Tony Eates, Class of 1950, is recovering at
his Fairmont home from bladder surgery.
Tony was in the faceitiously named Gang That
Terrorized Marion County of my childhood that included Donald “Jake” Halpenny,
also Class of 1950 and living in Fairmont; Bob “Satch” Kasper, also Class of
1950 and living in South Lyon, Michigan and on a 400-acre farm owned by his
son, Steve, and other family members (each has a farm and all the farms border
other farms by only family members); the late Lawrence “Sonny” Godby, who
served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a Marine air pilot; the late Joe Manzo,
who served in Korea; Steven “Bucky” Satterfield, a retired West Virginia
Highway Patrol officer who lives in the Charleston area; Duane Harbert, who
lives in New Jersey and had to spend his childhood with the burden of being the
son of a school principal (Frank Harbert, at Thoburn); the late Jim “Judge”
Starcher, Class of 1950; and Ronnie “Cooley” Delovich.
The Eates family included Larry Dan Eates, Class of 1970, known as Daniel Eates during
his Monongah High days whose father was Dominick Eates (passed in 2000), Class
of 1946, and whose mother was Mary Larry Eates from Carolina (passed in 1993);
Dominick’s siblings Nick, Class of 1935, Mike,
Class
of 1948, Mary, who passed away in 1997, Angie, Joe
-- Class of 1945, whose widow is Ann DeMary Eates, also Class of 1945, who
lives on Bridge Street in Monongah; they
are the godparents of my son, John Larry Olesky -- and, of course, Tony; and
Mary Larry’s siblings Connie, Rose, Joe, Tony, Benny and Sammy.
Tony
Eates is married to Lucy Cann Eates. Their children are Michelle and another
Anthony,
who lives in Charleston and works for the West Virginia Supreme Court and is
married to Jennifer, a doctor, who is from Fairmont; Monica, a WVU journalism
graduate like me, living in Pittsburgh and working for PNC Bank; and
Antoinette, an attorney living in Washington, D.C.
If you
want to wish Tony well his wife Lucy Eates has a Facebook page.
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