Thursday, June 30, 2016


Jeanie Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949, and her brother, Ted Nagel, Class of 1954, will be celebrating their birthdays in July.

Jeanie, a widow living Fairmont, gave me my first boy/girl kiss, on the goggles atop my aviator cap, in the 1940s. She did better later, marrying the owner of C.V. News in Fairmont.

Jeanie is one smart cookie. The nuns at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Monongah double-promoted her, which is why she is a 1949 MHS grad and I’m a 1950 alumnus.

Ted and wife Faye live in Vinton, Virginia and Micco, Florida. Brother Marty Nagel lives in Peninsula, Ohio.
Their mother was Helen Soyer Nagel, Class of 1925.

Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of 1947, who lives in Thousand Oaks, California, is a Fourth of July baby. Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960, was born 13 years later on July 10. Tom Fleming, Sr. also was in the Class of 1960.

If your name is not on this list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com  with your full name, including maiden name, your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.


 

July


3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971

4 – Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of 1947

5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971

5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957

7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion 2005 grad

10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960

14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954

14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class of 1973

21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class of 1973  

16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949

19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972

 

August


1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979

3 – (Agnes) Jean Larry DiLaura, Class of 1950

5 – Robert Tennant, Class of 1971

6 – Wauneda Evans, Patty DeMary Evans’ mother-in-law

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

17 – Twins Earnest Hayes & Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965

18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960

18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970

19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964

19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah grad

20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of 1966

20 – Connie Warash, Class of 1975

29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950

30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of 1978

30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington grad

 

September


 

1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959

6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico

7 – Mary Louise Orsini, Class of 1948 (honorary)

7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad from Idamay living in Fairmont

8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of 1964 

8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955

13 – Karen Manzo, Class of 1974

14 – Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948

14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954

15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of 1948

17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of 1972

20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970

23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959

24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974

25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of 1948

25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964

26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class of 1948

27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright, Class of 1968

29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of 1959

29 – Pamm Yanero Bragg, Class of 1969

 

October


 

2 – Stanley H. Vance, Class of 1964

7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975

8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class of 1973

9 – Mary Frances Miller Myers, Class of 1951

11 – Felix Colisino, Class of 1947

11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971

12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny Manzo, Class of 1957

20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley, Class of 1953

21 – Dorman Keith Beckner, Class of 1942

21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County High Class of 1976.

26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East graduate living in Carolina

29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956

31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont East graduate who lives in Monongah

31 – Helen McDougal Mudry, Monongah High grad

 


November


1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

4 – Roger Harbert, Class of 1960

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

10 – Anthony Pulice, Jr., Class of 1945

14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of 1955

17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion Class of 1985

20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950               

20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of 1950

22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968

23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982

25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955

27 – Roy Foster, Class of 1945

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

December


2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal, Class of 1964

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

16 – Barbara Sweede, Class of 1956

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

23 – Jim Fullen

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

27 – John Yokay III, son of John Yokay, Class of 1953

January


6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of 1940

13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class of 1951

17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of 1949

18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell, Class of 1951

?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951

18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class of 1954

18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor, husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973

19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957

19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962  

22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary

24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974

24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of 1973

29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968

 

February


1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973

2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad living in Idamay

3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley

3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of 1971

8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living in Bridgeport

9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964

10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of 1960

11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait, Class of 1968

15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975

17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of 1970

18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad

20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960

21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975

24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North Marion

29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class of 1954

 


March


5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963

5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971

6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of 1961

9 – Richie Basagic, Class of 1975 

9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate married to Patty DeMary Evans

11 – Benny C. Morgan, Class of 1948

15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis

15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952

22 – David Haines, Class of 1964

25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959

25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate

28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class of 1952

 


April


 

4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of 1954

5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963

9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North Marion 1983

11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942

12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of 1966

14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958

16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class of 1961  

30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse, Class of 1954

 

May


4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers, Class of 1964

5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950

6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956

12 – Arlene Kitchin, main squeeze of Joe Martin, Class of 1957

14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1955

14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957

14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis, Class of 1957

17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of 1970

20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class of 1955

21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948

27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971

28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972

29 – John Woods, Class of 1957

30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948  

 

June


1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973

3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad from Monongah; married to Angela

5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary

7 – Kenneth Kincaid, Class of 1968

8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944

8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of 1970

13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North Marion Class of 1982

13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968  

14 – Pamela Morrison Bombardiere, Class of 1967

14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class of 1973

14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of 1973

17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of 1979

17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954

20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953

22 – Prudence Deane Tetrick Funk, Class of 1960.

23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949

23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class of 1960

23 – Ron Manzo, Monongah grad

23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion grad
Nellie Amalett passes away

Nellie Amalett, Class of 1946, passed away Wednesday, June 29.

