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5A Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 Lancaster Eagle-Gazette Woman's death still unsolved Obituaries and photographs submitted to the Lancaster Eagle Gazette may be published, distributed, repurposed and otherwise used in print, electronic and other media platforms. LANCASTER: William -D. "Bill" Roth, 66, of Lancaster, passed away on William D. "Bill" Roth, Jr.

I for the He Navy Saturday, November 30, 2013, at Ohio State University Medical Center. Bill was a member of Fairfield Christian Church and the Advocate Sunday School Class at the church. was a 22 year veteran of the U.S. and worked for HFI in Obetz 25 years. Bill also loved bowling and played in many leagues at Tiki Lanes.

Bill is survived by his wife, Joyce David Dodson sits with his granddaughter, Aubree Stykes, on the porch of his home in Ripley, next to a memorial to Dodson's daughter, Brittany Stykes, who was killed in an unsolved attack in southern Ohio. Aubree, was shot in the head but has recovered, ap W. Roth; children, April Bradbury of Chesapeake, Virginia and Robert (Angela) Roth of Lancaster; grandchildren, Kerri, Gabby, and Alex; and many other grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by wife, Doris A. Roth.

Memorial service for Bill will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday in the Fairfield Christian Church Small Chapel, 1965 N. Columbus St, Lancaster, Ohio with Reverend Ken Mulpas and Reverend Mark Barbee officiating. Caring Cremation has taken place with the Frank E. Smith Funeral Home, Lancaster.

Burial will take place at a later date in Old St. Luke's Cemetery in Smithfield, Virginia. Donations may be made in memory of Bill to the Fairfield Christian Church. Online condolences can be made at; www. funeralhome.com Ernest Henton Harter THURSTON: Ernest Henton Harter, jfv age 93, of Thurston, died December 2013 at Homestead Center.

was born on March iyzu, in Ihurston, to his parents, Lafayette kT -rim He and i was Ina Snyder Harter. Ernie grew up in Thurston and the owner of Harter's Garage started by his father, Lafe, in 1914, and later named Harter's Olsmobile. Through his business he learned that many other people shared his passion for antique also because of all the unanswered questions. Investigators have been following up on hundreds of tips, interviewing anyone who knew Stykes and trying to keep the case in the public eye. A $10,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to her killer.

Most recently, Moore has been focused on trying to force three reluctant people to answer questions through grand jury subpoenas, including one of Shane Stykes' ex-girlfriends. The identity of the other two witnesses has not been released, including one who ignored the subpoena and failed to show up to court. Moore said he's working to compel that person to be brought in for questioning, calling it "the biggest key we have right now." "There's got to be a damn good reason why you ignore a grand jury subpoena and don't show," he said. Dave Dodson talks daily with Moore about the cars, and became one of the founding members and leaders of the Lancaster Old Car Club in 1957, a group that is still going strong today. He personally restored three antique cars of his own, a 1930 Oldsmobile Sport Coupe, a 1947 Olsmobile sedan, and a Triumph TR6 convertible.

Ernie and his wife, JoAnn, together traveled the country to many car shows over the years and won many awards, including the Founder's Trophy at the Antique Olds Club of America National Show. Ernie was known for being a perfectionist and it showed in the quality of his restorations. He thoroughly enjoyed sharing his knowledge with others, contributing his time as a member and subject matter expert to the National Antique Olsmobile Club. In addition to his passion for antique automobiles, Ernie was very active in his community. He was honored as the 2009 Grand Marshall of the Mil lersport Sweet Corn Festival parade, in recognition of his outstanding contributions as a longtime volunteer and supporter of the Festival.

He served for many years on the Thurston Volunteer Fire Department, later as Mayor, lifelong member and volunteer of the Thurston United Methodist Church, Olivedale Senior Center and Malibu Racing Team, Ohio Heritage Association and Thurston Museum volunteer. Ernie is survived by his daughter, Lisa (Steve Peirce) Harter of Dana Point, CA; son, Don (Kimberly) Harter of Lancaster; grandchildren, Angela Taylor, Jeremy Kistler, Tyler Harter, McKenna Harter; and sister-in-law, Norma J. Fenstermaker of Baltimore, OH, nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his wife, JoAnn Harter and his parents, Lafe and Ina Harter. A service will take place at the Thurston United Methodist Church, on Friday at 11AM, officiated by Rev.

Dr. Rebeka Maples. Burial will follow the service at Floral Hills Memorial Garden. Family and friends may call 2 until 4 and 6 until 8PM Thursday at the Johnson-Smith Funeral Home and one hour prior to the service at the church. Memorials can be made in his name to Thurston United Methodist Church, 2015 Main St.

NE Thurston, OH 43157. Online condolences can be made at www.funeralhome.com Daughter shot in head has healed By Amanda Lee Myers Associated Press RIPLEY Three months after his pregnant daughter was killed in a still-unsolved shooting on a quiet country road, Dave Dodson wakes up every morning still thinking she's alive. He cries every time he sees the four-wheeler she grew up riding and he can't bring himself to finish fixing a truck they'd been working on together. His wife, Mary, still hasn't gone into the room where she sewed baby clothes with her daughter. She hasn't decorated the house for the holidays.

On Aug. 28, police responding to what they thought was a car crash instead found the Dod-sons' daughter, 22-year-old Brittany Stykes, shot dead in her car in Ripley, about 45 miles southeast of Cincinnati. Stykes' 14-month-old daughter, Au-bree, was still in her car seat, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head. Stykes was five months pregnant, and her unborn baby died. Aubree survived the shooting, and four surgeries later, is largely the same little girl she was before.

Investigators with the Brown County Sheriff's Office have made no arrests and have not found the murder weapon or any shell casings. They still don't know whether Stykes knew her killer or where the shooting occurred, just where her car ended up. "I was hoping this would be done before the holidays but the way things are going, I'm kind of afraid this is going to go on forever," said Mary Portman Continued from Page 1A cies runs dry. And he's been pitching it to his House and Senate colleagues as a way to stop the seemingly endless series of last-minute legislative scrambles and ad-hoc spending deals. But critics say it's another gimmicky way for lawmakers to escape their most fundamental responsibility: setting spending priorities.

Some even say it would provide an incentive for gridlock, not an incentive for compromise. Here's how Portman's bill would work: It would create an automatic yearlong funding bill, to take effect if Congress didn't pass any or all of its 12 regular appropriations bills on time. Funding would be extended at existing levels for the first 120 days. That would apply if Congress failed to pass one or all the appropriations bills. So for example, if Congress didn't pass the bill that funds the departments of Labor and Health and Human Services, it would apply to those programs.

If none of the bills was passed, it would apply to all programs. After 120 days, funding would be cut by 1 percent across the board. And every 90 days after that for as long as lawmakers remained at loggerheads agencies and programs would be hit with another 1 percent funding reduction. Portman said the bill would take the threat of a government shutdown off the table. And the spending cuts wouldn't go into effect until four months after fiscal deadlines have passed, giving and a small handgun Wednesday, according to police reports.

A theft from a vehicle was reported Sunday in the 8800 block of Chateau Drive. A number of tools worth more than $2,000 total was reported missing. The owner noticed the door ajar and discovered the tools case, while Shane Stykes said he's not in contact with the sheriff's office and that "they don't tell me anything." Stykes criticized the investigation and said it might be time for an agency more experienced with homicides to take over. "By now they should know something. They don't know anything," he said.

"It's three months later, they don't even have a crime scene, they don't have any leads, they don't have any suspects I think that's pretty obvious that it's time for someone else to step in." He said his wife's death has been devastating. "I'm a mess. I can't hardly even talk about it," he said. The Dodsons said they just want justice for their daughter. "I know for the rest of my life there's going to be a time of day I think of her and cry," Mary Dodson said.

"Somebody took something they had no right to take. God didn't do this. This was evil." Lilly said of Portman's bill. Richard Kogan, a senior fellow at the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, said Port-man's proposal also would give lawmakers an easy way to escape making difficult spending decisions. "Under the proposal, Congress would no longer need to pass appropriation bills and the president would no longer need to sign them," Kogan wrote in a recent analysis of Portman's bill.

"This would increase the likelihood that program funding would be set by a mechanical formula instead of case-by-case, program-by-program policy decisions." Besides, Congress has already tried and failed to use the threat of dra-conian, across-the-board cuts to force lawmakers to get their budgetary act together. Portman was on the so-called "super committee" that was supposed to come up with a sweeping deficit-reduction package, under the threat of the $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts over 10 years. The super committee collapsed, and those cuts, known as the "sequester," are now in effect. "Don't underestimate the power of inertia in Congress or Congress's willingness to let things happen rather than make things happen," said Steve Ellis, vice president of the fiscal watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "The sequester is a perfect example.

That was supposed to be so painful they would never let it happen, and they clearly have." dshesgreengannett.com Twitter: dshesgreen BATHING? Dodson, 46, crying in her kitchen just before Thanksgiving. "We're in limbo. We can't do anything. We can't move on because we don't know who did this and why." Stykes, the second oldest of five children, was a stay-at-home mom who spent all day with her family while her husband, Shane Stykes, 37, worked a factory job in Cincinnati, Mary Dodson said. "We're the Waltons," she said, speaking of how the family has dinner together every night and spent weekends playing board games.

