Obituaries Section

• Samuel J. Longo Jr.

  By YS News StaffApril 10, 2025

  

  Samuel J. Longo Jr., age 76, of Kettering, passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.

• Betty Jane Pettiford

  By YS News Staff

  

  Betty Jane (Frierson) Pettiford, 89 of Yellow Springs, Ohio, passed away April 4, 2025, at Hospice of Dayton.

• Eugenia Hughes Lawson Bautista

  By YS News Staff

  

  Eugenia Hughes Lawson Bautista, of Eugene, Oregon, passed away at 102 years old on Feb. 7, 2025.

• Elizabeth Paciorek

  By YS News Staff

  

  Elizabeth Helen Kozlowski Paciorek was 75 years old when she died, much too young, on April 4, 2025.

• Mary M. Peirano

  By YS News StaffMarch 28, 2025

  

  Mary Myrtle Peirano, 94, of Springfield, passed away March 20, 2025. She was born May 25, 1930, in Fayette County, Ohio, to Herbert and Marcella (Simmons) Binegar.

• Max Laverne Lake

  By YS News StaffMarch 27, 2025

  

  Max Laverne Lake, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully at Kettering Health Main Campus on March 12, 2025, after a brief illness, at the age of 77.

• Robert Francis Holland

  By YS News Staff

  

  Robert Francis Holland, age 60, passed away peacefully Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025, in his home. Robert was born Feb. 29, 1964, in Springfield, Ohio, the son of Cecil and Frances (Harville) Holland.

• Terry M. Mayo

  By YS News StaffMarch 20, 2025

  

  Terry M. Mayo came into this world near Wilmington, Ohio, on May 12, 1943, and departed it in Beavercreek, Ohio, on Feb. 14, 2025.

• Frank Marcucci III

  By YS News Staff

  

  Frank Richard Marcucci III was born May 3, 1965, in Providence, Rhode Island. Growing up in Lexington, Massachusetts, he was an Eagle Scout, competitive swimmer, EMT, lifeguard, swim instructor, hospital orderly and organic farm hand.

• John T. Cannon

  By YS News StaffMarch 14, 2025

  

  It is the saddest of news to report that John Tucker Cannon passed away early Saturday, March 8, 2025.