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Lois Vestal

COLUMBIANA — Lois K. Vestal, 85, passed away Wednesday morning, January 18 at Parkside Health Care Center in Columbiana.

Lois was born on August 2, 1931, in Lynchburg, VA, a daughter of Luther and Virginia (Tyree) Hicks. A 1948 Columbiana High School graduate, she worked as a receptionist at Shepherd of the Valley and CopeCo in Poland, OH. She also worked in the purchasing department of NRM in Columbiana and at Ort Furniture in Salem as a sewer.

She enjoyed baking, sewing, doing crafts, and playing the organ. Lois belonged to the First United Methodist Church in Leetonia, where she was a MYF leader.

She is survived by two daughters, Vicki Matlak and her husband Raymond of Westerville, OH and Carla Packman of Leetonia; her brother Robert (Judy) Hicks of Copley, OH; three grandchildren Christopher (Erin) Matlak, Tracey Matlak, and Melissa (Tom) Farley; and six great-grandchildren, Darrell, Drew, Tommy, Ally, Brandon, and Ryan.

Lois was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ross whom she married November 25, 1950 and who passed away November 7, 2010, brother Earl ‘Bud’ Hicks and sister Shirley Colon.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday January 21 at 2:00 p.m. at Seederly-Mong & Beck Funeral Home, 154 S. Elm Street, Columbiana with Pastor Dave Perkins officiating.

The family will receive friends at noon to 2:00 pm, two hours before the services at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers the family suggests that donations may be made in Lois’s memory to Columbiana EMS, 28 West Friend Street, Columbiana, OH 44408.

The family would like to express their sincere gratitude towards the staff at Parkside Health Care Center and All Caring Hospice for the wonderful and compassionate care shown to Lois.

The family has entrusted Seederly-Mong & Beck Funeral Home in Columbiana, Ohio with the arrangements for their loved one.

Family and friends are invited to visit www.seederly-mongandbeck.com to sign the guestbook or send private condolences.

1/20/17