Obituaries
Kim Q. Smith
Jan 17, 2007
Kim Q. Smith (nee Allen) age 50, of Lorain, died on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital following a lengthy illness. She was born on June 12, 1956 in Fort Worth, Texas; she has been a Lorain resident for the past 35 years. She enjoyed collecting angels, music, wolfs and nature. Surviving is her daughter: Lisa Hyde,...
Mary Petros
Jan 16, 2007
Mary Petros, (nee Holko) age 91, of Lorain, died on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at New Life Hospice Center of St. Joseph. She was born on December 31, 1915 in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, moving to Lorain in 1995. She was a member of Nativity of the BVM Catholic Church, Lorain and the Sokol Lodge. Mary was survived by her daughter: Marlene...
Robert G. Matakovich
Jan 16, 2007
Robert G. Matakovich, 76, of Lorain, died Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at his residence following a lengthy illness while under the care of New Life Hospice. He was born Aug. 15, 1930 in Lorain where he lived his entire life. He was a 1949 graduate of Lorain High School and served in the US Navy from 1951 through 1953 aboard...
Jose M. Diaz
Jan 12, 2007
Jose M. Diaz, age 35, of Lorain, died on Friday, January 12, 2007, from injuries he sustained in a fall at the US Steel Plant, Lorain. He was born on August 12, 1971 in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. He has lived in the Lorain area the last 10 years. Currently he was employed by SES, Inc., an industrial cleaning company that...
Lucas Garcia
Jan 12, 2007
Lucas Garcia, age 79, of Lorain, died on Friday, January 12, 2007 at Autumn Aegis Retirment Community, after a brief illness. He was born on December 24, 1927 in Hatillo, Puerto Rico. He had moved to Lorain in 2001. Mr. Garcia enjoyed listening to baseball, especially the Cleveland, Indians. He had also enjoyed staying current with the news and what...
James H. Surrena
Jan 11, 2007
James H. "Jesse" Surrena, age 38, of Lorain, died on Thursday, January 11, 2007 in Indianapolis, Indiana from injuries sustained in a trucking accident. He was born on August 31, 1968 in Canton, Ohio, living in Lorain for the past 30 years, he also lived in Marietta, Ohio as a child. He attended Southview High School and was a graduate...
Sally Ann Yuhos
Jan 7, 2007
Sally Ann Yuhos, (nee Schnitzler) age 72, of Elyria, died on Sunday, January 7, 2007 at her residence, while under New Life Hospice, following a lengthy illness. She was born on February 28, 1934 in Lorain and has lived her entire life in Lorain and Sheffield Lake. She was a 1953 graduate of Lorain High School. Sally was employed as...
Helen Deliman
Jan 6, 2007
Helen Deliman, (nee Kopychinski), age 87, of Winter Haven, Florida, formerly of Lorain, died on Saturday, January 6, 2007 at Winter Haven Hospital, following a short illness. She was born on June 15, 1919 in Lorain and graduated from Lorain High School in 1937. She also studied at the Oberlin School of Commerce. She was a lifelong resident of the...
George Oniga
Jan 4, 2007
George Oniga, age 90, of Hamburg, New York, formerly of Lorain, died Thursday, January 4, 2007 at Autumn View Health Care Facility, Hamburg, NY. He was born on April 2, 1916 in Scalp Level, PA, and had lived in Lorain County, Cleveland, Brooklyn, and Eastlake, Ohio from 1916 until his move in 1976, to Hamburg, NY, where he resided for...
George Hess
Jan 3, 2007
George F. Hess, age 82, of Lorain, died on Wednesday, January 3, 2007, at Autumn Aegis Nursing Home, Lorain, after a long illness. He was born on March 22, 1924 in St. Mary's, West Virginia. He had moved to Lorain in 1947, where he resided for the rest of his life. He was a member of the Grace Baptist Church,...
