Sam lived his dash being a kind, compassionate man who enjoyed hunting, fishing, music, even wanting at one time to be a high school band teacher. What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash.' 'For it matters not, how much we own, the cars. 'For that dash represents all the time they spent alive on earth and now only those who loved them know what that little line is worth.' 'He noted that first came the date of birth and spoke of the following date with tears, but he said what mattered most of all was the dash between those years.' He referred to the dates on the tombstone from the beginning. 'I read of a man who stood to speak at the funeral of a friend.

He was preceded in death by: his parents, Elmer Samuel and Eloise (Ashby) Sneed his step-father, Bill McCarty his in-laws, Jack & Bette Minich 1 sister, Judy Brown and 1 sister-in-law, Chari Hardwick. Survivors include: his wife, Rebecca Anne 'Becky' (Minich) Sneed 1 daughter, Sarah Anne Sneed 1 son, Samuel Scott Sneed 3 nieces, Syvlia Cox, Beth Harlin, and Mary Banning 1 nephew, John Cox and numerous other relatives and friends. Thirteen were reported at the North Central Regional Jail in Doddridge and one at the Parkersburg Community Corrections.Elmer Samuel 'Sam' Sneed II, age 69 of Pinckneyville, IL, was born January 21, 1953, in Sikeston, MO, and passed away June 4, 2022, at the SSM Health Center in Fenton, MO. Twenty-nine staff and 54 inmates were reported by the Division of Corrections. Two were reported at the Mountain View Care Center in Jackson County, 14 at the Miletree Center in Roane County, one at Stonerise Eagle Point in Wood County and eight at the Willows Center in Wood County. Long-term facilities are updated on Fridays. The state reported 256 staff and 303 residents of long-term care facilities.

Twenty-nine people are in an intensive care unit, 17 unvaccinated, and seven are on ventilators, six unvaccinated. Statewide, 220 people are in a hospital with COVID-19 complications, 112 of those unvaccinated.

Yellow counties in the region are Wood, Wirt, Pleasants, Wetzel and Roane. All other counties are green, the lowest level based on infection rates. Twenty-six counties are at yellow, second lowest level, on the County Alert System Map. The state also reported 1,995 new cases received since the last report.Ĭurrent active cases in local counties on Tuesday (previous report) were: Calhoun 2 (5), Doddridge 3 (1), Gilmer 9 (6), Jackson 20 (26), Pleasants 11 (13), Ritchie 3 (10), Roane 15 (22), Tyler 4 (2), Wetzel 25 (21), Wirt 6 (3), Wood 99 (114). “We’re starting to see hospital numbers go up around the country, particularly where the BA variant has set up shop,” Marsh said.Īctive cases of the virus on Monday were at 2,150 statewide, 147 fewer than from Friday’s pandemic report. The BA5 strain of omicron has become the predominant mutation around the world and in the United States, although West Virginia generally is several weeks behind the rest of the country, Marsh said during the governor’s Tuesday morning pandemic briefing. Clay Marsh, coronavirus adviser to the state. The latest variant of the omicron mutation appears to be resistant to immunities from pevious infections of the virus, according to Dr.

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