PASTOR ALLEN DALE CROSTEN, age 75 years, a resident of Parsons, WV, went to be with the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday morning, February 19, 2017 at his home. Death was attributed to complications of the flu. He was born Thursday, November 27, 1941 at Thomas, WV, a son of the late Jack D. and Janice Carr Crosten. On January 2, 1963 at Winchester, VA, he was married to the former Carol Louise Jones, who survives. They had celebrated fifty-three years of marriage. Also surviving are...

Jean Ann Elliott, 84, of Shepherdstown passed away on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at the Canterbury Center. Born January 18, 1933 in Martinsburg, WV she was the daughter of the late Howard Hoffman Elliott and Dorothy Jean Horn Elliott. She was a 1950 graduate of Martinsburg High School; graduate of Shepherd College, Syracuse University, and Shippensburg University. She had worked for Fairmont State College as Assistant Librarian, Reference Assistant with Pitt University Library, and Sh...

Gary Lynn Bailey, 59, of Bridgeport, WV, passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017, at the United Hospital Center. He was born in Baltimore, MD, on April 6, 1957, a son of Robert L. Bailey of Jane Lew and Erma P. Pugh Ice of Bridgeport. Gary is survived by his companion of 17 years, Marjorie Prince. He is also survived by one son, Gary L. Bailey Jr. and wife Lisa of Grafton and one daughter, Amber Bailey of Anmoore; two brothers, Larry Bailey and wife Paulette of Phil...

Matilda Beatrice "Betty" Carder, 84 of Grafton passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at Grafton City Hospital with her family by her side. She was born October 20, 1932 at Lambertville, NJ, daughter of the late David Kerr and Annie Elizabeth Smith. She will join her husband John F. Carder, Sr. who preceded her death February 8, 2003. She attended the Salvation Army, loved to walk, go to yard sales, and helped raise money for the Grafton City Police K-9 Unit and volunteer at the Mission ...

John Travis McDaniel (JT) 37, of Grafton went to be with his Lord and Savior, February 18, 2017. JT was born in Fairmont, WV on August 19, 1979 to John F. and Bonnie McDaniel of Grafton who survive him. He leaves behind and will sadly be missed by his parents, two sisters, Karey Maier, and husband Eric of Grafton, Heather Cleary, and husband Sean of Morgantown. He was "Uncle T" to Ryan, Jacob, Chase, and Jenna Maier, and Patrick Cleary; his girlfriend, Nicole Heflin, and their son, the prid...

Richard Wayne (Dick) Lejeune, 73, of Henderson Avenue, Clarksburg, passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017, in River Oaks Nursing Home. He was born in Clarksburg, On June 24, 1943, a son of the late Camile Lejeune and Mary Catherine Norman Brown. Mr. Lejeune is survived by his daughter, Sophia Lejeune; two sisters, Suzie Lejeune Faris and her husband George, of Clarksburg and their children, Chris, Kimberly and Chelsea, and Johnna Chapman Swiger and her children, Andrea, Ch...

Richard Lee Elliott, age 83 of Weston WV, passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at Wheeling Hospital. He was born November 24, 1933 in Clarksburg, WV; the son of the late Burl H. Elliott and Laura V. (Clark) Elliott. Richard is survived by his daughter, Jenny Garrison & her husband, Ron of Worthington, WV; Fiancé, Lona E. Henry of Weston, WV; four step-daughters, Rebecca Bales of Weston, WV, Barbara Badisman & her husband, Roy of Philippi, WV, Joetta Anderson & her husband, George of ...

Mr. Ronald Ray “Tinker” Wilmoth, age 69, a resident of the Chestnut Flatts Community near Belington, departed this life Saturday evening February 18, 2017 in the Hospice Unit at Latrobe Area Hospital in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He had been declining in health for the past year. He was born December 1, 1947 at Lewis County, a son of the late Jacob Karl and Nell Melba Goodwin Wilmoth. On May 23, 1971, at Belington he was united in marriage to the former Loretta June Suder, who survives at thei...

Lola Ann Sims, 77, of Davis St. Weston passed away at 3:43 a.m. on Saturday, February 18, 2017 in Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown following an extended illness. She was born in Queens, WV in Upshur County on July 21, 1939 a daughter of the late Reverend Woodrow Wilson McCloud and Arlie Edith Cogar McCloud. On July 4, 1958 she married Donald Brooks Sims, now her former husband, who resides in Weston. Her witty, hard working nature will be carried on by her two children: Larry Sim...

James Lloyd “Jimmy” Smith, age 40 years, a resident of Cassity, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday evening, February 18, 2017 at his residence after losing a long battle with cancer. Jimmy was born September 9, 1976 at Elkins, a son of Mary Ann Simmons Smith of Cassity and the late James Darrell Smith. On July 6, 2016, he was united in marriage to Crystal Merritt Smith, who survives at Junior, WV. Also surviving are two children, Matthew Smith of Elkins and Ashley Smith at home and two...