Chapman's Mortuary
Obituaries
(2019)

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  1.    Adkins,  Sandra Kay
  2.    Stevens,  Estle
  3.    Blake,  Richard Lee
  4.    Gothard,  Myrtle Mare
  5.    Young,  Edward Harold
  6.    Maynard,  Thelma Lee
  7.    Pearsall,  Norma Jo
  8.    Reed,  Esta Marie
  9.    Runyon,  Tommy Wayne
  10.  Hayes,  Jean Roberta 
  11.  Harrison,  Billie Rose
  12.  Meyers,  Charles Clinton
  13.  Vititoe,  Karen Sue
  14.  Adkins,  Lewis Darwin
  15.  Flowers,  Michael Shane
  16.  Perry,  Helen Jean
  17.  Ramsey,  Lillian Joann
  18.  Ferguson,  Larry David
  19.  Abbott,  Ernest Walker
  20.  Reffitt,  Norma Lee
  21.  Pelfrey,  Curtis Lee
  22.  Moore,  Douglas Dale
  23.  Griffin,  Michael
  24.  McCoy,  Frederick
  25.  Patrick,  Janice A.
  26.  Carpenter,  Michael Allen
  27.  Morgan,  Jimmie Lee
  28.  Ray,  Robert Ligon

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

Cabell County
Doors to the Past

Obituary



Jimmie Lee Morgan, Sr., was born on June 19, 1935 in the town of Baileysville, Wyoming County, WV to the parents of Virgil Lee and Oma (Short) Morgan and stepmother, Bessie (Wyatt) Morgan, passed away at his home on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 peacefully in his sleep. He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Norma Louise (Wiseman) Morgan; one son, Jimmie Lee Morgan, Jr. of Huntington, WV; one brother, Edward Morgan of Kerrsville, TX; two sisters, Linda Toler of Sun Hill, WV, and Mary Lou Cline of Lewisburg, WV; one granddaughter, Hannah Taylor Morgan of Lancaster, OH; and one brother-in-law, Everett Daniels of Huntington. He was a 1954 graduate of Baileysville High School in Wyoming County, lettering in football, basketball, and baseball. One month after graduation he enlisted in the United States Air Force. He was sent to Sampson AFB in Rochester, NY, for basic training before being stationed at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, OH. Six months later he was sent to Ramstein AFB in Germany where he was trained in Tele-Communications. He spent the next two years there before returning back to the United States and enrolling at Marshall University in January 1958. He graduated in August of 1961 with an AB degree in Secondary Education. His first teaching assignment was a one room school house at Meadowfield Elementary School outside of Milton, WV, where he was responsible for 16 kids in six elementary grades. He moved from Meadowfield to Geneva Kent and then to Lincoln Elementary. After four years he moved on to Lincoln Junior High teaching the next 23 years in Physical Education and Health, and he coached many kids and even coached Cabell County Champions in football, basketball, and bowling. Jimmie was a registered sports official for the West Virginia Secondary Schools Athletic Commission in all sports. He enjoyed being the official timekeeper at the Memorial Field House and Fairfield Stadium having worked 44 years for Marshall sporting events and moved on to the "Highlander Mountaintop" to become the official timekeeper there for football and basketball. After working with Marshall, he retired from timekeeping in 2017. He took up the sport of Bowling in 1970 and continued it until 2008. He was a Junior League coach at Imperial Lanes in Huntington for 10 years, his high series was a 745 and his high game consisted of a spare and the next 11 strikes in a row for a 290 game. He was also the league secretary for the Sportsman League at Imperial Lanes that used all 24 lanes in the establishment for 10 years. After retirement he took up woodworking as a hobby and could be seen selling his creations beside the road throughout the Huntington area mostly during the Christmas holiday season. He stayed busy in his garage woodshop working on his hobby and cleaning up bargain finds that he and his wife would find at neighborhood rummage sales. Jimmie was a member of the Walnut Hills Nazarene Church. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations in his name to the Hospice House of Huntington. The family would also like to give a special thank you to two very special people that helped out during his home stay, Darcy Thomas and Trish Finley of Hospice, without their love and kindness Norma and Jimmie, Jr. would have never made it through. Funeral services will be conducted 7:00 pm Thursday, February 28, 2019 at Chapman's Mortuary with Rev. Fred McCarty and Rev. Danny McSweeny officiating. Friends may visit after 5:00pm until service time Thursday at Chapman's Mortuary. There will be a graveside committal service on Friday, March 1, 2019 at Forest Memorial Park in Milton, and a procession will leave the funeral home at 9:30 am Friday.

 

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