Vera L. (Geist) Long

April 7, 1936 - October 21, 2019

Vera L. (Geist) Long, age 83, of Annandale, Virginia, formerly of Huntington, died at 12:59 a.m. Monday, October 21, 2019. Private viewing will be held Saturday, November 2, 2019 at Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Indiana. Graveside services will follow at 1 p.m. Saturday in Pilgrims Rest Cemetery in Huntington. Vera lived a full active life. She was born on April 7, 1936 in Huntington, the daughter of Ralph and Ruth (Stanley) Geist. She graduated from Huntington High School in 1954 and married James Long, also from Huntington, in 1957. After living in California, Illinois, and Arizona, they settled in Virginia. She and James divorced in 1973. She began her driving career driving school buses and graduated from Nationwide Technical Institution in 1976 with her CDL. After a stint of driving dump trucks, she went to work driving semis for Safeway until her retirement in 1993. Desiring to live in the mountains forever, she first moved to Asheville, North Carolina and then to Augusta, West Virginia. She is survived by a brother, Arden Geist and a sister, Norma Hawk, her sons David, Jerry, and Andy, her daughter, Debbie, eight grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren, cousins, aunts, uncles, and friends. She is preceded in death by her parents and a son, Ted.