Obituary

Emilee Faye Isaacs
(April 30. 1983 - August 1, 2017)

Emilee Faye Isaacs, 34, of Huntington, WV, passed away Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Saturday, August 5, 2017 at the Wallace Funeral Home & Chapel, Barboursville by Rev. Tom Jeffrey. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens. She was born April 30, 1983 in Huntington, WV, a daughter of Michael Dillon of West Hamlin and Jeanette Smith Dillon of Huntington. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Hursel and Violet Dillon and Don and Faye Smith and cousin, Kelsey Kuhn. She was a 2001 graduate of Cabell Midland High School, where she was a member of Marching Knights Band, All-county Band, Tri-State Youth Orchestra, Tri-M Music Honorary, and she was a soloist at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta. She received the Academic Booster Award, The Power of One Award, and the Memberquest 2001 Award. She was a member of the Honor’s Program and Marshall University Alpha Theta. Emilee was the FCCLA Chapter President and WV Vice President of Parliamentary Law of FCCLA. She went before the WV legislature and succeeded to promote the funding for “Stop the Violence” programs in all state secondary schools, and she was a faciliator for the program on the National Program Team. She also graduated from the Blue Lake Music Academy in Blue Lake, MI and from Marshall University where she worked diligently for the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Society. She is also survived by her husband, Gilbert Isaacs; one daughter, Anna Isaacs; one brother, Michael Dillon and his wife, Amanda of Lexington, KY; niece, Kinsleigh and nephew, Christopher; father-in-law, David Isaacs and his wife, Charleen of Hewett, WV and her mother-in-law, Lisa Isaacs and her husband, John Belanger of South Shore, KY. Since the age of nine and for the next 25 years, she fought a courageous battle with juvenile diabetes. Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday at the Wallace Funeral Home, Barboursville.