Hazel Elizabeth Macomber Dunham, 93, a former resident of 400 Wilson St., Elkins, and more recently a resident of the Barbour County Good Samaritan Center at Belington, departed this life at 6 a.m. Friday, July 19, 2002, at the Davis Memorial Hospital at Elkins. She had been in declining health and death was attributed to Alzheimer’s Disease.
She was born May 22, 1909, at the Macomber community near Rowlesburg, a daughter of the late Glenn Schofield Macomber and Flora Berlinda Miller Macomber.
On Oct. 8, 1928, at Oakland, Md., she was married to Carl Willis Dunham, who preceded her in death on Dec. 9, 1980.
She is survived by one brother, James Warren Macomber and wife, Betty, Bluefield; one sister-in-law, Monna C. Macomber, Elkins; and several neices and nephews.
She was also preceded in death by three brothers, John Maurice Macomber, Charles Russel Macomber, Glenn Dudley Macomber; and one sister, Audrey Ellan Falconer.
She was a graduate of Elkins High School and West Virginia Business College, had worked as a salesperson, and was a member of the John Hart Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, the Randolph Chapter No. 74, Order of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine of Jerusalem, the Delphia Rebekah Lodge No. 62, and the Daughters of America, where she had served as state councilor and as national deputy in 1955.
She was also a member of the Lady Templars, the Elkins-randolph County Senior Center and the Davis Memorial Presbyterian Church, where she had served as past president and was an honorary life member of the Women of the Church.
Friends will be received at the Lohr & Barb Funeral Home from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home chapel Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Jeff Falter will officiate and interment will follow at the Elkins Memorial Gardens.
