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Gabriel Micheal Cantwell

Infant Gabriel Micheal Cantwell passed from this life Tuesday June 30, 2026, in the WVU Children’s Hospital at Morgantown, West Virginia. He was born May 26, 2026, at Morgantown to his loving parents Joshua Micheal and Harley Danielle (Rockwell) Cantwell. In addition to his parents, he is survived by maternal grandparents, Shiela Ford of Belington, West Virginia, and Michael Rockwell and wife, Caroline, of Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania; maternal great-grandparents, Harold and Charlotte Booth of Belington, West Virginia, Dick and Sharon Rockwell of Elkins, West Virginia, and Cindy ...

Homer Brake

Homer Brake, 78, friend to everyone he met and a resident of Huttonsville, passed away on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Born Thursday, Sept. 4, 1947, at Davis Memorial Hospital, to Neva Blanche (Bender) and Leonard Jackson Brake. He was married to Golda Sharp Brake in Elkins on September 16, ...

Edward Lewis ‘Fast Eddie’ Bashford

Edward Lewis “Fast Eddie” Bashford, 81, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio, and more recently of Job, West Virginia, departed this life Sunday evening, June 28, 2026, at his home with his wife by his side. The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Elkins on Sunday from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home on Monday, July 6, 2026, at 10 a.m. Pastor Steve Wymer and Pastor Chris Wyatt will officiate and interment will follow at the Bethel Cemetery at Job, West Virginia. The family suggest that expressions of ...

Edward Lewis ‘Fast Eddie’ Bashford

Edward Lewis “Fast Eddie” Bashford, 81, a resident of Portsmouth, Ohio, and more recently of Job, West Virginia, departed this life Sunday evening, June 28, 2026, at his home with his wife by his side. A son of the late Richard Emory Bashford and Dorothy Elizabeth Gifford Bashford, he ...

Candace ‘Candy’ Beltz Sommerville

The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons, West Virginia, on Thursday, July 2, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home at 1 p.m. The Rev. Steve Morrow will officiate and interment will follow at the Pifer Mountain Cemetery at St. George, West Virginia. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is honored to be in charge of the arrangements for Candace Beltz Sommerville. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.

Christopher Delano See

Christopher Delano See, 65, a resident of Valley Bend, passed from this life Sunday, June 28, 2026, at WV Caring Hospice Inpatient Center in Elkins following a brief illness. Chris was born Monday, April 24, 1961, in Elkins, a son of late Franklin Delano See and Jo Ellen Hewitt. On ...