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4/20/1981 Patricia Venia

Mrs. M. Patricia Venia, 77, of 5556 Gay St., died today in Flower Hospital she was the first organist at St. Clement Church retiring in 1960. Surviving are her husband, Oscar J.; sons, William P. And Robert J.; daughter, Mrs. Patricia E. Whitenburg. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the church. The Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the H.H. Birkenkamp Mortuary, Trilby, where the body will be after 7 tonight. The family requests that any tributes be in the form of contributions to the American Cancer Society.

Robert Venia 8/24/1984

Robert Venia, 52, of Parkgate place, Sylvania, died yesterday in Flower Hospital following an apparent stroke. He was maintenance supervisor 1 ½ years at the Islamic Center, Perrysburg. Prior to that he was employed at Colonial Builders five years and was an engineering technician with Teledyne CAE 12 years. He was a Marine Corps Veteran of the Korean War. Surviving are his wife, Hazel; daughters, Mrs. Tresa Guy, Mrs. Vickie Turner and Mrs. Belinda Yarhmarkt; sons, Robert, Jr., David, Michael, Wayne and Mark; grandmother, Mrs. Beulah Swartzlander; brothers, Francis, Richard and James, and sisters, Mrs. Lydie Smith, Mrs. Emma Manthey, Mrs. Cecil Brown and Mrs. Mary Henderson. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Coyle Mortuary, South Reynolds Road, where the body will be after 7 tonight.

Oscar Venia 3/19/1984

Oscar J. Venia, 81, of Gay Street, died yesterday in Flower Hospital. He was a buffer 39 years for the DeVilbiss Co., retiring in 1964. Surviving are his sons, William and Robert, daughter Mrs. Patricia Whitenburg; brother, Godfrey, and sisters, Mrs. Helen Grodi and Mrs. Ivadelle Weber. Services will be at noon Thursday in St. Clement Church. The Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Tomorrow in the H.H. Birkenkamp Mortuary, Trilby, where the body will be after 7 tonight.

2/3/1936 Venia- Thomas J., age 15 months son of Mr. And Mrs. Francis Venia, Monday Feb. 3. Funeral Wednesday 9:15 A.M. From the residence 3120 Glenwood Ave. 9:45 a.m. At Holy Rosary Cathedral Interment Calvary. Blanchard Bros.

Patrolman’s Infant Son Taken by Death

Thomas J. Venia, 15 months old, son of Patrolman and Mrs. Francis Venia, 3120 Glenwood avenue. Died today in St. Vincent’s Hospital. Besides the parents three brothers and a sister survive. Services will be at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday in the residence and at 9:45 a.m. In Holy Rosary cathedral. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.

Julia Venia 6/13/1946 Toledo Blade

Jessie Venia 12/6/1922 Toledo Blade

Ethel Venia 11/25/1962 Toledo Blade

Francis Venia 4/24/1970 Toledo Blade

Lyda Venia 7/7/1972 Toledo Blade

Margaret Venia 3/11/1978 Toledo Blade

Harvey Venia 7/11/1969 Toledo Blade

Harvey Venia 9/6/1947 Toledo Blade

Leslie Venia 6/10/1933 Toledo Blade

William Venia 4/8/1947 Toledo Blade

William Venia 5/5/1969 Toledo Blade

Albert G. Venia 12/10/1954 Monroe Evening News

Godfrey Venia 12/20/1990 Monroe Evening News

Rachel Venia 8/12/1926 Monroe Evening News

William Venia 4/9/1947 Monroe Evening News

Nelson Venier 1/2/1902 Monroe Evening News

Edith Barr formerly Edith Marion Venia, McCready 1958

Mrs. Edith M. Barr, 77, of 951 Prouty Ave., died yesterday in Riverside Hospital. A native of Wood County Mrs. Barr lived in the Toledo area her entire life. She was a member of Oakdale Evangelical United Brethren Church. Surviving are sons, Frank E. McCready, Holland, and William and Chester McCready of Toledo. Services will be conducted Thursday at 1:30 p.m. In the Ansberg-West Mortuary by the Rev. Dale Emrick, pastor of Oakdale EUB Church. Burial will be in Willow Cemetery.

Cecile Venia 12/3/1988

Award-winning photographer; had Toledo studio since 1951.

Cecile A. Venia, 80 of Green acre Road and formerly of Monroe Street, an aware-winning studio photographer, died yesterday in her home. Miss Venia who was born in Temperance, Mich., but spent most of her life in Toledo, graduated from Central Catholic High School in 1927. After working 10 years for the National Supply Co., she became manager of the Beaux Arts Studio of photography in Detroit for about five years before working for Cousino Visual Education. In 1946, Miss Venia went to Chicago and studied under famed photographer Ronald Heymann. She opened her own studio on Monroe Street in 1951 and worked there until her retirement in 1977. Miss Venia received a "meritorious award" from the Photographic Society of America in 1962 for her efforts in the interest of pictorial photography as a portrait commentator. Surviving are her brother, E. William Venia, and sisters, Mrs. Iva May Russ, Mrs. Harriet Willhauck, and Mrs. Margaret Clark. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tomorrow in St. Joseph Catholic Church, Sylvania. The body will be in the Walker-Feilbach-Buehrer Mortuary, after 7 tonight, with a Rosary service to follow at 8:30. The family requests that any contributions be to Northwest Ohio Hospice Association.

