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Obituary -- (Findagrave.com):

Salem News

Mrs Roy Kridler

LEETONIA - Mrs Ina Kridler, 56, of 4233 Grafton Road died of cancer at 4;05 p.m. Tuesday in community Hospital East, Salem, where she had been a patient 18 days. Born May 6, 1915, in Fiarfield Township, a daughter of Ira Nd Vera Windle Esterly, she lived in this area all her life.

She was a cook for four years at the Fairfield Centralized School, and she attended Grace United Church of Christ. A past member of Midway Grange, she was active with Our Community club and belonged to the Buckeye Polled Hereford Association. She was married in 1936 to John R Cope, who died in 1945. On June 10, 1948, she was married to Roy Kridler. Survivors include her husband; two sons, Richard Cope of Leetonia and John R Cope of Alexander, Va, a sister, Mrs Donald DeTray of Addis Ababa Ethiopia, and six grandchildren. Services will begin at 1 p.m. Friday in the Seederly Mong Funeral Home, Columbiana, with Rev Ernest Noll, pastor of Grace United Church of Christ, officiating,. Burial will be in Columbiana Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 1:30 to 3 and 7 to 9 p.m. The family asks that contributions be made to the American Cancer Society through Seederly Mong Funeral Home.

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Ina has two cemetery plots - one in Columbiana Cemetery,next to Roy L Kridler. It is engraved with her death date. He was her second spouse. Ina M Esterly Cope has another plot next to her first spouse, John Cope, in Oakdale Cemetery at Leetonia. It is also engraved with her death date. She was actually buried at Columbiana Cemetery, per her obituary.

Ohio, Births and Christenings Index, 1774-1973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.¹

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.^1,2

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Jean moved to Mexico City with her husband Don where he worked on Mexico's pest eradication program for a year. On return to Maryland, Don began what was to become his life's work as a vet: he went to Kenya in East Africa to work on African Swine Fever, an animal disease that African wart hogs and bush pigs carry with no harm to themselves, but which is highly infectious and fatal to domestic pigs. Don was to spend nearly eight years of his career looking for vaccines that would create immunities to ASF in domestic pigs under a joint USDA-British veterinary service program. For the first half dozen years he worked in Kabete, Kenya, near Nairobi, spending six months at a time in Kabete and leaving Jean and the two boys back in Maryland. In 1954, the entire family moved to Kabete and later to Muguga. Don and Jean's initial visit was programmed for six months but lasted seven years, the beginning of a lifetime connection with Africa. Don and the family returned to Maryland in 1961 to get Dennis and Stephen through school and enrolled in College. Once this was accomplished they headed back to Africa, this time to Lagos, Nigeria, then back to Kenya, and finally to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

Donald retired in 1973, moving to Medford, Oregon. Jean died in 1980.

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Donald Ervin DeTray passed away at the age of 95, of natural causes on Friday, April 5, 2013, at 5:00 a.m., at his home in Bay Shore Towers Hilo, Hawaii. He was born in Napoleon, Ohio on the 9th of November, 1917, the second child of Mabel Kuder and Dr. Ervin DeTray.

His older sister, Helen DeTray, is also deceased. His younger brother, Norman DeTray, continues to live in Napoleon. He left behind two sons, Dennis de Tray of Mclean, VA and Stephen DeTray of Tacoma, WA and their families; seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren.

Don received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Ohio State in 1946. At Ohio State he met his first wife, Erla Jean Esterly, of Letonia, Ohio. After receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Don practiced with his father Ervin, also a veterinarian (as was Don's grandfather and great grandfather), until he moved to Burtonsville, MD and joined the U.S. Department of Agriculture at its Beltsville laboratories. Shortly thereafter, he and Jean moved to Mexico City where he worked on Mexico's rinderpest eradication program for a year. On return to Maryland, Don began what was to become his life's work as a vet: he went to Kenya in East Africa to work on African Swine Fever, an animal disease that African wart hogs and bush pigs carry with no harm to themselves, but which is highly infectious and fatal to domestic pigs. Don was to spend nearly eight years of his career looking for vaccines that would create immunities to ASF in domestic pigs under a joint USDA-British veterinary service program. For the first half dozen years he worked in Kabete, Kenya, near Nairobi, spending six months at a time in Kabete and leaving Jean and the two boys back in Maryland. In 1954, the entire family moved to Kabete and later to Muguga. Don and Jean's initial visit was programmed for six months but lasted seven years, the beginning of a lifetime connection with Africa. Don and the family returned to Maryland in 1961 to get Dennis and Stephen through school and enrolled in College. Once this was accomplished they headed back to Africa, this time to Lagos, Nigeria, then back to Kenya, and finally to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.

Donald retired in 1973, moving to Medford, Oregon. Jean died in 1980 and in 1996 Don met and married Marian H. Shoemaker. Don spent the final two decades of his life with Marian in Hilo, Hawaii, looking out over Hilo Bay from his apartment in Bay Shore Towers and looked after by the most loving care givers on earth. Don lived the life he wanted to live and passed on as he would have wanted to - he went to sleep Thursday night in his own home and did not wake up Friday morning. As he requested, his ashes were scattered in his beloved Hilo Bay in a traditional Hawaiian canoe ceremony on Friday, April 12th.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.¹

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

Obituary -- The Marion Star, Marion, Ohio; Sunday, 1 DEC 1996, p.5 (Newspapers.com):

RICHWOOD - Patricia L. Cope, 61, died Friday afternoon at Memorial Hospital, Marysville.

Born March 17, 1935 in Leetonia, she was the daughter of the late Francis James and Sophia (Zaksgeski) Citinio, who survives in Leetonia.

She was a member of the Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Marysville. She worked at the Ohio Bureau of Employment Services, Marysville, since the early 1980s as an employment counselor. She was a member of the Better Mothers's O.C.C.L., Union County Chamber of Commerce and worked with the American Red Cross in Marysville.

She is also survived by a son, Craig T. Cope, Richwood; a daughter, Cherie Ann Cope, Columbus; and two brothers, Thomas S. and Vincent S. Citino, both of Salem.

Calling hours will be held 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday at the Skofcheck Funeral Home with a prayer service at 3 p.m. Following cremation, there will be funeral mass services and burial of cremains in Leetonia at a later date.