All Obituaries

Jolene Amo entered the Lord’s presence on Saturday, April 20, 2024, with her children by her side.  The daughter of Eldridge and Velda (Fuerst) Pearson, she was born October 23, 1950, in Parkston, South Dakota. As a child, Jolene lived in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and graduated from Lincoln Senior High School in 1968. She then graduated from Nettleton Commercial College in 1969 and moved to Washington, DC, where she met the love of her life, The Very Rev. David R. Amo, and they...

    Barbara Jean St. Amand June 8, 1938 – April 20, 2024   Barbara Jean St. Amand died peacefully at her home of sixty years under the care of her family and hospice on April 20, 2024.  She was born June 8,1938 in Chandler Township, the daughter of Roscoe and Bertha Howard.  Jean was raised, one of twelve kids, on the Howard family’s Chandler Hill Road farm.  She attended school at the one-room Chandler schoolhouse.  She graduated from...

William H. (Bill) Perry, 86, cast off for the seas of eternity April 19, 2024 after a valiant struggle with cancer. He was born on September 26, 1937 in Delaware, Ohio to Ora Virgil and Mary Ann Perry. Bill grew up in Detroit, graduating from Southwestern HS in 1955. He was proud to have served with the US Army where he spent some of his time in Thailand. Bill is survived by his wife Catherine (Cathy) and his three children Warren Michael Perry, Stacey Marie Troy (Jeff), and Michael Wilson...

Ray Anderson, 91, passed away Monday, April 15th, 2024 at his daughter’s home surrounded by family, while under the care of hospice. Ray was born October 4th, 1932 in Cheboygan Michigan. The son of Edward and Violet (Romblom) Anderson. He served in the U.S. Air Force from 1953-1956 as Airman 1st class in Korea. In 1953, he married Beverly Meggitt at the Evangelical Covenant Church in Cheboygan. He attended Central Michigan University and Michigan State University where he received a...

Chris Huskisson, 69, of Boyne City, Michigan, was born Christine Kay Lockman on March 1, 1955, in Petoskey, Michigan and grew up in Boyne City. She had a wonderful childhood with her parents Robert and Ardis (Kowalske) Lockman and her three siblings, Don, Carl, and Nancy. Chris passed away on April 14, 2024. She leaves behind her loving husband Pete and two devoted daughters, Nikki (Josh) Wright of Maine and Molly (Jeff) Burns of Boyne City. Chris adored her four grandchildren: Brody Burns,...

Francis Joseph Wabanimkee walked on on April 13, 2024.

In the early hours of April 13, 2024, Stella Louise Hersha (Page) joined her recently departed husband, Jack J. Hersha, Sr., in the divine presence of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Born Stella Louise Page to Herbert Page Margaret E. Page (McCown) in Highland Park, Michigan on February 6, 1934. Stella lived her childhood and early adult life there in southeast Michigan. It was here that she met and married Jack J. Hersha, Sr., the love of her life. Not many years later, Jack and Stella...

Dale Edward Zahrt, age 76 of Petoskey passed away April 12, 2024. At this time no services are planned.  Stone Funeral Home, Inc of Petoskey is serving the family.    

There will be services on Tuesday, April 23, 2023, at 11 a.m., at Cross in the Woods Catholic Shrine for Kathleen A. Sunday, 77, of Petoskey, MI, who passed away on the evening of Thursday, April 11, from post-cancer therapy complications. There will be an Open Visitation  one hour before the 11 a.m. service. She was born April 3, 1947, in Warren, OH, a daughter of George Jr. and Josephine Bellay. A 1969 graduate of Kent State University, Mrs. Sunday received her bachelor’s...

Dorothy Hart Litzer, 88, of Harbor Springs, Michigan, passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her loving family. Dorothy was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana to her parents, Edward J. Kiessel and Helen Mitchell Kiessel. She attended Roosevelt High school in Ypsilanti, MI, as well as Western Michigan University and Eastern Michigan studying finance and accounting. Dorothy married James Lee Hart in September 1957. They raised four children together in Ypsilanti and then Saline Michigan....