Parma (Soviero) Carretta
Jan 1, 0001
Parma Jean (Soviero) Carretta, age 95, of Alliance, died at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, January 31, 2012, at Salem Community Hospital. She was born June 17, 1916, in Alliance. She was a 1935 graduate of Alliance High School and employed as an educational supervisor for Singer Sewing Company prior to her marriage. She worked with her husband, Ernest, at the former...
Pete Solvey
Jan 1, 0001
Pete W. Solvey, age 66, of Waynesburg, went home to be with the Lord, Thursday, January 26, 2012, at Mercy Hospital in Canton. He was born December 17, 1945, in Canton Township to Michael and Mabel L. (Numan) Solvey and has resided in Waynesburg for 27 years. Pete was a proud truck driver for Smith Evergreen Nursery, in Magnolia, and...
Selma Walpert
Jan 1, 0001
Selma M. Walpert, age 83, of Alliance, died at 9:05 p.m. Thursday, December 20, 2007 at Community Care Center. She was born in Alliance, Ohio on February 20, 1924 to Louis B. and Jenny (Wise) Sayers, moved to Chicago in the mid 1960's and returned to Alliance in 1990. Mrs. Walpert was a graduate of Alliance High School. She worked...

Erie Sparks Messenheimer
Jan 1, 0001
Erie Messenheimer, born March 19, 1935, passed away at her home on September 7, 2008. Erie was born in Olive Hill, Kentucky, the daughter of Everett and Pearlie (Dean) Sparks, however, she was raised by her Grandfather, Scott Dean and her Aunt Nettie Knipp, in Southern Ohio. Erie is survived by her loving husband, Paul Messenheimer; her three children; Tom...

B. Marple
Jan 1, 0001
B. Mae Marple, age 90, of Alliance, died at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at Bel-Air Care Center. She was born March 6, 1920 in Alliance to Armine and Mary (LeFever) Luginbuhl. Mae graduated in 1938 graduate from Alliance High School. Mrs. Marple was self employed at Marple Accounting as a public accountant for 56 years. She was a...
John Seifert,
Jan 1, 0001
John W. Seifert Jr., age 86, of Alliance, died at 3:10 p.m. Saturday, November 19, 2011 at Canterbury Villa. He was born July 7, 1925 in Canton, Ohio to John W. Seifert Sr. and Martha (Kuhlins) Seifert. A graduate of Middlebranch High School, Mr. Seifert worked as a truck driver. A member of Louisville Baptist Temple, John enjoyed hunting, fishing...

Myrtle Rittenhouse
Jan 1, 0001
Myrtle Marie Rittenhouse, age 80, of Bonita Springs, Fla, joined her sister, Wilma Hardy, in heaven at 7:08 a.m. Tuesday, February 8, 2011. She was born April 6, 1930, in Sebring, Oh., to Zephia B. "Bert" and Myrtle (Sutcliff) Martin and was a lifelong Alliance resident. Myrtle was a 1948 graduate of Alliance High School. She and her husband, Jim,...
Geraldine Perry
Jan 1, 0001
Geraldine "Gerri" Perry, age 83, of Alliance, died at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday, December 21, 2011, at the Cleveland Clinic. She was born April 9, 1928, in Alliance, to Ralph and Ruth (Miller) Oyster. Gerri was a 1947 graduate of Alliance High School. She was a member of the Union Avenue United Methodist Church and the Mile Branch Grange. She enjoyed...

Kathryn Mae Caldwell
Jan 1, 0001
Kathryn passed away on Wednesday, February 23, 2011. Kathryn was a resident of Ohio.

Martha Baker
Jan 1, 0001
Martha Estelle Baker, age 101, of Alliance, died at 4:20 a.m. Thursday, May 8, 2008 at Bel-Air Care Center. Martha was born, July 20, 1906 in Alliance, Ohio to Francis Homer and Nina Ethel (Wilson) Day and was a lifelong Alliance resident. She was a graduate of Alliance High School where she served as Valedictorian. Martha formerly attended First Christian...

