Earl Edward Roth, 88, of Renick, passed away Saturday, November 20, 2021, at Peyton Hospice House in Fairlea.
Born April 17, 1933, at the home of his grandparents, Earl and Maude Spitzer Mosser, near Oakland, Maryland, he was a son of the late Daniel Webster and Virginia Elizabeth Mosser Roth.
Earl graduated from Aurora High School and was an 1961 honor graduate of West Virginia University with a degree in forestry and was honorary fraternity member of both Gamma Sigma Delta and Si Sigma Pi. He served in the United States Air Force as a Staff Sargent during the Korean Conflict.
After owning Greenbrier Lumber Company, he was a self-employed forestry consultant until his retirement. His first job after graduating from college was with Pioneer Lumber Company at Daily, a division of Coastal Lumber Company. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, traveling and making memories with his family as a husband, father, Papaw/Grandpa, uncle and brother.
His past work in the community includes the Greenbrier Valley Airport Author- ity, Greenbrier Valley Soil Conservation District, society of American Foresters, and the WVU and Forestry Alumni Associations. He was a member of Clifton Presbyterian Church and the Renick Volunteer Fire Department. He was one of the founders of the Northern Greenbrier Emergency Service and an Emergency Medical Technician for more than 20 years.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Roth.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Alice Douglas Roth; children, Larry Earl Roth (Lisa), of Horse Shoe Run, Neal Edward Roth (Marsha), of Lewisburg, and Lynne Roth Bostic (David), of Frankford; granddaughters, Ashley Bostic Eisenberg (Nick), of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Caitlin Roth, of Charlottesville, Virginia; Elizabeth Roth Ford (Jay), of Charleston, and Allison Bostic, of Beckley; great- grandchildren, Noah Eisenberg and Poppy Eisenberg; and a sister, Mary Jane Gnegy, of Oakland, Maryland.
His body was donated to the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
A celebration of life will be held in the spring.
Memorial donations may be made to one of the following:
White Sulphur Springs Emergency Medical Service, PO Box 129, White Sulphur Springs, WV 24986;
Tom Clark Scholarship Fund, Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, PO Box 6125, Morgantown, WV 26505;
Red House Lutheran Cemetery, c/o Diane Donham, 835 East High Street, Oakland, MD 21550-1719.
Information submitted by Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg.
