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| | James Ellis Batdorf | Visitation:
Wednesday, January 29, 2003
4:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
Elkins, WV 26241
Service:
Thursday, January 30, 2003
11:00 AM
Lohr & Barb Funeral Home
120 First Street
Elkins, WV 26241
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| | | JAMES ELLIS BATDORF, age 94 years, a former resident of 1649 Taylor Avenue, Elkins, West Virginia and for the past four years, a resident of Colonial Place and Nellas, Incorporated, departed this life Monday morning, January 27, 2003, at the Davis Memorial Hospital. He had been in declining health.
He was born Wednesday, October 15, 1908, at Keyser, West Virginia, a son of the late John Ellis Batdorf and Beulah Adams Batdorf. During 1935, at Wheeling, West Virginia, he was married to the former Dorothy May “Dot” Jones, who preceded him in death January 5, 1997. Surviving are one daughter, Molly Adams White and husband G. E. “Sonny” White, Webster Springs, one son, John Ellis “Jack” Batdorf and wife Bonnie, Elkins, one grandson, Jeffrey Sechrengost, one granddaughter, Beth Batdorf Corley and husband Keith, two great grandchildren, Benjamin Ellis Sechrengost, Alexa Renee Corley, all of Elkins and one niece Joy Morris, Keyser.
He was preceded in death by one sister, Frances Smith and an infant brother.
Mr. Batdorf was a graduate of Keyser High School and received his business training at Potomac State College and Penn State University. He had worked as the Area Manager of Columbia Gas of West Virginia, retiring on November 1, 1972, with thirty-nine years of service. He was very active in civic work in Elkins. He was a member and Past President of the Elkins Rotary Club and the Elkins Chamber of Commerce. He was a member of the Elkins Lodge # 1135, B.P.O.E. and had served as Commissioner of the Elkins Housing Authority. He also held office in the Randolph County United Way, the Central West Virginia Council of Boy Scouts of America, where he received the Silver Beaver Award, and the Mountaineer Chapter, Izaac Walton League. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church, where he had served as Sunday School Secretary and assistant Chairman of the Administrative Board for several years. He was an avid sportsman, enjoying hunting and fishing during his retirement.
Friends will be received at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home from 4 to 7 PM, Wednesday. Final Rites will be conducted at the funeral home chapel, Thursday at 11 AM. Doctor Ellis E. Conley will officiate and interment will follow at the Maplewood Cemetery. The Lohr & Barb Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements for JAMES ELLIS BATDORF. www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com
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