Cheryl L. Patrick
Cheryl L. Patrick, 64, of Charleston, WV, passed away on March 27, 2025, at WVU Thomas Memorial Hospital, after a short illness.
Cheryl was born in Wilmington, Delaware and later moved to Kentwood, Michigan, where she attended Kentwood High School. Upon graduation, she moved to Charleston, WV, where she worked for the WV Tax Division and attended Marshall University. She took a job with Daymark, Inc., where she served as an Administrative Assistant for 34 years until her retirement in July 2023.
She loved nature, hiking, and caring for birds, as well as being surrounded by cats. She recently took up fly fishing, traveling with her partner, Dan Hayne, throughout West Virginia and Colorado. She loved a life of wanderlust, adventuring across the US, Central America, Europe, and Asia, but her heart belonged to Scotland. In September of 2023, another piece of her heart was left in Scotland, when she was handfasted with Dan Hayne in the ancient Celtic rights.
She was preceded in death by her father, William Fleisher, IV, and her former spouse, Kim Patrick.
Cheryl is survived by her mother, Betty Watson; brother, William Fleisher, V; partner, Daniel Hayne; son, Ryan Patrick; step daughter, Shannon Hayne Cooper (Dale); step granddaughter, Essie Lynn Cooper; stepson, Eric Hayne (Alexis Rae, daughter, Ella, son, Sebastian); several cousins, nieces, and nephews.
A service to Honor the Life of Cheryl L. Patrick will be held at 3:00 pm, Sunday, April 6, 2025, at 1st Baptist Church, St. Albans, WV, with Rev. Joel Harpold officiating. Friends may visit at the church one hour prior to the service beginning at 2:00 pm.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations be made to Daymark, Inc., 1592 Washington St E, Charleston, WV 25311.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in the care of Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston.
Charles "Charlie" Sturey
Charles Stanley “Charlie” Sturey, 69, passed away on March 25, 2025, in Charleston, West Virginia. Born on November 22, 1955, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, Charlie lived a life marked by dedication to his family, his profession, and his community.
Charlie earned both his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees from West Virginia University; an institution he remained devoted to throughout his life as an avid Mountaineers sports fan. His professional journey was one of steadfast service and leadership. For four decades, Charlie served the State of West Virginia as the deputy director of the coal mining division at the Department of Environmental Protection. In this role, he supervised a large team with integrity and compassion, mentored countless interns entering the field, and played a pivotal role in shaping environmental legislation that protected the natural beauty and resources of West Virginia.
Beyond his professional accomplishments, Charlie was known for his warmth and generosity. He was a devoted husband to Dawn Miller, a loving father to Anthony Sturey, and stepfather to Taylor Giorgio. He also shared close bonds with his wife's family. His beloved cat Polly was never far from his side.
Charlie’s love for family extended deeply into every aspect of his life. He was devoted to Anthony's youth sports teams. He cherished annual vacations to Sunset Beach and Little River, South Carolina, where he enjoyed visiting Dawn’s family and relaxing by the ocean. Charlie found joy in giving gifts and bringing people together—whether around a dinner table or during WVU game days.
Raised in the Russian Orthodox Church tradition, Charlie later regularly attended Trinity Lutheran Church in Charleston. His faith was a quiet but steady presence throughout his life.
Charlie’s kindness left a lasting impression on all who knew him—from colleagues who admired his loyalty and leadership to friends and family who experienced firsthand his caring nature. He was especially devoted during the final years of his mother-in-law Geri’s life, offering her comfort and companionship with unwavering love.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Elizabeth Sturey, and by his parents-in-law, Gale and Geraldine Macklay.
A memorial gathering will be held on Saturday, May 24, 2025, at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, located at 1600 Kanawha Boulevard East in Charleston, West Virginia (25311). The memorial service will begin at 5:00 PM, with a seasonal dinner to follow in the church’s social hall until 8:00 PM.
Charlie’s memory will live on through those who knew him—as a dedicated public servant, a loyal friend, a loving husband and father—and through every act of kindness inspired by his generous spirit.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in care of Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston.
Frances A. Hall
Frances A. Hall, 97, of South Charleston, passed away on March 27, 2025, at Hubbard Hospice House West.
Frances was born in Kayford, WV, on May 20, 1927, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson. She attended Garnett High School in Charleston, WV, and later retired from Thomas Memorial Hospital in South Charleston, with 25 years of service. Frances then worked with the Kanawha Valley Senior Services after retirement. She was a long-time member of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Spring Hill, and was honored as the “Mother of the Church” in her later years. Frances was also a member of the Elks Lodge in Kanawha County, WV, and a member of the Bunker Hill Ladies Club in her neighborhood. She loved to cook, to bake, and to work in her flowers and to take care of her plants.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and step parents, Jack and Cora McElwain; sons, Dennis J. Hall, Donald J. Hall (Petie), and Elbert K. Hall, Jr (Hammy).
