at age ninety-nine. Among his proudest achievements were his family, serving in the U.S. Navy in World War II, arguing before the Supreme Court twice, creating case law and saving natural areas in both Ohio and Ontario,...
Richard Patrick Goddard
Mar 9, 2023
Rick Goddard was born on September 29, 1952, in South Bend, IN. He was raised in Mishawaka, IN. He was the fifth child in a family of 14 children. His strong sense of identity and self-reliance was evident at a young age. He was given a natural gift for languages which was to serve him well. When Rick was a...
Cynthia Reece
Mar 5, 2023
Cynthia Reece died peacefully at age 95 on Sunday, March 5, 2023. Devoted mother to Scott (deceased), sister to Richard and Robert (both deceased), daughter of Clarence and Beulah Reece (both deceased). She grew up in Hudson and Cleveland Heights. She had an illustrious career as a teacher, restaurant reviewer, copy editor and publicist for numerous charity events.
Donations...
Thomas Owen LaFramboise
Mar 5, 2023
On the afternoon of March 5, 2023, Thomas Owen LaFramboise of Livonia, Michigan died peacefully at the age of 89, surrounded by family.
Tom was born in Detroit, Michigan to Louis Ulysses LaFramboise and Mary Edna LaFramboise (née Murphy).
He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of Detroit after a short stint serving in...
Sara Anne Adams
Feb 28, 2023
Sara Anne Adams, age 85. Sara was preceded in death by her parents, her brothers and her best friend, her twin sister, Susan.
Sara was a proud graduate of McKeesport Hospital School of Nursing. Always kind and efficient, Sara took care of everyone, from her fellow St. Luke's nurses, to the tiny babies for whom she knitted hundreds of caps, to those who received her lovely hand-made...
Carolyn W. Barr
Feb 28, 2023
Carolyn W. Barr was born in Cleveland, Ohio on July 9, 1946 to Fred R. White, Jr. and Emma R. White. Carolyn lived with her parents and sisters, Emmy and Margaret, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. As a child, she spent every summer with her grandparents in a seaside cottage in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Carolyn loved to sail along the rocky New...
Patricia Ruth (Raney) Pogue
Feb 25, 2023
Patricia Ruth (Raney) Pogue passed away on Saturday, February 25, of complications from Parkinson’s Disease. She was 91.
Pat grew up in Bowling Green Ohio and graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, where she met law student Richard W. (“Dick”) Pogue. They married in 1954 and, after living in the Washington, D.C. area for three years,...
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