Denver Keith Higley, 67, of Gallipolis, passed away Tuesday in Holzer Medical Center.

He was born July 24, 1938, in Gay, W.Va., son of the late Carl Denver Higley and Flavia Marie Higley Price.

He was a U.S. Army veteran, and a retired master barber and auto mechanic. He was a member of the Vinton American Legion Post No. 161, DAV Post No. 53 in Meigs County, and American Legion Post No. 27 in Gallipolis, and he was a member of the Seventh Day Adventist at Jackson.

In addition, he had studied law and real estate at LaSalle University in Chicago, Ill., and attended the Gallipolis Business School, Knotts School of Auctioneering, Ohio Peace Officers Training School and the Ohio Law Enforcement Training School.

Denver married Betty Jo Osborne on Aug. 12, 1961, in Danville, Ohio, and she survives with a son, Timothy Keith (Christina) Higley of Crown City; three grandchildren, Joshua Ryan Hall, Dylan Alexander Higley and Hannah Elizabeth Higley; three stepgrandchildren, Elizabeth Erin Taylor, Andrew Christian Welch and Halie Delynn Welch; and a sister, Alma Sue Beaver of Georgia.

He was preceeded in death by a grandson, Benjamin Tyler Higley; a brother, Jerry Higley; a sister, Sally Estrada; and a stepbrother, Larry Price.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday in the McCoy-Moore Funeral Home at Vinton, with Pastor Bob Powell officiating, assisted by Malcolm Orebaugh. Burial will be in the Brush Cemetery near Vinton, with military graveside rites conducted by the Gallia County Veterans Service Organizations.

Friends may call at funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday.