Friday, March 14, 2008

CHARLES H. DORNAN - Obituary

Weirton Daily Times
August 5, 1955
Page 2

Charles H. Dornan
New Cumberland - Charles H. Dornan, 70, of Ridge road, New Cumberland, died at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at his home. Born on May 31, 1885 in Hancock County, he was the son of the late Basil and Alzira Gibson Dornan.

Mr. Dornan was a retired miner and was last employed by the Crescent Brick Company in New Cumberland. He was a member of the Pughtown Christian church.

Survivors include his wife Oliva Glass Dornan; two sons, Eugene Dornan of Chester and Robert Wayne Dornan of New Cumberland; one sister, Mrs. Blanche Timberman of Weirton; and two grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Stewart and Turley funeral home in New Cumberland where funeral services will be held on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Rev. George Stewart will officiate. Burial will be made in the Union Cemetery at Pughtown.

Thursday, March 13, 2008

PEGGY BERRY - Obituary

Peggy Berry, 61, of Erie Street, died Friday, Aug. 11, 2000, at home.

She was born in Tuscaloosa Ala. March 5, 1939, a daughter of the late Robert and Flora Hurst Christian.

She was employed at the Homer Laughlin China Company and was a member of the New Hope Baptist Church.

She is survived by her husband; Eddie Davis of Wellsville; a daughter, Lisa Davis of East Liverpool; a stepsister, Salley Hadley of Omaha, Neb. and Clyde Christian Jr. of Denver Colo., and a granddaughter.

Services will be held at 11 A.m. Tuesday at the Leavell Funeral Home in Midland. Burial will be in Calcutta United Presbyterian Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday.

Contributed by Deborah Wall

LIZZIE G. CAROTHERS - Obituary

Weirton Daily Times
September 27, 1955
page 2

MRS. LIZZIE G. CAROTHERS

Mrs. Lizzie (Goldie) Carothers, 64, Straight St., New Cumberland, died at 11 a.m. on Monday in the Weirton General Hospital. Mrs. Carothers had been confined to the hospital for the past two weeks.

She was born on May 22, 1891 in Roanoke, Va., the daughter of the late Charles and Frances Jones and had resided in New Cumberland for the past 30 years.

Mrs. Carothers' church affiliation was with St. Peter A. M. E. Church.

Survivors include her husband, Joseph Carothers; one daughter, Mrs. Catherine Barton, York, Pa.; one son, Arthur E. Brown, Steubenville; one sister, Pearl Jones, Roanoke, Va.; one grandchild and two great grandchildren.

Thursday at 2 p.m. Rev. George Stewart will officiate at funeral services in the Stewart and Turley Funeral Home and the burial folloing in the Union Cemetery in Pughtown.

Friends of the family may call at the Stewart and Turley Funeral Home in New Cumberland.

MRS. ELIZABETH GRIST - Obituary

Weirton Daily Times
February 3, 1955
Page 2

MRS. MRRIS (sic) GRIST

Mrs. Elizabeth Grist, 66, of 3624 West street, died in Weirton General Hospital at 7:20 a. m. today, only a few minutes after having suffered a heart attack at her home.

She was born on March 8, 1888, to the late James C. and Sarah Ann Jones in Clydeh, Swansea, Wales, and was married on July 22, 1909 in Steubenville. Mrs. Grist came to Weirton from Steubenville thirty-one years ago. She was a member of Cove Presbyterian Church, Weirton Woman’s Club of Steubenville.

She leaves: her husband, Morris; sons, Clifford C. of Weirton and Edwin J. of Follansbee; three grandchildren; and brothers, Cornelius Jones of Steubenville, and Dr. John Jones of Los Angeles, Calif., a heart specialist who performed the first heart operation telecast all over the country. A brother, Edwin, died in Erie Pa., six years ago, and a brother, Dr. Thomas C. Jones, a cancer specialist and one of the top staff surgeons at Cleveland Clinic, died five years ago.

Friends will be received in the Steel and Wolfe Funeral Home late this evening. Services will be held Sunday 2 p.m. at the Funeral Home with the Rev. A Ferman Kearney, D. D. in charge. Burial will be in the Jones family plot at the Union Cemetery, Steubenville.

CHARLES LEROY STEWART - Obituary

Weirton Daily Times
February 3, 1955
page 2

Charles Leroy Stewart

Services for Charles Leroy Stewart of Wintersville, brother of Mrs. Della Hall, Weirton, will be held Saturday 2 p.m. in the Dun?ope Funeral Home, Wintersville, with the Rev. John K. McDivitt in charge. Interment will be in Ft. Steuben Burial Estates.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

MR. and MRS. HARRY B. LYON GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Clipping contributed by Douglas Lyon East Liverpool Review, East Liverpool, Ohio
Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Lyon
To Mark Golden Wedding

They'll Hold Open House For Anniversary Wednesday.

The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Harry B. Lyon will be celebrated with open house Wednesday from 2 to 10 o'clock at their home on the Smiths Ferry-Calcutta Rd.

They were married Nov. 25, 1909, by the Rev. L. N. Campbell in the parsonage of the Free Methodist Church of Hookstown.

Mrs. Lyon, the former Ellen A. Duncan, does all her work and her husband assists in operating machinery and caring for a garden on their farm.

They are active members of the First Free Methodist Church of East Liverpool.

They have four daughters, Mrs. Charles E. Dunn(Twila) of the Smiths Ferry-Calcutta Rd., Mrs. Phillip C. Boyce (Muriel) of Tuscarawarus Rd., Beaver; Mrs. Charles S. May (Dorothy) of Beaver, and Mrs. Robert Morrow (June), of Georgetown and two sons, Cecil Lyon, living at home, and Thomas Lyon of Calcutta.

There are 11 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

ABRAHAM and MARY LYONS - Obituary

HOOKSTOWN COUPLE
CLAIMED BY DEATH

Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Free Methodist Church, near Hookstown, for a
Hookstown couple, Abraham and Mary Lyons, life-long residents of the county, who died within twenty-four hours of each other.

Mr. Lyons, 76, died suddenly at nine o'clock Friday morning from a heart attack in his home. Mrs. Lyons, 74, had been in ill health for some time bu insisted on purchasing the burial lot in Mill Creek cemetery, near Hookstown, and going to East Liverpool, O., to purchase a suit for her husband's funeral.

Funeral arrangements had been completed when Mrs. Lyons collapsed and died at 9:10 o'clock Saturday morning in her home. Arrangements were changed to make the funeral and burial a double serviec.

Mr. and Mrs. Lyons are survived by four sons, Harry and Clifford Lyons, Hookstown; Roy Lyons, Beaver, and Charles Lyons, Monaca; and four daughters, Mrs. Bertha Gillespie, Hookstown, Mrs. Armenia McHugh, Cleveland, Mrs. Jeannette Cudiff, Chester, W. Va., and Emma Lyons, a home.

In addition, Mr. Lyons is survived by a brother, Louis Lyons, Chester, W. Va., and Mrs. Lyons is survived by three sisters, Mrs. T. S. Campbell, Chester, W. Va., Mrs. Rosa Campbell, East Liverpool, O., and Mrs. Maggie Laughlin, Hookstown, and three brothers, J. L. Allison, Hookstown and George and Bert Allison, Chester, W. Va.


Contributed by Douglas Lyon
Abraham died on May 23, 1941
Mary died on May 24, 1941
(as close as I can figure this article was printed on the 26th of May 1941)

There are photos and obits at these links:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lyon&GScid=45419&GRid=18822633& (Abraham - by George Allison)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Lyon&GScid=45419&GRid=18822009& (Mary - by George Allison)