Betty Lou Calhoun

Betty Lou Calhoun, 79, passed from this life on March 23rd, 2011, after many long years of battling cancer. She was the daughter of the late Burlin Junky Gain and the late Bernice Carr Gain of Big Flint, where she was born on October 3, 1931. She graduated from West Union High School in 1951. After raising her children she worked for the Dainty Maid Factory, then she became a traveling secretary for the Doddridge County School Systems including the Big Issac, Summers, Smithburg, Carr and West Union Grade Schools, where she eventually became the permanent secretary at W.U.G.S. in 1969 and retired in 1993. After retirement she became part-owner and Vice President of J & J Flowers.

In 1951 she married Jackson Hayes Calhoun and in 1955 they made their home on Rock Run, where she currently resided. Betty was a member of the West Union Baptist Church. Betty loved her friends and neighbors and will be remembered by many for her sense of humor, but it was in her husband and family that she found her greatest joy. Betty is survived by Jack, her husband of 60 years, daughter Jacqueline Dawn Cox and husband Alan Cox of West Union, WV; son Michael H Calhoun of Sprinfield, Va; granddaughter Melanie Ann Cox of West Union, WV; granddaughter Angela Dawn Hayhurst and husband Tony Hayhurst of West Union, WV; great-grandchildren Brandon Lewis Nicholson and Daron Lee Nicholson; step-great-grandchildren Shasta Dawn Hayhurst and Quentin Dallas Hayhurst; and step great-great-grandson Robert James Victor all of West Union, WV.

Funeral services will be held in the Spurgeon Funeral Home 212 Front St. West Union on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM with Reverend Mark Wood and Reverend Samuel Calhoun presiding. Private interment services will be held at the convenience of the family. The family will receive friends in the funeral home chapel on Friday, March 25, 2011 from 2-4 & 6-8PM and after 9AM on Saturday until time of service. Expressions of sympathy may be extended to the family at www.spurgeonfunerals.com. Spurgeon Funeral Home is privileged to serve the Calhoun family.

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