E. Cecil Flesher

Everett Cecil Flesher, Jr., age 85, of Bryan, Ohio, died at 1:45 P.M. on Friday, February 24, 2012, in Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center, where he was a patient, after an extended illness. Cecil was a 1945 graduate of Parkersburg (West Virginia) High School and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. Upon returning home, he graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Vocational Agriculture Education and then entered the U.S. Army, serving as a clerk/typist assigned to an artillery headquarters during the Korean Conflict. While continuing his studies toward a Master's Degree in Agronomy, he taught Vo-Ag at Bruceton High School for one year and then at Chuckery-Darby High School for one year before going to work as a soil surveyor with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Service from 1956 until his retirement with over thirty years of service. He then worked for ten years as the maintenance supervisor for Bryan Care and Rehabilitation Center and ended his career as a driver for the Veterans Administration. His memberships included Wesley United Methodist Church, where he was church historian, United Methodist Men, of which he was a past president, the Bryan Lions Club, Bryan Moose Lodge #1064, Bryan American Legion Post #284, the 40 and 8 Club and NARFE (National Association of Retired Federal Employees). Cecil was active in the community, always ready to lend a helping hand as a volunteer at Bryan Hospital, Habitat for Humanity, working with the Boy Scouts, where he was a Cub Scout Master, and was instrumental in starting scouting in Liberty Center, Ohio. Everett Cecil Flesher, Jr. was born on December 2, 1926, in McKendree, West Virginia, the son of Everett Cecil and Grace Darling (Huffman) Flesher, Sr. He married Virginia Sue Darby on June 21, 1953, in Bruceton Mills, West Virginia, and she survives. Also surviving are four children, Rita Sue (James C. Pfleger) Bunting, of West Unity, Ohio, Allen C. (Linda) Flesher, of Bryan, Lora J. F. (Larry Lemis) Cochran, of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, and Nora L. (Scott) Herceg, of North Royalton, Ohio; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; two brothers, G. Max (Geneva) Flesher, of Reedy, West Virginia, and John R. Flesher, of Vienna, West Virginia; two sisters, Glenna (B.P.) Early, of Bluefield, West Virginia, and Mary (Bob) Hess, of Cleveland, Ohio. Preceding him in death was one infant sister, Thelma Jean Flesher. Visitation will be held on Monday, February 27, 2012, from 4:00-8:00 P.M. in the Krill Funeral Home, 860 West Mulberry Street, Bryan. Services will be held on Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 11:00 A.M. in Wesley United Methodist Church, Bryan, with Pastor Dwight Bowers officiating. Interment will follow in Shiffler Cemetery with grave side military rites conducted by the Bryan American Legion Post #284. Memorials are requested to Wesley United Methodist Church - Next Chapter.