This list, featured annually in The St. Ignace News, memorializes those whose obituaries have appeared in the newspaper during the past 12 months. The list includes 309 persons, whose ages range from infant to 102 years old. Thirty-eight persons, about 13%, were in their 90s, 92 persons, about 30%, were in their 80s, and 72 persons, about 24%, were in their 70s. Three centenarians are listed: Helga Doud, 102, of Mackinac Island, Leon Prior, 101, of Mackinaw City, and Alta Evelyn MacDonald, 100, of St. Ignace.

Deaths from 2007 that were not printed in last year's publication are also included this year.

DECEMBER 2007

December 21: Ernest Arnell Brown Jr., 56, Jacksonville, Florida.

December 24: Ralph D. Karr, 53, Mackinac Island.

December 28: Frederick A. "Jiggs" Jackson, 85, St. Ignace.

December 29: James E. Price, 62, Engadine.

December 30: Albert L. "Tuffy" Litzner, 89, Bay City.

December 30: Evelyn O'Neil, 93, Gilchrest.

December 31: Frank Edward Blake, 88, St. Ignace, formerly of Carpentersville, Illinois.

JANUARY 2008

January 2: Jacqueline Swinson, 72, Engadine.

January 3: Victoria B. "Vicky" Nelson, 87, St. Ignace.

January 5: Raymond E. VanZoeren, 91, Lakefield Township.

January 6: James Martin "Slab" Andrews, 74, Hessel.

January 7: Gail Weaver, 68, Sterling Heights.

January 9: Alirene M. "Ali" Lewis, 8 months old, Newberry.

January 10: Olivia Chambers, 11, Mackinac Island.

January 10: Sally Clark, 53, Newberry.

January 10: Arthur H. Krause, 85, Engadine.

January 10: Henry K. Woggon, 60, St. Ignace.

January 13: LaVerne Louise Smith, 76, DeTour Village.

January 15: Edith L. Nantell, 96, Newberry.

January 15: Ernest C. Weaver, 91, Paradise.

January 17: James Albert Kelly, 52, St. Ignace.

January 17: Kristina Marie Peffers, 20, Pickford.

January 18: Harlin D. "Dee" Orsborne, 75, Pickford.

January 19: Scott A. Wilson, 46, Cedarville.

January 20: Mary "Jeanne" Grant, 83, Hillside, New York.

January 21: Paul Robert Husen Jr., 87, Mission, Texas, formerly of DeTour Village.

January 21: Barbara Jane (nee Hunt) Kubitskey, 82, Naubinway.

January 25: William P. Lambert, 78, St. Ignace.

January 25: Nikko Alexander Wychopen, stillborn, Sault Ste. Marie.

January 26: Thelma Irene Adams, 98, Cedarville, formerly of Pickford.

January 26: John Steven "Reno" Bazinaw, 57, Wrightstown, Wisconsin, formerly of Mackinac Island.

January 26: Helen Stevens, 85, Epoufette.

January 27: Dell F. Ahlich, 85, St. Ignace.

January 27: Loren D. McDonald, 79, South Lyon.

January 28: Richard Frank, 77, Gregory.

January 29: Reuben Martin Kangas Sr., 81, Sault Ste. Marie.

FEBRUARY 2008

February 1: Dan Henry Fountain, 48, Fibre.

February 1: Steve W. Maki, 50, Sault Ste. Marie, formerly of Cedarville.

February 1: Evelyn M. Ratliff, 93, St. Ignace.

February 2: Dick J. Hoolsema, 76, Rudyard.

February 2: Rita Theresa Williams, 80, DeTour Village.

February 3: Raymond J. "Pete" France, 80, Iron Mountain, formerly of St. Ignace.

February 3: Duncan Irwin Parrish, 39, Drummond Island.

February 5: Ruby Bonita Ruona, 87, Alma, formerly of Sault Ste. Marie.

February 7: Jack W. Leggett, 90, Trout Lake.

February 8: Leo Ervin "Pee Wee" Kemp, 78, Rudyard.

February 8: Anna E. "Ann" Wallace, 86, St. Ignace.

February 10: Dave Kubitskey, 56, Livonia.

February 10: Edna Nye, 89, Ontario, California.

February 12: Virginia Rose Delmotte, 89, Sault Ste. Marie, formerly of Hessel.

February 12: Ernest Cody Rauch, 64, Hessel.

February 13: Haines "Mike" Theodore Henderson III, 66, Moran.

February 14: Frederick Phillip Case III, 48, Roy, Utah.

