YOUNGSTOWN — Florence Ann Hoelzel, 93, died early Wednesday evening, Aug. 27, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Boardman Hospital. She was born April 11, 1932, in Niles, a daughter of Harry and Ethel White Johnstone. Florence was a 1950 graduate of Jackson-Milton High School and worked as a welder ...
LEONA M. SHONTZ, 92, of Girard, died Saturday at St. Elizabeth Hospital. SERVICES: noon Thursday, Blackstone Funeral Home. CALLING HOURS: 10 a.m. to noon Thursday, funeral home.
NICHOLAS J. CARANO, 84, Girard. SERVICES: noon Wednesday, Stewart-Kyle Funeral Home, Hubbard. CALLING HOURS: 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday, funeral home. JAMES P. FORD, 94, Niles. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, St. Pope John XXIII Parish-St. Stephen Church, Niles. PATRICIA M. GIBSON, 93, Boardman. SERVICES: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, St. Dominic Church, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 9:15 to 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, church. KATHLEEN B. KANE, 78, Canfield. SERVICES: 6 p.m. Thursday, Higgins-Reardon Funeral Home, Poland. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, funeral home. STANLEY KOSINSKI JR., 54, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Randy “Duke” Cunningham, whose feats as a U.S. Navy flying ace during the Vietnam War catapulted him to a U.S. House of Representatives career that ended in disgrace when he was convicted of accepting $2.4 million in bribes, has died. He was 83. Cunningham died Wednesday at a hospital in a Little Rock, Arkansas, according to former Rep. Duncan L. Hunter, who spent time with him a week before his passing. He “represented the very best of American heroes who go out to meet our enemies at the gates,” said Hunter, whose served alongside Cunningham in ...
CHAPIN, S.C. (AP) — Charles Bierbauer, former CNN correspondent and a past president of the White House Correspondents Association who later became dean of the University of South Carolina’s journalism program, has died. He was 83. Bierbauer died Friday at his home in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, where he had been living in retirement, according to university spokesman Jeff Stensland. No direct cause was given, but the family’s obituary said “his generous heart gave out after a good, long life.” Bierbauer’s journalism career began in his native Pennsylvania, where early ...
DALLAS (AP) — Lee Roy Jordan, a linebacker on the first Super Bowl-winning team for the Dallas Cowboys in the 1970s, has died. He was 84. The Cowboys announced Jordan’s death Saturday without saying when he died or giving a cause of death. Jordan was a first-round draft pick by Dallas in 1963 after a standout career at Alabama, where he played for the late Paul “Bear” Bryant. Jordan was a big part of the “Doomsday” defense that carried the Cowboys to a Super Bowl title in a 24-3 victory over the Miami Dolphins during the 1971 season. He retired in 1976, the year before ...
