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Gerald L. Chafin, aka Jerry Chafin,  was named a recipient of the Civic Recognition Award on Monday. Chafin joins the ranks of others from West Virginia who have received this honor.

The purpose of the Civic Recognition Award is to inspire people to help others and improve their communities. Recipients come from all walks of life and all 50 states. Under certain circumstances, the award can be issued posthumously.

It is hoped the Civic Recognition Award will encourage people in Delbarton and across West Virginia to live their lives around ten values than enhance the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. Those ten values are compassion, courage, forgiveness, generosity, humility, inclusiveness, integrity, kindness, respect and service.

Chafin is among a select number of individuals recognized in Delbarton. Many individuals never receive a civic award despite years of community involvement. While formal recognition should never be one’s motive for acts of kindness, receiving an award is an affirmation of the positive impact one’s actions can have.

It should be a proud moment for Chafin’s family and friends, and an opportunity to share inspiring stories. If fact, by discussing the award, the inspiration provided by Chafin’s good deeds is multiplied. Discussion of the award can also help spread the word about the ten values embodied by the award. It is a fact that many individuals feel motivated to do more after hearing about the good deeds of others. Award recipients themselves can feel encouraged or inspired by the recognition to help more.

The positive impact of Civic Recognition Award winners like Chafin on their community cannot be measured. These winners were often the first to help people in need and the first to welcome a new neighbor. The existence of community non-profit organizations of all kinds is a lasting testimony to the good works of involved individuals who, like Chafin, stepped forward to make a difference.

The lives of Civic Recognition Award winners like Chafin are also often examples to children. Children look up to role models to help shape how they behave in school, relationships or when facing challenging situations. When children emulate positive role models, they respond to situations in healthy ways that can contribute to individual and community well being. Positive role models are essential to every child’s well being.

The Civic Recognition Award is one of the highest recognitions possible for individuals. Residents of Delbarton - Williamson and all of West Virginia can feel proud that one of the own, Gerald Chafin, has been recognized with this high distinction.

The purpose of the Civic Recognition Award is to inspire people to help others and improve their communities. Recipients come from all walks of life and all 50 states. Under certain circumstances, the award can be issued posthumously.

It is hoped the Civic Recognition Award will encourage people in Delbarton and across West Virginia to live their lives around ten values than enhance the wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. Those ten values are compassion, courage, forgiveness, generosity, humility, inclusiveness, integrity, kindness, respect and service.

Chafin is among a select number of individuals recognized in Delbarton. Many individuals never receive a civic award despite years of community involvement. While formal recognition should never be one’s motive for acts of kindness, receiving an award is an affirmation of the positive impact one’s actions can have.

It should be a proud moment for Chafin’s family and friends, and an opportunity to share inspiring stories. If fact, by discussing the award, the inspiration provided by Chafin’s good deeds is multiplied. Discussion of the award can also help spread the word about the ten values embodied by the award. It is a fact that many individuals feel motivated to do more after hearing about the good deeds of others. Award recipients themselves can feel encouraged or inspired by the recognition to help more.

The positive impact of Civic Recognition Award winners like Chafin on their community cannot be measured. These winners were often the first to help people in need and the first to welcome a new neighbor. The existence of community non-profit organizations of all kinds is a lasting testimony to the good works of involved individuals who, like Chafin, stepped forward to make a difference.

The lives of Civic Recognition Award winners like Chafin are also often examples to children. Children look up to role models to help shape how they behave in school, relationships or when facing challenging situations. When children emulate positive role models, they respond to situations in healthy ways that can contribute to individual and community well being. Positive role models are essential to every child’s well being.

The Civic Recognition Award is one of the highest recognitions possible for individuals. Residents of Delbarton - Williamson and all of West Virginia can feel proud that one of the own, Gerald Chafin, has been recognized with this high distinction.

Emogene Sprouse Haga was born September 7, 1931,  in Delbarton, West Virginia.  She was the daughter of the late Henry and Bessie (nee Kirk) Sprouse.  She passed away peacefully on October 8, 2021, at the home of her daughter  and son in-law  in Davison, Michigan,  where she had been living the last year .

Emogene truly loved her family and enjoyed spending time with them.  Before coming to her daughters home she had been living in Schertz, Texas for thirty-five years. She was blessed to have some wonderful friends and neighbors,  especially Charles and Judy, Ricardo and Frances, and Rudy and Marcy. Emogene accepted the the Lord   at a young age and and was always willing to share her love of God. Her life depicted the examples of her religious values, her generosity and helping of others.

Emogene married the love of her life  Joe Haga on October  30,  1948.  Together they had two children,  daughter Mary Bess Haga Gilman and son  Joe "Sonny"  Haga.  She was the loving grandmother of  three grandchildren,  Joey (Traci) and Tony Gilman and  Jona Haga-Camacho (Chris);  5 great-grandkids and 5 great-great-grandkids.

In addition to her parents, Emogene was preceded in death by her  husband Joe Haga and siblings, Virginia Irene Murphy, Walter Harold Sprouse, Clarence B. Sprouse, George Sprouse, Drury Sprouse, Josephine Pappas, and Joyce Vinson;  and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, November 9, 2021, at Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, 1520 Harry Wurzbach Road, San Antonio, TX (78209).  She will be laid to rest next to her beloved husband.