Obituaries

Ollie Ward
Oct 13, 2004
Maxine Cooper Maddy Ward 74 of Shrewsbury PA, formally of Summers County died Monday Oct. 11th 2004 in the Pleasant Acres Care Home following a long illness.Born June 18, 1930 in Summers Co., she was a daughter of the late Elisha Berman and Letha Basham Cooper.Mrs. Ward was a homemaker and had lived most of her life in Baltimore MD...

Lloyd Hutchinson
Oct 12, 2004
Lloyd Robert Hutchinson, 52, of Hinton, formerly of Arlington, IN, died Tuesday, October 12, 2004 at 8:00 P.M. at the Summers Co. Continuous Care Center at Hilldale, following a long illness. Born August 12, 1952, at Rushville, IN, he was a son of Mrs. Mytle May Cardot Hutchinson of Rushville, IN and the late Carl M. Hutchinson. He was a...

Martha Yancey
Oct 11, 2004
Martha Sue ?Susie? Yancey, 48, of Beckley, formerly of Hinton, died Monday, October 11, 2004 at her home. Born January 17, 1956 at Talcott, she was a daughter of the late Harold Yancey and the late Frances Virginia Bragg. Susie had lived most of her life at Hinton and Beckley, she was a licensed Beautician and a member of the...

Jackie Ward
Oct 4, 2004
Jackie Leo ?Jack? Ward, 57, of 232 Main St., Hinton, died Monday at his home, following an apparent heart attack.Born July 17, 1946 at Brooks, he was a son of the late Johnny F. and Lula Virginia Cales Ward.Jack had lived most of his life in Summers Co. He was a U.S. Army veteran,having served two tours of duty in...

Ethan
Sep 29, 2004
Ethan Wayne and Hunter Lee Gill Harvey, infant sons of Nina Gill and Jason Harvey of Hinton, were stillborn Wednesday, September 29, 2004 at the Raleigh General Hospital at Beckley. Preceded in death by their Maternal Great Grandfather, Otis Gill, Paternal Great Grandparents, Wallace and Effie Harvey, Paternal Great Grandparents, Danny and Joyce Pittman, two uncles, Stephen Brian Adkins and...

Nancy Brooks
Sep 17, 2004
Nancy Sue ?Susie? Adkins Brooks, 49, of Julian, died Friday, September 17, 2004 at the CAMC Women?s and Children?s Hospital in Charleston, following a long illness. Born February 14, 1955 at Hinton, she was a daughter of Estell and Betty Forren Adkins of Big Creek, and had lived the early part of her life in Summers Co. Susie was a...

Mabel Meadows
Sep 16, 2004
Mabel Jane Meadows, 76 of 313 Cedar Ave. in Hinton died at 9:45 Thursday September 16, 2004 in the Springfield Center at Lindside, WV following a long illness. Born January 21st 1928 at Sandstone WV she was a daughter of the late V.C. and Alice Vance Cox. Mabel was a lifelong resident of Summers County and was of the Baptist...

John Gill
Sep 5, 2004
John Buford ?Bud? Gill, 54, of Tug Creek, Hinton, died Sunday afternoon, September 5, 2004 at the Summers Co. Appalachian Regional Hospital, following a long illness.Born July 22, 1950 at Buck, he was a son of the late John Ray and Ada Norene Foster Gill.John was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., he was a member of the Chestnut Grove...

Steven Massey
Sep 1, 2004
Mr. Steven Dewayne Massey, 56, of Hix, entered the Kingdom of God at 1:16 P.M. Wednesday at his home, following a long illness.Born November 17, 1947 at Hinton, he was a son of Ralph Omer Williams of Hinton and Naomi Wanda Massey of Hilldale.Steve was a member of local union 132 International Union of Operating Engineers, an avid hunter and...

Hubert Richmond
Aug 31, 2004
Hubert Basil Richmond, 87, of Danese, formerly of White Oak and Freezeland Mountain, passed into the loving arms of his Heavenly Father on Tuesday, August 31, 2004 at Heartland of Rainelle, surrounded by his family, following as extended illness.Born on Freezeland Mountain, January 12, 1917, he was the son of the late Alexander and Sarah Bennett Richmond. He was the...

