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Monday, February 27, 2017Byrn Funeral Home of Mayfield is in charge of arrangements. Thomas Outland BatesThomas Outland Bates, 74, of Hurricane, West Virginia, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, at Kanawha Hospice Care.He was born April 18, 1942, in El Paso, Texas, to Bill and Alice Bates.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, William Bates and Sam Bates; a special niece, Amanda Blake; and his father-in-law, Junior Blake.Mr. Bates is survived by his wife, Brenda Blake Bates; a daughter, Mary Adams and husband Michael; a son, Douglas Bates and wife Laurel; three grandchildren, Niki Lewis, Monica Bates and Valerie Hoff and husband Michael; three great-grandchildren, Victoria Bates, John Hoff and Wyatt Hoff; his mother-in-law, Ester Blake; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Harvey Blake, Jimmy and Marsha Blake, and Stanley and Penny Blake; and a special niece, Leslie Roberts and husband Adam.The funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, at Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel in Bourboursville, West Virginia, with Trent Eastman officiating. Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, at the funeral home.Online condolences may be left at www.timeformemory.com/wallace.Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel in Bourboursville, West Virginia, is in charge of arrangements. Jeffrey Boyd ShanklinJeffrey Boyd Shanklin, 55, of Hazel, Kentucky, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at Tri Star Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, following an extended illness.He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He also...
Monday, January 16, 2017Ewings have worked with each other in one form or another for decades. Mike’s parents, Roger and Rickee Ewing, started working in the funeral service when they purchased funeral homes in Britt and Kanawha in 1977. Then, when they purchased the Fulton funeral home in Belmond in 1993, the Rob Dugger was hired as an additional funeral director. The Clarion and Dows funeral homes were purchased in 2001. When Roger (mostly)retired in 2005, Rob Dugger took over the service.Then, Mike and his wife Brianne returned and started working in the family service. They took over the funeral homes in Britt, Kanawha, and Clarion in 2001, while Dugger continued to own and operate the Belmond and Dows funeral homes. Recently, the Dugger family decided to move, and now the Belmond and Dows funeral homes will go back into the Ewing service. “He had the opportunity to sell to us, and it was a natural fit,” Ewing said.For more about the Ewing's work and community involvement, see the January 12 edition of the Monitor.
Monday, November 21, 2016CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) - A lawsuit filed Friday in Kanawha County, West Virginia, targets the Bartlett-Burdett-Cox Funeral Home.The lawsuit alleges the funeral home mixed up two bodies in January 2016, leading to a host of emotional trouble for daughter Peggy Bowles and the Yost family."The mistake just kept happening," Bowles said, "It was no single mistake."Bowles said her mother's dying wish was to have a closed casket funeral and that was far from what happened."When her life was over, I thought, OK, now I pass her on and they will take care of her for her last little journey. That didn't happen," Bowles said.The lawsuit claimed B-B-C Funeral Home mixed Yost's body up with another woman Margaret Fraser.It said Yost was displayed, open casket, to Fraser's friends and family at a viewing, and then buried in Fraser's grave later that same day."Just the thought that she was buried in someone else's grave, that she had someone else's clothes on, I didn't anticipate it," Bowles said.Bowles' attorney Russell Williams said in addition to d...
Monday, November 21, 2016Margaret Bowles, the daughter of Madeline Hope Yost, filed the lawsuit last Friday in Kanawha County Circuit Court against Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home. The business, which closed at the end of May and was located at 513 Tennessee Ave., on Charleston’s West Side, was owned by Service Corporation International. SCI and the cemetery, Cunningham Memorial Park in St. Albans, also are named as defendants in the lawsuit.Bowles alleges the negligence of funeral home and cemetery employees caused her family emotional distress, after her mother’s death, earlier this year.Last year, Bowles entered into a pre-need funeral contract with the funeral home on behalf of her mother. Yost was adamant about having a closed-casket funeral because of her experience watching autopsies while a nursing student, according to the lawsuit. She didn’t want her dead body being the last memory her friends and family had of her.After a battle with dementia, Yost died on Jan. 15, according to the lawsuit.Funeral home director, W. Keith Garren, assured Bowles that her mother would have the closed-casket funeral she wanted, the lawsuit states. Yost’s funeral was scheduled for Jan. 21. She was to be buried the next day beside her husband, who was a veteran, at the West Virginia National Cemetery.“However, due to the egregious ac...