Viola "Kim" Ochrin
Jan 1, 2007
Viola "Kim" Ochrin (nee Poole), age 45, of Lorain, died on Monday, January 1, 2007, at her residence, after a very long illness. She was born on April 2, 1961, in Sharon, PA. She has lived in Lorain during most of her life, for the past 30 years. Kim was a 1979 graduate of Lorain High. She was a member...
Eleanor Gertrude Jones
Dec 28, 2006
Eleanor Gertrude Jones (nee Ehlers), 84, of Sheffield Township, died on Thursday, December 28, 2006 at Grace Hospital, Amherst, following a lengthy illness. She was born in Lorain, Ohio on August 7, 1922 and moved with her family to Elyria, Ohio in 1924. She moved to Sheffield Township in 1948, when she married her beloved husband, Calvin Emerson Jones. As...
Helen C. Szarek
Dec 25, 2006
Helen C. Szarek (nee Sender), age 86, of Lorain, died on Monday, December 25, 2006, at Kingston of Vermilion, Vermilion, after a lengthy illness. She was born on March 7, 1920, in Lorain, Ohio, where she was a resident for her entire life. She was a graduate of Lorain High School, class of 1938B. Helen was a dedicated homemaker for...
Matthew J. Knoll
Dec 24, 2006
Matthew J. Knoll, 20, of Lorain, died Sunday, December 24, 2006 at his residence following a 3 year illness. He was born Dec. 24, 1986 in Columbus, Ohio; he lived in Attica, Ohio before coming to Lorain in 1989. He also lived in Willard, Ohio in the late 1990's before returning to Lorain. Matt was a member of Victory Baptist...
Ronald R. Soto
Dec 24, 2006
Ronald R. Soto, 67, of Lorain, died Sunday, December 24, 2006 at EMH Regional Medical Center, Elyria, following lengthy illness. He was born on July 16, 1939 in Lorain, he moved to Las Vegas from 1991-1999 then back to Lorain. He was a 1958 graduate of Lorain High School, he had also attended Lorain County Community College where he earned...
Leo S. Dzikielewski
Dec 24, 2006
Leo S. "Lovers" Dzikielewski, 88, of Lorain, died Sunday, December 24, 2006 at Autumn Aegis Nursing Home, Lorain following a lengthy illness. He was born July 4, 1918 in Lorain, and has lived here his entire life. He was a 1936 graduate of Lorain High School. Leo served in the US Army Air Corps during World War II in the...
Walter P. Rozmarynowycz
Dec 19, 2006
Walter Rozmarynowycz, age 69, of Sheffield Lake, Ohio was killed on Tuesday, December 19, 2006 when the van he and his wife Mary were traveling in was struck by a pickup truck on I-71 in Medina. Walter was born on August 24, 1937 in Hnyzdychiv, Ukraine. He was the firstborn child of Stephania and Ivan Rozmarynowycz. When he was a...
Antoinette Leonard
Dec 15, 2006
Antoinette "Toni" Leonard (nee; Carson), age 82, of Amherst, died on Friday, December 15, 2006, at Hearthstone, Lorain, after a lengthy illness. She was born on February 4, 1924, in Lorain, where she resided until 1977, when she moved to Amherst. She was a 1942 graduate of Lorain High School and active in her class reunion group. She was also...
Greg A. Tillison
Dec 10, 2006
Greg A. Tillison, 34, of Lorain, died Sunday, December 10, 2006. He was born March 28, 1972 in Lorain, and has lived in the Lorain county area his entire life. He was employed at Buckeye State Welding in Elyria. He was devoted to his family, and was a loyal employee. He enjoyed drag racing motorcycles, riding motorcycles, wrestling and playing...
Garza V. Pedro
Dec 8, 2006
Pedro V. Garza, 63, of Lorain, died Friday, December 08, 2006 at Community Health Partners Hospital and Surgical Center West, Lorain, following a sudden illness. He was born Nov. 6, 1943 in Matamoros, Mexico; he lived in Texas and then Port Clinton before settling in Lorain in 1968. He worked for NPA Coatings Inc., in Cleveland in janitorial services for...
