Obituaries

Alvin Reed
Feb 25, 2008
Alvin Dennis Reed Sr., 80, of 116 Grace St., Hinton, died at 3:33 P.M. Monday at the VA Medical Center at Beckley, following a long illness. Born September 29, 1927 at Clayton, he was the son of the late Otis C and Grace Fox Reed. He was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., and a U.S. Army Veteran of the...

Jerry Lee
Feb 24, 2008
Jerry Lee Fox 48, of Tug Creek went to heaven at 1:15 P.M. Sunday, February 24, 2008 at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston following a short illness. Born November 1, 1959 at Hinton he was the son of the late William F. Fox and Virginia â??Mogeneâ?? Adkins Fox of Tug Creek. Jerry was employed at Pipestem State Park and had...

Rufina Bragg
Feb 24, 2008
Margaret Smith Bragg, 83, of Meadow Creek died Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital following a short illness. Born April 24, 1924 at Meadow Creek she was the daughter of the late Arthur Jackson and Rufina Myrtle Plumley Smith and she had lived her entire life at Meadow Creek. Margaret worked at Summers County Hospital...

Vella Wilson
Feb 19, 2008
Vella Evelyn Wilson, 93, of Hinton, passed away peacefully on Tuesday evening, February 19, 2008 at Country View Assisted Living at Peterstown. Born July 23, 1914 at Ballengee, she was the daughter of the late Charles A. and Ida Allen Wilson. Evelyn lived most of her life at Wayside where she cared for her parents and ran the farm with...

Robert Lindsay
Feb 16, 2008
Robert C. Lindsay, 85, of Talcott, died Saturday morning at his home, following a long illness. Born January 20, 1923 at Talcott, he was the son of the late Clifford C. and Hettie Ellis Lindsay. Robert was a U.S. Army Veteran of WWII, retired from the C&O Railroad where he worked on the carpenter force and had worked at the...

James Shanks
Feb 14, 2008
James William â??Budâ?? Shanks, 79 of Hinton died Thursday morning February 14, 2008 at his home following a long illness. Born January 8, 1929 at Bellepoint, he was a son of the late James Paris and Kate Stella Crawford Shanks. Bud was a retired conductor and brakeman for the C&O Railroad, member of the International Union of Operating Engineers, owned...

Billy Cales
Feb 4, 2008
Billy Jack Cales Jr., 39, of Judson died Monday, February 4, 2008 at his home following a sudden illness. Born October 8, 1968 at Hinton, he was the son of Billy Jack and Karen Buckland Cales Sr. of Hilldale and his biological mother, Imogene Jeffries Cales. He was a 1987 graduate of Hinton High School, a lifelong resident of Summers...

Robert Holland
Feb 3, 2008
Robert W. Holland, 92, of Sandstone went home to be with the Lord, Sunday February 3, 2008 at the Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility following a long illness. Born August 2, 1915 at Green Sulphur Springs he was a son of the late Robert H. and Ledonia Surbaugh Holland. A lifelong resident of Summers County who was employed by the...

Jayne Farley
Feb 3, 2008
Jayne E. Settle Farley, 43, of Goose Creek, near Talcott died Sunday, February 03, 2008 at Kingsport, TN following a long illness. Born June 16, 1964 at Fairfax, VA she was the daughter of James E. and Helen Lilly Settle of Judson Road, Talcott. She had lived most of her life in Summers County except for the past 20 years...

Ruth Ratcliffe
Jan 27, 2008
On the morning of January 27, 2008, Ruth Carol Ratcliffe took her heavenly flight. Known to many as â??Boopieâ??, she began her life on February 29, 1932 as one out of ten surviving children born. Ruth made her life as a homemaker in Hinton and was a faithful member of the Jumping Branch Tabernacle.Preceded in death by her husband, Alpha...

