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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, formerly of Youngstown. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, Church Hill United Methodist Church, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, church. CHARLES W. DAHMAN, 80, Boardman. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Friday, St. Christine Church, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Fox Funeral Home, ...

Thomas A. Furgas 1954-2025

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 ...

Margaret L. Yanek 1933-2025

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 ...

Eugene Hasenfus, key figure in 1980s Iran-Contra affair, dies

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 ...

Accompanied suicide group founder dies

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, it said. A onetime correspondent in Switzerland for the respected German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, Minelli earned a law degree in 1981, aged nearly 50. A few years later he was admitted to the bar and argued in defense of his group and beliefs in court. He championed values such as freedom of ...

Adeline J. Duncko 1926-2025

POLAND — Adeline J. “Babe” Duncko, left us peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, at the age of 99. Born Carmela Adelina Adornato on Nov. 7, 1926, in Youngstown, she lived a fulfilling life marked by compassion, dedication, and a profound commitment to the wellbeing of others. After ...