Raymond W. Stickles

Saturday, September 12, 1998

Raymond W. Stickles

Managed Waynesburg hardware store
Raymond W. Stickles, 76, of Silver Spring, Md., formerly of Greene County, died at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, September 10, 1998, in Holy Cross Hospital, Wheaton, Md.

He was born July 27, 1922, in Whiteley Township, Greene County, a son of Harry and Hilda Tharp Stickles.
Mr. Stickles lived his early life in Greene County and had been a resident of Maryland since 1964.
He was a 1942 graduate of Waynesburg High School and was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during World War II.
He was manager of the former Blair and Hampson Hardware, Waynesburg, and later worked for Waynesburg Hardware.
After moving to Maryland, he worked as manager of the Strosnider Hardware Store and later as a clerk for several years for the Liquor Board for Montgomery County government, retiring in 1985.
He was Methodist and a member of American Legion Post 0268 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 256, both of Silver Spring, Md.
On December 23, 1941, he married Betty June Cole, who survives.
Also surviving are two sons, Raymond Nelson Stickles of College Park, Md., and Wilfred (Fred) Stickles of Beltsville, Md.; five grandchildren, Carla Chester, Ryan and Donald Stickles, Sandra Love and Cathy Alexander; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Nannie West of Kirby and Vivian Filer of Waynesburg.