Obituaries Section

• Shirley Ann Hatfield

  By YS News StaffApril 10, 2026

  

  Shirley Ann Hatfield transitioned from this world on March 26, 2026, after a brief hospitalization and hospice care.

• Jean McConville Payne

  By YS News Staff

  

  Jean McConville Payne passed away unexpectedly April 1, 2026, at the age of 70, due to complications from vascular dementia.

• Michael Charles Reed

  By YS News StaffApril 2, 2026

  

  Michael Charles Reed, 74, passed away peacefully on March 29, 2026, at Hospice of Dayton. He will be deeply missed and quietly remembered in all the ways that mattered most.

• Luisa Lang Owen

  By YS News Staff

  

  Luisa Lang Owen, Ph.D. passed away peacefully on Tuesday, March 3, in hospital. She was an accomplished artist, writer, poet, philosopher, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and was brilliantly funny.

• Margaret Ann Stewart Diehl

  By YS News StaffMarch 30, 2026

  

  Margaret Ann Stewart Diehl died on Monday, March 16, 2026, at the age of 96.

• Linda Jean (Johnson) Dillenbeck

  By YS News StaffMarch 19, 2026

  

  Linda Jean (née Johnson) Dillenbeck, of Waxhaw, North Carolina, passed away on Feb. 12, 2026, after a brief illness.

• Margaret ‘Peg’ Bird

  By YS News StaffMarch 12, 2026

  

  Margaret Hostetler Bird, of Yellow Springs, age 80, passed away peacefully on Friday, Jan. 30, at the Dayspring Nursing Facility in Enon.

• Josephine Joanne Dunphy

  By YS News StaffMarch 6, 2026

  

  Josephine Joanne Dunphy, 91, of Yellow Springs, passed away Feb. 25, 2026. She was born in the Birch Manor Gatehouse on Jacoby Road on April 7, 1934, to Carmelo and Maria Ricciardi.

• Francis Andrew ‘Dutch’ Dannaker

  By YS News StaffFebruary 26, 2026

  

  Francis Andrew “Dutch” Dannaker passed away on Feb. 22, 2026, at the age of 101.

• Roy Franklin Cromer II

  By YS News StaffFebruary 23, 2026

  

  Roy Franklin Cromer II, 71, of Tucson, Arizona, died on Feb. 4, 2026, following a sudden illness.