Robert Mann
Aug 29, 2004
Mr. Robert Ray ?Bobby? Mann, 65, of Hinton, died Sunday morning at his home, after a bravely fought five year battle with cancer.Born May 13, 1939 at Barger Springs, he was a son of the late Robert E. Mann and the late Mary Wood Mann Wyant.Bobby was a graduate of Hinton High School. He retired in 1990 after 30 years,...

Ruby Riffe
Aug 28, 2004
Ruby I. Riffe, 89, of Talcott, formerly of Madison, died at 4:55 P.M. Saturday at the Summers County Continuous Care Center at Hilldale, following a long illness.Born August 17, 1915 at Ballengee, she was a daughter of the late Lomar and Allie Lyons Davis.Mrs. Riffe had been a resident of Talcott since 1993. She had lived most of her life...

Ora Williams
Aug 27, 2004
Ora Maxine Frazier Williams, 89, of Hinton went home to be with her Lord and Savior at 2:23 PM Friday August 27, 2004 following a short illness. Born January 9, 1915 in Summers Co. she was the daughter of the Late Jesse W. and Amma Young Frazier. She had lived all of her life in Summers Co. and was the...

Juanita Tate
Aug 27, 2004
Juanita Pearl Tate, 78, of Stafford, Virginia. Died at 11:00 pm Thursday August 27, 2004 at Mary Washington Hospital, In Fredericksburg, Va. Born November 21, 1925 in Beckley, West Virginia she was a daughter of the late Andrew Grover and Thelma Huggart. Juanita attended the Victory Baptist Church in Stafford Virginia. She was proceeded in death by her husband Willie...

Mary Adkins
Aug 23, 2004
Mary Juanita Adkins 62, of Hilldale formally of Hinton died at 12:30 pm Monday August 23, 2004 in the Summers County Continues Care Center at Hilldale following a long illness. Born February 14, 1942 at Pemberton WV she was a daughter of the late Andrew Grover Cleveland and Lydia Ellen Guess Tate. Mary was a member of the Holiness Church...

Mary Crook
Aug 20, 2004
Mary Evangeline Crook, 79, of Chandler, AZ, affectionately known as Vangie by her family and friends, was welcomed home with open arms by her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Thursday, August 20, 2004.Born at Tioga, WV, on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1924, she was the last of seven siblings. After growing up at Tioga, she moved with her husband...

Martina Williams
Aug 17, 2004
Martina A. Thompson Williams, 87, of Nimitz, died Tuesday, August 17, 2004, at the Halstead Care Home at Nimitz, after a long illness.Born December 19, 1916 in Summers Co., she was the daughter of the late Nelson and Ella Harvey Thompson.Mrs. Williams was a lifelong resident of Summers Co., a devoted caregiver for her husband, a homemaker and a member...

Loraine Kesler
Aug 5, 2004
Loraine Catherine Kesler, 79, died Thursday, August 05, 2004 at the Sunbridge Pine Lodge Nursing Home at Beckley, where she had been a patient for the past 20 years. Born June 8, 1925 at Ballengee, she was a daughter of the late John Oaker and Lula Mae McCormick Kesler.Loraine had lived most of her life in Hinton.Preceded in death by...

Lella Elswick
Jul 30, 2004
Mrs. Lella Mae Elswick, 83 of Lowell died 11:40pm Friday July 30, 2004 at her home following a long illness. Born July 17, 1921 at Dille, WV, she was a daughter of the late Richard D. and Martha Belle Carter Butcher.Mrs. Elswick had lived all her life in WV, and had been a resident of Lowell for the past 25...

Roger Wood
Jul 27, 2004
Roger Dale ?Joe? Wood, 50, of Concord, NC, formerly of Hinton, died Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 2:00 a.m., at his home, following a long illness.Born August 30, 1953 at Hinton, he was a son of the late William Dallas and Pauline Elizabeth Bragg Wood Jr.lJoe had lived the early part of his life in Hinton and attended Hinton High...