Obituaries

Winfred Whitten
Aug 24, 2007
Winfred Wilson â??Pee Weeâ?? Whitten, 73, of Jumping Branch, went home to be with his Lord and Savior at 3:00 A.M. Friday, August 24, 2007 at the Bower Hospice House at Beckley following a long illness. Born May 29, 1934 at Summers Co. he was the son of the late William and Maude Wyrick Whitten. A lifelong resident of Summers...

Doris Ramsey
Aug 23, 2007
Doris K. Ramsey, 73, of Hinton, died Thursday, August 23, 2007 at the Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born June 12, 1934 at Summers Co., she was the daughter of the late Marion Ernest and Ocie Marie Young Bruce. Mrs. Ramsey was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., she was a member of the...

Herman Grimmett
Aug 21, 2007
Neil Grimmett, 56, of 4801 Tamaron Drive, Greensboro, NC, formerly of Hinton, passed away on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at his home. Born in WV, July 13, 1951, he was the son of the late Herman Cline and Delma Massie Grimmett. He was a graduate of Hinton High School, and West Virginia University with a BS degree in Landscape Architecture....

Edward Lucas
Aug 21, 2007
Edward M. â??Montyâ?? Lucas, 57, of South Point, OH, died at 2:00 P.M. Tuesday August 21, 2007 at Community Hospice at Ashland, KY, following a short illness. Born May 31, 1950 in Montgomery Co. VA he was a son of the late Roy Edward and Emma Savannah Jones Lucas. Edward attended Freedom Baptist Church during the early part of his...

Noralee McBride
Aug 18, 2007
Noralee McBride, 89, of True went home to be with the Lord, Saturday August 18, 2007 at her home following a short illness. Born March 25, 1918 at Beaver Creek in Ashe County, North Carolina she was a daughter of the late Roy Roscoe and Julia Nelson Trivett and the last surviving member of her immediate family.Mrs. McBride was a...

Harry Miller
Aug 15, 2007
Harry Cecil Miller, 90, of Hinton, went to be with Lord Wednesday, August 15, 2007 in the Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital at Hinton following a long illness. Born July 23, 1917 at Ballard he was the son of the late Dewey Miller and Effie Susan Jane Cooper Miller Bare. Harry had lived the early part of his life in...

Carlyn O'Neal
Aug 11, 2007
Carlyn Hardy Oâ??Neal, 60, of Beckley, died Saturday, August 11, 2007 at the VA Medical Center at Beckley, following a long illness. Born November 16, 1946 in Raleigh Co., he was the son of the late Woodrow and Faye Carter Oâ??Neal. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran of the Viet Nam Conflict and was a lifelong resident of Summers and...

Paul Harrison
Aug 9, 2007
Paul Harrison Fox, 36 of Judson died Thursday August 9, 2007 in the Summers County ARH following a long illness.Born April 25, 1971 in Hinton he was the son of Alfred Harrison Fox Jr. and Pansy Leah Martin Fox. Paul was a Baptist, a farmer, he loved to hunt, and had lived all of his life in Summers Co. Preceded...

Margaret Waller
Aug 5, 2007
Margaret Cales Grimmett Kleintop Waller, 86, of Hinton, died at 4:00 A.M. Sunday, August 5, 2007 at the Summers Co. Nursing and Rehab Center following a short illness. Born July 4, 1921 in Hinton she was a daughter of the late Charles L. â??Tugâ?? and Minnie Lee Dillon Cales. Former member of the Community Christian Church and was currently a...

Ola Mansfield
Jul 31, 2007
Ola R. Mansfield, 70, of Nimitz, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday morning, July 31, 2007 at the Harmony House Care Home, following a long illness. Born September 27, 1936 in Summers County, she was the daughter of the late Darrell D. and Nellie B. Lilly Cooper. She was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., was a homemaker,...

Dorothy Crook
Jul 29, 2007
Dorothy Ernestine Crook, 87 of Hinton, died 1:47 P.M. Sunday July 29, 2007 following a long illness. Born April 20, 1920 in Summers Co. she was the daughter of the late Ernest Lee and Florence Meadows Moss. A homemaker and a member of the Church of the Living God, she was a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother who loved...

Vivian M.
Jul 28, 2007
Vivian M. Hay, affectionately known as â??Sissyâ?? to her dear family and friends, 67, of Columbus, OH, passed away Saturday, July 28, 2007 at the Kobacker House surrounded by her family. Born July 30, 1939 at Thrumond, WV, she was the daughter of the late Clarence Eland and Mabel Naomi (Yancey) Via. In additional to her parents, she was preceded...

Shirley Wheeler
Jul 28, 2007
Shirley Ruth Ann Wheeler, 87 of Willowood Road departed from this life on July 28, 2007 at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center following a long illness. Born December 16, 1919 in Summers County she was the daughter of the late Samuel and Virginia Ann Carson Keffer. Preceded in death by three sons, Jackie, Donald and Pete Wheeler; four brothers, Asel,...

David Rodes
Jul 27, 2007
David Gary Rodes, 56, formerly of Hinton, died Thursday, July 27, 2007 after a short illness; at the home of his sister. Born January 13, 1951, at Hinton, he was a son of the late Gelvin Knapp and Doris Jean Bishop Rodes and he had lived most of his life in the Bellepoint and Brooks area of Summers Co. David...

Nora Hicks
Jul 22, 2007
Nora Alice Garten Hicks, 89, of Kernersville, NC formerly of Ramp died July 22, 2007 at the High Point Regional Hospital following a short illness. Born January 21, 1918 at Judson, she was a daughter of the late Elijah Joseph and Priscilla Alice Hogan Garten. Retired from Burlington Socks, Kernersville, NC. She was of the Pentecostal Faith and the last...

Nellie Miller
Jul 18, 2007
Nellie Wallace Miller, 96, of Hinton, died Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at the Rocking Chair Residential Care at Lerona, following a long illness. Born May 31, 1911 at Lowell, she was the daughter of the late James Manuel and Arminta Jane Manning Wallace. She was a lifelong resident of Summers Co. and a retired Summers Co. School Teacher with more...

John Deeds
Jul 17, 2007
John Milton Deeds Jr., 76, of Jumping Branch went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at 4:00 P.M. Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at the Bowers Hospice House in Beckley following a short battle with cancer. Born March 19, 1931 in Summers Co. he was a son of the late John and Hazel Yago Deeds, a member...

Alice Cooper
Jul 3, 2007
Alice Kay Cooper, 62, of Cleveland, Oh, formerly of True, entered into rest and peace with the Lord Jesus on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at the Metro Health Medical Center at Cleveland, following a short illness. Born October 24, 1944 at Pemberton, WV, she was the daughter of the late Herbert B. and Alice Elizabeth Lucas Palmer. She was a...

Irene Lipscomb
Jul 2, 2007
No Obituary Information Viewing Information: None Funeral Information: Graveside Services at 2:00 P.M. Thursday at the Fox Cemetery at Brooks.

Raymond Wills
Jun 23, 2007
Raymond E. Wills, 63 of Tug Creek Mountain, Hinton died Saturday June 23, 2007 in the Summers Co. ARH following an apparent heart attack at his home. Born September 14, 1943 at Hinton he was a son of the late Roy R. â??Jackâ?? and Vada J. Gill Wills. Employee of the Summers County Board of Education with fifteen years of...