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Chapter 15—Unidentified
Part I
Original Book Listings
Computer key Unidentified*
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1. Hugh M.[1] Honaker. There is a relationship between Hugh M. and Samuel C.[2] Honaker (Abraham[1]), who for a while both lived in Greenup Co., Ky. and in 1856 were recorded on the tax list as jointly owning eight cattle valued at $1,000, quite valuable properties. See Samuel C.’s listing in the Abraham Chapter for an extract of the tax lists which provides more explicit accounting of Hugh M.’s taxable property from 1851 to 1857. Children:
2. iii. Virginia. Born in 1856.
2. Virginia[2] Honaker (Hugh M.[1]) Born in 1856. Died in 1912.
She married James Appleton 25 Dec 1877 at her parents’ home, Boyd Co., Ky. Children:
3. i. Minnie[3]. Born 30 Dec 1885.
ii. Will.
3. Minnie[3] Appleton (Virginia[2], Hugh M.[1]) Born 30 Dec 1885 in Guyandotte, Huntington, W.Va. Died 23 Dec 1970 in Ashland, Ky. Buried in Rose Hill Burial Park, presumably Ashland, Ky.
Ashland [Ky.] Daily Independent, 24 Dec 1970: Mrs. Minnie Kleykamp, 84, of 2733 Auburn Ave., died at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday in an Ashland nursing home following an extended illness. Born Dec. 30, 1885, at Guyandotte, Huntington, she was a daughter of the late James and Virginia Honaker Appleton. She was a member of the Herman Avenue Gospel Tabernacle. Her husband, Gayheart C. Kleykamp, preceded her in death in 1961. Surviving are three sons, Dr. Paul R. Kleykamp of Ashland, Joe F. Kleykamp of Russell, and G.C. Kleykamp, Jr., of Phoenix, Ariz.; two daughters, Mrs. [Dorothy] Hurst of Ashland and Mrs. H.P. Layne of Ontario, Calif.; a brother, Will Appleton of Portsmouth [Ohio], 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Gospel Tabernacle Church on Herman Avenue by the Rev. Daniel A. Thomas and the Rev. Curtis Posey. Burial will be in Rose Hill Burial Park. The body is at the John Steen Funeral Home where friends may call after 2 p.m. Friday and will be taken to the church one hour before the services.
She married Gayheart C. Kleykamp. Died in 1961. Children:
i. Paul R.[4]
ii. Joe F.
iii. Gayheart C., Jr.
iv. Dorothy. She married Unknown Hurst.
v. unknown. She married H.P. Layne.
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l. Joe Jack[l] Honaker has been identified as Frederick descendant #10.iv.iii.v. Joe Jack[6]. See Frederick Chapter supplement.
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l. James[l] Honaker has been identified as Abraham descendant #57.ii. See Abraham Chapter supplement.
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1. John[1] Honaker. He was recorded in 1809 tax records of Fayette Co., Ky., as “2 m. over 21—6 horses”. If the notation is to age, he would have been born in 1788, which would place him in the second American generation. One son, Marcus, was reported for John, but presumably there were others. Fayette Co., Ky., marriage bonds record the marriage of Marcus Honiker to Cassandra Crawley; on the same page, the marriage of Isaac Honegar to Eliza Bryan, Jan 1834. Both men made their mark, “x” for their signature. The 1850 Owen County census also lists a John Honaker, 23 (b. 1827), his wife Elizabeth, 19, and a son, John, 4-months. Marcus, Isaac and the 23-year-old John could have been brothers.
He married Unknown. Children:
2. i. Marcus[2] (called Mark). Born 1814 in Kentucky.
2. Marcus[2] Honaker (called Mark) (John[1]). Born 1814 in Kentucky. Died in Owen Co., Ky.
He married Cassandra Crawley, daughter of Samuel Crawley and Elizabeth Unknown, 2 Dec 1834 in Fayette Co., Ky. Born 1820 in Fayette County. Died 1884 in Owen County. Children:
i. Julia Ann[3]. Born 1837 in Fayette Co., Ky.
3. ii. Mary Elizabeth. Born 21 Aug 1841 in Fayette County.
iii. Robert. Born 1842 in Fayette County.
iv. Cassandra. Born 1845 in Fayette County.
v. John. Born 1848 in Fayette County.
vi. William. Born 1850 in Fayette County.
4. vii. Caroline A. Born 4 Oct 1853 in Owen County.
viii. Cynthia. Born 1854 in Owen County. She married Unknown Kidwell.
ix. Eliza. Born 1859 in Owen County. She married Unknown Hackett.
x. Georgeanne. Born 1863 in Owen County.
3. Mary Elizabeth[3] Honaker (Marcus[2], John[1]). See photograph [Neville W. Gross Jr.] Born 21 Aug 1841 in Fayette Co., Ky. Died 7 Mar 1892 in Lexington, Ky. Buried in Section G-1, Grave 560, Lexington Cemetery. She was a member of First Christian Church, Versailles, Ky.
She married Abraham Gross, son of Amon E. Gross and Susanna Stamper (called Susan), 23 May 1867 in Owen Co., Ky. Born 19 Oct 1843 in Owen County. Died 9 Jun 1893 in Lexington. Buried in Sec. G-1, Grave 709, Lexington Cemetery. Abraham was descended from John Gross, son of a German immigrant, who in 1769 owned 200 acres on Gross’s Creek on the south side of the Holston River’s south fork in Washington Co., Va., near the Smyth County line. A considerable amount is known about the Gross line, maintained in 2005 by researcher Neville W. Gross Jr. of Lexington, Ky.
Roster of Ohio Soldiers, War of Rebellion, 1864–1866, Vol. IX, State Library of Ohio, says that at age 21, Abraham enlisted in the Union Army’s Ohio Volunteer Infantry 5 Sep 1864 at Cincinnati, for a period of one year, and served as a private with Co. C, 181st Regiment, mustering out with his regiment 14 Jul 1865 in Salisbury, N.C. After the war he farmed on the John O. Rogers place, which became the Richard Holt farm, on the Big Sink Pike in Woodford Co., Ky. Pension records of Oct 1890 say that he “contracted bronchitis, and catarrh there from the hardships and exposures of the service and has suffered from the same and the effects thereof more or less ever since…Bronchial troubles and catarrh, rheumatism in knees.” Late in his life he lived at 110 Vertner Ave., Lexington, which became North Eastern Ave., between E. 2nd and E. 3rd Streets. Abraham became a member of First Christian Church, Versailles. During his life, he was said to have lived in Owen, Woodford and Fayette Counties, Ky., and Vincennes and Florence, Ind.
On 15 May 2005, the Sgt. Elijah P. Marrs Camp #5, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, sponsored a memorial stone dedication for four Civil War veterans, including Pvt. Abraham Gross. The service was in Section 7 of Lexington Cemetery, and featured a program with fine artist’s likenesses of Abraham and Mary Gross.
Children:
i. Martha E.[4] (called Mattie). Born 23 Jul 1868 in Owen Co., Ky. Died 5 Oct 1891. She married Charles R. Dearing 25 Mar 1884.
ii. Robert K. (called Bob). Born 13 Jan 1870 in Sweet Owen, Owen County. Died 3 Jul 1963. He married Annie Lou Moore 15 Nov 1905.
iii. William R. (called Will). Born 21 Aug 1872 in Florence, Switzerland Co., Ind. Died 20 Oct 1960. He married Emily Webber (called Em) 23 Feb 1899.
iv. Andrew (called Andy). Born 11 Apr 1874 in Owen Co., Ky. Died 24 Dec 1945. He married Selena Rebekah Webber (called Lena) 28 Feb 1906.
v. Margaret (called Maggie). Born 15 Jun 1876 in Owen County. Died 11 Nov 1894. She never married.
vi. John Allen. Born 19 Nov 1877 in Owen County. Died 9 Sep 1961. He married Josephine Rebecca Moore (called Jody) 19 Dec 1906.
vii. Susie Jane. Born 20 Sep 1879 in Woodford, Ky. Died 26 Oct 1943. She never married.
viii. Mary Jane (twin). Born 31 Jul 1883 in Woodford, Ky. Died 8 Mar 1978. She married Samuel P. Dennison (called Sam) 24 Feb 1906.
ix. Mayme (twin). Born 31 Jul 1883 in Woodford. Died Oct 1883(?)
4. Caroline A.[3] Honaker (Marcus[2], John[1]). Born 4 Oct 1853 in Owen Co., Ky. Died 11 Mar 1935 in Shelby Co., Ky. Buried in Stamping Ground Baptist Church Cemetery, unidentified location, Scott Co., Ky.
She married John William Smith, son of John Smith Jr. and Eliza Clifton, 16 Jan 1873 in Owen County. Born 25 Jun 1852 in Owen County. Died 12 Mar 1925 in Shelby County. Buried in Stamping Ground Church Cemetery. Children:
5. i. Elizabeth[4] (called Eliza). Born 28 Nov 1873 in Owen County.
ii. Casandra. Born 1 Apr 1875 in Kentucky. She married Sterling Devens.
iii. Marcus. Born 1 Mar 1877 in Kentucky. He married Viola Unknown.
iv. Annie. Born 6 Oct 1879 in Kentucky. Died 27 Nov 1915. She never married.
v. William. Born 25 Mar (also reported 28 Mar) 1881 in Kentucky. Died in Clay City, Ind. He married Goldie Unknown.
vi. Bayard. Born 15 Feb 1883 in Kentucky. Died 3 Oct 1950. He married, first, Fannie Hawkins. He married, second, Catherine Watts.
vii. Julia H. Born 4 May 1885 in Kentucky. Died 23 Jan 1894.
viii. Dudley Sparks. Born 7 Jun 1887 in Kentucky. Died 1 Sep 1969. He married Vivian Sampson.
ix. Wallace. Born 11 May 1889 in Kentucky. Died 23 Jan 1894.
x. Lena B. Born 25 Dec 1891 in Kentucky. Died 11 Mar 1894.
xi. Elmer Whitman. Born 12 Jul 1894 in Kentucky. He married Lorena Unknown.
5. Elizabeth[4] Smith (called Eliza) (Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[1]). Born 28 Nov 1873 in Owen Co., Ky. Died Apr 1910 in Anderson Co., Ky. Buried in Stamping Ground Baptist Church Cemetery, Scott Co., Ky.
She married Benjamin Franklin Wood, son of Sidney S. Wood and Nancy E. Willhoite, 11 Aug 1892 in Fayette Co., Ky. Born 13 Jan 1870 in Owen Co., Ky. Died 9 Oct 1940 in Franklin Co., Ky. Buried in Bethel Church Cemetery, Franklin County. Children:
6. i. Loyd[5]. Born 13 Jul 1893 in Woodford Co., Ky.
ii. John Sidney. Born 22 or 28 Jan 1895 in Woodford County. Died 28 Mar 1968. He married, first, Blanche Bryant. He married, second, Katie Warren.
iii. Samuel B. Born Apr 1897 in Woodford County. Died 1908 or 1909. Buried in Stamping Ground Baptist Church Cemetery.
iv. Ora Lee. Born 7 Nov 1898 in Woodford County. Died 7 Oct 1969. He married Cynthia Swanigan 24 Dec 1918.
v. Anna Mae. Born 22 Mar 1902 in Franklin County. Died 27 Apr 1987. She married, first, Hansel Trusty 31 Oct 1936. She married, second, Albert Bradley 11 Jul 1971.
vi. Rawleigh Franklin. Born 2 Jul 1907 in Anderson County. He married Anna Belle White 31 Dec 1932.
After Eliza’s death, Benjamin married, second, Melvina Penix and had four children with her: Sylvia B., b. 9 Oct 1911 in Franklin County, d. 28 Oct 1976, m. Robert Cook 16 Nov 1935; Samuel Neal, b. 13 Sep 1914 in Franklin County, d. 4 Aug 1942, m. Dola Blackwell 19 Aug 1939; James Albert, b. 17 Feb 1913 in Franklin County, d. 3 Mar 1913, buried in Graefenburg(?), Ky.; Ruth, stillborn, buried in the Rawleigh Armstrong place, near where the family lived at the time.
6. Loyd[5] Wood (Elizabeth[4], Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[1]). Born 13 Jul 1893 in Woodford Co., Ky. Died 16 May 1980 at the Southern Hotel, Franklin Co., Ky. Buried in Bethel Church Cemetery, Franklin County.
He married Lucy Ann Penix, daughter of Cornelius Penix and Josephine Salley, 6 Mar 1913 at First Christian Church, Frankfort, Ky. Born 17 Jun 1892 in Carter Co., Ky. Died 27 Jul 1973 in Medco Nursing Home, Franklin County. Buried in Bethel Church Cemetery. Children:
i. Arvin[6]. Born 3 Dec 1913 in Franklin County. Died 20 Nov 1972. He married Clara Brewer 1 Jul 1939.
ii. Josephine. Born 31 Mar 1917 in Franklin County. She married, first, William T. Barnes Nov 1932. She married, second, Pat Gravitt 31 Oct 1942.
iii. Chester. Born 1 May 1922 in Franklin County. Died 29 May 1982. He married, first, Lucy Louden 30 Nov 1947. He married, second, Mary Carter 1 Jul 1960.
iv. Ralph (twin). Born 21 Sep 1924 in Franklin County. Died 12 Oct 1937.
v. Rita Belle (twin). Born 21 Sep 1924 in Franklin County. She married, first, Hudson Wright 8 Nov 1930. She married, second, Jesse Harper 21 Apr 1946.
7. vi. Roy. Born 3 Oct 1928 in Shelby Co., Ky.
vii. R.B. Born 17 Jan 1934 in Franklin County. He married Betty Glass 1 Jan 1955.
7. Roy[6] Wood (Loyd[5], Elizabeth[4], Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[1]). Born 3 Oct 1928 in Shelby Co., Ky. Died 21 Oct 1997 in Frankfort, Ky. Buried in Frankfort Cemetery. He was an honor guard member of Frankfort VFW Post 4075, and had participated in 278 funerals from 14 Jul 1990 through 14 Oct 1997, only a week before he died; and in ceremonies at 43 other special events. Because of his commitment to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he was buried in his honor guard uniform. His death was noted in Bluegrass Roots, journal of the Kentucky Genealogical Society. The Winter 1997 journal noted his death, saying that he and Joyce had been long and faithful members of the society, assisting in seminars and other activities.
State Journal, Frankfort, Ky., 22 Oct 1997 and Honaker Family Newsletter, Winter 1998, the latter with photograph: Services for Roy Wood, 69, of 211 Raintree Road, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Rogers Funeral Home. He died Tuesday following an apparent heart attack. Burial will be in the Frankfort Cemetery with V.F.W. Post #4075 conducting military honors. A native of Shelby County, he was retired from the Kentucky Department of Information Systems [as a computer analyst], a veteran of the Korean War, a member of V.F.W. Post #4075 and a member of the Franklin County Senior Citizens. Survivors include his wife, Joyce Moore Wood, Frankfort; one daughter, Vicki Weller Cunigan, Frankfort; two sisters, Josephine Gravitt, Frankfort, and Rita Harper, Temple, Texas; one brother, R.B. Wood, Frankfort; and one granddaughter. He was the son of the late Loyd and Lucy Penix Wood. He was preceded in death by three brothers, Arvin Wood, Chester Wood and Ralph Wood. The Rev. Malcolm Lunceford will officiate. Bearers will be Michael Ray, Robert Smither, Michael Wood, Donald Barnes, Robert C. Moore and Michael Moore. His granddaughter, Jennifer Marie Weller, will be an honorary bearer. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Death notices also appeared in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., 22 Oct 1997, and The Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 22 Oct 1997.
He married Joyce Moore, daughter of Darsie Francis Moore and Ora V. Allison, 15 Jun 1953 in Franklin Co., Ky. Born 15 Jun 1933 in Franklin County. Children:
8. i. Vicki Charlene[7]. Born 13 Jun 1954 in Frankfort, Franklin Co., Ky.
8. Vicki Charlene[7] Wood (Roy[6], Loyd[5], Elizabeth[4], Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[1]). Born 13 Jun 1954 in Frankfort, Franklin Co., Ky.
She married, first, Daryl Lynn Weller, son of Billy David Weller and Wanda Hope Waddell, 28 Apr 1973 in Franklin County. Born 18 May 1953 in Barren Co., Ky. They divorced. Daryl married, second, Elvira Agular. He married, third, Adriana Yolanda Bazaldva. Children (of Vicki and Daryl):
i. Jennifer Marie[8]. Born 13 May 1975 in Lexington, Fayette Co., Ky.
She married, second, Jay Walter Price 26 Jun 1979. They divorced. There were no children.
She married, third, Kenneth Cunigan 2 Aug 1997.
–Researchers: Joyce Moore Wood, 211 Raintree Rd., Frankfort KY 40601-4458 [address no longer valid in 2006]; Neville W. Gross Jr., 3413 Stillwater Rd., Lexington KY 40503-4328; Anna M. Plowman, 1269 Hot Springs Ct., Lexington KY 40517,
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3.v. William[4] Smith (Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[l]). Born 28 Mar 1881.
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6. Roy[6] Wood (Loyd[5], Elizabeth[4], Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[l]). Died 21 Oct 1997 in Frankfort, Ky. Buried in Frankfort Cemetery. He was an honor guard member of Frankfort V.F.W. Post 4075, and had participated in 278 funerals from 14 Jul 1990 through 14 Oct 1997, only a week before he died; and in ceremonies at 43 other special events. Because of his commitment to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, he was buried in his honor guard uniform. His death was also noted in Bluegrass Roots, journal of the Kentucky Genealogical Society. The Winter 1997 journal noted his death, saying that he and Joyce had been long and faithful members of the society, assisting in seminars and other activities.
State Journal, Frankfort, Ky., 22 Oct 1997 and Honaker Family Newsletter, Winter 1998, latter with photograph:
Services for Roy Wood, 69, of 211 Raintree Road, will be 11 a.m. Friday at Rogers Funeral Home. He died Tuesday following an apparent heart attack. Burial will be in the Frankfort Cemetery with V.F.W. Post #4075 conducting military honors. A native of Shelby County, he was retired from the Kentucky Department of Information Systems, a veteran of the Korean War, a member of V.F.W. Post #4075 and a member of the Franklin County Senior Citizens. Survivors include his wife, Joyce Moore Wood, Frankfort; one daughter, Vicki Weller Cunigan, Frankfort; two sisters, Josephine Gravitt, Frankfort, and Rita Harper, Temple, Texas; one brother, R.B. Wood, Frankfort; and one granddaughter. He was the son of the late Loyd and Lucy Penix Wood. He was preceded in death by three brothers Arvin Wood, Chester Wood and Ralph Wood. The Rev. Malcolm Lunceford will officiate. Bearers will be Michael Ray, Robert Smither, Michael Wood, Donald Barnes, Robert C. Moore and Michael Moore. His granddaughter, Jennifer Marie Weller, will be an honorary bearer. Friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Death notices also appeared in The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., 22 Oct 1997, and The Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 22 Oct 1997.
7. Vicki Charlene[7] Wood (Roy[6], Loyd[5], Elizabeth[4], Caroline A.[3], Marcus[2], John[l]).
She married, third, Kenneth Cunigan 2 Aug 1997.
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l. Alvin[1] Honaker
This name was found to be incorrect. The son, Melvin[2] was determined to be Melvin Wilson[4] Honaker (Martin[1]) and the line has been inserted into the Martin Chapter.
Part II
New Listing #1
1. Jacob B.H.[1] Honaker. Born 21 Aug 1826 in Greenbrier (also seen as Monroe) Co., (West) Va. Died 28 Jul 1886 of typhoid fever in Upper Ironton Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio. The earliest known definite documentation on Jacob B.H. is contained in the 1850 Greenbrier County census, where he was listed as 23-year-old Jocob B.H. Twenty years before, the 1830 Monroe County census, p. 24, identified an unnamed male child under five living in the home of Jacob[2] Honeker (Frederick[1]). This unnamed child was again reported in the 1840 census. He could have been Jacob B.H., whose birth date could make him the youngest child of Jacob’s first marriage (the death date of Jacob’s first wife, Elizabeth, is not known.)
The Frederick[1] Honaker family moved from Rockingham County to Greenbrier County in 1799. Soon thereafter this part of Greenbrier County was incorporated into Monroe County. Because both Greenbrier and Monroe Counties were reported as Jacob B.H.’s birthplace, this is circumstantial evidence that Jacob B.H. might have been a Frederick descendant.
On 14 Aug 1850, when the census taker visited, Jacob B.H.’s family was living in Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., (West) Va. At the time of Jacob B.H.’s second marriage in Apr 1864, they were in Gallia Co., Ohio. The 1870 census enumerated Jacob B.H., his second wife Jerusha, and children Mary, Esther, John and Joseph in Belle Fonte Furnace Township, Greenup Co., Ky. Jacob was listed with no real property and $200 worth of personal property. The 1880 census placed Jacob B.H. back in Ohio, living in Rome Township, Lawrence County.
He married, first, Harriette D. Lemon 12 Sep 1848 in Greenbrier Co., (West) Va. The ceremony was performed by W.G. Margrave. Born 6 Mar 1829 in Greenbrier Co., (West) Virginia. Died of diptheria in 1863. Children:
2. i. Martha Ellen[2].
3. ii. Harriette Jane Reyder.
4. iii. Mary Caroline.
5. v. Henrianna Susan (called Anna).
6. v. Leah Esther Virginia (called Esther).
He married, second, Jerusha Maloon of Green Township, Ohio, 28 Apr 1864 in Rodney, Gallia Co., Ohio. Born in 1837 in Gallia County. Died 24 Jan 1904 in Coal Grove, Ohio. A notice of their marriage appeared in the Gallipolis [Ohio] Journal, Gallia Co., Ohio, 5 May 1864. It said the wedding was performed at the parsonage in Rodney by the Rev. S. Rankin. Children:
7. vi. John Mark.
vii. Joseph William. Born 29 Nov 1869 in Greenup, Ky. Died 3 Sep 1933 in Ironton, Ohio (4th ward). Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton. He was a salesman. He married Stella P. Unknown ca. 1900. Born ca. 1879 in Ohio. Died 25 Feb 1935.
2. Martha Ellen[2] Honaker (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 13 Nov 1849 in (West) Va. Died in 1876.
She married George W. Long 31 Jul 1872. Children:
i. Winfield[3]. Born 26 Jul 1875 in Hamilton Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio.
3. Harriette Jane Reyder[2] Honaker (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 7 Feb l852 in (West) Va.
She married Harry D. McKnight ca. 2 Jan 1880. Children:
i. Unknown son[3]. Born 19 Feb 1887 in Ironton, Ohio (4th ward).
ii. Roy. Born 5 Jun 1889 in Perry Twp., Lawrence Co., Ohio.
iii. Howard. Born 24 Jul 1889 in Ironton, Ohio (5th ward).
4. Mary Caroline[2] Honaker (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 12 Jun 1855 at Floyds Creek, Fayette Co., (West) Va. Died in
Mar 1885.
She married James C. Hix 8 May 1879. Born in 1853 in Pennsylvania. Children:
i. Clara[3]. Born in May 1880 in Ironton, Ohio.
5. Henrianna Susan[2] Honaker (called Anna) (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 16 Jan 1856 in Greenbrier Co. (West) Va. Died of cerebral hemorrhage 15 Apr 1929 in Ironton, Ohio. Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton.
She married William Levering ca. 22 Dec 1880. Children:
i. Hazel[3]. Born 22 Nov 1887 in Ironton, Ohio.
ii. Margaret. Born 15 May 1894 in Ironton, Ohio.
iii. Emerson. Born 17 Jul 1895 in Ironton, Ohio.
6. Leah Esther Virginia[2] Honaker (called Esther) (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 5 Sep 1860 in Greenbrier Go., (West) Va. Died
8 May 1929 in Columbus, Ohio. Buried in Union Cemetery, Columbus.
She married George A. Brown, son of Irvin A. Brown and Jane Hailey, 7 Dec 1882. Born 25 Aug 1859 in Kentucky. Died 25 Jul 1899 in Ironton, Ohio. Buried in Lot 148, Sec. 4, Woodland Cemetery, Ironton. Children:
i. Unknown[3].
ii. Myrtle Allison (called Myrtie). Born 5 Oct 1883 in Ironton, Ohio. Died 21 Jul 1936 in Columbus, Ohio. Buried in Union Cemetery, Columbus. She was a schoolteacher.
8. iii. Olive Juanita.
9. iv. Ervin Ellington.
10. v. Harriette Mae (called Hattie).
7. John Mark[2] Honaker (Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 22 Oct 1865 in Rodney, Gallia Co., Ohio. Died 6 Jun 1935 in Coal Grove, Lawrence Co., Ohio. Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio. He was a sawmill worker.
He married Hattie Ballard, daughter of Seaton Ballard and Carolina Steed. Born 10 Jul 1875 in Lawrence Co., Ohio. Died 16 Jan 1933 in Coal Grove. Buried in Woodland Cemetery. Children:
i. Ethel[3]. Born 31 Oct 1895 in Coal Grove, Ohio. Died 14 Nov 1917 in Coal Grove. Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio.
ii. Arlie. Born in 1898.
iii. Orville Glen. Born 18 Sep 1900 in Coal Grove, Ohio. Died 1 Sep 1918 in Coal Grove. Buried in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton, Ohio.
iv. Lewis W. Born 28 Jun 1904 in Coal Grove, Ohio.
v. Maggie C. Born 9 Apr 1907 in Lawrence Co., Ohio.
vi. Dorthea M. Born in 1909.
8. Olive Juanita[3] Brown (Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 5 Sep 1886 in Ironton, Ohio. Died 2 Aug 1960.
She married Robert Carlton Sherwood 26 May 1913. They divorced. Children:
i. Donald Newton[4]. Born 26 Dec 1915 in St. Louis, Mo. Died in Nov 1981 in Seattle, Wash.
ii. Kenneth Alan. Born 10 Mar 1918 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 30 Jan 1919 in Columbus.
9. Ervin Ellington[3] Brown (Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 26 Nov 1891 in Ironton, Ohio. Died
14 Jun 1940 in Columbus, Ohio. Buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus.
He married, first, Margaret I. Healy 26 Nov 1913. Born in Feb 1897. Died 3 Aug 1922 in Columbus, Ohio. Children:
i. Regina[4]. Born 26 Aug 1914 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 8 Feb 1988 in Stella Niagra, N.Y.
ii. George I. Born 3 May 1917 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 23 Apr 1943.
11. iii. Edward Joseph.
iv. Bernard. Born 3 Aug 1922 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 22 Sep 1922 in Columbus.
He married, second, Mary Mason 31 Mar 1927.
He married, third. Loraine Bellamy 1 Jan 1940. Died 29 May 1968.
10. Harriette Mae[3] Brown (called Hattie) (Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 8 May 1894 in Ironton, Ohio. Died 29 Mar 1958 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Buried in St. Petersburg.
She married, first, John Alfred Evans, son of Robert Winter Evans and Eliza Amelia Heyl, 23 Nov 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. Born 7 Jul 1888 in Columbus. Died 1 Jan 1953 in Columbus. Buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus. They divorced. Children:
i. Doris Virginia[4]. Born 1 May 1918 in Columbus, Ohio. Died in 1919 in Columbus.
12. ii. Phyllis Louise Ann.
She married, second, William L. Kintner 31 Dec 1943 in Columbus, Ohio.
11. Edward Joseph[4] Brown (Ervin Ellington[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 9 Mar 1919 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 4 Jan 1970 in Columbus.
He married Mary Margaret Flesch, daughter of Charles Joseph Flesch and Matilda Celentano, 11 May 1946. Born
6 Aug 1923 in Columbus. Children:
13. i. Terrance Michael[5].
14. ii. Christopher Randall.
12. Phyllis Louise Ann[4] Evans (Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 12 May 1921 in Columbus, Ohio. Died 11 Oct 1955 in Columbus. Buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus. Two of her daughters were given the birth name Janet Loraine and Janet Lorraine.
She married, first, Irvin I. Koltun, son of Frank Koltun (born in Russia) and Bessie Godofsky (born in Lithuania) in 1942 in Columbus, Ohio. Born 25 Feb 1915 in Columbus. Died 15 Feb 1959 in Columbus. Buried in Agudas Cemetery, Columbus. They divorced. He also married Jane Georgia Sariotis. Children (of Phyllis and Irvin):
15. i. Joyce Lynn[5].
16. ii. Janet Loraine. Born 1 May 1948 in New Orleans, La. She was adopted by Art and Edith Corcoran
and her name was changed to Janet Lynn Corcoran.
She married, second, Paul Edward Hamilton, son of Unknown Hamilton and Nellie Marie Richards, 19 Nov 1948 in Columbus, Ohio. Born 15 Oct 1923 in Logan, Ohio. Children:
iii. Janet Lorraine. Born 5 May 1949 in Columbus, Ohio. She was adopted by Weldon and Hattie Forst and her name was changed to Martha Kay Forst.
17. iv. Carol Ann.
18. v. Doris Jean.
vi. Rodger Dale. Born 7 Feb 1953 in Columbus, Ohio. He married Karen Ann Huseman 4 Sep 1982.
13. Terrance Michael[5] Brown (Edward Joseph[4], Ervin Ellington[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
22 Dec 1949 in Columbus, Ohio.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Kelly[6] (twin). Born 19 Oct 1985.
ii. Mackenzie (twin). Born 19 Oct 1985.
14. Christopher Randall[5] Brown (Edward Joseph[4], Ervin Ellington[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
28 Dec 1956 in Columbus, Ohio.
He married Ann Willett 5 Apr 1990 in Buffalo, N.Y. Born 5 Sep 1952 in Buffalo. Children:
i. Celeste Pukalo[6].
15. Joyce Lynn[5] Koltun (Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
29 Apr 1943 in Columbus, Ohio. In 2003 she lived in San Jose, Calif. An avid genealogist, she is the compiler of all the information on the presently-unidentified line of Jacob B. Honaker (1826–1886.)
She married Roger Leon Wood 25 Sep 1965 in Columbus. Born 22 Apr 1941 in Columbus. Children:
19. i. Michael Christopher Leon[6].
ii. Dena Michelle. Born 31 Jan 1968 in Columbus, Ohio.
16. Janet Lynn[5] Corcoran (Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
1 May 1948 in New Orleans, La.
She married, first, James Collins 23 Nov 1968. Children:
i. Brian Andrew[6]. Born 4 May 1970. He married Bethany Anjelica Kunath 20 Oct 1990.
20. ii. Bradley Dean.
She married, second, William D. Collins 14 Feb 1981.
17. Carol Ann[5] Hamilton (Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
21 May 1950.
She married, first, Fred Danko. They divorced.
She married, second, Robert Martin (called Bob). Children:
i. Matthew[6]. Born in 1986.
ii. Danielle. Born in 1987.
18. Doris Jean[5] Hamilton (Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born
26 Sep 1951 in Columbus, Ohio.
She married, first, Henry Jennings Lambert. They divorced. Children:
i. Troy Allen[6]. Born 29 Aug 1970.
She married, second, Butch Russell 28 May 1992.
19. Michael Christopher Leon[5] Wood (Joyce Lynn[5], Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2], Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 26 Nov 1966 in Columbus, Ohio.
He married Ida Dorothy Shen, daughter of Douglas Shen and Joyce Unknown, 1 Oct 1995 in Los Gatos, Calif. Born 10 Sep 1967 in San Jose, Calif. Children:
i. Rowan Joyce[7]. Born 26 Mar 1998.
20. Bradley Dean[6] Collins (Janet Lynn[5], Phyllis Louise Ann[4], Harriette Mae[3], Leah Esther Virginia[2],
Jacob B.H.[1]) Born 3 May 1972.
