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Loving wife and mother, Nadine Leas Mortenson Walker passed away

Apr 23, 2021 Wilma Genevieve Pitzer, passed away Friday, April 9, 2021 at the Hospice of the Panhandle Inpatient Facility. Born in Gerrardstown, WV, April 17, 1926, she was the daughter of Howard and Daisy McCormick Pitzer. She lived her entire life on the family property with her parents and aunts who operated McCormick’s Store, which was established by her grandfather, Richard McCormick. Since January 2018, she had remained in her home under the excellent care of Home Helpers Home Care of M...

Barbara L. Koch 1927 - 2021 In Loving and Grateful Memory of a Faithful Wife and Mother Barbara L. Koch began life August 3, 1927, in Portland, the youngest child of Grace Mick and Charles (Ogden) Staley, separating her siblings by 15 years: the eldest sister, Mary, and twins, James and Francis. She married Fred Koch Jr. in 1948, and they were married  for 71 years, until his passing on July 27, 2020. The couple bore two children, son Malcolm, born August 21, 1950, and a daughter, Grace Ann, b...

June 27, 1935 – January 4, 2021 Sunday, January 17, 2021 Leland Keith Wood, Certified Crime Prevention Specialist, age 85, received his angel wings and went home to our Lord on January 4, 2021. His wife Jean and granddaughter Lillian were with him. Leland was born in Mountainair, New Mexico, to Howard P. Wood and Nola Marie Wheeler Wood June 27, 1935, the second of four children. He was raised from the age of twelve by his Uncle Arthur and Aunt Flossie Wheeler near Whitesboro, Texas, with a s...

On Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, Jeff Dillard, loving husband and father of four children, passed away at age 61. Jeff was born Aug. 24, 1959, in Griffin, Georgia, to Floyd and Doris (Newsome) Dillard. He received his degree in Zoology at Duke University in 1981. He started a small engine repair business in Littleton, and then started working at the Halifax County Health Department in the Environmental Health Section. He was credited with 31 years of service to the health department upon his retiremen...