DORSEY A. CLAYTON, 75, OF NEW MARTINSVILLE, WV DIED FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2012 AT OHIO VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER IN WHEELING, FOLLOWING AN EXTENDED ILLNESS. DORSEY WAS BORN AUGUST 12,1936 IN MORGANTOWN, A SON OF THE LATE REV. FRED RUSSELL AND MARY MARGARET (KIRK) CLAYTON. HE WAS A RETIRED EMPLOYEE OF ORMET CORP IN HANNIBAL. WHILE THERE HE HAD SERVED AS UNION PRESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS. HE WAS A 1953 GRADUATE OF KASSON HIGH SCHOOL AND A GRADUATE OF BRIDGEWATER COLLEGE, BRIDGEWATER, VA. HE WAS A FORMER EMPLOYEE OF BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD AND ACME CONSTRUCTION CO. HE ENJOYED PLAYING BASKETBALL AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE SHILOH CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN AT KASSON, WV. IN ADDITION TO HIS PARENTS HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY A SON, TIMOTHY LEE CLAYTON (1998). S URVIVING ARE HIS WIFE OF FIFTY-sIX YEARS, ROSALEA SHAFFER CLAYTON AND SON DAVID ALLEN CLAYTON BOTH OF NEW MARTINSVILLE, BROTHER, DANIEL LEE CLAYTON AND HIS WIFE, BECKY OF VALLEY FURNACE AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. FRIENDS WILL BE RECEIVED FROM 2 UNTIL 6 P.M., SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012 AT THE JARVIS-wILLIAMS FUNERAL HOMES, 1224 S. BRIDGE ST., NEW MARTINSVILLE. DORSEY WILL THEN BE TAKEN TO THE STEMPLE & FORMAN FUNERAL HOME IN PHILIPPI, WV WHERE FRIENDS WILL BE RECEIVED FROM 4 TO 8 P.M., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13. HE WILL LIE IN STATE FROM NOON UNTIL TIME OF SERVICE AT 1 P.M., ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2012 AT THE SHILOH CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL FOLLOW IN THE SHILOH CEMETERY. MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE IN THE FORM OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO A CHARITY OF CHOICE. EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY MAY BE MADE AT WWW.JARVISFUNERALHOMES.COM OR WWW.STEMPLEFORMAN.COM.
