- Date Of Birth: June 25, 1937
- Date Of Death: April 29, 2017
- State: West Virginia
Charles E. “Friday” Zetty
Charles Everett “Friday” Zetty, 79, of Tunnelton died Saturday, April 29, 2017at his home with his family present.
The son of the late Daniel Wellington and Thelma Lucretia Halbritter Zetty, was born June 25, 1937 in Tunnelton.
Friday was a graduate of Tunnelton High School, Class of 1956, one of his first jobs was in Washington, DC with the Department of Commerce and he served as an Army Reservist from 1960-1966. He graduated from the Wheeling Barber College in 1963 and served the communities of Bruceton Mills, Kingwood, Masontown and Terra Alta as their barber and he was a bus driver for the Preston County Board of Education for 24 years. Following in his ancestors’ footsteps, he worked in the following coal mines: Lick Run Coal Company, Martinka, Reliable, Emerald Mines and H & H. Friday was a member of the Kingwood Church of the Nazarene and attended Harvest House Worship Center, was a member of the South Preston Neighborhood Watch, the Preston Rail Trail Committee, the Camp Ground Cemetery Committee, a past member of the Tunnelton Historical Society and the Tunnelton Lions Club. His greatest joy was the spring fishing trip on the Dry Fork River with the “boys”. Friday and Virginia enjoyed spending their children’s inheritance with over 40 family trips.
Friday is survived by his wife, Virginia Rae Williams Zetty, whom he married June 30, 1962; they were blessed with three daughters, Denise Ann Schmidle and husband, Timothy Dwain and their daughter, Katherine Elizabeth; Diann Lynn Zuchowski and husband, Daniel Joseph and their daughters, Raechal Ann and Hannah Lynn; Dena Rae Pauley and husband, Jeffrey Kyle and their children, Bradley Kyle, Sarah Rae and Emma Rose; a sister, Betty Delores Zuchowski of Akron, OH and many nieces and nephews.
He was also preceded in death by two sisters, Norma Virginia Day and Ruby Loraine Mecure and a brother, Daniel Lewis Zetty.