She was born in Kilarm but Everson was listed as her residence when she graduated from Monongah High.

Nellie’s twin, Lucille Amalett Wainio, lives with husband Albert Wainio in Fairmont, moving from Everson. Brother Joe Amalett lives in Worthington.

Another sister, Kathern Amalett Saunders, widow of Ray Saunders, Jr., passed away in 2012 in Everson. Another sister, Mary Ann Amalett, also is deceased.

Their parents were Larry and Phyllis Manuel Amalett.

 

Nellie Amalett
(June 25, 1928 - June 29, 2016)
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Nellie Amalett, 88, of Fairmont passed away Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at the Fairmont Regional Medical Center. She was born June 25, 1928 in Kilarm, WV, daughter of the late Larry and Phyllis (Manuel) Amalett.
 
Nellie was a graduate of Monongah High School and retired from Westinghouse Electric after 42 years of employment. She was a loving and gentile aunt and devoted sister. Nellie was a pen pal to the soldiers during the Vietnam War, which is just one example of her kind-heartedness.
 
She is survived by one brother, Joe Amalett of Worthington, WV; one sister, Lucille Wainio of Fairmont, WV; four nieces, Debera Stottlemire and husband Ronald of Fairmont, WV, Skyrenda Savage of Morgantown, WV, Patricia Carierro and husband Bob of Florida, and Rachel Amalett of Morgantown, WV.
 
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Teresa Amalett, Mary Ann Amalett, and Kathern Saunders; two brothers-in-law, Albert Wainio and Ray Saunders.
 
The family will receive friends at Domico Funeral Home, 414 Gaston Ave. in Fairmont from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday. The service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday July 3, in the funeral home with Pastor David Huckins officiating. Interment will follow at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery Enterprise. Condolences may be sent online to the family at www.domicofh.com .

Wednesday, June 29, 2016


Pete Cameon, Class of 1958, is enjoying his trip to Assisi, Italy. He is from Clarksburg, the most Italian city in West Virginia.

His brother, Bill Cameon, Class of 1960, of Highland, Indiana, is enjoying a taste of Little Italy, in New York City.

They are children of Clyde and Maggie Cameon.
So are Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class of 1948, who lives in East Chicago, Indiana; Linda Cameon Mezzanotte, Class of 1966, of Carolina; and Virginia Cameon Mezzanotte, Class of 1953, of Fairmont.
In 2014 sibling Albert Cameon, Class of 1947, joined Arthur, Joe and Rudy Cameon in Heaven.

And drinking and eating Italian, whether it’s Clarksburg, New York City or Assisi, is heavenly, too.

Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974, and husband Dave Westfall, who tool around the country on their Harley Electra Glide motorcycle, reached the peak of their current trip.

That would be Pike’s Peak, a 19-mile climb to 14,110-foot elevation and 45 degree temperature. Colorado Springs, near the start of the climb, was 88 degrees.
That’s similar to what I experienced on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, which is “only” 6,288 feet, the highest in the Northeast. It was 78 degrees at the bottom but 20 below with 40 mph winds when we got to the summit.

Pike’s Peak was named for climber Zebulon Pike, who never reached the summit.

For Marcia and Dave, gliding to the summit must have seemed tame compared to dodging a tornado last week in Burlington, Colorado, which has had 159 of those terrifying twirlers since 1950.

Certainly more exciting than hanging around their Kilarm home. Marcia is a kindergarten teacher at Monongah Elementary School and Dave is with the West Virginia Division of Highways.

When they step off their big bike, they report back to Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949, who lives in Monongah. That’s Marcia’s mother.

Pike’s Peak is the mother of all mountain climbs.
WVU ‘gotcha!’ to cost VW record $14.7 billion

West Virginia University researchers’ gotcha will cost Volkswagen $14.7 billion to settle a lawsuit over cheating on auto emission testing.

Dan Carder, the Director for the Center for Alternative Fuels, Engines, and Emissions at WVU, said the Environmental Protection Agency and the Air Resources Board “have hinted at things like more in-use testing.”

VW had programmed their autos’ computers to not pollute when they’re stationery, as they were during EPA emissions testing, but to pollute 40 times the allowable poisons once they hit the road.

No one caught it because they also tested the VWs while they weren’t moving. WVU’s wiser guys took them on the road in 2014 and tested them and found the astounding, incriminating, baldfaced cheating.

$10 billion will go to the owners of 487,000 diesel cars, to compensate them for losses in the car’s value. That includes the option of having VW buy back the offending cars. Volkswagen will also pay $2.7 billion for environmental cleanup.

No other automaker has had to paid more than $3.3 billion to settle.

The auto maker could still face criminal charges and civil penalties for violating the Clean Air Act.

VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, VW’s top American manager, Michael Horn, and Audi and Porsche research and development chiefs Ulrich Hackenberg and Wolfgang Hatz all lost their lucrative positions over the cheating.
VW stock plummeted, costing stockholders tons of money.

U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates called it "the most flagrant violations of our consumer and environmental laws in our country's history."

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Jennifer Garner to help parents, others hit by floods

Estranged couple Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are setting aside their differences to help her parents and others face the devastating after effects of the flooding in West Virginia.

“Jen wants her parents in Los Angeles, but they refuse to leave their home, which has been destroyed,” an insider said. Patricia and Bill still live in Charleston, where Garner grew up. “Jen’s parents are in a hotel because at home they have no electricity.”

Garner is enlisting Affleck’s help to do whatever they can to alleviate their suffering and help other West Virginians in the process.

Besides Affleck, 43, the 44-year-old actress is teaming up with her childhood friend, Senator Corey Palumbo, to raise money to aid the stricken region.

Garner has talked about her love for her hometown in the past. She was born in Houston but spent her childhood in Charleston. She graduated from Denison University in Ohio.
Floods damage 25 schools; when they open in doubt

25 West Virginia schools were damaged by the week of flooding, the Charleston Daily Mail Gazette reported.

Clendenin’s Herbert Hoover High and Clendenin Elementary, Elkview’s Bridge Elementary and Elkview Middle School, Summersville Middle, Richwood Middle, Richwood High, Greenbrier West High and Greenbrier’s Rupert Elementary were hit the worst.

Clendenin Library was so immersed with water that the pressure broke out windows and walls.

The Daily Mail Gazette story:

At Herbert Hoover High School near Clendenin, 3 to 5 inches of mud still coated the entire first floor Monday, an unwelcome gift left by 6 feet of flood water that swamped the school and may prevent it from starting classes on time next school year.

About 5 miles down the road, at Bridge Elementary School in Elkview, the flood filled the school with 3 feet of water, destroying classrooms, the kitchen and cafeteria and the computer lab.

And at Elkview Middle School, custodians worked Monday to suck up muddy water from the school’s floors, while piles of donated clothes sat in the parking lot, residents dropping them off and picking them up at their leisure.

Next to the school’s baseball field is a trash pile 30 feet high, a frontloader and a backhoe working to haul away the remnants of ruined homes.

Clendenin Elementary School also suffered about as much damage as Bridge, Kanawha County Schools Superintendent Ron Duerring said.

Alan Engelbert — director of the Kanawha County Public Library system, which is separate from the school system — said his staff thinks the Clendenin library branch is a total loss. He said windows burst from the force of water that rose above the ceiling, and books and DVDs are now lodged up there.

“Most of the ceiling is gone,” Engelbert said. “The floor is a really nasty mixture of books and ceiling tile and 3, 4, 5 inches of mud, so it’s hard to imagine that there’s anything useful that’s left in there.” Engelbert said it’s still too early to talk about whether the system will replace the library.

He said several staff members lost their homes. He said patrons who’ve suffered from the floods shouldn’t worry about returning library books right now, nor should people try to donate books right now because the system isn’t in a position to take them.

The flood that killed 23 people and destroyed thousands of homes across West Virginia affected schools beyond the four along the Elk River in Kanawha.

West Virginia counties have reported to the state Department of Education that 25 public schools were damaged by the flooding or other impacts of the storms that spawned it. Mike Pickens, the department’s executive director of school transportation and facilities, said it’s unclear whether a dozen of those schools will open in time for the start of the upcoming school year, though initial reports don’t suggest any schools will be total losses.

He said Nicholas County probably has the worst situation, with three schools that may be the most damaged in the state. “All are categorized as severe,” Pickens said. “We know we had 3 feet of water in Summersville Middle, we had 4-plus feet in Richwood Middle, and the boiler room in Richwood High School, the kitchen, cafeteria and gymnasium, those core areas that are critical to school operations were also flooded.”

Stephen Kirk, director of facilities and maintenance for Greenbrier County Schools, said the entire lower level of Rupert Elementary was flooded with several inches of water, and the paving of the entrance road to Greenbrier West High School was “entirely stripped off a significant section of that, down to the [gravel] sub base.”

He said more paving was damaged leading up the school’s actual entrance, but there was no damage to the county’s 11 other public schools.

 “The school system really was extremely fortunate that we did not receive more damage,” Kirk said. “But the devastation to the community with the loss of life, is very humbling.”

Pickens said Clay County reported that it’s lost three spare buses along with a significant amount of equipment.

Brette Fraley, Kanawha’s executive director of school transportation, said flooding at the Elkview bus terminal affected 10 buses, but that routes shouldn’t be affected in the upcoming school year. He said he won’t know for a while whether any of the buses were totaled, and the bus vendor visited Monday and will be giving estimates for repair costs.

