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Patricia ‘Patty’ Lynch Karlen

The family received friends at Saint Brendan Catholic Church at Elkins, West Virginia, on Thursday. On Thursday evening, from the church, a wake service was recited. The mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, March 15, 2024, 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 Patricia Lynch Karlen. Condolences may be expressed to the family at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com.

Loretta Jean Phillips Hinkle

Loretta Jean Phillips Hinkle, age 86 years, a resident of Beverly, WV departed this life Sunday evening, November 26, 2023 at the Davis Medical Center Emergency Department with her loving family by her side. She had been in declining health although death was unexpected. Loretta’s request for cremation was honored. The family will receive friends at the Goff Street Church of Christ on Saturday, March 16, 2024 from 10 a.m. to noon. A Celebration of Life will be held at noon, Saturday with Evangelist Albert Brown officiating. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the ...

Virginia Lee ‘Ginny’ Mastrogiuseppe

Virginia Lee “Ginny” Mastrogiuseppe, 94, of Coalton, passed peacefully on the morning of March 8, 2024, surrounded by her family and friends at Davis Medical Center. She had been in declining health. On June 14, 1929, she was born to the late O.C. and Elta Ware Poe in Elkins. On May ...

Frank Gordon Dotson Sr.

Frank Gordon Dotson Sr., 72, passed on to his heavenly reward at HCA North Florida Hospital in Gainesville on Saturday, March 9, 2024. Frank was born in Lyons, New York, to the late Hellen Ashby Dotson and the late Gordon Dotson, on Nov. 14, 1951. He grew up on a farm on Limestone Road ...

Patricia ‘Patty’ Lynch Karlen

Patricia “Patty” Lynch Karlen, 76, a resident of Elkins, West Virginia, passed peacefully Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at the Elkins Rehabilitation and Care Center at Elkins, following a brief illness, and with her loving family by her side. She was born on Jan. 26, 1948, at Clarksburg, ...

Justin Pete ‘Petey’ Short

Justin Pete “Petey” Short, 40, a resident of Beverly, passed from this life Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at his home due to complications after being diagnosed with ALS in 2022. Petey was born Thursday, May 12, 1983, in Elkins, a son of Don Brewer of Beverly and Bonnie Sharp; and ...