Obituaries

Margie Hamm
Jun 18, 2007
Margie Lee Reed Hamm, 82, of Hinton passed away at her home, Monday June 18, 2007 after a long illness. Born October 10, 1924 at Madams Creek in Summers Co. She was the daughter of the late Lonza L. and Nina S. Deeds Reed. Margie was a beloved sister, wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. As long as her health...

Leonard Wood
Jun 18, 2007
Leonard Wood, 84, of Beckley formerly of Hinton, died at 6:00 A.M. Monday at the Raleigh General Hospital at Beckley following a long illness. Born January 5, 1923 at Hinton, he was the son of the late William L. and Etta Foster Wood. Mr. Wood lived all of his life in Summers and Raleigh Counties. He was a Retired Postal...

Harold Lilly
Jun 13, 2007
Harold Dempsey Lilly, 74 of Lamonte, Missouri formally of Ellison Ridge, West Virginia died Wednesday June 13, 2007 at sea off the coast of Bermuda following an apparent heart attack. Born September 9, 1933 at Ellison, Harold is the son of the late Tennie Wilson and Mary Macil Meadows Lilly. Harold was retired owner and operator of an automotive repair...

Josephine Burnett
Jun 9, 2007
Josephine Grimmett Burnett, 82, of Meadow Bridge, died 9:20pm. Saturday June 9, 2007, at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Division following a long illness. Born June 23, 1924 at Clifftop, WV, she was the daughter of the late Alonzo Bragg and Nellie Aldridge Bragg Davis. Mrs. Burnett was a member of the Meadow Bridge Missionary Baptist Church and had lived...

Dessie Lilly
Jun 6, 2007
Dessie Bragg Ward Lilly, 85, of Brooks, died at 12:09 A.M. Wednesday, June 06, 2007 at the Summers Nursing and Rehab Center at Hilldale. Born February 11, 1922 in Summers Co., she was the daughter of the late John Bragg and Josie Cales Bragg Neighbors and was a lifelong resident of Summers County. Preceded in death by her 1st Husband,...

Vera Johnson
Jun 4, 2007
Vera Y. Johnson, 83, of Hinton, died at 4:45 P.M. Monday June 4, 2007 at the Summers Co. Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born December 18, 1923 at Hinton, she was the daughter of the late Oscar B. and Martha Smith Yancey. Vera had lived all her life in Summers Co., she retired from teaching...

Patricia Richmond
Jun 4, 2007
Patricia Ann Richmond, 77, of Hinton went to be with the Lord on June 4, 2007 at Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital following a long illness. Born December 5, 1929 in Hinton, she was the daughter of the late Robert James and Evelyn Mann James Shull. Patricia attended the First Christian Church of Hinton and was a graduate of Hinton...

Sherry Adkins
Jun 4, 2007
Sherry Lynn Walker Adkins, 44, of Hinton died Monday June 4, 2007 at the Charleston Area Medical Center following a short illness. Funeral service will be 2:00 P.M. Thursday June 7, 2007 at the Ronald Meadows Funeral Parlors Chapel with Pastor Bill Fox officiating. Burial will follow in the Wallace Memorial Cemetery at Clintonville. Friends may call from noon till...

Grace Hatcher
Jun 2, 2007
Grace B. Hatcher, 87 of Warrenton, VA died Saturday June 2, 2007 in Fairfax, VA following a long illness. Born June 15, 1919 at Ellison, she is the daughter of the late Thomas and Elizabeth Lilly. Mrs. Hatcher was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Roy L. Hatcher and three brothers Ernest, Paul and Larry Lilly. She...

Lottie McKinney
Jun 2, 2007
Lottie McKinney Via, 83, of Hinton went to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, June 2, 2007, following a long illness. Born in Summers County, she was a daughter of the late Rev. James Alfred and Annie Smyth McKinney. On January 12, 1941, she was married to Donald Joseph Via, also of Summers County. They have had many...

Robert Currence
May 21, 2007
Robert W. Currence, 74, of Pipestem died Monday May 21,2007 at his home following an apparent heart attack. Born April 25, 1933 at Mill Creek, WV , he was the son of the late Ford and Ellen Zinkbeil Currence. He lived most of his life in Marietta, GA and was a retired design engineer for Lockheed Martin Corporation. A retired...

John Ciesielski
May 21, 2007
John J. Ciesielski, 90 of Hilldale died at 5:00 A.M. Monday May 21, 2007 at his home following a long illness. Born August 17, 1916, at Baltimore MD, he was the son of the late Benjamin and Teofila Ciesielski. Member of the Rollynsburg Baptist Church at Talcott, retired tug boat engineer and served in the Merchant Marines for 54 years....

Adam Light
May 17, 2007
Adam Dale Light, 21, of Forest Hill, died Thursday morning at Beckley. Born December 21, 1984 at Hinton and was a son of David Dale and Lita Cheryl Neely Light of Forest Hill and brother, Ryan James Light of Beckley. He was a 2003 graduate of Summers Co. High School, an avid golfer, hunter and fisherman and a volunteer firefighter...

Linda Evans
May 16, 2007
Linda Kay Evans, 48, of Hilldale went home to be with the Lord 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at the home of her daughter in Nitro following a struggle with cancer. Born January 30, 1959 at Morgantown, she was the daughter of the late James and Mary Frances Richmond Dodd. She was a former employee of Charleston Area Medical...

Carl Smith
May 14, 2007
Carl Lee Smith, 75 of Sevierville TN formally of Pipestem WV, died Monday May 14, 2007 in a Sevierville TN care home, following a long illness. Born July 27, 1931 in Jumping Branch he was a son of the late Oliver Carl and Della Faye Bower Smith. Carl was and avid hunter and had been employed by the Bailey Lumber...

Mandy Lemon
May 11, 2007
Mandy Jane Bryson Adkins Lemon, 95, of Hinton went home to be with her Lord Jesus Christ at 12:55 P.M. Friday May 11, 2007 at the Summers Nursing and Rehab Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born March 14, 1912 at Fayetteville she was the daughter of the Late John W. Bryson and Sallie A. Adkins. She was a...

Jerry Howerton
May 9, 2007
Jerry Eugene Howerton, 50, of Talcott, died Wednesday afternoon May 9, 2007 at his home following a long illness. Born September 1, 1956 at Mullens, he was a son of Goldie Haynes Howerton of Talcott and the late Ralph Howerton Sr. Disabled construction worker, he occasionally attended the Rollynsburg Baptist Church, an avid fisherman who also loved riding motorcycles. Jerry...

John Fisher
May 4, 2007
John Andrew Fisher, 84, of Raleigh, formerly of Pence Springs, died at 5:10 pm Friday May 4, 2007 at home following a long illness. Born May 15, 1922 in Summers Co. he was the son of the late William and Mary June Stuphin Fisher. John had lived most of his life at Pence Springs and had been a resident of...

Wanda Lilly
May 4, 2007
On Friday, May 4th 2007, Wanda Jewell Campbell Lilly, 80, of Nimitz, WV went home to be with her Lord and Savior, following a short illness. Born November 9, 1926 at Hinton, she was the daughter of the late Jennings Bryan and Lottie Jane Colter Campbell. Mrs. Lilly was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., she was a homemaker and...

Kenneth Voak
Apr 28, 2007
Kenneth Harold Voak, 81, of Ladysmith, VA, former resident of Streeter, died Saturday, April 28, 2007 at the Mary Washington Hospital at Fredricksburg,VA, following a short illness. He was born November 8, 1925, in Penn Yan, New York, a son of the late Clarence and Charlotte Voak. He was an Army Air Force veteran of World War II having served...