Obituary, Parkersburg News/Parkersburg Sentinel (online edition www.newsandsentinel.com), Oct. 17, 2005:

“Genevieve Ward
Genevieve Leah Ward, 89, of White Pine Community, Grantsville, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005.
She was born in Calhoun County, a daughter of the late Francis and Mary Della Grimm Kelley. She was a member of the Cherry Fork United Methodist Church for many years.
She loved the Lord and demonstrated her faith by unconditionally loving her children, grandchildren and many others who came into her life. She possessed the rare quality of caring that is only found in a true child of God. She gave sacrificially to others without regard for her own well-being.
Surviving is a son, Denzil Glenn Ward and his wife, Andeline, of White Pine; two daughters, Barbara J. Basnett and her husband, Fred, of Ravenswood and Donna J. Rupert and her husband, Richard, of White Pine; one brother, Donald B. Kelley and his wife, Willa Lea, of Grantsville; two sisters, Laura Geraldine Kelley of Grantsville and Frances Jean Miller and her husband, Odus, of Bull River. She had nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Ursel B. Ward; one daughter, Janet Lee Ward Kelley; a son, Ursel Bruce Ward; two brothers, Virgil and Blenden Kelley; and two sisters, Gladys Whipkey and Carolina Barr.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Stump Funeral Home in Grantsville, with the Rev. Alfred Hickman officiating. Interment will be in the Cherry Fork-Kight Cemetery. Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.”