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Evelyn R. Reed
KINGSVILLE - Evelyn R. Reed, 79, of West 9th Street, died Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at the Ashtabula County Nursing Home.
She was born July 2, 1922, in Linesville, Pa., the daughter of Earl D. and Ruth Ann (Guernsey) Hathaway, and had been an area resident most of her life.
She was a homemaker for several people in the Ashtabula area. She also worked as a bar maid at the Iroquois Lounge, and owned and operated Eve's Restaurant on Bridge Street.
She loved to walk around her neighborhood, visit with her friends and work in her garden.
Survivors include two sons, Paul Forman Reed of Ashtabula, and Robert Ray Reed of Conneaut; two grandchildren, Lisa Reed and Joseph Reed; one great-grandson; and a brother, Harold Hathaway of Edgewater, Fla.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, James A. Hathaway.
Service is 11 a.m. Friday at the family gravesite at the Edgewood Cemetery. The Rev. Philip Miller, pastor, will officiate.
The Askew-Brink-Ducro Harbor Funeral Home, 1709 W. 11th St., Ashtabula, is in charge of arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Ashtabula County, 2420 Lake Ave., Ashtabula, 44004.
Eugene G. Cartner
NORTH KINGSVILLE - Eugene G. Cartner, 71, of West Center Street, died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2002, at Brown Memorial Hospital in Conneaut.
He was born Feb. 7, 1931, in Pierpont Township, the son of William and Flore (Case) Cartner. He had been a lifetime area resident.
A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was an officer and member of the East Ashtabula Club and was a member of the Young Men's Social Club.
Mr. Cartner was employed with Greenleaf Motors for 35 years, retiring in 1993 as a long-distance truck driver.
He enjoyed woodworking, fishing, and loved a good joke.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth M. (Tracy) Cartner, whom he married Oct. 6, 1951; two sons, Eugene and Rodney Cartner, both of Ashtabula; a daughter, Bonita Hasson of Denver; five grandchildren, Crystal, Justin, Kayla, Rodney and Michelle; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, William Cartner Jr. and Jerry Cartner, both of Ashtabula, and Ronald Cartner of Utah; and a sister, Janet Powers of Texas.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a son, Lloyd Cartner; two daughters, Linda Smith and Juanita F. Cartner; and four brothers, Donald, Walter, Kenneth and Richard.
Service is 11 a.m. Thursday at the Ross-Billman Funeral Home, 526 Prospect Road, Ashtabula. The Rev. Kenneth Roberts, of the Pentecostal Church of God, is officiating.
Burial will be in Greenlawn Memory Gardens in North Kingsville.
Calling hours will be 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Hospice of Ashtabula County. Envelopes are available at the funeral home.
Howard E. Humphrey
KINGSVILLE - Howard E. Humphrey, 79, of Baldwin Road, Kingsville, died Friday, Oct. 6, 2000, at his home after a short illness.
Born June 6, 1921, in Ashtabula Township, he was the son of Russell C. and Zoe (Hine) Humphrey, Jr., and had been a lifetime area resident.
He was a 1939 graduate of Ashtabula High School.
He was a World War II Army veteran, serving in the European Theater of Operations.
He married Elizabeth Stewart on Sept. 15, 1946.
He served as the administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. Robert E. Cook in Washington, D.C, from 1958 to 1963. He then owned Kingsville Mobil from 1966 until his retirement in 1978.
He was a member of the Kelloggsville United Methodist Church and was an active member of the Democratic Party.
He was an avid reader and enjoyed gardening, landscaping, fishing and spending time with his family.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Nelson of Homosassa Springs, Fla., and Howard, Jr., of Kingsville; four daughters, Zoanna Bartone of Ashtabula, Christine Hudson of Pierpont, Elaine Marcy of Kingsville, and Marie of Conneaut; a brother, Seymour of Jefferson; seven grandchildren, Michael, Tim, Charlotte, Matt, Jaime, Jessica and Dustin; and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Nelson and Raymond; and a sister, Lucia Woodburn.
Memorial service will be held 11 a.m. Saturday at the Kelloggsville United Methodist Church, 4763 N. Monroe Center Road, Kelloggsville. The Rev. John Borgert will officiate.
Memorial contributions can be made to Hospice of Ashtabula County. Envelopes will be available at the church and at the Ross-Billman Funeral Home, 526 Prospect Road, Ashtabula, which is in charge of arrangements.
Nicholas J. Gamlin
KALIDA - Nicholas James (Nick) Gamlin, 23, formerly of Ashtabula, died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, in an automobile accident.
Mr. Gamlin was born Oct. 26, 1978, in Ashtabula, the son of James R. Sr. and Alma (Ridenour) Gamlin. He had been a lifelong Ashtabula resident before moving to Putnam County in 2001.
A 1997 graduate of Edgewood High School and the Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School, he worked as a press operator for PSI in Ottoville.
During his years at Edgewood, he coached basketball at Ridgeview Elementary School. He enjoyed softball, bowling and shooting pool.
Survivors include his son, Nicholas R. Gamlin of Kalida; girlfriend, Dorothy Seibert of Kalida; three brothers, James R. Gamlin Jr. of Warren, and Donald and Matthew Slebodnick, both of Ashtabula; a sister, Harriet Balcomb of Ashtabula; his mother, Alma of Ashtabula; his father, James R. Sr., and stepmother, Darlyne, of Windsor; and his paternal grandfather, Russell Gamlin of Warren.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandmother, Nina Gamlin; stepgrandmother, Josephine Gamlin; and maternal grandparents, Victor and Harriet (Allison) Ridenour.
Service is 11 a.m. today at the Pentecostal Church of God, 2201 Cook Road, Ashtabula, with the Rev. Kenneth Roberts, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Saybrook Cemetery.
