Jolene Limbacher's former husband dies

Guy F. Limbacher died Saturday in a Dover nursing home of Agent Orange poisoning. He was 66.

Guy was born Feb. 4, 1945, in the kitchen of the family's dairy farm near Baltic. He graduated from the former Baltic High School in 1963. He served with the Army in Vietnam in 1966-1967.

He and his wife, the former Jolene Delbert of Dover, now of Plain Township in Stark County, were married for 38 years before divorcing. They have two children; and five grandsons, Christopher Limbacher of Dublin and Dr. Kellie Zaylor of Rocky River.

Guy was diagnosed with prostate cancer and a rare brain disease - progressive supra nuclear palsy - both of which are caused by the toxin, Agent Orange. By the time Guy arrived in Vietnam, millions of gallons of Agent Orange and other toxins had been dumped on Vietnam to rid the jungle of its thick foliage. Guy fought the brain disease for many years, constantly trying to keep his mobility. Hundreds of times he fell, and hundreds of times he got back up. Over the years, the disease robbed him of his ability to walk, move, see, speak and swallow. Even death was an elusive and monumental struggle.

Calling are Monday, Feb. 14, 4:30 to 8 p.m., in the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home & Crematory, Dover. A service honoring Guy will be held Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 11:30 a.m. in the funeral home. Guy's ashes then will be interred in Dover Burial Park, where military rites will be presented by the Dover post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. TOLAND-HERZIG, DOVER,

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Published in Akron Beacon Journal on February 13, 2011


Jolene Delbert Limbacher, Dover High and Ohio State graduate, was a reporter for the Dover Times-Reporter before joining the Beacon Journal as a reporter. She was at the BJ from 1986 till 1996.

Her stories about Thomas Lee Dillon, Stark County serial sniper from 1989 to 1993, who called Jolene day and night for five months, got Jolene on a "Connie Chung Tonight" broadcast of the situation and on CNN's Wolf Blitzer airing. Dillon's friend, Richard Fry, tipped authorities off about Dillon. Dillon is serving five consecutive 30 years to life sentences in the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville.

Jolene also covered Stark County rapist William E. Griffith Jr., who got 20 to 50 years in prison for 50 rapes, including 20 in other counties.

Jolene lives in Plain Township.