Sight problems for Nancy Riley Basnett

Nancy Riley Basnett, Class of 1960, went in for cataract surgery, as 300,000 Americans do every year with no problems, but in her case she has little or no sight now in her right eye and the remaining cataract on left eye.



Her daughter, Kerri Basnett, a Shinnston Lincoln High grad, reports:

“My mother asked me to relay that a few days ago she went in for cataract surgery. Unfortunately, complications were encountered and she has little to no sight in her right eye and the remaining cataract on her left eye.

“She is following up with a specialist in hopes that some sight can be restored with a second surgery. She said she will not be able to contact friends via FB for at least 6 weeks and wanted all to know. Thank you.”

Fairmont State grad Kerri, who lives on Swisher Hill in her grandparents’ former home, has had her own health problems.

Heart blockages put her in Uniontown, Pennsylvania hospital and Fairmont hospitals. The daughter of Nancy Riley Basnett and Tom Basnett, both Class of 1960, was in WVU’s Ruby Memorial Hospital with a heart attack in 2015.

Kerri, an RN private duty nurse, had a triple bypass and a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted almost a decade ago.

There were a lot of Basnetts roaming the halls of Monongah High from 1932 through 1975.

Taking them in chronological order:

Roy Basnett, Class of 1932.
Doris Menear Basnett, Class of 1938.
Raymond Basnett, Class of 1947.
Dennis Basnett, Class of 1962.
Carlton B. Basnett, Class of 1965.
Beverly Basnett Zaleski, Class of 1965.
Jack Basnett, Class of 1969.
Debbie Rutherford Basnett, Class of 1975.
Michael Basnett, Class of 1975.

Barbara Basnett Cain started with the Class of 1956 before she left Monongah High and Worthington during her sophomore year and moved from Ohio – Olmsted Falls and Brook Park as a Continental Can packer -- back to Monongah in 1970 after marrying Matthew R. Cain.

They have a son, Matthew. Barbara was married to Ralph J. Ayers from 1954 to 1968. 

Her father was Paul Basnett, who drove both a school bus and a mine bus.