All Obituaries

Funeral service arrangements are incomplete for Marta L. Klemetti, 78, of Granville. Marta passed away Friday, January 15, 2021 at her home in Granville.

A private funeral service will be held for Daniel R. Bossart, 94, of Granville, formerly of Berlin, Pennsylvania, at McPeek-Hoekstra Funeral Home in Granville with Rev. Janice Hilkerbaumer as celebrant. Interment will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery, Granville with military honors rendered by the Licking County Veterans Alliance. Daniel passed away January 9, 2021 at Middleton in Granville. He was born in Arona, Pennsylvania to the late William and Irene Bossart. An Army veteran, Daniel...

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held for William (Bill) C. Hendey, 101, of Granville, at 10:00 A.M. Friday, January 15, 2021 at The Church of St. Edward the Confessor, 785 Newark Granville Rd., Granville with Msgr. Paul P. Enke as celebrant. Private interment will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Granville with military honors rendered by the Licking County Veteran Alliance. A Navy veteran of World War II, Bill served as a Radioman in the Philippines. He passed away Friday, January 8,...

Jeanne Taylor Gordon McClain was born on Bastille Day, July 14, 1924 in Wintersville, Ohio of parents Frank and Marian Morris Taylor. Jeanne graduated from Toronto High School and received a full scholarship to West Penn Nursing School. She completed training in Pittsburgh and at Case Western Reserve Hospital in Cleveland. It was in Cleveland that she met her first husband and her two children were born. Jeanne relocated to Granville as a single parent of two small children to be near her...

Richard A. Russell, 88, most recently of the Inn at Chapel Grove, Heath, OH, passed away on December 31, 2020.  He was born October 9, 1932 in Potsdam, NY, to the late Florence and Leonard Russell.  Private burial will be held for the family.  A celebration of life is anticipated in the summer of 2021. Richard was born in Potsdam, NY, the youngest of 5.  He grew up in Carthage, NY where it is often below zero with 3-4’ snow on the ground.  He was an avid...

Charlotte Lockard Rhoades was born and raised on the family farm in Chillicothe, Ohio, daughter of the late Carroll (Ike) Lockard and Gayla Tarbill Lockard. Charlotte passed away due to COVID 19 at Dublin Methodist Hospital on December 16, 2020 at the age of 80. After graduating from the class of 1958 at Huntington High School, she attended the Ohio State University and received a degree in chemistry. She worked in cancer research at the university before taking up employment at Chemical...

Marie Smith, most beautiful and loving mother, passed from this earth to be with the Lord on December 10, 2020 peacefully in her home in Columbus, Ohio at the age of 91. Marie was born in Penn Yan, New York, to the late Otto and Nellie Hansen. She became a Christian at the age of 9, through the loving kindness of Frances Taylor, and many other members of the First Baptist Church in Penn Yan. As a graduate of Geneseo State Teachers College, Marie was proud of the following...

The world is now a safer place. David L. Shumway passed from this life on December 8, 2020. He was born January 29, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan to the late Arthur M. and Mildred L. (Wright) Shumway and remained a Michigan fan his whole life. A 1961 graduate of Granville High School, Dave attended Denison University and served in the U.S. Army during Vietnam. He was a founding father and grand pooh bah of Kabloona International, life member of Neldon’s Landing Yacht and Racket Club,...

A graveside service will be held for Barbara A. Sunkle, 91, of Granville, at 10:30 A.M. on December 19, 2020 at St. Joseph Cemetery, 11396 Jug Street Road, Johnstown, Ohio with Rev. Janice Hilkerbaumer as celebrant. Social distancing and masks will be required. Barbara passed away December 4, 2020 at Middleton Senior Living in Granville. She was born in Columbus, Ohio to the late Frank and Martha Obert. A member of Alexandria High School’s class of 1947, Barbara retired from...

Clarence R. (Clancy) Haudenschild, of Pataskala, Ohio, wonderful husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle whose earthly chores are complete, transitioned into his Heavenly home December 1, 2020 from the Middleton Memory Care facility in Granville, Ohio.   Clarence was born, at home, August 4, 1935 to John Michael and Della Marguretha (Weimer) Haudenschild on his family’s Loudonville, Ohio farm. He remained on the farm helping his parents until his graduation in 1953 from...