Darl Marie Boyles
Darl Marie Boyles, 74, of 261 West 4th Street, Weston, died at 6:53 p.m. Sunday, June 11, 2006, at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.
She was born April 17, 1932, in Lewis County, a daughter of the late Jesse Franklin and Anna Grogg Boyles.
Darl worked at the Weston General Hospital for 18 years as an LPN and later retired from St. Joseph's Hospital in Buckhannon. She was Methodist by faith.
She is survived by two brothers, Matthew R. Boyles of Loveland, OH, and David W. Boyles of Weston; four sisters, Julia Smith and Dorothy Tenney, both of Weston, and Jean Yeager and Emily Sue Boyles, both of Buckhannon; nieces, Kathy Smith, Michelle Billings, Bobbie Tenney, Carol Tenney, Wanda Burton, Tammy Hefner, Beth Yeager, Judy Yeager, Donna Yeager and April Boyles; nephews, Greg Boyles and Dwight Boyles.
Friends were received at the Floyd Funeral Home on Tuesday, June 13. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Floyd Funeral Home with the Rev. Ken Miller officiating. Interment will follow in the Boyles cemetery.
E. Wayne Hage
On Monday, June 5, Wayne Hage passed away in peace, at age 69, at his home at Pine Creek Ranch in Monitor Valley Nevada. He was the husband of two beautiful wives. Jean Nichols Hage, the mother of his five children, preceded him in death in 1996. He is survived by his wife Helen Chenoweth Hage who he married in 1999. The things he cherished most in life were his family and friends. The motivating force in his life was to serve his Lord Jesus Christ.
Wayne won a very public fight for freedom over property. He won a very private fight for eternal freedom June 5th. He a courageous man with a sustaining faith in God and a hope so real to him that he did not flinch, both in life and in death. He won. He went home to be with his Lord in heaven.
Born December 21, 1936, in Elko Nevada, Wayne was the youngest of five children to the parents of Reinert and Grace Hage. His father was a geologist, and his mother a school teacher. At age 15, he left home to buckaroo for a number of large open range outfits in Nevada and southern Idaho, such as the Moffitt and PX, forming a life-long passion for the range livestock industry. He worked with some of the finest cow men in the country, ran mustangs on the Owyhee desert for his uncle, Earl Prunty, broke teams on buck rakes and mowing machines. He lived in a unique time in history with values and freedoms which he always sought to preserve.
After fulfilling his draft requirements in the Air Force‚s Strategic Air Command, he finished his GED and earned a master‚s degree in biological science from the University of Nevada, Reno.
Wayne and his wife Jean, whom he married in 1963, purchased her family ranch in Sierra Valley, California. They lived there fifteen years, where all of their five children born. While in California, Wayne served as chairman of the Agricultural Land Use Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce, and was actively involved in the California Cattlemen‚s Association, and the California Farm Bureau.
In 1978, he fulfilled his life-long dream when he and his wife Jean, purchased an open-range cattle ranch in Monitor Valley Nevada, known as Pine Creek Ranch. Immediately, however, they came under attack from the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, denying them access to their vested water rights and range in an attempt to break them economically to create a National Park and wilderness area of the ranch.
Wayne met these attacks on his lifestyle and property by authoring his book,"Storm Over Rangelands: Private Rights in Federal Lands," which for the first time articulated the privately owned vested water rights, forage rights and rights-of-ways arising on federal lands.
In 1991, the federal government‚s attacks on the Hage‚s property came to a head when the federal government confiscated over 100 head of cattle at gun point. In response, Hage filed a Fifth Amendment of the Constitution "takings" case in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. In a landmark victory, in 2002, the Court ruled in its Final Opinion and Finding of Fact that Hage had title to his vested water rights and the "fee lands" within the boundaries of his range allotments.
Wayne was actively involved in starting several property rights organizations including the National Federal Lands Conference, Stewards of the Range, and the Nevada Live Stock Association. He also served on the executive board of Mountain States Legal Foundation, as a trustee of the University of Nevada Foundation, and Nevada Agricultural Foundation, and acted as a consultant to financial institutions.
