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| | Howard Wesley Ashby | Visitation:
Friday, March 24, 2006
6:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
312 Main Street
Parsons, WV 26287
Service:
Saturday, March 25, 2006
11:00 AM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
312 Main Street
Parsons, WV 26287
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| | | HOWARD WESLEY ASHBY, age 92 years, a well known educator of Tucker County, a resident of Parsons, WV., and more recently a resident of Colonial Place at Elkins, WV., departed this life Tuesday evening, March 21, 2006 at the Colonial Place. He had been in declining health.
He was born Sunday, February 8, 1914 at St. George, WV., a son of the late Daniel Boyd Ashby and Emma White Ashby. On May 5, 1934 at St. George, WV., he was married to the former Delcie Agnes Vance, who survives at the Colonial Place They had celebrated seventy one years of marriage.
Also surviving are one son; Howard Dale Ashby and wife Elnor of Parsons, one daughter; Patty Ann Wotring and husband Ray of Blackman Flats Community, one sister; Mary Ballowe of Winchester, Va., five grandchildren; Kathy, Steve, John, Jeff and Jennifer, nine great grandchildren, nine great great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by one infant son; one brother Paul Ashby and one sister; Grace Snider.
He was a graduate of Parsons High School with the class of 1931. He received his teaching certificate from Glenville State Teacher’s College. He received his Bachelors of Art Degree from Davis & Elkins College during 1950. During 1951, he received his Masters in Education from West Virginia University. He taught school for eighteen years in Tucker County in the one-room schools including Limestone and the Murphy School on Pifer Mountain. He ended his career as a Math teacher from Parsons High School. He was an avid gardener, well known for his produce and blue ribbons at the West Virginia State Fair and the Tucker County Fair. He attended the Parsons Church of God.
The family will receive friends at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home of Parsons on Friday from 6 to 8 PM. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home parlor on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at 11 AM. Pastor Robert Leard will officiate and interment will follow at the Mountain State Memorial Gardens at Gilman. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for HOWARD WESLEY ASHBY.
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