Anna June Clark, 86, of 168 Adkins St., Shady Spring, West Virginia, departed this life July 18, 2006, into eternal life, following a long illness.
Born at Tazewell County, Virginia, on Feb. 5, 1920, she was the daughter of the late R.T. Martin and Margaret Horton Trail and stepfather James T. Trail Sr.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles E. Clark; and three brothers, John H. Martin, James T. Trail Jr. and William Trail.
Anna was formerly a resident of Flat Top, W.Va., where she was a member of Fairview Baptist Church. After moving to Shady Spring, she was an active member of First Baptist Church.
Anna was active in The Women’s Mission Circle. She also was a member of the “Busy Bees.”
Anna leaves to cherish her memory a daughter, Zella Margaret Lilly and husband, Eugene, of Shady Spring, two sons, John E. Clark and wife, Susan, of Piney View, Thomas Clark and wife, Anna, of Shady Spring; a brother, Jack Trail of Ohio; three sisters, Nancy O’Dell of Beckley, Sylvia Lewis of Charleston and Emma Jo Farley of Virginia; 10 grandchildren, Cindy, Mary, David, Jason, John, Paula, Tara, Shala, T.J. and Stephanie; and sixteen great-grandchildren.
Service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, 2006, at Blue Ridge Funeral Home with Pastor Delvin D. Elwell officiating. Burial will follow at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Friends may gather with the family 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Blue Ridge Funeral Home.
The family wishes to thank all the staff on the second floor north of Raleigh General Hospital and staff and friends at Raleigh Center, Daniels.
Arrangements by Blue Ridge Funeral Home.
Vickie Crawford
Vickie Crawford, 50, of Cool Ridge, died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at her home.
Arrangements by Rose and Quesenberry Funeral Home, Shady Spring.
Karen Davis
BRENTON — Karen Davis, 67, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at her residence, following a long illness.
Calfee Funeral Service of Pineville is serving the Davis family.
Harry D. Day III
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Harry D. Day III, widower of Phyllis Jean Day, died Sunday, July 16, 2006.
Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, at the White Chapel Mausoleum in Barboursville. Burial will follow.
Friends may call one hour before the service on Saturday at the cemetery.
Arrangements by Chapman’s Mortuary, Huntington.
Nora A. Dotson
RICHWOOD — Nora A. Dotson, 89, died Tuesday, July 18, 2006.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Friday at Mountain View Memorial Park, Richwood.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Richwood Area Community Hospital, Equipment Fund, 75 Ave. B, Richwood, WV 26261 or First United Methodist Church, 2 East Walnut St., Richwood, WV 26261.
Arrangements by Simons-Coleman Funeral Home, Richwood.
Elli Lotte Fredersdorff
SUMMERSVILLE — Elli Lotte Fredersdorff, 93, died Sunday, July 16, 2006.
Service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at White Funeral Home, Summersville. Friends may call one hour prior to the service Saturday at the funeral home.
Arrangements by White Funeral Home, Summersville.
Letha L. Fritz
BALLARD — Letha L. Fritz, 58, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2006, at the Springfield Care Center, Lindside.
Arrangements are incomplete at the Broyles-Shrewsbury Funeral Home, Peterstown.
Geraldine Fuller
GLEN ROGERS — Geraldine Fuller, 71, died Wednesday, June 19, 2006, at B.A.R.H.
Arrangements by Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor, Beckley.
Gregory Steven ‘Stevie’ Harper
OAK HILL — Gregory Steven “Stevie” Harper, 50, passed away Wednesday, July 19, 2006, at CAMC Memorial Hospital in Charleston.
Arrangements by High Lawn Funeral Home Chapel, 1435 E. Main St., Oak Hill.
Mark Avery Hurtte
Mark Avery Hurtte, 18, of 408 Orchard Ave., Beckley, died 7:30 p.m., Friday, July 14, 2006. He was the son of Mark Anthony Hurtte of Orchard Ave., Beckley, and Andrea Jeanne Shannon of 409 Hartley Ave., Beckley.
Service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Welcome Baptist Church, 206 8th St., Beckley, with the Rev. David Allen and Pastor Sandra Jackson officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Memorial Park, Beckley.