Monday, July 11, 2016State road officials have estimated the flooding caused about $36 million in damages to roadways in 18 counties.UPDATE 7/1/16 @ 5:35 p.m.KANAWHA COUNTY, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office has identified the six people killed during last week's massive flooding in Kanawha County.They say those six people are: Billy Sanders, Melissa Hess, Joni Adams, Sandra Boswell, Okey William Moffatt and Natasha LaMaster.Their ages and hometowns are currently unavailable, but the Sheriff's Office said they could be released soon.As soon as we know, we'll keep you updated on WSAZ Mobile and WSAZ.com.UPDATE 7/1/16 @ 2:34 p.m.KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The Division of National Resources says three are still missing from the West Virginia flooding.Two are from White Sulphur Springs and one is from Renick.Captain W.W. Brogan III with DNR says they are still searching every day. The water is clearing up which should help.Captain Brogan says the weather and low visibility in the water makes it challenging.The death toll stands at 23.The West Virginia DHHR has released a list of the 20 people who have died, along with their ages, and cause of death.12 of the confirmed deaths happened in Greenbrier County, six in Kanawha, one in Jackson and one in Ohio.18 of the 20 victims are believed to have drowned in the flooding.One died from a car accident and another died from complications from injuries she received.Some of the victims names have been released by law enforcement.The following is a list of those victims:Emanual Williams, 8, died from asphyxiation in Ohio CountyBill Sanders, 62, died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyA 15 to 24 year-old woman who died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyMelissa Hess, 47, died in a car accident in Kanawha CountyEdward McMillion, 4, died from asphyxiation in Jackson CountyAn 85+ year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyAn 85+ year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 75 to 84 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 45 to 64 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 65 to 74 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyJoni Adams, died from ...
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Monday, February 27, 2017Byrn Funeral Home of Mayfield is in charge of arrangements. Thomas Outland BatesThomas Outland Bates, 74, of Hurricane, West Virginia, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, at Kanawha Hospice Care.He was born April 18, 1942, in El Paso, Texas, to Bill and Alice Bates.In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, William Bates and Sam Bates; a special niece, Amanda Blake; and his father-in-law, Junior Blake.Mr. Bates is survived by his wife, Brenda Blake Bates; a daughter, Mary Adams and husband Michael; a son, Douglas Bates and wife Laurel; three grandchildren, Niki Lewis, Monica Bates and Valerie Hoff and husband Michael; three great-grandchildren, Victoria Bates, John Hoff and Wyatt Hoff; his mother-in-law, Ester Blake; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Harvey Blake, Jimmy and Marsha Blake, and Stanley and Penny Blake; and a special niece, Leslie Roberts and husband Adam.The funeral service will be at 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, at Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel in Bourboursville, West Virginia, with Trent Eastman officiating. Visitation will be from 2 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25, 2017, at the funeral home.Online condolences may be left at www.timeformemory.com/wallace.Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel in Bourboursville, West Virginia, is in charge of arrangements. Jeffrey Boyd ShanklinJeffrey Boyd Shanklin, 55, of Hazel, Kentucky, died Monday, Jan. 23, 2017, at Tri Star Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, following an extended illness.He was born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He also...
Monday, January 16, 2017Ewings have worked with each other in one form or another for decades. Mike’s parents, Roger and Rickee Ewing, started working in the funeral service when they purchased funeral homes in Britt and Kanawha in 1977. Then, when they purchased the Fulton funeral home in Belmond in 1993, the Rob Dugger was hired as an additional funeral director. The Clarion and Dows funeral homes were purchased in 2001. When Roger (mostly)retired in 2005, Rob Dugger took over the service.Then, Mike and his wife Brianne returned and started working in the family service. They took over the funeral homes in Britt, Kanawha, and Clarion in 2001, while Dugger continued to own and operate the Belmond and Dows funeral homes. Recently, the Dugger family decided to move, and now the Belmond and Dows funeral homes will go back into the Ewing service. “He had the opportunity to sell to us, and it was a natural fit,” Ewing said.For more about the Ewing's work and community involvement, see the January 12 edition of the Monitor.
