Milestones, 2007

• Mark Coyle, 42, former Statehouse reporter for MetroNews and longtime GOP political operative.

• Claude "Big Daddy" Ellis, 81, Logan County politico and figure in West Virginia's 1960 Democratic Presidential primary.

• Kenneth Ervin, 45, advocate for West Virginians with disabilities.

• Simon Hirsch "Si" Galperin Jr., 75, lobbyist and former Kanawha County legislator.

• Robert James Gould, 48, veteran Republican activist.

• Lawson W. Hamilton Jr., 84, coal operator, philanthropist and GOP donor.

• Margarette Leach, 81, former veteran Cabell County legislator.

• Martha Wehrle, 81, former longtime Kanawha County legislator and Democratic activist.