Joseph Venier 7/9/1918 Monroe Evening News

Death of Joseph Venier at Early Hour this Morning.

Was Nearly Eighty Years old; had lived in this county 71 years.

In the passing away of Joseph Venier at his home 318 Eastchester Street at an early hour this morning; Monroe loses one of its best known and prominent citizens. If Mr. Venier had lived until October 5th, he would have reached the advanced age of 80 years. He has lived in Monroe for the past sixty nine years and in the same house where he passed away for fifty four years. He was born in Montreal. Quebec October 5, 1838, and at the age of eight years moved with his parents to the United States and settled on a farm in Monroetown where the parents lived for three years. Later moving to Monroe. Mr. Venier had been a resident of this city ever since. He was prominently identified with the fishing industry of this city for many years and was one of the best known fisherman along Lake Erie. He was married to Mary Willets of this city, July 2, 1864, at St. Mary’s church by the late Monsignor Edmund Joos. Eleven children were born to the couple, eight of whom are living. He is survived by a wife four sons Frank, of Hermanville, Joseph of Detroit; George, of Toledo; Romie of Monroe; four daughters Mrs. Samuel Moffit of Saginaw; Mrs. Walter Greening. Mrs. Frank Ready and Mrs. Bert Manausso, all of Monroe, and eleven grandchildren. The funeral will be held on Friday morning at St. Mary’s Church of which the deceased has been a prominent member ever since he lived in Monroe, Rev. Fr. DeGryse will officiate. Interment will take place in St. Joseph's cemetery.

Wood County Ohio Biography page 1193 & 1194 by J.II Beers & Co. 

Frank H. Venia, one of the well to do and prosperous farmers of Ross township, is one of those men who thoroughly understand the business they are pursuing, and he is rapidly progressing toward a comfortable competence. Besides general farming he is also extensively engaged in fruit growing. In 1867 he came to Ross township, where he bought a tract of forty acres of timber land, which he sold in 1883, and purchased his present farm of sixty acres, forty of which he has tiled and placed under a high state of cultivation. He is the architect of his own fortune, having started in life with but little capital beyond his own industry and laudable ambition to rise in the world. 

He was born at Monroe, Michigan July 27, 1845, and is a son of John and Mary (Shinaver) Venia, natives of Canada, who at an early day located upon a farm in Michigan, where the father died in 1852. The mother still resides near Monroe, that State, and is now the wife of John Boimier. By her first union she had ten children, two of whom are now living Godfrey, who resided at Whiteford Center, Michigan, and Frank H. The educational privileges of our subject during his youth were very limited, he being able to attend school for only about six months; but, through reading and observation in later years, he has become a well informed man. On leaving his native State he located in Lucas County, Ohio, and at Sylvania, Ohio, on August 27, 1862, he enlisted in the 18th United States Regulars for three years. He became a member of the army of the Cumberland, and participated in all the battles from Murfreesboro, Tenn., the latter he was taken prisoner September 1, 1864, and was confined in Andersonville for twenty-two days. After being exchanged he went to Atlanta, where he was granted a furlough, and after a visit to Toledo, he rejoined his regiment at Lookout Mountain, where he was honorable discharged, August 27, 1865.

Returning to Toledo, Mr. Venia worked there for $20 per month at gardening, until coming to Ross Township in 1867. In 1882, he again made his home in Toledo for a time, and was there engaged in contracting, furnishing all the heavy timbers for elevators, bridges, and other improvements at that place. He now devotes most of his time and attention to fruit raising, having all kinds of fruit on his farm, and has been very successful in this venture. 

In Washington township, Lucas county, in 1868, was celebrated the marriage of Mr. Venia and Miss Hattie E. Johnston, a native of Toledo, and a daughter of Martin R. and Harriet E. (Breed) Johnston, who were from the New England States, and located in that city in the early 40s. Her father engaged in gardening near Toledo, where his death occurred in 1882. His wife also died in that city, in 1890. Five children were born to Mr. And Mrs. Venia (four of whom are still living); Martin R., who died at the age of eleven years and seven months; Carrie, wife of W.L. Alexander, of Crestline, Ohio; Frank E., who is married and resides in Ross township; and Harvey R. and Edith, at home.

Mr. Venia is quite prominently identified with the interests of the community in which he lives, and has assisted materially in the development of his portion of the county. He bears a high character for sterling integrity, is entirely a self-made man, and well deserves the success that has come to him. In political questions he casts his ballot in support of the men and measures of the Democratic Party, and has been called upon to serve as trustee, assessor and constable in his township.

Ross Township

Frank H. Venia (came in 67) 18th Regt., U.S. regulars, en. Aug. 27, 62, taken prisoner at Jonesboro, Ga., Sept., 64, and confined in Rebel prison at Andersonville, Ga., dis. Aug. 27, 65.

Township Officials of Ross Township

Trustees 1879 Frank H. Venia
Accessors 1878 F.H. Veniai n 1878, Frank H. Venia represented the new district, No. 5, on the board.
In 1886, Frank H. Venia is on the board
Venia served several terms