Ruby D. Adkins
MEADOW BRIDGE � Ruby D. Adkins, 83, of Meadow Bridge, passed away Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, in Cleveland, Ohio, following a long illness.
Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at Smathers Funeral Chapel, Rainelle. Burial will follow in the Patton Memorial Cemetery, Meadow Bridge.
Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Chapel, Rainelle.
Howard Stanley Alley
Howard Stanley Alley, 66, of Daniels, formerly of Rainelle, passed away Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at his home following a long illness.
Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, at Smathers Funeral Chapel in Rainelle. Burial will follow in the Alley Family Cemetery on Sewell Mountain in Rainelle.
Friends may call one hour before the service from 1 to 2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Chapel, Rainelle.
Leroy Ronald Hayslette
MINDEN � Leroy Ronald Hayslette, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at Plateau Medical Center, Oak Hill.
Arrangements by High Lawn Funeral Home, Oak Hill.
Henry Walton Miller Jr.
MOUNT HOPE � Henry Walton Miller Jr., 91, of Mount Hope, died on Monday, Nov. 23, 2009, at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton.
Mr. Miller was cremated. No visitation or service is planned.
Online condolences may be sent at www.tyreefuneralhome.com
Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Mount Hope.
Carmella Pizzino Mullins
KANSAS CITY, Mo. � Carmella Pizzino Mullins, 89, of Kansas City, formerly of Oak Hill, died on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009, in Kansas City.
Mass of Christian Burial will be on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009, at 10 a.m. at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Oak Hill with Father Paul Yuenger officiating. Burial will be at High Lawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill.
Visitation will be held at Tyree Funeral Home on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009, from 6 to 8 p.m., where a prayer service will be held at 6:15 p.m.
Online condolences may be sent at www.tyreefuneralhome.com
Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.
Elmer Lee �Pete� Simpson
CLEAR FORK � Elmer Lee �Pete� Simpson, 63, of Clear Fork, went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009 at Raleigh General Hospital.
He was born March 29, 1946 in Clear Fork, a son of the late Charlie Lee and Belva Toler Simpson.
He was a retired coal miner having worked for Peabody Coal Company and was a graduate of Oceana High School. Pete was a member of the Clear Fork Independent Church of God, where he loved to sing and praise God and was a member of the C.M.A. Group Thunder and Praise.
Survivors include his loving wife of 27 years, Sherry Tapscott Simpson; a daughter, Carol Rose and husband Jerry of Kopperston; a son, Michael Simpson of Oceana; two loving step-daughters, Christina Toler of Zolfo Springs, Fla. and Tammy Morgan of Lexington, Ky.; two grandchildren, who he loved dearly Tyler Toler and Jordan Rose; two sisters, Phyllis Bishop and husband Bobby of Talcott and Peggy Hager and husband David of Clear Fork; a brother, Mitch Simpson and fianc� Susan of Lynco; and a host of nieces, nephews and other loving family and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today, Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, at the Chapel of Stafford Family Funeral Home, Lynco, with Pastor Hannibal Blankenship Jr. officiating. Pete will be laid to rest in Toler Cemetery, Clear Fork.
Friends gathered with the family from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, at the funeral home.
Pallbearers will be Michael Simpson, Tyler Toler, Tim Ulrich, Eddie Gilley, Darnell Belcher and Todd Landis.
E-mail letters of sympathy may be sent at www.staffordfamilyfuneralhome.com
The family is being served by the Stafford Family Funeral Home, Lynco.
Nancy Pat Hamilton Lewis-Smith
Nancy Pat Hamilton Lewis-Smith, 90, of 104 Virginia Street, Beckley, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
Born Jan. 21, 1919, in Oak Hill, W. Va., she was the daughter of the late Dr. Edward St. Clair and Kate Boone Hamilton.
Nancy Pat was an involved owner and president of the many corporations that comprised Lewis Automotive Group, a Beckley landmark since 1937.
She was concerned with education, culture, business, politics and church. She served as Past President of the Beckley Junior Women�s Club, the Beckley Woman�s Club, the PTO at Institute Elementary School, and organized the first intermediate Girl Scout Troop in the local area. She also served on the Organization Committee of the St. Stephen�s Episcopal Day School where she later taught kindergarten.
She also taught adult basic education. She helped organize such diverse groups as Highland Garden Club, the Women�s Resource Center and the Beckley Community Concert Association. She served as a member of the State Democratic Committee from 1964 to 1990 and as a member of the Beckley Housing Authority and Beckley Renaissance. She held memberships in the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), Women�s Club, Highland Garden Club, the Black Knight Country Club, Book Club, and Historical Society.
She remained an active member of St. Stephen�s Episcopal Church where she had previously been President of the Women of the Church Organization.
Nancy Pat graduated from Oak Hill High School, and Ward Belmont College, and continued her education at Beckley College (now Mountain State University) and Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston).
She married Charles Scott Lewis Jr. who predeceased her on Dec. 5, 1987. From that marriage she has three daughters, Nancy Hamilton Haley, Langhorne Abrams and husband A. David Abrams, Jr., Mary Charles Sutphin and husband Kem Sutphin. She also has six granddaughters, Kate Haley Hatfield and husband Eric Hatfield, Ann Haley Donegan, and husband Thomas Donegan, Rachel Abrams Hopkins and husband �Chad� Hopkins, Sarah Abrams, Mary Kemple Henderson and husband Pretlow Henderson, and Rebecca Sutphin. In addition to her granddaughters, she is also survived by eight great grandchildren, Ansley, Evan, Braden, Jared, John Hamilton, Ella St. Clair, Will, and Cross.
On July 14, 1990, she married former Governor Hulett Carlson Smith, who survives her, and added to the family circle the children of former Governor Smith, Carolyn Smith Sheets and her husband, George, Mark Weston Smith, now deceased, Paul Luther Smith and his wife, Patti, Suzaine Wilcott and Christy Smith Merritt.
She was inducted into the Mountain State University Alumni Hall of Fame in 2007. This award had special meaning to her since this is where she met Charles Scott Lewis Jr. in 1939.
In addition to her many other honors, Nancy Pat was the first women locally honored as Paul Harris Fellow by the Beckley Rotary Club, an organization in which she was an active member until her declining health intervened.
In 1994, she and Governor Smith received the YMCA Spirit of Beckley Award.
Services will be 1 p.m. today, Wednesday at St. Stephen�s Episcopal Church in Beckley, with the Reverend Eric Miller officiating. Entombment will be at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum in Beckley.
Friends called 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at Calfee Funeral Home in Beckley.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.
Online condolences may be left at www.calfeefh.com
Memorial donations may be sent to Beckley Area Foundation or St. Stephen�s Episcopal Day School.
Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Regina Dale Hanshew Stewart
DANESE � Regina Dale Hanshew Stewart of Danese, died Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009, in Georgia.
Arrangements will be made through Wallace & Wallace Funeral Chapel, Rainelle.
Vernon Johnston York
CHAPMANVILLE � Vernon Johnston York, 56, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
Service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at the Honaker Funeral Home, Logan. Friends may call from 11 a.m. until time of the service Saturday a the funeral home. The body will be cremated.
The family request in lieu of flowers that donations can be made to the American Diabetes Association, attention National Call Center, 1701 North Beauregard St., Alexandria, Va. 22311.
Condolences may be sent to www.honakerfuneralhome.org
Arrangements by Honaker Funeral Home in Logan.
