Former Ohio Speaker of the House Jo Ann Davidson passed away Friday at the age of 97. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine issued a statement regarding her death, calling Davidson “a trailblazer in the truest ...

WARREN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Jo Ann Rogers, 80, of Warren, Ohio passed away Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at her home. She was born June 8, 1944, in San Joaquin, California, the daughter of the ...

Former House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson remembered as 'true Ohio legend' Davidson, who died at 97, was the first woman to serve as speaker of the Ohio House Jessie Balmert Laura A. Bischoff ...

The late Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first and only female House speaker and a force in state and national Republican politics, is set to lie in state Thursday at the Ohio Statehouse ahead of a public ...

BOARDMAN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – JoAnn “Jo” Parke, 64, passed away Thursday, June 26, 2025, unexpectedly at St. Elizabeth’s Health Center in Youngstown. JoAnn was born March 31, 1961 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Jo Ann Davidson, the only woman ever to be speaker of the Ohio House and a mentor to generations of female leaders in Ohio politics, died Friday at the age of 97.

Jo Ann Davidson, Ohio's first woman House speaker and an advocate for putting effective Republican women in office, died Friday. She was 97. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a long-time friend ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine ordered that flags of the United States and state of Ohio be lowered at public grounds in honor of former Ohio House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson, who passed away ...

She is second in Ohio High School Athletic Association girls basketball history with 769 wins. She had a storied career at Mother of Mercy from 1972-2018 where she had 696 wins.

Ohio governor Mike DeWine, right, and his wife Fran watch a slide shoe honoring former Ohio House speaker Jo Ann Davidson as her casket lie in state in the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse in ...