David Hancock
Jan 1, 0001
David Allen Hancock, age 54, of Alliance, passed away at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at Mercy Medical Center. He was born March 14, 1955 at Alliance City Hospital to Robert J. and Viola J. (Moorehead) Hancock and was a lifelong area resident. David attended the First Assembly of God Church and enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing and playing the...

Alexis & Marilyn Jean Hoskins
Jan 1, 0001
Infant twins, Alexis Rae and Marilyn Jean Hoskins were born January 30, 2010 to Joshua M. and RaeAnn (Kocher) Hoskins and passed shortly after. The twins are survived by their parents; and their grandparents, John and Angelia C. Davis of Gnadenhutten and Richard R. and Kathy A. Kocher of Alliance. They were preceded in death by their infant brother, Joshua...
Robert Parkison
Jan 1, 0001
Robert W. Parkison, age 70, of Alliance, died at 8:44 a.m. Friday, July 9, 2010 at Mercy Medical Center. He was born August 17, 1939, in Alliance to Wade R. and Dorothy M. (Crist) Parkison. Robert was a graduate of Alliance High School and attended Kent State University and Michigan State University. He was formerly employed by 48/Fibrex Co. as...
Shelley Dozier
Jan 1, 0001
Shelley Dozier, 43 years old, passed away from this life on June 3, 2008. She was born March 19, 1965 to Rita Andrews-Winters. She was a loving wife and mother. She leaves behind her loving husband, Ronn Dozier and her three loving children, Parris Andrews, Candice Dozier and Ronn Dozier, II. She also has 3 grandchildren, Kaymen Andrews, Paris Andrews...

Margaret Cobb
Jan 1, 0001
Margaret R. Cobb, age 92, of Inman, SC passed away at 9:10 p.m. Saturday, June 7, 2008 at her home after a year long illness. She was born July 29, 1915 in Pine Bluff, WV to the late George W. McRobie and Prudence Hogue McRobie. Margaret, known as Jean to her friends, was a long time Alliance area resident having...
The James Edward Doty, Ph.D.
Jan 1, 0001
The Rev. Dr. James Edward Doty, 86, died at Alliance Community Hospital, Alliance, Ohio, on Father's Day, June 15, 2008. He was born on May 8, 1922, in Lakewood, Ohio. He was the son of Ordello and Margaret McCurdy Doty. Dr. Doty was married to Merciel Smith Doty for 65 years, and she survives her husband. He was the father...
M. Tootikian
Jan 1, 0001
M. Pauline Tootikian, age 97, of Sebring, formerly of East Canton, died at 8:47 p.m. Sunday, March 8, 2009 at Alliance Community Hospital. She was born in East Canton, Ohio on Feb. 21, 1912 to Almon Theodore and Ella Vern (Robertson) Foltz. Mrs. Tootikian was a graduate of Malvern High School and later pursued a career in nursing. She was...
Barbara Katich
Jan 1, 0001
Barbara A. Katich, age 73, of Minerva, died at 4:05 p.m. Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. She was born March 17, 1938, in Alliance, Ohio, the daughter of Andy Czikra and Elizabeth (Williams) Czikra. Barbara was a graduate of Alliance High School and taught art at various locations. She was a member of St. Joseph...
Robert Hunter Sr. Attorney at
Jan 1, 0001
Robert R. Hunter, Sr., Attorney at Law, age 90, of Alliance passed away Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at Community Care Center. He was born February 28, 1919 in Alliance to F.E. and Edith (Kayler) Hunter and was a lifelong Alliance resident. Attorney Hunter was a 1937 graduate of Alliance High School, a 1941 graduate of Mount Union College and a...
Fred Diefenbacher
Jan 1, 0001
Fred W. Diefenbacher, age 85, of Canton, died at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday January 13, 2009 at Arbors of Canton. He was born November 21, 1923 in Canton, Ohio to German immigrants William and Elizabeth (Lederer) Diefenbacher when they lived at the Timken Gatehouse. A 1941 graduate of Timken Vocational High School, Fred, was a graduate of United States Merchant Marine...