Justice Tim Armstead passed away shortly before noon at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown following a brief hospitalization.

“Tim Armstead is a sterling example of the best of West Virginia,” said Chief Justice Bill Wooton. “In an all-to-short life his public service accomplishments are legendary.”

Armstead, also a former speaker of the House of Delegates, was 60. Armstead had been fighting cancer.

“Tim Armstead was the best,” said longtime friend and colleague Dan Greear, a judge on the state intermediate appeals court and former lead counsel in the House of Delegates. “More important than his public service he showed us how to live. He loved his wife Anna and daughter Katie and his life showed it.

“The state of politics would be much better if we learned from the example of how he

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