FIFTH GENERATION


137. Maysle Glendene Ritchie (130) was born on Mar 19 1926 in Constitution, Warren Twp., Washington Co., Ohio. (59) She died on Jun 24 2000 in Marietta, Ohio. Her obituary appeared in the Marietta Times on Monday, June 26, 2000 and read; "Maysle G. Ritchie Cozzens, 74, of Phillips Street, Marietta, died at 6:25 a.m. Saturday (June 24, 2000) at the Arbors at Marietta. - She was born March 19, 1926, in Constitution to Wade Dillon and Ethel Sophronia Park Ritchie. She had grown up in the Washington County Children's Home and had attended Marietta High School. She retired from the B.F. Goodrich Co. as a cafeteria worker in 1985. She was a member of the Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 458 and a former member of the Women of the Moose. - She is survived by one son, Geoffrey Ritchie and his wife, Pam, of Cairo. W.Va.; three daughters, Rhonda Strahler and her husband, Paul, of Macksburg, Nancy D. Owens and her husband, Daniel E., and Melody Attaway and her husband, Mike, all of Marietta; six grandchildren, Matt and Pete Waybright, Angela Hess, Michael P. Attaway, Ryan Nichols and Vanessa Kremer: four great-grandchildren; two brothers, Calvin and Bob Ritchie, both of Marietta; one sister, Nancy McBride of Marietta; and several nieces and nephews. - On Sept. 8, 1947, she married Richard D. Cozzens. He died in 1990. She was also preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Clyde, Parke, Bernard and Herschel Ritchie; two sisters, Clara Jean Ritchie and Eileen Schuster; and one niece, Sidney Brasington. - Services are at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at McClure-Schafer Funeral Home in Marietta. Burial is in Gravel Bank Cemetery. Friends may call until the hour of the services at the funeral home."

Maysle Glendene Ritchie had the following children:

child244 i. Geoffery Wade Ritchie (Private).

She was married to Richard Dean Cozzens (son of Rolla D. Cozzens and Pearl E. Burnfield) on Sep 8 1947 in Washington County, Ohio. Richard Dean Cozzens was born on Oct 12 1917 in Lowell, Ohio. He died on Mar 11 1990. Maysle Glendene Ritchie and Richard Dean Cozzens had the following children:

child245 i. Rhonda Eileen Cozzens (Private).
child246 ii. Nancy Diane Cozzens (Private).
child247 iii. Melody Ann Cozzens (Private).

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