Obituaries Section :: Page 175

• Richard Praeger

  By YS News StaffMay 1, 2008

  

  Richard Quinn Praeger, formerly of New York City, Paris and San Francisco, died on April 22, in Yellow Springs, where he resided since 2006. He was 83.

• Gwyneth Ishihara

  By YS News StaffApril 24, 2008

  Gwyneth B. (Jones) Ishihara of Yellow Springs died Tuesday, April 8. She was 80. She was born Nov. 16, 1927, a daughter of Tudor and Lily Jones in Kobe, Japan.

• Harold Blackwell

  By YS News Staff

  

  Harold Benson-Jerry (Pikey) Blackwell Sr., Yellow Springs, died on Thursday, April 17, in Community Hospital, Springfield, Ohio. He was 81.

• Gwyneth B. Ishihara

  By YS News StaffApril 17, 2008

  Gwyneth B. Ishihara of Yellow Springs died Tuesday, April 8. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m., Sunday, April 27, in the First Presbyterian Church, Yellow Springs.

• Betty O’Connor

  By YS News Staff

  Betty Jean Bernat O’Connor R.N., B.S.N., died March 21, Good Friday evening. She was a graduate of St. Xavier School of Nursing and the University of Illinois, where she studied both nursing and theater, and worked as a nurse in pediatrics/critical care in Chicago and Los Angeles.

• Forest K. Davis

  By YS News Staff

  Forest K. Davis of Calais, Vt. died at his home after a short illness on Saturday, April 5. He was 90. Forest was born in Nashua, N.H., the son of Harold M. and Evangeline Foster Davis.

• William E. (Bill) Hoag

  By YS News StaffApril 3, 2008

  

  William E. (Bill) Hoag, 60, of Xenia, passed away Thursday, February 7, 2008, at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton. He was born October 14, 1947, in New Burlington, Ohio, the son of Richard E. and Ruth (Sparrow) Hoag.

• Gretta Scott

  By YS News Staff

  

  Gretta Marie Scott died peacefully at Friends Care Center in Yellow Springs on Saturday, March 30. She finally joined the love of her life, her late husband James Earl “Dud” Scott Jr., in heaven. She was 74.

• Gertrude Lucas Churchman

  By YS News Staff

  Gertrude Lucas Coleman Churchman, former Yellow Springs resident, died Wednesday, March 20. The youngest of five children, Gertrude was born in Meridian, Miss., to Daniel Lucas and Minnie Lucas Bookman, of Chicago, Ill.

• Mary Campbell

  By YS News Staff

  Mary Campbell of Yellow Springs died Wednesday, March 26 at Hospice of Dayton. She was 101. She was born Feb. 5, 1907, in Hazard, Ky, the daughter of the late Austin and Sallie (Fugate) Godsey.