All Obituaries

A memorial service celebrating the life of Benjamin D. “Ben” Whitehead, 71, of Granville, will be held at 2:00 P.M. Friday, September 14, 2018 at Centenary United Methodist Church, 102 E. Broadway, Granville with Rev. Casey Wilson as celebrant. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. A gentleman, farmer, and retired agent with State Farm, Ben passed away September 11, 2018 at his home. He was born in Granville to the late Henry E. and Roberta...

A graveside service honoring the life of Thomas J. “Tom” Skufca, 52, of Clintonville, will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at Maple Grove Cemetery in Granville with full military honors rendered by the Licking County Veterans Alliance. The family will receive friends from 11:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. prior to the graveside service on Tuesday at The Church of St. Edward the Confessor, 785 Newark Granville Rd., Granville. Tom passed away September 6, 2018 at his...

A funeral service celebrating the life of George Lige Davison, 92, of Alexandria, will be held at 10:00 A.M. Thursday, August 30, 2018 at Alexandria Baptist Church, 94 E. Main Street, Alexandria.  Burial will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery in Alexandria with military honors rendered by the Licking County Veterans Alliance. A retired dairy farmer, Lige passed away Monday, August 27, 2018 at the Selma Markowitz Care Center in Newark. He was born in Alexandria to the late Glenn W. and...

Doris Jane Conway, of Granville, OH passed away on Thursday, August 23, 2018 at Kendal at Granville.  Doris Jane was a retired management consultant and facilitator with the State of Minnesota.  She spent much of her working life engaged in community and human development through the Ecumenical Institute and Institute of Cultural Affairs, based in Chicago, IL.  This work led Doris Jane to live in cities and towns across the U.S., as well as in Canada and Indonesia. Doris Jane...

Roger Core, 84, of Granville, formerly of Weston, CT, passed away Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at his home.  Born in 1934, in Santa Barbara, CA, Roger attended the University of Michigan where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts before pursuing a career as an art director at New York city-based ad agencies and owner of an ad agency in Weston.  Roger was a renowned artist and professional photographer whose work was exhibited in galleries along the East Coast; his specialty was in...

A Celebration of Life service will be held Saturday, October 27, 2018 at  10:30 A.M. at Swasey Chapel ************************************************************************************************************************** It is with great sadness that the family of Mary Jane Jagger McDonald announces her death at the age of 81 on Monday, August 6, 2018. Mary Jane was known to many for her intelligence, work ethic, sense of humor, and ability to bring out the best in others. ...

A funeral service will be held for Raymond F. Funk, 89, of Granville, on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at 6 P.M. at the McPeek-Hoekstra Funeral Home, 133 S. Prospect St., Granville with Elders John Krumm, Mitchell Krumm, and Glen Funk officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Private interment will be held at Scotts Creek Cemetery in Logan, Ohio. Raymond passed away Tuesday, July 31, 2018 at Pataskala Oaks Care Center. He was born in Logan,...

A memorial service celebrating the life of Robert N. Phillips, 79, of Alexandria, will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, August 2, 2018 at First Presbyterian Church, 110 W. Broadway, Granville with Rev. Karen J. Chakoian as celebrant. A graveside service will be held prior to the church service at 10:00 A.M. at Maple Grove Cemetery in Granville with military honors. A retired middle school English teacher, at Gahanna East Middle School, Bob passed away Saturday, July 28, 2018. He was born to...

June Miller Kraus, 92, died peacefully and with family nearby on July 18, 2018. To the surprise of no one, she was stubborn to the end, holding onto pieces of her legendary sense of humor even after dementia had robbed her memory. She was born February 22, 1926, in Chicago. Her father, Max Miller, a Prohibition gangster, died when she was only two, and she and her mother Evelyn (Friedman) (Miller) Wachovsky, spent most of the next 36 years loving and protecting one another in a variety of...

A funeral mass celebrating the life of James A. Masterson, 85, of Granville will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, July 28, 2018 at The Church of St. Edward the Confessor, 785 Newark-Granville Rd, in Granville with Msgr. Paul P. Enke as celebrant.  The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church.  Private burial will be held at Maple Grove Cemetery. Jim passed away Tuesday, July 17, 2018 at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus.  He was...