AUSTINTOWN TWP., Ohio - Former Austintown Township Trustee Lisa Oles has died after a long illness, according to former fellow trustee Jim Davis.

Davis said Oles passed away Wednesday night. He said she had been battling cancer for 12 years.

Oles announced her resignation from the Austintown Township Board of Trustees in January 2015 after 12 years of service. At the time, she said she and her husband were relocating to care for her grandmother. Oles recently moved back to the Valley.

She was 59.