CITY AND STATE: Logan, West Virginia
TELL US ABOUT THE NURSE: My niece Mitzi Browning Williams is the only child of Herbert and Hazel Browning of Blair, West Virginia. She kept herself busy each day. She lined up her stuffed animals and taught them everything she learned in school that day.
Spruce Grade was a great school, and Sharples High was next door. There were about 300 students from the seventh grade to the 12th.
Mitzi was always at the top of her class and was a cheerleader in grade and high school.
After graduating from Sharples High, she moved to Logan. She decided to go to Southern Community College in Mud Fork and began studying for her two-year degree in RN nursing.
MERRY JANET FLANNERY WALLEN SMITH The world got a little dimmer, lost a little bit of its laughter and wept in sorrow on February 9, 2021, as we said goodbye to our beloved mother, grandmother, sister and friend Merry Janet “Jan” Flannery Wallen Smith. She was our bright star, and we will forever miss the warmth that she comforted us with every day. We are so blessed to be able to carry the many memories we were fortunate enough to make with her throughout her lifetime. To know her was to love her, and love her we sure did. Merry was born at Sharples, W.Va., to Ernest “Ox” and Edith Flannery. Merry grew up and lived her whole life on Coal Valley Road in Clothier, W.Va. She often and lovingly referred to herself as “one of the alley kids.” She was a proud graduate of Sharples High School. She was retired from the Logan County Board of Education, where she spent the majority of her time as a Teacher’s Aide at East Chapmanville grade school. Merry was preceded in death by
LOGAN â The Logan County Commission presented a proclamation honoring outgoing commissioner Willie Akers during his final regular session Thursday, Dec. 17.
A graduate of the former Mullens High School in Wyoming County, Akers came to Logan County around 1961 after playing for the West Virginia University menâs basketball team from 1957 through 1960. He played alongside basketball legend Jerry West, advancing the team to a No. 1 ranking in the 1958 season.
During his 25 years as a basketball coach at Logan High School, he led the Wildcats boys basketball team to four AAA state championship titles â 1964, 1977, 1978 and 1983. He also had a few state runners-up titles under his belt, including 1963 and 1979.