Ducro Funeral Services and Crematory, 4524 Elm Ave., Ashtabula, is handling the arrangements.
Memorial contributions may be made to the family.
Al Roerdanz
KINGSVILLE TOWNSHIP - Al Roerdanz, 90, died Sunday, Dec. 8, 2002, at the Ashtabula County Nursing Home.
He was born Feb. 25, 1912, in Mentor, the son of Fred and Marie Roerdanz.
He moved to Kingsville in 1946 and was a resident of Ashtabula County for most of his adult life.
Mr. Roerdanz was a bartender for Swallows at Geneva-on-the-Lake and Swallows Restaurant in Ashtabula. He managed Hotel Ashtabula for a short period before his retirement.
He also worked for Hawkins Ambulance Service, driving a hearse for many area funeral homes.
He was a member of the American National Rabbit Club. He enjoyed farming and raising rabbits. He wrote many articles for magazines on fancy show rabbits.
Survivors include his son, Fred G. Roerdanz of Kingsville; three sisters, Betty Miller of Concord Township, Margaret Calvert of Mentor, and Hattie Neibauer of Alameda, Calif.; and three grandchildren, Sue Roerdanz and Annette Simmons, both of Cincinnati, and Mark Roerdanz of Jefferson City, Mo.; and 10 great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents and three wives, Hazel, Ermma and Sally.
Service will be noon Wednesday at the Ross-Billman Funeral Home, 526 W. Prospect Road, Ashtabula. The Rev. Bonnie Habbersett of the Kingsville Presbyterian Church will officiate.
Calling hour is 11 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the funeral home.
Burial be in North Madison Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Kingsville Presbyterian Church, 3056 W. Main St., Kingsville, 44068.
Doris J. Weir
FERN CREEK, KY. Doris Jean Weir, 79, of Fern Creek, Ky., died Saturday, March 29, 2003.
She was born Sept. 6, 1923, in Ashtabula, the daughter of Walter and Harriet (Crecraft) Calaway.
A graduate of Ashtabula High School, she married Dale Weir of Dorset. The couple moved to Erie, Pa., and then to Fern Creek, Ky., where Mrs. Weir was a member of Cedar Creek Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband; four children, Roberta Wimsatt, Bill Weir, Robert Weir and Darl Weir; 10 grandchildren; one great-granddaughter; and five sisters, Lucille McConnell of Dorset, and Pauline Thompson, Isabell Brail, Esther Smith and JoAnn Howard, all of Ashtabula.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and four sisters, Betty Spencer, Edith Drake, Lillian Proper and Beverly Montgomery.
Funeral services were held in Fern Creek, Ky. Burial followed in Highland Memory Gardens, Fern Creek.
The Fern Creek Funeral Home, 5406 Bardstown Road, Fern Creek, Ky., was in charge of the arrangements.
Palma de Csicsery
DANVILLE, Calif. - Palma de Csicsery, née Palma Tahy, 95, formerly of Ashtabula, died at a convalescent hospital on March 29, 2003. She was born Dec. 5, 1907, in Budapest, Hungary, the daughter of Jakab de Tahy and Margaret de Lukacs, the sixth of eight children. The Tahy family traces its origins to one of the seven tribal chieftains who accompanied Arpad when the Magyars invaded and settled in the Carpathian Basin in 896. Over the centuries, the family spawned numerous notable Hungarian government officials, military leaders and clergymen.
At 7 years old, while vacationing with her family on the Adriatic Coast of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, Mrs. Csicsery witnessed the royal tour of Archduke Francis-Ferdinand only two days before his assassination in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, the event that sparked World War I.
She attended a French boarding school run by the Notre Dame Sisters in Budapest and gained a proficiency in French and classical culture. In 1927, she married Lt. Zsigmond Csicsery. The couple had three sons, Sigmund, Michael and George. Until the end of World War II, she lived the life of a Hungarian army officer's wife.
She was living in the city of Kassa, now Kosice in Slovakia, when that city was bombed by Nazi Germany as a successful ruse to bring Hungary into its war against the Soviet Union. In 1945, she left Hungary with her husband and second son. They became refugees in Germany, first living in Regensburg, Bavaria, where her husband worked as secretary to the Archduke Joseph von Habsburg, and later in Herrenalb near Baden-Baden. In Herrenalb, she worked as a secretary in the professional training office of the French occupation authorities. The family emigrated to the United States in 1951, settling in Cleveland.
After doing a variety of work, including as a domestic servant, Avon products salesperson and restaurant owner, she found a position at the slide department of the Cleveland Museum of Art during the mid-1950s, eventually becoming the department's director. She retired from the museum in 1973 and moved to Ashtabula to be near a favorite beach.
She lived in Ashtabula for 27 years and spent a part of every day walking on Walnut Beach or swimming in the lake. She moved to Moraga, Calif., in 1999, when a stroke made it impossible for her to continue living alone.
Her survivors include two sons, Sigmund M. Csicsery of Lafayette, Calif., and George P. Csicsery of Oakland, Calif.; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Zsigmond, in 1962; one son, Mike M. Csicsery, in 1978; three sisters; four brothers; and her parents.
A memorial Mass for Mrs. de Csicsery will be celebrated at St. Joseph's Church, Ashtabula, the weekend of April 27. A celebration of her life will be held in July in California, where her children and grandchildren reside. In addition, a memorial Mass is planned for later this year at the chapel in Balatonszemes, Hungary, where her remains will be entombed with those of her husband, in the Tahy family crypt.
Memorial contributions may be sent to the Steven Gerencser Calasanctius Fund, c/o G. Csicsery, P.O. Box 22833, Oakland, CA 94609. Local inquiries may be directed to Ducro Funeral Services and Crematory, 4524 Elm Ave., Ashtabula.
