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Obituary
EUGENE LEE WELLMAN,
85, of Huntington, W.Va., reunited with his beloved wife of 64 years, Betty,
in Heaven after passing away Sunday, January 20th, 2013, at St. Mary's
Medical Center. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday,
January 23rd, at First Baptist Church in Ceredo by the Rev. Cleo Watson.
Burial will follow in White Chapel Memorial Gardens. Gene is survived by his
daughter, Linda (Gene) Smith of Huntington; two sons, David Wellman of
Huntington and Chuck (Lori) Wellman of Milton; two sisters, Phyllis Pierce
of Huntington and Delores Nichols of Bristol, Connecticut; and one brother,
Joe Freeman of Franklin Furnace, Ohio.; three granddaughters, Kacey (Ben)
Johnson of Wayne, and Jordan Hancock and Kara Hancock of Milton; three
grandsons, Nick Wellman and Drew Wellman of Ceredo, and Dylan Wellman of
Milton; one great-granddaughter, Emma Grace Wellman of Ceredo; and two
great-grandsons, Lincoln Johnson and Maximus Johnson of Wayne. Gene was born
November 19th, 1927, and raised in the Big Hurricane area before moving to
Huntington as a teenager. He loved writing songs, a hobby he maintained from
his teenage years to his final days on this earth. He was a kind man who
loved his family and his church, and was rarely seen without a smile on his
face. On the dreariest of days Gene could often be heard singing, "It's such
a pretty world today, look at the sunshine." He wrote more than 1,000 songs
over the decades, including "The Little White Church," "Holy Life
Insurance," "Fried Potatoes," "Please Throw Away the Glass," and "Big Blue
Eyes," to name a few. He was so proud of those tunes, and his family was so
proud of him for writing them. Gene was a devout Christian, faithfully
serving at Tucker Memorial Baptist Church in Huntington and at First Baptist
Church in Ceredo of which he was a member when he passed away. He worked
many years and many long hours delivering bread throughout the region for
Heiner's Bakery. Visitation will be from 11 a.m. to service time on
Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Ceredo. Reger Funeral Home is in charge
of arrangements.
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