Obituaries
Oak Hill & Mt. Hope Obituaries
Local obituaries for Oak Hill, Mt. Hope and Fayette County, WV
James O. Rexrode, Sr.
Mar 1, 2005
James Odell Rexrode Sr., 70, of Mount Hope, WV died on Tuesday, March 01, 2005 at his home of natural causes. Born April 22, 1934 at Cass, WV he was the son of the late Lonzo and Ethel Chestnut Rexrode. He retired in 1993 as a packer for Avery International. Mr. Rexrode was a member of the Faternal Order of...
Richard D. Burgess
Feb 26, 2005
Richard Donald Burgess, 61, of Loris, SC formerly of Oak Hill, WV died on Saturday, February 26, 2005, at Loris Community Hospital. Born August 17, 1943 at McComas, WV he was the son of the late Billy Donald and Margaret Ann Saunders Burgess. Richard was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church, Oak Hill, WV. Survivors include one brother, Jack...
Thomas W. Mcguffin
Feb 25, 2005
Thomas Wesley McGuffin, 84, of Oak Hill, WV died on Friday, February 25, 2005 at Veterans Administration Hospital in Beckley, WV following a long illness. Born April 10, 1920 at Thurmond, WV he was the son of the late Claymus Wesley and Ethel Virginia Samples McGuffin. He was a retired auto mechanic having worked for Fayette Motors and Lawton and...
Cora Bailey Graley
Feb 24, 2005
Cora E. Bailey Graley, 82, of Clear Creek, WV died on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Beckley, WV following a long illness. Born May 10, 1922 at Raleigh County, WV she was the daughter of the late Oliff and Meadie Ewings Bailey. Mrs. Graley attended the Pax Advent Church, Pax, WV and was a homemaker....
Paul J. Brown
Feb 24, 2005
Paul Jerry Brown, 79, of New Smyrna Beach, FL died on Thursday, February 24, 2005 at the home of his care givers in Daytona Beach, FL. Born July 28, 1925 at Fayetteville, WV he was the son of the late Paul Alexander and Mary Fox Brown. Mr. Brown was retired from real estate development and antique retail sales. He owned...
Rosemary Pinson Feazell
Feb 22, 2005
Rosemry Pinson Feazell, 74, of Bel Air, MD formerly of Oak Hill, WV died Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD. Born February 22, 1931 in Oak Hill, WV she was the daughter of Katie Blizzard Pinson of Oak Hill, WV and the late Benjamin Pinson. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dorma Feazell....
John Grabosky, Jr.
Feb 20, 2005
John Grabosky Jr., 82, of Oak Hill, WV died on Sunday, February 20, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV following a long illness. Born June 16, 1922 at Carlisle, WV he was the son of the late John and Mary Lawaneska Grabosky. John was retired. He had worked for the NR&P Coal Company at Minden and the...
Robert L. Kidd
Feb 20, 2005
Robert Leonard Kidd, 75, of Oak Hill, WV died on Sunday, February 20, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Born July 24, 1929 at Powellton, WV he was the son of the late Martin Leonard and Gertrude Miranda Kidd. He was a retired welder. Mr. Kidd served in the US Air Force during the Korean Conflict. Survivors...
Thomas Wayne Shepherd
Feb 19, 2005
Thomas Wayne Shepherd,51, of Oak Hill passed away Saturday, February 19, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center, Oak Hill of a massive heart attack. He was born July 12, 1953 at Oak Hill the son of Ruby Ellen Ellison Shepherd of Oak Hill and the late William Lee Shepherd, Sr. He was a retired auto salesman, member of the Oak Hill...
Harless "Gene" Cassell
Feb 19, 2005
Surrounded by his family, Harless Eugene "Gene" Cassell, 74, of Oak Hill, WV lost his courageous battle with cancer on Saturday, February 19, 2005 at his home. Born February 24, 1930 at Lockborne, OH he was the son of the late Fred and Gladys Meade Castle. He was a retired Master Sgt. for the US Army. He served his country...
