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Velva Marie Lusk

September 8, 1910 — January 28, 2014

Velva Marie McVey Lusk, “Granny Jay”, went home to be with the Lord on January 28, 2014. She was 103 years old and the last surviving member of her family.
She was born September 8, 1910 at McVey, near Sullivan, WV. Her parents were Andrew Jackson McVey and Willie Terry McVey. Mrs. Lusk was a lifelong resident of Pemberton, WV. She was a homemaker, loved to grow flowers, a member of the Wednesday Morning Mothers Bowling League. She liked to travel and spend time with her children and grandchildren. She was a Christian and a member of the Old Pemberton Community Church which now sits at New River Park. She was preceded in death by her husband Curtis “Broad” Lusk; daughter and son-in-law, Dorla and Lee Whittaker of Beckley, WV; sister, Thelma McVey of Pemberton, WV; brothers, Paul McVey, Remus and wife Vicie McVey, Richard McVey all of Pemberton, WV, Dempsey and wife Margaret McVey of Sunnymead, CA and Harold “Tag” and wife Betty of Mantua, OH and one great-great grandson, Robert Milam of Crab Orchard, WV.
Those left to cherish her memory are sons Alvin “Bud” and wife Pat of Bedford, OH, Jack and wife Judy Lusk of Coal City Rd. with whom she made her home; daughter, Sandy and husband Larry Trump of Beckley, WV; grandchildren, Pam and husband Gary Nichols, Cool Ridge, WV, Loma and Mickey Cooper, Crab Orchard, WV, Dr. Jeff and wife Tammy Trump, S. Charleston, WV, Michael and wife Nele Lusk, Nashville, TN, Deana Montisano, Cincinnati, OH, Dennis Berry and companion Diane Avery, Macedonia, OH; great grandchildren, Sterling “Dusty” and wife Kim Lewis, Shady Spring, WV, Courtney and husband Wayne Marshall, Lake Norman, NC, Hunter Trump, S. Charleston, WV, Danille and husband Mike Mcleod, Cincinnati, OH, Nikki and husband Charles Moone, Sarasota, FL, Kurt Berry, Fair View Park, OH and Christ and wife Katie Cooper of Beckley, WV; great-great grandchildren, Sterling “”Cade” Lewis, Shady Spring, WV, Aliva Hatfield, Shady Spring, WV, Tessa Mcleod, Cincinnati, OH and Carter Cooper, Beckley, WV; sister-in-law, Dorothy McVey, Pemberton, WV and many nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be 1:00 p.m. Saturday, February 1, 2014 at Calfee Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Friends may visit with the family 2 hours prior to the service Saturday.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the McVey Cemetery Fund, C/O Drema Rhodes, 124 Quincy Dr., Beckley, WV 25801
Online condolences may be left at www.calfeefh.com.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
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