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Walter John Brown

The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Elkins from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., Friday Aug. 2, 2024. Final Rites will be conducted from the funeral home, Friday Aug. 2, 2024, at 2 p.m. Pastor Jim Burns will officiate and interment will follow at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman, West Virginia. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Walter John Brown. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.

Martin LeRoye ‘Marty’ Bowers

Martin LeRoye “Marty” Bowers, 71, of Franklin, West Virginia, passed away Sunday, July 28, 2024, at Sentara RMH in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His body has been cremated and the family will commemorate his life privately. Online condolences and memories may be shared at www.kimblefuneralhome.com. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to the Kimble Funeral Home in Franklin, West Virginia.

Walter John Brown

The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Elkins from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., Friday Aug. 2, 2024. Final Rites will be conducted from the funeral home, Friday Aug. 2, 2024, at 2 p.m. Pastor Jim Burns will officiate and interment will follow at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman, West Virginia. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for Walter John Brown. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.

Walter John Brown

Walter John Brown, 77, a resident of Elkins, West Virginia, departed this life Saturday afternoon, July 27, 2024, at the Tygart Valley Health & Rehabilitation at Belington, West Virginia, surrounded by his loving family and under the care of Mountain Hospice. He had been in declining health ...

Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Keith Casto

Kenneth “Kenny” Keith Casto, 94, of Pickens, passed away on Friday, July 26, 2024, at the VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. He was born in Pickens on Aug. 15, 1929, a son of the late Wayland Kenneth Casto and Mamie Wave Ogden Casto. On Nov. 8, 1953, Kenny married his true love, Norene ...

Sondra Bee Cochran

Sondra Bee Cochran, 78, of Marlinton, West Virginia, went to be with the Lord on Friday, July 26, 2024, while a resident at the Pocahontas Center in Marlinton. She was born Sept. 26, 1945, at Elkins, West Virginia, and was the daughter of the late Jefferson William Nelson and Grace (Harper) Nelson. She was a 1963 graduate of Marlinton High School and a graduate of Marshall University. She had worked in the Pocahontas County Assessor’s Office and was a member of the Marlinton United Methodist Church. She enjoyed being outdoors, hunting, playing musical instruments and ...