MOUNT VERNON -- Rosemary Axe, 79, of Vernonview Drive, Mount Vernon, passed away Friday, June 6, 2008, at Knox Community Hospital.

CENTERBURG -- Oliver Wayland Beekman, 76, of Centerburg died early Monday morning, June 9, 2008, at home surrounded by his family.

MOUNT VERNON -- A funeral service for Edith L. Bovard, 86, of Mount Vernon will be Wednesday, June 11, 2008, at 11 a.m. at Law-Baker Funeral Home, with Pastor Jim Blankenship officiating. Burial will follow in South Lawn Cemetery.

ORIENT— Ronald Marshall Leaman, 76, of Clark Lakes, Orient, Ohio, formerly of Gambier, died Thursday, June 5, 2008, at Franklin Woods Nursing Center.

MANSFIELD -- Herbert E. Uhde, 88, of Mansfield passed away Sunday morning, June 8, 2008, at Hospice House of North Central Ohio in Ashland.