FRANK  RAMSEY,  100 years of age of Summersville, died Saturday September 14, 2024 at the Bowers Hospice House in Beckley. He was the son of the late W.G. and Ida L. Huffman Ramsey and was born at Mt. Nebo on May 8, 1924. Frank was an NCHS graduate of the class of 1942 and served in the United States Air Force during WWII and honorably discharges as Sgt in 1946. He was a former employee of the Electro Metallurgical plant at Alloy, having worked there for ten years. Frank was a rural mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in Summersville for twenty-six years and enjoyed serving some three hundred families.

He was an active member of the Ruritan National for thirty-two years, being a member of the Muddlety-Glade Creek Ruritan Club and White Sulphur Springs Ruritan Club. Frank was a volunteer member of the RSVP organization in Nicholas County for ten years. He accepted Jesus as his Savior when he was 34 years old and was instrumental in the building of the present Bennett Memorial United Methodist Church at Glade Creek.

Frank was also preceded in death by his first wife Edith Jane Morris Ramsey in 1985 and Elaine Hanna Ramsey in 2014, sons ,Gerald W. and Paul Franklin Ramsey, granddaughter Kristie Ramsey, and siblings Forrest, Warren and Harold Ramsey, Wilma Gorrell, Mary Watson and Ethel Craig.

Surviving:

Daughters

Sandra Kaye Traylor (Joel)                        Franconia, VA

Brenda Karen Illiffe (James)                       Alexandria, VA

Rose Marie Jones (Jim)                              Spotsylvania, VA

Daughter-in-Law

Debbie Brown Ramsey                               Teays Valley

7 Grandchildren

11 Great Grandchildren

Several nieces and nephews

Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God,

an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday September 20th in the Waters Funeral Chapel at Summersville with Pastor John McKee, J.R. Ramsey and Eric Illiffe officiating. Burial with military honors, will follow in the WV Memorial Gardens at Calvin. Friends may call at the funeral chapel one hour prior to the service on Friday.

Condolences: watersfuneralchapel.com