Frances H. "Francie" Kahle, 51, of Huntington, wife of
Dr. E. Bowie Kahle, professor of biological sciences at
Marshall, died Sunday, Jan. 9, at her home.
Mrs. Kahle, who received an undergraduate degree from
Concord College and graduate degrees from West Virginia
University, was a retired West Virginia University professor
of extension, serving as youth and 4-H agent in Monongalia
and Cabell counties from 1970 to 1984.
She was a member and deacon of First Presbyterian
Church in Huntington, a docent of the Huntington Museum
of Art, a member of the Marshall University Faculty Wives,
PEO and the West Virginia 4-H Foundation.
She was preceded in death by her father, John Clownie
Hight, and recently by a brother, Walter Hight, and her
mother, Katherine Redmond Hight, all of Athens, W. Va.
She is survived by her husband; one son and daughter-
in-law, John and Bridget Kahle of Columbus, Ohio; two sis-
ters, Dr. Mary Etta Hight of Huntington and Libby Angelici
of Ames, Iowa; two brothers, Richard Hight of Bluefield
and Charles Hight of Athens, W. V