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Pauline Irene Silvester Johnson

The family received friends at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, Mrs. Johnson will be moved to the Saint Brendan Catholic Church at Elkins, West Virginia, where the Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Father James E. O’Connor will be the celebrant. Interment will follow at the Saint Brendan Cemetery at Elkins, West Virginia. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Pauline Irene Silvester Johnson. In lieu of flowers the family ask that donations be made to one the following ...

Kimberly Dawn (Conklin) Dean

Mrs. Kimberly Dawn (Conklin) Dean, 53, a resident of Belington, departed this life Sunday morning, Feb. 4, 2024, at her residence. Death was unexpected. She was born Aug. 28, 1970, at Lakewood, New Jersey, to Daniel T. Conklin, who survives in Florida, and Connie Jane (White) Seech of ...

Dennis Novel Rosencrance

Dennis Novel Rosencrance, 73, a resident of Worcester, Massachusetts, passed away Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, at his home surrounded by family. He was born Oct. 8, 1950, in Elkins, West Virginia, the son of the late Junior Novel Rosencrance and Patricia Jean Walden-Rosencrance. On Oct. 8, ...

Dwight Dee ‘Gus’ Cooper

Dwight Dee “Gus” Cooper, 70, a life-long resident of Harman, passed away Saturday morning, Feb. 3, 2024 in the West Virginia Caring Hospice Center in Elkins. He was born May 20, 1953, at Harman, a son of the late Lillian Gae Cooper and the late Roosevelt Raines Cooper. On Feb. 17, 1979 at Oakland, Maryland, he was united in marriage to Janet White Cooper, who survives at Harman. Also surviving is one daughter, Mrs. Michael (Cassie) Atkins; and one granddaughter, Lilliana Mae Atkins all of Whitmer, West Virginia. Five sisters, Barbara Shiflett and husband, Larry, of ...

James F. ‘Butch’ Pritt

James F. “Butch” Pritt, 75, a resident of the Files Creek community, passed away Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, at Mon Health Medical Center in Morgantown, West Virginiua. He was born March 12, 1948 at Beverly, a son of the late William H. Pritt and Jeanette Raider Pritt. He is survived by one son, James Michael Pritt of Delaware; one sister, Vickie Triplett and husband, Ivan, of Beverly; and two grandchildren, Macy and Mac Pritt. Also preceding him in death was one sister, Diana L. Pontefract; and one brother, William Howard Pritt, Jr. Butch was a veteran of the United States ...

Juanita Mae (Vest) Fansler

Juanita Mae (Vest) Fansler, 99, of Bridgewater, Virginia, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. She was born on Jan. 16, 1925, and was a daughter of the late Kernel and Lucretia (Chenoweth) Vest. Juanita was a member of Bridgewater United Methodist Church, loved the outdoors, decorating ...