Obituaries
Oak Hill & Mt. Hope Obituaries
Local obituaries for Oak Hill, Mt. Hope and Fayette County, WV
Haven P. Davis
Nov 4, 2005
Haven P. Davis, 83, of Maple Fork, WV, passed away Friday, November 4, 2005, at Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, WV. Born April 23, 1922 at Nesco (Maple Fork), West Virginia, he was the son of the late Price and Emma Givens Davis. He was a retired Federal Mine Inspector, having retired from the Mount Hope office of the Dept. of...
Suzann Smith
Oct 31, 2005
Suzann Hamrick Smith, 57, of Oak Hill, WV died on Monday, October 31, 2005 at her home. Born November 23, 1947 at Powellton Hollow, Montgomery, WV she was the daughter of the late Opie and Hazel Hartwell Hamrick. She was a disabled Dietitian for Beckley ARH and of the Pentacostal faith. Three brothers, Donnie Ray, Jerry Lawrence and Jackie Lee...
Freda Howard Babinski
Oct 31, 2005
Freda Howard Babinski, 54, of McEwen, TN passed away Monday, October 31, 2005 following a short illness. She was the daughter of Lois Rice Howard Blaschak, also known as the poet Jenny Wren, of Lancing, TN formerly of Scarbro, WV and the late Cager D. Howard who preceded her in 1983. Freda was the author of two published books of...
Helen Bowyer
Oct 30, 2005
Helen L. Farr Bowyer, 87, of Clarksville, IN died on Sunday, October 30, 2005 in a Clarksville, IN care center following a long illness. Born June 10, 1918 at Sharpes, WV she was the daughter of the late Stanley and Edna Mitchell Farr, Sr.. Mrs. Bowyer was a member of the United Methodist Church, Oak Hill, WV and was a...
Jewel Wriston
Oct 27, 2005
Jewel Carmel Wills Wriston, 83, of Oak Hill, WV died on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at Hidden Valley Healthcare Center in Oak Hill, WV following a long illness. Born May 23, 1922 at Putney, WV she was the daughter of the late Edward and Goldie Harper Wills. Mrs. Wriston was a member of the Apostolic faith and a homemaker. Her...
Cassandra J. Kessler
Oct 23, 2005
Cassandra Jean Kessler, 21 day old daughter of Justin Carl and Mary Beth Honaker Kessler, of Toccoa, GA died on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. She was born October 02, 2005 in Toccoa, GA She was preceded in death by a paternal great grandfather, Guy Kincaid and maternal great grandfathers, Creed Evans Bradshaw...
Faye Thompson Arcudia
Oct 22, 2005
Faye Thompson Arcudia,84,of Oak Hill died Saturday, October 22, 2005 at Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley following a long illness. She was born April 24, 1921 at Killarney, WV, a daughter of the late Grady and Nora Barnes Gunnoe. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Robert Thompson; her...
Delphia Evans
Oct 22, 2005
Verna Delphia Coleman Evans,93,of Rt. 1 Scarbro died Saturday, October 22, 2005 at Heartland of Charleston, Charleston, WV. She was born September 15, 1912 at Dothan, WV a daughter of the late Everette S. and Naomi S. Payne Coleman. She was a homemaker and a member of the Fairview United Methodist Church at East Kingston. Her husband, Desota Evans, two...
Stanley Uher
Oct 16, 2005
Stanley Uher,73,of Oak Hill formerly of Chicago and Lyons, Illinois died Wednesday, October 12 at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital after a short illness. Born April 19, 1932, at Kingston, WV, he was the son of the late Mike and Vera Uher. Mr. Uher was a retired employee of the Public School system in Illinois. He was a graduate of the...
William "Bill" Sharpless
Oct 16, 2005
William E. "Bill" Sharpless, 47, of Apache Junction, AZ formerly of Mount Hope, WV went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, October 16, 2005. Born August 21, 1958 at Akron, OH he was the son of Barbara Wright of Beckley, WV and the late Frank Sharpless and stepson of Earl Wright of Beckley and the late Betty Sharpless....