He married Terry Ann Cunningham. Children:
i. Brandi Diane[7]. Born 19 May 1996 in Columbus, Ohio.
Researcher: Joyce K. Wood, 1082 Crosspoint Ct., SAN JOSE CA 95120.
New Listing #2
Photographs of some of this line were provided by Patricia Zimmerman, 2008.
1. Isaac[1] Honnaker. Born Apr 1779 in Franklin or Scott County Ky. Died 23 Oct 1874 in Franklin Co., Ky. Buried Mt. Zion Cemetery, Devil’s Hollow Road, Frankfort, Franklin Co., Ky. A photograph of the gravestone was provided by researcher Pat Zimmerman in 2008. The stone is engraved “Amiable and beloved father farewell. Not on this perishing stone but in the Book of Life and in the hearts of thy afflicted friends is thy worth recorded.”
His family was enumerated in the 9 Jul 1870 Shelby Co., Ky. census, Jacksonville District, as: Isaac Honiker, farmer, 80; Elizabeth, keeping house, 47; George, working on farm, 30; Mary, 17; Leviticus, 14; Magdaline, 11. Isaac’s birthdate was off by ten years, as was Elizabeth’s. The information may have been estimated by George.
He married Elizabeth Bryant, daughter of Richard Bryant and Unknown, 13 Jan 1834 in Fayette Co., Ky. Born 15 Oct 1812 in Bryant’s Station, Fayette County. Died 18 Dec 1902 in Bagdad, Franklin Co., Ky. Buried in Mt. Zion Cemetery. Children:
2. i. John Bryant[2]. Born 25 Nov 1834 in Franklin Co., Ky.
3. ii. Richard. Born 9 Sep 1836 in Fayette Co., Ky.
iii. Elisabeth. Born 3 Sep 1838.
iv. George Washington. Born 30 Mar 1840. Died 25 Mar 1921.
4. v. Frederick M. Born 15 Oct 1843 in Shelby Co., Ky.
5. vi. Isaac. Born 7 Nov 1844 in Hardinsville, Shelby Co., Ky.
6. vi. Zerelda Jane. Born 14 Feb 1847 in Franklin Co., Ky.
vii. Nancy. Born 20 Jan 1849 in Franklin Co., Ky.
7. viii. Sarah Elizabeth (called Sallie). Born 22 May 1851 in Franklin Co., Ky.
ix. Mary Ann. Born 15 Jun 1853 in Shelbyville, Shelby Co., Ky. She married Clifford Roberts.
x. Leviticus. Born 18 Jan 1856 in Franklin Co., Ky.
xi. Polly Magdelena. Born 12 Aug 1859.
2. John Bryant[2] Honnaker (Isaac[1]). Born 25 Nov 1834 in Franklin Co., Ky. Died 11 Jan 1917 in Dade City, Pasco Co., Fla. Buried in Dade City Cemetery.
Newspaper and date unknown: John Honnaker passed away Thursday night—J.B. Honnaker, a well known and highly respected citizen of Dade City, passed away at his home last Thursday night at about eleven o'clock, at the advanced age of 82. Mr. Honnaker had been ailing in health for several years, the indirect cause of his death having resulted from a sunstroke which he suffered about 13 years ago at Shelbyville, Ky. He never completely rallied from the sunstroke and it finally grew into apoplexy, which was the direct cause of death. Mr. Honnaker was an old honored engineer of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, having run on that road between Louisville and Cincinnati and between Louisville and Bloomfield for 50 years. During that time Mr. Honnaker served with one of the cleanest records of any man on the road. Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon and interment was made in the Dade City Cemetery. Services were conducted at the house by Rev. George H. Ward and the Masonic services were held at the grave, the deceased having been a member of that lodge. Besides a host of friends in Dade City and Kentucky the deceased leaves three brothers and two sisters all in Kentucky. He also leaves a wife and four daughters and one son, J.B. Honnaker, Jr., of this city. Mr. Honnaker always bore a reputation for fairness and honesty and had the highest respect of all that knew him.
He married Mary Hess Armstrong, daughter of Roland or Richard Armstrong and Frances Long, 15 Dec 1855. Born 12 Feb 1836 in Shelby Co., Ky. Died 8 Jan 1922 in Louisville, Ky. Buried in Dade City Cemetery, Dade City, Fla.
Newspaper and date unknown: Mrs. John Honnaker died in Louisville. Laid to Rest in the Dade City Cemetery Thursday—Mrs. John Honnaker, aged 85 years, a former resident of Dade City, died in Louisville Ky., Sunday, Jan. 8. She was the widow of John Honnaker, who died in their home on College Street, Jan. 11, 1917 and is the mother of Mrs. Thomas Long of Church Street. Mrs. Honaker returned with her son, John Honnaker, about two years ago, and has been making her home with him in Ohio. She was on her way back to Dade City to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Long, when she was taken ill in Louisville. Monday, Mrs. Long received a telegram announcing her mother’s death and that the body would be shipped to Dade City. The body arrived Wednesday evening and was taken to the Long home. It was accompanied to Dade City by a grandson, Frank Lemmons of Louisville, a daughter, Mrs. Horner, and granddaughter, Mrs. Cameron of Jacksonville. Burial services were conducted in the city cemetery Thursday morning at half past ten by Rev. T.L.Z. Barr. Mrs. Honnaker is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Long, Mrs. Horner, one in Kentucky and one in Massachusetts, one son, John Honnaker, in Ohio, 19 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Honnaker came to Dade City from Kentucky in 1908 and were well known and highly regarded citizens, until Mr. Honnaker’s death, five years ago, broke up their pleasant home at the south end of College Street.
Children:
2. i. Francis Marion[3] (called Frank). Born 27 Sept 1856.
2. ii. John B., Jr. Born 22 Dec 1867.
iii. Rose Clementine. Born in Feb 1859 in Shelbyville, Shelby Co., Ky. Died in Mar 1859.
iv. Mary Ann. Born 13 Jun 1860 in Shelbyville. Died 30 Apr 1864.
2. v. Irene. Born 27 Oct 1862.
2. vi. Fannie Bell. Born 27 Sep 1866.
2. vii. Lillian May. Born 5 Jun 1870.
2. viii. Eunice Lee. Born 13 Aug 1872.
3. Richard[2] Honnaker (Isaac[1]). Born 9 Sep 1836 in Fayette Co., Ky. Died 16 Apr l920 in Indianapolis, Marion Co., Ind. Buried in an unmarked grave in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky.
He married Zerida Ellen Armstrong, daughter of Richard E. Armstrong and Carolyn Frances Long, 8 Jan 1861 in Shelby Co., Ky. Born 1844 in Shelby Co., Ky. Died 25 Dec 1912 in Dade City, Pasco Co., Fla. Children:
i. Elmira[3]. Born 2 Mar 1862 in Kentucky. Died Jul 1887.
ii. Maria Jane. Born 28 Jan 1865 in Kentucky.
iii. Florence Isabell. Born 24 Feb 1867 in Kentucky. She married Unknown Wolfe. Died before 1912.
3. iv. George Thomas. Born 2 Oct 1869 in Kentucky.
v. Ida Mary. Born 1 Apr 1871. Died before 1898.
vi. John Richard. Born 2 Apr 1873.
vii. William Isaac. Born 7 Feb 1875.
viii. Caroline F. Born 20 Jun 1877. Died before 1898.
ix. Rosa Lee. Born 8 Jun 1879.
x. Robert Louis. Born 24 Feb 1882. Died 19 Jun 1967.
4. Frederick M.[2] Honnaker (Isaac[1]). Born 15 Oct 1843 [gravestone gives 1842] in Shelby Co., Ky. Died 14 Dec 1903 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. His family was enumerated in the 1880 Louisville census as: Fred Honnaker, 37; Caroline, wife, 32; Sallie, 16; Isaac, 14; John, 11; Genevieve, 7; Anna, 5; Frank, 3; Mary, 1. He and Caroline lived at 939 E. Green St., Louisville.
He married Caroline Francis (also Carolyn Frances) Roberts, daughter of Patrick Henry Roberts Jr. and Martha Ann Armstrong. Born 7 Oct 1848 in Kentucky. Died of appoplexy 10 Jan 1929 in Louisville Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. The death certificate gave her address as 2215 Saratoga St., Louisville.
Children:
i. Sarah Elizabeth[3] (called Sallie). Born 1864. She married James L. Woodward. Born 11 Apr 1861. Died 6 Apr 1927.
4. ii. Isaac. Born 5 Feb 1866.
4. iii. John F. Born 1869 in Shelby Co., Ky.
4. iv. Genevieve. Born 5 Nov 1873.
4. v. Anna Lee. Born 23 Sep 1874.
4. vi. Frank M. Born 29 Jan 1877 in Kentucky.
4. vii. Mary (also reported as Minnie Bell). Born May 1879.
viii. Charlie.
4. ix. Cassandra (called Lady). Born 25 May 1884.
4. x. Delma Henrietta (called Etta). Born 25 Dec 1886.
4. xi. Eva May. Born Sep 1889.
5. Isaac[2] Honnaker Jr. (Isaac[1]). Born 7 Nov 1844 in Hardinsville, Shelby Co., Ky. Died 5 Mar 1929. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. He was a Union Army soldier in Co. F, 4th and 6th Kentucky Infantry. He lived in a nice brick home at 815 E. Washington St., Butchertown, a neighborhood of Louisville. His daughters Alberta and Bessie lived in the home until their deaths.
He married Caroline Hook 5 Mar 1872 in Louisville. Born 3 Jul 1850 in Louisville. Died 31 Jul 1940 in Louisville. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. Children:
5. i. George[3]. Born 9 May 1873 in Louisville.
ii. Curtis. Born 3 Oct 1874 in Kentucky. Died 25 Nov 1960.
iii. Emma. Born 13 Dec 1876. Died 18 Dec 1876.
5. iv. Edward. Born 26 Dec 1877 in Kentucky.
v. Charles. Born 20 Jun 1880. Died 5 Sep 1880.
5. vi. Robert W. Born 1 Feb 1882 in Kentucky.
5. vii. Minnie. Born 12 Feb 1884 in Kentucky.
viii. Alberta. Born 10 Oct 1887 in Kentucky. Died 3 Jun 1968.
ix. Eugene. Born 18 Apr 1891. Died 11 Apr 1921. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. He married Margaret Humphrey.
x. Bessie Lee. Born 1 Apr 1895. Died 20 Jan 1987. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
6. Zerelda Jane[2] Honnaker (Isaac[1]). Born 14 Feb 1847 in Franklin Co., Ky. Died 27 Nov 1881.
She married Edward Y. Stigers, son of John O. C. Stigers and Susan Stivers, 10 Dec 1863 in Shelby Co., Ky. Born 18 Dec 1843 in Shelby County. Died 13 Apr 1909 in Shelby County. Buried in Bagdad Cemetery, Shelby County. Zerelda’s sister Sarah Elizabeth later married Edward. Children:
i. Henry[3]. Born 13 Mar 1867. Died 21 Apr 1888.
6. ii. Albert (called Bert). Born 24 Dec 1868.
6. iii. Arminta (called Minnie). Born 19 Feb 1869.
6. iv. James Franklin. Born 30 Apr 1873.
v. Walker Lee. Born 12 Sep 1875. Died 29 Dec 1905. He married Pearl Sauer. Died 19 Apr 1908.
6. vi. Edward C. Born 10 Oct 1877 in Franklin County.
vii. Curtis. Born 19 Oct 1879. He married Nannie Hibbert.
viii. John I. Born 22 Apr 1891. He married Maggie Hume.
7. Sarah Elizabeth[2] Honnaker (called Sallie) (Isaac[1]). Born 22 May 1851 in Franklin Co., Ky. Died 22 Jan 1945 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Buried in Bagdad Cemetery, Shelby Co., Ky. The 1900 Shelby Co., Ky., census, Christianburg District, enumerated Sallie’s family as: Ed Stigers, head, b. May 1843, 56, m. 18 years; Sallie, wife, b. May 1852, 48, m. 18 years; Eddie, son, b. Apr 1880, 20; Elizabeth Honiker, mother-in-law, b. Oct 1811, 88, widowed; Nancy Stigers, b. Jan 1880, 20; Sallie Stigers, 2 mo. old. There is an illegible notation after Nancy and Sallie’s names. They appeared to be mother and daughter, but their relationship to Ed is not known.
She married, first, Richard Rogers (also reported as Richard Roberts). Children:
i. John L.[3]. Born 6 Apr 1871. He married Della Woods. Died 30 Dec 1963.
She married, second, Edward Y. Stigers 22 May 1882 in Franklin Co., Ky. Born 18 Dec 1843. Died 13 Apr 1909. Sallie’s sister Zerelda also married Edward.
2.i. Francis Marion[3] Honnaker (called Frank) (John Bryant[2], Isaac[l]). Born 27 Sept 1856. Died 1 Aug 1906.
He married Stella McKnight, daughter of William Bakewell McKnight and Charlotte Collester. Born 20 Apr 1860. Died 18 Jan 1947. Stella signed her mother’s death certificate 27 Feb 1935 in Louisville, Ky. Children:
i. Maude[4]. Born in Jan 1885.
2.ii. John Bryant [3] Honnaker Jr. (John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 22 Dec 1867. Died 10 Jul 1930.
Frankfort [Ky.] Roundabout, 20 May 1893: Two Pairs of Hearts—An Entangled Alliance in the Crim and Honaker Families.
There was a double wedding under romantic circumstances Monday morning at the residence of Mr. Robert C. Nicol, one mile from the city, which, like a number of other similar marriages, over which genealogists have puzzled, will have the effect of slightly entangling the lines of relationship.
Two cousins married a brother and sister. Mr. Charles H Crim and his cousin, Miss Mary J. Crim, living near Bagdad, and Miss Annie Honaker, daughter of Mr. Fred Honaker, of Louisville, and her brother, Mr. John B. Honaker, Jr., of Bloomfield, were the contracting parties, Mr. Crim and Miss Honaker making one couple, and Mr. Honaker and Miss Crim the other. While the young ladies were visiting each other Sunday, the gentlemen proposed that they take a drive to Frankfort and consummate the fondest wishes of their ardent courtship by a double wedding at the residence of Mrs. Nicol, who is a cousin of one bride and aunt of the other. It was agreed to and accordingly Mrs. Nicol was greatly surprised on Monday to hear the couples, on alighting from their buggies, announce that they had come to get married. With the assistance of Mr. Nicol, the requisite licenses were obtained and Rev. H.G. Henderson, of the Methodist Church, requested to attend to perform the ceremony.
The parlor, in the meantime, was decorated with fresh flowers from the conservatory and beautiful [boquet] were given to each of the brides, who in her handsomest and most becoming gown, was a lovely type of Kentucky’s young womanhood.
Within the hour the ceremony was over and the couples on their return to their respective homes. Though the marriage was not the result of an elopement, it was a sudden and unexpected sequel to their love affairs with which their relatives and friends became acquainted, and doubtless ere this, the curious among the number have solved the complete and exact relationship the wedded couples bear to each other, whether Mr. Crim is Mrs. Honaker’s cousin, or her brother-in-law or Mr. Honaker is a brother or cousin-in-law to his sister.
[In point of fact, John B. Honaker and Anna Lee“Annie” Honaker were not brother and sister, but first cousins.]
He married Mary Lou Crim [the newspaper story above calls her Mary J. Crim] 1893 in Frankfort, Ky. Born 26 Oct 1872. Died 23 Sep 1959. Children:
2.ii. i. Marion Clemency[4]. Born 27 Aug 1894.
2.ii. ii. Alma Louise. Born 31 Jul 1896.
iii. Laura Anna. Born 29 Sep 1898. Died 31 Jan 1941. She married, first, Elmer J. Luchsinger. Born
21 Apr 1892. Died in Jan 1969. She married, second, Henry Rupple.
2.ii. iv. Joseph Lewis. Born 11 Jun 1900.
2.ii. v. Orpha Ray. Born 12 Apr 1904.
2.ii. vi. Avis Seay. Born 3 Jun 1908.
2.ii. vii. Marshall Van Meter. Born 14 Mar 1912.
2.v. Irene[3] Honnaker (John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 27 Oct 1862. Died 6 Jun 1942.
She married, first, Curtis Jackson. Children:
2.v. i. Claude[4].
ii. Franklin.
She married, second, Harry Horner.
She married, third, Jim Croft.
2.vi. Fannie Bell[3] Honnaker (John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 27 Sep 1866. Died 8 Nov 1950.
She married, first, Joseph B. Lemmons. Born 2 Mar 1859. Died 4 Dec 1893. Children:
i. John H.[4] Born 28 Jan 1892. Died 20 Feb 1962. He married Hattie Cox. Born 24 Mar 1882. Died
16 Apr 1943.
ii. Frank M. Born 29 Apr 1880. Died 11 Apr 1933. He married, first, Lucile Blanton. Born in 1879. Died 27 Jun 1922. He married, second, Bessie Green.
iii. Maymie. Born 25 Apr 1886. Died 16 Feb 1911.
She married, second, Elmer Ray Weller. Born in Jul 1870. Died 15 Aug 1904. Children:
2.vi. iv. Thelma Rae. Born 1 Jan 1904.
She married, third, John M. Mathews.
2.vii. Lillian May[3] Honnaker (John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Jun 1870. Died 4 Aug 1933.
She married, first, James Wickham. Children:
i. Lillian Ruth[4]. Born 9 Jul 1896. Died 28 Feb 1977.
She married, second, James Spires Bigwood. Born 30 Nov 1868. Died 3 Mar 1933. Children:
2.vii. ii. Edith Maura. Born 4 Dec 1898.
iii. Alice Frances. Born 6 Sep 1902. Died 14 Jun 1949.
2.vii. iv. Eunice Omega (called June). Born 14 Aug 1905.
v. James F. Born in 1907. Died 7 Oct 1987. He married Unknown.
2.viii. Eunice Lee[3] Honnaker (John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 13 Aug 1872. Died 15 Feb 1954.
She married Thomas Vincent Long. Born 30 Mar 1867. Died 15 Jul 1947. Children:
i. Herman Hugo[4]. Born 14 Sep 1892. Died in 1936. He married Mary Margaret Unknown. Born in 1885. Died in 1936.
2.viii. ii. Clarence Thomas. Born 7 Oct 1897.
3.iv. George Thomas[3] Honnaker (Richard[2], Isaac[1]). Born 2 Oct l869. Died 25 Mar 1942.
He married Mamie Pittenger. Born in Aug 1870. Died 17 Mar 1940. Children:
i. Roy[4]. Born in Jul 1891.
ii. Mattie Mabel. Born in Dec 1894.
iii. Eleanora B. Born in Feb 1898. She married Earl Edwards.
iv. William C. Born in Jan 1900.
v. Ethel. Born in 1903. Died 15 Apr 1904.
vi. Olga. Born 22 Mar 1911. Died 11 Apr 1912.
3.iv. vii. George Albert. Born 13 Apr 1913.
viii. Gladys.
ix. Thomas.
x. Lizzie Lee.
4.ii. Isaac[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Feb l866. Died 2 Jul 1935. Buried in Cave Hill, Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky.
He married Sarah R. Howell (called Sallie). Born 3 Apr 1868. Died 23 Aug 1945. Children:
4.ii. i. John W.[4] Born 27 May 1887.
4.ii. ii. Nellie. Born in Sep 1889.
4.ii. iii. James Lewis. Born 25 Jan 1895.
4.iii. John F.[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1869 in Shelby Co., Ky. Died 10 Jan 1904 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. The 1900 Louisville Census found John’s family at 3604 Third St.: John Honnaker, b. Jan 1870, 30; Willie, b. Feb 1871, 29; Charles, b. Jan 1892, 8; John Howell, b. Feb 1893, 7; Alexander, b. Oct 1894, 5; Ophelia, b. 1896, 3; Estelle [Estill], b. 1898, 2; Rodman, b. Jun 1900, 3 mo.; Sallie Howell (Willie’s sister), b. Apr 1867, 33. John died in a railroad accident leaving Willie with six children to raise. The railroad helped her run a boarding house for railroad workers. It was near Main Street and Story Avenue near the stock yards. Because of the economic pressure, she adopted out the eldest child still at home, John Howell, to the Hamm Brewery family. Family legend is that the Hamm family made the adoption offer.
He married Wilhelmina Zuelema Howell (called Willie), daughter of Alexander R. Howell and Amelia Riscley, 24 Sep 1890 in Louisville. Born 5 Jan 1870 in Louisville. Died 15 Jul 1938 in Louisville. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery. At the time of death, she lived at 1109 Ashland Ave., Louisville. Children:
i. Charles F.[4] Born Jan 1892 in Kentucky. Died after 1938. He was a pharmacist who worked with a Roadcap cousin who owned Garden Acre Pharmacy, Taylor Blvd., Louisville, Ky.
4.iii. ii. John Howell. Born Feb 1893 in Kentucky.
iii. Alexander. Born Oct 1894. He was adopted out to the Hamm Brewery family and lived in Cincinnati, Hamilton Co., Ohio.
4.iii. iv. Ophelia Mae (called Felix). Born 14 Mar 1897 in Louisville.
v. Albert Estill. Born 11 Jun 1898 in Kentucky. Died 16 May 1967 in Indianapolis, Ind. Arrangements were by Abdon & O’Riley Funeral Home, the Rev. Laue officiating. Burial was in Washington Park East Cemetery, presumably Indianapolis. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War I, then worked for a railway and lived in Indianapolis.
vi. Joseph Rodman. Born Jan 1900 in Kentucky. Died 12 Mar 1931. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. He died from the effects of chemical gas exposure in World War I.
4.iii. vii. Katherine (twin). Born 8 Nov 1902.
4.iii. viii. Lucille S. (called Sue) (twin). Born 8 Nov 1902.
4.iv. Genevieve[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Nov 1873.
She married, first, Bill Martin.
She married, second, Fred Hillerich. He was in the Hillerich family which manufactured Hillerich & Bradsby baseball bats in Louisville, Ky. Children:
i. Ethel Mae[4]. Born 20 Oct 1899. Died 25 Jan 1959. She married, first, Jack H. Chandler. She married, second, Ralph Moore.
4.iv. ii. Arthur Frederick. Born 1 Sep 1896.
4.v. Anna Lee[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 23 Sep 1874. Died 22 Dec 1955.
Frankfort [Ky.] Roundabout, 20 May 1893: Two Pairs of Hearts—An Entangled Alliance in the Crim and Honaker Families.
There was a double wedding under romantic circumstances Monday morning at the residence of Mr. Robert C. Nicol, one mile from the city, which, like a number of other similar marriages, over which genealogists have puzzled, will have the effect of slightly entangling the lines of relationship.
Two cousins married a brother and sister. Mr. Charles H Crim and his cousin, Miss Mary J. Crim, living near Bagdad, and Miss Annie Honaker, daughter of Mr. Fred Honaker, of Louisville, and her brother, Mr. John B. Honaker, Jr., of Bloomfield, were the contracting parties, Mr. Crim and Miss Honaker making one couple, and Mr. Honaker and Miss Crim the other. While the young ladies were visiting each other Sunday, the gentlemen proposed that they take a drive to Frankfort and consummate the fondest wishes of their ardent courtship by a double wedding at the residence of Mrs. Nicol, who is a cousin of one bride and aunt of the other. It was agreed to and accordingly Mrs. Nicol was greatly surprised on Monday to hear the couples, on alighting from their buggies, announce that they had come to get married. With the assistance of Mr. Nicol, the requisite licenses were obtained and Rev. H.G. Henderson, of the Methodist Church, requested to attend to perform the ceremony.
The parlor, in the meantime, was decorated with fresh flowers from the conservatory and beautiful [boquet] were given to each of the brides, who in her handsomest and most becoming gown, was a lovely type of Kentucky’s young womanhood.
Within the hour the ceremony was over and the couples on their return to their respective homes. Though the marriage was not the result of an elopement, it was a sudden and unexpected sequel to their love affairs with which their relatives and friends became acquainted, and doubtless ere this, the curious among the number have solved the complete and exact relationship the wedded couples bear to each other, whether Mr. Crim is Mrs. Honaker’s cousin, or her brother-in-law or Mr. Honaker is a brother or cousin-in-law to his sister.
[In point of fact, John B. Honaker and Anna Lee“Annie” Honaker were not brother and sister, but first cousins.]
She married Charles Haydon Crim in 1893 in Frankfort [also reported as Mt. Sterling], Ky. Born 21 Oct 1866. Died 7 Jul 1957. Children:
4.v. i. Alvin Taylor[4]. Born 1 Jun 1894.
4.v. ii. Robert Lindsey. Born 24 Nov 1896.
4.v. iii. Anna Lee. Born 1 Nov 1908.
4.v. iv. Sarah Frances. Born 28 Jun 1913.
4.v. v. Charles H., Jr. Born 3 Mar 1916.
4.vi. Frank M.[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 29 Jan l877 in Kentucky. Died 20 Aug l959.
He married Margaret Koenig (called Meg). Born 15 Apr 1875. Died 10 Oct 1943. Children:
i. Melvin F.[4] Born in 1907. Died 2 May 1956. He married Estelle Sparks.
4.vii. Mary[3] Honnaker (also reported as Minnie Bell) (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born May 1879. Died 23 Jun 1958.
She married Carl William Koenig (called Will). Died before 1958. Children:
i. Etta Louise[4]. Died before 1993. She married Herbert K. Walker.
4.vii. ii. Thelma. Born 28 Mar 1911.
iii. Carl W. Born 23 Nov 1913. Died 6 Jul 1993.
iv. Frederick A. Born 25 Nov 1917. Died after Jul 1993.
v. Kenneth. Died after 1993. He married Marjorie Unknown (called Margie).
4.ix. Cassandra[3] Honnaker (called Lady) (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 25 May 1884. Died 12 Apr 1967.
She married Beulah Grey Roadcap. Born 22 Oct 1882. Died 28 Mar 1959. Children:
4.ix. i. Louise Mae[4]. Born 11 Oct 1908.
4.ix. ii. Virginia Lee (called Babe). Born 17 Jul 1913.
iii. Charles Austin (called Bud). Born 31 Oct 1911. Died 25 Mar 1997. He married Evelyn Doyle. Born 28 Dec 1923.
4.x. Delma Henrietta[3] Honnaker (called Etta) (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 25 Dec l886. Died 20 Mar 1986.
She married, first, Fred Pulleine.
She married, second, John Andrew Haysley. Children:
i. Delma[4].
4.xi. Eva May[3] Honnaker (Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born Sep 1889. Died 19 Feb l933.
She married Robert Lee Haysley. Born 7 Jan 1889. Died in Jul 1950. Children:
i. Robert Francis[4]. Born in May 1913. Died in 1914.
4.xi. ii. Eva Ruth.
4.xi. iii. Robert L., Jr. Born 8 Nov 1921.
5.i. George[3] Honnaker (Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born 9 May 1873. Died 28 May 1943.
He married Maggie Casey. Born 31 Jan 1878. Died 5 May 1942. Children:
5.i. i. Myrtle[4]. Born in 1901.
5.i. ii. LaJoria. Born in 1906.
iii. Raymond Joseph. Born 11 Jul 1907. Died 27 Mar 1973. He married Louise Virginia Green. Born 29 Dec 1914. Died 20 Nov 1984.
iv. Lucille. Born in 1910. Died 9 Dec 1998. She married E.K. Moore.
v. Unknown. She married Roy B. Ransdell. Born 6 Aug 1912. Died 12 Mar 1987.
vi. Roger A. Born 17 Nov 1914. Died 12 Feb 1966. He married Lorena Kleinhenz. Born 11 Jan 1904. Died 24 Jan 1960.
vii. Claude Norman. Born 9 Jan 1916. Died 15 May 1976.
viii. Dorothy Lee. Born 22 Jan 1918. She married Unknown Whisenaut.
ix. Herbert Ripley. Born 3 Jun 1919. Died 3 Jul 1919.
5.iv. Edward[3] Honnaker (Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born 26 Dec 1877. Died l Apr 1969.
He married Ella Nora Nuss. Born 18 Oct 1886. Died 9 Jul 1966. Children:
i. Alvin Henry[4]. Born in 1911. He married, first, Evelyn Denzinger. Born 11 Dec 1911. Died
19 May 1966. He married, second, Gloria Swimme. Born 8 Nov 1921.
ii. Alice Catherine. Born 27 Sep 1912. Died 19 Jun 1997. She married George Irving Heil.
iii. Edward. Born 12 May 1915.
iv. Katherine (called Dolly). Born in 1916.
5.vi. Robert W.[3] Honnaker (Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Feb 1882. Died 12 Sep 1955.
He married Ella Koch. Born in 1885. Died 14 Apr 1971. Children:
i. Leland R.[4] Born 21 Apr 1915. Died 12 Dec 1977. He married Suzanne Schneider.
5.vi. ii. Edna Lee. Born 2 Jan 1909.
5.vii. Minnie[3] Honnaker (Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Feb 1884. Died 26 Jul 1963.
She married Ignatius Rehn. Children:
i. Eugene A.[4] Born 14 May 1909. Died in May 1969.
6.ii. Albert[3] Stigers (called Bert) (Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 24 Dec l868. Died 10 Mar 1934.
He married Mary Katherine Robb. Born in 1868. Died 11 Jan 1952. Children:
6.ii. i. Charles H.[4] Born 5 Dec 1890.
ii. Bulla. She married Unknown Carpenter.
6.iii. Arminta[3] Stigers (called Minnie) (Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 19 Feb 1869. Died 15 Apr 1952.
She married Hezekiah K. Strange. Born 4 Feb 1856. Died 12 Feb 1906. Children:
i. Liddie Mae[4].
ii. Jerry Edward. Born 4 Apr 1889.
iii. Sarah E. Born 22 Feb 1891. Died 8 Aug 1959. She married Sherman Sapp.
iv. Ada Maxine. Born 4 Dec 1893. Died 4 Sep 1969. She married Thomas Datillo.
6.iii. v. Goldie May. Born 12 Jan 1895.
6.iii. vi. James Alonzo. Born 29 Sep 1898.
vii. Eura Lee. Born 9 Mar 1899. Died 4 Dec 1954. She married Fred Loeschner.
viii. William Gilford. Born 15 Dec 1902. Died 22 Jan 1961.
ix. Joseph. Born 15 Dec 1904. Died in 1909.
6.iv. James Franklin[3] Stigers (Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 30 Apr 1873. Died 7 May 1922.
He married Annie E. Young in Clark Co., Ind. They divorced. Born 1879. Died 1898. Children:
6.iv. i. James Leonard[4]. Born 1896.
6.vi. Edward C.[3] Stigers (Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 10 Oct l877. Died 29 May l939.
He married Edith (or Elizabeth) Allen. Born in 1887. Died 28 Apr 1958. Children:
6.vi. i. Edward A.[4] Born in 1909.
2.ii.i. Marion Clemency[4] Honnaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 27 Aug 1894. Died 27 Feb 1994.
She married Olin Newton Cameron. Children:
2.ii.i. i. William Olin[5].
2.ii.ii. Alma Louise[4] Honnaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 3l Jul 1896. Died 25 Sep 1957.
She married, first, Jesse Morris. Children:
i. Anna Louise[5].
ii. Jesse, Jr.
She married, second, Robert J. Hall. Children:
2.ii.ii. iii. Nancy JoAnn. Born in Jan 1931.
2.ii.iv. Joseph Lewis[4] Honnaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 11 Jun 1900. Died in Jan 1975.
He married Monica Naomi Ganshaw. Born 7 Sep 1907. Died in Aug 1979. Children:
2.ii.iv. i. William Bryant[5]. Born 1 Oct 1925.
2.ii.iv. ii. Marion Jean. Born 11 Mar 1927.
