Obituaries Section

• Ryan T. Botkin

  By YS News StaffMay 8, 2025

  

  Ryan T. Botkin, 44, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly on April 25, 2024, as the result of a tragic automobile accident involving a drunk driver.

• Melanie Rose (Bauer) Acton

  By YS News Staff

  

  Melanie Rose (Bauer) Acton, 83, of Yellow Springs, passed away peacefully at Friends Care Community on Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at 7:10 p.m., after a courageous battle with a malignant brain tumor. Melanie lived a life centered on love, family and community.

• Denny M. Powell II

  By YS News Staff

  

  Miami Township Fire-Rescue Chief Denny M. Powell II passed away at Greene Memorial Hospital on April 15, 2025, after suffering a cardiac arrest due to a brief illness.

• John Fiske Wing

  By YS News StaffApril 25, 2025

  

  John Fiske Wing, 93, passed away on April 17, 2025, in Dayton, Ohio.

• 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.