Obituaries

Ida Bower
Feb 4, 2006
Ida Mae Bower, 85 of Hilldale, went to be with the Lord at 11:10 P.M. Saturday, February 4, 2006 at the Summers Co. Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born May 14, 1920 in Summers Co., she was the daughter of the late Frank M. and Lettie Beatrice Meador Beasley. Mrs. Bower was a lifelong resident...

Steven Amick
Feb 2, 2006
Steven Breck Amick, 53, of Oak Grove, VA, died February 2, 2006 at his home, following a long courageous battle with cancer. Born September 11, 1952 at Oakland, CA, he was the son of Carl and Loretta Thurmon Amick of Nimitz. Upon graduation from West Virginia Institute of Technology in 1974, Mr. Amick served at the Naval Surface Warfare Center...

Judith Creed
Jan 31, 2006
Judith Ann Creed, 67, of Rainelle, died Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center at Fairlea, following short illness. Born December 3, 1938 at Caretta, WV, she was the daughter of the late Shade M. and Selma E. Folden Creed. She was a homemaker and a member of the Peoples Baptist Church of Frederick, MD. Survived by...

Hilda Nelson
Jan 28, 2006
Hilda Mae Nelson, 90, formerly of Ballengee, died Saturday, January 28, 2006 at the Princeton Community Hospital, following a long illness. Born August 27, 1915 at Wayside, she was the daughter of the late Charles Richard and Elsa Faye Surber Sims. Mrs. Nelson had lived most of her life in Summers Co. She had been a resident of the Glenwood...

Arbanna Z.
Jan 24, 2006
Mrs. Arbanna Z. (Cales) Cox, 74, of Sandstone, Died 11:10 A.M. Tuesday, January 24, 2006 in the Summersville Memorial Hospital following a long illness. Born April 17, 1931 at Sandstone, she was the daughter of the late Julian S. and Delphia Mae Bragg Cales. She had lived most of her life at Sandstone and was a member of the Sandstone...

Mark Pack
Jan 23, 2006
Mark A. Pack, 44, of Nimitz, died Monday, January 23, 2006 in the Charleston Area Medical Center. Born July 16, 1961 in Hinton, he was the son of Sandy Shirey Pack Ellis and Husband Bill of Jumping Branch and the late Ray Dean â??Buckâ?? Pack. Mark had lived most of his life in Summers Co. He was the General Manager...

Chrystal Dunbar
Jan 21, 2006
Chrystal L. Dunbar of Lordstown went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, January 21, 2006 while spending the winter in Arizona. She was born in Raleigh County West Virginia, on March 23, 1924 the daughter of Goodrich and Lura (Richmond) Morris. On August 29, 1942, Chrystal married Arnold L. Dunbar, who went home to be with...

Bonnie Wickline
Jan 14, 2006
In the wee hours of the morning of January 14, 2006, God opened up heavens door and called our mom home. Bonnie B. â??Ma Belleâ?? Wickline, 84 of Tempa, was born September 13, 1921 in Summers Co. She was the daughter of the late Waymond and Rosa Williams Richmond. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Hubert H. Woods...

Dorothy Adkins
Jan 12, 2006
Dorothy P. Adkins, of Talcott went to be with the Lord on Thursday, January 12, 2006 in the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center at Fairlea, following a long illness. Born in Summers Co. she was a daughter of the late John and Caroline Bennett Sears. She was a homemaker who attended the Rollynsburg Baptist Church at Talcott. Preceded in death by...

Herbert Roope
Jan 11, 2006
Herbert L. Roope, 80, of 3019 New River Rd., Hinton, died at 6:18 P.M. Wednesday, January 11, 2006 at the Raleigh General Hospital at Beckley, following a long illness. Born, August 2, 1925 in McDowell Co., he was the son of the late Billy Byrd and Virginia Iris Hundley Roope. Mr. Roope was a retired mechanic and car salesman, he...