2.ii.iv. iii. Betty Lou. Born 12 Aug 1932.
2.ii.v. Orpha Ray[4] Honnaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Apr 1904.
She married George Conavay. Born in Jun 1900. Died 6 Mar 1957. Children:
i. George Harold[5]. Born 23 Mar 1924. Died 24 Oct 1980.
2.ii.v. ii. Mary Ann. Born 18 Apr 1925.
2.ii.v. iii. Edgar Allen. Born 25 Feb 1927.
2.ii.v. iv. Jeannine Fay. Born 7 Dec 1931.
2.ii.vi. Avis Seay[4] Honnaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 3 Jun 1908. Died 27 May 1995.
She married Morris Arlington Springer. Born 9 Jun 1905. Died 3 Jun 1994. Children:
2.ii.vi. i. Morris A., Jr.[5]
2.ii.vi. ii. Gloria Virginia. Born 17 Oct 1931.
2.ii.vi. iii. Harold Thomas. Born 17 May 1936.
2.ii.vii. Marshall Van Meter[4] Honaker (John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Mar 1912. Died 10 Mar 1978. He spelled the surname with one "n".
He married Elizabeth Mae Bement. Died 30 Mar 1999. Children:
2.ii.vii. i. John Joseph Westley[5]. Born 28 Aug 1942.
ii. Roberta Marie. Born ca. 1945.
iii. Susan. Born ca. 1947.
iv. Allen David. Born ca. 1949.
2.v.i. Claude[4] Jackson (Irene[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Golda Unknown. Born 10 Oct 1898. Died 25 Jan 1993. Children:
i. Orville[5].
ii. Euna. Born 9 Feb 1911. Died in 1979.
iii. Lelia.
iv. Mary.
v. Pat.
vi. Claude, Jr. He married Sharleen Wolfe.
vii. Unknown.
2.vi.iv. Thelma Rae[4] Weller (Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born l Jan l904. Died 10 Apr 1980.
She married Joseph Thomas Lang. Born 2 Jun 1888. Died 19 Aug 1950. Children:
2.vi.iv. i. Mary Josephine[5]. Born 3 Feb 1923.
2.vi.iv. ii. Joyce Weller. Born 27 Nov 1924.
iii. Frances Irene. Born 27 Feb 1927. Died 13 Dec 1927.
2.vi.iv. iv. Elizabeth Leigh. Born 30 Mar 1929.
2.vi.iv. v. Joseph T., Jr. Born 30 Jan 1932.
2.vi.iv. vi. Betty Jean. Born 4 Nov 1934.
2.vii.ii. Edith Maura[4] Bigwood (Lillian May[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 4 Dec 1898. Died 23 Mar 1924.
She married Guy Goins. Born 14 Jan 1895. Died 31 Jan 1972. Children:
2.vii.ii. i. Lillian Blanche[5]. Born 22 Mar 1922.
2.vii.iv. Eunice Omega[4] Bigwood (called June) (Lillian May[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Aug 1905. Died
11 Feb 1974.
She married, first, Jesse Jones. Children:
i. Lillian[5].
She married, second, Unknown Kiscaden. Children:
ii. Jack.
iii. Eva. She married Unknown Gordon.
2.viii.ii. Clarence Thomas[4] Long (Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 7 Oct 1897. Died 9 Feb 1953.
He married, first, Ruby Lee Joyner. Born 7 Mar 1909. Died 28 Jan 1975. Children:
2.viii.ii. i. Irma Sue[5]. Born 12 Jun 1944.
He married, second, Della Stowe. Born before 1916. Children:
2.viii.ii. ii. Eunice Mary. Born 14 Mar 1926.
2.viii.ii. iii. Charles Edward. Born 17 Jan 1928.
3.iv.vii. George Albert[4] Honnaker (George Thomas[3], Richard[2], Isaac[1]). Born 13 Apr 1913. Died 3 Jan 1983.
He married, first, Evelyn Stinebruner. Born in 1916. Died 1 Dec 1933. Children:
i. Mabel Frances[5]. Born after 1935. She married Unknown Garciduenas.
ii. Zannie V. Born after 1935. She married Unknown Henson.
He married, second, Francella Lenora Smith. Born in 1911. Died 11 Mar 1969. Children:
iii. George A., Jr. Born after 1935.
4.ii.i. John W.[4] Honnaker (Isaac[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 27 May 1887. Died 28 Apr 1968.
He married Pearl Edith Shearer. Born 16 May 1889. Died 16 Jun 1974. Children:
i. Fred O.[5]
ii. Audrey. Died before 1974. She married T.J. Weihe.
iii. Genoa (or Jenoa). She married Floyd Hammock.
4.ii.ii. Nellie[4] Honnaker (Isaac[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born in Sep l889. Died 4 Jul 1971.
She married Unknown Wieger. Children:
4.ii.ii. i. Eugene[5]. Born 25 Dec 1910.
ii. Ruth. She married William S. McAdams.
iii. Helen. She married Unknown Roggenkamp.
4.ii.iii. James Lewis[4] Honnaker (Isaac[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 25 Jan 1895. Died 10 Jul 1967.
He married Ethel Beatrice Harvey. Born 20 Sep 1910. Children:
4.ii.iii.James
4.ii.iii. i. Janice Louise[5].
4.iii.ii. John Howell[4] Honnaker (John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born in Feb 1893. Died 17 May 1970.
He married Ophia Richardson. Born in 1904. Died 12 Apr 1984. Children:
4.iii.ii. i. Winona[5].
ii. Evelyn. She married Frank Kimmel and had two children, names unknown. Evelyn moved to Florida in the 1970s.
It was also reported that John Howell married Florence Unknown, who was Evelyn’s mother.
4.iii.iv. Ophelia Mae[4] Honnaker (called Felix) (John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Mar 1897 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Died of arteriosclerotic heart disease 8 Sep 1979 in Louisville. Buried beside her sister Lucille in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky. The 1930 Louisville Census found Felix’s family at 103 Shelby Street: Ophelia M. Warford, head of household; Muriel O.; Ruth A. She was a buyer for Kaufman-Strause Department Store, Louisville. Arrangements were by Arch L. Heady & Son Funeral Home, Louisville.
She married James Guthrie Warford, son of Butler Warford and Elizabeth Betz, 1 Sep 1913 in Louisville. They divorced after their second child was born. Born 5 Jun 1893. Died of cerebral thrombosis due to arteriosclerosis, 5 Jan 1966 in Louisville. Buried in Resthaven Cemetery, Louisville. Arrangements were by Highlands Funeral Home, Louisville. He was a Mason and Shriner. He later married Josephine Broyles. At the time of his death he was a salesman at Southern Saddlery Co., Louisville. Children (of Felix and James):
4.iii.iv. i. Muriel Ophelia.[5] Born 15 Apr 1913 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv. ii. Ruth Amelia. Born 28 Apr 1916 in Louisville.
4.iii.vii. Katherine[4] Honnaker (twin) (John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 8 Nov 1902. Died 6 Nov 1981.
She married Christy Rudolph Odewahn. Born in 1901. Died 2 Dec 1976. Children:
4.iii.vii. i. Christy R., Jr.[5] Born 26 Aug 1924.
ii. Jacob Carl. Born 14 May 1928. Died 5 Sep 1994.
4.iii.vii. iii. Charles Albert. Born 15 Jul 1935.
4.iii.viii. Lucille S.[4] Honnaker (twin) (called Sue) (John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 8 Nov 1902. Died 19 Dec 1989 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Buried beside her sister Ophelia in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. Services were at Arch L. Heady & Son Oak Street Chapel, Louisville.
She married Bernard E. Gausepohl. Children:
4.iii.viii. i. Elmer. He changed his name to Bob.
4.iv.ii. Arthur Frederick[4] Hillerich (Genoa[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Sep 1896. Died 27 Jan 1932.
He married Lorraine Feldhaus. Children:
4.iv.ii. i. Maidie Lorraine[5]. Born 8 Dec 1921
4.v.i. Alvin Taylor[4] Crim (Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Jun 1894. Died 20 Oct 1981.
He married Hettie Florence Poole. Born 3 Feb 1891. Died 8 Jun 1971. Children:
i. Douglas Poole[5]. Born 7 Aug 1917. Died 14 Sep 1998.
4.v.i. ii. Susan Annida. Born 3 Sep 1919.
4.v.ii. Robert Lindsey[4] Crim (Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 24 Nov 1896. Died 29 Jan 1970.
He married Laura Pearl Hays. Born 22 Mar 1900. Died 28 Oct 1982. Children:
4.v.ii. i. Robert L., Jr.[5] Born 5 Dec 1918.
4.v.ii. ii. Joyce. Born 28 Oct 1920.
4.v.iii. Anna Lee[4] Crim (Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Nov 1908. Died 9 Jan 1996.
She married, first, William B. Younger. Children:
i. William B., Jr.[5] Born 1 Jun 1925. Died 18 Dec 1925.
She married, second, Arthur Brewer. Born 25 Apr 1914. Died 26 Sep 1994. Children:
4.v.iii. ii. Gary. Born 1 Oct 1949.
4.v.iv. Sarah Frances[4] Crim (Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 28 Jun 1913.
She married James Cecil Milton. Born 21 Oct 1906. Died 17 Jan 1989. Children:
4.v.iv. i. James C., Jr.[5] Born 11 Mar 1934.
4.v.iv. ii. Ann Doris. Born 5 Oct 1936.
4.v.iv. iii. Charles Crim. Born 10 Nov 1945.
4.v.v. Charles Haydon[4] Crim Jr. (Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[l]). Born 3 Mar 1916. Died 18 May 1940.
He married Rachel Brewer. Born 2 Oct 1918. Children:
4.v.v. i. Geraldine[5]. Born 28 Sep 1939.
4.vii.ii. Thelma[4] Koenig (Minnie Bell[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 28 Mar 1911. Died after 1933.
She married Henry H. Mason. Children:
i. Ronald Austin[5]. He married Glenda Unknown.
ii. Bruce.
iii. Patricia. She married Billy Riley.
iv. Kenneth. He married Margaret Unknown.
v. Avis.
vi. Nancy.
vii. Cheryl. She married Almerine Stout (called Junie).
viii. Henry Adrian.
ix. Gayle.
4.ix.i. Louise Mae[4] Roadcap (Cassandra[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 11 Oct 1908. Died 20 Aug 1982.
She married Raymond J. Curley (called Ray). Born in 1911. Died 27 Mar 1952. Children:
4.ix.i. i. Thomas Gray[5]. Born 31 Aug 1940.
4.ix.ii. Virginia Lee[4] Roadcap (called Babe) (Cassandra[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 17 Jul 1913.
She married Sherman Lee Jetton. Born 14 Jul 1909. Children:
4.ix.ii. i. Sherman L., Jr.[5] (called S.L.) Born 29 Feb 1940.
4.ix.ii. ii. Charles Kent (called Chuck). Born 28 Feb 1954.
4.xi.ii. Eva Ruth[4] Haysley (Eva May[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Joseph Edward Shuck (called Joe). Born 15 Oct 1913. Children:
i. Mae Ann[5]. Born 22 Jul 1933. She married Robert Lee Hauss. Born 3 Nov 1930.
ii. Sharon Ruth. Born 19 Mar 1942. She married Joseph Ray Bishop (called Ray). Born
26 Nov 1937.
iii. Eva Lea. Born 4 Sep 1951. She married Porter Neal Stringer (called Neal). Born 15 Dec 1950.
4.xi.iii. Robert Lee[4] Haysley Jr. (Eva May[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 8 Nov 1921. Died 9 Feb 1964.
He married Frances Boyd. Children:
i. Robert Lee[5]. Born 21 Jun 1949.
5.i.i. Myrtle[4] Honnaker (George[3], Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born in 1901. Died 3 Jun 1976.
She married Thomas B. Breunig (called Rip). Born in 1891. Died 17 Jul 1971. Children:
i. LaVerne[5].
ii. G. Thomas.
iii. Raymond W.
iv. Marvin L.
v. R. Dudley.
vi. Eugene.
5.i.ii. LaJoria[4] Honnaker (George[3], Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born in 1906. Died in 1993.
She married James W. Hall. Children:
i. Donald L.[5]
ii. Beverly She married Unknown Jones.
iii. Nancy. She married Unknown Byrley.
5.vi.ii. Edna Lee[4] Honnaker (Robert W.[3], Isaac[2], Isaac[1]). Born 2 Jan l909. Died in Mar 1990.
She married Richard Wantland. Born 28 Jan 1910. Died 1 Jan 1990. Children:
5.vi.ii. i. William[5].
ii. Robert.
6.ii.i. Charles H.[4] Stigers (Albert[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Dec 1890. Died 30 Jul 1959.
He married Mary A. Elliott (called Sis). Born 21 May 1891. Died 6 Sep 1967. Children:
i. Mary Catherine[5]. She married, first, Raymond Heyn. She married, second, Unknown Miller.
ii. Charlyn. She married Arch Stallard.
6.iii.v. Goldie May[4] Strange (Arminta[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Jan 1895.
She married Fred Toney. Children:
i. Roger[5].
6.iii.vi. James Alonzo[4] Strange (Arminta[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 29 Sep 1898. Died 19 Jun 1961.
He married Appolonia Veronica Karbauskas (called Pauline). Born 19 Nov 1905. Died 2 May 1970. Children:
6.iii.vi. i. Ruth LaVerne[5]. Born 14 Jul 1926.
ii. Ronald Richard. Born 1 Jan 1930.
iii. Roberta Maureen.
iv. Robert James.
v. Rochelle Jacqueline.
vi. Roland Gene. Born 2 Feb 1940.
6.iv.i. James Leonard[4] Stigers (James Franklin[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1896. Died 1977 in Louisville, Ky. He was raised by his father after his parents divorced.
He married Peggy Ethel Williams. Born 1898 in Berea, Ky. Died 1988 in Louisville, Ky. Children:
6.iv.i. i. Leonard Franklin[5]. Born 1919 in Louisville.
6.vi.i. Edward A.[4] Stigers (Edward C.[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born in 1909. Died 19 Oct 1957.
He married Marjorie Kinslow. Children:
i. Stephen C.[5]
ii. Phillip M.
2.ii.i.i. William Olin[5] Cameron (Marion Clemency[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Billie Jean Unknown. Children:
i. Debbie Lynn[6]. She married Unknown Rivera.
2.ii.ii.iii. Nancy JoAnn[5] Hall (Alma Louise[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born in Jan 1931.
She married Donald Olwin. Born 8 Mar 1922. Died in Dec 1980. Children:
i. Donald, Jr.[6]
ii. Robert Joseph.
iii. Pamela.
iv. Jackalyn.
v. Timmy.
vi. Mary.
vii. Helen.
viii. Becky.
2.ii.iv.i. William Bryant[5] Honnaker (Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Oct 1925.
He married, first, Ann Spoonemore. Born 28 Dec 1923. Died 6 Mar 1981. Children:
2.ii.iv.i. i. Sharon Sue[6].
2.ii.iv.i. ii. Mark Bryan.
2.ii.iv.i. iii. Gay Lyn.
He married, second, Deloris Skivinsky.
2.ii.iv.ii. Marion Jean[5] Honnaker (Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[l ]). Born 11 Mar 1927.
She married, first, Richard Brandon.
She married, second, Harold Gray. Born 7 Dec 1921. Children:
2.ii.iv.ii. i. Lisa Dawn[6]. Born 6 Mar 1958.
2.ii.iv.ii. ii. Donald David. Born 20 Jul 1960.
2.ii.iv.iii. Betty Lou[5] Honnaker (Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Aug 1932.
She married James Robert Wolfe. Children:
2.ii.iv.iii. i. James R., Jr.[6]. Born 14 Jun 1950.
2.ii.iv.iii. ii. Jeffery Glen. Born 5 Jul 1952.
2.ii.iv.iii. iii. Melanie Jean. Born 21 Oct 1955.
2.ii.v.ii. Mary Ann[5] Conavay (Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 18 Apr 1925.
She married Unknown. Children:
i. Vicki Ann[6].
2.ii.v.iii. Edgar Allen[5] Conavay (Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 25 Feb 1927. Died
4 Jul 1951.
He married Bobbie Unknown. Children:
2.ii.v.iii. i. Heidi Ann[6]. Born 19 Jun 1948.
2.ii.v.iii. ii. Georgie Allen. Born in Aug 1949.
iii. Robert Harold. Born in Aug 1949. Died in Apr 1950.
2.ii.v.iv. Jeannine Fay[5] Conavay (Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 7 Dec 1931.
She married William Douglas Norman. Born 19 Nov 1921. Children:
2.ii.v.iv. i. William D., Jr.[6] Born 5 Aug 1951.
2.ii.v.iv. ii. Laura Ann. Born 9 Mar 1958.
iii. Gregory Wayne. Born 26 Mar 1961.
2.ii.vi.i. Morris Arlington[5] Springer Jr. (Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
He married, first, Alma Mae Mueller. Born 29 Oct 1925. Children:
2.ii.vi.i. i. Morris Arlington[6]. Born 20 Feb 1946.
2.ii.vi.i. ii. Sandra Elaine. Born 1 Mar 1948.
2.ii.vi.i. iii. Sharon Lynn. Born 1 Jan 1950.
iv. Susan Loraine. Born 23 May 1954.
v. Sarah Leah. Born 21 Dec 1955. She married Cecil Charles Frederick; Kenneth Everette Goodman, born 20 Jan 1939; John Doyl Weaver, born 27 Oct 1951; and James Earl Crouch, born 9 Feb 1945.
2.ii.vi.ii. Gloria Virginia[5] Springer (Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 17 Oct 1931.
She married David Franklin Seiler. Born 23 Jan 1931. Children:
2.ii.vi.ii. i. Raymond James[6]. Born 8 Dec 1954.
ii. David F., Jr. Born 25 Mar 1956.
2.ii.vi.ii. iii. William Douglas. Born 29 May 1958.
2.ii.vi.ii. iv. Kathleen Marie. Born 20 Oct 1961.
2.ii.vi.iii. Harold Thomas[5] Springer (Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 17 May 1936.
He married Henrietta Ursula Anger. Children:
i. Harold T., Jr.[6] Born 24 Jun 1958. He married Ann Cheryl Sherman. Born 22 Aug 1961.
2.ii.vi.iii. ii. Tameilia Ann. Born 2 Jul 1959.
iii. Terence Alan. Born 19 Apr 1970.
iv. Teresa Lynn. Born 4 Nov 1972.
2.ii.vii.i. John Joseph Westley[5] Honaker (Marshall Van Meter[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
28 Aug 1942.
He married Cynthia Hoodless. Children:
2.ii.vii.i. i. John J.W., Jr.[6]
2.vi.iv.i. Mary Josephine[5] Lang (Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 3 Feb 1923.
She married Marlie Alexander Sanderson. Born 24 Mar 1921. Died 4 Sep 1998. Children:
2.vi.iv.i. i. Marlie Joseph[6]. Born 14 Jan 1949.
2.vi.iv.i. ii. Mary Susan. Born 22 Mar 1955.
2.vi.iv.ii. Joyce Weller[5] Lang (Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 27 Nov 1924. Died
8 Mar 1962.
She married William Franklin Chester. Born 12 Oct 1918. Died 25 Mar 1992. Children:
2.vi.iv.ii. i. Sharon Ann[6]. Born 16 Aug 1947.
2.vi.iv.iv. Elizabeth Leigh[5] Lang (Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 30 Mar 1929.
She married Otis Clifford Phillips. Born 9 Aug 1915. Died 10 Nov 1980. Children:
2.vi.iv.iv. i. Daniel[6]. Born 21 Mar 1949.
ii. David. Born 5 May 1951.
iii. Dennis.
iv. Anita Lee. Born 26 Nov 1962.
2.vi.iv.v. Joseph Thomas[5] Lang Jr. (Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 30 Jan 1932.
He married Joan F. Williams. Born in 1928. Children:
i. Carroll Patricia[6]. Born 30 Jul 1956. She married William Burri.
2.vi.iv.v. ii. Rebecca Ann. Born 1 Nov 1957.
iii. Joseph Thomas. Born 13 Feb 1959. He married Anne Dombrowski.
iv. Stephan Arthur. Born 4 Aug 1960.
2.vi.iv.v. v. Mary Christine. Born 9 Oct 1962.
vi. Margaret Elizabeth. Born 17 Sep 1968. She married Raymond Rodriguez.
2.vi.iv.vi. Betty Jean[5] Lang (Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 4 Nov 1934.
She married William Paul Wilson. Born 12 Feb 1930. Children:
2.vi.iv.vi. i. William P.[6], Jr. Born 27 Sep 1955.
2.vi.iv.vi. ii. Thomas Malcolm. Born 28 Aug 1957.
2.vi.iv.vi. iii. Sylvia Lynn. Born 4 Aug 1959.
iv. Scott Evans. Born 21 Feb 1972. He married Julie Annette Mathis. Born 1 Jan 1971.
2.vii.ii.i. Lillian Blanche[5] Goins (Edith Maura[4], Lillian May[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 22 Mar 1922. Died
19 Aug 1944.
She married Clarence Eugene Ethington. Born 23 Mar 1921. Died 15 Sep 1997. Children:
i. Norman Eugene[6]. Born 2 Jun 1941. He married Patricia Ann Roberts.
ii. Linda Ada.
iii. Shirley Dean.
iv. John David. He married Flora Moffett.
v. James Thomas.
2.viii.ii.i. Irma Sue[5] Long (Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Jun 1944.
She married Tracy Lee Hyre. Born 29 Jun 1943. Children:
2.viii.ii.i. i. Cynthia Robin[6]. Born 20 Oct 1961.
2.viii.ii.i. ii. Dwayne Edward. Born 21 Sep 1963.
2.viii.ii.i. iii. Pamela Darlene. Born 10 Jun 1965.
2.viii.ii.i. iv. Lynda Michelle. Born 26 Sep 1966.
v. Tracina Suzette. Born 10 Jul 1970. She married Albert Jacobs.
2.viii.ii.ii. Eunice Mary[5] Long (Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Mar 1926. Died
1 Jun 1996.
She married Eugene Kirby Tidrick Sweet. Born 26 Sep 1918. Died 29 Nov 1988. Children:
i. Mary Arlene[6]. Born and died in 1943.
2.viii.ii.ii. ii. Jerry Lee. Born 18 Dec 1944.
2.viii.ii.ii. iii. Eugene Kirby. Born 6 Oct 1946.
2.viii.ii.ii. iv. Clarence Thomas. Born 10 Jul 1953.
2.viii.ii.ii. v. Bonnie Sue. Born 11 Aug 1954.
vi. Sharon Ann. Born 10 Aug 1955.
2.viii.ii.iii. Charles Edward[5] Long (Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 17 Jan 1928.
He married Teddy Louise Sweet. Born 10 Apr 1934. Children:
2.viii.ii.iii. i. Cheryl Lynn. Born 10 Apr 1954.
2.viii.ii.iii. ii. Charles E., Jr. Born 22 Apr 1958.
2.viii.ii.iii. iii. Raye Jean. Born 20 Jul 1964.
4.ii.ii.i. Eugene[5] Wieger (Nellie[4], Isaac[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 25 Dec 1910. Died 15 Apr 1995.
He married Pauline Arnold. Children:
i. Patsy J.[6]. She married Unknown Lake.
4.ii.iii.i. Janice Louise[5] Honnaker (James Lewis[4], Isaac[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Gerald Earle Moody. Children:
i. Douglas Harvey[6]. Born 28 Jul 1981.
ii. Graeme Evan. Born 12 May 1986.
iii. Jarrett Alexander Born 29 Dec 1988.
4.iii.ii.i. Winona[5] Honnaker (John Howell[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Howard Eckert. Children:
4.iii.ii.i. i. Philip L.[6]
4.iii.iv.i. Muriel Ophelia[5] Warford (Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 15 Apr 1913 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Died of congestive heart failure 22 Oct 2002 in Louisville. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. She was executive secretary of the Louisville Chapter of the American Heart Association, was active in the Parent-Teachers’ Association, Fire Prevention Bureau, and served on boards and commissions. She started what was known as “Heart Sunday” during the 1960s, which raised thousands of dollars for the American Heart Association.
She married Herbert Maxwell Zimmerman, son of Max William Zimmerman and Rose Louise Christiane Koellman, 4 Sep 1936 in Louisville. Born 11 Jul 1910 in Louisville. Died of heart attack 19 Sep 1990 in Louisville. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville. During World War II, he was a master electrician who helped manufacture naval ordnance, and was given a deferment from military duty. After the war he became an electrician for International Harvester, Louisville, from which he retired. Children:
4.iii.iv.i. i. Herbert Maxwell[6], Jr. Born 14 Feb 1938 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv.i. ii. Bruce David. Born 17 May 1941 in Louisville.
iii. Muriel Louise. Stillborn 15 Apr 1945 in Louisville. Buried in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville.
4.iii.iv.ii. Ruth Amelia [5] Warford (Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 28 Apr 1916 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Died 25 Jun 1981 in Louisville. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Louisville. She lived at 1016 Carlisle Ave., Louisville.
She married John Baptist Hauss (called Jay), son of George Hauss and Hattie Eva Schmid, 1 Nov 1936 in Jefferson, Ind. Born 16 Nov 1913 in Louisville. Died 2 Aug 1992 in Louisville. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery. He was a Vaudeville performer as a young man, doing song and dance routines. Children:
4.iii.iv.ii. i. Lucille LaVerne[7] (called Sue). Born 30 Jan 1939 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv.ii. ii. Judith Ann. Born 11 Jan 1941
4.iv.vii.i. Christy Rudolph[5] Odewahn Jr. (Katherine[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 26 Aug 1924. Died 6 Dec 1986.
He married Patricia Brady. Children:
i. Suzanne[6].
ii. Dennis.
4.iv.vii.iii. Charles Albert[5] Odewahn (Katherine[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 15 Jul 1935.
He married Joyce Lattis. Children:
i. Stephen[6].
ii. Anne.
iii. Catherine.
iv. Andrew.
4.iii.viii.i. Bob[5] Gausepohl (Lucille S.[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born Elmer, he changed his name to Bob. While serving in the U.S. Army abroad, he married a Japanese woman. Family legend is that his parents had difficulty accepting her. Bob moved to California where he divorced and later committed suicide.
He married Kanuya Unknown in Japan. Children:
i. Bob[6].
ii. Diane.
4.iv.ii.i. Maidie Lorraine[5] Hillerich (Arthur Frederick[4], Genoa[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 8 Dec 1921.
She married James William Roberts (called Jimmy). Born 2 Jun 1920. Died 20 Oct 1985. Children:
4.iv.ii.i. i. James W.,[6] Jr. Born 29 Nov 1943.
4.iv.ii.i. ii. Artha Marie (called Artie). Born 23 Mar 1947.
4.iv.ii.i. iii. Joseph Earnest. Born 20 Oct 1953.
4.v.i.ii. Susan Annida[5] Crim (Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 3 Sep 1919.
She married Purser Kent Sturgeon. Born 21 Oct 1915. Died 10 Oct 1975. Children:
4.v.i.ii. i. Nancy Beth[6]. Born 23 Dec 1940.
4.v.i.ii. ii. Paula Sue. Born 10 May 1942.
4.v.i.ii. iii. Kathryn Anne. Born 12 Nov 1944.
4.v.i.ii. iv. Becky Jo. Born 10 Apr 1949.
4.v.i.ii. v. Barbara Jean. Born 8 Dec 1950.
4.v.i.ii. vi. Donna Lorelei. Born 24 Dec 1954.
4.v.i.ii. vii. Kent Douglas. Born 8 Feb 1958.
4.v.ii.i. Robert Lindsey[5] Crim Jr. (Robert Lindsey[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Dec 1918. Died 26 May 1997.
He married Betty Unknown. Born 1 Feb 1921. Children:
4.v.ii.i. i. Mary Louise[6]. Born 7 Apr 1945.
4.v.ii.i. ii. Richard Lee. Born 4 Sep 1948.
4.v.ii.i. iii. Margie Ellen. Born 2 May 1952.
4.v.ii.ii. Joyce[5] Crim (Robert Lindsey[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 28 Oct 1920. Died in Apr 1995.
She married, first, Mac McDaniel. Born 6 Oct 1915. Died in Jul 1974. Children:
i. Nickie[6].
ii. Ellen.
She married, second, Dawson Unknown.
4.v.iii.ii. Gary[5] Brewer (Anna Lee[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Oct 1949.
He married Joyce Lindsey. Children:
i. Christy[6]. Born 14 Sep 1973. She married Unknown Sanders.
ii. Clay. Born 25 Jul 1981.
4.v.iv.i. James Cecil[5] Milton Jr. (Sarah Frances[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 11 Mar 1934.
He married Carol Power. Born 23 Aug 1934. Died in 1968. Children:
i. Dennis[6].
4.v.iv.i. ii. John. Born 13 Jul 1959.
iii. Ruth. Born 30 Sep 1960. She married Hope Carleton.
iv. Martin. Born 9 Aug 1963. He married Connie Willard.
4.v.iv.ii. Ann Doris[5] Milton (Sarah Frances[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Oct 1936. She married, first, Emmett Ray Wason. Children:
4.v.iv.ii. i. Rae Ann[6].
She married, second, Unknown McIntyre.
4.v.iv.iii. Charles Crim[5] Milton (Sarah Frances[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 10 Nov 1945.
He married Elizabeth Glenn. Children:
i. Geoffry[6]. Born 26 Sep 1968.
ii. Gregory. Born 13 Nov 1970.
iii. Glenn. Born 9 Mar 1972.
4.v.v.i. Geraldine[5] Crim (Charles Haydon[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 28 Sep 1939.
She married George Nilles. Born in 1926. Children:
i. Mary Ann[6]. Born in 1958. She married Maurice Young.
ii. Stafford Jay. Born in 1962. He married Christine Evensen.
4.v.v.i. iii. Robin Louise. Born in 1964.
4.ix.i.i. Thomas Gray[5] Curley (Louise Mae[4], Cassandra[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 31 Aug 1940.
He married, first, Wanda Rose LaRue. Born 17 Nov 1942. Children:
i. Nana Rae[6]. She married John Starks.
ii. Tina Gray. Born 18 Sep 1973.
He married, second, Mary Jean Stengel. Children:
iii. Kathryn Gray. Born 8 Apr 1985.
4.ix.ii.i. Sherman Lee[5] Jetton Jr. (called S.L.) (Virginia Lee[4], Cassandra[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
29 Feb 1940.
He married, first, Virginia Antoinette Mumdorf. Children:
i. Rebecca Lee[6]. Born 25 Jan 1967.
ii. Jeffrey Lee. Born 11 Mar 1970.
He married, second, Brenda Jean Butler.
4.ix.ii.ii. Charles Kent[5] Jetton (called Chuck) (Virginia Lee[4], Cassandra[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
28 Feb 1954.
He married Elaine Frances Raque. Children:
i. Cassandra Elaine[6] (called Cassie). Born 27 Apr 1988.
ii. Kenton G. Born 25 Mar 1991.
5.vi.ii.i. William[5] Wantland (Edna Lee[4], Robert W.[3], Isaac[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Sally Unknown. Children:
i. Nick[6]. He married Grace Unknown.
6.iii.vi.i. Ruth LaVerne[5] Strange (James Alonzo[4], Arminta[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Jul 1926.
She married Harry H. Petri. Children:
6.iii.vi.i. i. Michael Harry[6]. Born 27 Jan 1947.
ii. Mario Richard. Born 21 Mar 1951.
6.iv.i.i. Leonard Franklin[5] Stigers (James Leonard[4], James Franklin[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1919 in Louisville, Ky. Died 1984 in Louisville.
