USA High School Yearbooks by State and County
Ruth Davis
Ruth Davis, 82, formerly of 1731 St. Rt. 23 North, Waverly, died at 9:52 p.m. Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at the Pike Community Hospital E.R., Waverly.
Jack Eugene Delong
Jack Eugene Delong, 73, of Ocala, Fla., formerly of Chillicothe, died Oct. 7, 2002, in Ocala.
He was born Nov. 4, 1928, in Chillicothe.
Jack was a 1947 graduate of Chillicothe High School. He was a retired manager from Lazarus Department Stores in Columbus and also retired from Federated Department Stores in 1990. He co-owned Jack and Paul's Sporting Goods in Chillicothe and owned Valley Trophy in Chillicothe. He was a member of First United Methodist Church in Ocala, Fla., after being a long time member of Walnut Street United Methodist Church in Chillicothe.
Jack was very active in the Chillicothe and Ross County area sports, officiating basketball and umpiring baseball. He was a proud supporter of four Father Wehrle basketball state championships as a staff member. He was a member of the Chillicothe Colts baseball team and the River Oil softball team. He also managed Little League and American Legion baseball teams.
Jack served in the Army during the Korean War.
He is survived by his wife, Anna Kathryn Delong, with whom he celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in December 2001. Also surviving are children, John Delong, of Charlotte, N.C., Annette Delong, of Columbus, Ohio and Matt Delong, of Warsaw, Ind.
A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Monday at Walnut Street United Methodist Church, Chillicothe.
Orville R. Easter
Orville R. Easter, 99, of Leesburg, died Thursday in Highland District Hospital, Hillsboro.
The funeral will be Noon Monday in Murray-Fettro Funeral Home, Greenfield. Burial will follow in Greenfield Cemetery. Friends may call from 10 a.m. to Noon Monday.
At the family's request, in lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Leesburg Area Life Squad, P.O. Box 544, Leesburg, Ohio 45135; or The Automated External Defibrillator Fund, in care of Pam Limes, Highland District Hospital, 1275 N. High St., Hillsboro, Ohio 45133.
Robert W. Frey
Robert Wynn Frey, 61, of Lancaster, passed away Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2002, at Riverside Hospital, Columbus.
He was a builder and proprietor of commercial offices in Lancaster.
Bob was born may 23, 1941, in Pike County, the son of Robert F. and Margaret Ann Wynn Frey. He graduated from Piketon High School and enlisted in the U.S. Navy Submarine Services. After his discharge from the Navy, he returned to Piketon, where he participated in productions of the Atomic Area Operetta Guild. He served as Choir Director of the Piketon Methodist Church and taught music in Scioto Local School District, upon graduation from Ohio University (BS, MS and Ph.D.). His career in institutional development took him to Marshall University, Huntington, W.Va. and Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa.
Robert is survived by his wife of 34 years, Carol (Heiderich); and two sons, Rob and Nicholas; one sister, Anne Dean, of Deland, Fla.; half brother, Alan Crace and his wife, Nancy, of Cincinnati; nieces, nephews and cousins. He was predeceased by his parents; and stepfather, Ermal Crace.
Memorial services will be held Oct. 12, 2002, in the lobby of the Frey Building at 117 West Main Street, Lancaster, at 2:30.
Richard Hartley
Richard Hartley, 83, of Stoutsville, died Wednesday at Logan Elm Health Care.
Jennie M. Shoemaker
Jennie M. Shoemaker, 86, of Camelin Hill Road, Chillicothe, died 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2002, at Westmoreland Place, Chillicothe.
She was born Nov. 18, 1915, in Ross County, the daughter of Harvey A. and Katie Belle Goodin Shoemaker.
She is survived by one daughter, Donna (Charles) Johnson, of Chillicothe; seven grandchildren, Charles Johnson, Todd (Holli) Johnson, Robert Justice, Craig (Amanda) Justice, Vonda (Dwayne) Jett, Cheryl Justine and April Justice; six great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren; three sisters, Firme (Marvin) Collins and Fay Rinehart, both of Chillicothe and Donna (William) Salley, of Dayton; two brothers, Dean (Betty) Shoemaker and Roy (Patty) Shoemaker, both of Chillicothe; and three sisters-in-law, Pauline, Virginia and Marcella Shoemaker. She was predeceased by one daughter, Sharon Justice; two sisters, Freda Walls and Dora Miller; three brothers, Harold, Clifford Pete and Wilford Bill Shoemaker.
She was a member of the Camelin Hill Church, where the service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, 2002, with Rev. Rick Hartley and Rev. Bud Lytle officiating. Burial will follow in Twin Township Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Smith-Moore Funeral Home, Bainbridge.
Larry P. Strausbaugh, Sr.
