GIRARD – Norma Jean Simmons, 86, of Girard, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 8, 2026, at Austintown Health Care Center. Norma was born March 10, 1940, in Youngstown, a daughter of Andrew and Mary Paolone Shiley. Norma had worked for Walt Disney World in Florida, but for most of her life was as ...
MARGARET A. ALLEN, 78, Austintown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Wednesday, Lane Funeral Home, Austintown Chapel. CALLING HOURS: 10 to 11 a.m. Wednesday, funeral home. MSGR. GEORGE W. APPLEYARD, 84, Pittsburgh, Pa. SERVICES: 7 p.m. Tuesday, St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church, Pittsburgh, and 10 a.m. Wednesday, church. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, church. MICHAEL FARRAGHER, 74, Galveston, Texas. SERVICES: noon to 3 p.m. Saturday, Cassese’s MVR, Youngstown. CHARLES O. FITCH SR., 82, Edinburg, Pa. SERVICES: 4 p.m. Saturday, Bethel Friends Church, Youngstown. JEAN H. McBRIDE, 87, ...
NILES – Mary Helen Giangardella, 90, of Niles,passed away at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 5, 2026, at St. Joseph Warren Hospital in Warren, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on March 24, 1936, in East Liverpool, the only child of the late John E. and Anna Phyllis Fitzgerald Doherty. ...
ROBERT SOFRANEC, 87 of Boardman, died Sunday. (Kubina-Yuhasz)
BOARDMAN – Norma Jean Schlosser passed away on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, at Continuing Health Care in Boardman. She was born on Feb. 10, 1944, in Youngstown, a daughter of James A. Gentile and Irene M. Lesko. Norma was a 1962 graduate of Chaney High School and worked as a school bus driver ...
NORTH OLMSTED – Jennifer Ann Vitullo Martinelli, 66, of Youngstown, passed away Sunday, Nov. 1, 2026. Jennifer was born March 6, 1960, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Youngstown to Robert and Alice Vitullo. Family was the center of Jennifer's world, and caring for the people she loved was ...