He married Grace Julia Ellen Minton. Born 1920 in Washington Co., Va. Died 2003 in Washington County. Children:
i. Unknown[6].
ii. Unknown.
iii. Unknown.
iv. Brenda. Born 1951 in Kentucky. She spent her childhood in Louisville, retired in 2005 and
became interested in her family genealogy. In 2012 she lived in Washington Co., Va. She married Unknown Neese.
2.ii.iv.i.i. Sharon Sue[6] Honnaker (William Bryant[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Unknown Horp. Children:
i. Holly[7]. Born after 1956.
2.ii.iv.i.ii. Mark Bryan[6] Honnaker (William Bryant[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Unknown. Children:
2.ii.iv.i.ii. i. Monica[7].
2.ii.iv.i.ii. ii. Emily.
iii. Lydia.
2.ii.iv.i.iii. Gay Lyn[6] Honnaker (William Bryant[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Unknown Little. Children:
i. Meggon[7].
ii. Andrea. Born 28 Dec 1977. Died 27 Jun 1993.
2.ii.iv.ii.i. Lisa Dawn[6] Gray (Marion Jean[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
6 Mar 1958.
She married Gordon Earl Aplin. Born 29 Oct 1954. Children:
2.ii.iv.ii.i. i. Joseph Earl[7]. Born 18 Dec 1977.
ii. Micah David. Born 23 Sep 1981.
iii. Eric Gray. Born 26 May 1983.
2.ii.iv.ii.ii. Donald David[6] Gray (Marion Jean[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
20 Jul 1960.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Casey Rayon[7]. Born 19 Sep 1981.
ii. Brandon Cory. Born 16 Nov 1983.
2.ii.iv.iii.i. James Robert[6] Wolfe Jr. (Betty Lou[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
14 Jun 1950.
He married Leslie Stephens. Children:
i. Stephanie Lane[7]. Born 15 Feb 1972.
ii. Joshua Charles. Born 14 Jan 1973.
2.ii.iv.iii.ii. Jeffery Glen[6] Wolfe (Betty Lou[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
5 Jul 1952.
He married Debbie Stewart. Children:
i. Justin Paul[7]. Born 28 Feb 1978.
ii. Arny Elizabeth. Born 14 Jan 1973.
2.ii.iv.iii.iii. Melanie Jean[6] Wolfe (Betty Lou[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
21 Oct 1955.
She married Steve Slade. Children:
i. Kyle Derrick[7]. Born 19 Dec 1977.
2.ii.v.iii.i. Heidi Ann[6] Conavay (Edgar Allen[5], Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
19 Jun 1948.
She married William Dennis McKinney. Children:
i. William Conners[7]. Born 25 Feb 1972.
ii. Daniel Conavay. Born 5 Aug 1978.
2.ii.v.iii.ii. Georgie Allen[6] Conavay (Edgar Allen[5], Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born in Aug 1949.
He married Sally Renie Jones. Born 5 Sep 1947. Children:
i. Adam Edgar[7]. Born 13 May 1979.
ii. David Bryan. Born 8 Jun 1981.
2.ii.v.iv.i. William Douglas[6] Norman Jr. (Jeannine Fay[5], Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Aug 1951.
He married, first, Barbara Jean Hamby. Born 16 Mar 1950. Children:
2.ii.v.iv.i. i. Tonya Renee[7]. Born 29 May 1970.
He married, second, Marcia Stansberry. Born 4 Feb 1950. Children:
ii. Tiffany Jo. Born 2 Jul 1974.
2.ii.v.iv.ii. Laura Ann[6] Norman (Jeannine Fay[5], Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
9 Mar 1958.
She married Brian Scott Snyder. Born 21 Oct 1955. Children:
i. Sarah Kate[7]. Born 23 Feb 1983.
2.ii.vi.i.i. Morris Arlington[6] Springer (Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 20 Feb 1946.
He married, first, Tanya Arlene Fugate. Born 10 May 1974 (there is an error in the reported birthdate, which is later than her children.) Died 4 May 1996. Children:
2.ii.vi.i.i. i. Morris A.,[7] Jr. Born 18 Jun 1964.
2.ii.vi.i.i. ii. Arthur Leon. Born 22 Nov 1965.
He married, second, Brenda Sue Fitzgerald. Born 9 Oct 1944.
2.ii.vi.i.ii. Sandra Elaine[6] Springer (Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
1 Mar 1948.
She married, first, Jerry William Byrd. Born 15 Mar 1947.
She married, second, Wallace Craig Collins. Children:
i. Teresa Dianne[7]. Born 23 Aug 1976.
ii. Wallace Eck Christopher. Born 4 Nov 1977.
2.ii.vi.i.iii. Sharon Lynn[6] Springer (Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
1 Jan 1950.
She married, first, James Edward Cleaver. Born 4 Sep 1947. Children:
2.ii.vi.i.iii. i. Richard Lane[7]. Born 15 Jan 1971.
She married, second, Michael Wayne Thetford. Born 9 Dec 1947. Children:
ii. Michael W., Jr. Born 11 Oct 1977.
2.ii.vi.ii.i. Raymond James[6] Seiler (Gloria Virginia[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
8 Dec 1944 (There is an error in this reported birthdate, which would make his parents 13 at the time he was born.)
He married Edwina Lambert. Died 2 May 1990. Children:
2.ii.vi.ii.i. i. Raymond J.,[7] Jr. Born 20 Jun 1969.
ii. Michelle. Born 13 Jun 1971.
2.ii.vi.ii.iii. William Douglas[6] Seiler (Gloria Virginia[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
29 May 1958.
He married Theresa Louise Schwoerer. Born 3 Jun 1957. Children:
i. Jonathon Edward[7]. Born 7 Jul 1989.
ii. Amy Rochelle. Born 28 Jun 1992.
2.ii.vi.ii.iv. Kathleen Marie[6] Seiler (Gloria Virginia[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
20 Oct 1961.
She married Daniel Bruce Foxworth. Born 9 Mar 1961. Children:
i. Lydia Danielle[7]. Born 10 Feb 1986.
ii. Ryan Adam. Born 24 Jan 1991.
2.ii.vi.iii.ii. Tameilia Ann[6] Springer (Harold Thomas[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
2 Jul 1959.
She married Unknown Nitschke. Children:
i. Thorsten[7]. Born 24 Mar 1981. She married Juergen Karl Schaefer.
ii. Janine Sharon. Born 7 Feb 1995.
2.ii.vii.i. John Joseph Westley[6] Honaker Jr. (John Joseph Westley[5], Marshall Van Meter[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Ashley Leree[7]. Born in 1988.
ii. John Joseph Westley.
2.vi.iv.i.i. Marlie Joseph[6] Sanderson (Mary Josephine[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Jan 1949.
He married Joyce Louise Denmark. Born 17 Jul 1950. Children:
i. Stephanie Louise[7]. Born 1 Jul 1976.
ii. Joseph Morris. Born 7 Nov 1980.
2.vi.iv.i.ii. Mary Susan[6] Sanderson (Mary Josephine[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 22 Mar 1955.
She married Daniel Leamon Norman (called Danny). Born 11 May 1955. Children:
i. Holly[7]. Born 6 Oct 1984.
2.vi.iv.ii.i. Sharon Ann[6] Chester (Joyce Weller[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
16 Aug 1947.
She married Donald L. Pressley. Born 20 Nov 1946. Children:
i. William Lee[7]. Born 21 Jun 1967. He married Mary Wittington.
2.vi.iv.ii.i. ii. Laura Marie. Born 19 Jul 1967 (There may be an error in this reported birthdate.)
iii. Lisa Diane. Born 12 Feb 1972.
2.vi.iv.iv.i. Daniel[6] Phillips (Elizabeth Leigh[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
21 Mar 1949.
He married Mary Christine Nagel. Born 5 May 1954. Children:
i. Janice Marie[7]. Born 6 Jun 1978.
ii. Daniel Clifford.
2.vi.iv.v.ii. Rebecca Ann[6] Lang (Joseph Thomas[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
1 Nov 1957.
She married Michael Gentile. Children:
i. Nicholas Traynor[7]. Born 13 Jun 1982.
ii. Grant Lang. Born 6 May 1987.
2.vi.iv.v.v. Mary Christine[6] Lang (Joseph Thomas[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
9 Oct 1962.
She married Russell Benedict. Children:
i. Sarah Katherine[7]. Born 14 Sep 1986.
ii. Emily Christine. Born 20 Sep 1990.
2.vi.iv.vi.i. William Paul[6] Wilson Jr. (Betty Jean[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
27 Sep 1955.
He married Roxanne Nagelhout. Born 23 Aug 1959. Children:
i. Austin Barrett[7]. Born 17 Dec 1983.
ii. Wyatt Pierce. Born 1 Sep 1993.
2.vi.iv.vi.ii. Thomas Malcolm[6] Wilson (Betty Jean[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
28 Aug 1957.
He married, first, Karen Annette East. Born 22 Nov 1957. Died 18 Aug 1988. Children:
i. Shelley Renee[7]. Born 13 Apr 1979.
ii. Thomas Brannon. Born 1 Jan 1981.
iii. Evan Lee. Born 31 May 1986.
He married, second, Christine Ann Binninger. Born 24 Feb 1970. Children:
iv. Christopher Thomas. Born 25 Aug 1993.
v. Caitlin Ashley. Born 9 Jan 1999.
2.vi.iv.vi.iii. Sylvia Lynn[6] Wilson (Betty Jean[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
4 Aug 1959.
She married Donald Harris. Born 11 Aug 1959. Children:
i. Loni Jean[7]. Born 21 Aug 1982.
ii. Donald. Born 25 Aug 1983.
2.viii.ii.i.i. Cynthia Robin[6] Hyre (Irma Sue[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
20 Oct 1961.
She married, first, Michael Paul May. Born 18 Oct 1957. Children:
i. John Michael[7]. Born 15 Oct 1978.
ii. Joseph Paul. Born 2 Feb 1981.
She married, second, Ivan Cash. Born 18 May 1961.
2.viii.ii.i.ii. Dwayne Edward[6] Hyre (Irma Sue[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
21 Sep 1963.
He married Teresa Ann Boone. Born 20 Jul 1965. Children:
i. Brandi Lee[7]. Born 2 Mar 1984.
ii. Dwayne E., Jr. Born 22 Jun 1985. Died 14 Dec 1985.
2.viii.ii.i.iii. Pamela Darlene[6] Hyre (Irma Sue[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
10 Jun 1965.
She married, first, Rodney Lynn Peterson. Born 20 Mar 1963. Children:
i. Brittany Marie[7]. Born 29 Apr 1986.
ii. Amber Lynn. Born 31 Jan 1988.
She married, second, Unknown.
2.viii.ii.i.iv. Lynda Michelle[6] Hyre (Irma Sue[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
26 Sep 1966.
She married Donald Paul Slay. Born 12 Jun 1963. Children:
i. David Randall[7]. Born 15 Nov 1982.
ii. Samantha LeighAnn. Born 13 Dec 1989.
2.viii.ii.ii.ii. Jerry Lee[6] Sweet (Eunice Mary[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
18 Dec 1944.
He married, first, Joyce Taylor. Born 15 Jun 1946. Children:
2.viii.ii.ii.ii. i. Jerry L.,[7] Jr. Born 18 Jan 1965.
ii. Jay Lawrence. Born 1 Apr 1967.
iii. Judy Lynn. Born 4 Mar 1968.
iv. James Lloyd. Born 18 Aug 1970.
He married, second, Bonnie Gordon. Children:
v. Richard Lee. Born 11 Jun 1973.
vi. Timothy Edward. Born 7 Sep 1975.
vii. Michael Paul. Born 5 Sep 1978.
2.viii.ii.ii.iii. Eugene Kirby[6] Sweet (Eunice Mary[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 6 Oct 1946. Died 31 Dec 1991.
He married Delores Ormsbee. Born 13 Mar 1954. Children:
i. Bradley[7]. Born 3 Feb 1974.
ii. Steven. Born 15 Apr 1976.
2.viii.ii.ii.iv. Clarence Thomas[6] Sweet (Eunice Mary[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 10 Jul 1953.
He married Betty Elizabeth Murphy. Born 15 Mar 1956. Children:
i. Michelle Lynn[7]. Born 9 Jun 1973.
ii. Barbara Reneé (called Barbie). Born 22 Jun 1975.
iii. Jason Richard. Born 23 May 1976. He married Tonne Annett Rose. Born 24 Apr 1979. She brought a child to the marriage, Sarah Arnett [Rose], born 4 Mar 1996.
iv. Joseph Eugene. Born 22 Apr 1979.
2.viii.ii.ii.v. Bonnie Sue[6] Sweet (Eunice Mary[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born
11 Aug 1954.
She had two children with Unknown:
2.viii.ii.ii.v. i. Velvet Lynn[7] Sweet. Born 26 Jul 1975.
ii. Vincent Lee [Sweet]. Born 7 Mar 1979. He married Stephine Host. She brought a child to the marriage, Klyie Jean [Host]. Born 12 Aug 1996.
2.viii.ii.iii.i. Cheryl Lynn[6] Long (Charles Edward[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 10 Apr 1954.
She married Duane Courtney. Children:
i. David[7]. Born in 1975.
ii. Christin. Born in 1977.
iii. Chad. Born in 1979.
iv. Andrea. Born in 1985.
2.viii.ii.iii.ii. Charles Edward[6] Long Jr. (Charles Edward[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 22 Apr 1958.
He married Trischa Unknown. Children:
i. Tara[7]. Born in 1978.
ii. Erin. Born in 1992.
2.viii.ii.iii.iii. Raye Jean[6] Long (Charles Edward[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 20 Jul 1964.
She married Ronald Reece. Children:
i. Dana Nichole[7]. Born in 1990.
4.iii.ii.i.i. Philip L.[6] Eckert (Winona[5], John Howell[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]).
He married Ruth Unknown. Children:
i. Jeffery[7].
ii. Jennifer.
4.iii.iv.i.i. Herbert Maxwell[6] Zimmerman Jr. (Muriel Ophelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 14 Feb 1938 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Christened at St. Matthews United Church of Christ, Louisville. He was assistant director of inspections, Permits and Licenses, City of Louisville, for over 20 years, retiring from that position. He was also a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring with more than 20 years service. He has traveled extensively worldwide. In 2009 he lived in Louisville.
He married, first, Joy Hancock Jan 1959 in New Albany, Floyd Co., Ind. They divorced. Children:
i. Michelle Suzette[7]. Born 1959.
ii. Robeka Janette. Born 1963.
He married, second, Lilly May Semmling 18 Aug 1969. They divorced. Born 30 Oct 1946. Children:
iii. Brian Maxwell. Born 29 Jan 1986 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv.i.ii. Bruce David[6] Zimmerman (Muriel Ophelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 17 May 1941 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Christened at St. Matthews United Church of Christ. In 2008 he and his family lived in Louisville. Like his brother, he was a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, retiring with more than 20 years service.
He married Patricia Louise Horn, daughter of Edward Louis Horn and Wanda Maryland Lucas, 28 Sep 1963 in Louisville. Born 15 Jun 1943 in Louisville. Children:
i. Mary Louise[7]. Born 14 Dec 1966 in Louisville. Christened at St. Matthews United Church of Christ, Louisville. In 2008 she was a respiratory therapist.
4.iii.iv.i.ii. ii. Bruce David, Jr. Born 5 Jun 1969 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv.ii.i. Lucille LaVerne[6] Hauss (called Sue) (Ruth Amelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 30 Jan 1939 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Prior to her divorce, she lived with her family in Richmond, Va. Afterwards, she and her sons relocated to Louisville.
She married Wendell Barry Stevens (called Barry) 2 Feb 1957. They divorced. Born 23 May 1939 in Paradise, Mulhenburg Co., Ky. Children:
4.iii.iv.ii.i. i. Kevin Shawn[7]. Born 1 Dec 1959 in Richmond, Va.
ii. Aaron Christian. Born 24 Jul 1961 in Richmond, Va. He married Lisa May (also reported as Lisa Johnson) 14 Oct 1995 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. She brought two children to the marriage, Lesia and Brian.
4.iii.iv.ii.ii. Judith Ann[6] Hauss (Ruth Amelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 11 Jan 1941.
She married Albert Bernard Seidt (called Sonny) 1 Oct 1966 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Born 5 Jun 1939 in Louisville. Children:
4.iii.iv.ii.ii. i. Christian Bernard[7]. Born 24 Jun 1977.
ii. Joseph Alexander. Born 17 Feb 1979.
4.iv.ii.i.i. James William[6] Roberts Jr. (Maidie Lorraine[5], Arthur Frederick[4], Genoa[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[l]). Born 29 Nov 1943. Died 16 Aug 1997.
He married, first, Barbara Garrett. Born 18 Dec 1944. Children:
i. James William[7].
ii. John Garrett.
He married, second, Bates Fischer
4.iv.ii.i.ii. Artha Marie[6] Roberts (called Artie) (Maidie Lorraine[5], Arthur Frederick[4], Genoa[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 23 Mar 1947.
She married William Cooper Buschemeyer. Children:
i. William C.,[7] Jr.
ii. Arthur Sherman.
iii. Nathan Hillerich.
4.iv.ii.i.iii. Joseph Earnest[6] Roberts (Maidie Lorraine[5], Arthur Frederick[4], Genoa[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 20 Oct 1953.
He married, first, Pamela McCarty. Children:
i. Patrick Joseph[7].
ii. Meagan L.
He married, second, Julia Edwards.
4.v.i.ii.i. Nancy Beth[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
23 Dec 1940. Died 5 Aug 1977.
She married Thomas Lloyd Dynneson. Born 8 Jun 1935. Children:
4.v.i.ii.i. i. Tamara Lynn[7]. Born 8 Oct 1960.
4.v.i.ii.i. ii. Tanya Leigh. Born 9 Aug 1962.
4.v.i.ii.i. iii. Traci Layne. Born 16 Jul 1964.
4.v.i.ii.ii. Paula Sue[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
10 May 1942.
She married, first, Jerry Byron Hawbaker. Children:
i. William Byron[7]. Born 21 Jun 1968.
4.v.i.ii.ii. ii. Dianne Cathryn. Born 12 Oct 1971.
4.v.i.ii.ii. iii. Benjamin. Born 12 Jul 1973.
She married, second, Joseph P. Walton. Born 13 Oct 1936.
4.v.i.ii.iii. Kathryn Anne[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[l]). Born 12 Nov 1944.
She married, first, Hiram Holdridge. Born 31 May 1940. Children:
4.v.i.ii.iii. i. Tavara Lee[7]. Born 20 Jul 1963.
She married, second, William Bowers.
4.v.i.ii.iv. Becky Jo[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[l]). Born
10 Apr 1949.
She married Hugh Kelsey Moore. Born 16 Jul 1949. Children:
i. Kathleen Dawn[7]. Born 5 Sep 1978.
ii. Hugh K., Jr. Born 16 Dec 1982.
4.v.i.ii.v. Barbara Jean[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
8 Dec 1950.
She married Joseph Patrick Hoban. Born 19 Mar 1943. Children:
i. Colleen Susan[7]. Born 2 Apr 1974. She married McIntyre Unknown.
ii. Patrick. Born 11 Oct 1976.
iii. Kevin Shawn. Born 17 Nov 1979.
4.v.i.ii.vi. Donna Lorelei[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
24 Dec 1954.
She married, first, John Cauffman.
She married, second, Ray Johansen. Children:
i. Heidi Christine[7]. Born 18 Aug 1981.
ii. Eric Raymond. Born 8 Nov 1985.
4.v.i.ii.vii. Kent Douglas[6] Sturgeon (Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
8 Feb 1958.
He married Barbara Urbanic. Born 3 Nov 1953. Children:
i. Purser Kent[7]. Born 9 Jul 1983.
ii. Benjamin Albin. Born 16 Mar 1987.
4.v.ii.i.i. Mary Louise[6] Crim (Robert Lindsey[5], Robert Lindsey[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
7 Apr 1945.
She married, first, Robert Humphrey. Children:
i. Megan Michelle[7]. Born in 1982.
She married, second, Steve Sloan. She married, third, Joe Sembach.
4.v.ii.i.ii. Richard Lee[6] Crim (Robert Lindsey[5], Robert Lindsey[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born
4 Sep 1948. Died 24 Sep 1991.
He married Marie Unknown. Children:
i. Richard Lucas[7]. Born 11 May 1971.
ii. Mitchell Anthony. Born 8 Aug 1973.
iii. Robert Michael. Born 30 Dec 1977.
4.v.ii.i.iii. Margie Ellen[6] Crim (Robert Lindsey[5], Robert Lindsey[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[l]). Born
2 May 1952.
She married Mark McClean. Children:
i. Kimberley[7]. Born 4 Dec 1980.
4.v.iv.i.ii. John[6] Milton (James Cecil[5], Sarah Frances[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 13 Jul 1959.
He married Gail Slasser. Children:
i. Kyle Ellis[7]. Born 14 Feb 1983.
4.v.iv.ii.i. Rae Ann[6) Wason (Ann Doris[5], Sarah Frances[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Ed Osborne. Born 15 Sep 1952. Children:
i. Celeste[7]. Born 12 Oct 1980.
4.v.v.i.iii. Robin Louise[6] Nilles (Geraldine[5], Charles Haydon[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born in 1964.
She married David Peach. Children:
i. Amanda[7]. Born in 1981.
6.iii.vi.i.i. Michael Harry[6] Petri (Ruth LaVerne[5], James Alonzo[4], Arminta[3], Zerelda Jane[2], Isaac[1]). Born
27 Jan 1947.
He married Nancy Katherine Johnson. Children:
i. Michael Walter[7]. Born 6 Jul 1969.
ii. Scott Michael. Born 10 Jun 1972.
2.ii.iv.i.ii.i. Monica[7] Honnaker (Mark Bryan[6], William Bryant[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
She married Unknown Lopez. Children:
i. Isabell[8].
2.ii.iv.i.ii.ii. Emily[7] Honnaker (Mark Bryan[6], William Bryant[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]).
She had a child with Unknown:
i. Ethan Allen[8] Honnaker.
2.ii.iv.ii.i.i. Joseph Earl[7] Aplin (Lisa Dawn[6], Marion Jean[5], Joseph Lewis[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 18 Dec 1977.
He married Lucy Catherine Childress. Children:
i. Catherine Leigh[8]. Born 28 Dec 1995.
2.ii.v.iv.i.i. Tonya Renee[7] Norman (William Douglas[6], Jeannine Fay[5], Orpha Ray[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 29 May 1970.
She married Mark Allen Cox. Born 2 Jun 1970. Children:
i. Kendra Renee[8]. Born 26 Feb 1992.
2.ii.vi.i.i.i. Morris Arlington[7] Springer Jr (Morris Arlington[6], Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 18 Jun 1964.
He married, first, Kimberley Anne Thompson. Children:
i. Kaila Ann[8]. Born 14 Jun 1988.
He married, second, Monica Unknown. Born 26 Jan 1968.
2.ii.vi.i.i.ii. Arthur Leon[7] Springer (Morris Arlington[6], Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 22 Nov 1965.
He married Jill Ellen Eisman. Born 10 Jul 1960. Children:
i. Nicole Rae[8]. Born 5 Feb 1991.
ii. Brittany Rose. Born 1 Jul 1992.
iii. Tanya Josephine Alice. Born 12 Aug 1996.
2.ii.vi.i.iii.i. Richard Lane[7] Cleaver (Sharon Lynn[6], Morris Arlington[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 15 Jan 1971.
He married Cheryl Lynn Weston. Born 27 Jun 1970. Children:
i. Richard L.,[8] Jr. Born 28 Mar 1991.
ii. James Edward. Born 29 Mar 1992.
2.ii.vi.ii.i.i. Raymond James[7] Seiler Jr. (Raymond James[6], Gloria Virginia[5], Avis Seay[4], John Bryant[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 20 Jun 1969.
He married Sharon Unknown. Born 29 Mar 1959. Children:
i. Ryan Matthew[8]. Born 21 Feb 1990.
2.vi.iv.ii.i.ii. Laura Marie[7] Pressley (Sharon Ann[6], Joyce Weller[5], Thelma Rae[4], Fannie Bell[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 19 Jul 1967 (There may be an error in this reported birthdate.)
She married, first, Jefferson Fraser. Born 3 Jul 1988. Children:
i. Jefferson Cade[8]. Born 3 Jul 1988.
ii. Thomas Ethan. Born 5 May 1990.
She married, second, Michael Bryan.
2.viii.ii.ii.ii.i. Jerry Lee[7] Sweet Jr. (Jerry Lee[6], Eunice Mary[5], Clarence Thomas[4], Eunice Lee[3], John Bryant[2], Isaac[1]). Born 18 Jan 1965.
He married Kathleen Unknown. Born 5 Feb 1965. Children:
i. Tyler Matthew[8]. Born 23 Apr 1995.
ii. William Jeffery. Born 31 Mar 1996.
iii. Jeri Larue. Born 31 Mar 1996.
4.iii.iv.i.ii.ii. Bruce David[7] Zimmerman Jr. (Bruce David[6], Muriel Ophelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 5 Jun 1969 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. He was baptized at St. Matthews United Church of Christ, Louisville. In 2008 he was a member of the U.S. Air Force stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Ariz.
He married Patricia Lynn Montgomery, daughter of Ronnie Eugene Montgomery and Jane Whobrey, 10 Jun 1995 in Louisville. Born 17 Aug 1969 in Louisville. She brought a son with her to the marriage, Austin Tyler, b. 4 Jun 1993 in Louisville, christened at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. Children (of Bruce and Patricia):
i. Wyatt Maxwell. Born 1 Nov 2000 in Tucson, Pima Co., Ariz. Christened at Davis-Monthan AFB.
ii. Emily Rose. Born 21 Sep 2006 in Tucson. Christened at Davis-Monthan AFB.
4.iii.iv.ii.i.i. Kevin Shawn[7] Stevens (Lucille LaVerne[6], Ruth Amelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 1 Dec 1959 in Richmond, Va.
He married Catherine Saunders 18 May 1986 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky. Children:
i. Amelia Brown[8]. Born 11 Dec 1990 in Louisville.
ii. Ryan Asher. Born 5 Jan 1996 in Louisville.
4.iii.iv.ii.ii.i. Christian Bernard[7] Seidt (Judith Ann[6], Ruth Amelia[5], Ophelia Mae[4], John F.[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 24 Jun 1977.
He married Shannon Yvonne Aten 1 Jun 2002. Born 6 Jul 1977. Children:
i. Mason Alexander[8]. Born 7 Feb 2006 in Louisville, Jefferson Co., Ky.
4.v.i.ii.i.i. Tamara Lynn[7] Dynneson (Nancy Beth[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 8 Oct 1960.
She married Brett Curtis. Children:
i. Kyle Daniel[8]. Born 15 Apr 1992.
ii. Micah Denise (twin). Born 10 Oct 1997.
iii. Megan Nicole (twin). Born 10 Oct 1997.
4.v.i.ii.i.ii. Tanya Leigh[7] Dynneson (Nancy Beth[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 9 Aug 1962.
She married Stephen Monogue. Born 3 Jul 1962. Children:
i. Brent Daniel[8]. Born 18 Mar 1987.
ii. Blake Stephan. Born 23 Apr 1990.
4.v.i.ii.i.iii. Traci Layne[7] Dynneson (Nancy Beth[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 16 Jul 1964.
She married Unknown Canterino. Born 19 Oct 1963. Children:
i. Nancy Beth[8]. Born 14 Feb 1985.
ii. Karen Marie. Born 20 Dec 1988.
4.v.i.ii.ii.ii. Dianne Cathryn[7] Hawbaker (Paula Sue[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Oct 1971.
She had a child with Unknown:
i. Catherine Parke[8] [Hawbaker.]
4.v.i.ii.ii.iii. Benjamin[7] Hawbaker (Paula Sue[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 12 Jul 1973.
He married Sonja Renee Jones. Born 1 Dec 1972. Children:
i. Brennyn Pauline[8]. Born 8 Dec 1995.
ii. Paul Gerald. Born 21 Jan 1998.
4.v.i.ii.iii.i. Tavara Lee[7] Holdridge (Kathryn Anne[6], Susan Annida[5], Alvin Taylor[4], Anna Lee[3], Frederick M.[2], Isaac[1]). Born 20 Jul 1963.
She married Ronald Collins. Born 24 Oct 1960. Children:
i. Clancy Arthur[8]. Born 3 May 1998.
Researchers: Dan Phillips, 963 S. Confederate Dr., MACON GA 31220-2852 (2001); mfoster@, identity unknown, (2001); Barbara Ransdell, 160 N.E. County Line Rd., SADIEVILLE KY 40370 (2001); Pat Zimmerman, pzimmy@, 1142 Charles St., LOUISVILLE KY 40204 (2008); Brenda Stigers Neese, brendasneese@ (2012).
New Listing #3
1. Clarence Edgar[1] Honaker (called Ed). Born 1 Jun 1934 in Cortez, Montezuma Co., Colo. Died 19 Oct 1990 in Cortez. Buried in Sylvan Cemetery, Pleasant View, Montezuma Co., Colo.
He married Theta Jewel Hix 15 Aug 1953 in Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., Calif. Born 25 Jan 1934 in Jacksonville, Cherokee Co., Texas. Children:
2. i. David Edgar[2].
ii. Unknown daughter.
2. David Edgar[2] Honaker (Clarence Edgar[1]). Born 14 Aug 1955 in Long Beach, Calif.
Washington [D.C.] Post, 24 May 1996: Seeking Prairie Dog Companions
Amarillo, Texas—Using a vacuum truck to suck prairie dogs from their holes, a pest control company is making a profitable roundup of the burrowing rodents that are highly prized pets in Japan.
“These little guys are worth $700 apiece,” said Gay Balfour, a co-owner of the company Dog Gone and inventor of the special vacuum. Workers captured three to four dozen prairie dogs Tuesday using the vacuum, which noisily pulls the animals through a wide hose and into an enclosure. The vacuum pulls up lighter animals, leaving heavier adults alone.
“We’re just taking the young ones,” said company co-owner Dave Honaker. “They make good pets; they’re real trainable and social animals.”
Associated Press, Denver Colo., 8 Sep 1996—by Julia Prodis, Entrepeneur sucks prairie dogs out of holes (with photographs and artist’s illustration)
Like a doctor feeling for a pulse, Dave Honaker lays his hands on the wide, plastic hose. It begins to vibrate as pebbles and dirt rush through. It shudders a bit, then is still. Honaker smiles. The furry body of a prairie dog, still in its subterranean hole, is plugging the end of the hose. It’s only a matter of time now.
“You can feel when he’s fighting back,” Honaker yells over the roar of the powerful suction. “He’s got a good hold, and then he loses it.” Just then, the hose jolts, and with a rumbling whoosh, the rodent shoots up the hose.
“One!” Honaker mouths, his eyes gleaming with excitement. A moment later, another whoosh. “Two!”
“It's like playing the violin,” Honaker says modestly. “After five years, you get a little better.”
Honaker is a master of the latest in rodent-control technology—the prairie dog vacuum. Aptly named Dog-Gone, it was invented by Honaker’s partner, Gay Balfour, who literally dreamed up this Rube Goldberg-like
contraption.
It came to him one night five years ago in his Cortez, Colo., home. Balfour, a 50-year-old machine shop owner, was down on his luck and nearly bankrupt after building a marina that was riddled with delays and cost overruns.
“The bank stepped in and took everything—my machine shop, marina, everything went down the tubes,” Balfour said. “One night, my wife said, ‘Why don’t you ask the Lord to help us?’ The next week, I had this dream to
catch prairie dogs with a huge vacuum.”
In his dream, he saw an enormous yellow truck with a green hose sticking out of it, sucking prairie dogs out of the ground. The dream was so vivid that he still remembered the size of the hose and where it was attached the next
morning.
