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DEBRA A. CANCIO, 67, Bristow, Va. SERVICES: 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Center, Austintown. FRANCES M. GOTTI, 91, Youngstown. SERVICES: 5 p.m. Wednesday, Kirila Funeral Home, Struthers. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, funeral home. GEORGE H. HUGGINS, 91, Struthers. SERVICES: 6 p.m. Thursday, Cunningham-Becker Funeral Home, Poland. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 5:45 p.m. Thursday, funeral home. DONA J. JAMES, 5, Liberty Township. SERVICES: 5 p.m. Thursday, Blackstone Funeral Home, Girard. CALLING HOURS: 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, funeral home. SHARYN L. KENNEDY, 78, ...

Josephine P. Williams 1960-2025

WARREN — Josie P. Williams, 65, passed away unexpectedly Friday evening, Aug. 22, 2025. She was born March 17, 1960, in Youngstown, a daughter of the late Ernest Sr. and Frances Dorante Sferra. Josie was a 1979 graduate of Cardinal Mooney High School and a devoted homemaker. She ...

Area deaths

ROBERT E. BAKER JR., 51, of Salem, died Sunday. Services will be held at a later date. (Stark Memorial) LOIS M. COX, 65, of Austintown, died Friday at the Cleveland Clinic. SERVICES: 1 p.m. Friday, Kerr Cemetery. (Holeton-Yuhasz)

Pamela Keener-Vanditti 1983-2025

STRUTHERS — Pamela Keener-Vanditti, 42, passed away Friday morning, Aug. 22, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. Pamela was born April 8, 1983, in Youngstown, a daughter of David Keener and Barbara Walter, and was a lifelong area ...

Cheryl J. Sokol 1963-2025

AUSTINTOWN — Cheryl Jean Sokol, 62, passed away peacefully at her home, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. She was born March 17, 1963, in Youngstown, a daughter of Alan Granger and the former Norma Koveleski. Cheryl was a 1981 graduate of Poland High School. She worked as a buyer’s assistant at ...

W.Va. Supreme Court justice dies at 60 years

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Tim Armstead, a West Virginia Supreme Court justice who also served as Republican speaker of the House of Delegates during a 20-year legislative career, died Tuesday, the court announced. He was 60. Armstead died following a brief hospitalization, the court said in a statement without elaborating. Armstead was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2018 to fill a vacancy by the retirement of Justice Menis Ketchum. Armstead won a special election later that year to serve the remainder of Ketchum’s term. Ketchum later was sentenced in federal court to probation ...