February 14: Albert Louis Deal, 93, Spring Lake, summer resident of Brevort.

February 14: Minerva J. Ogle, 92, St. Ignace.

February 16: Oiva W. "Bill" Harju, 77, Lakefield Township.

February 17: Marie Koivuniemi, 88, St. Ignace.

February 21: Lillian Alice Ledy, 91, Drummond Island.

February 21: Keenan Joseph Marshall, 3, Rockford.

February 22: Raymond L. "Chu" Daniels Jr., 51, Port Charlotte, Florida.

February 22: Robert A. Siira, 79, Goldthwaite, Texas, formerly of Sault Ste. Marie and Drummond Island.

February 25: Donald James Seabrook, 42, Rudyard.

February 26: Violet Jones, 80, Lewiston, Indiana.

MARCH 2008

March 2: Kenneth Belonga, 69, Trout Lake.

March 4: Frederick P. Case II, 71, Riverdale, Utah.

March 4: Emma Feneley, 91, Engadine.

March 5: Ruth Irene Whiting Hammer, 89, Huntington Harbor, California.

March 5: Alfred H. Matchinske, 88, Engadine.

March 6: Joseph "Joe" L. Riordan, 74, Lake Placid, Florida, formerly of Trout Lake.

March 7: Ann Mary Hecox Romig, 85, San Luis Obispo, California.

March 7: Mary Bernadette Catherine Trainor, 84, St. Ignace.

March 7: Marcia Diana Wells, 56, Kincheloe.

March 8: Olive G. Archambault, 79, Kincheloe, formerly of Mackinac Island and St. Ignace.

March 8: Richard Warren Bailey, 72, Adrian and St. Ignace Township.

March 8: Eric Ray Eidsness, 37, Juneau, Alaska.

March 8: Dorothy Vaseau, 63, Curtis.

March 10: Gilbert Arsene Michel, 76, Mio.

March 12: Keith Lloyd Simons, 61, Rudyard, formerly of St. Ignace.

March 15: Margaret Mary Praasterink, infant, Phoenix, Arizona.

March 17: Margaret Jean Newbern Judson, 79, Avon Park, Florida, formerly of Pickford.

March 18: Andrew Lee Jones, 29, Kincheloe.

March 18: Edward Rushford, 64, Newberry.

March 19: Joan Ohls Miller, 87, Lincolnton, North Carolina.

March 21: Luceil "Lu" Harrington, 92, St. Ignace.

March 21: Mary Mitchell, 81, Engadine.

March 23: Leon Prior, 101, Mackinaw City.

March 25: Glen Frederick Shaw, 90, DeTour Village.

March 26: Nancy Lee Greig, 71, Kelden.

March 27: Maurice Pitt "Pete" Horton Jr., 77, Cedarville.

March 29: Norman S. Foster, 93, Glendale, Arizona, formerly of Brevort Lake.

APRIL 2008

April 2: Marie Lannoo, 89, St. Ignace.

April 2: Joseph Louis Soczek, 90, Goetzville.

April 3: Laverne Anna Natharius, 85, Cedarville.

April 10: Tom Edward Tellefson, 82, Concord, California, formerly of Mackinac Island.

April 14: Mary Jane Hayes Melwing, 87, Mackinaw City.

April 14: Delores M. Quigley, 83, Sault Ste. Marie.

April 15: William Thomas Collins, 86, Cedarville.

April 15: Howard S. Owens, 72, St. Ignace.

April 16: Joseph Michael Carr, 26, Cedarville.

April 16: Gordon John Parks, 77, Drummond Island.

April 18: Clarence Eino Nayback, 75, Pickford.

April 19: Whitney-Jo DeVaughn Anderson, 9, Sault Ste. Marie.

April 20: Evelyn J. Hart, 78, Germfask.

April 21: John E. Wagner, 87, Engadine.

April 22: Roy C. Pemble, 98, Bay City.

April 22: Jane St. Andrew, 66, St. Ignace.

April 24: Donovan Hillard Rhead, 78, Drummond Island.

April 26: Charles E. Harju, 79, St. Ignace.

April 28: Shirley Ann Bunker, 63, Sault Ste. Marie.

April 28: Bruce Irvin Doerr, 76, Drummond Island.

April 28: Beatrice Lasky, 92, Engadine.

April 29: Darwin E. "Nick" Nichols, 86, Naubinway.

MAY 2008

May 1: Margaret Dowd, 90, Rudyard.

May 1: Kim Aletha Parish, 46, Brimley.

