Grundy mourns loss of a wonderful leader
Grundy Virginia mourns mayor Willard Owens a 63 year old pastor and driving force behind the Coalfields Expressway project whose fatal pickup crash in Summersville ends his second term. Town officials describe him as a tireless public servant dedicated to roads church and community and note funeral plans for Riverview Elementary School with Masonic rites and entombment at Greenhill Memory Gardens Claypool Hill.
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Riverview Elementary
Greenhill Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Diana Hagg
Willard
Harmon
Death investigation details infant death and heating issues
The report notes Coffman and her mother Nora Jean Phillips awaiting gas service restoration while Coffman was alone grieving in a home lacking gas heat. She woke at 6 am after discovering her newborn was unresponsive, and Trudy Wardensky performed CPR before the baby died at Charleston Area Medical Center from complications.
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Charleston Area Medical Center
Heat delivery delays leave child in state custody in West Virginia
The Register-Herald details a case where a nearly three year old is in state custody with relatives as the mother relied on three electric heaters for warmth. DHHR had promised heat would be supplied since pregnancy, a worker said heat would be on before the baby came home, but the home remained without heat for about a year. Gas was later reported as being delivered, yet unsafe wiring, a red-tagged furnace, and burst water pipes compounded the dangerous conditions. The delay coincided with a $1,100 arrearage to Allegheny Power for heating bills. A CPS case involves the two year old, while the mother and others assert improvements are being made.
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