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Veterans’ Advocate Daily Honors Those Who Have Died

Veterans’ Advocate Daily Honors Those Who Have Died

Director of the Tri-State Military Veterans Cheryl Skinner tackles each day the same: by ringing a bell every day for Veterans who have died.

Skinner arrives at the museum every day in Belmont at 101 E. Barrister St. to ring the bell out front for veterans who she posted obituaries for that day.

Community, History, News

Richard Lee Simmons

Richard Lee Simmons

Richard Lee Simmons, 69, of Jacobsburg, Ohio, passed away on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at his home. He was born January 7, 1956, in Glen Dale, West Virginia, a son of the late Merlin Reed “Muggs” Simmons and Stella Lillian Zelaski Simmons. Richard was a retired coal miner. He worked at the North American Number […]

Obituaries

Phyllis Pauline (Palmer) Ady

Phyllis Pauline (Palmer) Ady

Phyllis Pauline Palmer Ady, 73, a resident of Smithville, Ohio and formerly of Monroe County, died following a brief illness on Saturday evening November 1, 2025 surrounded by family in  Wooster Community Hospital.  She was born in Barnesville Hospital, Barnesville, Ohio on February 6, 1952, a daughter of the late Charles Basil Palmer and Ruth Marie […]

Obituaries