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     His Social Security Number was 233-60-1085.¹⁰ Donald Ray Salyers was buried at Fought Cemetery, Wirt Co., West Virginia.⁶ He Donald Ray Salyers, 61, of Newark, died Wednesday, April 5, 2000, at Ohio State University Hospital, Columbus. He was born in Clay County, a son of the late John Oscar and Gladys Burdette Salyers. Mr. Salyers was a roofer in the Parkersburg area for many years. He was a Baptist by faith. Surviving are: his wife of 40 years, Janet Sue Salyers, Newark; two daughters and one son-in-law, Pamela Sue and Danny Little, Newark, and Kathy Lynn Mason, Elizabeth; two grandsons, Bobby Mason and Joey Mason, both of Elizabeth; one granddaughter, Danielle Little, Newark; three brothers; six sisters; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by one son, Robert Lee Salyers; and one sister, Darla Martin. Arrangements by Leavitt Funeral Home.⁵ He was born on January 15, 1939 at Clay Co., West Virginia.^10,2,4,6 He married Janet Sue Haines on April 15, 1960 at Elizabeth, Wirt Co., West Virginia.^2,11 Donald Ray Salyers died on April 5, 2000 at Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio, at age 61.^10,3,5,6

     Robert Lee Salyers was buried at Fought Cemetery, Wirt Co., West Virginia.^2,3,4 He Robert Lee Salyers, eight months old son of Donald R. and Janet Sue Haines Salyers, of Newark, died Wednesday, May 19, at the Coplin Clinic, Elizabeth, following a brief illness. Survivors include the parents; two sisters, Pamela Sue and Kathy Lynn Salyers, both at home; maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. William Haines, Newark, and a step-grandmother, Mrs. Lucille Salyers, Cutler, Ohio. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Newark Baptist Church with the Rev. Karl Finch officiating. Burial was in the Fought Cemetery with the Pomroy Funeral Home in charge.³ He was born on September 24, 1964 at Wood Co., West Virginia.^2,4 He died on May 19, 1965 at Elizabeth, Wirt Co., West Virginia.^2,3,4

     Brown Willard Salyers married Beatrice Sue Lyons.⁵ Brown Willard Salyers was born on March 9, 1943 at Wood Co., West Virginia.^2,6 He married Carol Faye McCumbers on October 28, 1961 at Vienna, Wood Co., West Virginia.² Brown Willard Salyers married Regina A. Daugherty on March 24, 1999 at Guernsey Co., Ohio.⁷ Brown Willard Salyers died on February 22, 2015 at Ohio at age 71.⁶

     His Social Security Number was 232-06-7103.⁴ Michael Wade Burdette Sr. was buried at Shamblin Cemetery, Clendenin, Kanawha Co., West Virginia.^2,5 He married Diana Jean Unknown.⁵ Michael Wade Burdette Sr. was born on February 20, 1961 at Montgomery, Fayette Co., West Virginia.^1,4,2 He died on January 6, 2000 at Clendenin, Kanawha Co., West Virginia, at age 38.^4,2,5 He Michael W. Burdette, the 38-year-old Clendenin man with Lou Gehrig's disease who has been the subject of a Charleston Gazette series since 1995, died Thursday at his home. Burdette's condition had deteriorated since Christmas Eve. He'd caught pneumonia twice, and during the last day of his life he was medicated on morphine, said his wife, Diana. "He finally went to sleep," she said. "He finally got a little bit of peace to him that day." Burdette was a meat cutter at Smith's SuperValu before he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, which is a neurological disease which gradually shuts down the body's systems until the sufferer can't eat or breathe. As Burdette's condition worsened over the years, he and Diana spoke with Gazette reporter Greg Stone about the toll the disease took on their marriage and family life. Diana, who works full-time as a mail carrier, cared for her husband at home. By the time he died, it became impossible to understand him, Diana said. Until the last few words he spoke before he died. "He said my name, and he said it real clear," she said. "He said, 'I'm sorry.'" When his daughter Christie came into his room, she told her father she loved him. "He said, 'I love you, too,' and then he just laid his head back and his eyes just kind of rolled and fluttered, and he was gone," Diana said. Burdette refused to go to the hospital to be kept alive on feeding tubes and machines, she said. "He did exactly what he wanted to do, and he died exactly the way he wanted to die." Burdette was a member of Mount Tabor United Methodist Church, Pinch, and United Food & Commerical Workers Union Local 400. Surviving: wife, Diana Jean Burdette; daughters, Christie Michelle Burdette and Jessica Ann Burdette, both at home; son, Michael Wade Burdette Jr. at home; brothers, Kelly of Pinch, Kevin P. of Spencer, Jeff of Clendenin; sisters, Jill Abbott of Clendenin, Ruth Ann Barnette of Big Chimney. Burial will be in the Shamblin family cemetery, Clendenin. on January 9, 2000.⁵