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Norma Jean ‘Susie’ Knotts Jones

Norma Jean “Susie” Knotts Jones, 74, a resident of the Horseshoe Run Road Community, Parsons, departed this life Monday, Nov. 10, 2025, at WVU Medicine Garrett Regional Medical Center at Oakland, Maryland. 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 p.m. to 6 p.m. Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home on Friday, Nov. 14, 2025, at 11 a.m. Pastor Carolyn Shreve and The Rev. James Snyder will officiate and interment will follow at the Bonnifield Cemetery at St. ...

Delbert Edward Vandevander

Delbert Edward Vandevander, 90, of Whitmer, West Virginia, was called home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Final rites will be conducted from the funeral home on Thursday at 11 a.m. The Rev. Angilee Whetzel will officiate and interment will follow at the North Fork Cemetery at Riverton, West Virginia. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is honored to be in charge of the arrangements for Delbert Edward Vandevander. Condolences may be ...

Delbert Edward Vandevander

Delbert Edward Vandevander, 90, of Whitmer, West Virginia, was called home to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. Delbert was born in Osceola, West Virginia, to the late Edward and Willa (Armentrout) Vandevander. He was the last surviving of nine beloved siblings, ...

Joyce Taylor Crites

Joyce Taylor Crites, 91, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, went home to be with the Lord on Nov. 9, 2025, surrounded by her loving family. Born on April 5, 1934, to James Taylor and Opal Jeffries Taylor in Roanoke, West Virginia, Joyce lived a long and full life marked by deep faith, ...

Raymond Price Swecker

Raymond Price Swecker, 87 of Norton, Virginia, formerly of Lynchburg, Virginia, passed away peacefully at Holston Valley Medical Center following a medical procedure. He was the husband of the late Georgetta Tabitha Wamsley Swecker for 62 years. Raymond was born in Elkins, West Virginia, to the late Arlen Frank Swecker and the late Mary Magdalene Swecker. He is a 1957 graduate of Tygart Valley High School in Mill Creek, West Virginia, after which he served honorably in the United States Army from 1959-1962. He is a member of Friendship Baptist Church in Coeburn, Virginia. Raymond ...

Richard Lee ‘Dick’ Jones

Richard Lee “Dick” Jones, 81, of Mabie passed away on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025, at United Hospital Center in Bridgeport, surrounded by his loving family. He was born Saturday, Dec. 11, 1943, in Somerset, Ohio, a son of the late Raymond Cyril Jones and Orpha Mae Davis Jones. On July ...