Jones treats the ‘whole’ patient at WVU/JGH
Barbara Layton
Reporter
WVU Medicine/Jackson General Hospital features a wide array of medically talented professionals at its new Jackson Premier Health clinic located at 146 Pinnell Street in Ripley. One of those multi-talented professionals is Doctor Richard Jones.
After graduating from the West Virginia University/Glenville State College nursing program, Jones entered the healthcare profession in 1996 with a hope to serve others as a Registered Nurse.
While working in a hospital and seeing patients with different types of spinal related injuries, generally resulting in surgery, Jones said he realized he wanted to help people before they required surgery.
5 things to know about Freddie Kitchens
Here are five things to know about tight ends coach Freddie Kitchens, who will be calling the plays on offense for the Giants this Sunday after offensive coordinator Jason Garrett tested positive for COVID-19.
1. Kitchens spent the previous two seasons with the Cleveland Browns, who he initially joined as running backs coach/associate head coach on Jan. 24, 2018. He was promoted to offensive coordinator for the final eight games of the 2018 season and was the team s head coach in 2019. Under Kitchens, the Browns beat all three of their AFC North rivals (Baltimore, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh) in the same season for the first time since the division came into existence in 2002.
WEESE
Mr. Arnold Floyd Weese, 88, a resident of Belington and a life-long resident of Barbour County, departed this life late Wednesday evening, Dec. 16, 2020, at his home. Death was following a period of declining health.
He was born May 2, 1932, at the Mount Liberty Community in Barbour County, a son of the late Harold Custer and Ethel Blanche Booth Weese.
On March 27, 1954, he was united in marriage to the former Patricia June Coontz, his wife of 66 years, who survives.
In addition to his wife, he is survived by two sons, Dr. Lamarr Weese of Belington and Shon Weese and wife, Jill, of Belington; three daughters, Cheryl Kelley and husband, Kevin, of Belington, Lisa Weese and fiancee, Chris Phillips, of Belington and Traci Furby and husband, Gerald, of Belington. Additional survivors include 16 grandchildren, Cameron Kelley, Lacey Kelley, Skylar Kelley, Madison Kelley Kazelyn Bennett and husband, Chad, Sable Hall and husband, KC, Colton Weese, Morgan Lake and husband, Cody, Ga
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More than 30 members of the combined American-Austrian family gathered for a reunion in Pickens, W.Va., in August 2019.
If you live in Appalachia, or for that matter, if you’ve ever lived in Appalachia, you are a part of our family. It defines us. This week on
Inside Appalachia we’ll hear about family found in unexpected places like a West Virginia family who got a letter from a sister in Austria they didn’t even know they had.
And a young man in North Carolina was inspired to learn old-time music when he saw a jaw-dropping performance by a fiddle player named Fred McBride. Turns out they’re related.