Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960, and wife Sandra Kay Miller Kniceley celebrated their 51^st wedding anniversary on Sunday, August 20.

Daughter Dawn Kniceley, a graphics designer, lives in Centreville, Maryland, the county seat of Queen Anne’s County. Her grandmother was Margaret Louise Basnett Kniceley.

So does Harold, a Fairmont State fine arts graduate with a Johns Hopkins master’s degree who taught for decades in Queen Anne’s County High School in Maryland. He is a cancer survivor.

aroHHHarold grew up in Carolina where he played summer baseball under Cassie Ryan, who also was Mannington High’s talented football and baseball coach. Harold lived on 5^th Street, the last house up on the right with big gardens, big yard and a small house.

 

Marsha Jean Kniceley, Class of 1963, who lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina, is Harold's second cousin. Marsha’s mother was Margaret Prevatt Kniceley.

Harold may be related to the late Olive Jane Kniceley Hulderman of Idamay.

Olive Jane’s children were  Sylvia Ann Hulderman Edwards, Class of 1967, married to Ed, who live in Idamay (Sylvia previously was married to Don Fitzwater, Class of 1966); Raymond "Bugs" Hulderman, Class of 1966, who married Lorraine Snider Hulderman, Class of 1966; Thomas Hulderman, Class of 1969, who married Jane Hulderman; and Don Pitman, Class of 1962, who married Jane Pitman.

Tom Hulderman was a Pop Warner player with the Idamay Black Diamonds for the legendary Nick Saban, Sr., father of Alabama football coach Nick “Brother” Saban.

There’s also Bertha Kniceley Davies, Class of 1960.

Monongah High grad Clara “Tunny” Yuhas Kniceley of Carolina married married James “Jimmy” Ray Kniceley, son of Earl and Anna Kniceley of Hyers, West Virginia.