May 4: Marilyn L. McNeil, 74, Gould City.

May 6: Bruce Victor Kallio, 56, Sault Ste. Marie.

May 6: Levi St. Onge, 89, Pt. Prospect, Illinois, and St. Ignace.

May 7: Glenn Morris William Lahti, 69, Drummond Island.

May 8: Patsy Wyers, 67, St. Ignace.

May 10: Veronica Massaway, 72, St. Ignace Township.

May 11: Lucy Irene Bradley, 87, Hulbert Lake.

May 13: Patricia Moraniec, 80, Algansee Township.

May 14: James L. Green II, 76, St. Ignace.

May 14: Paul Muscoe, 55, Cedarville.

May 15: Dale A. Overbeek, 59, West Olive, formerly of Hessel.

May 17: Cecil W. Kerridge, 84, Rexton/Garnet.

May 17: Thomas R. Middleton, 80, Trout Lake.

May 18: Alta Evelyn MacDonald, 100, St. Ignace.

May 19: John William McNally, 87, Cedarville.

May 22: Dorothy M. Larsen, 77, Saginaw, formerly of Mackinac Island.

May 23: Edsel E. Robinson, 81, Trout Lake.

May 25: Patricia Ollila, 81, Jackson and Cedarville.

May 25: William F. Wade, 84, Gould City.

May 26: James E. Heile, 85, Vero Beach, Florida, summer resident of Cedarville.

May 28: Bernice "Bernie" Evelyn Qualls, 88, St. Ignace.

May 28: Emmett Schoenborn, 75, Conklin.

May 28: Margaret Mary Warner, 83, Raber.

May 30: Dorothy A. Moden, 88, Kincheloe.

May 31: Erwin C. Brakel, 79, Cedarville.

May 31: James "Jim" Solon, 77, Mackinaw City.

JUNE 2008

June 1: Kay VanLuven, 64, Curtis.

June 2: Gerald A. "Jerry" Hutchinson, 47, McMillan.

June 4: Michael John Potoczak Jr., 79, Goetzville.

June 5: Mabel Hannah Saari, 80, St. Ignace, formerly of Painesdale.

June 5: Maurice "Pork" Thompson, 67, Romeo.

June 6: Joseph Paul Clement, 83, Pickford.

June 7: Lucia Aline Francher Hagen, 89, St. Ignace.

June 9: Henrietta Hoolsema Kamper, 89, Rudyard.

June 12: Margaret M. Collins, 85, Cedarville.

June 12: Dianna Fairchild, 57, Drummond Island.

June 13: George Joseph Plont, 72, DeTour Village.

June 14: Charles R. "Chuck" Marshall, 88, Gould City.

June 15: Earl Anthony Legault, 76, Engadine.

June 17: Larry Jack Radford, 66, Moran.

June 18: Charles W. Kessler, 82, Trout Lake.

June 20: James Daniel "Dan" Rose, 88, Dafter.

June 20: Edward Anthony Stefanski, 89, Sault Ste. Marie.

June 20: Ethel Berniece Waybrant, 85, Pickford.

June 21: Randell Briggs, 55, St. Ignace.

June 21: Nick Calven, 66, Cedarville.

June 22: John D. Conley, 64, Curtis.

June 23: Roberta " Bert" A. Montgomery, 68, Engadine.

June 24: Theodore "Ted" M. Aslin, 78, Newberry.

June 24: Christopher D. Bloswick Sr., 51, St. Ignace.

June 25: Charles Willis Hills Jr., 81, Hessel.

June 28: Gerald Alexander Harrison, 90, Pickford.

June 30: Barbara Jean DePlonty, 65, Sault Ste. Marie.

June 30: John G. Wilson, 78, St. Ignace.

JULY 2008

July 1: Catherine Therrian, 85, St. Ignace.

July 3: Gloria Elizabeth Graham, 52, Alpena.

July 3: Anne Tolan, 61, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

July 5: Betty Jean Mrozek, 82, Raber.

July 7: Jeanette Helen Hilton, 87, Cedarville.

July 7: Beverly Joan Meyers, 67, Pickford.

July 7: George John Piippo, 79, Rudyard.

July 7: Marie Seaman, 62, Sault Ste. Marie.

July 10: Joseph R. Goetz, 70, DeTour Village.

July 13: Raymond M. "Weebs" Causley, 60, Hessel.

July 13: Edgar Ervin Spencer, 73, Pickford.

July 14: Jean M. Arthurs, 83, Cedarville.

