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In Memoriam – 2020

In Memoriam – 2020

It is with sorrow that The West Virginia State Bar recognizes the death of the members of the State Bar since the last Annual Meeting.

Larry G. Berry – Anchorage, AK
Gordon E. Billheimer – Mount Nebo, WV
Robert Lee Bridge (USAF Retired), Reedville, VA
Kevin S. Burger, Pittsburgh, PA
Chad M. Cardinal – South Charleston, WV
Richard Williams “Dick” Cardot – Beverly, WV
Gregory A. Castelli – Pittsburgh, PA
Charles F. Donnelly – Winfield, WV
Charles Stanley “Charley” Dunn – South Charleston, WV and Largo, FL
Thomas G. Freeman II – Charleston and Morgantown, WV
Raymond G. Frere – Morgantown, WV
Linda Gay – Pratt, WV
Robert T. Goldenberg – Parkersburg, WV
Frederick Eugene Gardner – Glen Dale, WV 
James J. Haranzo – Wheeling, WV and Longboat Key, FL  
John B. Hardison – Richmond, VA
Frank Wade Helvey, Jr. – Charleston, WV  
John Reed Homburg – Charleston, WV
Samuel J. Kasley, Jr. – Alderson and Lewisburg, WV
Charles E. King, Jr. – Charleston, WV
Roy D. Law – Buckhannon, WV
Robert R. Leight – Pittsburgh, PA
Scott L. Messmore – Charleston, WV and DeLand, FL
R. C. Gunnar Miller – Huntington, WV and Jacksonville, FL
Philip Douglas “Doug” Mooney – Morgantown, WV 
Robert Clark Morton – Wheeling, WV and Indianapolis, IN
Raymond Gerald Musgrave – Point Pleasant, WV
Richard F. Neely – Charleston, WV
Jonathan E. Porter – Branchland, WV
Timothy R. Ruckman – Leivasy, WV
Edwin C. Runner – Kingwood, WV 
Rodney A. Skeens – Beckley, WV
John W. Smart – Munhall/Pittsburgh, PA
John A. “Jack” Smith – Charleston, WV
William Sherman Steele – Charleston and Williamson, WV
James Myron Sturgeon, Jr. – Charleston, WV and Naples, FL
George F. Surgent – Mahwah, NJ
Herbert George Underwood – Bridgeport, WV
Cecil C. Varney – Lovely, KY
Thomas Hammond Zerbe – Dunbar, WV

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