Dec 28, 2020
Michael Thomas Duymich, 84, of St. Clairsville, Ohio, passed peacefully on December 21, 2020 in the presence of the Lord and loving family at Liza’s Place, Wheeling, WV.
Born May 9, 1936 in Wheeling, WV to Yugoslavian immigrant parents, Stella (Belant) and Thomas Duymich, Tom was the youngest of a family of eight boys. Tom and his brothers earned their work ethic by growing up on a farm required for family’s sustenance.
Entering life at the cusp of WWII, by 5 years-old all Tom’s brothers, save the three youngest, were serving in the war. Tom told stories that in addition to school, his daily chores included fetching water from the pump house (hundreds of yards downhill), churning butter to accompany his mother’s daily fresh-baked bread, feeding livestock, and keeping the smokehouse fires lit. Once Tom and his brother, in a timesaving measure, decided it more efficient to use a pile of hog hair to feed the smokehouse fire instead of chopping wood. This ingenuit