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Emilio Frank ‘Shorty’ Gola

Emilio Frank “Shorty” Gola, 90, of Elkins, West Virginia, passed away peacefully on March 4, 2026, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Michele Dominic “Mike” and Maria “Mary” Bolsani Gola. Friends and family will be received at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Elkins, on Saturday, March 14, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Final Rites will be conducted from the funeral home on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Rev. Tim Edin will officiate, and interment will follow at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens at Mt. Clare, West Virginia, ...

Rileigh ‘Ri’ Wingfield

Rileigh “Ri” Wingfield, 15s, a resident of Elkins, passed away Friday evening, March 6, 2026 as a result of injuries sustained in an ATV accident. She was born June 22, 2010, in Elkins, a daughter of Dustin Lee Wingfield and Miranda Chidester Wingfield, both of Elkins. Also ...

Sally June Kirk Adkins

Sally June Kirk Adkins, 84, a resident of the Woodlands Retirement Community in Huntington, passed away on Feb. 28, 2026, at St. Mary’s Hospital—the same hospital where she was born on Sept. 1, 1941, to the late Reva Ann Hamilton Kirk and Harry Lee Kirk Jr. She had one older brother, the ...

Emilio Frank ‘Shorty’ Gola

Emilio Frank “Shorty” Gola, 90, of Elkins, West Virginia, passed away peacefully on March 4, 2026, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center. He was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Michele Dominic “Mike” and Maria “Mary” Bolsani Gola. Frank graduated from Victory High ...

Michelle Lee Nicholson-Sisolack

Ms. Michelle Lee Nicholson-Sisolack, 40, a resident of Belington, West Virginia, departed this life late Friday evening March 6, 2026, in the Ruby Memorial Hospital at Morgantown, West Virginia. Death was following a period of declining health. She was born June 25, 1985, at Elkins, West ...

Harold W. ‘Sparky’ Simmons

Mr. Harold W. “Sparky” Simmons, 80, a resident of Elkins, passed away Monday, March 2, 2026. He was born April 17, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a son of the late Harold “Pete” Simmons and the late Marie (Allen) Simmons. Surviving is daughter, Jane (Simmons) Robert and ...