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Gayla Jo Baker           “longtime resident of Coudersport and Sweden Valley”

Gayla Jo Baker, 64, of Coudersport, passed away Saturday, November 11, 2023.

She was born in Coudersport on Thursday, April 23, 1959, a daughter of John R. and Carlene E. (Brown) Baker.

Gayla was a graduate of Coudersport High School and was also a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Bradford with a Bachelor’s Degree in nursing.  Gayla had a lifelong career in nursing and healthcare and enjoyed helping others.

A Celebration of life for William E. “Bill” Boger, II, 60, of Youngsville, PA., who died September 10, 2023, will be held Saturday, November 18, 2023, at 11:00 A.M. at First Lutheran Church, 119 W. Third Avenue, Warren, PA.., with Rev. Jeffrey Ewing, Pastor, officiating.

Family will receive friends from 10:00  to 11:00 am in the church. Arrangements are being handled through the Donald E. Lewis Funeral Home, Inc.

Crosby–A memorial service for Jane L. Cogan will be held on Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023 at 11AM in the Crosby Community Church.

Jane passed away on Sept. 1, 2023 and a full obituary was printed in a previous edition. 

Arrangements were under the direction of the Hartle-Tarbox Funeral Homes, Inc., Smethport.

Judith Ann (Simson) DeVantier, age 80, of Wellsboro, PA, died on Saturday, November 11, 2023. 

She was born on February 10, 1943 in Buffalo, NY, a daughter of the late Emmett and Arlene (Byer) Simson and was married for 60 years to Pastor Peter A. DeVantier. 

Judy was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Wellsboro, PA, a LPN for 40 years working in western New York and Wellsboro, PA, a camp worker at Camp Pioneer, Angola, NY and a cook at the Trinity Lutheran School both for 10 years. 

Donald J. Sain, 82, of Terrace Road, St. Marys, PA passed away on Sunday, November 12, 2023, at UPMC Hamot in Erie surrounded by his loving family.

He was born on January 12, 1941 in St. Marys, PA, a son of the late John and Magdalene Detsch Sain. 

On July 5, 1973, he married Leah Dowie, who survives. Together they shared more than 50 years of love and laughter.

Donny was a member of St. Marys Church and was a graduate of Central High School, class of 1958.  He retired from St. Marys Steel in 2006 and then worked part-time at Printing Plus in his retirement years, enjoying the friends he met along the way. 

Gayla Jo Baker, 64, of Coudersport, PA passed away Saturday, November 11, 2023.

Funeral arrangements, entrusted to the care of Kevin J. Dusenbury, funeral director/owner of the Virgil L. Howard Funeral Home, Shinglehouse, are incomplete and will be announced with a full obituary.

Port Allegany – Lee Allen Howard, 61, of Jamestown, NY, passed away Sunday (November 12, 2023) at his residence in Jamestown.

Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Hartle-Tarbox Funeral Homes, Inc., Port Allegany, PA

Anna Mae Parmigiani, 91, of Kersey, PA passed away Friday, November 10, 2023, at the Elk Haven Nursing Home.

She was born October 6, 1932, in Kersey, a daughter of the late Peter and Anna (Krellner) Dietz.  Anna Mae was a 1950 graduate of Kersey High School. 

She worked for A&P Grocery Store, Enterprise Printing, and Speer Resistor until she married Paul Parmigiani, on August 27, 1955 at St. Boniface Church.