MASURY — James A. Rea, 70, died Saturday, Aug. 1, 2026, following a period of declining health at his home. He was born April 1, 1956, in Youngstown, a son of James F. and Marguerite D. Fields Rea. He had retired as a manager for Cortland Banks, Williamsfield. Survivors include his ...
NEWTON FALLS — Leslie A. Wilson, 68, died Friday, July 31, 2026. She was born Sept. 25, 1957, in Warren, a daughter of Lester Andrew and Georgene Patricia Hammond Debolt. She was a retired self-employed business owner. Survivors include her daughter, Christine Wilson of Newton Falls; ...
JACQUELYNE L. BERARDO, 81, Warren. SERVICES: 6 p.m. Tuesday, Peter Rossi & Son Funeral Home, Warren. CALLING HOURS: 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, funeral home. MELISA BLAZEK, 57, Lake Milton. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Saturday, Our Lady of the Lakes Parish-St. James Catholic Church, North Jackson. KENNETH M. GROFF, 89, Middlefield. SERVICES: 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, the Grand Resort Pavilion (Avalon Country Club), Warren. KATHY M. GROVE, 75, Southington. SERVICES: noon Friday, Mercy Ministries-Delightful Campus, Southington. CALLING HOURS: 10 a.m. to noon Friday, church. WILLIE MAE WESTBROOK HOWARD, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Benjamin Alire Saenz, an award-winning fiction writer and poet who drew upon his sexuality and his life on the Southern border, has died at age 71. He was the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner prize. Saenz, who produced a story collection that won the PEN/Faulkner prize and a young adult novel that received acclaim from readers and reviewers and condemnation from censors, died last week in El Paso, Texas after a lengthy illness, according to a spokesperson for Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing. Additional details were not immediately available. Saenz, born ...
CORTLAND — Susan Irene Ostrode, 67, of Cortland, went to be with the Lord Friday, July 31, 2026, at her home, surrounded by her family. She was born May 12, 1959, in Warren, a daughter of Robert E. Smith and Margaret I. Thomas Smith. She married the love of her life, Laurence “Bob” ...
WARREN — Jacquelyne Lee “Jackie” Berardo, 81, of Warren, passed away peacefully on Thursday afternoon, July 30, 2026, at Windsor House of Champion. Jackie was born on Dec. 11, 1944, in Warren, the beloved daughter of the late Charles Virgil and Betty Irene Shade Parker. A lifelong ...
