PHILLIP A. BRANDLE, 64, died Thursday at Salem Regional Medical Center. CALLING HOURS: 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Stark Memorial Funeral Home, Salem. ANTOINETTE R. NAPLES-HERTZER, 71, of Warren, died Nov. 18. SERVICES: 5 p.m. Monday, North Mar Church, Warren. (Carl W. Hall)

KAREN C. AUDIA, 78, Austintown. SERVICES: 3 p.m. Wednesday, Davis-Becker Funeral Home, Boardman. CALLING HOURS: 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, funeral home. JUDITH A. BRIAN, 75, Niles. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Wednesday, St. Pope John XXIII Parish-Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Niles. JUNE C. BYO, 93, ...

AUSTINTOWN — Tributes for noted local composer, artist and poet, Thomas Alexander Furgas, are pouring in following his passing to the Lord’s repose on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025. He was 71. He was the third of seven boys born to Steve Michael and Ida Marie McSwain Furgas. He was preceded ...

POLAND — Margaret Letitia “Peggy” Yanek departed this life Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, at the age of 92. Born Aug. 4, 1933, in Youngstown, she is the daughter of the late Lawrence and Bettie Nicklin Kennedy. Margaret grew up on the East Side of Youngstown and always loved to reminisce ...

MADISON, Wis. — Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died. Hasenfus died on Nov. 26 in Menominee, Michigan, after a nine-year battle with cancer, according to his obituary ...

GENEVA (AP) — Ludwig Minelli, the founder of Dignitas, one of Switzerland’s best-known accompanied suicide groups that has helped thousands of people from around the world to take their own lives, has died through voluntary assisted dying, the group said. Minelli died Saturday at age 92, ...