Ross-Adams County OhArchives Obituaries.....Storts, (Mert) Provy Myrtle (Cokonougher) December 5, 1947
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Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com May 11, 2006, 3:39 pm

From a 24 Dec. 1947 newspaper clipping, newspaper unknown, but most likely the Greenfield or Chillicothe, Ohio newspaper:

                                     Obituary.  
	Myrtle Storts, daughter of Zachariah and Mary Wisecup Cokonougher was 
born in Adams County, Ohio, January 12, 1877, and was called from her sleep to 
her Heavenly Home on Friday night December 5, 1947 aged seventy years, ten 
months and twenty-three days.
	Fifty three years ago, on November 14, 1894, she was married to Ira 
Storts who preceeded her in death December 20, 1926.
	To this marriage were born nine children, four of whom, three sons, 
Lawrence, Clair, and Roy, and one daughter, Mrs. Grace Storts Mootispaw, also 
have preceded her.
	She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Iris Keplinger of Greenfield, 
Mrs. Esther Leach of Leesburg, and three sons, Ray of Lyndon, Ralph of 
Zanesville, and Ernest of Leesburg.
	She is also survived by four brothers, William Cokonougher of 
Clarksburg, Joe of Bainbridge, John of Lyndon, Harvey of Greenfield and one 
sister, Mrs. John Schmidt, of South Salem.
	Mrs. Storts was affiliated with the South Salem Presbyterian church 
and was a member of the Sunday School and Women's Missionary Society, and was 
faithful in attendance so long as health permitted.
	She was primarily a home-loving woman, a devoted wife and mother and 
after her widowhood her life was wrapped up in the life of her children; their 
interests were her interests, and their success her greatest joy.
	In failing health for several years she lived in an apartment in the 
village; she visited very frequently with her children but preferred to keep 
her own little home to which they came often and looked after her welfare and 
gave her loving care and devotion.
	During the long tedious years of illness she did not complain;  she 
met the sorrows of life with patient resignation and Christian fortitude.
	She was a kind and sympathetic neighbor and interested in those about 
her, but the time of parting had come and she fell asleep to awake in a land 
where sickness and sorrow never come.
	We look beyond the shadows,
		The tears, the vacant chair,
	Into that bright hereafter
		That she has gone to share.
	We look beyond the shadows,
		And through the open door,
	Where sorrows are forgotten,
		And parting comes no more.
			----------------

	CARD OF THANKS

		We wish to thank our friends who were so kind to us during the 
loss of our mother, Mrs. Myrtle Storts, the ones who gave floral tributes and 
Rev. J. W. Robb, Mrs. Maude S. Rea, and the Strueve funeral home.
		THE CHILDREN

Additional Comments:
  Myrtle, although born in Adams Co., lived almost all of her life in the 
South Salem community in Ross County, Ohio.  She was called "Mert", but her 
full birth name was Provy Myrtle Cokonougher.


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