Frances is survived by her daughters, Glenda Jane Hall, and Clara Lavern Hall (Johnson); sons, Michael L. Hall and Samuel L. Hall; son-in-law, Tyrone Johnson; eight grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
A service to Honor the Life of Frances will be held at 10:00 am, Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, with Rev. James H. Mosley Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston. Friends may visit at the funeral home from 9:00 am until service time.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in the care of Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston.
Barbara Ann Schramm
Barbara Ann Schramm, 91, of Charleston, WV, passed away on March 15, 2025.
She was born on September 24, 1933 to the late Dr. Robert E. and Evelyn Baer. Along with her parents, preceding her was her sister, Carolyn Haught and brother, Robert E. Baer, Jr.
Barbara was a school librarian at Piedmont Elementary and was a member of the Baptist Temple.
Surviving children, Elizabeth Schramm and Robert “Bart” Schramm (Cathy); grandchildren, Julie Isaacs, Heather LaRouere, and Scott Schramm; six great grandchildren.
A memorial service to Honor the Life of Barbara will be held at 11:00 am, Monday, April 14, 2025 at the Baptist Temple in Charleston, WV. Friends may visit from 10:00 am to 11:00 at the church.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests you give a child a book or donate your money to the local public library.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in the care of Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, WV.
Ralph Steven Galloway Jr.
Ralph Steven Galloway Jr., 70 yrs old, of Charleston, West Virginia, passed away on March 13th, 2025, at Valley Center Nursing Facility in South Charleston, West Virginia.
He was born to Edna Galloway and Ralph Steven Galloway Sr. on March 14th, 1954, and attended Stone Wall Jackson High School up until 11th grade to receive his GED and then joined the U.S. NAVY, from August 24th 1972- August 29th 1974. Ralph then served in the Navy Reserves until April 26th 1978. He lived in Cleveland, OH for 33 years while working for the VA Medical Hospital and also attended Emmanuel Christian Church.
Ralph enjoyed going fishing, dancing, and listening to great music with family and friends. He was an amazing cook, very giving, and a hard worker. One of his favorite songs was “If you don’t know me by now’ by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes; Teddy Pendagrass etc. He was loved by so many loved ones, close family, and friends. We thank him for his excellent Service and wish him a well home going.
He is preceded in death by Ralph Steven Galloway Sr., Vera Galloway (Sister), Kim Galloway (Sister), and Rasuan Smith (Grandson).
He is survived by Edna Galloway (Mother); his 3 children: Khalana Smith, Turan Rush, and Anita Galloway; his 10 Grandchildren: Turan De Angelo Rush, Tyann Rush, Turay Rush, Tariyah Rush, Kamiyah Davidson, Shanija Hayes, Malik Davidson, Rasaun Davidson (passed on), Dominque Smith, and 1 on the way; and 6 Great Grand Children. He is also survived by 4 Siblings: Stephanie Clay (Kenneth), Linda Bridges (Kenneth), Marcia Galloway, and Melanie Walton.
A visitation will be held from 1:00 to 2:00 pm, Friday, March 21, 2025 at Snodgrass Funeral Home in South Charleston, WV 25309. A committal service with entombment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston, WV, with Reverend Duncan officiating.
Memories of Ralph Steven Galloway Jr. may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting obituary. Snodgrass Funeral, South Charleston, is handling the arrangements.
Tina Marie Young Burdette
Tina Marie Young Burdette, 45, of Charleston, WV, passed away on Sunday, March 16, 2025, at home after a long illness.
Tina was preceded in death by her father, Charles Young Sr., and her brother, Charles Young Jr.
She is survived by her mother, Anita Young, of Charleston; companion, Donald Burdette, of Charleston; daughter, Harley Griffith, of West Hamlin; son, Charles “Clay” Griffith, of Lincoln County; step-son, Donald Burdette Jr.; granddaughters, Delilah Griffith and Scarlet Vance; and sisters, Rebecca Draves (Rudy), of Washington, Georgia, and Cathy Jones (William), of Village, Florida.
A Celebration of Life for Tina will be held from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 22, 2025, at the Loundendale Church of the Nazarene, Charleston, WV. Tina’s cremains will be buried at a later date next to her brother at Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens.