Wayne, and his wife Helen, sharing each others passion for property rights and freedom, spent much of their time together speaking to ranching and property rights groups, to share with their fellow ranchers the tremendous property rights victory in Hage v. U.S. Wayne was proud to leave a legacy to his family of a ranch with clear and full title, from boundary to boundary, to which the federal government could no longer impose a grazing permit. Cattle are now running freely on the entire ranch fulfilling Wayne's vision.
Not by choice, the cause of Wayne's life was to defend the property rights of his fellow rancher and property owners. His life's work is perhaps best described by friend, Idaho attorney, John Runft. "Let me also echo those many who knew Wayne to be a truly great man. I treasure the times we spent together discussing not only the legal intricacies of real property law which he pioneered as well as the cutting edge legal proceedings he fearlessly pursued against overbearing government bureaucracies but also the broader ethics and codes of conducting one‚s life. Wayne was Socratic to the core. He knew himself well and therefore had no difficulty encountering with an open mind new ideas and concepts about which he would engage in lively debate. Accordingly, he had no fear of taking action if the circumstances merited action. He lived his life a legacy of thoughtful deliberation and fearless action. He embodied the legend of the West in every respect. He will be sore!
ly missed, but his life is greatly celebrated."
Services began at noon on Saturday, June 10, at noon at Pine Creek Ranch in Monitor Valley, Nevada. He is survived by his wife Helen and children, Ramona Morrison, Ruthe Agee, Margaret Byfield, Laura Perkins and Wayne Hage, as well as his children by marriage: Mike Chenoweth (Diana) and Meg Keenan. He is also survived by his brother David Hage (Nancy) and sisters Faye Tewell (John) and Alice Hage. He will also be remembered fondly by his four son-in-laws and daughter-in-law: Jeff Morrison, Jace Agee, Dan Byfield, David Perkins, and Yelena Hage. His legacy live on in his grandchildren: John and Kristin Morrison; Tyler, Jacob and Katelyn Agee; David, Harrison and Charlton Perkins; McKenzy Byfield; and Bryan Hage.
Elizabeth E. Jones
Elizabeth E. Sherrard Jones, 79, of 249 Lunsford Street, Weston, died at 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 11, 2006, in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital following a brief illness.
She was born in Lewis County on February 10, 1927; daughter of the late Pressley martin Sherrard and Ernestine (Wellen) Sherrard.
On November 12, 1951, she married Richard H. Jones, who preceded her in death.
Mrs. Jones is survived by one son, David Pressley Jones of Weston, one daughter, Barbara E. Jones-Sussman of British Columbia, and one grandchild, Johanna Sussman.
Mrs. Jones was a teacher. She was Past President of the American Association of University Women, member of the West Virginia Association of Former Teachers, and a member of the Lewis County Association of Retired School Employees. She was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church.
Mrs. Jones will be cremated. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, June 15 at 10 a.m. from St. Patrick Catholic Church of Weston with Father George Manjadi as celebrant, assisted by Deacon Daniel Tisantos. Private burial services will be held at the convenience of the family. The family requests, that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to your favorite charity in their loved one's memory.
Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home of Weston is in charge of arrangements for Elizabeth Jones.
Helen Virginia Lewis
Helen Virginia Hornor Lewis died May 27 at Virginia Hospital Center, Arlington, VA.
Born March 26, 1911, to Inman Gay and Florence (Jewell) Horner on Skin Creek, Lewis County.
She grew up on her parent's Sand Fork farm with her two brothers, William and Harold and sister, Mary Katherine.
After graduating from Walkersville High School at 16, she attended Glenville Normal College and taught elementary classes in Lewis County. She then attended and graduated from West Virginia University, Morgantown, and West Virginia Business College, Clarksburg. She taught commercial classes in Jane Lew and Weston high schools until 1942, when she moved to Washington, DC, to work for the war department in the Pentagon.
In 1945, she married John H. Lewis, with whom she raised three children, John W., William H. and Katherine H. Lewis. Her husband died in 1982.
While raising her children, she went back to work as a secretary and administrative assistant to the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and National Academy of Sciences.
