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| | James Eugene Bailey | Visitation:
Thursday, December 26, 2002
5:00 PM until 9:00 PM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
Elkins, WV 26241
Service:
Friday, December 27, 2002
11:00 AM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
Elkins, WV 26241
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| | | JAMES EUGENE BAILEY, age 86 years, a resident of 1524 South Davis Avenue, Elkins, West Virginia and since October, a resident of Nella’s Nursing Home at Crystal Springs, departed this life early Tuesday morning, December 24, 2002, at the nursing home. He had been in declining health since June.
He was born Saturday, April 1, 1916, at Weston, West Virginia, a son of the late James Harvey Bailey and Georgie Bland Summerfield Bailey. On May 20, 1939, at Monterey, Virginia, he was married to the former Evangeline Collett, who preceded him in death, May 2, 2001. They had celebrated sixty-one years of marriage. Surviving are one daughter, Elizabeth B. “Liz” White, Elkins, one brother, Robert Blaine Bailey, Elkins and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Clay and Junior Bailey and one infant sister, Evelyn Bailey.
He attended the schools of Weston, West Virginia, was a veteran of World War II, serving as a Master Sergeant with the United States Air Force from 1943 to 1945, at Berma and India. He was the Manager of the Columbia Gas Company at Parsons, retiring in 1955. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church at Parsons, West Virginia.
Friends will be received at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home from 5 to 9 PM, Thursday. Final Rites will be conducted at the funeral home chapel, Friday at 11 AM. The Reverend Donald L. Lockhart will officiate and interment will follow at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman, West Virginia, where the H. W. Daniel’s Post # 29, American Legion will present the American Flag. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for JAMES EUGENE BAILEY. www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com
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