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| | Walter Ison Arbogast | Visitation:
Sunday, December 30, 2007
6:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
P.O. Box 1027
Elkins, WV 26241
Service:
Monday, December 31, 2007
11:00 AM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
P.O. Box 1027
Elkins, WV 26241
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| | | WALTER ISON “BUD” ARBOGAST, JR., age 62 years, a resident of Tallman Avenue, Elkins, WV departed this life late Wednesday evening, December 26, 2007 at the Davis Memorial Hospital. He had been in failing health for the past several years.
He was born Monday, May 28, 1945 at Mabie, a son of the late Walter Ison Arbogast, Sr. and Ina Lee Arbogast.
Surviving him is one daughter, Angela Raines and husband, Jack, Monterville, two brothers, Robert Thompson, Elkins, and Lloyd Arbogast and wife, Betty, Mooresville, NC, four sisters, Jean McCauley, Hanover, PA, Bertie Durham, Springhope, NC, Mary Twist and husband, Danny, Winn, ME, and Martha Jones and husband, Harlan, Niles, OH, two grandchildren, Shasta and Ricky, one sister-in-law, Lucille Arbogast, Davis, and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death besides his parents was one brother, Harold Arbogast, and two sisters, Edna Thompson and Ethel Mae Lantz.
Bud had attended the schools of Mabie and Coalton, was a veteran with the United States Army having served during Vietnam, had worked in the coal mines, had driven truck, had worked as a janitor for the Memorial General Hospital, had worked in construction and painting, had built gazebos at North Carolina, and had served as maintenance supervisor for a mobile home park at North Carolina. He enjoyed word puzzles, watching television, wrestling, dancing, and was an avid Nascar and Dale Earnhardt fan.
The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Elkins from 6 until 8 PM, Sunday. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home chapel on Monday, December 31, 2007 at 11 AM. The Reverend Kevin E. Hostetler will officiate and interment will follow at the Talbott Cemetery near Belington where full military honors will be accorded by members of the H.W. Daniels Post #29, American Legion and the Tygart Valley Post #3647, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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