Pickens said counties also reported harm to schools from hail, and Braxton County had one school with moderate damage and four with minor damage, all due to a power outage that caused a loss of food in coolers and affected security cameras.

Kanawha will be the first school system in the state to start classes, and Pickens said Kanawha school maintenance director Terry Hollandsworth told him that Herbert Hoover won’t be able to open by the Aug. 8 start date for most Kanawha schools.

Hollandsworth told a reporter he couldn’t speak early Monday afternoon because he was in a meeting with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and he didn’t return another call later that afternoon.

Duerring said Herbert Hoover was probably the most harmed Kanawha school and damage still is being assessed. He said Elkview Middle is the least damaged of Kanawha’s schools. “There’s a lot of work that has to be done,” Duerring said. He said just about everything on Hoover’s first floor was destroyed and at least the gym floor needs replacing.

Charles Wilson, Kanawha’s executive director of facilities planning, said the boiler room at Hoover had 10 feet of water. When asked what will happen if Kanawha can’t get any schools ready by Aug. 8, Duerring said it was “too soon to talk about that.”

He said the county will be working on contingency plans for what will happen with students who attend schools that may not open in time, but he declined to discuss what those plans could entail or whether school could simply start late without having to make up days at the end of the school year.

“We’re first developing a plan on the clean up ... once that plan’s in place and we start monitoring what takes place during that clean up, then we’ll make determinations of whether or not we look like we can get school open for the first day of school,” he said. He said he didn’t know whether Kanawha would be eligible for any emergency funding. The state School Building Authority has $4.6 million in emergency funds available to school systems if they meet certain criteria.

At Herbert Hoover, first the mud, which cakes the entire first floor, the stench thick in the parking lot, needs to be cleared out. It has covered both of the school’s gymnasiums, the auditorium, the wood shop, the cafeteria and the kitchen. Then, Principal Mike Kelley said, they would bring in electricians, plumbers and heating, ventilation and air conditioning technicians to make sure it was safe to be in the building, before pulling everything out to “see what’s salvageable.”

Kelley said there was “no consideration” of not re-opening the school, it was just a matter of when they would be able to. He said there would be a contingency plan for the school’s 750 students if it is unable to open in time.

At Bridge Elementary, about a dozen school employees worked Monday to throw away ruined furniture — cafeteria tables, desks, file cabinets. Among the muddy footprints lay an envelope hand-labeled “kindergarten word study cards.”

“We’re not in control of our circumstances, but what we are in control of is getting something done,” Principal Cindy Cummings said. “We’ve got to clear it all out before we can clean anything.”

Jack Lee Suppa, Bernie Fullen and Donna McGinnis went to Monongah High together, with the Class of 1963.

Jack and Bernie, who lived in Carolina, were best friends.

Jack and Donna married in 1965. Bernie and Chloe Anne of Webster Springs were married in 1973.

Jack Lee passed away in June 2011. Chloe Anne passed away in June 2015.

In February, Donna moved from Worthington, 6 miles away, to Shinnston. In June Bernie moved from Massillon, Ohio, 190 miles away, to Shinnston.

On July 30, Bernie will marry his best friend Jack’s widow, Donna McGinnis Suppa.

Bernie provides the details:

“Donna and I were classmates, graduated in 1963, also Jack Suppa (Donna's late husband) graduated with us. Jack and I were best friends in high school.

“I met my wife (Chloe Anne) in Canton, Ohio in 1970. We were married in October 1973. Chloe passed away in June 2015. Jack (Donna's husband) passed away in June 2011. They had been married for 46 years. Chloe and I had been married for 46 years also.

“After Chloe passed away, Donna and I started talking on FB. She has been a big help to me, helping me get thru my tough times. I started coming to WV to see her summer of last year, and we fell in love. We feel like we should not waste time being away from each other, so we decided to get married in July.”

West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources retiree Donna spent her childhood in Worthington, went to Monongah High and Fairmont State and raised her children in Worthington. Bernie also is a Fairmont State grad.

Bernie’s siblings are Arley Hayhurst of Clarksburg, Vicky Fullen of Carolina, Don Fullen of Falls Church, Virginia, Delbert T. “Ted” Fullen of Pennsboro, near Parkersburg, Eva Geraldine “Gerry” Fullen Ross, Class of 1950, of Harbor Beach, Michigan, Carolyn Fullen and the late Ron Fullen. 

Bernie played basketball at Monongah High. He also was in the senior class play, “Lock, Stock and Lipstick.”

Donna was in the Career Girls Club at Monongah High.

Christina Suppa Tucker and Melissa Suppa Knotts photos are on Donna’s Facebook page. Linda McGinnis was a sports captain for MHS intramurals.