July 15: Robert W. Carter, 69, Rudyard.

July 16: Miriam A. Welcher, 76, Rudyard.

July 17: Rose Beisel, 85, Escanaba.

July 18: Jeannine Miriam Gable, 72, Sault Ste. Marie and Drummond Island.

July 20: Wilma Krino, 93, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, summer resident of Cedarville.

July 20: Robert Lackey, 94, Monticello, Florida.

July 23: Kay Honnila, 67, formerly of Cedarville.

July 25: Victor Abnee III, 56, Chicago, Illinois, seasonal resident of Cedarville.

July 25: Thomas Lyle Shawver, 81, Lansing.

July 26: Debra Kay Ackley, 44, Comstock Park.

July 26: Evelyn Prokop, 97, Anchorage, Alaska, formerly of St. Ignace.

July 26: Jean E. Sayles, 83, Newberry.

July 29: Patricia Ann Haskell, 83, Kincheloe.

July 29: Girth Azle Pardee, 73, Pickford.

July 30: Thomas James Jarvie, 25, Rudyard.

July 31: Ivan A. Falconer, 67, Vicksburg.

July 31: John Gerard Fenlon, 52, Traverse City, formerly of St. Ignace.

July 31: Germaine M. Fitnich, 80, St. Ignace.

July 31: Clementine Gosciniak, 88, St. Ignace.

AUGUST 2008

August 2: Gordon Bennett Reid, 94, Dafter.

August 7: Marie Loehde, 93, Ozark.

August 8: Donald K. Smith, 90, Engadine.

August 9: John Angelo Autore, 65, Sterling Heights.

August 9: Dorothy Adeline Wolter, 86, St. Ignace.

August 10: Geneva Mae Buchko, 77, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

August 10: Dorothy Ann Fletcher, 66, Muir.

August 11: Edward A.J. Boissineau, 73, St. Ignace.

August 13: Joyce Stevens, 85, Cedarville.

August 18: Pete Griffin Sr., 78, Hessel.

August 19: Deon "Squeeky" Berlin, 79, Dafter.

August 19: Gustav Q. Larson, 78, Newberry.

August 20: Louis Matthew St. Andrew, infant, St. Ignace.

August 22: Dr. Robert L. Holle, 90, St. Ignace.

August 24: David J. Andress, 72, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

August 25: Flora Smith, 80, St. Ignace.

August 27: Gerald E. Honeycutt, 59, Belleville.

August 27: Theodore Leo O'Polka, 58, Stalwart.

August 31: Emily "Aunt Em" Augugliaro, 84, Farmington Hills.

August 31: Ruth Bucht Klamerus, 66, Drummond Island.

SEPTEMBER 2008

September 1: LeRoy H. Adams, 82, DeTour Village.

September 1: James J. Brown, 87, St. Ignace.

September 1: Lottie Helen Patrick, 91, Sault Ste. Marie.

September 2: Mary Seminick Torsky, 95, Cedarville.

September 5: Gary Lee Noel, 63, Kincheloe.

September 6: Kenneth "Kenny" Schmitigal, 18, Hartland.

September 6: Richard Speidel, 75, summer resident of LaSalle Island, Les Cheneaux Islands.

September 9: Anna Christina Kay, 97, Cedarville.

September 9: Donna Margaret Olmstead, 57, Hessel.

September 10: Mildred Elizabeth "Betty" Baker, 76, Cedarville.

September 10: Edwin John Smith, 58, Cedarville.

September 11: V. "Janet" Beckwith, 84, Engadine.

September 15: Alfred Stephen Goudreau, 80, Trout Lake.

September 16: Grace Anna Black, 85, Sault Ste. Marie.

September 16: James R. Harris, 69, Rexton.

September 17: Syma Sylvia Irene White, 92, Rudyard.

September 20: Gerald W. King, 69, Cedarville.

September 22: Robert "Bob" Bruce Leveille, 74, Gladstone.

September 22: Michael J. Walsh, 71, Epoufette.

September 24: Leora Ann Thon, 62, Cedarville.

September 25: James Kott, 60, Raber.

September 27: Margaret Gregg, 91, St. Ignace.

September 28: Leonard Andrew Potoczak, 75, Dearborn Heights.

OCTOBER 2008

October 1: Leo S. Landreville, 63, Longwood, Florida.

October 2: Katsuko Moore, 72, Raber.

October 2: Avis Estelle Lamoreaux Warren, 86, Wyoming, Michigan.

October 3: Richard Paul McCartney, 54, Kinross.

