All Obituaries

MCDONALD – A Private Family Service will be held Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, at Calvary Cemetery Chapel for Mary Riley, 80, who passed away Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018 at Omni Manor Health Center with her loving husband and family by her side. Mrs. Riley was born in Youngstown on Jan. 16, 1938, a daughter of John and Nora Colleran McGovern and was a lifelong member of the community. Mrs. Riley was a 1956 graduate of Ursuline High School. She was employed as a secretary for General...

YOUNGSTOWN—A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 11am, Monday, Sept. 10, at St Edward Church for Michael George Lowry, Jr., 34, who passed away last Wednesday at his residence. He was born on December 28, 1983, in Youngstown a son of Michael and Annie Miller Lowry and was a lifelong resident of the Mahoning Valley. Michael was a Chemical Dependence Counselor Assistant with Breaking Point and New Day. He was always known as an excellent counselor who showed extreme compassion and...

VILLA MARIA, PA - Sister Lucy Copeck, H.M., 76, formerly Sr. Mary Theola, died Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at Villa Maria Community Center, Villa Maria, PA. She was born in Conneaut, Ohio, and entered the Sisters of the Humility of Mary from Mother Cabrini Parish in 1959. Sr. Lucy ministered in elementary education for 37 years in the Cleveland and Youngstown dioceses, including St. Stephen, Niles, St. Paul, Salem, St. Pius X, Warren, and St. Patrick, Hubbard. She taught CCD in Conneaut and...

Private funeral services were held today at Green Haven Memorial Gardens for Judith A. Marsilio, 73, of Canfield, who passed away Friday afternoon at her residence. Mrs. Marsilio was born Feb. 16, 1945 in Cleveland and was a daughter of George and Jenny Tryzensyn Kukarola and came to this area in 1968. Her employment career spanned a number of fulfilling jobs such as the district manager for Mr. Chicken, JC Penney as a sales clerk in the candy department, a sorter at Handleman Record...

PUNTA GORDA, FL – A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m. Wednesday in St. Patrick Church -  Youngstown for Doris M. Vaughan, 93, who passed away Saturday morning. Mrs. Vaughan was a daughter of Martin and Hazel Kerr Acker was born Feb. 3, 1925 in Pittsburgh, PA. and came to this area in 1954. She was employed by the Youngstown Diocese as a secretary for over 11 years and was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish while in Youngstown Mrs. Vaughan lived a full life as...

BOARDMAN – A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Charles Borromeo Church celebrated by Father Gerald DeLucia for Bernice A. Rodgers, 94, who passed away Saturday morning at Sunrise of Poland with her daughter by her side. Mrs. Rodgers was born August 31, 1923 in Bellaire, Ohio, a daughter of Naeem and Nagla Kanaan Moosally and came to the Youngstown area as a child. Mrs. Rodgers was a presser in the family dry cleaning business which was known as Manhattan...

STRUTHERS – A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10 a.m., Friday, at St. John The Baptist Church in Campbell celebrated by Monsignor Peter Polando for Helen K. Garchar, 94, of Struthers who passed away at the emergency room of St. Elizabeth Hospital Main Campus on Sunday morning. Mrs. Garchar was born Oct. 18,1923 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, a daughter of George A. and Mary Gavalinski Ziobert and came to the area as a child. Mrs. Garchar was employed by the Struthers Board of Education as a...

MOUNT PLEASANT, SOUTH CAROLINA - Marian McVean “Tad” Josef, 94, of Franke at Seaside, Mount Pleasant, SC , formerly of Lorain, Ohio and Youngstown, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, after a short illness. Family and friends are invited to attend her visitation on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. and Catholic Mass at 11 a.m. at St. Edward Church, 240 Tod Lane, Youngstown, Ohio 44504, with burial immediately following at Calvary Cemetery, 248 South...

Sister Barbara Sitko, H.M., 79, formerly Sr. M. Dolorosa, died Sunday, May 27, 2018 at McGee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, Pittsburgh.  A Cleveland native, she entered the Sisters of the Humility of Mary Congregation in 1956.   Sr. Barbara completed her BA in English and French graduating magna cum laude from Notre Dame College of Cleveland in 1962.  Her MA in literature in 1976 was from Bucknell University, Lewiston PA. She was awarded her PhD in rhetoric in 1990 from...

VILLA MARIA - Sister Jean Babeaux, H.M., 91, formerly Sr. Mary Irene, died Friday, May 18, 2018 at Villa Maria Community Center, Villa Maria, PA.  A graduate of Mt. Marie Academy, Canton, she entered the Sisters of the Humility of Mary Congregation in 1946.    Sr. Jean dedicated her 49 years of ministry as an educator, high school librarian, minister of hospitality and director of the Villa Maria Circle of Prayer. She taught at St. Patrick, Hubbard; St. Paul, Salem; St....