Photo courtesy of McWilliams Funeral Home - Wellston
Aug 8, 1946 - Jun 8, 2025
A great , kind and caring person and so is her partner Tom. My prayers are with your family.
Bill Mahle
June 17, 2025 | Peebles, OH | Friend
Emily was our neighbor and welcomed us warmly into the community when we moved here. She was a kind soul with the biggest heart. She will be dearly missed!
Maddie & Josh Winters
June 14, 2025 | Wellston, OH | Neighbor
Emily, you were so sweet, lively, and sensitive. I remember how you would talk about Bill Dyer as the most wonderful father and always with a tear in your eye. I so enjoyed how you doted over your mother too! You loved those around you well. You wore your heart on your sleeve and that is more rare in this world than ever. You were a sweet and loving aunt. Our family will not be the same without you. May the Lord bless and keep you. And to Tom and Tommy and family, may you find peace, love...
Nikki Emerson
June 12, 2025 | Tampa, FL | Family
Emily was a wonderful person that I was blessed to know and work with at the Athens Regional Office. She always had a smile and was so kind and caring. She truly was one of a kind. She will be missed.
Rob Manning
June 12, 2025 | Zanesville, OH | Coworker
Dear Tom, Jack and Natalie, I am so sorry for your loss. She was a dear woman and always so sweet to me. Please know that you are all in my thoughts and prayers. Love to you all.
Nancy Goodman
June 10, 2025 | Glen Allen, VA 23060, USA, VA | Family
Our family recently met and got to know Emily at Edgewood Manor. We were shocked and saddened to her of her passing. Even though we hadn't known her long, we felt like we had known her all of our lives. She was a sweet, kind soul and can only imagine the empty place that is left for her family and friends. I know my mom loved her as a roommate and so did we. We thought she would be going home soon, and she did, but not the Home we thought. Our thoughts and prayers to the family.
Rhonda Evans
June 10, 2025 | Hope, IN | Acquaintance
Emily was the heart of the Athens (DYS) office . The glue that kept us all together. She will be missed.
Bette Ryan
June 10, 2025 | Norwich, OH | Coworker
When I first met Ms. Emily, little did we know that she would end up being one of the angels in my life, during the time I lost my 15 year old son. Emily was the most caring and sweetest person that I have ever been blessed with to have in my life. She made this world a much better place just by her presence. I cannot tell you how much I love her. Go rest high my beautiful friend and maybe, just maybe we will meet again in a place where there’s nothing but peace and love♥
Julie Peters
June 09, 2025 | Lancaster, OH | Coworker
I worked with Emily at OVAL in the 80’s. Always smiling, Always positive and was friends to everyone. She was beautiful inside and out. Emily will be missed by everyone who met her. Prayers for Tom and Tommy.
Janet Spearry
June 09, 2025 | Ray, OH | Friend
Emily Lou Stetzer, age 78, of Wellston, passed away Sunday, June 8, 2025, surrounded by loved ones at the Adena Regional Medical Center in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was born August 8, 1946 in Ironton, Ohio to Emory Whitt and Irene Waddell Whitt. Emily was a 1964 graduate of Green High School in Franklin Furnace and later attended Manpower Training in Jackson earning a secretarial certificate. In 2006, Emily retired from the State of Ohio where she spent 21 years working at the Ohio Department of Youth Services in Athens, Ohio. She was also a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and sister. Emily always enjoyed traveling to various places, especially going to Goodyear, Arizona yearly for the Cleveland Guardian’s MLB Spring training camp, which she attended for over 30 years. She also enjoyed going to bluegrass festivals whenever she could and listening to gospel music. Emily was a kind-hearted soul with an infectious smile and spirit that touched the lives of everyone fortunate enough to know her. She never met a stranger, easily made friends wherever she went, and had a knack for drawing people in with her heartfelt conversations. Emily believed in the good of people and had a trusting quality of everyone she met. Her spirit will remain alive in all the lives she touched with memories and love that she left. Emily is survived by her one true love, Thomas Lee Stetzer, whom she was married to for 57 years; beloved son, Thomas P. Stetzer (Julie); grandchildren, Jack Stetzer (Matt), Natalie Stetzer, Carson Stetzer, Max Anderson (Courtney), Alex Strayer, and Josh Jones (Shelby); brothers, Michael E. Dyer (Phyllis), Kenneth E. Dyer (Jeanne), and Gary N. Dyer (Lynn); sister, Sue Baldridge; as well as 3 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her mother and father who raised her, Irene and Edward “Bill” Dyer; biological father, Emory Whitt; siblings, Ronald Whitt, Ronald Dyer (Brenda), and Myra Jane Porter (Ronald); and sister-in-law, Diana Dyer. Calling hours will be Thursday, June 12th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the McWilliams Funeral Home in Wellston. Funeral service will follow the calling hours at 1 p.m. with Pastor John Pelletier officiating. Burial will be in the Ridgewood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate contributions in Emily’s memory be given to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or online at www.stjude.org. Online condolences can be sent to the family at www.mcwilliams-funeralhome.com.
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