In Honor of Jerry Kimble and Jim Farrell

In Honor of Jerry Kimble and Jim Farrell. . , Create Buckhannon has chosen to honor two members for their contributions to Festival Fridays hosted right here in Jawbone Park each summer. Festival Fridays and Upshur County are not the same without Jerry Kimble and Jim Farrell., Jerry Kimble, a longtime Upshur County resident, retired after 45 years of service in the oil and gas industry and poured his life into volunteering until he passed away April 24, 2018. As a member of Create Buckhannon, he became involved in Festival Fridays and organized our 50-50 raffle drawings which help make the concert series possible. He was a member of B.P.O.E. 1736, the West Virginia Classic Wheels Car Club, on the board of the West Virginia Strawberry Festival Association and was appointed to the Upshur County Farmland Preservation Board. Jerry believed in bringing people together whether that be here at Jawbone Park or on Main Street for the WV Strawberry Festival and car shows. He gave selflessly of his time to make these events better. Following the death of his wife, Patty, he purchased a bench in her memory in Jawbone and we are proud to have a bench now dedicated in his memory beside that one., The Jim Farrell Stage is named in honor of James T. Farrell, who found his home in Upshur County later in life but immersed himself in continuing his service to his fellow man until he passed away Dec. 1, 2017. A native of New York, Farrell served in the U.S. Army, was assigned to the Armed Forces Police Detachment, served in the 77th Army Reserve Command, was a New York State University Policeman at Stony Brook University on Long Island, worked as a NYS Park Policeman and was the supervisor of the Highway Patrol Motor Carrier Safety Section of the Suffolk County Police Department. On Sept. 11, 2001, Jim responded when the World Trade Center was attacked. After moving to Upshur County with his wife Diane, Jim joined the Banks District Volunteer Fire Department to continue his volunteer fire service. He was a member of Central West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 114, the Fusion Liaison Program, Upshur Safe Sites and Structures Board, on the board of the directors of the Appalachian Community Health Center and was the director of the Upshur County Office of Emergency Management until December 2016. He joined Create Buckhannon and became a volunteer at Festival Fridays where he helped craft our emergency response plan and helped set up and tear down the sound system on the stage we are proud to now name for him.