Obituaries

DIANA S. HARRILL (nee Poland) age 69, beloved wife for 48 years of Ivan; loving mother of Matthew (wife Amy) and Sharon Burns; devoted grandmother of Allen Jr., Desiree, Zachary, and Destiny Burns, Carter and Makenzie Harrill, Taylor Thomas, Victoria Miller, Cory Jackson Jr. and great-grandmother of Noah, Olivia, Jonah, and Kacen; cherished daughter of the late Thomas and Norma...

age 73, beloved husband for 46 years of Lina (nee Shaker); loving father of Rony (wife Laura), Alan (wife Stephanie) and Rema McVey (husband Dwight); devoted grandfather of Olivia, Owen, Maverick, Easton, Theo, Lana, and Valentina; cherished son of Milia and the late Najem; dearest brother of Nadim (wife Polly), Mathile Saad (husband Jean), Joseph (wife Nana) and the late...

MARIJA BRODNICK (nee Zupancic) age 96, beloved wife of the late John; loving step-mother of John (wife Doris), Robert (wife Hillary) and James (wife Janice).

Marija was born on July 9, 1925 in Grosuplje, Slovenia and passed away on December 14, 2021. She moved to Cleveland from Slovenia in 1969 and was a member of St. Felicitas Catholic Church and...

PETE LUCI, SR., aged 90 years, beloved husband of Sally (formerly Hudik) and the late Oma (nee Friend), dear father of Pete Jr. (Julie), Lew (Julie) and a daughter and her husband, cherished step-father of Kathy Gall (Peter), Matthew Hudik (Wendy), Beth Toth (Mike) and Joe Hudik, Jr. (Gina), loving grandfather and great-grandfather.

Pete is survived by his 96 year...

Mark S. Mytro was born on July 7, 1959 in Cleveland and passed away suddenly on December 10, 2021 at the age of 62. Mark spent his early years living in Streetsboro and ending in Chesterland where he graduated from West Geauga. After high school, Mark, always proud to be an American, enlisted into the United States Navy. He was...

JENNIE STUART (nee Soukup) age 95, beloved wife for 74 years of the late John; loving mother of John (Mindy), Judith Cosenza (Armand, deceased), Linda Loeser (Randolph, deceased), Gregory (Erika), Deborah Chlopecki (Richard), Robert (Lynda), Michael (Lora), and the late Victor; devoted grandmother of 15 and great-grandmother of 27; cherished daughter of the late Charles and Kathryn (nee Serra) Soukup;...

CHARLES ‘CHARLIE’ VELEBA age 66, beloved husband for 18 years of Bonnie (nee Rathbone); proud father of Travis; cherished son of the late Charles and Betty (nee Greenley); dearest brother of Jill Sell; dear uncle of Kim, Taylor (Jason), Abi, Jacob, Luke, Gavin, Regan, Dan, Kenny (Toni), Keegan, Logan and great-uncle of Morgan; son-in-law of Janet and the late Robert...

WILBUR F. “BILL” CONNEL age 85, beloved husband for 51 years of the late Linda (nee Worstall); loving father of Vicki Dziura (Jim), Cheri Shade (Bruce), Allan Connel, and Gregory Connel (Melissa); devoted grandfather of Jennifer Dziura (Andrew), Brian Dziura, Katherine Tousignant (Michael), Christopher Shade (Bonny), Nicole Myers (Evan), Erin Connel and Sarah Connel and great-grandfather of Vivian Sternick, Phoebe...

John H. Tarmann age 75, beloved husband for 51 years of Bonnie (nee Beasely); loving son of the late Rosa (nee Metzger) and Max Tarmann; dearest brother of the late Max (wife Gussie, deceased) and Rosemarie Greis (husband Paul, deceased); devoted uncle of Roseanne Gries (deceased), Mike (wife Sue) Greis, Dave (wife Sally) Greis, Annette Greis, Heidi Coles (Scott), Paul...

Michael Joseph Kler

12/24/1956 – 12/10/2021

Michael Joseph Kler peacefully passed away surrounded by his family on December 10, 2021 after a 13 year battle with cancer. Christmas Eve, a staple of annual celebrations for the Kler family, would have been his 65th birthday. Known better as Pop Pop to his 17 grandkids, Mike is survived by his beloved wife...

