All Obituaries

MANTUA Carlton ( Buss ) Resh, 84 years of age, passed away Monday February 18, 2019 at University Hospital- Portage Medical Center in Ravenna surrounded by his loving family. Born on August 23, 1934 in Grantsville, Maryland, he was the son of the late Earl and Oma ( Platter) Resh. A resident of Mantua since 1959, Mr. Resh drove truck for Commercial Motor Freight in Cleveland retiring in 1985 after 33 years of service. He loved horseshoes, corn hole, hunting,  and pulling a team of...

AURORA Louis E. Hubach, of Aurora, age 92, passed away on Friday, February 15, 2019.  Beloved husband for 64 years of Mildred Hubach (nee Weil); loving father of Bruce (Gretchen) Hubach of Hudson and Lynn Hubach of Aurora; grandfather of Gwen (Tommy) Bowen of Hudson and Beth Hubach of Columbus.  Son of the late Erwin and Dorothy (Bruce) Hubach.  Lou was born in Cleveland on March 6, 1926.  Dear brother of the late Margaret Garvin (John) and the late Marion Workman...

AURORA   Barbara Lorraine (Smith) Olsen was born to beaming, devoted parents Viola and Sylvan Smith on May 10, 1932 in the same San Pedro, California hospital where her own four children and two oldest grandchildren would be born years later. The eldest of two daughters, Barbara was extremely patriotic and often confided with pride and a hint of disapproval that her father enlisted in the Army by misrepresenting his age, and at 17 years old became an ambulance driver in the bloody...

MANTUA Margaret Howell, 94 years of age, passed away Monday February 11, 2019 at University Hospital-Portage Medical Center in Ravenna, Ohio. Born on February 9, 1925 in Girard, Ohio, she was the daughter of the late Frank and Clara (Kovacs) Gantar. A homemaker, Mrs. Howell had been a resident of the Mantua area the past 65 years. She enjoyed reading, puzzles, and was a true fan of watching Jeopardy. On May 4, 1946, she married James D. Howell, Sr., who preceded her in death on January 7,...

MANTUA Sylvia J. Hejl, 69 years of age, passed away Thursday February 7, 2019 at University Hospital- Geauga Medical Center in Claridon Township, Ohio. Born in Harrison Township, Pennsylvania on June 19, 1949, she was the daughter of the late Sylvester and Helen (Blystone) Carney. A 1967 graduate of West Tech High School in Cleveland, she had been a Mantua area resident the past 8 years. Mrs. Hejl had been employed as a technician at AT&T in Cleveland, retiring in 1989 after 19 years of...

  MANTUA Harry G. “ Horst “ Buxa, 66 years of age, passed away Tuesday February 5, 2019. Born in Pfahlenheim, Germany on August 24, 1952, he was the son of the late Andreas and Emilie ( Klein ) Buxa. A graduate of West Tech High School in Cleveland, he then attended, and graduated from Electronics Technology Institute in Cleveland. A resident of the Mantua area the past 30 years, Harry had been employed as a Senior Advanced Engineer at Park Place Technologies in Mayfield...

MANTUA Richard Campbell, 83 years of age, became Out Gift to God on Thursday January 31, 2019. Richard was God’s Gift to Us on March 26, 1935 in Nemacolin, Pennsylvania, the son of the late Victor O. and Marie (McBeth) Campbell. A resident of the Mantua area since 1954, Richard had been employed at Ford Motor Company, Walton Hills Stamping Plant as an industrial mechanic, retiring after 38 years of service. He also had been employed at Crestwood Schools as both a bus driver, and...

MANTUA-BEDFORD William T. Rolf, Jr. 88 years of age of Mantua, formerly of Bedford, became Our Gift to God on January 27, 2019 at The Woodlands in Ravenna, Ohio. Mr. Rolf was God’s Gift to Us on May 28, 1930 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of the late William T. and Sylvia (Mulac) Rolf, Sr. He was the devoted husband of Audrey Rolf (deceased 2000), and the loving companion of Bernie Putka. Formerly of Bedford, he had been a resident of Mantua since 2002. A graduate of Cathedral Latin High...

MANTUA Lillian M. (Misner) Lange, 92  years of age, passed away Friday January 25, 2019 at Tri-Pointe Hospital in Concord Township, Ohio. Mrs. Lange was born in Millfield, Ohio August 6, 1926, the daughter of the late Clarence and Elsie (Tracy) Misner. A Mantua resident since 1942, she was a graduate of Mantua Village (Crestwood) Schools in 1944 Cum Laude. On March 16, 1945 she married Frank H. Lange, Jr. together raising eight children. Lillian was always a giver, as a Den Mother,...

AURORA Shirley Marie Duval, 94 years of age, passed away Friday January 25, 2019. She was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 28, 1924, the daughter of the late Raymond H. and Maybelle (Groemere) Koebel. She moved to the suburb of Grosse Pointe at age 8, and spent summers with her grandparents in Algonac on the St. Clair River. Her father was a surgeon and her mother was a housewife and bookkeeper. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 1946 with a degree in Geography, majoring...