"She did nothing to deserve this. She was innocent and she was good." Sgt. Buddy Moore, the lead detective on the case, said it's the department's top priority. "In this case, time will tell the truth," he said. "I'm very confident that we will solve this." Moore said the killing is extremely rare, not only because there's usually just one to two homicides in the area a year but lawmakers plenty of time to reach an agreement.

It would end "government by crisis," Portman told reporters earlier this year. "Right now, the normal appropriations process is not happening." No one would argue with that. It's been nearly two decades since Congress last passed on time all of the annual federal spending bills that fund various government agencies and programs. Determining how to spend tax dollars was once a routine, bipartisan endeavor. But since 1994, Congress has used a variety of legislative maneuvers, high-stakes brinksmanship, and mega-budget bills to keep the government funded.

The result, experts say, is inefficient and out-of-whack spending that does not reflect the country's needs or Congress's priorities. "The government is just sort of drifting forward year after year, with no effective review of how well agencies are performing and whether they're using the money that's provided effectively and whether they have too little money to perform their mission or too much money," said Scott Lilly, a former Democratic staff director for the House Appropriations Committee. After the most-recent fiscal impasse which sparked a 16-day partial government shutdown there's little appetite for more brinksmanship. But there is already another deadline looming. Right now, Portman and other lawmakers appointed to the House-Senate budget conference committee are trying to craft a budget agreement for the rest of the current fiscal year and 2015 as well.

They were given a missing. Tools were reported missing Sunday from a home in the 2500 block of Blacklick Road, Picke-rington, that was being worked on by a flooring contractor. The contractor returned to the home and discovered his tools missing, according to the report. Dec. 13 deadline, which would then allow Congress another month to draft and vote on specific spending bills before current funding runs out Jan.

15. "Most of us agree on let's not shut down the government," Sen. Ron Johnson, said in voicing support for Port-man's bill at the budget conference committee's first post-shutdown negotiating session Oct. 31. Portman has 23 co-sponsors so far, including one Democrat, Sen.

Jon Tester of Montana. Tester said the bill would "force Congress to make responsible decisions" about spending and do away with the shutdown drama. But some Democrats strongly oppose Port-man's idea, including Sen. Patty Murray, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee. Eli Zupnick, a spokesman for Murray, said the senator worries it would foster more "gridlock and dysfunction" and strengthen the hand of arch conservatives who want to cut federal spending.

Lilly noted that the October shutdown was driven by hard-line tea party lawmakers in the House who tried to link passage of government funding to the dismantling of the health care reform law. Many of those conservatives also are bent on slashing federal spending. If they knew all they had to do to shrink government was block new appropriations bills, they could do so under Portman's bill simply by sparking stalemate. "If you wanted to concoct a proposal that would strengthen (the hard-liners') intransigence, I think that would be it," TROUBLE David Trimmer, Judge Richard Berens, Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services Director Or-man Hall, Fairfield County Sheriff Dave Phalen, and chief probation officer Scott Beaver about drug problems in Lancaster. Mom, ex-boyfriend indicted in Ohio toddler's death TOLEDO (AP) A mother and her former boyfriend in Ohio have been indicted in the death of the woman's toddler whose remains were found three months ago.

The indictments announced Monday come after Toledo police spent several months this summer looking for 19-month-old Elaina Stein-furth before her remains were found in a garage in September. A grand jury in Toledo indicted the mother, Angela Steinfurth, on a murder charge while the former boyfriend, Steven King II, was indicted on charges of aggravated murder, tampering with evidence, and abuse of a corpse. Both have been in jail for several months on charges of obstruction. County. The 18-year-old man was arrested on a receiving stolen property charge, a fourth-degree felony.

A woman accused her 17-year-old grandson of breaking into her home in the 4800 block of Blacklick Eastern Road and taking $800 in cash Thursday Lt. Gov. Taylor to visit area chamber CANAL WINCHESTER The Canal Winchester Area Chamber of Commerce announced that December's Membership Networking Luncheon will feature guest speaker Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor, who leads Ohio's Common Sense Initiative, a regulatory reform initiative for businesses in the state.

The luncheon will be from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Dec. 11 at David's United Church of Christ, 80 W.Columbus Canal Winchester. The luncheon is open to members and non-members, with limited seating.

Reservations accepted online or by phone through Dec. 9, as seating permits. For more information, visit www.canal winchester.com. Solace to host drug forum tonight LANCASTER Solace of Fairfield County will conduct a public forum at 7:15 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church, 163 E.

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