- Date Of Birth: September 8, 1919
- Date Of Death: January 30, 2017
- State: West Virginia
Verna Elbon, 97, of Spelter, passed peacefully from this life during the early morning hours of Monday, January 30, 2017 with family by her side.
Verna was born on September 8, 1919 in Huttonsville; a daughter of the late Woodford Harmon and Verna Sybil (Brake) Tacy.
Verna is survived by two daughters, Joyce Neeley and Susie Randolph and husband Stephen; four sons, Fred Elbon and friend Linda Skidmore; Phillip Elbon and wife Shirley; Stephen Elbon and wife Joyce; and Dennis Elbon and wife Debby. She is also survived by ten grandchildren, Mark Elbon (Donna); Greg Elbon (Debbie); Tacy Goldsmith (Jimmy); Flip Elbon (Barbie); Ashlyn Minnick (Nick); Virginia McMillen (Jeremy); Carol Wakely (Kevin); Stephanie Misiak (Kevin); Bill Rice (Chrissy); Tacy Fessenden (Patrick); one sister, Lena Alexander; special friends, Dale Henderson and Peggy Smith; 21 great-grandchildren and 4 great great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Dennis Elbon, II., and Heather Randolph; two brothers, Harry and Pete Tacy; and two sisters, Louise Lowther and Priscilla Kelley.
Verna worked in retail sales and management for many years for various retail stores. She raised six children by herself because of divorce. She taught her children respect for others, respect for rules, and respect for those in their lives. When any of her children were sick or in the hospital, she sat with them days and nights while she still worked a full-time job. She loved gardening and snapping green beans while visiting on the front porch of her parents’ farm house. She loved canning vegetables. She canned over 200 quarts of green beans and tomatoes into her 80’s. She shared them with all of her kids and kept them well-supplied. Her green beans cooked with bacon grease, a little garlic and lots of onion were the best.
If it needed done, she would do it. She wasn’t afraid of a challenge and her hard work kept her active in her retirement years living at her parents’ farm. She loved it there. Two weeks before she died, she said she needed to help her son clean out his garage. If she were physically able she would have done it. That was just who she was.
She loved her kids. She loved her grandchildren and helped raise three of them.
All of her children will never forget the laughter she brought into their lives and the sacrifice she made for so many.
Cemetery Details Tacy Family Cemetery Rt. 1 Box 37
Huttonsville, WV,
