Waneta Edna Gingerall

Waneta Edna Gingerall, age 92, of First Community Village, Columbus, Ohio, after a long and faithful journey, went to be with the lord on Saturday, August 27, 2011. She was born January 27, 1919 in Vinton County, Ohio, one of six children born to William Austin and Cecil Lucille Freeman Napper.

A resident of Vinton County all of her early life, she graduated from Vinton Township High School, Class of 1937. At the beginning of WWII she moved to Columbus with her young family as she and her husband searched for work. During the following forty years, she worked for Stew Harrison's Restaurant in Grandview, the Grandview branch of Culters Drug Store, the cosmetic department at the Lazarus Department Store downtown and various locations of Cardinal Rental Properties before returning to Jackson and Vinton Counties. All her life she was a lively and energetic woman who loved God, her church and life in general. Even though she was a person of very modest means, she found it in her heart to share with those more needy than she, especially the children living on Indian Reservations. Waneta was a long time member of the McArthur Church of the Nazarene in McArthur, Ohio.

In addition to her beloved parents and ancestors of the Napper, Freeman, McKinzie and Thacker families, she was preceded in death by her former husbands, Noel H. Woltz, James Gingerall, Ernest Pierce and Gerald Peoples; brothers and sisters, Mytrle Arthur McGuiness, Charlene Lawrence Camp, Austin A. Napper, Maggie Roy Wiseman Kenneth Bobbie Napper and adopted brother, Howard Shirley Napper.

She is survived by her four children, Stephen K. Beverly Woltz, Barbara J. Ross, Lana J. Clyde Whitt and Julie Roger Israel and several grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and friends.

Funeral services will be held 11 A.M., Thursday, September 1, 2011, in the McArthur Church of the Nazarene, 523 N. Market St., McArthur, with Pastor William Roth officiating. Interment will be in Radcliff Cemetery, Radcliff. Friends may call at the Garrett-Cardaras Funeral Home, 201 W. High St., McArthur, on Wednesday, from 6-8 P.M. and on Thursday, one hour prior to the services at the church.

Please sign her online guestbook at www.cardaras.com