Obituaries

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...

Paul Sears
Apr 26, 2007
Paul Eugene â??Geneâ?? Sears, 81, of Talcott, died April 26, 2007 in the Welch Community Hospital. He had been in the Summers Co. ARH Long Term Care for the past four and a half years. He had recently been in the McDowell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for the last month. He was the son of the late John Allen Sears...

Pearl Bragg
Apr 25, 2007
Pearl Mildred Bragg, 90, of Hinton, died Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at the Bowerâ??s Hospice House at Beckley following a long illness. Born June 26, 1916 at Odd, WV she was a daughter of the late Dayton and Mildred Plumley Massie. She attended the First Baptist Church in Hinton and was an avid crotchetier and seamstress. She was preceded in...

Forrest Mingo
Apr 21, 2007
Dr. Forrest Matthew Mingo, 87 of Hinton died April 21, 2007 in the Summers County ARH following a short illness. Born July 4, 1919 in Richmond VA., he was the son of the late Charles â??Patsyâ?? and Daisy Elizabeth Belcher Mingo. Dr. Mingo was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Hinton and was a veteran of WW II...

Melba Vest
Apr 20, 2007
Melba Maxine Lilly Vest, 80, of Nimitz, died Friday April 20, 2007 in a Summers County Nursing Facility following a long illness. Born November 11, 1926 in Jumping Branch, she was the daughter of the late Basil Webster Lilly, and Nomie Ellen Cole Lilly. She was preceded in death by her Husband of 54 years, Carl Abshire Vest, a daughter...

Wilbur Pack
Apr 17, 2007
Wilbur W. Pack, 75, of Hinton died April 17, 2007 in the McDowell Nursing Center at Gary following a long illness. Born July 12, 1931 at Zion Mt. he was a son of the late Charles L. and Grace Mae Harvey Pack, he attended Roles Chapel Baptist Church, enjoyed being around children and was full of the energetic life that...

Sadie Lipscomb
Apr 10, 2007
Sadie M. Davis Lipscomb of Southside, died Tuesday April 10, 2007 at the Springfield Center at Lindside following a long illness. She was the daughter of the late Kyle and Edna Moten Davis, a former employee of G.C. Murphy Co., lifelong resident of Summers Co. and a loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Sadie was preceded in death by her...

Darrell Turner
Apr 1, 2007
Darrell Ray Turner, Jr. 18, of Hinton, died Sunday April 1, 2006 at Hinton. Born April 22, 1988 at Hinton, he was the loving son of Sharon Kay Grose Hicks of Hinton and Darrell Turner Sr. and wife Robin of Hinton. Darrell was a member of the Bellepoint Baptist Church of Hinton, attended Summers Co. High School and was a...

Joseph Adkins
Mar 16, 2007
Joseph William â??Bubbyâ?? Adkins eleven month old son of Frankie and Kim Crowe Adkins of Hilldale, went home to be with the Lord 12:35 P.M. Friday March 16, 2007 in the Women and Childrens Hospital at Charleston. Joseph was born March 28, 2006 in Beckley at Raleigh General Hospital and was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Robert Joseph...

Patricia Lewis
Mar 14, 2007
Patricia Davis Cales Lewis, 59, of 495 Stokes Dr., Hinton, died Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at the Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital at Beckley, following a short illness. Born February 22, 1948 at Ward, WV, she was the daughter of Albert Davis and Wife Betty of Sandstone and Virginia Charlotte Dick Newman of Cross, SC. Mrs. Lewis had worked the early...