Obituaries

Curtis Maddox
Apr 11, 2005
Curtis E. Maddox, 81 of Hinton, a former resident of Turnersville, N.J. died Monday April 11, 2005 at his home following a long illness. Born November 6, 1923 in Halifax, N.C. he was a son of the late Edward W. and Hannah P. Bruton Maddox. A resident of Hinton since 1997 and a former employee of Super Tire Engineering of...

Ricky Adkins
Apr 2, 2005
Ricky Ray Adkins, 44, of Hinton, died in his sleep at home on April 2, 2005. Born December 13, 1960 at Hinton, he was a son of James Nelson Gill of Pipestem and the late Patsy Jean Adkins Gill. He had lived all his life in Summers Co. and was of the Baptist faith. Preceded in death by his Maternal...

Lawrence Samuel
Apr 2, 2005
Lawrence E. ?Tex? Samuel, 71, of Lick Creek Road, Pipestem went to be with his Lord and Savior at 7:25 A.M. Saturday, April 02, 2005 at the Raleigh General Hospital following a short illness. Born July 24, 1933 in Fort Worth, Texas he was a son of the late Lawrence E. and Swan Martin Samuel. Tex was an ordained minister...

Josephine Cales
Mar 30, 2005
Josephine Foster Cales, 87 of Sandstone, died Wednesday, March 30, 2005 at the Halstead Care Home at Nimitz, following a long illness. Born April 9, 1917 at Sandstone, she was the daughter of the late James and Ona Johnson Foster and was a lifelong resident of Summers Co. She was a homemaker and a member of the Sandstone Baptist Church....

Frederick Ambers
Mar 28, 2005
Fred Ambers Frederick Ignatius Ambers, 52 formerly of Hinton died unexpectedly March 28, 2005 in Matthews, North Carolina after a long struggle with heart disease and diabetes. Born March 5, 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio, he was a son of the late Joseph and Eleanore Ambers. Fred was an avid sports fan and football player both in elementary school at Our...

Robert Swim
Mar 28, 2005
Robert W. ?Hillbilly? Swim 72, of Pipestem went to be with the Lord, March 28, 2005 at the Princeton Community Hospital. Born March 27, 1933 at Corinne, WV he was a son of the late Cecil R. and Edna Mae O?Neal Swim. A former resident of St. Paul, MN where he retired from the St. Paul Water Co. where he...

Virginia Carter
Mar 28, 2005
Virginia Perry Carter, 100, of Talcott, died at 8:50 P.M. Monday, March 28, 2005 at the Summers Co. Continuous Care Center at Hilldale, following a short illness. Born March 8, 1905 at Alderson, she was a daughter of the late George and Laura Huffman Perry. Mrs. Carter had lived most of her life in Kanawha County, where she worked at...

Ora Lilly
Mar 24, 2005
Ora Marie Lilly, 96, of Jumping Branch, died Thursday, March 24, 2005, at the Summers Co. Continuous Care Center at Hilldale. Born February 3, 1909 at Streeter, she was the daughter of the late Samuel John Tilden Pack and Margaret Elizabeth Dunbar Pack. Mrs. Lilly had lived most of her life in Summers Co., she was a homemaker and a...

Martha Yancey
Mar 18, 2005
Martha A. Yancey, 100, of Madam?s Creek, Hinton, died Friday, March 18, 2005 at the Summers Co. Continuous Care Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born April 21, 1904 at Bakewell, TN, she was the daughter of the late James Dolphin and Nancy Myra Shipley Smith and had lived most of her life in Summers Co. She was a...

Rex Dillon
Mar 13, 2005
Rex Lee Dillon, 66, of Marie, passed away Sunday morning, March 13, 2005 at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center at Fairlea, following a long illness. Born August 21, 1938, at Calloway Heights, in Raleigh Co., he was the son of the late Lacy H. and Sarah Hughes Dillon. In 1948, he moved to Marie, WV, where he had lived most...