Emily Mann
Jan 6, 2006
Emily D. Mann, 74, of Hilldale, died Friday, January 6, 2006, at the Heartland of Rainelle, following a long illness. Born May 12, 1931 in Fayette Co., she was the daughter of the late Ben H. and Iva G. Walker Toney. Mrs. Mann had lived most of her life in Summers Co. She had worked at the Pence Springs Sewing...

Mary Seldomridge
Jan 6, 2006
Mary Helen Willey Seldomridge, 76, of Hinton, formerly of Forest Hill, died at 6:20 P.M. Friday at the Princeton Healthcare Center, where she had been a resident for the past 13 years.Born December 28, 1929 in Hinton, she was a daughter of the late Samuel A. and Virginia Carson Keffer.Mary Helen was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., she was...

Kenneth Meadows
Jan 4, 2006
Kenneth Jackson Meadows, 82, of 259 Main St. Hinton, went to be with the Lord on January 4, 2006 surrounded by family and friends, following a long battle with cancer. Born July 15, 1923 in Hinton he was a son of the late Peter and Emma Meadows Meadows. A former employee of the Hinton Hospital and a self-employed painter. Kenneth...

Katie Dameron
Jan 2, 2006
Katie Marie Dameron, 93, of Hinton died at 5:23 A.M. Monday, January 02, 2006 at Summers County Appalachian Regional Hospital following a long illness. Born November 20, 1912 at Greenup, KY, she was the daughter of the late Albert Lee and Anna Gearhart Sullivan. Mrs. Dameron was a former resident of Alleghany Co., VA and was a member of the...

Barry Plumley
Dec 27, 2005
Barry Allen â??Buckâ?? Plumley, 60, of Cool Ridge went home to be with the Lord at 11:15 P.M. Tuesday, December 27, 2005 at his home following a long illness. Born July 21, 1945 at White Sulphur Springs, he was a son of the late Roscoe C. and Martha Jarvis Plumley. He was raised on Plumley Mountain in Raleigh Co. Disabled...

Evangeline Young
Dec 26, 2005
Evangeline Marilyn McPherson Young passed away on Monday, December 26, 2005 after a long illness at the age of 72. Born March 25, 1933 in Saint Francis Maine, but had been a resident in Hinton since 1976. She is survived by her husband Ople H. (Sarge) Young of Hinton, eight children; son James R. Young and his wife Pam of...

Joseph Allen
Dec 24, 2005
Joseph Lee Allen, 2 day old infant son of Stephen and Teresa Wills Allen of Forest Hill, died Saturday, December 24th, 2005 at the Cabell â?? Huntington Hospital at Huntington, WV. Besides his parents, he is survived by a sister, Catherine Ileen Allen, Paternal Grandmother, Phyllis Light of Hinton and Maternal Grandparents, Carl D. and Virginia Wills of Hinton. Private...

Sgt. Karim
Dec 13, 2005
U. S. Army Sgt. Brian C. Karim, 22, husband of Rachel Lasley Karim, father of two year old Janessa Karim of Nimitz and the son of Vera and Garland Adkins of Talcott, was killed in action in a roadside bombing on Tuesday, December 13, 2005, northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Brian was a member of Taskforce Baghdad charged with security in...

Lilly Petrey
Dec 6, 2005
Lilly Madeline Petrey, 86, of Hinton, died Tuesday, December 6, 2005 at the Wayne Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, at Wayne, WV following a long illness. Born December 20, 1918 at Hinton, she was a daughter of the late Thad and Mattie Maddy Scarbro. Mrs. Petrey was a lifelong resident of Hinton, she was a homemaker and a Baptist. Preceded in...

Mabel Lazio
Dec 5, 2005
Mabel Lilly Lazio, 102, of Hilldale, passed away on December 5, 2005 at the Summers Nursing and Rehabilitation Center at Hilldale . Born February 16, 1903 in Summers County, she was the daughter of the late Congressman Thomas Jefferson and Roxy Lilly Lilly. She was the former wife of C&O Engineer Cecil Lilly of Hinton with whom she had four...