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Franklin Steven King

Franklin Steven King, 73, a resident of Parsons, West Virginia, departed this life early Tuesday morning, April 1, 2025, at Cortland Acres at Thomas, West Virginia. He had been in declining health. He was born Saturday, Dec. 29, 1951, at Parsons, West Virginia, a son of the late James Robert and Lena Gertrude Pitzer King. He had never married. He was the last surviving member of his immediate family. Preceding him in death are two brothers, James Russell King and Robert Lee “Hopsing” King; and one sister, Kathryn Gertrude “Katie” King Mason. He was a graduate of Parsons ...

Dorothy (Evans) Bolyard

Dorothy (Evans) Bolyard, 80, passed away on Sunday, April 6, 2025, at E.A. Hawse Healthcare Center in Baker, West Virginia. Dorothy’s family will receive friends on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from 6–8 p.m. at the Schaeffer Funeral Home in Petersburg. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, April 9, 2025, at 1 p.m. in the chapel. Burial will follow in Maple Hill Cemetery in Petersburg, West Virginia.

Joyce Lou (White) Trail

Joyce Lou (White) Trail, 74, of Elkins West Virginia, passed away Feb. 15, 2025, at the WV Caring Hospice Inpatient Center in Elkins West Virginia. She was born July 25, 1950, the daughter of the late Emerson White and Nettie (Summerfield) White of Alpena, West Virginia. In addition to ...

Joyce Ramona Betler Estridge

Joyce Ramona Betler Estridge passed away Friday, April 4, 2025, at approximately 2 a.m. She was born May 16, 1934, on the family farm on Gilman Road, the eldest child of the late George Henry Betler and Mary Francis Suesli Betler. Her youngest sister, Katherin Ross, also preceded her in death on Sept. 3, 2021. For five years, she attended the one room-one teacher Marstiller School. Beginning in the sixth grade, she began attending the Elkins schools, graduating salutatorian of Elkins High School class of 1952. In 1956, she graduated with honors from Berea College, Berea ...

Philip ‘Phil’ Andrew Brooks

Philip “Phil” Andrew Brooks, 82, a resident of Valley Bend, passed from this life Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at home. Phil was born Monday, Aug. 3, 1942, in Kent, Ohio, a son of Harold Gould Brooks and Irene Margaret Marks Brooks. He married the former Margaret Ann Miller, who survives ...

Ina Mae Hammonds Errington

Ina Mae Hammonds Errington, 79, a resident of Mill Creek, passed from this life Thursday, April 3, 2025, at the home of her daughter and under the care of West Virginia Caring. Ina was born Friday, Oct. 5, 1945, in Elkins, a daughter of Robert Hammonds and Nancy Chloe Amos Hammonds. ...