Friends may call two hours before the service on Saturday at the church.
Arrangements entrusted to Ritchie and Johnson Funeral Parlor, Beckley.
Doris E. Maynor
Doris E. Maynor of Beckley passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2006, at a local care facility.
She was the daughter of the late Tracy L. Maynor I and Grace Powell Maynor, and was the last surviving member of her immediate family.
Doris lived in Beckley all her life and was a school teacher, having taught school for 40 years. She received her B.S. Degree from Concord College and did graduate work in social studies from West Virginia University.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church, Beckley, the Beckley Woman’s Club and Alpha Delta Kappa Honorary Sorority for Women Educators. She was past president of Zeta Chapter of A.D.K. She was also a member of the WV A.D.K. Fidelis Alpha Chapter and the WV Retired Teachers Association.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Tracy L. Maynor II, in 1971.
Surviving are a nephew, Larry Maynor III and his wife, Jill, of Salisbury, N.C.; a niece, Pamela Ball and her husband, Wayne, of Las Vegas, Nev.; great-nephew, Tracy Maynor IV and his wife, Wendy, of Salisbury, N.C.; great-niece, Tamara Cowart and her husband, John, of Belmont, N.C.; great-grand niece, Alice Grace and great-grand nephews, Chase and Bryson Cowart of Belmont, N.C.; cousin, Jean Cook of Beckley; and several other cousins.
Service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum A, Beckley, with the Rev. Phil Smith officiating. Entombment will follow in Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum A, Beckley.
Friends may call one hour before the service Friday at the mausoleum.
Friends and members of the First Baptist Church will serve a pallbearers.
In lieu of flowers, donations of sympathy may be made in Doris Maynor’s memory to the charity of one’s choice.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Robert W. Treadway
Robert “Wayne” Treadway, 45, of Beckley, passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2006, following a short illness.
Born Sept. 19, 1960, at Beckley, he was the son of the late Beulah Christine Bailey and the late Robert Lee Treadway.
Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of 22 years, Anna Lisa Treadway; a daughter, Linda Skeens and husband, William, of Glen Morgan; a daughter, Christy Treadway at home; a son, Jeff Treadway at home; two brothers, James L. Treadway and wife, Nola, of Fayette County and Danny Hazle and wife, Paulette, of Richmond, Va.; maternal-in-laws, Anna Reeves of Gastonia, NC, John White and wife, Connie, of Pineville, and David Shrewsbury II of Gastonia, NC.
Private service will be Friday, July 21, 2006, at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Beckley with the Rev. Danny Kincaid officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley.
Blue Ridge Funeral Home, 5251 Robert C. Byrd Drive, Beckley is in charge of the arrangements.
Alva Jane Hunter Vickers
Alva Jane Hunter Vickers of Naoma passed away Tuesday, July 18, 2006, at the home of her daughter-in-law, Marie Hunter of Charleston, where she had resided since 1999. She was a homemaker and a member of the Naoma Free Will Baptist Church for over 50 years, where she taught Sunday School and was very active in the Ladies Auxiliary.
Alva was the first daughter born to Lewis Sanford (Tank) and Ada Morris Turner on Feb. 5, 1915, at Pine Knob. In addition to her parents and husbands, Perry Hunter and Otto Vickers, she was preceded in death by her brothers, Dorsie, Millard, French, Kelly, Radie and Clyde; her sisters, Ethel, Lena and Jean; and her only son, James P. Hunter Jr.
She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Marie Hunter; three grandsons, Roger Hunter and his wife, Pam Cutright, of Charleston, Doug Hunter and his wife, Audrey, of Christiana, Tenn., and Jeff Hunter and his wife, Carrie Beth, of Belle; six great-grandchildren, Elizabeth, John Thomas (JT), Jessica, Julia, Lauryn and Nick Hunter; her sister, Alice Price and her husband, Herman, of Naoma; stepdaughter, Opal Angel of Sylvester; a host of beloved nieces, nephews, step grandchildren, step great-grandchildren and step great-great- grandchildren.
Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Valley Funeral Home, Whitesville, with the Rev. Bill Calhoun officiating. Burial will follow in the Adkins cemetery at Naoma.
Friends may call Friday 6 to 8 p.m. at Valley Funeral Home in Whitesville, and on Saturday afternoon one hour before the service at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Valley Funeral Home, Whitesville.
Orville L. Williams Jr.
Orville L. Williams Jr., age 83, of Bartow, formerly of Beckley, died Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in Beckley of natural causes.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Beulah Lillian Dean Marks
Beulah Lillian Dean (Mrs. Lon Thomas) Marks, passed away quietly on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005, attended by her daughter and an “extended family” of staff at the Eastwood Nursing Center in Negaunee, where she had been a resident, suffering from progressive dementia, since 2001.
She was born Aug. 2, 1913, at Widen, W.Va., the only daughter and sixth child of Tyler Brackenridge Dean and Columbia Jeanette Wilson Dean. She enjoyed her early years in the little lumber town of Skyles, W.Va., and graduated from High School at Richwood. She won a county-wide spelling contest when she was about 13 years old. She attended business college in Charleston, and began her secretarial career in Lewisburg.
There she also served as pianist for the Baptist church, where she met a young interim minister, Lon T. Marks, whom she married at Rupert, on Sept. 7, 1936, with his father, Isaac Thomas Marks, officiating.
Thus began her full-time life work as partner in her husband’s ministry. He was a gifted preacher and counselor, she a practical secretary and organizer, but also his wise adviser and counselor, discreet taker of the congregational pulse, who never gossiped and was much trusted by their parishioners.
In most of their pastorates she taught Sunday School, participated in the Women’s Mission Society and served as accompanist and/or choir director when needed. She was a gifted and accomplished pianist and organist, with a fine sense of playing for congregational singing.
Beulah’s life in the ministry was full and varied. Their first pastorate was at Webster Springs, followed by a great deal of travel during World War II, when Lon was a chaplain in the Army. Pastorates in West Virginia included Summersville, Goshen, Auburn-Boothsville-Troy Parish and Glenville, plus a rural parish near Bridgeport followed, along with out-of-state ministries in Olyphant, Pa., and Pascack Valley, N.J. They served also at Sabraton, near Morgantown, before their final pastorate of Sunday Road Baptist Church at Hico, which Lon’s father had helped to found.
Beulah was preceded in death by her husband on Nov. 1, 1978. She missed him very much, but she came to enjoy her independence, living at Lon’s “old home place” near Lookout, and enjoying many excursions with her dear women friends from Sunday Road, along with extended visits with her nieces in Florida and Seattle. She spent the coldest months with her daughter in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but was “at home” from May until Christmas for about 12 more years until failing health brought her to Marquette year-around.
Though Beulah could deliver a beautiful devotional message, she is best remembered for her example, for she looked not on the outward appearance of race or creed or social status, but on the heart of each individual, giving a Mexican grocer in New Mexico such kind respect that the lesson was worth more than any treatise to her nine-year-old daughter, who saw in the man’s smile a gratitude beyond words — no other “Anglo” had treated him as an equal human being for a long time.
Her best memorial will be her living example of true Christian “caritas” as it continues through the lives of all who were touched by her during her long lifetime.
Beulah is survived by her daughter, Lillian Ruth Marks Heldreth; son-in-law Leonard Guy Heldreth; grandson Randall Thomas Heldreth (Ayako Ishimi) and great-granddaughter Rio Ishimi Heldreth of Kyoto, Japan, and grandson, Terrence Heldreth (Erica Milkovich) of Eugene, Oreg., plus many nieces and nephews and grand-nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 21, at Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Ansted. Family may arrive as early as 5 p.m. Funeral service will be Saturday at Sunday Road Baptist Church at Hico, with Pastor Allen Donaldson. The church will be open at 1 p.m. Saturday for those unable to attend the evening visitation. Burial will be at Restlawn Memory Gardens in Victor.
Memorials in Beulah’s name can be made by donations to Sunday Road Baptist Church, The American Baptist Mission Society, or any local Alzheimer’s Association.