Obituaries

The Obituaries for March 13, 2008

Croy
Dana Marie, 83
Lima
Services for Dana Marie Croy will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Bayliff & Son Funeral Home, Cridersville by Pastor Kim Miller. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery Mausoleum.
Friends may call 2-4 and 6-8 p.m., Friday.
She died at 5:26 p.m. Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at Richland Manor Nursing Home, Bluffton.
She was born Feb. 18, 1925, to Edwin and Minnie Paugh Pratte of RR 1 Dola, who preceded her in death. On Feb. 24, 1946, she married Charles H. Croy, who survives.
Also surviving are a son, Donald E. (Cindy) Croy of Lima; a daughter, Jane (Jack) Centers of Lima; a daughter-in-law, Patti Croy of Lima, a sister, Eileen (Carroll) McMillen of Forest; six grandchildren, Kari, Mindy, Andrea, James, Tara and Nolan; and eight great-grandchildren, Caleb, Jordan, Katie, Delaney, Keaton, Hayden, Cohlin and Peyton.
She was preceded in death by a son, Richard C. Croy and a sister, Dorothy (Coy) Wagner.
As a young girl she was employed in downtown Lima at Sears & Roebuck, Walgreens, Buckeye Super Market. She was a member of Perry United Methodist Church and was very active and served on many committees. She was employed at Perry Local Schools as the cashier for the cafeteria for 25 years. After retirement she volunteered at Lima Memorial Health System 26 years and had 4,782 hours.
She enjoyed camping, cooking, traveling with her husband and visiting friends and family. She enjoyed many of the school children that she had met over the years.
Memorials may be given to Perry United Methodist Church, St. Rita's Hospice or the Alzheimer's Association.
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Wyomic
Roberta Kay "Bobbie", 56
Kenton
Services for Roberta Kay "Bobbie" Wyomic will be 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John's United Church of Christ in Kenton. Burial will be in Grove Cemetery in Kenton.
Friends may call 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Friday at Price Funeral Home in Kenton.
She died Tuesday, March 11, 2008, at The James Cancer Hospital in Columbus.
She was born in LaJolla, Calif., to Elmer "Bus" and Helen Siemon on March 1, 1952.
Surviving are her two daughters, Heather (Frank) Shoffner of Kenton and Tiffany (Eric) Cobb of Mount Victory; five grandchildren, Hanna and Hayden Shovvner, Shyann Ashbrook and Courtney and Deric Cobb and a sister, Carole (J. Michael) Phillips of Cincinnati.
She was a world traveler in her childhood and adolescence.
She lived in Tripoli, Libya, where her father was stationed in the U.S. Air Force. The family then moved to the southeastern coast of England, driving across North Africa, Spain and France to reach their new home.
She started grade school in Montgomery, Ala., and continued in Kaiserslautern, Germany and Minot, North Dakota, before her parents returned to Kenton.
She was a 1970 graduate of Kenton High School and attended Heidelberg University in Tiffin.
While in school, she worked at Hill's Drug Store on Kenton's square. She had worked at International Paper for 25 years, starting as a packer and rising to supervisor of the lid line.
She also had been a volunteer paramedic with the BKP rescue squad.
Her greatest joy came from her family and its activities, which she built into treasured traditions. Holidays, birthdays and anniversaries were lovingly orchestrated to the delight of both young and old. She did not limit her definition of "family" to her relatives, so she frequently arrived at work with cookies and other homemade treats for her "adopted sons and daughters."
Memorials may be made to the Patient Support Service Fund c/o OSU Medical Center, 660 Ackerman Rd. P.O. Box 183112, Columbus, Ohio, 43218-3112 or to St. John's United Church of Christ Youth Ministries, 211 E. Carroll St., Kenton, Ohio, 43326.
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