Donna Jean Betts, 91, of Whipple, died peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. She lived near Marietta her entire life, being raised in Norwood and then always living near Stanleyville. She was a woman of varying interests and dedications over the years. She always wore her trademark black ...

Beverly K. Heddleson - Visitation, 2 - 4 and 6 - 8 p.m. Oct. 4, 2024, McVay-Perkins Funeral Home, Caldwell. Funeral, 11 a.m. Oct. 5. Rebecca “Becky” McMains Merka Holdren - Celebration of Life, 3 p.m. Sunday, Leavitt Funeral Services, 801 Victor St., Belpre.

Chilean journalist Eva Vergara, who in her four decades at The Associated Press covered stories including the first protests against the dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet and revealed key information about abuses by members of the Catholic Church, died Tuesday. She was 68. Vergara died as ...

Donna Jean Betts, 91, of Whipple, died peacefully on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024. She lived near Marietta her entire life, being raised in Norwood and then always living near Stanleyville. She was a woman of varying interests and dedications over the years. She always wore her trademark black ...

Beverly K. Heddleson, 78, of Caldwell, Ohio, died Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, at Altercare Summit Acres. Visitation, 2 - 4 and 6 - 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, McVay-Perkins Funeral Home, Caldwell. Funeral, 11 a.m. Oct. 5.

Rebecca “Becky” McMains Merka Holdren, 71, succumbed to complications from early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease on August 28, 2024, at Camden Clark/WVU Hospital in Parkersburg, WV. She was the daughter of Ray E. and Kathryn Fulton McMains, late of Fleming, OH. Becky was a dear wife, mother, ...