Born November 7, 1918 in Beckley, he was the son of the late Price H. And Helen Tompkins Calfee. He was a third generation funeral director owning and operating Calfee Funeral Home, a firm his grandfather started in 1900. He graduated from Palm Beach High School in 1935, Beckley College in 1937 and the Cincinnati College of Embalming in 1938. He served with the U.S. Navy during W.W.II.
Price was a past president of the Beckley Lions Club, Black Knight Country Club, Beckley Shrine Club and the Beckley - Raleigh County Chamber of Commerce. He was also past president of the West Virginia Funeral Directors Association who honored him last year with the Charles E. Dodd -Funeral Director of the Year Award.
Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 46 years, Eloise Ritenour Calfee, step-mother, Avis N. Calfee, a brother, Danny Calfee and by an infant grandson, Connor Anthony Calfee