Len Howell, Lyla Cosner Howell, Rosemary Raymond Pagliaro, Carmen Pagliaro, Bill Davis, Donna Colvert Davis,
Dixie Slimmer Rogers Edmond, Phyllis Shelosky, Tom Shelosky, Bruce Edmond

Lions gather year-round

Monongah High alumni are always having reunions. Graduation day rarely is the end of friendships.

Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958, and Len Howell; Rosemary Raymond Pagliaro, Class of 1958, and Carmen Pagliaro; Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, and Bill Davis, Class of 1958; Tom Shelosky, Class of 1958, and Phyllis Shelosky; and Dixie Slimmer Rogers Edmond, Class of 1958, and Bruce Edmond, Class of 1957, gathered in Elkins for dinner and shopping and good old-fashioned Lions reunion.

Lyla and Len live in Elkins and Fort Myers Beach, Florida, so they must have been the host couple. Lyle sent me the photo, too.

Rosemary and Carmen came from their Fairmont home and Donna and Bill and Tom and Phyllis and Dixie and Bruce from their Monongah homes.

Paula and I regular have MHS reunions with the Howells and the Edmonds in Florida during the winter, when we’re all escaping the Northern winter, in Sarasota and Punta Gorda.

There were 21 Lions at Three Ways Inn in Fairmont two winters ago when I stopped there on my way to the Amtrak auto/train in Lorton, Virginia, for yet another MHS reunion. While waiting for the train to head for Florida, I had a reunion with Pat Urban Utz, Class of 1950, and her husband, John Utz. They live in Springfield, Virginia, not far from the auto/train station.

Lyla and Len, like Paula, have a 2^nd home in Florida. Paula’s is in The Villages, where 119,000 senior citizens make every day playday.

Dixie and Bruce had attended every Monongah High Alumni Reunion in Fairmont from 2006 through 2016. Only the Alumni Board of Directors, which includes Donna and Bill, have a longer attendance streak.

Donna keeps the Monongah High Alumni Reunion humming by handling the dinner-dance reservations, not an easy chore.

Rosemary and the late Bob Raymond’s parents were Mary Dudiak Raymond and Angelo Raymond. Bob’s widow, Susan Russell Raymond, lives in White Hall.  

 

Rosemary and Carmen’s children are Melanie Ann Pagliaro, policy analyst for the Majority Leader in the West Virginia House of Delegates, who lives in Charleston, and C.J. Pagliaro.

Rosemary’s mother’s siblings were Anna Dudiak Koval and the late Sophie Dudiak Shelosky of Monongah, who married George Shelosky, and John Dudiak. Sophie passed away in 2009.

Anna’s children are John Koval, Class of 1956, who lives in Cincinnati, and Larry Koval, Class of 1968, who lives in Columbus, and the late Shirley Koval Dodd, Class of 1953, who passed away in her Idamay home after growing up at the top of Jackson Street in Monongah.

Sophie, who passed away in 2009, was an aunt of Bernie Shelosky, Class of 1965, who passed away in 2013. Bernie’s widow, 1965 Fairmont East High grad Linda Mazza Shelosky, lives on Cottage Street in Monongah.