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Mary T. ‘Molly’ Busch

Mary T. "Molly" Busch, 88, a resident of Elkins, passed away Saturday, April 18, 2026, in United Hospital Center at Bridgeport, West Virginia. A Service of Remembrance will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 16, 2026, at the Grace Episcopal Church in Elkins. Rev. David C. Parker will officiate. Following the service, a gathering of family and friends will be held from 2 until 5 p.m. Saturday at the Randolph Room at the Wingate by Wyndham, 830 Harrison Ave., Elkins. The family request contributions be made to the Tygart Valley United Way, 10 Eleventh St. Suite D, Elkins, WV 26241 in ...

Joe Edward Messer Sr.

Joe Edward Messer Sr., 86, a resident of Parsons, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at the WV Caring Hospice Center in Elkins. Friends may call from 5 until 7 p.m. Monday, May 18, 2026, at the Tomblyn Funeral Home in Elkins. A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 19, from the funeral home chapel with Rev. Richard Funk and Rev. Paul Thompson officiating. Interment will follow in the Gilman Cemetery where full military honors will be accorded at the gravesite by members of the West Virginia National Guard Honor Guard Program, H.W. Daniels Post ...

Dottie Lou (Turner) Hanlin Hawley

Dottie Lou (Turner) Hanlin Hawley, 84, of Reedsville, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at WVU Medicine J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, West Virginia. She was born in Onego, West Virginia, on April 12, 1942, a daughter of the late Ulysses Simpson and Gladys ...

0515 Rebecca McDowell

Rebecca Jane McDowell, 93, of Elkins, West Virginia, passed away on May 11, 2026, at her home, surrounded by her family. Born on Jan. 22, 1933, in Worthington, Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Richard Thomas and Mary (Spedden) Friend. Rebecca, a 1950 graduate of Davis High ...

Joe Edward Messer Sr.

Joe Edward Messer Sr., 86, a resident of Parsons, West Virginia, passed away Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at the WV Caring Hospice Center in Elkins. He was born July 10, 1939, at Seebert, West Virginia, a son of the late Henry Messer and the late Carmen Daniels Messer. On Aug. 23, 1963 at ...

John Wayne Sharp

John Wayne Sharp, 63, of Conover, North Carolina, passed away unexpectedly on May 11 in Montrose. John was preceded in death by his mother, Linda Wood Arbogast of Valley Head; his father, Robert Sharp of Saginaw, Pennsylvania; and his son, John Christopher Sharp of Conover, North ...