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Published: June 15, 2009 12:16 pm    print this story  

Honoring a firefighter

By W. Dayton Whittle
Register-Herald Photographer

Firefighters salute as they enter Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens in Beckley and pass under an American flag Sunday.

The Sophia City Volunteer Fire Department engine is carrying the casket of Louis Dale “Sonny” Farthing. Farthing had been a firefighter since 1972 and died last Thursday after battling multiple cancers.

Farthing, named the Sophia city chief just more than two months ago, was buried with full firefighter’s honors.

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Firefighters salute as they enter Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens in Beckley and pass under an American flag Sunday. W. Dayton Whittle/The Register-Herald (Click for larger image)


The procession of fire trucks, police cars and ambulances stretched for over a mile as it traveled from Sophia to Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens in Prosperity. W. Dayton Whittle/The Register-Herald (Click for larger image)


Firefighters stand at attention and salute as a fire department honor guard marches to the gravesite. In the background, firefighters remove the casket of Louis Dale "Sonny" Farthing from the top of a fire engine, preparing to carry him to his final resting place. W. Dayton Whittle/The Register-Herald (Click for larger image)



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