October 4: Andrew Charles Kolo Jr., 73, Raber.

October 4: Maria Teresa Nelson, 45, Dallas, Texas.

October 7: Dolores Mae "Dee" Griggs, 76, Kincheloe.

October 10: Ruth G. Houdek, 66, Suttons Bay.

October 10: Ernest Jesse Van Houten, 86, DeTour Village.

October 11: John D. Brawley, 86, Gould City.

October 11: Edward G. McNamara Jr., 92, St. Ignace.

October 12: Jacqueline Rae Leapley, 34, Bay Mills.

October 14: Dr. Alexander Donald McKinnon, 91, St. Ignace.

October 16: Robert M. Petrie, 59, Curtis.

October 17: Frederick H. "Fred" Gay, 69, Augusta.

October 17: Raymond "Big Ray" Lasley, 71, St. Ignace.

October 17: Tracy Lynn McCrory, 28, St. Ignace.

October 18: Wilma "Jean" Pudenz, 73, Lakeview, Iowa.

October 19: Kenneth Phillip Horsburgh, 88, Palm City, Florida, summer resident of Cedarville.

October 19: Mary Catherine McGreevy, 82, Manistee, formerly of Mackinac Island.

October 20: Frances Marie Reed, 84, St. Ignace.

October 22: Edwin H. Hohmann, 66, Mackinac Island and Yorkville, Illinois.

October 22: Honorable Thomas J. O'Dowd, 77, Rochester Hills.

October 22: Rephelia M. Taylor, 87, St. Ignace.

October 25: Donna J. Ward, 75, St. Ignace.

October 26: Otto M. Flatt, 93, Engadine.

October 28: Seth Tamlyn, 19, St. Ignace.

October 29: Dale Beaudoin, 54, Moran.

October 29: John Hood, 78, Caffey.

October 30: Joseph Carnesi, 70, Kincheloe.

NOVEMBER 2008

November 1: Alice L. Collins, 57, Rudyard.

November 1: Joshua Duran Glashaw, 30, Mobile, Alabama, formerly of St. Ignace.

November 2: Lloyd A. Boucha, 90, Engadine.

November 4: Lottie Julia Pokryfke, 87, Grand Rapids, formerly of Raber.

November 6: Barbara Ann DeGrandt, 52, Curtis.

November 7: Joseph D. Moulton, 52, Engadine.

November 8: Lynne Batchelder, 59, Naubinway.

November 12: Dorothy Catherine Bawks, 79, Pickford.

November 13: Dr. David K. Heydinger, 90, Duluth, Georgia, seasonal resident of Drummond Island.

November 20: Richard P. Briolat, 70, St. Ignace.

November 20: Howard R. Thompson, 65, Pickford.

November 22: Ronald Rickley Jr., 31, St. Ignace.

November 26: Albert E. Adler, 90, Lakefield Township.

November 27: Helen Lorraine Johnson, 81, St. Ignace.

DECEMBER 2008

December 1: Daale E. Maier, 76, East Lake.

December 1: Roy Prillwitz, 73, Mackinaw City.

December 2: James "Jay" Cecil Blackwell, 68, Kinross.

December 3: Donald H. Hallmann, 84, Germfask.

December 4: Donald Robert Cottle, 58, Pickford.

December 4: Helen Mae Wilson, 88, Cedarville, formerly of Edenville.

December 6: Bessie Marie Coutu, 89, Cedarville.

December 7: Dr. LeRoy A. Futterer, 81, Manistee.

December 8: Ava AnnMarie Jones, 2, Kincheloe.

December 9: Dean J. Browning, 68, Manistique.

December 9: Heather Irene (nee Arnold) Ramsey, 44, Springfield, Ohio.

December 10: John Kenneth Melvin, 85, Drummond Island.

December 11: Vernon Arthur Nye, 84, Hessel.

December 15: Roseanna Smith, 92, Mackinaw City.

December 17: Wallace Herbert Beacom, 87, Pickford.

December 17: Marian Florence Hill, 76, Sault Ste. Marie, formerly of Rudyard.

December 17: Lawrence H. McEvers, 72, Engadine.

December 18: Mary Beth Paquin, 45, Cedarville.

December 19: Nicholas Keith Sprague, 76, Rudyard.

December 23: James Neal Chapman, 63, Drummond Island.

December 24: Charles "Chuck" Jeffery Litzner, 53, Moran.

December 25: Charles "Chuck" Andrew Mitchell, 76, Cedarville.

December 26: Helga Doud, 102, Mackinac Island.