OBITUARY: "St. Marys Oracle" - St. Marys, WV, 21 Oct 1971 - Lt. Col. James W. Barkwill, 47, stationed with the U.S. Air Force in Madison, CT, died Saturday morning at Yale Hospital in New Haven. - He was born in Pleasants County, Nov. 28, 1923, a son of the late Oliver C. and Anna Rea Barkwill. - After graduating from St. Marys High School in 1841, he attended West Virginia University before enlisting, the following year, in the then Army Air Corps. He attended flight school, was commissioned and served as a B17 navigator in the European Theatre during World War II. - Returning to St. Marys after leaving service in 1945, he was married to the former Miss Carol Green, also of St. Marys, in June of 1946. - He was recalled to service in 1949 and has remained in the U.S. Air Force since that time, completing 17 years of service. - He was a member of the St. Marys United Methodist Church. - He is survived by his widow; three sons, Brooks of Morgantown, John of Tampa, FL, and Jim of Biloxi, MS; three sisters, Mrs. Vincent Monahan of Martins Ferry, OH, Miss Virginia Barkwill of St. Marys, and Mrs. Delno Webb of St. Albans; one brother, Lt. Col. John F. Barkwill in Taiwan, Formosa.- Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Ruttencutter Funeral Home with the Rev. George McCune officiating. Burial was in the IOOF Cemetery. (Source: Pleasants County WVGenWeb; obit provided by Bryan D. Bills.)

WIFE'S OBITUARY: Howard, Carol Green Barkwill, born December 21, 1925, in St. Marys, West Virginia, to Eugene L. Green and Estelle Houser Green, died at Sistersville General Hospital on January 2, 2009, age 83. She was preceded in death by her Aunts Bonnie Green and Gladys Deering, her first husband, Lt. Col. James W Barkwill, her second husband, Harold L. Howard, and her middle son, John V. Barkwill. She is survived by her sons, Brooks K. Barkwill and James W. Barkwill II, step-son, Jeff Howard, step-daughter, Debbie Metz, three grandchildren and four step-grandchildren. A private graveside ceremony and interment will be conducted by Jarvis Funeral Home at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery in St. Marys, WV on January 5, 2009. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a donation be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America.