After retirement, she enjoyed traveling, reading, sewing and playing duplicate bridge, in which she achieved Life Master status. She was an active and faithful member of Arlington Forest United Methodist Church. She was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Weston.
She is survived by two sons, John W. and wife Anna, William H. and wife Kim and daughter, Katherine; one brother, Harold G. Hornor of FL, sister Mary K. Hall of Weston; four grandchilren, seven great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held Friday, June 2 at Arlington Forest United Methodist Church, Arlington, VA.
Interment will be at Arlington National cemetery at a later date.
Jean C. Paletti
Jean C. Paletti, 84, of Bethesda, Maryland, died Tuesday, May 30, 2006, at the Maplewood Nursing Home under Hospice care.
She was born July 18, 1921, in Washington, DC; a daughter of Alfredo Guaragna and Carmela Barbagallo.
Her brother Frank preceded her in death.
Her husband Arthur Paletti survives her, as well as three daughters, Barbara, Carol and Christina, and one son, Alfred.
Jean Paletti was a school teacher for 32 years, of which she spent 18 years at Weston Central for the fifth grade.
A memorial Mass was held at St. Jane de Chantal Church in Bethesda, MD, on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Interment will be at Arlington National cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad Ind., PO Box 342360, Bethesda, MD 20827-9950.
George Simpson Jr.
George Lemuel Simpson Jr., 81, of 1317 Dunkin Run Road, Roanoke, died at 3:10 a.m. Sunday, June 11, 2006, at his residence after a brief illness.
He was born July 7, 1924, in Lewis County, a son of the late George Lemuel and Catherine Rebecca Montgomery Simpson.
Mr. Simpson was Methodist by faith. He was a WWII Army veteran.
He worked for Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital as a master electrician before retiring in December 1989.
Mr. Simpson is survived by three daughters, Mary Louise Simpson of Roanoke, Joyce Perry and husband Roger of O'Brien, FL, and Joan Riffle and husband Nelson of Walkersville; two grandsons, Adam and Tim Riffle, Walkersville; four granddaughters, Christine and husband David Robinson of Horner, Jean and husband Les Blake of Walkersville, Kellie Cloutier and fiance Anthony Tries of Newfane, NY, and Cara and husband Aaron Hemry of Lockport, NY.
He was preceded in death by one son, Clayton Simpson on September 29, 2005; two grandsons and one great-granddaughter; three sisters, Pearl Clemens, Gladys Fisher and Ina Eagle; two half-sisters, Bessie McKeown and Mary Chittum; one brother, Addison Simpson; one half-brother, Nick Simpson.
George enjoyed hunting, fishing and gardening as his favorite hobbies. He enjoyed his grandchildren and great-grandchildren tremendously.
Friends may call at the Boyle Funeral Home of Weston on Wednesday, June 14 from 5 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Boyle Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Earl Cayton officiating.
Interment will follow with military honors by American Legion Posts #4 and #166, DAV Chapter #51, Weston VFW #1976, Central WV Chapter #697, Military Order Purple Heart will follow in the Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens cemetery.
Keith C. Strader
Keith C. Strader, 68, of 13957 US Highway 19 South, Roanoke, died Wednesday, June 7, 2006, at Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital of Weston.
He was born December 16, 1937 at Kanawha Head; a son of Ruth Siron Strader and the late William Strader.
He is survived by his wife, Alma (Thompson) Strader of Roanoke; his mother, Ruth (Siron) Strader Pritt of Florida; sisters, Elise Wanless and Carol Strader, both of Florida; stepsons, Earnie Wheeler and Craig Wheeler, both of Virginia, and Marty Wheeler of Arizona; 10 step grandchildren; nephews, Craig Wanless of Charleston and Clint Strader of Maryland; one niece, Tracy Strader; and one sister-in-law, Pat Strader Crosby of Maryland.
He was preceded in death by his father, William Strader; brother, Denziel Strader; son, Rodney Lynn Strader; and nephew, Kevin Wanless.
Mr. Strader was an auto mechanic.
