Mildred “Hazel” Stafford Frost, Class of 1960, passed away Wednesday, February 5 in her Morgantown home.

Jim McDaniel, also Class of 1960, who lives in Behobothbeach, Delaware, tipped me off with the belated news.

I guess she went by Hazel because her mother also was named Mildred – Mildred Gaye Stone Stafford. Some of my Monongah friends and me didn’t go by our birth names as children because our father had the same name: I was John Jr. or Junebug because my dad was John W. Olesky, Sr. and Lawrence Godby was Sonny Godby because his dad beat him to the Lawrence and was married to Regina Godby and had a daughter named Jackie Godby.

 

Although Hazel was born in Hutchinson she was one of many Carolina girls who attended Monongah High because that's where she was being reared during her Lions days.

 

1989 North Marion grad Jeffrey Lee Frost, who did his pre-med at Auburn University in Alabama, is her son.

Sandra Sue Ashcraft, Class of 1964, is her sister.

She was predeceased by sister Marion Faye Stafford Pirkheim, Class of 1948.

Hazel's obituary:

Mildred “Hazel” Stafford Frost, 78, of Morgantown, passed away on Wednesday, February 5, 2020, at her residence. She was born in Hutchinson, WV on February 2, 1942, a daughter of the late Charles Arthur Stafford and Mildred Gaye Stone Stafford.

 

Hazel is survived by her son, Jeffrey Lee Frost and his wife Christine; four grandchildren, Andrew Gage Frost, Ella Renee Frost, Max Lee Frost and Mia Elyse Frost; a great-grandchild, Hudson George-Allen Frost; and a sister, Sandra Sue Ashcraft.

 

In addition to her parents, Hazel was preceded in death by four infant siblings; two brothers, Marvin Ernest Stafford and Charles Arthur Stafford, Jr.; and three sisters, Virginia Stafford, Marion Faye Pirkheim, and Genevieve Lee McPherson.

 

Hazel was a 1960 graduate of Monongah High School and worked at Westinghouse and as a telephone operator for Verizon. She attended Christ Church of Morgantown and taught Bible Study at Carolina Methodist Church. Hazel enjoyed reading her Bible and cooking. She would bake cookies at Christmastime for shut-ins in Carolina.

 

The family requests memorial contributions be made in Hazel’s memory to Christ Church of Morgantown, 437 Drummond St., Morgantown, WV 26505. The family will receive friends at Ford Funeral Home, R.C. Jones Chapel, 1410 Country Club Road, Fairmont, WV 26554, on Monday, February 10, 2020, from 10 a.m. until 12 noon. The funeral service will be held in the funeral home on Monday, February 10, 2020, at 12 noon. A committal service will follow at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Moatsville, WV. Online condolences may be made to the family at www.fordfuneralhomes.com .