Obituaries Section :: Page 23

• Josephine Townsend

  By YS News StaffDecember 21, 2022

  

  Josephine Catherine Yarger Townsend died peacefully in Dayton on Dec. 11 at age 99.

• Ruth Cowperthwaite

  By YS News StaffDecember 15, 2022

  

  Ruth was born in 1925 in Montour County near Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, and lived her adult life in Yellow Springs, Ohio. She died peacefully at Friends Care Community on Dec. 7, 2022, at age 97½ years.

• William “Bill” Duncanfield Rahbek

  By YS News StaffDecember 12, 2022

  

  We are saddened to announce the sudden passing of William “Bill” Duncanfield Rahbek. He left us on Friday, Dec. 2, 2022, at Trinity Community at Fairborn.

• John “Jack” P. Layh

  By YS News Staff

  

  Longtime Yellow Springs resident Dr. John “Jack” P. Layh passed away on Nov. 23, 2022, in Jacksonville, Florida, from COVID-19 complications.

• Cynthia E. Bittner

  By YS News Staff

  

  Cynthia E. Bittner, 64, of Yellow Springs, Ohio, died Dec. 2, 2022, in OSU Wexner Medical Center.

• Roberta B. Semler

  By YS News StaffNovember 30, 2022

  

  There will be a celebration of life open house for Roberta B. Semler on Sunday, Dec. 11, from 1:30 to 4 p.m., at Pleasant Grove Missionary Church, 491 W. Hyde Road, Yellow Springs. The family welcomes the sharing of memories and friendship.

• Josephine Ann “JoAnn” Mace

  By YS News Staff

  

  Josephine Ann “JoAnn” Mace, age 74, of Xenia, Ohio, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by love and family on Nov. 22, 2022.

• Robert Dan “Bob” Dixon

  By YS News Staff

  

  Robert Dan “Bob” Dixon, died peacefully in his sleep, at his home in Hot Springs, North Carolina, on Thursday, Nov. 17.

• Roberta B. Semler

  By YS News StaffNovember 23, 2022

  

  On Nov. 16, 2022, Roberta B. Semler passed peacefully with her family at her side.

• Ronald M. Hampton

  By YS News StaffNovember 9, 2022

  

  A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022, at Saint Paul Catholic Church, 308 Phillips St., Yellow Springs, for Ronald M. Hampton, 71, of Yellow Springs, who passed away unexpectedly Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. He was born Nov. 22, 1950, in Springfield, Ohio, the son of Roy and Edith (Gierus) Hampton.