Monday, November 21, 2016CHARLESTON, WV (WCHS/WVAH) - A lawsuit filed Friday in Kanawha County, West Virginia, targets the Bartlett-Burdett-Cox Funeral Home.The lawsuit alleges the funeral home mixed up two bodies in January 2016, leading to a host of emotional trouble for daughter Peggy Bowles and the Yost family."The mistake just kept happening," Bowles said, "It was no single mistake."Bowles said her mother's dying wish was to have a closed casket funeral and that was far from what happened."When her life was over, I thought, OK, now I pass her on and they will take care of her for her last little journey. That didn't happen," Bowles said.The lawsuit claimed B-B-C Funeral Home mixed Yost's body up with another woman Margaret Fraser.It said Yost was displayed, open casket, to Fraser's friends and family at a viewing, and then buried in Fraser's grave later that same day."Just the thought that she was buried in someone else's grave, that she had someone else's clothes on, I didn't anticipate it," Bowles said.Bowles' attorney Russell Williams said in addition to d...
Monday, November 21, 2016Margaret Bowles, the daughter of Madeline Hope Yost, filed the lawsuit last Friday in Kanawha County Circuit Court against Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home. The business, which closed at the end of May and was located at 513 Tennessee Ave., on Charleston’s West Side, was owned by Service Corporation International. SCI and the cemetery, Cunningham Memorial Park in St. Albans, also are named as defendants in the lawsuit.Bowles alleges the negligence of funeral home and cemetery employees caused her family emotional distress, after her mother’s death, earlier this year.Last year, Bowles entered into a pre-need funeral contract with the funeral home on behalf of her mother. Yost was adamant about having a closed-casket funeral because of her experience watching autopsies while a nursing student, according to the lawsuit. She didn’t want her dead body being the last memory her friends and family had of her.After a battle with dementia, Yost died on Jan. 15, according to the lawsuit.Funeral home director, W. Keith Garren, assured Bowles that her mother would have the closed-casket funeral she wanted, the lawsuit states. Yost’s funeral was scheduled for Jan. 21. She was to be buried the next day beside her husband, who was a veteran, at the West Virginia National Cemetery.“However, due to the egregious ac...
Monday, July 11, 2016State road officials have estimated the flooding caused about $36 million in damages to roadways in 18 counties.UPDATE 7/1/16 @ 5:35 p.m.KANAWHA COUNTY, W. Va. (WSAZ) -- The Kanawha County Sheriff's Office has identified the six people killed during last week's massive flooding in Kanawha County.They say those six people are: Billy Sanders, Melissa Hess, Joni Adams, Sandra Boswell, Okey William Moffatt and Natasha LaMaster.Their ages and hometowns are currently unavailable, but the Sheriff's Office said they could be released soon.As soon as we know, we'll keep you updated on WSAZ Mobile and WSAZ.com.UPDATE 7/1/16 @ 2:34 p.m.KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The Division of National Resources says three are still missing from the West Virginia flooding.Two are from White Sulphur Springs and one is from Renick.Captain W.W. Brogan III with DNR says they are still searching every day. The water is clearing up which should help.Captain Brogan says the weather and low visibility in the water makes it challenging.The death toll stands at 23.The West Virginia DHHR has released a list of the 20 people who have died, along with their ages, and cause of death.12 of the confirmed deaths happened in Greenbrier County, six in Kanawha, one in Jackson and one in Ohio.18 of the 20 victims are believed to have drowned in the flooding.One died from a car accident and another died from complications from injuries she received.Some of the victims names have been released by law enforcement.The following is a list of those victims:Emanual Williams, 8, died from asphyxiation in Ohio CountyBill Sanders, 62, died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyA 15 to 24 year-old woman who died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyMelissa Hess, 47, died in a car accident in Kanawha CountyEdward McMillion, 4, died from asphyxiation in Jackson CountyAn 85+ year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyAn 85+ year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 75 to 84 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 45 to 64 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Greenbrier CountyA 65 to 74 year-old man died from asphyxiation in Kanawha CountyJoni Adams, died from ...