Frank W. Murphy, age 76, passed away at home on December 6, 2021. Loving husband for 50 years of Sharon “Rosie” (nee Valus), amazing dad to Patty Sulik (Ken) and Sandy Richards (Tim), adoring donut delivering grandpa to Reagan, Kaylee, Zoli, Tyler and Izzy.

The world lost the greatest chute building, cornhole throwing, pig roasting, little league coaching, shortstop playing,...

CHRISTOPHER ALAN MINICK age 50, cherished son of Carol (nee Hostetler) Byler (husband Lee) and the late Robert L. Minick (wife Virginia); dearest brother of Lisa Holcombe (husband David); treasured uncle of Selah; loving boyfriend of Heather Myers; fond nephew of Walter Minick, Richard Minick, Edna “Eddie” and James “Butch” Farmwald, Fannie “Fran” and Dave Owens, Roman “Pete” and Mary...

CHRISTOPHER W. SEINK age 64, passed away on December 7, 2021. He was the husband of Patty (nee Gilbride); son of the late Joseph and Donna (nee Thompson); brother of Claudia (John) Haley and the late Joe (Pam, deceased); nephew, brother-in-law, uncle, and friend.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held at a later date.

ARRANGEMENTS ENTRUSTED TO THE...

JOHN MAROON INA age 84, loving father of Amir Musleh; cherished son of the late Maroon and Angeline; dearest brother of George (wife Claudette deceased) and the late Albert (wife June); dear uncle and great-uncle of many.

In lieu of flowers contributions may be made in memory of John to St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital.

Mass of Christian Prayers Saturday,...

RANAJIT K. DATTA, PhD., (88) of Cleveland Heights, OH, passed away Dec. 3, 2021. Ranajit was born on February 1, 1933 in Sylhet, India (now in Bangladesh) to Satyendra Chandra and Kiran Prabha Datta.  After obtaining degrees from Presidency College in Kolkata and IIT, Kharagpur, Ranajit immigrated to the United States to pursue his PhD at Penn State University. Ranajit ...

CATHERINE C. IANNADREA (nee Busch), aged 74 years, beloved wife of the late Gerald, dearest mother of Katie DeMoss (husband Don), loving Nonna of Lucas, Dominic, Sophia and Madelyn, cherished daughter of the late Edward J. Sr. and Lois (nee Henzler) Busch, devoted sister of Edward J. Busch, Jr.

Private burial at All Souls Cemetery. Family will receive friends to...

MATILDA R. “TILLIE” (nee Kogan) FOGARTY age 95, beloved wife of the late Edward; loving mother of Peggy Saxon (husband Mike), Carolyn Fogarty (husband Brent Cannon), Jackie Florman and Laura Zucker (husband Chris); devoted grandmother of Kate Bencie (husband Anthony), Joseph Saxon (wife Lindsey), Morgan, Abby and Aaron Florman and Daniel, Edward and Ryan Zucker and great-grandmother of  Isabella and...

LOJSKA “LOUISA” KOTAR (nee Zidar) age 90, beloved wife for 65 years of Josef; loving mother of Josef Jr. (Charmaine), Mary (John) Owens, Toni (Mike) Hrnyak, and Kate (Jim Truskolaski) Kotar; devoted grandmother of Krista (Victor), Erika, Morgan (Corey), Molly (Jack), Nicolette (Jim), Michael (Krystina), Fr. Kevin Estabrook, and Ashley (Scott) and great-grandmother of Kaytlynn, Andrew, Grace, Joshua, Blakely, Alexis,...

LINDA E. JACOBS (nee Smith) age 73, beloved wife for 42 years of Gary E. Jacobs; cherished daughter of the late Jesse Smith and Esther (nee Garry); dearest sister of Jean Bowrey (husband Gary) and the late Carol who passed in 2003 (husband Paul Stoughbaugh); dear aunt of Kathy Huang and Gary Bowrey Jr., Steven Burger and Kim McCready and...