Ethel Florence Piper

Cherry Valley, Ohio – Ethel Florence Piper, age 102, died on Sunday, June 16, 2019 at the Jefferson Health Care Center. She was born on June 9, 1917 in Beaverdale, Pennsylvania, a daughter of Rebecca J. (Wentz) and Samuel R. Whysong. At age 11 she moved to Cherry Valley and at 16 she moved to Pierpont. Ethel was the youngest of thirteen children and was the longest living. The home she was born in, built by her father, still stands on the mountain side today and can be seen when you drive into town. On September 12, 1936 she married Lyle R. Piper. He had three young children that Ethel helped raise. She helped on the farm, raised chickens and sold eggs. Together they built the slaughterhouse in 1945 where Ethel could wrap an entire ton of meat in a day and after twenty years, turned it over to their oldest son to run. She sold the business in 1978 to the present owners. Ethel lived on Piper Road for over eighty years, a gravel road in Cherry Valley, first in the farmhouse and then for sixty-five years in the home they built by the business. She loved to fish, at the pond, at Lake Pymatuning, lakes in Canada, off the coast of Florida, or anywhere along her travels of most of the United States including Hawaii and Alaska. Many mounted fish trophies, including a six-and-a-half-foot sail fish, adorn the living room walls. Ethel enjoyed flower gardening, blooming petunias around the house and down the fence line. She was proud of her flowering sweet peas that grew up the string on her fence. Ethel enjoyed playing bingo many nights a week in Ashtabula. She loved to travel to Las Vegas and Laughlin two times a year for over forty years to gamble. Her last trip to Nevada, Ethel was 97! Ethel has witnessed many changes in her lifetime and loved spending time with all her grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband of forty years, Lyle Piper; an infant son, Richard Piper; two sons, Francis Piper and Marshall Piper and his wife Donna; two grandsons, Gary Sulzer and Kim Piper; her son-in-law, Guy Utterback; six sisters, Lula Audrey, Lottie Terryberry, Rachel Schmerer, Margaret Rankin, Irene Gary and Hazel Wilson, six brothers Dean, Harry, Mearl, Ralph, George and Ellwood Whysong. Survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth “Beth” Utterback of Jefferson, Ohio, Lila Jean (Raymond) Sulzer of Peoria, Arizona; daughter-in-law, Norma Piper of Andover; twelve grandchildren, Gary, Kari, Pamela, Elaine, Irene, Cheryl, Rod, Robert, Brenda, Randall, Susan and Lori; thirty great grandchildren; nineteen great great grandchildren and several loving nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 1:00PM at Baumgardner Funeral & Cremation Service, 134 Prospect Street, Andover, Ohio, burial will follow in Cherry Valley Cemetery. Calling hours will be held on Thursday, June 20th from 11:00AM until the time of services. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of the Western Reserve, 1166 Lake Ave. Ashtabula, OH 44004. The family would like to share a special thank you to the wonderful nurses and aides at Jefferson Health Care. Share a fond memory or condolence at www.baumgardnerfuneralhomes.com

Service Information

Cemetery

Cherry Valley Cemetery

Cherry Valley Twp. OH

Visitation

Thursday, June 20 2019
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Baumgardner Funeral & Cremation Service of Andover
134 Prospect Street P.O. Box 1450
Andover OH 44003

Service

Thursday, June 20 2019
1:00 PM

Baumgardner Funeral & Cremation Service of Andover
134 Prospect Street P.O. Box 1450
Andover OH 44003