Evelyn F. Blackburn
Feb 19, 2005
Evelyn Florene Blackburn, of 114 Forestview Drive, Beckley, went to rest in heavenly peace with her late husband, Carl L. Blackburn, on Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, following a long illness. Those left to cherish her memory are her two daughters, Linda Blackburn, with whom she resided, of Beckley and Patricia Tucker and husband, Frank,...
Elizabeth Mccreary Davis
Feb 17, 2005
Elizabeth McCreary Davis, 88, of Melbourne Village, FL died on Thursday, February 17, 2005 at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, FL. Born August 13, 1916 at Page, WV she was the daughter of the late Jesse Dean and Lizzy Farmer McCreary. She was a retired bookkeeper in the aerospace industry. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband, James...
David L. Mahood
Feb 15, 2005
David L. Mahood, 73, of Warren, MI fomerly of Oak Hill, WV died Tuesday, February 15, 2005. He was the son of the late Frederick Rooks Mahood, Sr. and Oma Vandal Mahood. He was preeded in death by brothers, Robert Mahood and Frederick Rooks Mahood, Jr. and a sister, Margaret King. Survivors include his wife, Virgie Mahood; brothers, Chester R....
William "Billy" Buckner
Feb 14, 2005
William "Billy" Franklin Buckner, 57, of Mount Hope, WV died on Monday, February 14, 2005 at his home following a long illness. Born March 25, 1947 in Kanawha County, WV he was the son of the late Haymond and Helen West Buckner and stepson of the late Freda Buckner. He was disabled. Billy was preceded in death by several brothers...
William Chornsbay
Feb 14, 2005
William Chornsbay, 73, of Scarbro, WV died on Monday, February 14, 2005 at Veterans Administration Hospital in Beckley, WV. Born November 28, 1931 at Hamtramack, MI he was the son of the late William and Eva Grobosky Chornobay. William was a retired Tech Sgt for the US Air Force and also a veteran of the US Army and the Korean...
Jon Dragan
Feb 12, 2005
Jon A. Dragan, 62, of Thurmond, WV died Saturday, February 12, 2005, at Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, WV after suffering a stroke. Born in Pennsylvania he was the son of the late John S. and Barbara Kopcak Dragan. Mr. Dragan was a whitewater rafting pioneer in Fayette County. He, along with his wife and brothers, started the state's first commercial...
Betty Walker Kemper
Feb 11, 2005
Betty Jean Walker Kemper, 68, of Saint Petersburg, FL formerly of Oak Hill, WV died on Friday, February 11, 2005 at her home. Born November 06, 1936 at Minden, WV she was the daughter of the late Herbert W. and Evelyn Mae Dorsett Walker. She was a retired Patient Representative for the VA Medical Center, Beckley, WV. Survivors include husband,...
Linda Donell Foster
Feb 11, 2005
Linda Donell Foster, 61, of Maple Fork, died Friday, February 11, 2005 at Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley after a long illness. Linda was born February 4, 1944 at Willis Branch, a daughter of the late Clarence and Flossie Kidd Donell. She was a homemaker and a member of the Oak Hill Free Will Baptist Church on Summerlee Road. Besides her...
Willis Glen Criss
Feb 11, 2005
Willis Glen Criss, 83, of Harvey Hill, Harvey died Friday, February 11, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center, Oak Hill. Born March 22, 1921 at Harvey, he was the son of the late Glennie Swazy and Annie Wilkerson Criss. Mr. Criss was a retired coal miner from the New River Company having last worked at Siltex Mine at Mount Hope. He...
Shirley Armstrong Gruenberg
Feb 11, 2005
Shirley Staton Armstrong Gruenberg, 97, of Oak Hill, WV died on Friday, February 11, 2005 in Oak Hill, WV. Born February 09, 1908 at Burnwell,Pike County, KY she was the daughter of the late John (J.E.) and Arizona McCoy Staton. Mrs. Armstrong Gruenberg was a member of the Fellowship Memorial Baptist Church, Oak Hill, WV and was a homemaker. She...