Hubert Williams
Jan 27, 2008
Hubert A. Williams, 88, of Nimitz, passed away on Sunday, January 27, 2008, at the Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital, following a brief illness. Born November 14, 1919 at Hinton, he was the son of the late Robert H. and Mary Via Williams. Mr. Williams was a member of the Bluestone Baptist Church at Jumping Branch, he was a retired...

Rita Harvey
Jan 20, 2008
Mrs. Rita Mae Harvey, 85, of Nimitz, died Sunday, January 20, 2008 at the Harmony House Care Home at Lerona, following a long illness. Born July 2, 1922, in Summers County she was the daughter of the late Clate and Laura Mooney Neely. Mrs. Harvey was a homemaker and a member of the Little Bluestone Primitive Baptist Church. Preceded in...

Gladys Smith
Jan 14, 2008
Gladys Elizabeth Canterbury Smith, 78, of Hinton, died Monday, January 14, 2008 at the Summers Co. Appalachian Regional Hospital following a long illness. Born August 4, 1929 at Bellepoint, she was the daughter of the late Andrew L. and Mamie Arbella Mann Canterbury. She was a member of the Springfield Primative Baptist Church at Greenville; Valedictorian of Hinton High School...

Edward Lilly
Jan 8, 2008
Edward T. Lilly, 86, of Nimitz, died 6:15 P.M. Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital following a long illness. Born August 29, 1921 at Hinton, he was a son of the late Cecil C. Lilly and Mabel Lilly Lilly Lazio. Edward had lived most of his life at Nimitz and in Florida, was a graduate of...

Guy Hatcher
Jan 8, 2008
Guy Lester Hatcher, 99, of Beckley formerly of Streeter died at 4:25 P.M. January 8, 2008 at Heartland of Beckley following a long illness. Born October 29, 1908 at Hatcher Flats in Summers County he was a son of the late Henry Hatcher and Luziana Frances Wills Hatcher. Member of the Rhoda Ann Missionary Baptist Church, former member of the...

Ula Trout
Jan 1, 2008
Ula Viola â??Midgeâ?? Trout, 60 of Hilldale died 8:00 am January 1, 2009 in the Summers County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following a long illness. Born October 1, 1948 in Rainelle, WV she was the daughter of the late Ben F. and Nellie J. Harron Hammonds. She was a former employee of the Summers Continuous Care Center at Hilldale, Summers...

David Williams
Dec 25, 2007
David R. Williams, 66, of Jumping Branch, died at 1:45 A.M. Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at the Bowers Hospice House, Beckley, following a short illness. Born October 20, 1941 at Green Sulphur Springs he was a son of the late Robert and Grace Pack Williams. A lifelong resident of Summers County, David was a retired barber who owned and operated...

Jane Conner
Dec 20, 2007
Jane G. Conner, 86, of Greenbrier Drive, Hinton died 9:00 A.M. Thursday, December 20, 2007 following a long illness. Born September 3, 1921 in Hinton she was a daughter of the late Otis â??Oatâ?? Garrison and Lula Burger Garrison. A member of the Central Baptist Church, she was a homemaker who was a fifteen year volunteer of the Summers County...

Ruby Ann
Dec 17, 2007
Ruby Ann Fix, 77, of Salem,VA, formerly of Summers Co. died 12:40 AM, Monday, December 17, 2007 at Lewis Gale Medical Center at Salem, VA following a long illness. Born February 18, 1930 at Madams Creek, Hinton, she was the daughter of the late Norman and Leah Deeds Dennis. Former employee of the G.C. Murphy Co. in Hinton; member of...

Mary Meadows
Dec 15, 2007
Mary Ethel Meadows, 69, of Beckley, formerly of Meadow Creek, went to be with the Lord, Saturday December 15, 2007. Born April 27, 1938 at Green Sulphur Springs, she was the daughter of the late William Edgar and Elizabeth Martin Bennett. Mary lived most of her life in Summers Co., she had lived the past 15 years in Raleigh Co....