Obituaries for Perry County for the weeks preceding August 23.

VERA S. COLE

Vera Sylvia Cole, 97, passed away at Homeland Center, Harrisburg, on Friday, Aug. 8, 2025.

She was born in Kenton, Ohio, on Aug. 7, 1928, to Howard and Mae Cole and grew up with her younger brother and sister on a farm outside Wharton, Ohio.

She attended two years at University of Findlay (then Findlay College), and served beside her husband at 14 Churches of God in Ohio and Pennsylvania during his 65 years of ministry.

Early on, she also worked as a nursing assistant at Gibson Hospital in Celina, Ohio, and in a doctor’s office. But in the churches, she often filled roles as pianist, choir director or leader of adult and children’s Sunday school classes. She joined the churches’ Women’s Christian Service Counc

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