He shrugged it off and went to work as usual. But over the next few days, a serendipitous chain of events unfolded that was anything but usual. The day after his dream, he had a job at the Ute Mountain Indian reservation, repairing the farm’s irrigation system. The land was being overrun by prairie dogs that were digging up the corn seed. The holes were like land mines to farm equipment.
The tribe had been pouring poison down the holes to get rid of them, but the varmints kept coming back.
“I didn’t say I had a dream last night,” Balfour told the ranch manager, “but I said I was working on a project. He said, ‘When can you put something together?’ ”
Balfour first needed a truck. On the way home, he stopped by his local sewer district office and was astonished to learn a truck used for cleaning out sewer lines and manholes was for sale. It was yellow. Next, he went to the industrial supply store and there, hanging on the wall, were four-inch hoses. They were green.
“I don’t know what you believe in,” Balfour said, “but I believe it’s supposed to happen that way.”
He modified the truck, attached the hose and, within three days, was back at the Indian reservation sucking up prairie dogs. At 300 mph, the critters hurtled through a four-inch plastic hose. Like cannonballs, they shot out the end into a big tank on the back of the truck, first slamming into a wall of thick foam rubber, then toppling onto a foam
and dirt-covered floor.
It all made for a wild ride for the squirrel-like rodents. And, for the most part, they fared well—a little dazed and confused at first, but scampering around almost immediately. In the first 45 minutes, Balfour caught 23 prairie dogs. The tribe was so impressed, it gave him a $6,000 contract. He caught 1,000 prairie dogs. Balfour was in business.
Since then, he and Honaker have been traveling to prairie dog towns across the Southwest. Balfour drives the yellow truck, and Honaker tows an old trailer they live in at job sites. Depending on the job, they either relocate, exterminate or sell the prairie dogs for pets or meat.
Earlier this summer, Balfour was hired by an exotic pets dealer to clear a prairie dog town in Amarillo, Texas, and sell the young ones as pets. They can sell for as much as $145 a piece in the States—and $350 in Japan. Balfour was paid $25 a pup. He also has sold them as meat to federal breeding programs of endangered species, such as captive black-footed ferrets that prey on prairie dogs for food.
Animal rights activists are ambivalent about Dog-Gone. They are pleased Balfour’s method can save prairie dogs rather than kill them, but wish he never resorted to extermination. Plus, while most of the critters that sail through his vacuum appear healthy afterward, some have died. Balfour says they die either of heat stroke after being outside their cool, subterranean burrows for too long, or they might hit a rock in their tunnels before they’re sucked up.
“We’re not archenemies, but we’re completely opposed to making them pets,” said Paula Martin, a member of Prairie Ecosystem Conservation Alliance, a group of volunteers that rescues prairie dogs and relocates them to a 4,000-acre sanctuary southeast of Denver. “He’s in it for the money.” And she’s not so sure that sucking up the animals at 300 mph is all that humane. But Balfour defends his system.
“This little ride up the hose is nothing compared to what they do to some of them,” he said of some landowners who routinely use them as target practice. At Balfour’s job in Denver on this hot summer day, he and Honaker are vacuuming prairie dogs from an open field next to a Kaiser Permanente medical center, where the little creatures are eating through the sprinkler system.
Last year, PECA tried to rid the same field of the critters, coaxing them out by flushing the holes with soapy water. Dangling their arms down the holes, the volunteers grabbed the dogs as they scurried up for dry ground.
But they didn’t get them all, so this year Kaiser Permanente called Dog-Gone to suck them out and PECA to relocate them.
At first, the Dog-Gone concept struck Kaiser’s Tom Currigan as funny, but he had a serious problem and hoped the two-man operation could solve it. “We didn’t want to exterminate, we wanted to relocate,” said Currigan, in
charge of Kaiser’s community affairs. “We wanted to be more humane.”
Out in the field, Balfour and Honaker, wearing matching Dog-Gone T-shirts and yellow ball caps, go about their work. Peering through the binoculars he keeps on his front seat, next to the bug spray and a golf ball sucked up on a previous job site, Balfour spots two prairie dogs. They’re standing on their hind legs, watching the big yellow
truck ramble closer.
In an instant, they dart through the buffalo grass and chickweed, then dive into a cone-shaped mound of earth. “Let's go doggin’!” Balfour says, accelerating. “Yeehaw!”
He married Colleen Lanier, daughter of Robert Duane Lanier and Barbara Leavitt, 1 Dec 1978 in Mesa, Maricopa Co., Ariz. Born 9 Nov 1957 in Mesa. Children:
i. Deanna Colleen[3]. Born 12 Sep 1979 in Cortez, Colo.
ii. Lana Lee. Born 21 May 1981 in Cortez.
iii. Trena Lynn. Born 15 Dec 1982 in Cortez.
iv. David Wayne. Born 25 Jun 1984 in Cortez.
Researcher: David E. Honaker, 22178 County Road S., DOLORES CO 81323.
New Listing #4
1. James[1] Honaker. He lived in Pike and Floyd Counties, Ky.
He married Melissa Owens. Children:
2. i. James Lee[2]. Born in 1864.
2. James Lee[2] Honaker (James[1]). Born in 1864. Died in 1948. He lived in Pike and Floyd Counties, Ky.
He married Nancy Jane Weddington. Children:
3. i. James Hampton[3]. Born in 1898.
3. James Hampton[3] Honaker (James Lee[2], James[1]). Born in 1898. Died in 1953.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Shirley L.[4] She married Arthur Joslin Deeks Jr.
Researcher: Shirley L. Honaker Deeks, P.O. Box 697, GLENCOE MD 21152, (410) 472-6927.
New Listing #5
1. Tom Edward[1] Honaker. Born 12 Dec 1920 in Coal Hill or Spadra, Ark. Died 24 Apr 1985 in St. Mary’s Hospital, Russellville, Ark. Buried in Rest Haven Memorial Cemetery, Russellville. He was a son of Unknown Honaker and Hattie Unknown and originally lived in the Coal Hill/Spadra area, moved to California, then moved back to Arkansas ca. 1971. His military records give a birthdate of 12 Dec 1919. Family legend is that he was of German ancestry.
He married, first, Unknown Jenkins. Children:
i. Barbara[2].
ii. Brenda.
iii. Sharon.
iv. Wanda.
v. James.
2. vi. Gary.
He married second, Hazel Faye Jenkins, his first wife’s sister. Born 8 Feb 1933. Children:
vii. Tommy Lee. Born 19 Sep 1954 in Los Angeles, Calif. In 2010 he lived in Russellville, Ark. He married Suzanna Unknown.
3. viii. Jerry Lee. Born 8 Feb 1956 in Los Angeles.
4. ix. J.M. [Initials as given name.] Born 8 Jul 1961 in Los Angeles.
x. Larry Eugene. Born 19 Jan 1963 in Los Angeles. In 2010 He lived in Russellville.
2. Gary[2] Honaker (Tom Edward[1]).
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Kevin[3].
3. Jerry Lee[2] Honaker (Tom Edward[1]). Born 8 Feb 1956 in Los Angeles, Calif. In 2010 he lived in Russellville, Ark.
He married Jan Unknown. Children:
5. i. Jerry Lee[3] Jr. (called Hondo)
6. ii. Jennifer.
4. J.M.[2] Honaker (Tom Edward[1]). Born 8 Jul 1961 in Los Angeles, Calif. In 2010 he lived in Russellville, Ark.
He married, first, Jeanne Prater. Children:
7. i. John[3].
He married, second, Joanne Unknown. Children:
8. i. Kevin.
He married, third, Michelle Unknown.
5. Jerry Lee[3] Honaker Jr. (called Hondo) (Jerry Lee[2], Tom Edward[1]).
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Jacqueline[4].
ii. Jerry Lee, III.
iii. Hunter.
6. Jennifer[3] Honaker (Jerry Lee[2], Tom Edward[1]).
She married Mike Foster. Children:
i. Jaden[4].
ii. Reagan.
7. John[3] Honaker (J.M.[2], Tom Edward[1])
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Haley[4].
8. Kevin[4] Honaker (J.M.[2], Tom Edward[1]).
He married Sabrina Unknown. Children:
i. Sagan[5] (m.)
Researcher: Michelle Honaker, honj@, 2010.
New Listing #6
1. Conrad[1] Honecker. Died in 1901. Buried in St. Anthony’s Church Cemetery, Morris, Ripley Co., Ind.
He married Elenora Bentram Voegle and lived in Morris, Ind. Children:
2. i. Unknown daughter[2].
2. Unknown daughter[2] Honecker (Conrad[1]).
She married Unknown Reuter. Children:
i. Frances[3]. She married George Becker in St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Franklin Co., Ind.
Researcher: Mary Ellen Sweet Grossman, 1103 Union, COLUMBUS IN 47201-5850, (812) 379-9670.
New Listing #7
l. Jakob[1] Honegger. Born in 1717.
He married Anna Maria Lauchenauer. Born in 1716. Children:
2. i. Jakob[2]. Born 11 Nov 1756.
2. Jakob[2] Honegger (Jakob[l ]). Born 11 Nov 1756. Died 25 Mar 1805.
He married Cleophea Mathys, daughter of Johannes Mathys and Verena Bader, 11 Jan 1785. Born 1 May 1758. Died 21 Jan 1830. Children:
3. i. Hans Jakob[3]. Born 3 Sep 1786.
3. Hans Jakob[3] Honegger (Jakob[2], Jakob[1]). Born 3 Sep 1786. Died 15 Nov 1854.
He married Elisabeth Graf, daughter of Felix Graf and Anna Elisabetha Kuhn, 26 Oct 1829 in St. Peter’s Church, Zurich, Switzerland. Born 23 Nov 1794. Died 9 Jan 1842. Children:
4. i. Johann H.[4] Born 6 Apr 1833.
4. Johann H.[4] Honegger (Hans Jakob[3], Jakob[2], Jakob[l]). Born 6 Apr l833. Died 15 Dec 1882 in Aussersihl, Switzerland.
He married Katharina Hubschmid, daughter of Jakob Hubschmid and Anna Stehli, 12 Nov 1855. Born 14 Aug 1829 in Hedingen, Switzerland. Children:
5. i. Marie Emma[5]. Born 15 Jun 1858.
5. Marie Emma[5] Honegger (Johann H.[4], Hans Jakob[3], Jakob[2], Jakob[1]). Born 15 Jun 1858 in Zurich, Switzerland. Died 13 May 1903 in Manistee, Mich. She and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1883 and settled in Manistee.
She married Henry H. Schmid III (also seen as Smith), son of Heinrich Schmid II and Anna Hauser, 7 Aug 1879 in Switzerland. Born 30 Oct 1851 in Stadel, Switzerland. Died 6 Oct 1936 in Traverse City, Mich. Children:
i. Henry H.[6] Smith IV. Born 18 Jun 1880 in Zurich, Switzerland. Died 18 Jun 1955 in South Bend,
Wash. He married Amie Ardel Brownson 26 Aug 1903 in Stronach, Mich.
Researcher: Fran Smith, rayfran@, 2587 Bridle Trail Lane, PASO ROBLES CA 93446.
New Listing #8
1. Mary[1] Honaker. Born in Virginia.
She married Archibald Hamilton. Born in Virginia. Children:
2. i. Bert T.[2] Born ca. 1884.
ii. Lucille.
2. Bert T.[2] Hamilton (Mary[1]). Born ca. 1884 in Virginia. He deserted the family in 1917.
He married Florence Frances Fillmore 22 Jul 1914 in Tulare, Calif. Born in 1894. Died in 1957 in California.
Researcher: Gwen Bachman, 19511 222nd Ave. N.E., WOODINVILLE WA 98072. (2000)
New Listing #9
1. Daniel[1] Honaker.
He married Ada Lou Sims. She later married Unknown Sparks. Born 14 Mar 1885. Died 1967. She lived in Summersville, W.Va. Children:
i. Arthur[2]. Born 1913. Died Aug 1977. He lived in North Carolina. He married, first, Martha
Unknown. He married, second, Lilly Osborne.
ii. Wiley. Born 1915. Died before 2007. He married Doris Unknown.
2. iii. Clarence Edward (called Ed). Born 6 Feb 1926 in Drill, Va.
iv. Howard Carson (called Carson). In 2007 he lived in Quitman, Texas.
v. David. In 2007 he lived in West Jefferson, Ohio.
3. vi. Betty Jean. Born ca. 1935 in Yukon, W.Va.
4. vii. Edith Lou. Born 5 Mar 1937 in Welch, W.Va.
viii. Jackie. In 2007 she lived in Eaton, Ohio. She married Unknown Clopper.
ix. Thelma. Died before 2007.
x. Gladys. Died before 2007.
xi. Jane. Died before 2007.
xii. Hazel. Died before 2007.
xiii. Wick. Died before 2007.
xiv. Janice. Died before 2007.
2. Clarence Edward[2] Honaker (called Ed) (Daniel[1]). Born 6 Feb 1926 in Drill, Va. Died 1985.
He married Shirley Arlene Coleman, daughter of Ted Coleman and Mary Mitchell. Born ca. 1937 in Raysal, McDowell Co., W.Va. Died 24 Feb 2012 in Columbia, S.C. Buried in Glen Haven Memorial Gardens, Macon, Ga.
The State, Columbia, S.C., 18 Feb 2012 and Telegraph, Macon, Ga., 29 Feb 2012: Columbia—Shirley Arlene C. Honaker, 75, entered her Heavenly Home Fri., Feb. 24, 2012. Funeral service and a celebration of her life will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Snow’s Memorial Chapel, Pio Nono Ave., Macon, Ga, with burial in Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. The Rev. Charles Rose will officiate. The family will meet friends from 6–8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mrs. Honaker, wife of the late Clarence Edward Honaker, was born in Raysal, W.Va, a daughter of the late Ted and Mary Mitchell Coleman. She was the mother of the late Emmett Honaker and Betty Honaker. Mrs. Honaker was a minister and evangelist who loved sharing the gospel. She was a songwriter and sang with the New Blue Grass Gospel Connection. Survivors include the family she adored, her daughters, Beverly Honaker Summers of Macon, and Mary Honaker (Bart) Brock of Batavia, Ill.; her grandchildren, Melissa Honaker of Pennsylvania, Ray (Brande) Summers, Jacob Honaker and Keith Giza; her great-grandchild, Haliegh Summers; her sisters, Alice Rose of Raysal, W.Va., and Louise Beavers of Pelion; her brother, Archie Coleman of Pelion; and many nieces and nephews. Visit to express condolences. Snow’s Memorial Chapel Funeral and Cremation Services, Pio Nono Avenue, Macon, has charge of arrangements.
Children:
i. Mary[3]. She married Bart Brock and in 2012 lived in Batavia, Ill.
5. ii. Beverly.
iii. Betty Jean. Born ca. 1966 in Baltimore, Md. Died 30 Jul 2011 in Columbia, S.C. Buried in Glen
Haven Memorial Gardens, Macon, Ga.
Telegraph, Macon, Ga., 2 Aug 2011: Betty Jean “Jeannie” Honaker, 45, of Columbia, S.C., passed away Sat., July 30, 2011. Funeral services will be held Thurs., Aug. 4, 2011 in the chapel of Hart’s Mortuary, Cherry Street, Macon, Ga. at 11 a.m. Burial will follow in the Glen Haven Memorial Gardens. Rev. Charles Rose will officiate. Visitation will be held Wed., Aug. 3, 2011 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the funeral home. Born in Baltimore, Md., she is the daughter of the late Clarence Edward Honaker and Shirley A. Coleman Honaker of Columbia, S.C. She was a songwriter for the gospel group, New Blue Grass Gospel Connection. She is survived by her sister, Mary Brock (Bart) of Batavia, Ill.; sister, Beverly Summers of Macon, Ga. Friends may sign the online register at . Hart’s Mortuary and Crematory, Cherry Street Macon, Ga. has charge of arrangements.
iv. Emmett. Died before 2012.
3. Betty Jean[2] Honaker (Daniel[1]). Born ca. 1935 in Yukon, W.Va. Died 11 Feb 2007 in Shrewsbury, Pa. Buried in Harford Memorial Gardens, Aldino, Pa.
Aegis, Bel Air, Md., 14 Feb 2007 (with photograph): Betty J. Reed of Shrewsbury, Pa., formerly of Edgewood, died Feb. 11 at Barbara J. Egan Nursing Home in Shrewsbury. She was 72. Born in Yukon, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Daniel Honaker and the late Ada Lou Honaker Sparks and was the wife of the late Charlie “Jake” Howard Reed. She was one of 14 children. Mrs. Reed retired in December 2004 as a lobby attendant for the Best Western Hotel, owned by the Hess family, near Edgewood. Mrs. Reed is survived by a son, James Edward Reed and his wife, Gale, of Shrewsbury, Pa.; two brothers, Howard Honaker of Quitman, Texas and David Honaker of West Jefferson, Ohio; one sister, Jackie Clopper of Eaton, Ohio; and three grandchildren, Jacob Matthew Reed, Juliana Renee Reed and Justin Edward Reed, all of Shrewsbury, Pa. In addition to her parents and husband, she was predeceased by a son, Charles “Chuck” Reed, and ten siblings. Friends may call at McComas Funeral Home in Abingdon Feb. 14 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. and Feb. 15 from 10 to 11 a.m. Services will immediately follow, with Rev. Kenneth E. Tipton officiating. Interment will be in Harford Memorial Gardens in Aldino. Pallbearers will be James E. Reed, Jacob M. Reed, Edward G. Sauter, Richard Reed, Dave Rutherford and Robert Kaetzel. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at .
She married Charlie Howard Reed (called Jake). Died before 2007. Children:
i. James Edward[3]. In 2007 he lived in Shrewsbury, Pa. He married Gale Unknown.
ii. Charles (called Chuck). Died before 2007.
4. Edith Lou[2] Honaker (Daniel[1]). Born 5 Mar 1937 in Welch, W.Va. Died 22 Dec 2006 in Richlands, Va. Buried in Whitt Family Cemetery, Lick Branch, Tazewell Co., Va.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 Dec 2006: Cedar Bluff, Va.—Edith Lou Whitt, 69, of the Baptist Valley community of Cedar Bluff, died Fri., Dec. 22, 2006 at Clinch Valley Medical Center in Richlands. Born March 5, 1937 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Dan Honaker and Ada Simms Honaker. She was a member of the Gospel Lighthouse Tabernacle in Baptist Valley. Mrs. Whitt enjoyed her church, spoiling her grandchildren, and helping others. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by four sisters, Gladys, Janice, Hazel, and Thelma; five brothers, Arthur, Carson, Wiley, Wick, and Ed. Survivors include her husband, Fred Witt; two daughters, Freda Sparks of Bandy, Va., and Cathy Johnson and husband Mike of Cedar Bluff; three sons, James Whitt and wife Sheila of Tazewell, Va., Clarence Witt of Alabama, and Brian Whitt of Tennessee; two sisters, Jackie Clopper of Ohio and Betty Reed of Pennsylvania; two brothers, David Honaker of Ohio and Howard Honaker of Texas; nine grandsons; three granddaughters. The family will receive friends at Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home in Tazewell from 6–8 p.m. today, Dec. 23, 2006 where funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Pastor Roger Monk and Minister Sammie Poteet officiating. Committal service will be conducted Sun., Dec. 24, 2006 at 12 noon at the Whitt Family Cemetery at Lick Branch in Tazewell Co., Va. Pallbearers will be [missing] Whitt, Brad Sparks, Freddie Sparks, Clinton Whitt, Chris Whitt, Arthur Whitt, and Howie Holloway. Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home of Tazewell is in charge of arrangements.
She married Fred Whitt. Children:
i. Freda[3]. In 2006 she lived in Bandy, Va. She married Unknown Sparks.
ii. Cathy. In 2006 she lived in Cedar Bluff, Va. She married Mike Johnson.
iii. James. In 2006 he lived in Tazewell, Va. He married Sheila Unknown.
iv. Clarence. In 2006 he lived in Alabama.
v. Brian. In 2006 he lived in Tennessee.
5. Beverly[3] Honaker (Clarence Edward[2], Daniel[1]. In 2012 she lived in Macon, Ga.
She married Unknown Summers. Children:
i. Ray[4]. He married Brande Unknown.
Researchers: Mary Brock, 3016 Graham Rd., GRAY GA 31032, BrockWB@ (2000)
Betty Jean Honaker, Abea102303@ (2000)
Karen Unknown, KarenTheInsider@ (2004)
New Listing #10
1. George[1] Honaker. Born ca. 1875 in Kentucky. Died probably in Ohio. He and his family were enumerated in District 19, Adams Co., Ohio, in the 1910 census. He was recorded as age 35 with three children, Leona, Anna B., and Minnie E.
He may be Peter[1], William[2], James[3], David[4], George[5], born in Bath Co., Ky., who had a sister named Nellie, the name of his fourth known child.
He married Elizabeth Freeman. Born ca. 1882 probably in Kentucky or Ohio. Children:
2. i. Minnie Ethel[2]. Born 7 Aug 1908.
ii. Leona. Born before 1910. She married Unknown Graham. She lived in Xenia, Ohio.
iii. Anna B. Born before 1910.
iv. Nellie. Born after 1910. She married Fred Comford. She lived in Xenia, Ohio.
2. Minnie Ethel[2] Honaker (George[1]). Born 7 Aug 1908 in Ohio, possibly Adams County. Died 28 Nov 1973 in Marion, Ohio. Buried in Marion Cemetery. She attended Church of the Nazarene, Greenwood, Ohio.
Marion [Ohio] Star, 29 Nov 1973: Mrs. Minnie Ethel Honaker Haines, 65, wife of Howard C. Haines of 577 N. Greenwood St., died at noon Wednesday in Marion General Hospital after a three-month illness. Originally from Adams County, she came to Marion in 1936 from Caledonia. Surviving besides her husband are a son, Howard Jr. of 546 Patterson St.; two daughters, Mrs. Joseph (Betty) Hoffman of 462 Silver St. and Mrs. Walter (Mary Anna) Kirkpatrick of Newark; five grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Leona Graham and Mrs. Fred (Nellie) Comford of Xenia. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in First Church of Christ in Christian Union on N. State Street. The Rev. Melvin Truex will officiate. Burial will be in Marion Cemetery. Friends may call at Boyd Funeral Home from 7 to 9 tonight.
She married Howard C. Haines ca. 1926 in Ohio. Born 1905 in Ohio. He completed two years of college and was a machinery engineer for Master Mix Feed Mill, Marion, Ohio. He also owned a flour mill in Floyd, Va. His last known residence was in Florida. He was Baptist. Children:
3. i. Howard C., Jr.[3] Born ca. 1926.
4. ii. Mary Ann. Born in 1928.
5. iii. Betty Lee. Born 15 May 1933.
3. Howard C.[3] Haines Jr. (Minnie Ethel[2], George[1]). Born ca. 1926, probably in Caledonia, Ohio.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Virginia[4]. Died in a motor vehicle accident in the summer of 1964 or 1965 in Marion Co., Ohio.
She married and had one unknown son.
ii. Rosemary. She married and had three unknown children.
4. Mary Ann[3] Haines (Minnie Ethel[2], George[1]). Born in 1928 in Marion, Ohio.
She married, first, Unknown Rank. Children:
6. i. Ginger[4].
She married, second, Walter Kirkpatrick.
5. Betty Lee[3] Haines (Minnie Ethel[2], George[1]). Born 15 May 1933 in Caledonia, Ohio. She attended Harding High School, Caledonia. She was Roman Catholic.
She married, first, Marion Kenneth Latta (called Pete), son of William Herman Latta and Ethel Gertrude Weaver, ca. 1949 in Marion Co., Ohio. They divorced ca 1961 in Marion. Born in Jun 1928 in Altoona, Blair Co., Pa. He was a laborer at Marion Foundry & Casting Co., Marion, Pa.
Children:
7. i. Daniel David[4]. Born 25 May 1948.
ii. Ethel May. Born 20 May 1950 in Marion.
She married, second, Joseph Hoffman.
6. Ginger[4] Rank (Mary Ann[3], Minnie Ethel[2], George[1]).
She married Ricky Unknown. Children:
i. Ricky[5].
7. Daniel David[4] Latta (Betty Lee[3], Minnie Ethel[2], George[1]). Born 25 May 1948 in Marion, Ohio. He graduated from Harding High School, Marion, and became a factory worker. He was Baptist.
He married, first, Debbie Collins. There were no children.
He married, second, Rebecca Ann Pollick (called Becca), daughter of Joseph Frank Pollick and Dorothy Lorraine Burke, 15 Jul 1980 in Berwick, Columbia Co., Pa. Born 19 Nov 1955 in Berwick. She attended Delaware Technical & Community College, Dover, Del., from 1990 to 1992 and Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W.Va., from 1995 to 1996. She belonged to New Life Community Church, Kearneysville, W.Va. They divorced. Children:
i. Levi Daniel[5]. Born 9 Jan 1979 in Marion.
ii. Demetrius Michael. Born 10 Jan 1981 in Berwick, Pa.
Researcher: Rebecca Heinz, St. Rt. 51 Box 129-A, KEARNEYSVILLE WV 25430, 304-728-0822, r_heinz@ (2001).
New Listing #11
1. Dan[1] Honaker. Lived in but left Mingo Co., W.Va.
He had a child with Laura Dotson, daughter of William Dotson and Louisa Hatfield. Born 20 Feb 1873 in Mingo, County. Died 3 Aug 1964. She lived in Mingo County throughout her life.
2. i. Clyde[2] (called Speed) (Dotson).
2. Clyde[2] Dotson (called Speed) (Dan[1]). Died in Nov 1946 in an accident at Glen Alum Coal Mine, Mingo Co., W.Va. His father Dan stayed with Clyde’s family for several months after Clyde’s death.
He married unknown. Children:
3. i. Unknown[3]. He married Patricia Unknown. In 2000 they lived in Orient, Ohio.
Researcher: Patricia A. Dotson, 12002 Matville Rd., ORIENT OH 43146, (614) 877-3440, patriciadotson@ (2000).
New Listing #12
1. Margaret V.[1] Gibson (called Maggie). Born ca. 1869 in Virginia. Died in 1936 in Wood Co., Texas. She was the daughter of Unknown Gibson and Unknown Honaker.
She married William Adolphus Fuller ca. 1890 in Virginia. Born ca. 1868 in Virginia. Died in Wood Co., Texas. Children:
i. Bernice[2].
ii. Elizabeth.
iii. Guy.
iv. Nannie Katherine[2]. Born 31 Jan 1895 in Wood Co., Texas. Died 31 Aug 1972 in Amarillo,
Texas. She married Unknown in 1919.
v. Era.
vi. Howard.
Researcher: Beth Hillis, 25206 Dewdrop Ct., MAGNOLIA TX 77355, (713) 761-0014 (1995).
New Listing #13
1. Unknown[1] Honaker.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Frank[2]. Born ca. 1836 in Ohio.
2. ii. Mary Ann (possibly Anna). Born ca. 1866.
2. Mary Ann[2] Honaker (Unknown[1]). Born ca. 1866 in Indiana. The 1910 Hamilton Co., Ohio census is the basis for most of the known information. The census recorded that Frank Honaker, Mary Ann’s brother, was living in her household, and two granddaughters, Mary Crouch, 8, born in Ohio; and Lillie Crouch, 6, born in Ohio. They may have been the children of an older daughter no longer at home or deceased, or may have been the children of Bertha, although she would have been only 14 when the older child was born, very young to be married and a mother. For that matter, if Mary Ann herself was the mother of Charley, she would have been only 15 or 16 when he was born, so she may have been her husband’s second wife; the age difference also suggests the possibility. There is also a pronounced age difference between Mary Ann and her older brother Frank.
She married John Weeks. Born ca. 1847 in Ohio. Died 30 Jan 1918 in Hamilton County. Children:
i. Charley[3]. Born ca. 1881 in Ohio.
ii. William. Born ca. 1883 in Ohio.
iii. Bertha. Born ca. 1888 in Ohio.
iv. John. Born ca. 1893 in Ohio.
v. Arthur. Born ca. 1894 in Ohio.
vi. Pearl. Born ca. 1889 in Ohio.
The researcher is a granddaughter of Lillie, who married Elmer McMurray.
Researcher: Gina Rangel, 8200 Stockdale Hwy. M10-148, BAKERSFIELD CA 93311, missginalr@ (2001).
New Listing #15
1. Mont McKinley[1] Honaker. Born in Dec 1935 in Russell Co., Va.
He married Adina Blanche Summers. Born 15 Feb 1935 in West Virginia. She later married Unknown Fowler. Children (of Mont and Adina):
i. Monty Ray[2]. Born 18 Apr 1956 in Charleston, W.Va.
Researcher: Monty Ray Honaker, montyrh1@ (2001).
New Listing #15
1. William[1] Honaker.
He married Mary Ann Frazier in 1849 in Indiana. Children:
2. i. David[2]. Born in southwest Ohio or Indiana.
2. David[2] Honaker (William[1]). Born in southwest Ohio or Indiana. Died in 1949.
He married, first, Dorinda J. Blackford-Hensen (called Dora) in Shelby Co., Ind., 6 Dec 1884. Children:
i. Millard[3]. Born ca. 1885. Died of diptheria in Jul or Aug 1904, in boot camp, after enlisting in
the U.S. Marines.
ii. Ruby Muriel
He married, second, Laura Buckingham.
Researcher: Muriel Foster, 8406 Sailboat Ln., MAINEVILLE OH 45039, mfoster@ (2002).
New Listing #16
1. Samuel[1] Honaker. Died of pneumonia in the late 1960s or early 1970s in Lebanon, Va. He had a brother named George and other brothers and sisters. A tall man, he was a railroad worker.
He married, first, Lou Ella Unknown. Children:
i. Jake. He married Vern Unknown.
ii. William Nathan. He married Lou Ritchie.
iii. Fannie. She married Unknown Dotson.
iv. Annie. She married Unknown Hurt, called Teep.
v. Paulie. She married, first, unknown. She married, second, Unknown Crabtree.
2. vi. Charles Edward. Born in Virginia.
He married, second, Nannie Belle Unknown. Children:
vii. Don. He lived in California.
viii. Arthur.
ix. Faye (m.)
x. Raymond
2. Charles Edward[2] Honaker (Samuel[1]). Born in Virginia. Died ca. 1966 in a motor vehicle accident in Clintwood, Dickenson Co., Va.
He married Addie Rae Cozart, daughter of Matthew Ellison Cozart and Hettie Pearl Snuffer. Born 4 Jan 1932 in Berlin (also Glen Rogers), W.Va. Died 11 Dec 2014 in North Carolina. Buried in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley, Raleigh Co., W.Va. In 2001 she lived in Echols, W.Va.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 14 Dec 2014: Addie Cozart Honaker, 82, passed away Thurs., Dec. 11, 2014, at Carolina Rehab of North Carolina. Addie was born Jan. 4, 1932, in Glen Rogers, W.Va., to the late Mathew Ellis Cozart and Hettie Pearl Snuffer. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Honaker, Sr.; a son, Albert Lee Honaker; three grandchildren, Christy Lee Honaker, Sidney West and Cassanera Jean Kessler; three brothers, Elmer Cozart, Gene Cozart, and Romanuel Cozart; and two sisters, Irene Wuchevich and Sadie Bradley. Those left to cherish her memory include her children; two sisters, Wilidene Fletcher and Ferbie Bailey; children, Charlie Honaker and wife, Elaine; William Honaker and wife, Drema; Linda Kiziah; Kenneth Honaker; Sherry Minor; Sam Honaker and wife, Nancy; Tammie McPhaul and husband, James; Henry Cozart and Rodney Honaker; and she has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Services will be held 2 p.m. Sun., Dec. 14, 2014, at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, 5251 Robert C. Byrd Drive, Beckley. Addie will be laid to rest at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley. Online condolences may be left for the family by visiting . Blue Ridge Funeral Home, 5251 Robert C. Byrd Drive, Beckley, is in charge of the arrangements.
