Westfall, Amos Brady

Passed: 1966-10-09

Age: 77

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Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1966-10-11

Information: Amos Brady Westfall, 77, of Belgrove, Jackson county, died Sunday in Jackson General Hospital, Ripley, following an extended illness.  Born at Gay, Jackson county, a son of Henry and Nancy Eakins Westfall, he was a retired schoolteacher and had taught for 22 years in Jackson, Roane, and Kanawha counties.  Mr. Westfall was a veteran of World War I and member of the Aplin Methodist Church.      Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Edith Westfall; two sons, Herbert Westfall, Sistersville, Glen Westfall, Elyria, O.; two foster sons, Kester Cobb and Clinton Persinger; six daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Cummings and Mrs. Eurada Skeen, Staats Mills, Mrs. Gertha Holcomb and Mrs. Gertrude Hopkins, both of Spencer, Mrs. Evelyn Skeen, North Ridgeville, O., Mrs. Veneda Tolley, Elyria; one brother, Lewis Wesftall, Gay; one sister, Mrs. Nina Kelley, Ripley; 21 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.  Rites will be held today at 2 p.m at the Aplin Methodist Church, Staats Mills, with the Rev. Wilburn H. Lucas, officiating.  Burial will be in the church cemetery with arrangements by the Parsons funeral home, Ripley.