KINSMAN — John James Kovach Jr., 77, a decorated Air Force veteran and dedicated family man, passed away Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, at St. Elizabeth Youngstown Hospital. He was born July 6, 1948, in Ravenna, to John and M. Ruth Carver Kovach. John graduated from Newton Falls High School ...
ROBERT L. ARMSTRONG II, 79, Niles. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Friday, James Funeral Home, Newton Falls. CALLING HOURS: 10 to 11 a.m. Friday, funeral home. LANCE F. DUDECK. 66, Hubbard. SERVICES: 10:30 a.m. Saturday, St. Thomas The Apostle Church, Vienna. CALLING HOURS: 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, and 9 to 10:15 a.m. Saturday, Kyle Funeral Homes, Vienna. CLIFFORD J. GROSSMAN, 77, Warren. CELEBRATION OF LIFE: 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sorrento’s Italian Restaurant, Warren. LARAINE SHAW BEACH GROSSMAN, 78, Bluffton, South Carolina. CELEBRATION OF LIFE: 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sorrento’s Italian ...
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Michael Smuss, who fought Nazi soldiers with Molotov cocktails during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of World War II and became a painter after the war to process his trauma, has died. He was 99. His wife in Israel confirmed his death on Thursday. She said Smuss died on Oct. 21. Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, said the funeral would take place on today. Smuss was born in 1926 in what was then the Free City of Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland. He later moved to Lodz and Warsaw. In 1940, he became one of the hundreds of thousands of Jewish people ...
HOWLAND — William A. “Billy” Smith, 90, passed away Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, at Shepherd of the Valley Howland. Billy was born March 10, 1935, in Canton, the son of Roy and Martha Chambers Smith. A resident of Niles most of his life, Billy graduated from Niles McKinley High School, ...
WARREN — Irene Margaret “Marge” Marchin, 95, died Friday evening, Oct. 17, 2025, at Hospice House in Youngstown, surrounded by family. She was born Sept. 22, 1930, in Royal, Pa., the daughter of the late Stephen Sr. and Mary Masechko Marchin. She graduated from Warren G. Harding ...
WARREN — Charles Edward Markley, more commonly known as “Chip,” passed away Tuesday evening, Oct. 7, 2025, at White Oak Manor in Warren. Chip was born Oct. 5, 1955, in Warren, the son of the late Charles Elmer and Beatrice Tommer Markley. Chip was a 1973 graduate of Southington ...
