James “Eddie” Mooney 51 of Ashford went home to be with the Lord on Monday April 5, 2010 after a mining accident at Performance Coal Company in Montcoal, WV on Monday April 5, 2010.
Eddie was a loving husband, dad and brother. He was a member of Rumble Community Baptist Church. Eddie loved life and he loved to make people laugh. He had been in the mining industry for over 20 years. He was a hard worker and he always put his family first. He enjoyed taking his son hunting and fishing. He also liked camping and four-wheeling. On the weekends he loved to take his 1978 Corvette out for a cruise.
Eddie was born on December 19, 1958 and was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Mary Mooney and father-in-law, Austin Kirk.
He is survived by his loving wife of 33 years, Sheila Mooney
daughter and son-in-law: Misty and Eric Case of Palm Coast, Florida
14 year old son: Austin Mooney
Mother-in-law: Jean Kirk of Ashford
six brothers and sisters: Butch and Peggy Mooney of Peytona;
Chuck and Sharon Mooney of Drawdy;
Patty “Sissy” and Wendy Woodrum of Cleveland, Ohio
Punk and Karen Mooney of Drawdy
Agnes Love of Ohio;
Ginny and Michael Graley of Whiteoak
many nieces and nephews and his best friend, Roger Barker of Costa.
Funeral service will be 1:00 pm Friday April 16 at Rumble Community Baptist Church with Pastor Richard Harold officiating. Burial will follow at the Holstein Cemetery at Dartmont. Family and friends will gather from 5 to 8 pm Thursday at the Rumble Community Baptist Church.
Though your smile is gone forever, and your hand I cannot touch, I still have many memories of the one I love so much. Your memory is my keepsake, with which I’ll never part. God has you in his keeping, I have you in my heart.
Curry Funeral Home at Alum Creek is in care of the service.