Charlene Chinchilla
This sweet man. Was so kind to me, being new to the auction. Always looked forward to seeing him. Chatting about silly stuff. Such a sweet soul. God be good to him🥰🥰
Birth date: Aug 14, 1940 Death date: Dec 22, 2025
Larry Wayne Mitchem peacefully passed away at home, surrounded by his loving family, on December 22, 2025. He was 85 years old. Larry was born on August 14, 1940, in Montcalm, West Virginia, the son of the late Roy Marvin and Elsi Read Obituary
This sweet man. Was so kind to me, being new to the auction. Always looked forward to seeing him. Chatting about silly stuff. Such a sweet soul. God be good to him🥰🥰
My Deepest condolences Mr. Larry (wayne) ,even though past family dilemmas kept a few of us apart over the years ,NO matter what we still had respect for you and mrs Lucille...... may you rest in heaven with your loving wife, children and other members of the family! I remember on the tv always watching nascar, You were a die-hard nascar fan, hard worker, yet stubborn and hard headed. Very blunt- straightforward but yet with a side of Great sense of humor and kindness. Your fight is over i pray you watch over US ALL and now can be at peace! Have fun with the nascar drivers up there and most recent loss of Mr Greg biffle!!! Take care , see ya when god calls us home! Xoxo Sarah, Aaliyah & Andru

I will always remember Pops(Larry) and Ma's(Lucy) love and devotion to all that they called family. Pops was a man of few words at times and other times he surely let you know all about what he thinking. Rest easy,Pops. I will always remember you
I took this photo in 2015 of one of Larry’s cows 🫶🏻
Larry was a good, kind hearted man beneath his tough shell! Wesley told me one day he was going to stop by to just talk to him, see what he was all about. They were friends from that moment! Wesley would stop by on his way home from work just to say hi, tinker on things and help him when he needed it. My husband and I enjoyed coming by to see him, listening to his old stories and see what craziness he was up to at the time. He was always getting into something!
I’ll never forget the time he got a brown horse. We rode down on the 4 wheeler to meet the horse. Larry didn’t really know me at this point but he knew Wesley. I was talking to Larry about the horse and asked him what his name was going to be. Larry said “What’s your name?”. I responded back “Sam”. Larry said “His name is Sam”. I thought he was just being funny but sure enough, he called the horse “Sam”.
I feel so bad that we didn’t go see him more once we had our daughter, Ariel. We just got busy with everything going on. We should have slowed down and took some time to spend more time with him. He enjoyed seeing Ariel and Wesley.
Larry was loved and will be greatly missed!! We are so glad and thankful to have been apart of his life!
