..I MISS YOU..

THE RAN WAS FALLING COLD OUTSIDE..IT COVERED ME THE DAY YOU DIED.. YOU COULD HAVE WAITED ONE MORE DAY AND I SHOULD HAVE CALLED..YOU AND YOUR ROLE PLAYED THROUGH TIME..COME AND RESCUE ME..YOU'RE NEEDED HERE AT HOME..I DREAM OF YOUR LIFE..THE WAR AND THE FIGHT..THE MUSIC YOU PLAYED AND THE LOVE FOR YOUR WIFE BUT I MISS YOU..

YOUR SPACE WAS A MOMENT IN TIME..A HAND TO HOLD A HAND I TRIED..WHO WAS IT THAT CALLED TO YOU..??..YOUR STORYS ALIVE WITH HELLOS AND GOODBYES..BRIGHT LIGHTS..CHRISTMAS EVE AND COALMINE NIGHTS BUT I MISS YOU..

I'M MAD AT THE DISEASE THAT STOLE YOU AWAY..BY SURVIVING SO MANY YEARS YOU GAVE ME MY STAY AND I UNDERSTAND BY THIS I AM..ALL THAT YOU WERE WAS CHANGED BY THE MAN BUT I MISS YOU..

I MISS YOU RIGHT NOW AND I CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER DAY..TO SEE THAT CROOCKED SMILE UPON YOUR FACE..ALL THE STORIES YOU TOLD THEY WILL NEVER GET OLD FROM THE WAR,TO THE CREEK,AND THE SONGS OF YOUR SOUL..

HOW I MISS YOU..

Edgar Matthew Skaggs, 76, of Ansted, died peacefully at his residence with his family by his side on Aug. 4, 2007.

Born Nov. 18, 1930, in Ansted, he was the son of the late Charles D. and Bertie J. Cole Skaggs.

Mr. Skaggs was a member of the Ansted Freewill Baptist Church in Ansted, a Korean War veteran and a retired coal miner.

Surviving: his wife of 52 years, Dollie Skaggs; daughters, Dreama Treadway and her husband, Jack, of Scarbro, Lorraine Wellman of Maryland, Arlene Nesiba and her husband, Marvin, of Nebraska, and Marlen Somers and her husband, Greg, of North Carolina; sons, Eugene Skaggs and his wife, Mary, of North Carolina, and Charles Emerson Skaggs and his wife, Freda, of Craigsville; sisters, Mary Withrow and Doris Hawkins, both of Ansted; brothers, Alfred Skaggs of Ansted and Douglas Skaggs of Ohio; 14grandchildren and 12reat-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Thursday, Aug. 9 at 2 p.m. at the Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Ansted, with the Pastor Ron Persinger officiating. Burial will follow in the Restlawn Memory Gardens at Victor. Military graveside services will be conducted by the Ansted and Gauley Bridge VFW.

Arrangements by Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Ansted.