Children:
i. Albert Lee[3]. Died before 2014.
ii. Linda Ann. Born 1 Feb 1950 in Glen Rogers, W.Va. A week after she was born, the family moved
to Clintwood, Va. She married, first, unknown. She married, second, unknown. She married, third, David Lamar Kiziah. In 2001 she lived in Hickory, N.C. There were children.
3. iii. Charles Edward, Jr. (called Bub) Born 16 Jan 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio.
iv. William Edward. He married Drema Unknown.
v. Kenneth Eugene.
vi. Ronald Lee. Died in infancy.
vii. Donald Lee. Died in infancy.
viii. unknown. Died in infancy.
ix. Samuel Matthew Ellison. He married Nancy Unknown.
x. Sherry Diane. She married Unknown Minor.
xi. Tammy Sue. She married James McPaul [also McPhaul].
xii. Rodney.
3. Charles Edward[3] Honaker (called Bub) (Charles Edward[2], Samuel[1]). Born 16 Jan 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. Died 17 May 2015 in Sandlick, Mercer Co., W.Va. Buried at the family place, Sandlick.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 20 May 2015: Charlie Edward “Bub” Honaker Jr., 63, of Sandlick went to be with the Lord on Sun., May 17th, 2015, following a sudden illness. Bub was born on Jan. 16th, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was the son of the late Charles and Addie Cozart Honaker. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Christy Lee Honaker and brother, Albert Lee Honaker. Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Martha Elaine Richardson Honaker; daughters, Mindy Lee Honaker and Don Nicholson and Lisa Lee Honaker and Brian Green; grandchildren, Dacoda Charles Edward Honaker, Donald Ray Nicholson, Keaton Ray Nicholson, and Eathen Ray Nicholson; brothers and sisters, William Honaker and his wife, Drema, Linda Kiziah, Kenneth Honaker, Sherry Minor, Sam Honaker and his wife, Nancy, Tammy McPaul and her husband, James, Henry Cozart and Rodney Honaker; several nieces and nephews. Committal services will be Friday, May 22nd, at 3 p.m. at the family home place on Sandlick. Tommy Craft will be officiating. The family will receive friends from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. at the Melton Mortuary. Those wishing to attend the committal services are asked to be at the mortuary by 2:30 p.m. Pallbearers will be: William, Sam, and Rodney Honaker, Henry Cozart, James McPaul, Don Nicholson and Brian Green. Arrangements are by the Melton Mortuary. Online condolences may be sent to the family at .
He married Martha Elaine Richardson (called Elaine). Children:
4. i. Christy Lee[4], Born ca. 1975.
5. ii. Mindy Lee.
iii. Lisa Lee. She married Brian Green.
4. Christy Lee[3] Honaker (Charles Edward[3], Charles Edward[2], Samuel[1]). Born ca. 1975. Died 19 May 2009.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 23 May 2009: Christy Lee Honaker, 34, of Beckley, went to be with the
Lord on the 19th day of May, 2009. Christy will be sadly missed by her fiancé, Nathan Ray Wise, and her loving son, Dakoda Charles Edward Honaker. Also, she will always be remembered by her loving parents, Charles Edward Honaker and Martha Elaine Richardson Honaker. Christy was preceded in death by her grandparents, Charles Edward Honaker, and Ted and Mavis Richardson. She will also be sadly missed by her two sisters, Mindy Lee Honaker and fiancé, Donald Ray Nicholson, of Bud and Lisa Lee Honaker and fiancé, Brian Green, of Crab Orchard; three nephews, Donald Ray Richardson Jr., Keaton Ray Nicholson, and Ethan Ray Nicholson, all of Bud; a grandmother, Addie Rae Cozard Honaker of Eccles; several aunts and uncles; and several cousins. Committal services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Honaker Family Cemetery on Upper Sandlick Road with the Rev. Tommy Craft officiating. Friends may call from noon until 1 p.m. at the Melton Mortuary. Those wishing to attend the graveside services are asked to be at the mortuary by 1:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. Family members will serve as pallbearers. Condolences may be mailed to the family at melton@. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary, Inc., Beckley.
She had a son with Unknown:
i. Dakoda [also Dacoda] Charles Edward[4] [Honaker].
5. Mindy Lee[3] Honaker (Charles Edward[3], Charles Edward[2], Samuel[1]).
She married Donald Ray Nicholson. Children:
i. Donald Ray[4].
ii. Keaton Ray.
iii. Eathen Ray.
Researcher: Linda Ann Kiziah, 1118 Kiziah Ln., HICKORY NC 28601, 828-495-8298, (2001). Address no longer valid in 2009.
New Listing #17
1. Nanni Belle[1] Honaker. She probably lived in Big Creek, Logan Co., W.Va., and Caretta, McDowell Co., W.Va. She had family who lived in Tazewell, Va., and around Bluefield, W.Va.
She married Lee Langley, son of Unknown Langley and Mary McKinney. They divorced and he was given custody of the children. Born 23 Mar 1892, probably in West Virginia. Died in Dec 1972 in North Baltimore, Ohio. Children:
i. Bill[2]. Died as a young man of complications from a tonsillectomy.
2. ii. Jocie Irene. Born 26 Sep 1918 in Caretta, W.Va.
iii. Ellen.
2. Jocie Irene[2] Honaker. (Nanni Belle[1]. Born 26 Sep 1918 in Caretta, W.Va.
She married Ward R. Shepherd. Born 3 Mar 1913 in Conorock, Va. Died 28 Jan 1983 in Albemarle, N.C. Children:
i. Linda S.[3] She married Unknown Franklin.
Researcher: Linda S. Franklin, 49556 Quail Trail Rd., NORWOOD NC 28128, lfranklin@ (2001).
New Listing #18
1. John[1] Honaker.
He married Rosalee Ashley. Died in 1892. Children:
2. i. William Preston[2]. Born 26 Jan 1891 in Shenandoah Co., Va.
2. William Preston[2] Honaker (John[1]). Born 26 Jan 1891 in Shenandoah Co., Va.
He married Maude Ellen Bullard. Born in Shenandoah County. Children:
3. i. James Paul[3]. Born 20 Mar 1935 in Roane Co., W.Va.
3. James Paul[3] Honaker (William Preston[2], John[1]). Born 20 Mar 1935 in Roane Co., W.Va. Died 20 Mar 1998 in Amma, Roane County.
He married Unknown. Children:
i. Rhonda Kay[4].
Researcher: Rhonda Kay Honaker, e-mail address discontinued, (2001).
New Listing #19
1. Samuel James[1] Honaker. Born in Arista, W.Va. Died before 2012.
He married Martha Ellen Campbell, daughter of Joseph Campbell and Catherine Unknown, in Ellshow, W.Va. Born ca. 1922. Died 2 Jan 2012 in Roanoke, Va. Interred in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluewell, W.Va.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 4 Jan 2012: Martha Ellen Campbell Honaker, 90, of Roanoke, went to be with the Lord on Jan. 2, 2012. She was a very special lady with a sweet smile who blessed all who knew her. Her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren were the joy of her life. She was a member of First Baptist Church, Roanoke, and formerly of Edgemont Baptist of Bluefield, W.Va., where she was actively involved in the music program, playing piano, prayer circle, and children's ministries. She was a graduate of Bluefield Business College, Bluefield, W.Va. A homemaker most of her life, she later worked as manager of the Bluefield Gift Shop. She was the widow of Samuel James Honaker, and was also preceded in death by a daughter, Anita Jo Powers; parents, Joseph & Catherine Campbell; sisters, Virginia Wilson and Hazel Campbell; and brothers, Earl Campbell and Howard Campbell. Survivors include daughters and sons-in-law, Nancy and Bob Cook, of Dacula, Ga., Judy and Jim Farmer, of Roanoke, and Nina and Marvin Wilburn, of Christiansburg; special granddaughter, Leslie Anne Larkin, of Roanoke; grandchildren, Kathy Craig (Bill), Lisa Blough (Brian), Rob Cook (Tina), Jim Farmer (Dreama), Jeff Farmer (Kim), John Farmer (Suzanne), Joe Farmer (Stephanie), John Wilburn, 21 great grandchildren and four great great-grandchildren; sister, Betty Taylor, of Amelia, Ohio, and brother-in-law, Alfred Honaker, of DeBary, Florida. Thanks to her very special caregiver, Loretta Anderson. Also thanks to Carilion Hospice, especially Kristie Waldon. Pallbearers will be her six grandsons. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. on Thurs., Jan. 5, 2012, at Oakey’s North Chapel, with the Rev. Robert Alderman officiating. The interment service will be at Woodlawn Memorial Park in the Mausoleum beginning at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday in Bluewell, W.Va. The family will be receiving friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. on Wed., Jan. 4, 2012 at Oakey’s North Chapel. Flowers will be appreciated or donations may be made to [pic][pic]St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital , P.O. Box 318, Memphis, TN 38101.
Children:
2. i. Nina Sue[2]. Born 6 Jun 1944 in Welch, W.Va.
ii. Anita Jo. Died before 2012. She married Unknown Powers.
iii. Nancy. She married Bob Cook.
iv. Judy. She married Jim Farmer.
2. Nina Sue[2] Honaker (Samuel James[1])
She married John Marvin Wilburn (called Marvin), son of Adder Marvin Wilburn and Allyeu McMullin, 24 May 1969 in Bluefield, W.Va. Born 6 Mar 1944 in Bluefield.
Researcher: Judy Cornick, judehey6670@, 1750 Baker Rd., #47, SPRINGFIELD OH 45504 (2008)
New Listing #20
2. Gary[1] Honaker.
He married Rhonda R. McCloskey, daughter of Charles E. McCloskey Sr. (1937-2005) and Geneva M. Porter of Chillicothe, Ohio.
Researcher: Judy Cornick, judehey6670@, 1750 Baker Rd., #47, SPRINGFIELD OH 45504 (2008)
New Listing #21
2. George[1] Honaker.
He married Janet Kallner, daughter of John Allen Kallner (1910-1986) and Maxine Yvonne Allen of Scioto Co., Ohio. It was her second marriage.
Researcher: Judy Cornick, judehey6670@, 1750 Baker Rd., #47, SPRINGFIELD OH 45504 (2008)
New Listing #22
1. John[1] Honaker.
He married Unknown. Children:
2. i. William Preston[2].
2. William Preston[2] Honaker (John[1]).
He married Maude E. Bullard. Died 2 Feb 1985. Children:
i. Paul. Died unknown year.
ii. Dormal. In 2008 she lived in Canton, Ohio. She married Unknown Parsons.
3. iii. Maggie Opal[2]. Born 5 Jun 1913.
iv. Bonnie Garnet. She married Unknown Mitchell.
v. Lucille Linda. Died unknown year. She married Unknown Bailey.
3. Maggie Opal[3] Honaker (William Preston[2]), John[1]). Born 5 Jun 1913. Died 3 Jan 1982 (also reported as 2 Feb 1985).
She married Jonathan Joseph McCune (called John), [son of Thomas Pleasant McCune (called Plez), b. 1853, m. first, Hulda Graham 21 Oct 1870 in Roane Co., W.Va.; m. second, Elizabeth B. or P. Rose, 29 Jun 1885 in Roane Co., W.Va.] Children:
4. i. Mary Ann[3]. Born ca. 1933.
ii. Clyde. Died before 2008.
iii. Billy Ray. Died before 2008.
iv. Sally. Died before 2008. She married Unknown Hicks.
v. Barbara. In 2008 she lived in Clendenin, W.Va. She married Unknown Mangus.
4. Mary Ann[3] Honaker (Maggie Opal[3], William Preston[2]), John[1]). Born ca. 1933. Died 7 Jun 2008 in Walton, W.Va. Buried in Jones Cemetery, Walton, W.Va.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 10 Jun 2008 (with photograph): Mary Ann McCune Jones, 75, of Walton, went home to be with the Lord on Sat., June 7, 2008 at home after a long illness. Mary was a member of Shepard’s Chapel of Texas and a retired employee of Norris Industries and Kellwood Company of Spencer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn Devoe Jones; parents, John and Maggie Honaker McCune; brothers, Clyde McCune and Billy Ray McCune; and sister, Sally Hicks. Survivors include her son, Jeff Jones and wife Brenda of Walton; daughter, Brenda Greathouse and husband David of Spencer; adopted daughter, Rebecca Jo McCune of Montana; sister Barbara Mangus of Clendenin; grandchildren, Mark, Adam, and Joseph, and Robin; and great-grandchildren, Chloe, Macy, Johnathan, Christopher, and Caitlin. The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Tue., June 10, 2008, at Matics Funeral Home in Clendenin with the Rev. Jack McCune officiating. Burial will be at Jones Cemetery in Walton. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Condolences may be expressed online at .
She married Glenn Devoe Jones. Died before 2008. Children:
i. Jeff[4]. He married Brenda Unknown.
ii. Brenda. She married David Greathouse.
iii. Rebecca Jo (adopted).
New Listing #23
The following unknowns were reported by Justice, Justice Family Review.
Richard Honaker. Born 1867 in Pike Co., Ky. His father was b. in Va., his mother was b. in Pike County.
He married Mary E. Justice, daughter of Tolbert R. Justice (called Cob) (b. in Pike County) and Martha J. Kendrick (b. in Va.), 22 Sep 1888 at the Tilda residence, Hatcher, Pike Co., Ky. Born 1870 in Pike County. She married, first, George W. Cook 31 Dec 1885 in Justice, Pike County. The first marriage resulted in three children, Matt, Riley, and Lula Cook. George was born in Mercer Co., W.Va.
Thomas Lafayette Justice (called Left), son of John Justice (b. in Pike Co., Ky.) and Nancy Blackburn (b. in Pike County). Born 1870 in Pike County. The 1870 and 1880 Pike County censuses found him in his father’s household at Lick Creek, Pike County. He married, first, Mary Elizabeth Gullett, daughter of Frank Gullett and Unknown, and had two children, John and Nellie. They were enumerated in the 1900 Pike County census at Meathouse, Ky. He also married Unknown Honaker.
New Listing #24
Henry[1] Honaker.
He married Bessie or Betsy Unknown. Children:
i. Caroline Virginia[2]. Born ca. 1861. Died 11 Apr 1925 in the vicinity of Bluefield, Mercer Co., W.Va. Buried in Rocky Gap, Va., possibly in Gibson Cemetery. She married James Vaile [also Vale] Gibson, son of Samuel T. Gibson and Margaret Ward (called Peggy.) James died 2 Jul 1926. The informant for Caroline Virginia’s death certificate was C.B. Gibson, James’s brother.
The researcher who reported Caroline Virginia’s existence in 2011, Jack Akers, first believed her to be a daughter of Henry[3] and Rachel Byrnside (Pack) Honaker [Henry[1],] and gave that Henry’s other children as Caroline’s siblings. However, as far as we were aware in 2011 Henry never had a daughter named Caroline Virginia, but rather a child who was stillborn in 1861 when Caroline was born.
Subsequently Jack reported that Bland County [Va.] Marriages, 1861-1899, recorded Caroline’s marriage to James V. Gibson; he 21, son of Sam and Jane Gibson, and she 17, daughter of Henry and Betsey Honaker. The 1880 Bland County Census reported the household of S.T. Gibson which included James V. Gibson and Caroline V. Gibson, daughter-in-law, 17, daughter of Henry Honaker and Bessie Honaker.
In 2011 we were unable to identify a Henry Honaker who had married a Bessie, Betsy or Elizabeth, and we were thus unable to identify Caroline’s ancestry. Among the several dozen Henrys we knew of, five or six were of the age that they could have been her father, but no geographical or marriage information was known about them.
Researcher: Jack B. Akers, 981 Osbon Dr., AIKEN SC 29801, jackakers39@
New Listing #25
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Part III
Various sources
Births*
Lebanon [Va.] News, 8 Feb 2005: Happy Valentine’s Day
A Valentine’s Day photo page featured a picture of Dawson Jessee Honaker, child of Scott & Greta Honaker and grandchild of Johnny & Christine Hubbard and Patty Honaker, and great grandchild of Janet Fuller. The child appeared to be several months of age.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 27 Dec 2014: New arrivals at PMC
Brittany and Matthew Honaker, a daughter, Aubre-AnnaLaShae Jean, born Nov. 2, 2014, 5 lb. 6 oz.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 7 Jul 2013
Jessica Renea Church and David Matthew Church, of Bradshaw, are the parents of a daughter, Addison Brooke Church, born June 20, 2013, at Welch Community Hospital. The baby weighte 7 lb. 1 oz. Grandparents are Sue and Stanley Powers and Betty Honaker and Bruce Church Jr.
Michelle Danielle Kennedy and George Thomas Honaker, of Jolo, are the parents of a daughter, Elena Paige Honaker, born June 14, 2013, at Welch Community Hospital. The baby weighed 6 lb. 11 oz. Grandparents are Shelia Kennedy and Michael Honaker and George Honaker.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 13 Jan 2013: Aaron Honaker and Alicia Hutchinson, of Bluefield, are the parents of a daughter, Kylie Grace Honaker, born Dec. 16, 2012 at Princeton Community Hospital. The baby weighted 6 lb. 7 oz. Grandparents are James and Melissa Waller and Tommy and Karen Perry.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 30 Oct 2008 (with photograph): Honaker-Adams Wed
Robert J. Honaker and Heather Lea Adams were married Sept. 5, 2008, in Union, in a private ceremony officiated by Rev. Bob Ratliff. Heather is the daughter of Richard and Glenna Adams of Lewisburg. Robert is the son of Les Honaker of Clifton Forge, Va., and Pat Spade of Union.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 30 Oct 2008 (photo caption: Johnathon Ray Honaker): Robert J. and Heather Honaker of Lewisburg are proud to announce the birth of their son, Johnathon Ray Honaker. He was born Aug. 11, 2008, at 7:57 p.m. at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center and weighed 8 lb. 14 oz. and was 20¼ –in. long. Grandparents are Richard and Glenna Adams of Lewisburg, Les Honaker of Clifton Forge, Va., and Pat Spade of Union.
Births at Johnston Memorial Hospital [Abingdon, Va.]
Destiny Belle Wilson, born March 2, 2001, daughter of Ms. Jennifer Honaker and Darrell Wilson, Lebanon, Va. (Lebanon [Va.] News, 25 Apr 2001)
Mikeal Dakota Blaze Woodard, born 1 Oct 2001, son of Ms. Jessica Woodard and Emory Honaker, Honaker, Va. (Lebanon [Va.] News, 31 Oct 2001)
Sophie Jade Honaker, born 30 Dec 2002, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Aaron Honaker, Honaker, Va. (Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 30 Jan 2003)
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 2 Nov 2003: Methodist Hospital Pikeville
Selena Mae Honaker and Larry Thacker Jr., a son, Blake Michael Thacker, born Sept. 11, 2003, 7 lb. 4-oz.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 3 Oct 2001: Baby Honaker (with photograph)
Vivian J. Stanley and Johnny Honaker announce the birth of their daughter, Angel Nicole Lee Honaker. She is the granddaughter of Tommy and Juanita Stanley. [The only identified Johnny Honaker living in the area in 2001 was Johnny[7] (Martin[1]), but we do not have sufficient information to determine whether he was the correct Johnny.]
Lebanon [Va.] News, 2 Oct 2002: Celebrates 1st Birthday (with photograph, cutline Travis Paul Honaker)
Happy first birthday to Travis Paul Honaker, born Oct. 2, 2001. We all love you, little man. From Mommy
and Daddy, Timothy and Melissa Honaker, Grandparents Betty Dale, Garland and Sandra Street, one great-grandmother Draxie Johnson. Valentine’s Day photograph of him appeared in Lebanon [Va.] News, 11 Feb 2004, with cutline—Child of Timothy and Melissa Honaker, Honaker, Va., Grandchild of Garland and Sandra Street, Honaker, Va., and Betty Dale, Honaker, Va, Great Grandchild of Jackie Johnson Reese Robinette, Raven, Va.
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Urbana [Ohio] Daily Citizen, 8 May 2015: Folkston, Ga.—Rubi J. (Blevins) Carter, most recently of Folkston, Ga., previously of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, Newark Ohio, Anaheim, Calif., Mystic, Conn., Bremerton, Wash., and Fairfield, Calif., passed away after a brief battle with lung cancer on Sun., May 3, at Satilla Hospice House in Waycross, Ga. Rubi is survived by loving husband Lawrence (Larry) Carter, daughter Angel Pryce (Rick) of Upper Arlington, Ohio, and two grandchildren, Meredith and Griffith. She is also survived by brothers Ernie Blevins (Sandy), Wendell Cornelison (Karen), Jack Cornelison (Dee), Phillip Cornelison, sisters Wanda Taylor (Mike), Bonnie Temple (Ralph), Cindy Jenkins, many nieces and nephews and a multitude of friends across the country. Rubi is preceded in death by father Edward Blevins, mother Dollie (Honaker) Cornelison, stepfather Lou Cornelison and brother Ted Cornelison. Rubi was born in West Van Lear, Ky., on April 8, 1942. She graduated from Mechanicsburg High School in 1960 and married Larry in 1963. Rubi worked at Kroger in Newark, Ohio, and then moved on to work that she was dedicated to—caring for developmentally and mentally disabled adults. She worked at Newark Residence Homes, Pace Soldano (Vacaville, Calif.) and Dayspring Village (Hilliard, Fla.) The residents she worked with truly loved her. Rubi was a loving wife, wonderful mother, devoted grandmother and a friend to many across the U.S. A celebration of her life will take place on Sat., May 16, at 11 a.m. at Riverside United Methodist Church, 2701 Zollinger Rd., Upper Arlington, Ohio. A reception will follow at the home of Angel and Rick Pryce. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Satilla Hospice House, 808 Evergreen Way, Waycross, GA 31501.
Morning Journal, Lorain, Ohio, 10 Jan 2017: Linda J. McGuigan, age 73, of Lorain passed away unexpectedly on Sat., Jan. 7, 2017 at her home. She was born on March 27, 1943 in West Virginia to Harold and Lillian Irene (Fortner) Honaker. Linda was a homemaker who loved animals, especially her cats. She enjoyed spending time playing cards with her family and friends, video poker on her i-pad, and watching old black and white movies on the Turner Classic Movie Channel. She was an avid Green Bay Packers and New York Yankees fan. Above all her greatest love was the love she had for her grandchildren. Linda is survived by her children, Melody (Ed) Guggenbiller, of Lorain, Tim (Monica) McGuigan, of Lorain, Kimberly (Bud Samples) Hornek, of North Carolina, and Shelly (James Schueller) McGuigan, of Lorain; step-son, Jackie (Johanna) McGuigan, of Cape Cod, Mass.; grandchildren, Brandon, Eddie, Brittany, Morgan, Lexy and Kody; great-grandmother of Mylah and Kaydon; siblings, Robert (Jodi) Honaker, Denise (John) Boots, Debra Lambert, Mikey Honaker, and Janet Honaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, John “Jerry” McGuigan; parents, Harold and Lillian Honaker; brothers, Harold “Sonny” Honaker, and Gordon “Mac” Honaker; and her sisters, Novella Wirt and Edna Hazelwood. The McGuigan family will receive friends on Thurs., Jan. 12, 2017 from 4–7 p.m. in the Dovin and Reber Jones Funeral & Cremation Center, 1110 Cooper Foster Park Road, Amherst. Private family inurnment will take place at a later date at Calvary Cemetery, Lorain. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest contributions be made in memory of Linda to the Friendship Animal Protective League, 8303 Murray Ridge Road, Elyria, OH 44035. Online condolences may be left for the family at .
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 15 Dec 2016: Mary Elaine Payne Deeds, 67, of Ironton, Ohio, passed away Mon., Dec. 12, 2016, at Hospice Care Center in Ashland, Ky. Mary was born in Ashland, Ky., and was a life long resident of Lawrence County, Ohio. She was born Jan. 7, 1949, the daughter of the late Harry E. Payne, Sr., Imogene (Barnes) Payne and birth mother, Eleanor Mae (Honaker) Payne. She is survived by her husband, Doug Deeds, whom she married on Nov. 26, 1971. Mary was a 1967 graduate of South Point [Ohio] High School and attended Ohio University Ironton Campus and David Lipscomb College, where she received her bachelors degree. She was a teacher for South Point and Dawson Bryant School Districts, where she worked for 31 years and retired in 2001. She was also a member of South Point Church of Christ in South Point, Ohio. Mary was the valedictorian of her class, principal of Monitor School, a Cub Scout den leader, Bible School teacher, Talent for the Teacher, a Little League dugout mom and also helped tutor students. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, crafting, cake decorating, gardening and spending time with family. In addition to her husband, she is survived by two sons: Duane (Michelle) Deeds of Ironton, Ohio and Tom Deeds of Grove City, Ohio; six brothers: Gary (Rebecca) Payne of South Point, Ohio, Eddie (Debbie) Payne of Ashland, Kentucky, Bob (Emily) Payne of South Point, Ohio, Allen (Leah) Payne of Crown City, Ohio, Jim Payne of South Point, Ohio, and Gene (Lori) Payne of Loveland, Ohio; a sister: Sue (Gary) Meyers of Ironton, Ohio; three granddaughters: Katie and Abbie Deeds, both of Ironton, Ohio, and Elena Deeds of Grove City, Ohio; a grandson: Jack Deeds of Grove City, Ohio; sister-in-law: Sandra (John) Mootz of Ironton, Ohio; and many beloved nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Sat., Dec. 17, at Phillips Funeral Home, 1004 South 7th Street, Ironton, Ohio 45638 with Minister Mark Aites officiating. Burial will follow in Community Cemetery in Deering, Ohio. Visitation will be Friday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. To offer the family condolences, please visit . To view the video tribute, please visit .
Frederick [Okla.] Press-Leader, 2 Dec 2016: Frances (Webber) Honaker was born at home May 9, 1927 to Frank and Mabel Webber. She died Nov 20, 2016. She attended Webber High School and graduated in 1946. She attended the University of Tulsa, married Jack D. Honaker in 1949 and graduated from TU in 1950. She worked as a medical secretary while Jack attended medical school at the University of Oklahoma. She and Jack had three children, Richard, Michael and Debra Kay. After earning a nursing degree from Cameron University in 1969, she worked alongside Jack in his office and was the In-service Director at the community hospital in Frederick. She enjoyed working with kids. She was a Cub Scout and Camp Fire leader and directed and choreographed musicals from 1971 to 1994 for Frederick High School. Following retirement in 1988, she and Jack volunteered for six years as medical missionaries at several overseas locations. She was voted Frederick's most useful citizen in 1986 to honor her for her numerous volunteer activities in the community and at the high school. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and Mabel Webber and husband Jack D. Honaker. She is survived by children, Richard and wife Darlene Honaker of Ellicott City, Md., Michael and wife Jan Honaker of Tulsa and Debra Kay Pool of Plano, Texas. She is also survived by sister-in-law Sue Robertson and husband Bill of Plano. She had five grandsons, Matthew and wife Rebecca Honaker, James and wife Kee Honaker, Ben and wife Heather Honaker, Thomas Pool and Michael Pool; and one great-grandson, David Jack Honaker. A memorial service will be held after the first of the year. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to John 3:16 Mission in Tulsa.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 12Nov 2016: Kathleen May, age 89, of Barboursville, left from her home in Barboursville to go be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Fri., Nov. 11, 2016. Kathleen was born Aug. 11, 1927, in Nolan, W.Va., to Benjamin Harrison Honaker and Sarah Simpkins Honaker. Kathleen was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard May; a son, Ted Howard; and her daughter, Susan Diane Hawkins. She is now able to rest and be with her loved ones that have gone on before. Kathleen temporarily leaves behind four sons, Charles Beckett (Heloise) of Greenville, N.C., Leonard May Jr. (Judy) of Red House, W.Va., David May (Eileen) of Amherstdale, W.Va., Chris May (Nicki) of Barboursville; and one daughter, Barbara Elkins of Barboursville. Kathleen also had many grandchildren and great-grandchildren that were close to her heart. Kathleen was a special lady who touched many lives. She taught her children to serve the Lord and to always help others without regard. Earth’s loss is truly Heaven’s gain. Services will be conducted at noon, Tue., Nov. 15, 2016, at the Wallace Funeral Home & Chapel with Rev. Robert Hawkins and Rev. John Hawkins officiating. Burial will be in Forest Memorial Park, Milton. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to noon Tuesday. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Huntington, P.O. Box 464, Huntington, WV 25709.
Heishman Funeral Home, Edinburg, [Shenandoah Co.] Va., 27 Sep 2016: Harry Luther McClellan Jr., 53, of Maurertown, passed away Sat., Sept. 24, 2016 at his residence. He was born Feb. 12, 1963 in York, Pa., and was the son of Leona Lehman Honaker and the late Harry Luther McClellan Sr. and stepson of Steven Honaker. Mr. McClallan was a member of American Legion Post #199 in Woodstock. Harry is survived by his wife, Neva Lynn Orndorff McClellan; three daughters, Dianna M. McClellan and fiancé Matthew Castelow, Crystal Liverman and husband Scotty and Rachel L McClellan; one son, Harry E. McClellan of Virginia Beach; five brothers, John K. McClellan of Edinburg, Charles W. McClellan of Alexandria, Michael O. McClellan and companion George Martinez of Alexandria, Frank E. McClellan and companion Tim Johnson of Spotsylvania and William Killen and wife Ann of Beckley, W.Va.; six grandchildren, Mackenzie K. McClellan, Gavin P. Britt Mason, R. Williams, Peyton A. Liverman, Kenly S. Liverman and Colton R. Castelow, and many special friends and extended family. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thurs., Sept. 29, 2016 at the Valley Funeral Service’s Chapel with Pastor Steve Custer officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to service. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorial contributions be made to Blue Ridge Hospice, 333 W. Cork St., Suite #405, Winchester, VA 22601 or the American Cancer Society, 420 Neff Ave., Suite #210, Harrisonburg, VA 22801. Arrangements are in the care of Heishman Funeral Home, Inc., Valley Funeral Service Branch. Thoughts Concerns and Remembrances to . Sign the Guest Book at obituaries.
Tampa Bay [Fla.] Times, 10 Aug 2016: Frank James Honaker, 36, of Tampa, passed away July 27, 2016. He is survived by his fiancé Tessa L. Raby; sons, Frank Jr. and Freddie; daughter, Carina; his sister, Tammy Honaker and brother-in-law Keith Thompson; two nieces, Sarah Woodard and Alyssa Thompson; and a nephew, Kyle Thompson. Memorial services will be 11 a.m. on Sat., Aug. 13 at River of Life Christian Center in Riverview with a celebration of life to follow at 2 p.m. at 1251 Kayak Cove, Lutz, FL 33559. Swilley Funeral Home, Tampa, was in charge.
