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Billy Lee Sparks Obituary

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Billy Lee Sparks

Valley Bend, WV

May 21, 1937 - November 24, 2022

Billy Lee Sparks Obituary

Billy Lee Sparks, 85, a resident of Dailey, passed from this life Thursday, November 24, 2022, at home surrounded by family and under the care of West Virginia Caring.


Billy was born Monday, May 21, 1937, in Valley Head, a son of the late Arnold D. Sparks and Reba Mae Ware Sparks. On December 27, 1960, in Valley Head, he married the former Darlene J. Auxier who survives. They had celebrated sixty-one years of marriage.


Also left to cherish Billy’s memory are four children, Kimberly Belt of Clay, Sandra Goss and husband, John, of Buckhannon, John Sparks and wife, Mary, of Dailey, and Deana Bartley and husband, Spencer, of Louisville, KY, one brother, Jake Sparks, sixteen grandchildren, and twenty-two great grandchildren.


Preceding Billy in death besides his parents was one son, Billy L. Sparks, II, one son-in-law, Bronce Belt. Jr., and one brother, Ralph Sparks.


Billy attended the schools of Randolph County and had served with the United States Army. He had worked as a foreman for Island Creek Coal Company in Muddlety until his retirement in 1987. He enjoyed tinkering in the garage as well as riding motorcycles and his convertible Miata, and he loved his animals and being outdoors. He served the Lord as a minister having pastored churches in Hominy Falls and Beverly. He had attended Webster Wesleyan Holiness Church and the Methodist church in Onego. He loved preaching, going to church, and attending camp meetings.


Visitation will be held the Randolph Funeral Home on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, from 11:00AM until 1:00 PM, the funeral hour. Evangelist Mark Hunter will officiate, and interment will follow in Brick Church Cemetery in Huttonsville.

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