In Memory

Russell D. Batten - Class Of 1958

Russell Davis Batten, 75, of Barboursville, West Virginia, passed away Friday, February 27, 2015, at Cabell Huntington Hospital.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel, Barboursville by Pastor Jerry Matt. Burial will be in White Chapel Memorial Gardens.

He was born January 20, 1940, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a son of the late Vernon and Eunice Walton Batten. He was a veteran of the United States Army.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Kathleen Pauley Batten.

He is survived by one daughter and son-in-law, Margaret and Jonathan Appell of Barboursville; two step-daughters, Sherrie Lahon of Barboursville W.Va. and Sheila Rush of Newport News, Va.; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Ethel and Ron Harlow of Palmyra, Va., Gloria and Franklin Smith of Wilmington, N.C., and Anna and Paul Johnson of Lawton, Okla; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Vernon and Barbara Batten of Crozet, Va., and Grover and Susan Batten of Richmond, Va.; aunt, Alma Gibson of Crozet, Va.; uncle, Herbert Batten of Dyke, Va.; grandchildren, Michael and his wife, Valerie Sweany Watts, Matt Lambe, Glenn Dodds, Jonathan Appell, and Jason Dodds; and great-grandchildren, Cameron Watts, Madison Sweany, Aaron Bills and Katie Dodds.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 2, 2015, at the Wallace Funeral Home, Barboursville.

Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.timeformemory.com/wallace.

Submitted by Connie Crenshaw.