Starcher, William Paul

Passed: 1954-02-12

Age: 69

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Death Notice: 1954-02-12

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Information: William Paul Starcher, son of the late E. E. and Josephine Unrue Starcher, was born April 2, 1884, and departed this life February 12, 1954, aged 69 years, 10 months and 10 days.  He was united in marriage March 1912 to Golda Hill, and to this union were born eight children, two of whom preceded him in death.  Those surviving are:  Mrs. Faye Sayre, Vienna, W. Va., Mrs. Glenva Lewis, Rye, N. H., Mrs. Pauline Hughes, Cottageville, W. Va., Mrs. Helen Liston, Hollywood, Cal, Cpl. Lorene Starcher, Vienna, W. Va. and Louis Starcher, Vienna, W. Va.  He is also survived by one brother, Starling of Huntington, W. Va. and eight grandchildren.      He was educated in the Jackson county schools and attended the Lee Normal school in Ripley.  He maintained an active interest in the public schools, having taught fifteen years in the schools of Jackson county and other counties of the state, as well as being one of the first members of the Jackson county Board of Education.  He was a member of the Cottageville United Brethren church and the Ripley Masonic Lodge.  The greater part of his life was engaged in farming.  The past five years he had been in ill health, and death came suddenly at the Cedar Grove Nursing Home, near Parkersburg.