Larry P. Strausbaugh, Sr., 60, of Kenowa Village, Chillicothe, died 5:07 a.m. Thursday October 10, 2002, in the Adena Regional Medical Center unexpectedly.
William Chain
William Chain, 88, of Cave Road, Bainbridge, died Thursday at Adena Regional Medical Center, Chillicothe.
The funeral will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Anderson-Strueve Funeral Home, Greenfield. Burial will follow in Roads Cemetery, near Rainsboro, Ohio. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. Sunday until time of service.
William H. Davidson
William H. Davidson, 81, of Chillicothe, died Friday.
Esther Taft Quinn
Esther Taft Quinn, a resident of Chillicothe for many years, died on October 3, 2002, at the home of her daughter in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was 98.
A native of Wisconsin, she moved to Chillicothe in 1939 with her husband, Dr. Robert Emmet Quinn, who practiced ophthalmology here for many years. Both Esther Quinn and her husband were active in a variety of civic endeavors in Chillicothe. They worked on campaigns for a new hospital, a new YMCA and a new high school. They were early advocates of developing Ohio University-Chillicothe, and have established a trust that will benefit the OU-C scholarship fund. Esther Quinn was a lover of books and she was generous to both the Chillicothe Public Library and the library at Ohio University-Chillicothe. In 1990, the library at OU-C was renamed the Robert Emmet and Esther Taft Quinn Library in their honor.
Many in Chillicothe, however, remember Esther Quinn in smaller arenas, as an inspiring member of play-reading and writing groups, and an enthusiastic participant in the AAUW book sale. "I can see you yet, Esther," a friend recently wrote, "poring over the books and culling out the old and the special values."
In recent years, and particularly after she moved to Brookline fifteen years ago to be near her children, Esther Quinn wrote about her life. Earlier this year, with the help of her family, she published Other Days: Memories from the Last Century, a selection of her essays. In it she writes of growing up in Menomonie, Wisconsin, daughter of a printer and lover of words. She writes lyrically of the "marvelous outdoors" of her small town on the Red Cedar River, and of the unusual library where she cemented her love affair with books. She describes her years as a teacher of English, first in small towns in Minnesota and later in Madison, where, as advisor to the high school newspaper, she encouraged one editor who later won a Pulitzer Prize. It was in Madison that she met Robert Emmet Quinn, then a struggling medical student at the University of Wisconsin. They married during his internship at Tulane University in New Orleans, and decided on the move to Chillicothe after his ophthalmology residency in Rochester, New York, to take over a practice here.
In Chillicothe, Esther Quinn taught herself bookbinding and became a book collector. Together, she and her husband also developed an intense interest in local flora and fauna, first in the land around their house on Cliffside Drive and later on abandoned farmland they purchased in Jackson County. There they discovered boarded-over log cabins built around the time of the Civil War, took them down and re-erected them, log by log, at the edge of a small lake they created.
In the final essay in Other Days, Esther Quinn describes moving to "bleak New England" when both she and her husband were in their eighties, when "one's roots are grown into house and town, entwined about friends, old habits."
She concludes: "Of course, it flashes on the inward eye -- the carpets of trillium and the Virginia bluebells in the spring woods, the wondrous spring on the farm, gushing out of the hillside to make a whole-gravity water system, the fog in the valley and the moon on the hills. We recall the work we loved -- Bob's walls and fireplaces of Cuyahoga sandstone, my gardens, the pines we planted, always the pines, in the Appalachian highlands of Jackson County and in town. But only one doctor who was practicing when we came to Chillicothe before World War II is living. That is the past. With our children near at hand, and with our grandchildren blooming in various places, we are content."
Esther Quinn is survived by her daughter Margaret Quinn Simons and her husband Thomas W. Simons, Jr. and her daughter Susan Quinn Jacobs and her husband Daniel H. Jacobs; also by their children, Thomas Quinn Jacobs, Suzanne Simons Borgenicht, Benjamin Thomas Simons and Anna Taft Jacobs; great-grandchildren Alejandra Esther Jacobs, Daniel Nicholas Jacobs, David Thomas Jacobs and Sophie Eleanor Simons Borgenicht.
Memorial contributions in her name may be made to the Pump House Center for the Arts, P.O. Box 1613, Chillicothe, OH 45601.
Chester Earl Dickerson, Jr.
Chester Earl Dickerson, Jr., 68, of State Route 335, Beaver, died Wednesday in Cleveland Clinic.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday at the Cox Funeral Home, Beaver. Burial will follow in Beaver Union Cemetery. Friends may call from 11 a.m. Monday until the time of service at the funeral home.
Murel A. Clemmons
Murel A. Clemmons, 72, of Frankfort, Ohio, died at 4:20 a.m. Sunday, in the Oakwood Medical Hospital in Dearborn, Mich., following an extended illness.