Memories of Tina may be shared by visiting http://snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, is handling the arrangements.
Fern B. Hunter
Fern B. Hunter, 90, of Red House, WV passed away on March 11, 2025, at English Meadows in Scott Depot.
Fern was born in 1935 in Clendenin, WV. Her family moved to Hometown where she grew up and graduated from Poca High School. She met and married Luigi Hunter in mid 1950s had two children, James and Jill. In 1961, they moved into their home on Little Guano Creek. She lived there for the majority of the balance of her life. After the death of her husband, Fern began a career in early 1980's at City National Bank that lasted nearly 30 years. She made numerous friends with employees and customers at the Bank. Fern was lifelong member of Wilkinson United Methodist Church in Hometown. Fern loved gardening and working in her yard and could spend hours watching the countless species of birds that lived in Guano Creek. Another daily ritual was reading spiritual literature and devotionals. At the end of her life, she found great comfort in having scripture read to her and listening to Old Hymns. Fern left this world 90 years to day of her arrival. She will be missed.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Johnny and Ava Strickland Blackwell; husband, Lewis (Luigi) Hoyt Hunter; brother, Kenneth Blackwell.
Fern is survived by her son, James Hoyt Hunter; daughter, Jill H. Pullen (Robert); sister, Sharon Morton.
In lieu of flowers the family suggests donation be made to Wilkinson United Methodist Church, 21 4th Ave., S. Hometown, WV 25109.
A graveside service to Honor the Life of Fern will be held at 11:30 am, Wednesday, March 19, 2025 in Sunset Memorial Park, South Charleston with H.R. Whittington officiating. Family and friends may visit from 10:30 am to 11:30 am at Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in care of Snodgrass Funeral Home.
Corene Mundy
Corene Samples Mundy, 99, was born July 9, 1925, and passed away on March 11, 2025. Corene was born at Little Sycamore, Clay County West Virginia. She attended Clay and Clendenin High Schools, graduating from Clendenin in 1943.
After graduation she worked 4 years at AEP in Charleston. Years later Corene was employed at First National Bank of South Charleston from 1966-1975, followed by her employment as the Office Manager with the South Charleston Sanitary Board until 1987. She was a charter member of the First United Methodist Church in South Charleston.
Corene was the daughter of the late Michael D. Samples and Marie Caldwell Samples Carruthers. She was also proceeded in death by her husband, John D. Mundy; sister, Arlene Samples Hayes; daughter-in-law, Karen Santrock Mundy.
She is survived by her children, Ann Marie (Larry) Kennedy of South Charleston, Rebecca Mundy of Huntington, and J. Douglas Mundy of Hurricane; grandchildren, Kara Workman (Ryan) Orwig, Bret A. Kennedy, Matthew E. Kennedy, Jacob M. Workman, J. Michael Mundy and Kaitlyn S. Mundy; five great grandchildren.
A service to Honor the Life of Corene will be held at 1:00 pm, Monday, March 17, 2025 at Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, with Rev. Paul Mateer officiating. Interment will follow in Cunningham Memorial Park's Chapel of Remembrance, St. Albans. Friends may visit one hour prior to the service beginning at 12:00 Noon at the funeral home.
The family would like to extend grateful thanks to Paramount Senior Living and Stacy Hoff for their excellent care and concern for Corene. She appreciated you all.
Online condolences and memories may be shared by visiting www.snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Arrangements are in care of Snodgrass Funeral Home.
Jeanette Gail Fleshman
“I love you every day. And Now I will miss you every day” - Mitch Albom
Jeanette Gail Fleshman - passed away at her home, March 8, 2025, in Richmond Hill, GA, where she moved to in 2011 from Charleston, WV, to be closer to her children and grandchildren.
Born on April 1, 1949, in Huntington, WV, to the late Joseph and Catherine Lawhon. She may have been born on Aprils Fool’s Day, but she was no kind of fool. She knew the importance of family, the value of friendships, loved unconditionally, and gave without expectation.
Strength, dedication, and compassion is what defined her 39 years in health care. Her career began in 1971, as a graduate of St Mary’s Medical Center School of Medical Imaging, with a degree in Radiologic Technology. She started as a Radiologic Technologist, working midnight shifts at Charleston’s General Hospital, and went on to work in the Lithotripsy department, helping to break up kidney stones and simultaneously began taking nursing classes. In 1991, she graduated with honors from the University of Charleston as Registered Nurse and signed on to be part of a beloved team of nurses on 4-South at CAMC Memorial Hospital until she retired in 2010, having earned a unit “Award of Excellence in Professional Nursing,” and the nickname “SARGE”.
