As of January 1, 2023, There will be no more free death notices in any of the Columbiana County newspapers. (Salem News, Morning Journal and E. Liverpool Review) The Youngstown Vindicator will still offer free death listings and service announcements.  Our county papers will now be charging $ 25.00 for a death notice in each  paper it appears.  The obituary can be written and placed in any paper for a fee, if a picture, there will be another fee with the option of color also.  The fees for the costs of the obituaries have also increased.  We have a copy of the letter to offer for the reading.  WE however, will still have the small ad at the bottom of the page in Salem News to list arrangements at no cost to the families. (If the family wants it announced.)  WE have changed the method of listing the deceased we have in on the website.  They will be posted once we have been given permission by the family.  You however, may place your email address in the system to be notified of a new listing of an obituary.

Alma Gertrude (Golderer) Castles, 95, of Salem, died at 3:55 PM Wednesday, January 4, 2023 at Blossom Nursing and Rehab Center of Salem.

She was born January 1, 1928 in Kearny, NJ, daughter of the late John and Alma (Schneider) Golderer.

Alma and her husband moved to Salem in 1962 from New Jersey. In her younger years she often took on small jobs here and there. Alma loved to walk, and in the day would visit the store keepers of the department stores and shops in the old downtown of Salem. She and her husband were active members of the Salem First Christian Church. She volunteered with Welcome Wagon and a sitter/helper at the old YWCA. Alma found great joy going on bus trips to see places and go to shows.

She is survived by her children: Ronald (Pamela) Castles of Salem, Joseph Castles of Conover, NC, and Christina Helman of Pensicola, FL, her 7 grandchildren: Michael & Gregory Shasteen, Diachi, Patrick, Matthew, Sara, and Luke Castles as well as her great grandchildren: Bentley, Paisley, Andon, Grayce, and Xavier Shasteen.

In addition to her parents, Alma was preceded in death on June 4, 2015, by her husband of 56 years, William Ranges Castles JR, whom she married August 9, 1958, her sister Beryl Frontin, her twin brother John Golderer, and her grandson Andrew Shasteen.

A Celebration of Life Service will be observed on Tuesday, January 10, 2023, 11 AM at the Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen & Sons Funeral and Cremation Services, Salem. The Rev. Leonard Moore of the church will be officiating. The burial will follow at Highland Memorial Park in Beloit, Ohio. There will be a time of visitation from 10-11 AM on Tuesday.