He served in the US Army and Reserve for a combination of 6 1/2 years. He was an avid hunter, enjoyed gardening and always looked forward to his sons visiting. At his request, Mr. Strader did not have a funeral service. A community gathering was held Saturday, June 10, starting at 1 p.m. at his home in Roanoke.
Lovie Jane Westfall
Lovie Jane Westfall, 90, of Ireland, died Friday, June 9, 2006, at St. Joseph's Hospital of Buckhannon.
She was born August 7, 1915, in Braxton County, a daughter of the late Ernest and Amelia Ann Spitler Mallett.
She was married to Roy C. Westfall, who preceded her in death.
She is survived by five daughters, Glenna Craig and husband Rick, Coda Sanders and husband Gary, and Carrie Skinner and husband Terry, all of Buckhannon, Goldie Harris of Poland, Ohio, and Rhoda Swartz and husband Fred of New Middleton, Ohio; two sons, Troy Mallett and companion Julia of Arizona, and Roger Westfall of Ireland; six grandchildren and several great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Maxine Douglas of Ohio, and Violet Maul of Clarksburg.
She was preceded in death by three brothers and one sister.
Mrs. Westfall was Methodist by faith. She was a homemaker.
She loved quilting, canning and gardening.
Friends were received at the Alkire Funeral Chapel on Sunday, June 11. Funeral services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at the Alkire Funeral Chapel with Rev. Donald Butcher officiating. Interment followed in the Heaston Ridge cemetery.
Greg Brown
Greg Michael Brown, 40, 401 John Street, Weston, passed away on Sunday, August 20, 2006 at his residence following an extended illness. He was born in Webster Springs January 7, 1966. He was a son of Thomas Edwin Brown, Sr. and Shirley (Wyatt) Brown of Weston.
Mr. Brown is survived by one sister Michelle Evans, and her husband Mark of West Milford, one half-brother James M. Brown and his wife Sharron of the Waldeck community, and two nephews Isaiah and Xavier Evans.
He was preceded in death by his beloved brother Thomas Edwin Brown Jr.
Greg loved music and watching movies.
Friends will be received at the Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home at 730 Main Avenue, Weston on Thursday, August 24, 2006 from 6-8 p.m. Graveside services will be held on Friday at 11:00 a.m. at the Weston Masonic cemetery with Reverend Russell Furr officiating. Interment will follow the services.
Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home of Weston is in charge of arrangements for Greg Michael Brown.
Mildred Bush Dolan
Mildred Bush Dolan, 95, formerly of 716 West Second Street, Weston, departed this life at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, August 18, 2006, at Crestview Nursing Home of Jane Lew after a brief illness.
She was born in Gilmer County on July 10, 1911; daughter of the late Granville J. Bush and Louisa (Bush) Bush.
On August 10, 1934, she married James B. Dolan, who preceded her in death on November 30, 1991.
Mildred is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Larry Brown of Weston. Also surviving are one nephew, Alvin G. Bush of Columbia, Maryland, one niece, Mary Dolan Crist of Charleston and several great nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Dolan was preceded in death by one brother, Alvin G. Bush Sr.
Mrs. Dolan was the last surviving member of her immediate family. She was a member of Saint Patrick Catholic Church of Weston, where she was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America.
She graduated from Glenville State College with an A.B. degree in education. She then got her Masters degree in education from West Virginia University. Mrs. Dolan took special studies in education at Ohio University. She was a former teacher in Harrison, Gilmer and Lewis counties.
Some of her accomplishments included Outstanding Educator in America in 1970. She organized and taught special education classes in Harrison County. Mrs. Dolan was a former teacher and assistant principal of Weston Junior High School. She was a member of Lewis County Association of Retired School Employees, former teachers associations and a life member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Honorary Sorority for Women Teachers. Mrs. Dolan served as a three term Senator in the Silver Hair Legislature in Charleston.
Friends were received at the Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home of Weston on Sunday, August 20 from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. A Rosary was recited on Sunday evening at 7:30 p.m. from the funeral home chapel. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday at 10 a.m. from Saint Patrick Catholic Church of Weston with the Reverend Father Leo Lydon as celebrant. Interment followed in the Weston Masonic cemetery.
