FREDERICKTOWN -- Robert V. Ackerman, 73, of Mount Gilead Road, Fredericktown, passed away Monday, May 26, 2008, at Knox Community Hospital in Mount Vernon.

COLUMBUS -- Ruth Ball, 97, passed away at the Westminster Thurber Community in Columbus on Monday, May 26, 2008.

MOUNT VERNON -- M. Elzada Frye, 90, of Mount Vernon died Sunday, May 25, 2008, at the LPN Health Care Facility in Newark.

MARION -- Stanley Douglas Matthews, 65, of Marion died early Sunday morning, May 25, 2008, at Edgewood Manor in Westerville following an extended illness.