Dave and Stacia DeMoss

DeMoss baseball dynasty star also hits it out of the park as an attorney

Monongah native and 1989 North Marion grad David DeMoss, who was West Virginia Player of the Year in baseball while at North Marion High School, is a lawyer in Fairmont these days.

David, whose father, pitcher Frank DeMoss, Class of 1955, led Monongah High to its only state baseball title in 1955, began baseball with the Monongah Fringe Little League at the age of 9.

The lefthanded centerfielder advanced to North Marion and WVU baseball teams. After a couple of years in minor league baseball, David switched to Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio.

 

After he passed the bar, when he wasn’t lawyering David coached the Fairmont American Legion team in the 1990s, getting them to a state title and one game from the national tournament.
 

That was when he was Marion County assistant district attorney, and then in his own private law practice.

Two granddaughters of Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, of Monongah also are lawyers. Their report: “He’s very highly thought of” in Marion County legal circles.

David’s mother is Shirley Vandetta DeMoss, Class of 1957.



Frank DeMoss,
MHS star

Frank’s brother and David’s uncle, the late Marty DeMoss, was Class of 1957.

The Fairmont Times wouldn’t let me have access to the article unless I paid to subscribe, but Dennis Basnett, Class of 1962, gave me a link so that I could see it.

But I don’t have a printer in Florida, so you’ll have to click on this link to read the entire article: http://timeswv.cnhi.newsmemory.com/eebrowser/frame/develop.7508.marco/flash/loadPage.php?token=0sLNzM3V39bGs7nG5dbb19nWvdPMz8%252FVmpF3e5Ckkpakl6GEnpKek6aiknayw6qQlZ6YnoWVlJuZo5yYeW%252BapZmUng%253D%253D