MARTINSBURG — After the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown vs Board of Education decision was announced in 1954, Gloria Jackson, a majorette in the marching band at the segregated Ramer
The Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation (EWVCF) is accepting scholarship applications now through Feb. 28, 2024. University, college, community college and other higher-education bound students graduating in 2024 from Berkeley,
MARTINSBURG — The Martinsburg High School Class of 1968 celebrated its 55th Reunion on July 21-22. On Friday evening, classmates mingled on the Square downtown during the Main Street Martinsburg’s
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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 Martinsburg.
Employed as a bank teller at Merchants and Farmers Bank in Martinsburg, she retired from the branch in Inwood after a long career. She was a trusted and meticulous treasurer who served in that capacity for the Gerrardstown Presbyterian Church and for the Gerrardstown Presbyterian Cemetery for many years, and for the organizations in which she was a member. In addition to serving as treasurer, she was the first woman elected as a Ruling Elder at the Gerrardstown Presbyterian Churc