Ann Eates, widow of Joe Eates, was named Woman of the Year by
the Monongah Christmas Lights Committee.
Christmas Lights Committee president and founder Susan Staron
posted:
“Ann Eates she's very well known in town and a beautiful
women who is a huge supporter to our town. We honored her with a banner of her
and her husband Joe who passed away a while ago (2020). Monongah Mayor Johnboy
Palmer came with a bouquet of roses. It was an unforgettable experience. Just
beautiful.”
In 2010 Ann and Joe were named Monongahfest Citizens of the
Year. Both are Class of 1945.
They were leaders of the Monongah Heroine Committee
which, with a major financial boost from the government of Italy for the
$75,000 project, put up a statue honoring the wives of the 362 miners killed in
the 1907 mines explosions in Monongah.
Ann and Joe, whose home is at the bottom of Bridge Street
hill, are the godparents of John Larry Olesky of Tallmadge, Ohio, the only son
of John Olesky, Jr., Class of 1950, who also lives in Tallmadge.
Ann’s parents were Anthony and Lucy Damico
DeMary. Ann's siblings Jimmy
DeMary, Virginia DeMary Rossi and Anthony “Plumber” DeMary, Jr. are deceased.
Plumber was in the Class of 1950 with me and Joe’s brother, Tony Eates.
Tony Eates lives in Fairmont with wife Lucy Cann Eates.
Other siblings, all deceased, are Nick Eates, Class of 1935; Dominick
Eates, Class of 1946, a former Monongah High football punter who married the
late Mary Larry Eates from Carolina; Mike Eates; Mary Eates; and Angeline
Eates.
Mike, who passed away in 2008, was married to the late
Clarksburg Washington Irving High graduate Jeannie Eates.
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