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      ObituaryLeona M. Gerlach left peacefully for her home in Heaven on 
    Saturday, January 12, 2008.  Funeral service will be 
    conducted 1:00 PM Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at Beard Mortuary with Rev. 
    Heron Adkins officiating.  Burial will follow in
    
    Baylous
    Cemetery. 
    Leona was born in
    
    Huntington,
    WV a daughter of the late 
    Charles and Zula Wyatt.  In addition to her parents she 
    was also preceded in death by her husbands, John Cremeans and Kenneth 
    Gerlach and her loving daughter, Joan Wentz Crisel.  She 
    is survived by three daughters, Margaret Nida, Jenny and Richard Brumfield, 
    and Sonda and Henry Cardwell; seven grandchildren, Alan Nida, Byron Taylor, 
    Curtis Wentz, Todd Wentz, Kim Oglesbee, Randy Cardwell and Greg Cardwell; 
    nine great grandchildren, and four great great grandchildren; one sister, 
    Janice Bowen; one brother, Carroll Wyatt; numerous nieces, nephews, and 
    friends.  Leona was a member of the
    
    Church of
    Christ but she 
    regularly attended Bride of Christ Church where she loved to go. 
    She was retired from Stationer’s.  Don’t greive 
    for me for now I’m free I’m following the path God laid for me. 
    We love you Granny and we will miss you. 
     
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