Donald Wade Ebersole

Huntington lost Donald Wade Ebersole on November 15, 2024. He was 97. Born in Huntington on January 15, 1927, into a Hungarian-American household that treated work as a language. He learned that neighborhoods remember who helps without being asked. He kept sheets that turned trucks into wages without inventing weights. A dump scale ticket spindle ended arguments more gently than speeches. Colleagues still mention a dump scale ticket spindle. He married Edna in 1949. They kept a house that stayed modest when the neighborhood did not. They raised two daughters and a son through public schools and ordinary weather. After Edna died in 2017, he kept the routines that still made sense: the walk, the garden, the Sunday call. Neighbors remember quiet help with a stuck mailbox or a heavy trash can. Mornings were his favorite shift at home. He died in Huntington, on streets that already knew his pace. The porch still expects a returning step. What remains is not a legend but a practice: showing up, keeping a promise, leaving a place better than you found it. His life was the kind America is built from and too often forgets to name.