Charlie and Jane Meredith started it all, by having seven children.

So 56 members of the Meredith Family sprawled over Blackwater Falls State Park July 19^th  for the family reunion. 

Don & Pat Meredith Wills

That’s also the annual site of the Barr family reunion, which includes Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of 1940, who lives in Ashland, Ohio, and sister Suzanna Barr Loss, who lives in Mill Fall.

The only surviving Charlie/Jane children were there: Bill Meredith, whose birth name is Charles William Meredith, Class of 1957, and Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950, with husband Don Wills, a former Fairmont West athlete.

Jack Meredith, Class of 1943, Howard Joe Meredith, Class of 1945, Bonnie Meredith, Marion Jean Meredith Riddle, Class of 1945, and Marjorie Delores Meredith Holt, Class of 1947, are deceased.

Bill is married to Clarksburg Washington Irving graduate and school historian/alumni wrangler for reunions Roleta Meredith. Bill is a WVU engineering graduate and former Monongah High multi-sport athlete. 

Meredith Brothers is a Columbus business that arranges materials for bridge and road-building construction and a lot of other things. Bill and Roleta also have a home on Buckeye Lake, near Columbus.

The day before the Meredith reunion, Bill got together with his former WVU fraternity brothers. A day before Bill’s frat gathering, Roleta took her pre-cooked gluten-free pasta and combined it with sauce from Minard’s in Clarksburg, her old hometown, which she frequented often during her Clarksburg years.

Roleta is a flower child -- Lily of the Valley version -- her mother’s favorite flower.

Bill also is involved in another reunion, the third annual Monongah High Alumni Reunion/Sarasota in his Sarasota home at noon Friday, Feb. 6, 2015.

If you will be near Sarasota Feb. 6, 2015, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and let him know you are coming and if you’ll be bringing a guest so Roleta will know how many to provide food for. 

Or you can email Bill at BillMere@aol.com or phone him at (941) 342-0030. 

His address is

Bill Meredith

3201 Charles Macdonald Dr

Sarasota, FL 34240-8714

If you can't make it to Sarasota Feb. 6, but are close enough to visit Paula and me in The Villages, Florida while we're renting on Rainbow Drive for three months (January-March, 2015), email me or, if it's January, February or March, call me at (330) 388-4466 and we'll arrange a mini-Monongah High reunion.

If you have memories of the Meredith family, email me at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com and I’ll put the information on this Monongah High Alumni blog.