It is with sorrow that The West Virginia State Bar recognizes the death of the following Bar members during 2025.
James G. Anderson III – Beckley, WV (DOD: 09/03/2025
Timothy Paul Armstead – Charleston, WV (DOD: 08/26/2025)
Brian Robert Bodager – Mequon, WI and Naples, FL (DOD: 02/15/2025)
Jenny A. Bonham (DOD: 10/04/2025)
Thomas Andrew “Doc” Brown – Charleston, WV (DOD: 06/05/2025)
John G. Byrd – Princeton, WV (DOD: 04/03/2025)
Brent A. Cameon – Morgantown, WV (DOD: 08/11/2025)
Robert Gordon Chafin – Ceredo, WV (DOD: 05/25/2025)
Robert Wayne Compton – Charleston, WV (DOD: 12/15/2025)
John Leslie Cummings – Ona, WV (DOD: 04/22/2025)
Deborah Curry – Princeton, WV (DOD: 05/25/2025)
R. Thomas Czarnik II – Princeton, WV (DOD: 08/16/2025)
Frederick L. Delp – Barboursville, WV (DOD: 01/19/2025)
W. Ronald Denson – Colton, CA (DOD: 09/28/2025)
Joseph Bernardino DiBartolomeo – Weirton, WV (DOD: 01/31/2025)
Katherine L. “Kitty” Dooley – Charleston, WV (DOD: 10/03/2025)
Ernest M. Douglass – Parkersburg, WV (DOD: 07/16/2025)
Francis “Frank” X. Duff III – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 12/02/2025)
Lorraine M. Eckard – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 01/31/2025)
Ronald James Flora – Milton, WV (DOD: 07/12/2025)
Gary W. Frasher – Shady Springs, WV (DOD: 01/07/2025)
James P. Geary – Petersburg, WV (DOD: 03/09/2025)
Earl Henry Hager – Princeton, WV (DOD: 09/15/2025)
F. Richard “Dick” Hall – Vienna, WV & Poinciana, FL (DOD: 11/11/2025)
Jeffry Hughes Hall – Denver, NC & Charleston, WV (DOD: 10/15/2025)
Thomas D. Hall – Pittsburg, PA (DOD: 03/05/2025)
William E. Hamb – Amelia Island, FL (DOD: 09/07/2025)
Marla Z. Harman – Franklin, WV (DOD: 05/25/2025)
John W. Hatcher, Jr. – Fayetteville, WV & Orlando, FL (DOD: 07/11/2025)
Cheryl Lynne Henderson – Raleigh, NC (DOD: 08/10/2025)
Amy Martin Herrenkohl – Huntington, WV (DOD: 07/27/2025)
Mark E. Hobbs – Chapmanville, WV (DOD: 11/01/2025)
David C. Hook – Waynesburg, PA (DOD: 04/28/2025)
Isaac Norris Kantor – Bluefield, WV (DOD: 07/18/2025)
James Keegan – Vero Beach, FL (DOD: 04/10/2025)
Mark Edward Kinley – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 01/02/2025)
Heather Kelley Lafollette – Fairmont, WV (DOD: 02/08/2025)
George Leonard Lemon – Lewisburg, WV (DOD: 10/20/2025)
Lawrence B. Lowry – Huntington, WV (DOD: 02/20/2025)
Neva G. Lusk – Charleston, WV (DOD: 03/13/2025)
Jay Thornton McCamic – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 04/18/2025)
Robert G. McCoid – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 04/15/2025)
Cheryl A. McCray – St. Augustine, FL (DOD: 10/01/2025)
Thomas “Tom” J. McGee – Charleston, WV (DOD: 07/20/2025)
Thomas E. McHugh – Charleston, WV (DOD: 01/14/2025)
Richard Gregory McNeer – Huntington, WV (DOD: 07/07/2025)
Selden Spessard McNeer, Jr. – Huntington, WV (DOD: 10/16/2025)
James D. McQueen, Jr. – Milton, WV (DOD: 12/22/2025)
William Raymond Metzner, Sr. – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 06/03/2025)
James R. Milam II – Summersville, WV (DOD: 07/16/2025)
David Matthew Pancake – Huntington, WV (DOD: 01/24/2025)
Wilbert A. Payne – Beckley, WV (DOD: 03/10/2025)
Edgar Allen Poe, Jr. – Charleston, WV (DOD: 08/27/2025)
Thomas E. Potter – Charleston, WV (DOD: 03/31/2025)
Robert J. Senska III, Morgantown, WV (DOD: 1/23/2025)
Scott Richard Smith – Wheeling, WV (DOD: 05/29/2025)
Charles Woodson Taitt – Parkersburg, WV (DOD: 07/07/2025)
Lew Gary Tyree – Charleston, WV (DOD: 01/27/2025)
Randall L. Veneri – Princeton, WV (DOD: 10/07/2025)
James R. Watson – Richmond, VA (DOD: 02/25/2025)
Robert “Bob” Mark Williams – Charleston, WV (DOD: 01/30/2025)
Roberta Wilson – Pittsburgh, PA (DOD: 06/23/2025)
William Douglas Witten – Logan, WV (DOD: 05/27/2025)
Roger Allen Wolfe – Lewisburg, WV (DOD: 07/22/2025)
Updated: January 27, 2026
