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Edna C. (Mongold) Alt

Edna C. (Mongold) Alt, 81, of Petersburg, West Virginia, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, at Grant Rehabilitation and Care Center in Petersburg. Family will receive friends on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Schaeffer Funeral Home in Petersburg. Funeral services will begin at 1 p.m. from the chapel of Schaeffer Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Lahmansville Cemetery.

George Jonathan ‘Bud’ Freeman

Mr. George Jonathan “Bud” Freeman, 87, a resident of Belington and more recently of the Stonehaven Personal Care Home in Belington, departed this life early Tuesday morning, Feb. 4, 2025, in the care facility. Death was following an extended illness. On April 20, 1937, he was born at ...

Jimmie Jo Simmons

Jimmie Jo Simmons, 73, a resident of Elkins, passed away Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, at Nella’s at Autumn Lake Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 19, 1951, in Elkins, a daughter of the late James and Monna Nelson Triplett. On Oct. 25, 1969, at Saint Brendan Catholic Church in Elkins, she ...

Elaine Pizzoferrato Ware

Elaine Pizzoferrato Ware, 92, a resident of Elkins, West Virginia, departed this life Sunday morning, Feb. 2, 2025, at the Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center. She had been in declining health for the past year. The family will receive friends at the Saint Brendan Catholic Church of Elkins on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. until 10:50 a.m. The Funeral Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Father James E. O’Connor will be the Presider, and interment will follow at the Saint Brendan Cemetery at Elkins, West Virginia. The ...

Elaine Pizzoferrato Ware

Elaine Pizzoferrato Ware, 92, a resident of Elkins, West Virginia, departed this life Sunday morning, Feb. 2, 2025, at the Elkins Rehabilitation & Care Center. She had been in declining health for the past year. She was born Thursday, May 12, 1932, at Norton, West Virginia, the daughter of the late Nicola and Rosa Antonia Polce Pizzoferrato. She was married to Ronald Ware, who preceded her in death in 1996. Surviving are nieces, Christina Sanders and husband, Chuck, Frances Butch, Cathy Jenkins and husband, Lyle, Mary Rose Hise and husband, Joe; and nephews, David Buccini and wife, ...

Shelvie Jean Varner Mullenax

Shelvie Jean Varner Mullenax, 87, a resident of the Holly Meadows Community, Parsons, West Virginia, and for the past several years a resident of Cortland Acres at Thomas, West Virginia, departed this life Friday evening, Jan. 31, 2025, at Cortland Acres. She had been in declining health. The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons, West Virginia, on Thursday from 4 until 6 p.m. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at 11 a.m. The Reverend James Snyder will officiate and interment will follow at the Bethel Cemetery ...