Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960, of Centreville, Maryland, passed away Friday, July 31. He lived in Carolina when he was born and grew up in Worthington, where he first attended school there in seventh grade. 

Fairmont State graduate Harold was a fine arts teacher in Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. Harold and the former Sandra Kay Miller have been married for more than a half-century.

Harold and Sandy met at Fairmont State and became schoolteachers and married.

Their daughters are Jennifer and Dawn. 

Marsha Jean Kniceley, Class of 1963, who lives in Pinehurst, North Carolina, attended the Monongah High Alumni Reunion in 2010 and is Harold's second cousin.

So is Sylvia Hulderman Edwards, Class of 1967, who married Ed Edwards and whose mother was Harold’s first cousin.

 

Bertha Kniceley Davies, Class of 1960, another cousin who lived in College Park, Maryland, is a paralegal.

Another cousin is Barbara Basnett Cain, who would have been in the Class of 1956 if she hadn’t left Monongah High and Worthington during her sophomore year. Barb moved from Ohio back to Monongah in 1970. Her father was Paul Basnett, who drove both a school bus and a mine bus.

The late, great Monongah High athlete, Tom Hulderman, also was Harold’s cousin.

Harold learned to play baseball in the summer from legendary Mannington High football and baseball coach Cassie Ryan.

A few years back he was declared cancer-free from the lymphoma in his right lung.