


But how did these elements combine to make us human?Īll matter-everything around us and within us-has an ultimate birthday: the day the universe was born.

If you weigh 150 pounds, you’ve got enough carbon to make 25 pounds of charcoal, enough salt to fill a saltshaker, enough chlorine to disinfect several backyard swimming pools, and enough iron to forge a 3-inch nail. Online condolences may be sent to the family at In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be made to Domico Funeral Home.For readers of Bill Bryson, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Siddhartha Mukherjee, a wondrous, wildly ambitious, and vastly entertaining work of popular science that tells the awe-inspiring story of the elements that make up the human body, and how these building blocks of life travelled billions of miles and across billions of years to make us who we are.Įvery one of us contains a billion times more atoms than all the grains of sand in the earth’s deserts. The funeral service will be held at the church on Monday at Noon. and at the Pickens Baptist Church in Pickens, WV on Monday, Mafrom 11:00 a.m. The family will receive friends at Domico Funeral Home, 414 Gaston Avenue in Fairmont, on Sunday, Mafrom 2:00 p.m. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert William Shears who passed away Maa son Cecil Shears who passed away Januher siblings, Cecil Dulaney, Charles Dulaney, William "Bill" Dulaney, Margaret Ann Haught and a great granddaughter, Aaliyah Grace Owens. She is survived by her children, Robert and Sue Shears of Ohio, Mary Jo Shears and John Owens of Fairmont, Jeanie and Mark Wilfong of Fairmont, and Linda and Butch Roy of Parsons grandchildren, Gina Jo Lenhart, Bobbie Jo Mayer, Marisa Wilfong, Cecil Robert "Rob" Shears, Christina Tolle, Jade Brewer, Lynette Helmick, Bo Owens, and Tom Owens 21 great grandchildren, 2 great great grandchildren and her siblings, Freida "Weesie" Drummond and Edward Dulaney. Tommi Lou retired from the Holiday Inn after 21 years as the Head Housekeeper. She was born in Pickens, WV on March 16, 1933, daughter of the late Cecil Charles Dulaney and Anna Elsie Frieda Belter Dulaney. Ruth Mae "Tommi Lou" Shears, 85, of Fairmont, passed away Friday, March 15, 2019.