Eula Ratliff
Mar 13, 2005
Mrs. Eula Marie Basham Ratliff, 67, of Jumping Branch died Sunday evening at her home following a long illness.Born December 17, 1938 at True, she was the daughter of the late William Wesley and Lillie E. Meador Basham.She was a member of the Bluestone Baptist Church at Jumping Branch.Preceded in death by two brothers, Arnold and Willard Basham.Survived by her...

Sylvia Gore
Mar 13, 2005
Sylvia Holbrook Gore, of Godby St., Logan, passed away Sunday, March 13, 2005 at the CAMC Memorial Division at Charleston. Born at Whitman, she was the daughter of the late Caleb and Nannie May Holbrook. Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert E. Gore, five sisters; Rouie Sperry, Shirley Kitchen, Verdie Reynolds, Georgie Hobbs, and...

Lucy Willey
Mar 13, 2005
Mrs. Lucy Wiseman Willey, 99, of Fairfax, VA, formerly of Hinton, died Sunday morning, March 13, 2005 at the Manor Care ? Fair Oaks Rehabilitation Center at Fairfax, following a short illness. Mrs. Willey was born March 11, 1906 at Hinton. She was one of nine children born to the late H. Leslie and Elizabeth Boone Wiseman. Mrs. Willey was...

Vella Lilly
Mar 11, 2005
Vella Mae Lilly 82, of Camp Creek went home to be with the Lord early Friday morning March 11, 2005 in the Raleigh Center at Daniels following a long illness. Born April 8, 1922 at Ellison she was a daughter of the late Theodore McKinley and Bertha Pack Lilly and a lifelong resident of Ellison and Camp Creek. Survived by...

Mary Ethel
Mar 8, 2005
Mary Ethel Cox, 87, of Jumping Branch, died Tuesday, March 8, 2005 at 8:00 P.M. at the Raleigh Center at Beaver, following a long illness. Born March 13, 1917 at Ellison, she was the daughter of the late Winfred P. and Roxie Cox Farley. Mrs. Cox was a member of the Bluestone Baptist Church at Jumping Branch and a member...

H. Harrah
Mar 4, 2005
Gene H. ?Tommy? Harrah, 68 of Meadow Creek, died Friday, March 4, 2005 at his home, following a battle with liver cancer. Born January 21, 1937 at Claypool, he was the son of Leoda Bell Harrah of Meadow Creek and the late Jesse Harrah. Gene was a 1961 graduate of Sandstone High School and the Durham Institute of Barbering in...

Danny Mansfield
Mar 3, 2005
Danny Ray Mansfield, 55, of Nimitz, died at 4:00 A. M., Thursday, March 3, 2005 at Waynesboro, VA. Following a long illness. Born December 13, 1949 in Summers Co., he was a son of the late Lindsay and Betty Butler Mansfield Harvey and was a lifelong resident of Nimitz. He was a disabled coal miner, a member of UMWA, a...

Archie Reed
Feb 28, 2005
Archie Lanier Reed, 92, of Blacksburg, Va., formerly of Oak Hill and Hinton, W.Va., died Monday, February 28, 2005, at Blacksburg where he had resided for the past four years. Born May 12, 1913, in Hinton, he was a son the late Ace and Sarah Meadows Reed. He resided in Oak Hill from 1951 until moving to Blacksburg in 2000....

Kathryn Yates
Feb 26, 2005
Kathryn ?Kitty? Meadows Jolly Yates, age 83, of Danville, Va., died Saturday, February 26, 2005, in the Roman Eagle Memorial Home. She was born in Hinton, W.Va on November 6, 1921, a daughter of Fred and Arabelle Farley Meadows. She was first married to Richard Jolly and later married Robert Yates, both deceased. She was a sales clerk at G.C....

Paul Ratliff
Feb 24, 2005
Paul Elbert ?Buck? Ratliff, 82, of Hinton, died Thursday morning September 24, 2005 at the Halstead?s Care Home at Nimitz, following a long illness. Born May 31, 1922 in Hinton, he was the son of the late Charles and Jennie Harvey Ratliff. Mr. Ratliff was a retired welder for the CSX Corp., a member of the Transportation and Communications Union...