

  <p>Staats, Oshel C. (Dr.)</p>
  <p>Passed: 1978-04-06</p>
  <p>Age: 86</p>


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  <p>Death Notice: 1978-04-08</p>

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  <p>Information: Funeral services were held Saturday at Vail Funeral Home for Dr. Oshel C. Staats, 86, of Ripley, who died Thursday at Jackson General Hospital.  A native of Jackson County, he was a retired Ripley optometrist, a charter member of the Ripley Rotary Club, a 50-year member and former secretary of the Ripley Masonic Lodge No. 16. Dr. Staats taught five terms of school in the public schools of West Virginia and held a first grade certificate.  He attended Marshall College in 1909-10 and graduated from Marietta Commercial College in Telegraphy.  In 1914, he purchased a jewelry store at Ripley. In 1917, he passed the state board and received a license to practice optometry.  Dr. Staats had the honor of erecting what was believed the first wireless time receiving station in West Virginia.  He is survived by his wife, Ora Casto Staats; a son, John Bob of Indiatlantic, Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. Oreta Mae Pitchford of Vienna, and Mrs. Eileen Vickers of Ahoskie, N. C. and twelve grandchildren.  A son, Dr. Oshel Fredrick Staats, preceded him in death.  The Rev. Robert Wilson officiated at the funeral service with burial at Fairplain Cemetery.</p>


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