William R Price
(February 27, 1920 - July 1, 2015)

William R. Price, 95, of Huntington, W.Va., died peacefully on July 1, 2015 at Madison Park in Huntington, W.Va. He was born February 27, 1920 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, the son of the late Harry Ford Price and Gertrude Eaton Price. He was a WWII Veteran, having served in the Army Air Corps. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1946 with B.S. degree in Commerce and was a lifelong member of the Alumni Association and a U.K. Fellow. He retired in 1982 as a manager from the R. H. Donnelly, a subsidiary of Dun and Bradstreet Corp. He was a member of Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church, commissioned as a Kentucky Colonel in 1962, and a life member of the B.P.O. Elks Lodge 313 in Huntington. William was preceded in death by his loving wife for over 50 years, Dorothy Connolly Price. He will be remembered as a man who loved his family and was a good neighbor. He is survived by two sons, W. Ford Price and wife, Carolyn of Huntington and Mark T. Price of Virginia Beach, VA, his daughter Isobel (Middy) Morris and husband, Ben, of Montross, VA, a niece, Margaret Mervis of Dayton, OH, eight grandchildren: Matthew Price and wife, Jessica, Megan Price, Joel Price, Thomas Price, Stephen Price, Michael Price, June Burgess and husband, Rudy and Will Henley and wife, Roxanne, and six great grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at 1:00 P.M., Monday, July 6, 2015 at Klingel-Carpenter Mortuary by Rev. G. Alan Williams. Visitation will be from 11:00 A.M. until service time. Expressions of sympathy can be made to Johnson Memorial United Methodist Church.