Arlie Warner, 89, a resident of Job, departed this life Friday, April 26, 2002, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Riverton.
He was born Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1912, at Cherry Grove, Pendleton County, a son of the late Charlie Noah Warner and Mary Wimer Warner.
He was married in Michigan, to the former Vera White, who survives.
Also surviving are one son, Roland Warner and wife, Diane, Job; two daughters, Sandra Cooper and husband, Wilmoth, Job, and and Pauline Sponaugle, Harrisonburg, Va.; four brothers, Ray Warner and wife, Nola, Riverton, Charlie Warner and wife, Betty, Cherry Grove, Merl Warner, Seneca Rocks, and Paul Warner and wife, Pauline, Cleveland, Ohio; three sisters, Mable Sponaugle, Franklin, Ollie Johnson, Bartow, and Priscella Mullennex and husband, Brooks, Cherry Grove; five grandchildren, Kevin, Rex, Harris and Trenton Warner and Eber Dale Sponaugle; and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Dewitt and Roy Warner.
He attended the four-room school at Hunting Ground. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army at the Battle of the Bulge and received a Purple Heart. He had worked for the U.S. Forest Service for 20 years, retired from General Motors Corp. at Cleveland, Ohio, after 10 years of service. He was a retired farmer and attended the Church of God. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans, the H.W. Daniels Post 29, American Legion.
Friends will be received at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. today. Final rites will be conducted at the funeral home chapel Wednesday at 11 a.m. with Pastor Glenden Berg officiating. Graveside services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. at North Fork Memorial Cemetery at Riverton. Interment will follow.
