Lillie Pearl Bright Fox was laid to rest alongside her husband, Bob Fox, Class of 1948, in Fairmont’s Rest Haven Cemetery.

They are on a hillside that overlooks I-79 and downtown Fairmont from White Hall Boulevard (U.S. 250) near Exit 132.

The reunion and burial took place Monday, Nov. 23. Lillie passed away Wednesday, November 18 in the Parkersburg area.

Their children are Robert Fox Jr. of Vienna, Tina Daugherty (Dave) of Vienna, Rita Tracewell (Allen) of Arnold, Md., Ralph Fox of Parkersburg and John Fox of Vienna.

Vienna is near Parkersburg.

Bob’s sisters are Doris Fox Crislip, Loretta Fox McCombs, Lois Fox Simmons, Mary Jane Fox Hickman, all of the Fairmont area, and the late  Shirley Fox Wilson.

 

We remember Bob Fox as this fearsome fullback on the Monongah High football team, running over defenders and surviving rain drainages lines carved into the Traction Park clay.

 

His family remembers him as an amazing loving father and grandfather and husband.

 

RIP, Monongah's Lion King, and your lion queen!