Thomas Evan Kirk
Oct 15, 2005
Thomas Evan Kirk, 76, of Beckley, passed away Saturday, October 15, 2005 at the Webster Nursing and Rehab. Center, Cowen,WV following a long illness. Born June 9, 1929 at Newark, Ohio, he was the son of the late Evan Petrie Kirk and Betty Jane Palmer Ankrum. Mr. Kirk was a retired electrician and manager with Motorola in Memphis, Tenn. He...
Philip Andrew Legg
Oct 13, 2005
Philip Andrew Legg,79, of Oak Hill died Thursday, October 13, 2005 at Raleigh General Hospital, following a short illness. Born July 26, 1926 at Fire Creek, he was the son of the late Lucian and Agnes Hall Legg. Mr. Legg was a retired coal miner and heavy equipment operator having retired from Perry and Hylton Company at Cannelton. He was...
Evelyn H. Wade
Oct 10, 2005
Evelyn H. Wade,88, of Oak Hill died Monday, October 10, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center, Oak Hill after a short illness. She was born September 14, 1917 at Hinton, WV, a daughter of the late John and Susie Conley Roach. She was a homemaker. Preceded in death by her husbands, David Wade and Joe Treadway; one daughter, Pauline Hunter; four...
Pauline "Polly" Crouch
Oct 7, 2005
Frances Pauline "Polly" Hooten Crouch, 83, of Oak Hill, WV went to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, October 07, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV following a courageous battle with cancer. Born July 28, 1922 at Helen, WV she was the daughter of the late James Raymond and Mary Jane Hooten. Her husband, C.E....
Bernadine Janney Smith
Oct 6, 2005
Bernadine K. Janney Smith, 62, of Lenoir, NC formerly of Pax, WV died on Thursday, October 06, 2005 at her home. Born June 19, 1943 at Charleston, WV she was the daughter of Aileen McGraw Janney of Pax, WV and the late James Seibert Janney. She was the disabled owner of Commercial Cleaning Services at Lenoir, NC. She was a...
Ella R. O'Neal
Oct 4, 2005
Ella Rebecca Bane O'Neal, 82, of Gatewood, WV died on Tuesday, October 04, 2005 at her home following a brief illness. Born February 23, 1923 at McGraws, WV she was the daughter of the late Leland Stanford and Lona Belle Perry Bane. Her husband, James Remuel O'Neal preceded her in death. Ella grew up in Oceana, WV and graduated from...
Rhoda Underwood
Oct 3, 2005
Rhoda Lueann Honaker Underwood, 91, of Oak Hill, WV died on Monday, October 03, 2005 at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, WV following a short illness. Born May 08, 1914 in Fayette County, WV she was the daughter of the late Rev. Charles Edward and Minnie J. Ellison Honaker. She was a homemaker. Her husband, Col. Jean Underwood; eight brothers,...
Veda P. Craigo
Oct 3, 2005
Veda Pauline Waters Craigo, 81, of Oak Hill, WV died on Monday, October 03, 2005 at Fayette Continuous Care Center in Fayetteville, WV following a long illness. Born June 14, 1924 at Carbondale, WV she was the daughter of the late John and Flodie Moore Waters. Mrs. Craigo was a member of the Church of God, Scott Depot, WV. She...
Helen Slovak Bruns
Sep 28, 2005
Helen Slovak Lepto Bruns, 89, of Mount Hope, WV died on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at home, with family by her side. Born August 29, 1916 at Trenton, NJ she was the daughter of the late John and Anna Osvai Slovak. Mrs. Bruns was a member of the SS Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Oak Hill, WV. She was an...
J. Walter Brown
Sep 28, 2005
Former Oak Hill Mayor, J. Walter Brown, 85, died on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV following a long illness. Born at Union, WV on March 13, 1920,he was the son of the late Henry Clay (H.C.) and Annie E. Cummings Brown. Mr. Brown was a member of the Oak Hill Baptist Church, Oak...
