BOARDMAN — Sally Jannie Mentzer, 68, passed away peacefully, Thursday morning, Aug. 7, 2025, with her family by her side. Sally was born May 14, 1957, in Youngstown, the daughter of John and Sophie Mihu Motz, and was a lifelong resident of the area. She was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson ...
YOUNGSTOWN — Robert E. Butler, 84, passed away peacefully, Monday morning, Aug. 11, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Hospital. Born in Canton, Bob was the son of the late Randall and Leora Hathaway Butler. He graduated from North Canton Hoover High School in 1959 and proudly served in the United ...
AUSTINTOWN — Donald Lewis Wells Sr., 76, passed away Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, at his residence, surrounded by family. He was born Feb. 16, 1949, in Youngstown, to Lewis and Rosemary Ripple Wells. He remained a lifelong resident of Austintown. An avid outdoorsman and sports enthusiast, ...
NICHOLAS DAWES BARTON, 43, of Beloit, died Sunday at Aultman Alliance Community Hospital. SERVICES: 5 p.m. Saturday, Stark Memorial Funeral Home. CALLING HOURS: 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, funeral home. SUZANNE M. MILLER, 68, of Liberty, died Monday. SERVICES: 1 p.m. Friday, Fox Funeral Home, Boardman. CALLING HOURS: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, funeral home.
WALTER G. BROWN JR., 63, Youngstown. SERVICES: 1 p.m. Friday, McCauley Funeral Home, Youngstown. CALLING HOURS: 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Friday, funeral home. MARY E. CROCETTI, 92, North Lima. SERVICES: noon Wednesday, Davis-Becker Funeral Home, Boardman. CALLING HOURS: 10 to 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, funeral home. JAMES H. DONALDSON, 86, Richmond, Virginia. CELEBRATION OF LIFE: 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Davis Becker Family Center, Boardman. FRANCES M. HORVATH, 68, Youngstown. SERVICES: 10 a.m. Friday, Rossi Brothers and Lellio Funeral Home, Boardman. CALLING HOURS: 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday and ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Danielle Spencer, who played the wisecracking and tattling little sister Dee Thomas on the 1970s sitcom “What’s Happening!!” has died at 60. Spencer, who became a veterinarian later in life, died Monday at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, after a yearslong battle with cancer, family spokesperson Sandra Jones said. As Dee, Spencer was the smarter, more serious younger sister who offered a steady stream of deadpan roasts of big brother Roger “Raj” Thomas and his friends Dwayne Nelson and Freddie “Rerun” Stubbs. “Ooh, I’m gonna tell mama,” ...