If you would have ever asked her what was her greatest accomplishment was or what she was most proud of, her answer would not have been her high academic scores, her degrees, her impressive career … Okay, she may have said the Betty Crocker award she received in High School despite being a terrible cook (she really was) … but, her real answer would have been her family, especially her children and grandchildren.
She was married to Albert “Al” Lyle Fleshman, III for 30 years, he liked his steak well done and his turkey dry, a perfect match. It was complications from diabetes that caused his passing on March 24, 2000 that cut their marriage short. Together they had two children, their son, a retired USAF Veteran, Albert Lyle Fleshman IV in 1970, and their their daughter in 1974, Catherine Nicole “Nikki” Haborak, Marshall University Graduate, currently working as Geologist for the Georgia State Department of Natural Resources. Albert blessed them with their first granddaughter, US Army Pvt. 1st class Brianna Gail Fleshman, on April 18, 1993. Nikki married her husband Kevin on June 5, 2004, and gave her three more grandkids: Nathaniel Albert “Nate” on April 22, 2005, Mason Wesley on June 5, 2007, and Adalyn Isabelle on January 12, 2011 (who she got to see come into this world).
Jeanette would spend her remaining time here doing what she did best, being a source of unconditional love, support, friendship, wisdom, and guidance; being the first person to call when a grandkid was sick or injured; and doing the most important thing of all, spoiling her grandkids and being a Mawmaw!
While we mourn her loss, she will be welcomed in Heavan by those that proceeded before her. These are just a few of the many: her husband, Al; her parents, Joseph and Catherine Lawhon; her sisters, Linda Casto (Late Charles), and JoAnn Bowyer; her brother, Richard (Juanita); her sister-in-law, Francis Gentry (Howard); and her brother-in-law, David Fleshman (Janet). But it was her granddaughter, Brianna, that illness stole away from her on her birthday, April 1, 2014, that was the first one she ran to embrace (sorry Dad)!
Jeanette will be there waiting for those that she left behind: her son, Albert, her daughter, Nikki, her son-law, Kevin, her grandkids, Nate, Mason, and Adalyn, brother, Ronald Lawhon (Linda), brother, Ira “Rick” Lawhon, her brother in-law, Richard “Rick” Lawhon (Renee), her sister in-law, Ruth (Jack) Powers, the many nieces, nephews, and cousins she loved so dearly, along with her many lifelong and dear friends, their children, and even her children's friends that she treated like her own (too many to all mention by name).
Nikki and Al would like to especially thank Linda Retelski, Nora McQuain, Connie Goins, Rick Fleshman, Karen Estep, Dianna Branham, and Jennifer Jarrell for helping them get Mom back home to West Virgina, and for all their advice, support, and guidance setting up her services. Thank you to the CAMC Nurses Honor Guard and to Heidi Edwards for singing to her one last time.
In lieu of flowers, please donate pet food, blankets, or other needed supplies to your local pet shelter or favorite animal charity in her honor. She would have loved that, as strays often found their way to her door.
A Service to Honor the Life of Jeanette will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 14, 2025, at Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston. Burial will be in Graceland Memorial Park, South Charleston. Family and friends may visit 1 hour prior to the service.
Memories of Jeanette may be shared by http://snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, is handling the arrangements.
Dana Lee Surbaugh
Dana Lee Surbaugh, 72, of Gauley Bridge, WV, passed away on March 7, 2025, at CAMC General Hospital.
Dana was born on June 7, 1952, in Charleston, WV. He served his country in the United States Navy, and throughout his life served as an LPN Nurse, Paramedic, Police Officer, and a Chief of Police. When the town of Gauley Bridge, WV, became incorporated, Dana served as their first police officer, and later became the Chief of Police.
Dana was preceded in death by his daughter, Nickie Lee Surbaugh; mother, Betty Jean Surbaugh; and father, Gordon Lee Surbaugh.
Dana is survived by his wife, Joyce Surbaugh; daughter, Dawn Rene Surbaugh Camble; son, Jeremy Lee Byrd; grandchildren, Jeffrey James Smith II, Kylee Suzanne Smith, and Justin Lee Johnson; great grandsons, Raiden Lee Morris and Augustus Ray Johnson; sister, Alice Hunt; and niece, Kortni Hunt.
At Dana’s request, there will be no services at this time. The family would like to thank the nursing staff and doctors at CAMC General Hospital, 3 South.
Memories of Dana may be shared by visiting http://snodgrassfuneral.com and selecting the obituary. Snodgrass Funeral Home, South Charleston, is handling the arrangements.