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Obituaries

Alice D. Donahue 1923-2025

PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Alice Duer Doughton Donahue died Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025. Alice was born in 1923 in Hubbard. After graduating from high school in 1941, she and several of her sorority sisters left Youngstown College in 1942 to take jobs in support of the war effort. Alice ...

Mark A. Frankland 1961-2025

POLAND — In the early morning hours of Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025, my partner of this world, Mark A. Frankland, went for his final earthly hike and passed away into his eternal heavenly home. Mark was born March 31, 1961, in East Palestine, to Chuck and Loretta Frankland, where he spent his ...

Area deaths

NORA J. GREGORY CRAIG, 77, of Paris Township, died Monday. (Borowski) MONSIGNOR ALEXIS MIHALIK, 87, of Canfield, died Saturday. Services will be at a later date. (Kirila)

Services

JUNE C. BYO, 93, formerly of Youngstown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, Church Hill United Methodist Church, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, church. GEORGE N. CALLIHAN, 95, Girard. CALLING HOURS: 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday, Joseph Rossi and Sons Funeral Home, Niles. CHARLES W. ...

D-Day veteran Charles Shay, who saved lives on Omaha Beach, dies

PARIS (AP) — Charles Shay, a decorated Native American veteran who was a 19-year-old U.S. Army medic when he landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day and helped save lives, died on Wednesday. He was 101. Shay died at his home in Bretteville-L’Orgueilleuse in France’s Normandy region, his longtime ...

Guitarist Steve Cropper dies in Nashville

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Steve Cropper, the lean, soulful guitarist and songwriter who helped anchor the celebrated Memphis backing band Booker T. and the M.G.’s at Stax Records and co-wrote the classics “Green Onions,” “(Sittin’ on) the Dock of the Bay” and “In the Midnight ...