Margaret Ellen Sharp Channell, age 75, of Elkins, graduated from this life and earned her angel wings Saturday, March 26, 2016, at Pocahontas Center in Marlinton.
Born Monday, September 28, 1940, at Marlinton, she was a daughter of the late Milburn and Pearl Beverage Sharp.
Margaret attended school in Pocahontas County. She was employed at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cafeteria in Reston, Virginia, from 1973 to 1988. She was a member of the Elkins Church of the Nazarene. She enjoyed reading, bowling, yard sales, flowers, gardening and canning. She was a strong-willed, kind-hearted woman who loved all people, especially her family.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Herbert Channell; three sisters, Eula Moore, Dolly McComb and Jennie Cutlip; and two brothers, Carl Sharp and Johnnie Sharp.
She is survived by two sons, Tony Lee Channell, and wife, Chris, and Herbert Douglas “Herb” Channell; a daughter, Cynthia Louise “Cindy” Manuel, and husband, Greg; four sisters, Edna Webb, Ann Hannah and Nancy Hager, all of Marlinton, and Jane Madron, of Dunmore; three brothers, Ralph Sharp, of Dunmore, Ray Sharp and Claude Sharp, both of Marlinton; eight grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral service March 30 1 p.m. at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home in Elkins with Pastor Philip Thompson officiating. Interment in the American Legion’s Little Arlington Cemetery in Cravensdale.
Online condolences may be made at www.lohrbarbfuneralhome.com