News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., 7 Jul 2016: Raleigh—Azile Goodson Honaker passed away Tuesday night, July 5, 2016. She attended schools in Mount Olive and business school in Raleigh. Azile worked in Raleigh for many years and retired from Carolina Coach Trailways Company as an executive secretary with over 40 years of service. She also worked helping her husband in their luncheonette “Honakers.” Azile loved life and her family. She was always a good neighbor and friend, and had a compassionate heart and love for animals. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter B. Honaker; her parents, Arlie and Catherine Goodson, of Mount Olive; sisters, Lucille G. Scott, Arlene G. Talton and Violet G. Smith. She is survived by her sister-in-law: Verna Honaker, of Wisconsin; nieces and nephews, Gwyn S. Staton, of Gamer, Georgia Daniel and husband Craig, of Fuquay-Varina, Carroll C. Scott and wife Shirley, of Richmond, Texas, Dr. Kathy T. Best and husband Doug and Kenny Talton and wife Carrie, all of Mt. Olive, Dr. Kevin Talton and wife Lynette, of Goldsboro; and by numerous great nieces and nephews. A special thanks to Azile’s caregiver, Tammy Wilfong. Family will receive friends on Sat., July 9, 2016 from 10–11 a.m. at Mitchell Funeral Home, with a service to begin at 11 a.m. in the funeral home chapel. Interment will follow at Raleigh Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, 3813 Pleasant Valley Rd., Raleigh, NC 27612 or to the N.C. State Veterinary Hospital, 1060 William Moore Dr., Raleigh, NC 27607. Condolences to the family at .
Feller & Clark Funeral Homes, Auburn, Ind., 1 Jul 2016: Auburn—Betty Jo Honaker, 87, of Auburn passed away peacefully on June 29, 2016, at Presence Sacred Heart Home in Avilla. Betty was born March 26, 1929 in McIntyre, Ga., to Joseph O. and Ruby Brooks Beck. Ruby was a fun-loving companion for theater, music and travel, and she enjoyed reading. She will be missed and lovingly remembered by her family and many friends. Betty was a long-time member of Friends of the Eckhart Public Library and a dedicated library volunteer. She was a member of the Kenwigs Literary Club in Auburn and of the Chi Chapter of the Sigma Eta Fine Arts Sorority. She regularly attended the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. She was an active member of the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ and of the Lydia Circle in Auburn. After raising her family, Betty returned to college and received a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing from Purdue University. Her nursing career spanned 30 years, with most of this time spent working at Miller’s Merry Manor in Garrett as a nurse and as staff development director. She retired in 1997. She enjoyed her career in nursing and was involved in various professional nursing organizations. Betty is survived by: four children, James D. (Angie) Honaker of Tompkinsville, Ky.; Timothy R. (Sharon) Honaker of Glenville, Ill.; Janelle (Steven) Graber of Auburn; and Julia C. Honaker of Churubusco; nine grandchildren and their spouses, Michelle (Randy) Krock, Chad (Jenny) Honaker, Zackery Honaker, Tara (Mark) Lunardi, Todd (Jayne) Honaker, Brian Honaker, Kevin Honaker, Daniel (Taylor) Graber, and Rebekah Graber; eight great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; and two sisters and brothers-in-law, Jean (Bill) Jolley of Montpelier, Vt., and Sara (Jay) Fein of Alexandria, Va. She was preceded in death by: her parents; her son, Michael J. Honaker; and a sister, Jackie Crover. A memorial service will take place at 4:30 p.m., Sat., July 9, 2016, at the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, 910 N. Indiana Ave., Auburn, with the Rev. Betty Sivis officiating. Burial will take place at a later date in the Macon Memorial Park Cemetery in Macon, Ga. The family will receive friends from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sat., July 9, 2016, at the church prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Eckhart Public Library Fund in care of the Community Foundation of DeKalb County or the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, Auburn. Feller and Clark Funeral Home in Auburn is handling arrangements.
Frederick [Md.] News Post, 8 Jun 2016: Alyssa Mae Honaker, 17, of Frederick, Md., passed away suddenly at her home Sat., June 4, 2016. Born Aug. 25, 1998, in Frederick, Md., she is the daughter of Jeffrey Honaker and Shannon Stanley. In addition to her parents, Alyssa is survived by her stepfather, Michael Stanley, stepmother Linda Honaker, sisters Tori and Jenna Stanley, brother Jeffrey Honaker Jr., stepsister Taylor Shaw, paternal grandparents Larry and Kathleen Honaker, maternal grandparents Ronald and Gwynn Kersh, along with numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Alyssa was especially close with her cousin Kenny Honaker, Jr. Alyssa will be remembered for her sense of humor, her kindness and her compassion and caring ways towards others. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m., on Wed., June 8, 2016 at Molesworth-Williams P.A. Funeral Home, 24401 Ridge Rd., Damascus, Md. 20872. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thurs., June 9, at Damascus United Methodist Church, 9700 New Church St., Damascus, Md. 20872. Interment will follow at Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery, 11501 Mountain View Rd., Damascus, Md. 20872. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to her memory to the Mountain View United Methodist Church, 11501 Mountain View Rd., Damascus, Md. 20872. Online condolences may be shared with her family at .
News Sentinel, Knoxville, Tenn., 2 Jun 2016: Dardenella Irene (Dickens) Lester born April 9, 1938 in West Virginia, and passed away May 31, 2016 in Knoxville, Tenn. She was preceded in death by her parents, Verne and Lula (Honaker) Dickens; sister, Ruth; brothers, Gene, Paul, and Linden; son, Vernon. She is survived by daughters, Drema Lowe and husband Joe of Sharp’s Chapel, Tenn., Debra Valoven and husband, Bob, Jill Campbell and husband Gary of Cleveland, Ohio; sons, Randy Dickens and wife Evelyn, Philip Lester and wife Laura, Mike Lester, Timothy Liptak of Cleveland, Ohio, Edward Bowen and wife Sharon of Powell, Tenn., and Jeff Lester of Georgia. She is also survived by a host of grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Tennessee, Ohio and Georgia, whom were all special to her. Funeral services will be 8 p.m., Sat., June 4, 2016 at Mynatt Funeral Home Fountain City Chapel, with Rev. Randy Moore officiating. Family and friends will meet at 1:15 p.m., Sun., June 5, 2016 at the funeral home and proceed to Byrd’s Chapel Cemetery for a 2 p.m. interment. The family will have a family night at the funeral home from 6–8 p.m., Fri., June 3, 2016. The family will receive friends 6–8 p.m., Sat., June 4, 2016 at Mynatt Funeral Home Fountain City Chapel. mynattfhcom.
Note: Dessie Marie[6] Webb (Sadie[5], Maude Lee[4], Sarah Etta[3], James A.[2], Abraham[1]) married, first, Linden Dickens, brother of Dardanella Dickens and son of Verne and Lula (Honaker) Dickens, above. We don’t have ascendancy on Lula Honaker.
Xenia [Ohio Daily Gazette, 18 May 2016: Matthew J. Honaker, age 58, of Xenia, passed away Tue., May 17 2016 at Hospice of Dayton. He was born Sept. 9, 1957 in Xenia, the son of Paul and Dorothy Honaker. At the young age of 5, Matt was preceded in death by his father, Paul. He was fortunate to have known Eddie and the late Lee Mitchell, who looked after him as if he were their own. He was also preceded in death by his mother, Dorothy, and brothers Paul Jr. and Charles E. Honaker. He is survived by his wife, Vivian C. (Dale) Honaker, whom he married Nov. 12, 1988; children Vickie Howell of Dayton, Michelle Jones of Xenia, Brandon Honaker of Xenia, Jordan Honaker of Xenia, Aleesha Honaker of Peebles and Diamond Honaker of Xenia; brother, Lester Crawford and grandchildren PFC Kelcee Jones-Lari of Maryland, Jared Howell, Gabrianna Jones and Ty’Rece Jones, all of Xenia; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends. Matt had been a corrections officer with the Warren Correctional Facility and then served as sergeant with the security department at the Fairfield Commons Mall. For many years following the 1974 tornado, he was very active with the emergency response unit, REACT. Matt was a New England Patriots fan and enjoyed working on cars. Because of his illness, he was unable to do many of the things he had previously enjoyed. However, he continued to be very involved in his childrens’ life and activities. Over the years, he and his wife were foster parents to over 100 children and spent numerous hours babysitting. Matt served as a mentor to many people in the community, encouraging them to set goals and helping them to successfully attain them. The family would like to thank the staff of Hospice of Dayton for their compassion during this time. A service to celebrate his life will be held 2:30 p.m., Sat., May 21, at First United Christian Church 626 N. Columbus St., Xenia, with Pastor Dr. Edgar A. Wallace officiating. Friends may call from 1:30 p.m. Saturday until the time of service at the church. Online condolences may be made to the family at . Arrangements in care of McColaugh Funeral Home, Inc.
Daily Journal, Upper Deerfield, N.J., 11 May 2016: Benny H. Hawkins, 72, of Upper Deerfield Twp., died unexpectedly on Sat., May 7, 2016 at Inspira Medical Center, Vineland. Born in Litwar, W.Va., to the late Harold M. Hawkins and Mae Marie Honaker Hawkins, he was the husband of Carolyn Ford Hawkins. Benny had lived in Upper Deerfield Twp. for the past 50 years and prior to that in W.Va. A veteran, he served his country in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Conflict. Before his retirement, he had been employed for over 20 years as a heavy equipment operator with South State Construction in Bridgeton. Benny was an avid camper and fisherman who loved his family dearly. He and his wife would have celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in June. Besides his wife Carolyn, he is survived by a son, Benjamin A. Green and his wife, Laura of Upper Deerfield Twp.; four grandchildren, Aaron M. Woody (Tiffany), Crystal A. Green, Timothy Hawkins and Sean Donaghy; three great-grandchildren, Sophia LeAnn, Sophia Grace and Izabella Marie; John “Beau” Hitchner, Jr. and his daughter Ariel who is treated as his son and granddaughter and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held privately at the convenience of the family. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Padgett Funeral Home, Upper Deerfield Twp. Written condolences can be sent to the family through the funeral home website at .
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 21 Apr 2016: Georgetown—R.C. “Chuck” Johnson, Jr., 73, passed away Wed., April 20th, 2016, in the loving presence of his family. Chuck was the son of the late R.C. and Lucille Honaker Johnson and a lifelong resident of Georgetown. Following his father’s death, Chuck, at the age of nineteen, became the third generation funeral director and owner of Johnson’s Funeral Home. For over fifty years he dedicated his life to compassionately serving families in their time of need. Chuck was a graduate of Georgetown College, member of Faith Baptist Church and Hambrick Sunday School Class. He served as president of the Scott County Public Library, president of Montessori School of Cardome, and former member of Georgetown Kiwanis Club and Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Chuck and Frankie were recently honored with the Ambassador Award from Second Chance Society for their outstanding dedication and support. Chuck is survived by his loving life of fifty two years, Frankie C. Johnson; three children, Katherine D. Johnson, of Louisville, Elizabeth L. Johnson-Jones (Rod), of Georgetown and Roy Charles Johnson III (DC Zhong), of Hong Kong; one grandson, Cyrus Gaines Felfeli, of Louisville; and devoted friends Horace and Maribeth Hambrick, of Georgetown. Visitation will be held Friday from 3–8 p.m. at Johnson’s Funeral Home, 641 South Broadway. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Faith Baptist Church by Rev. Bob Fox and Rev. Mark Caldwell. Expressions of sympathy may be made to Faith Baptist Church, 116 Pocahontas Trail, Georgetown, KY 40324 or Second Chance Society 1835 SE 4th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316.
Snyder Funeral Home, Bellville, Ohio, 3 Apr 2016: Joan L. “Joni” Hamilton, 79 of Bellville passed away in peace on March 31, 2016. Loved by whomever she met, “Joni” lived her life for her family. She was one of 13 siblings, born and raised in Churchill, Tenn., to Hatti & Otis Honaker and Nathan & Blanche Lockhart. She formerly worked hiring teachers with the Franklin County Board of Education and Columbus City Schools, but her passion was caring for her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She is survived by her husband William Hamilton, her daughter Rebecca (Ron) Doup of Bellville, her sons Scott Hamilton of Columbus and Dean (Liz) Hamilton of Port St. Lucie, Fla. She is also survived by her grandchildren Amy (Jason) Doup of Pickerington, Brandon (Amy) Doup of Butler, and Zachary Wilson of Fredericktown; and her great grandchildren Elyza, Whitley, Emily7 and Evelyn. She was preceded in death by her son Donald Wilson; a granddaughter Brittany Doup; sisters Beatrice Ryans, Stella Michals, Ruby Williamson, Lois Austin, Vivian Lockhart and brother Harlan Lockhart. The Bellville Snyder Funeral Home is serving the Hamilton family with compassionate cremation arrangements, and a private service will follow in Kingsport, Tenn. Contributions in Joni’s memory to the Jefferson Township-Bellville Rescue Squad may be made through the funeral home. Send the Hamilton family a message of comfort and sympathy online at: . For we know Joni is in Heaven, because God let her wear a halo here on earth!
Kentucky Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, 3 Apr 2016: Dizale Honaker, 7 months, Cincinnati, March 25, 2016. Walker Funeral Home, Mt. Healthy, Walker-Mt. Healthy Chapel, April 6, 2016, 10 a.m.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 1 Apr 2016: Charles Adam Dreher, 40, of Proctorville, Ohio, passed away Wed., Mar. 30, 2016, at his residence. Born Feb. 11, 1976, a son of Frederick Joseph DFreher of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Sally Shope Allen of Lucasville, Ohio, he attended Tri State Bible College in South Point, Ohio, he was a volunteer firefighter, and attended Living Hope Bible Church in Huntington, W.Va. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife Lisa Honaker Dreher; a daughter Andrea Dreher; two step-sons, Sean Preston of Huntington, W.Va., Michael Riddle of Texas; three step-daughters, Cedena Preston of Proctorville, Ohio, Victoria and Jennifer Riddle, both of Georgia; a brother Matthew (Kara) Dreher of Warrenton, Va., and a sister Kim (Denton) Sederquist, West Lafayette, Ind. He was preceded in death by his step-father Stephen Allen. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m., Wed., April 6, 2016, at Erwin-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home in Minford, Ohio, with Donald Young and Leo Skaggs officiating. Burial will be at Scioto Burial Park in Rustown, Ohio. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and one hour prior to the service on Wednesday. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Multiple Sclerosis Patient Assistance Fund, Ohio Health Foundation, attn.: Cody Vermillion, 180 East Broad St., 31st Floor, Columbus, OH 43215. Online condolences may be sent to .
Marion [Ohio] Star, 13 Mar 2016: Charles W. Sisson, age 78, of Marion passed away on Fri., March 11, 2016, at 3:50 p.m. in the Kindred Nursing Community. He was born in Marion, Ohio on June 2, 1937 to the late Oscar and Lenora (Conkle) Sisson. Charles married the former Betty J. Honaker on Sept. 6, 1958 in Marion and she preceded him in death on Jan. 28, 1998 in Marion. He was a 1955 graduate of Harding High School and a member of the League of Postmasters. Charles was employed with the U.S. Postal Service for 39 years and retired as a postmaster in 2010. The lifelong Marion area resident is survived by a son, Charles M. Sisson of North Robinson, Ohio; three daughters, Tracey (Chris Hulls) Sisson of Marion, Ohio, Pam (Lionel) De Souza of Cardington, Ohio and Cynthia (Jeff) Himler of Raymond, Ohio; two sisters, Charlotte (Fred) Blanton of Marion, Ohio, and Carol (Mike) Fout of Doylestown, Ohio; a sister-in-law, Susan Sisson of Marion, Ohio and six grandchildren. Charles was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Betty; one grandchild; one sister, Vivian Guyton; and two brothers, Leroy Sisson and Oscar Sisson Jr. Friends may call at the Boyd-Born Funeral Home on Mon., March 14, 2016, from 4–8 p.m. The funeral service will be held in the Boler Activity Center, 590 Forest Lawn Dr., Marion on Tue., March 15th, at 11 a.m. with burial to follow in the Green Camp Cemetery. Donations in Charles’s name may be made to Autism Speaks. Online condolences may be sent to .
Quincy [Ill.] Herald-Whig, 31 Dec 2015: Bruce C. Dehner, 77, of Ewing, passed away at 8:10 p.m. Tue., Dec. 29, 2015, at the Country Aire Retirement Estates at Lewiston. Bruce was born Nov. 10, 1938, in Canton, Mo., a son of Junius and Henrietta Honaker Dehner. He married Joann Bryant April 1, 1961, in Quincy, Ill. She survives. He was a member of South Union Baptist Church in Maywood. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a federal mine inspector working in Idaho, retiring in 1980. Survivors include his wife, Joann Dehner of Ewing; one son, Michael Dehner of Cheyenne, Wyo.; one granddaughter, Annie Dehner of Cheyenne, Wyo.; three brothers, Harold Dehner of Lewistown, Donald Dehner of Hannibal and David Dehner of Panama City, Fla.; one aunt, Wilma Bader of Columbia; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Services: 11 a.m., Sat., Jan. 2, 2016, at the Ball-Davis Funeral Home in Ewing, with the Rev. Dale Norfolk conducting. Burial with military honors will be in Ewing Memorial Cemetery. Visitation: 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials: South Union Baptist Church or Country Aire Retirement Estates. Arrangements: Ball-Davis Funeral Home, Ewing. Website: davis-. Condolences may be expressed online at .
Savannah [Ga.] Morning News, 12 Nov 2015: Hinesville—Sandra Honaker, 70, died Tuesday at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah. A native of West Virginia, she lived in Hinesville since 1984. She was preceded in death by her husband, William Ray Honaker, and brother, Jeffery Rose. She is survived by her son, Eric Lee Honaker (Rhonda) of Jesup; daughters, Barbara Payne (Matt) of Concord, N.C. and Carolyn Russell of Shepherdsville, Ky.; brothers, Don Rose of Carthage, Mo., Alvin Rose of Portland, Ind., Earl Rose of Winchester, Ind., and Michael Rose of Newbern, Tenn.; sisters, Shirley Spears of Morgantown, W.Va., Juanita Good of Newbern, Tenn., and Carolyn Adams of Dylersburg, Tenn.; seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Visitation will be 6–8 p.m., Fri., Nov. 13, 2015, at Carter Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel. Funeral services will begin at 11 a.m., Sat., Nov. 14, [2015], at Carter Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel. Burial will be in Oglethorpe Memorial Park. Online condolences may be made at . Carter Funeral Home Oglethorpe Chapel, 912-368-3780.
Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va., 17 Oct 2015: Dorothy Mae Honaker Stewart, 95, of South Charleston, died Thurs. Oct. 15, 2015, at Hubbard West, South Charleston. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, South Charleston and was a retired elementary school principal for Kanawha County Schools. Dorothy was a 50 year member of the Order of the Eastern Star, a past state president of the Alpha Delta Kappa sorority, a past mother advisor for the South Charleston #20 Rainbow for Girls. She was preceded in death by parents, Thomas Henry and Mary Ethel Honaker; husband, Byron Stewart; daughter, Ethel Lee Hancock; son, Byron Duncan Stewart; grandson, Christopher D. Stewart; great-grandson, Charles Ashton Gannon; brothers, Tom Honaker, Jack Honaker; sister, Mildred Withrow. Surviving, son, Kenneth Jackson Stewart (Brenda) of Edgewood, Md.; daughter, Betty Ann Gannon (Charles) of South Charleston; brother, Richard E. Honaker of South Charleston. Memorial service will be 6 p.m. Sat. Oct. 17, at Good Shepherd Mortuary, South Charleston. The family will receive friends two hours prior to the service at the mortuary. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Hospice Care, 1606 Kanawha Blvd. W., Charleston, WV 25387 or Camp Kno-Koma, PO Box 224, Dallas, WV 26036.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 30 Sep 2015: Carmen Suzzetta Honaker, age 43, of Honaker, Va., passed away Thurs., Sept. 24, 2015, at her home. Born March 1, 1972 in Lebanon, Va., she was a daughter of Caroline Sue Hess Arwood of Honaker, Va., and the late Dairus Ball. A lifelong resident of the area, she was a loving homemaker who enjoyed cooking and cleaning. She enjoyed life to the fullest, she loved to laugh and make other people laugh. She had obtained her chef license and could make the best peanut butter pie anyone ever tasted. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her maternal and paternal grandparents; one aunt, Charlotte Jane Stump and one cousin, Marie Hess. Survivors include her husband, Herman Honaker of River Mountain, Va.; one daughter, Megan Elizabeth Honaker of Honaker, Va.; one son, Brandon Dakota Slate of Honaker, Va.; one brother, Jody Hubbard; one sister, Candy Kimberly Hess; two uncles, Lawrence “Bubby” Hess and Jerry Dean Hess; two aunts, Kathleen “Sissy” Hess and Anna Pearl Tiller; several cousins and friends also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Arvil Arwood officiating,. Interment followed in the Slaughter-Hess Cemetery at Putnam, Va. Pallbearers were Teddy Street, Derek Street, Dakota Slate, David Hess, Chris Deel and Cody Bostic. Honaker Funeral Home served the Honaker family. Online condolences may be made at .
Voran Funeral Home, Taylor, Mich., 24 Sep 2015: Louise Marie Honaker, Sept. 30, 1944–Sept. 22, 2015, resided in Brownstown, Mich. Age 70 of Brownstown. Beloved wife of the late Donald. Loving mother of Donald (Kelly) Honaker Jr., John Honaker and Michele (Kristy Wagner) Honaker. Dear sister of Marlene (Tim) Burns. Dearest grandmother of Sydney and Donald III. Louise was preceded in death by her parents Samuel and Opal Draft and seven brothers. Visitation Fri., Sept. 25, 2015 from 2–9 p.m. at the Taylor Chapel of Voran Funeral Home, 23750 Goddard Road, [Taylor, Mich.], (313) 291-1800. Funeral services will be that evening at 7 p.m. Private interment Michigan Memorial Park Cemetery [Flat Rock, Mich.] Please share memories and/or leave condolences on Louise’s guestbook.
Bradenton [Fla.] Herald, 15 Sep 2015: Penni Sue Zeininger, of Homosassa, Fla., born on Nov. 4, 1960 in Callicoon, N.Y., went to be with her Lord Jesus Christ on Sept. 2, 2015. Husband—Robert Honaker, parents—Richard and Evelyn Zeininger, siblings—Deborah Stroup and Patricia Zeininger, nephews—Richard Van Valkenburg and Russell Castro, nieces—Heather Castro and Miranda Castro. A beautiful woman inside and out, she will be greatly missed by many, many family and friends. Penni graduated with an associates degree from Sullivan County Community College in New York and was employed by Tropicana for more than 15 years. Memorial service to be held on Sat., Sept. 19th at 4 p.m. at the Bayshore Church of the Nazarene—2311 57th Ave., W., Bradenton, Fla. Celebration of life will follow at the Hi-Way—420 301 Blvd. E., Bradenton, Fla.
Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, 11 Sep 2015: James L. Komula, 52, of Columbus, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly on Sept. 9, 2015. Jim was born Feb. 2, 1963 in Jamestown, N.Y. to Raymond and Pauline (Johnson) Komula. His father preceded him in death. He graduated from Jamestrown High School in 1981. Although Jim worked at a variety of places, including Worthington City Schools and Gahanna City Schools and most recently for CPC logistics, he will be remembered most for who he was outside of work. Jim put people at ease with his wit and sense of humor. Good with his hands, he could create or fix almost anything. He could sketch, write poetry, was a fan of a wide variety of music, and enjoyed singing in the church choir. Jim leaves behind his former wife and friend, Maritta (Honaker) Komula; his son, Peter Komula; and his daughter, Chelsea Komula, all of whom he loved and who loved him. He will be missed by his siblings, Michael, Paula Kirschler, David, Sheila Hanson and Kathleen Parsons; his mother, Pauline, and numerous in-laws, nieces and nephews. Visitation will be Sat., Sept. 12, 2015 from 3–4:30 p.m. at New Apostolic Church, 23 Morse Road, Columbus, Ohio, 43214, where a memorial service will be held at 5 p.m. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to a charity of one’s choice. Funeral arrangements have been entrusted to Schoedinger Northeast. To leave online condolences visit .
Star-Telegram, Ft. Worth, Texas, 16 Aug 2015: Elizabeth Ann Honaker, 62, passed away peacefully on Fri., Aug. 7, 2015. Celebration of life: 2 p.m., Mon., Aug. 17, at Moore Funeral Home. She was born March 31, 1953, in Enid, Okla. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 11 Oct 2014, with photograph: Lois Jeanne Honaker, 88 of South Charleston, passed away Oct. 8, 2014, at home, surrounded by her family. Jeanne was born April 16, 1926, in Russell, Ky., to Elbert L. and Francis Wright Sansom. She attended schools in South Charleston and graduated in 1945. Jeanne worked as a school cook for Kanawha County Schools and was retired from Montrose Elementary after 19 years of service. Jeanne was a 50 year plus member of South Charleston Chapt. #131 Order of Eastern Star and a lifetime member of the First Baptist Church of South Charleston. She enjoyed gardening, cooking, shopping, playing bridge and bingo. She loved traveling with her family, especially to Myrtle Beach, S.C. She is survived by her husband of 65 years, Richard E. Honaker of South Charleston; son, Richard Brett Honaker and Patti of Latonia, Ky.; daughter, Robin A. Carr of South Charleston; sister, Sally Lou Wagner of Bonita Springs, Fla.; grandchildren, Crystal Angel Murphy of Raleigh, N.C., Richard Derek Honaker of Dunbar, and Allyson Nicole Carr of South Charleston; great-grandchild, Jackson Angel White, of Raleigh, N.C. Jeanne made the honorable decision to donate her body to the [West Virginia University] Medical School in an effort to benefit future medical advancements. As per her wishes, there will be no visitation or service at this time. A special thanks to the Angels of Hospice, Jill Vigliotti, Jennifer Kirsch, Cheryl Harper, and Theresa Cox. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Hubbard Hospice House or the Alzheimer’s Association in her honor.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 7 Dec 2014, with photograph: Luther Edward “Eddie” Hall, 60, of Seth, went to be with the Lord Thurs., Dec. 4, 2014, after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Born Oct. 23, 1954, he was the only son of Luther and Thelma Hall. He married Priscilla Jane Sebok Hall of Seth on Dec. 12, 1975. Eddie was preceded in death by his mother, Thelma Honaker Hall; grandson, Chad Lee Hall; and mother and father-in-law, Barbara and Chad Sebok. Eddie is a member of the Sylvester Baptist Church. He was a 1973 graduate of Scott High School. Eddie worked for Cannelton Coal for 28 years and for the [West Virginia Department of Highways] as a tractor trailer driver for 10 years. A beloved husband, father, and grandpa, Ed enjoyed fishing, hunting, and dirt track racing with his family. Eddie will be missed by his wife, Janie; sons, Brian “Shannon” Hall and Garrett “Karen” Hall; grandbabies, Amber and Gavin; his father, Luther Hall; and sistgers, Sherry “Bobby” Richmond and Mary Lou “Freddy” Black. Funeral service will be held noon Dec. 8, in the Sylvester Baptist Church, Sylvester, WV. Clergy Pastor David Minturrn. Interment at Pineview Cemetery, Orgas, WV. Visitation will be from 5 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the church. Armstrong Funeral Home is serving the family.
Appalachian News-Express, 2 May 2015: Amanda Dawn Justice Compton, 37, of Pikeville, died Fri., May 1, 2015, at Pikeville Medical Center. She was born in Pike County, Aug. 3, 1977, the daughter of Jimmie Dale (Regina) Justice and Ira Bonita (Joey) Collins Slone. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her youngest daughter’s father, Kenneth “Dumps” Honaker. In addition to her parents, she is survived by two sons, Cody Compton and Dustin Compton; two daughters, Kaitlyn Compton and Kenna Honaker; a brother, Kevin Dale (Samantha) Justice; and a half-sister, Savannah Justice Bonn. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Mon., May 4, 2015, at Lucas and Son Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Charles Cemetery, Frozen Creek, with family and friends serving as pallbearers. Visitation will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home, with special services Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of Lucas and Son Funeral Home. Online guestbook can be signed at, .
Richmond [Va.] Times-Dispatch, 2 May 2015: Arthur Cecil Honaker, 50, of Atkins, passed away Thurs., April 30, 2015. Memorial service will be 2 p.m. Sun., May 3, 2015, at Bradley’s Funeral Home Chapel, Marion.
Bradley’s Funeral Home: Arthur Cecil Honaker, (Mar. 27, 1965–April 30, 2015), age 50, passed away on Thurs., April 30, 2015 at his home in Atkins, Va. Mr. Honaker was born in Russell County to the late Raymond and Lois Bise Honaker. Along with his parents he is preceded in death by a brother, Danny Lynn Honaker. Survivors include sisters: Attie Perkins & husband Mike, Atkins, Nancy Honaker, Shady Valley, Tenn., Connie Moore, Abingdon; brothers: Alfred Honaker & wife Janice, Atkins, Stevie Honaker & wife Donna, Randalman, N.C.; step mother Alice Honaker, Randalman, N.C., special niece Tonya Perkins; special friend Sandy Hanshew; several aunt, uncles, nieces, nephews & other loving family also survive. Memorial service will be held on Sun., May 3, 2015 at 2 p.m. at the Bradley’s Funeral Home Chapel in Marion with Pastor Mark Hoffman officiating. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 1–2 p.m. at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at . Bradley’s Funeral Home of Marion is serving the Honaker Family.
Herald Courier, Bistol, Tenn.-Va., 3 Jun 2016: Atkins, Va.—Janice Elaine Honaker, age 54, passed away Thurs., June 2, 2016, at the Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon. Janice was born in Marion, Va., to the late Hobert Kirk and Goldie Terry Kirk and was preceded in death by her brother, Tony Kirk; and her daughter, Jennifer Honaker. She was employed with the Smyth County School Board as a bus aide and formerly at the children’s church at Marion Baptist Church. She had a very uplifting spirit and was a loving wife, mother and sister. She is survived by her husband of 23 years Alfred Honaker, her brother, Glen Kirk of Atkins, Va.; and a special niece, Tonya Perkins and her best friend, Sandy Hanshew. Funeral services will be held at 4 p.m., Sun., June 5, 2016, at the Bradley’s Funeral Home in Marion with the Rev. Jonathan Hamman and Pastor Charlie Walker officiating. The family will receive friends on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. prior to services. Private interment will be Mon., June 6, 2016, at Rose Lawn Cemetery. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at . Bradley’s Funeral Home is serving the Honaker family.
Mineral Daily News-Tribune, Keyser, W.Va., 29 Jul 2015: Keyser, W.Va.—Norma Lee Lent, 76, of Keyser, passed away on Fri., July 24, 2015, at Heartland Nursing Home, Keyser. Born Oct. 24, 1938 in Huntington, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Morris Honaker and Jennie (Dodge) Veazey. Mrs. Lent was a graduate of Davis and Elkins College with a B.A. degree. She was a former teacher. Her children, James and Laurel, were both graduates of Southern High School, Oakland, Md. Surviving are her husband, James M. Lent, Jr.; her son James M. Lent III and wife Allison of Boyds, Md.; her daughter, Laurel A. Cully and husband Scott of Hopwood, Pa., and her five grandchildren, Andrew Lent, Ryan Lent, Anna Cully, Jennie Cully and Clara Cully. A graveside and interment service will be held at Oak Grove Church of the Brethren Cemetery, McHenry, Md., on Sat., Aug. 1, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. with Pastor Wally Weeks officiating. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Markwood Funeral Home, Keyser, W.Va. Condolences may be left for the family after Mrs. Lent’s obituary at .
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 26 Jul 2015: Mary Ellen McDaniel Honaker, 94, wife of Melvin Honaker, died Wed., July 22, 2015 at St. Joseph Hospital. Born June 18, 1921 in Cynthiana, Ky., she was the daughter of the late John and Mattie Clemmons Harrington. Mrs. Honaker was a retired factory worker for Standard Products and a member of Christ Centered Church. Survivors other than her husband include three daughters, Carol Sue McColdrick, Hamilton, Ohio, Dorothea (Joe) Turner and Sharon McDaniel, both of Lexington, Ky.; five grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; and two sisters, Frances Hill and Margaret Eades. She was preceded in death by four brothers and four sisters. Funeral services will be held 12:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Harrodsburg Rd. Burial will follow in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 5–8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions are suggested to Christ Centered Church, 2275 Eastland Parkway, Lexington, KY 40505.
Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 7 Jul 2015: Delena Rose Honaker, 58, of Ashland [Ky.], daughter of Mildred Gibson of Bloomville, Ohio, died July 3 in King’s Daughters Medical Center. She was a homemaker. No services are scheduled. Arrangements by Miller Funeral Home, Ashland. .
Augusta [Ga.] Chronicle, 26 Nov 2014: Grovetown, Ga.—Mariah Kay Bohannon entered into rest on Sat., Nov. 22, 2014 at her residence. A memorial service will be held 3 p.m., Sat., Nov. 29, 2014 at Elliott Sons—Columbia Road Chapel. Survivors include parents, Britt Bohannon and Sunny Honaker (Paul); step-father, Richard E. Wagoner; brothers, Talon Bohannon, Steven Moore and Joshua Honaker; sisters, Abigail Honaker and Olivia Honaker. The family will receive friends immediately following the service. For those wishing to make memorials, in lieu of flowers please consider: Safe Homes of Augusta, Inc., 904 Merry St., Augusta, GA 30904.
All-States Cremation, Denver, Colo., 16 Apr 2015: Maxine Elizabeth (Black) Honaker, formerly of Sioux City, passed away Sat., June 12, 2010 in Denver, Colo., following a long illness. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills, Colo. Maxine Elizabeth Keller was born on Sept. 25, 1923 in Petersburg, Neb., to John and Francis Keller. She was the fourth of six children who spent the bulk of their childhood on a farm near Humphrey, Neb. Upon graduation from high school, Maxine received a scholarship from the Sisters of Mercy to attend nursing school at St. Joseph [obituary ends]
Denver [Colo.] Post, 16 Apr 2015: Benjamin Syvere Honaker, 85, of Denver, Colo., formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, passed away Thurs., April 2, 2015. Ben is survived by his four daughters, 10 grandchildren, his sister Lola Feis. Ben was preceded in death by Maxine Honaker. A memorial service will be held at Bethany Lutheran Church, 4800 E. Hampden Ave., Denver, Colo., on Fri., April 17th at 10:30 a.m. Full obituary at . [obituary not posted there]
El Paso [Texas] Times, 9 Apr 2015: Doris Barbara Charlotte Honaker, 62, of El Paso, Texas, passed away Mon., April 6th. She was born April 29, 1952 in Frankfurt, Germany and is the daughter of the late Carson Arnold and Hildegard Eva Honaker. Barbara worked for the El Paso Police Department for 27 years and received numerous awards, including Texas Telecommunicator of the Year in 1997 and El Paso Police Dispatcher of the year in 1998. She was also a proud member of the Open Gate Church. Barbara is survived by her two sons, Tony & Adam Honaker, their wives respectively, Yvette & Stephanie Honaker; three grandchildren, Sabastian, Mikayla, & Ian; three sisters, Janet & husband Marlyn Dykes, Deanna & husband Ted Cain, Tammy & husband Todd Avery; one brother, Carson Honaker; as well as numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you donate to the Open Gate Church. A visitation will be held on Sun., April 12 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Kaster-Maxon & Futrell Funeral Home. The funeral service will be held on Mon., April 13 at 10 a.m.at Kaster-Maxon & Futree Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow directly after at Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Funeral arrangements entrusted to the care of Funeraria Del Angel Kaster-Maxon & Futrell Funeral Home, 8817 Dyer Street, El Paso, Texas 79904. (915) 751-1287.
KPC News, Kendallville, Ind. 10 Feb 2015: Hamilton—Nila S. (Northrup) Honaker, 72, of Hamilton passed away Mon., Feb. 9, 2015, at DeKalb Health in Auburn. She was born April 23, 1942, in Auburn to William D. and Osie (Berryhill) LaRowe. She worked at Nuttall Gear in Hamilton for a few years and was bar manager at the American Legion of Butler for 12 years. She is survived by four children, Alan W. Northrup of Ashley, Dawn A. Oberlin of Hamilton, Scott L. Northrup of Nashville, Tenn., and J.C. (Annette) Northrup of Hamilton; five grandchildren, Haley (Cory) Manahan, Brady (Olivia) Oberlin, Amber Northrup, Kayla Northrup, and Zachery Northrup; two great-grandchildren, Hudson Manahan and Cooper Leininger; a sister, Betty Houser of Auburn; and two brothers-in-law, Sammy Morr and Francis Dulle, both of Auburn. She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Joyce Morr and Joanne Dulle. A memorial service is at 7 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 12, 2015, at Feller and Clark Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, Ind. The family will receive friends three hours prior to the service from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Preferred memorials are to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. To send condolences visit .
KPC News, Kendallville, Ind. 12 May 2015: Kendallville—Deborah Lee Brockman, 57, of Kendallville died Sun., May 10, 2015, at 3 a.m. in her residence with her family at her side. She was a lifetime area resident. Deb was a licensed practical nurse. She worked for eight years at Miller’s Merry Manor in Garrett where she was the assistant director of nursing. She loved to attend the Harbor of Love Baptist Church in Kendallville. She was born April 28, 1958, in Kendallville to Keith V. and Jean A. (Bishop) Honaker. On Aug. 18, 1995, in LaGrange, she married Michel W. Brockman. He survives in Kendallville. Also surviving are three sons, Beau G. Sutton of LaGrange, Nathan L. (Aimee) Armey of Sturgis, Mich., and Cory D. Brockman of Irvine, Calif.; two daughters, Amy Brockman of Fort Wayne and Brandi Brockman (Aaron) Cohen of Fort Wayne; nine grandchildren, Jeffrey Sutton, Ashton Sutton, Aaliyah Metzger, Jade Vidal, Abigail Brockman, Jacob Armey, Tyler Armey, Landyn Dejong, and Emma Armey; two great-grandchildren, Jayce Michael Sutton and Brooklynn Lexus Sutton; her mother, Jean A. Perkins of Wolcottsville; three sisters, Kathy (Kandi Reynolds) Honaker of Albion, Nicole Honaker Miller of Wolcottville, and Tylea “Ty” (Kelsey Forker) Pierce of Fort Wayne; a brother, Tracy Honaker of Wolcottsville; two aunts, Shirley (Larry) Bishop of Kendallville and Louise (Mike) Rodman of Kendallville; an uncle, Gary (Audrey) Bishop of Ligonier; and several nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by a son, Travis Armey; two brothers, Brett Honaker and Shane Honaker; and her father. Calling will be today, Tue., May 12, 2015, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Young Family Funeral Home, Wolcottville Chapel, State Road 9 North, Wolcottville. Per Deb’s wishes, there will be no public funeral service. Condolences may be sent to the family at
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Roanoke [Va.] Times, 24 Mar 2015: Ronald Lee Honaker Sr., 69, of Elliston passed away Mon., March 23, 2015. He was born in Welch, W.Va. on June 18, 1945 to the late Clarence and Ellen Honaker. Ron was [an] avid outdoorsman who [loved] hunting, the game of baseball, woodworking and raising a beautiful garden every year. Ron is survived by his loving wife of 51 years, Sandra Honaker, of Elliston; daughters and sons-in-law, Cindy and Wayne Stewart, Rhonda and Matthew Gore; sons and daughters-in-law, Ronald and Melisa Honaker, John and Wendy Honaker, Michael and Kim Honaker, Daniel and Sheena Honaker; sister, Linda Deskins; brother, Eugene Honaker; seven grandsons and six granddaughters, Travis, Austin, Nathan, Bryce, Hana, Lucas, Amanda, Ashley, Kaylyn, Kara, Brandon, Patrick, Kayla; four great-grandchildren, Colten, Zachary, Trenton, Maddison. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thurs., March 26, 2015 in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Travis Gore officiating. The family will receive friends from noon to 2 p.m. Thurs., March 26, 2015 at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive SW, Blacksburg.
Aiken [S.C.] Star, 25 Feb 2015: Beech Island, S.C.—Mr. James R. Strait, 65, husband of 25 years to Mrs. Jackie Beaman Strait, entered into rest on Sun., Feb. 22, 2015. Born in Joiner, Ark., and a resident of Aiken Co., S.C. since 1984, he was a son of the late James Monroe Strait and the late Nellie Ruth McMullin Strait Foster. He was a retired truck driver. Mr. Strait enjoyed hunting and fishing. In addition to his wife and parents, family members include his children, Jimmy Strait, Aiken, S.C., Malinda Todd, Edgefield, S.C., John Vernon Strait, Beech Island, S.C., Rick Honaker, Middleton, Tenn., Christopher Honaker and his wife, Nancy, Rockford, Ill., Teddy Honaker and his wife, Sherrie, Kingsport, Tenn., Timothy Honaker and his wife, Brandy, Kingsport, Tenn., Selena Honaker, Beech Island, S.C., and Christiana Honaker, Beech Island, S.C.; siblings, Regina Roginson, Texas, Kathy Jones, Kellyville, Okla., Leila Clanton, Trenton, S.C., Debora Foster, Tulsa, Okla., John Foster, Jr., Candler, N.C., George Foster, Windsor, S.C., Ronnie Foster, Marmaduke, Ark., Donald Foster, N.D., Bobby Strait, Langley, S.C., and the late Thomas Strait. A celebration of life service will be held on Thurs., Feb. 26, 2015, at 11 o’clock in the chapel of Hatcher Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Langley, S.C., with Chaplain Christie McTier officiating. Memorials in his memory may be made to the Cancer Care Institute. The family will greet friends following the service at Hatcher Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Langley, S.C. Visit to share memories and leave a message of condolence for the family.
Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, 5 Feb 2015: Bill Honaker, 83, made his peaceful transition into Heaven on Feb. 4, 2015 in Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Honaker, Va., and moved to Columbus, Ohio in 1960. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and retired from 3M Auld Company. Bill loved camping, fishing, and hunting. He is survived by wife of 54 years, JoAnn; sons, Bill (Stacey), Cliff (Sydney), Don (Dot); grandchildren, Louis (Cherish), Nikke (Billy), Tyler, Casey, Mary, Zachary, Justin, Michelle, Chelsea, Mike, Joey, Makayla, Sophie, and Johnny; one great grandchild, Lexi. Also survived by three brothers; four sisters; special friends, Jay and Sandy Lombardi; and honorary son, Joe Heitz. Visitation will be Fri., Feb. 6, 2015 from 5–8 p.m. at CharismaLife Ministries, 161 N. Hamilton Road, Whitehall, Ohio, where funeral service will be held on Sat., Feb. 7, 2015 at 10 a.m. Burial to follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, 5600 E. Broad St., Columbus, Ohio. Rev. David Swaggerty officiating. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Schoedinger North Chapel, 614-436-9220. Please visit to share a memory of Bill.
News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Ky., 1 Mar 2015: Gladys Lucille Honaker, 90, of Radcliff, passed away Thurs., Feb. 26, 2015, at North Hardin Health and Rehabilitation Center in Radcliff. Mrs. Honaker was a member of the Lady Golf Association at Fort Knox. Besides being an avid golfer, she also enjoyed bowling and playing bingo. Survivors include her loving husband of 65 years, Jesse R. Honaker; three children, Martha Randklev and her husband, Jerry, Nancy Studd and her husband, Adam, and Thomas Honaker; four grandchildren, Shannon Keetch and her husband, Chris, Erica Lindauer, Matthew Garrett and his wife, Candie, and Travis Garrett and his wife, Heather; and nine great-grandchildren, Brendan Lindauer, Clancy Lindauer, Aspyn Keetch, Aydan Keetch, Hannah Garrett, Haley Garrett, Abbey Garrett, Jaydon Garrett and Trent Garrett. Mrs. Honaker’s funeral is at noon Wed., March 4, in the chapel of Coffey & Chism Funeral Home in Vine Grove with Pastor James Lay officiating. Burial follows in Kentucky Veterans Cemetery–Central in Radcliff. Visitation is from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday at the funeral home.
News-Enterprise, Elizabethtown, Ky., 29 Jul 2015: Jesse Raymond Honaker, 92, of Radcliff, passed away Sat., July 25, 2015, at Cooper Medical Center in Lexington. Mr. Honaker retired from the U.S. Army on Dec. 1, 1967, after 23 years of service. Jesse received numerous commendations including a Silver Star in 1951 for his actions in the Korean Conflict, the World War II Victory Medal and the Korean Service Medal. He was also retired from federal civil service in 1985. He was preceded in death by his wife, Gladys Lucille Honaker; and his parents, Arthur and Iva Honaker. Survivors include two daughters, Martha Randklev and her husband, Jerry, and Nancy Studd and her husband, Adam; a son, Thomas Honaker; two sisters, Anna Critzer and her husband, Frank, and Mary Dahmer and her husband, Bo; a brother, A.J. Honaker and his wife, Sue; four grandchildren, Shannon Keetch and her husband, Chris, Erica Lindauer, Matthew Garrett and his wife, Candie, Travis Garrett and his wife, Heather; nine great-grandchildren and a stepgrandchild. Mr. Honaker’s funeral is at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 30, in the chapel of Coffey & Chism Funeral Home in Vine Grove with Chaplain John Min officiating. Burial follows in Kentucky Veterans Cemetery-Central in Radcliff with military honors. Visitation is at 9 a.m. Thursday, July 30, at the funeral home. Condolences can be expressed at .
Mountain Messenger, Lewisburg, W.Va., 24 Apr 2016: Mary Rosana Honaker Dahmer passed away peacefully April 18, 2016 just thirteen days after her beloved husband, Martin “Bo” Dahmer, had passed away. Mary and Bo were married 64 years. They met in 1950 at the Caldwell Presbyterian Church and later married on Feb. 18, 1952. Mary was lovesick for her husband and her heart longed to join Bo in heaven with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Mary was born May 22, 1932 in Caldwell, W.Va. She was lovingly called “Sweet Mary” by friends and family. Mary’s children were the joy of her life, Steve Martin Dahmer and his wife Martha of Kissimmee, Fla., and Linda Dahmer Boggs and her husband Phillip of Lewisburg, W.Va. Mary is also survived by a sister, Anna M. Honaker Critzer of Hampton, Va., and a brother, Arthur J. Honaker of Caldwell, W.Va., as well as many nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews. Mary graduated White Sulphur Springs High School in 1951 and earned a two year degree from Wiseman’s Business College in Huntington, W.Va. She worked early on at Rocco Feeds in Ronceverte, W.Va. Mary was known as a very sweet, kind and generous woman and also served in the Women’s Aglow Ministry. Mary loved to crochet and give Afghans as a gift of love to others. She is survived by a lifelong dear friend (Betsy Bennett Hudgins) and she is preceded in death by dear friend and cousin (Mary Jane Reynolds Dunbrack.) Mary is preceded in death by six siblings: Eugene M. Honaker, Betty C. Belcher, Richard A. Honaker, Anita J. Honaker Sturh, Marguerite L. Honaker Ford and Jesse Honaker. Services will be 2 p.m., Fri., April 22, 2016 at Morgan Funeral Home in Lewisburg with Pastor Stewart Farley officiating. Burial will follow in Rosewood Cemetery.
Charleston [S.C.] Post & Courier, 3 Feb 2015—Goose Creek—Fayetta M. Royse, 87, died Sun., Feb. 1, [2015] in Charleston. Born in Greenup, Ky., to the late Clyde and Gertrude Honaker, Fayetta worked as a dry cleaning clerk in Virginia and North Carolina for many years. She enjoyed crocheting, reading the Bible daily, watching her game shows, and gospel music. She was an active member of her church, Chapperell Baptist Chuch, and will be remembered for her devotion to her family. Fayetta is survived by her sons, Gary Royse and wife Joan of Chesapeake, Va., Wayne Royse and wife Christine of Chantilly, Va.; her daughter, Paula Bodner and husband Jack of Goose Creek; brothers, Denver and Cline McCallister; grandchildren, Jason Shealey, Kimberly Howell, Gary Gene Royse, Ronnie Royse, Anthony Royse, Cheryl Skinner, Tim Ashley, Michael Sprague, Paul Eric Royse, Dawn Clark, Kevin Royse, and Tommy Bodner; 35 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; sister-in-law, Ruby Booten. She is predeceased by her husband, Paul E. Royse; son, Michael Royse, and her siblings. All services will be private. Expressions of sympathy may be viewed or submitted on mcalister-smithcom. Arrangements have been entrusted to McAlister-Smith Funeral Home, 869 St. James Ave., Goose Creek, SC 29445 (843) 553-1511. Visit our guestbook at obituaries/charleston.
Sun-Sentinel, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., 30 Jan 2015—Jamie L. Honaker, age 41, passed away suddenly Dec. 21, 2014. She is survived by daughter LaTisha Honaker; mother Barbara Germond; brothers Michael & Roy Honaker; sister Dianna Nerl. Jamie was preceded in death by her father Jerry J. Honaker. A service will be held Feb. 1, 2015, 2 p.m., at Forest Lawn Cemetery, 200 W. Copans Rd., Pompano Beach. Contributions can be made to [Mothers Against Drunk Driving.]
Coshocton [Ohio] Tribune, 14 Jan 2015: Betty Honaker, 84, of Coshocton passed away at Signature Health Care of Coshocton on Mon., Jan. 12, 2015. Betty was born in Ashland, Ohio on Sept. 5, 1930 to the late Harry and Rhea (Hazlett) Henthorn. Betty had worked at Ansel Edmonts in Coshocton and Sunshine Cleaners. She enjoyed sewing and crocheting. Betty is survived by her daughter, Lynette (Howard) McGinnis of Fresno; two grandsons, James Dotson of Akron and Matthew John (Lynette) Dotson of Coshocton County; stepgrandson, Shaun McGinnis of Norfolk, Va.; seven great grandchildren. Along with her parents, she is preceded in death by her sister, Lois Henthorn. Friends may call at the Miller Funeral Home, 639 Main St., Coshocton on Sat., Jan. 17, 2015 from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. where funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. with Pastor Mark Granger officiating. Interment will follow in Coshocton County Memory Gardens.
Daily Times, Portsmouth, Ohio 17 Dec 2014: Frank E. “Frankie” Honaker II, 35, of Portsmouth, passed away on Sat., Dec. 13, 2014. Funeral services will be held at 11a.m. Saturday at the Ralph F. Scott Funeral Home in Portsmouth. The family will receive friends Saturday at the funeral home from 9 to 11 a.m.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 19 Nov 2014, with photograph: Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, the Angels of the Lord descended upon Roanoke and received God’s beloved daughter Ronda York Honaker and carried her to Abraham’s Bosom in Paradise. She believed in the fulfillment of her Lord Jesus’ promise to be absent from the body is to be present with him. Her testimony through her life and illness was that her life was in no way unto death. She believed she would have eternal life through Christ Jesus her Lord and Savior. She knew the thoughts that he had for her would be thoughts of peace and not of evil and she knew what awaited her. She was an inspiration to all, for her testimony and love for Jesus. Jesus Christ was always at the forefront of her life, for like Paul, in the end she eagerly expected and hoped that she would be in no way ashamed, but would be exalted in her body not only in life but through her death as well. Rondabelieved for to live is Christ, and to die is gain. Ronda was a faithful member of Life Tabernacle Church in Vinton where she served in Womens’ Ministry, The Prayer Team, Praise and Worship Team as well as the Food Pantry. She sincerely praised the Staff of Roanoke Memorial Hospital, especially those of 10 South for their exceptional care, loving kindness, and dedication to her wellbeing. Ronda felt they went well above and beyond their call of duty, far exceeding her expectations and she was truly grateful, as was her family. She sent her thanks to the men of Norfolk Southern Shafer’s Crossing Locomotive Shop for their loving prayers and intersession. She wanted them to know, she felt their many prayers, and she believed her husband is blessed to be a part of such a strong ministry of faithful followers of her Lord Jesus. Ronda ascended to her Heavenly Father where she awaits her loving husband, Anthony G. Honaker; three surviving sisters, Lorri Yvonne York, Phyllis York Ayers and Jackie Baldwin; as well as their families. Two loving daughters, BeLinda Jo Hunter and Kristyn Hunter Allen; and her stepdaughter, Tiffany Honaker. Also included are six grandchildren and one great-grandchild. In addition, she is survived by her many Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus, as well as members of the South West Va. Walk to Emmaus Walk #137. Her memorial service will be held at 10:45 a.m. Sun., Nov. 23, 2014 at Life Tabernacle Church, 801 E. Virginia Ave., Vinton, Va. A fellowship lunch is to follow the service where everyone is welcome to enjoy and celebrate the life of our beloved Ronda. In lieu of flowers, she has requested all gifts and donations be made to The Praise and Worship Team of Life Tabernacle Church to complete the sound system. Friends may send their condolences to the family by visiting . Arrangements handled by Simpson Funeral Home and Crematory, 366-0707.
Frederick [Md.] News-Post, 1 Dec 2014: Dorothy F. Leishear, 98, of Brookeville, Md., passed away on Nov. 27, 2014. Daughter of the late Frank and Mamie Burriss Alderton. Wife of the late Ralph Leishear. Survived by a daughter, Dorothy Jean Honaker of Brookeville, Md., as well as two stepdaughters, Mildred Leishear of Brookeville, Md. and Joyce L. Leonard of Gaithersburg, Md. Also survived by five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. Relatives and friends may visit on Tue., Dec. 2, 2014 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Roy W. Barber Funeral Home, 21525 Laytonsville Rd., Laytonsville, MD 20882. Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to a charity of choice. Online condolences at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 11 Mar 2014: Princeton—Phyllis Ann Honaker Cowan Lilly, 51, Breeze Hill Street, Princeton, passed away on Sun., March 9, 2014 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on May 11, 1962 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Bertha Horne Honaker. She was a former housekeeper for Ramada Inn and Holiday Inn in Bluefield. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Jason Lee Cowan; sisters, Rena Sigmon and Deborah Honaker; and grandparents, Dorothy Edna Belcher and John Walter Honaker. Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Lilly of the home; ex-husband and special friend, David Cowan of Princeton; son, David Cowan and wife Annie of Princeton; stepson, Doug Lilly and fiancée Heather Anderson of Lerona; one granddaughter, Aleigha; step-granddaughter, Tabitha Lilly; brothers, John Honaker and wife Dee of Tazewell, David Honaker of Princeton, Ronnie Honaker of Lerona; sisters, Libbie Angles and husband Steve of Bluefield, Brenda Hatley and husband Sidney of Albemarle, N.C.; special great nieces, Helena and Brooklyn Proffitt; special cousin, Marlene Newman; several other nieces, nephews, and cousins. Funeral services will be conducted on Wed., March 12, 2014 at 11 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with Rev. Dana Hambrick officiating. Burial will follow at Woodlawn Memorial Park in Bluewell where Doug Lilly, Steve Angles, Trevor Newman, Tony Proffitt, Jerry Isom, Sidney Hendrick, Keith Shunalt and Aaron Abram will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call on Tuesday from 6–8 p.m. at the funeral home. Online condolences will be accepted at cravens-.
Orlando [Fla.] Sentinel, 2 Nov 2014: Charles Bill Honaker, 85, of Apopka, Fla., died at his home, with family by his side, on Oct. 28, 2014. Born in Lexington, Ky., on Jan. 17, 1929, he was a retired life insurance executive; a U.S. Air Force veteran; a graduate of the University of Kentucky; a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He held leadership roles in various civic organizations. In 1975 a career move brought him and his family to Longwood, Fla., from Louisville, Ky. He was a member of the Sanlando United Methodist Church and a tenor in the choir. He enjoyed playing golf and being with his family and friends. Having been a devoted husband, father and grandfather, he is survived by his loving wife of 62 years, Kay; sons—Chuck of Lake Mary, Fla., Mark of Apopka, Fla., Dan of Melbourne, Fla.; seven grandchildren; and his sister, Lorain Miller of New Port Richey, Fla. A memorial service and reception will be held on Tue., Nov. 4, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Sanlando United Methodist Church, 1890 W. State Rd. 434, Longwood, FL 32750. A private inurnment service will follow at Oaklawn Park Cemetery in Lake Mary. Memorial contributions may be made to his church.
Kentucky Enquirer, unknown city, Ky., 17 Sep 2014: Shawn G. Honaker, 41, of Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Ft. Thomas, Ky., passed away Sept. 13, 2014 in Leesburg. He was employed as a truck driver and was a 1992 graduate of Highlands High School. Shawn is survived by his mother and step-father, Richard and Susan Morrow of Ft. Thomas, Ky.; father and step-mother, David and Vicky Honaker of Leesburg, Fla.; his girlfriend, Gloria Connor of Leesburg, Fla.; sisters, Dana (Robert) Stratham of Walnut Hills, Ohio, and Alyson (Andy) Meier of Tampa, Fla.; brothers, Duane (Julie) Honaker of Lincoln, Neb., Daniel Honaker of Falmouth, Ky., and Lyle (Angela) Honaker of Bellevue, Ky., maternal grandparents, Will and Ellie Ritter of Bellevue, Ky.; paternal grandmother, Grace Honaker of Leesburg, Fla. Memorial visitation will be from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Fri., Sept. 19, 2014, at the Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home, 427 S. Ft. Thomas Ave., Fort Thomas, Ky., 41075. Memorials are suggested to the Campbell County Animal Shelter, P.O. Box 97, Melbourne, KY 41059. Online condolences can be expressed at .
Williamson [W.Va.] Daily News, 16 Sep 2014: Carlene McCoy of Phelps, Ky., born Aug. 15, 1961, at Mouthcard, Ky., a daughter of the late Roy and Evelene Abshire Griffith Honaker, departed this life Sun., Sept. 14, 2014, from the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., at the age of 53. Those that precede Carlene in death, in addition to her parents, include her brother, Paul Griffith, and a sister, Bobbie Jean Cercone. Carlene’s love and dedication to her family was second to none and her dedication to the house of God, namely The Lord’s House of Phelps, Ky., was her priority. Having served the Lord for more than 30 years, Carlene knew that God would provide the needs of her household as long as she trusted in His faithfulness. As scripture teachers in Matthew 23:23, “Well done thy good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a few things I will make you ruler over many enter thou into the joy of the Lord.” This promise was one in which she held close to her heart. When sudden sickness came upon Carlene she remained steadfast in the promises of God that she would come out a winner regardless of the outcome because His faithfulness to her had been proved over and over throughout the course of her journey on this road called life. Carlene leaves to honor her loving memory and mourn her passing, her loving husband, Billy McCoy; daughters, Kristie Watkins and her husband Gary of Phelps, and Kaily Ray and her husband James of Virgie, Ky.; grandchildren, Trent, Sydnee, and Christian Watkins; and sisters, Inez Wolford of Phelps, Diane Fields and her husband Ervin of Vulcan, W.Va. Carlene’s smile and warm hellos were a common fixture not only at The Lord’s House but also at Flowermaster of Phelps, Ky., or wherever one had the opportunity of seeing her, upon meeting Carlene, whether it would be at church, the flower shop, or out and about one could guarantee a friendly greeting. These sentiments will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by a host of nieces, nephews, loved ones, a community of friends and her church family. Services honoring Carlene’s memory and celebrating the life she lived will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thurs., Sept. 18, at The Lord’s House of Phelps with Pastor Mitch Bowling and Rev. Chris Casey officiating. Burial will follow in Billy McCoy Family Cemetery at Widow’s Branch of Phelps. Zack, Josh, and Nick Hurley, Thomas and David Wolford, Jordan Fields, and Bobby Darrin McCoy will serve as pallbearers. The family will begin receiving friends at 6 p.m. Tuesday with a song service beginning at 7 p.m. and Wednesday evening a ministerial service will be conducted beginning at 7 p.m.; all services will be conducted at The Lord’s House of Phelps. Expressions of sympathy may be made online at . Arrangements are under the direction of Chambers Funeral Services, Inc., of Matewan.
The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C., 16 May 2014: Rock Hill—Mrs. Patricia Ann Honaker Dorton, 63, died Fri., May 9, 2014. The funeral will be 2 p.m. Friday at First Assembly of God in Rock Hill, S.C. Burial will be in Grandview Memorial Park, Cherry Road. Condolences may be sent to the family at .
Richmond [Va.] Times Dispatch, 2 May 2014: Ronnie Claude Honaker, 73, of Martinsville, died Thurs., May 1, 2014. Funeral service 2 p.m. Fri., May 2, 2014 in the chapel of Roselawn Funeral Home, Martinsville.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 23 Jan 2014 (with photograph): Clifford Swiney, 70, of Harman, passed away Sun., Jan. 19, 2014 at Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, Ky., following a brief illness. Born in Elkhorn City, Ky., he was the son of the late Clarence and Mary Mullins Swiney. He was a resident of Buchanan County most of his life and was a member of Harman Memorial Baptist Church. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and was a retired coal mine foreman for Island Creek Mining Company. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Ota Woods, and one brother, Spencer Swiney. Those left to cherish his memory include his loving wife of 50 years, Phyllis Honaker Swiney, of Harman; one son, Dennis (Lisa) Swiney, of Roanoke; two sisters, Wanda (Willie) Keen, of Lebanon, and Margie (Whitey) Howard of Clyde, Ohio; five brothers, Clint Swiney, of Prater, Martin (Lena) Swiney, of Clintwood, Terry (Barbara) Swiney, of Prater, Donnie (April) Swiney, of Honaker, Dallas (Mary Catherine) Swiney, of Danville; grandchildren, Dillon, Tiffany and Dalton; great-grandchildren, Alexis and Aubree; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services to celebrate the life of Clifford Swiney will be conducted Fri., Jan. 24 at 1 p.m. at Harman Memorial Baptist Church, Harman, with the Rev. Shea Shrader and Elder Frank Newsome officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain Valley Memorial Park, Big Rock. Friends may call at Harman Memorial Baptist Church at Harman on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. with services at 7 p.m. Active pallbearers will be Dillon Swiney, Dalton Swiney, Ryan Wilson, Mike Wilson, Rodney Wilson and Zack Divers. Honorary pallbearers will be Jackie McClanahan, Danny Sargent, Tom Adkins, men of Harman Memorial Baptist Church, Clifford’s special ladies at Harman Memorial Baptist Church, Dr. Pam Harrison and Kristen Mullins, special nurse, Tammy B., at Pikeville Medical Center, and special friends, Roger Wilson and Jim Goff. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Grundy Funeral Home of Grundy is in charge of all arrangements.
Press-Enterprise, unknown place and date: Robert Paul Honaker went to be with the Lord on Aug. 11, 2014; preacher, teacher, servant of God, defender of the faith, prayer warrior and a blessing to everyone who knew him. He never said the words, “I can’t.” He was born Jan. 2, 1930. He is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Patricia Honaker and their four loving daughters, sons-in-laws, eight grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, open up the Scriptures and read the words that Robert Paul Honaker lived by.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 6 Jun 2014: Bluefield—Harold Kenneth “Sonny” Honaker, 66, of Wildwood Drive, Bluefield, W.Va., passed away on Wed., June 4, 2014 at his home. Born on Oct. 14, 1947 in Kyle, he was a son of the late Walter Harold and Lillian Fortner Honaker. He had been a resident of Bluefield for most of his life and was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in Vietnam. He was a retired truck driver and was a member of the Deliverance Temple Church in Brushfork. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Mack Honaker; and two sisters, Novella Wirt and Edna Hazelwood. Survivors include wife of 44 years, Cola Cochrane Honaker of the home; two sons, Kenny Honaker and wife Jennifer of Westerville, Ohio, Randy Honaker and Shannon of Hampton, Va.; grandson, Bryce; two brothers, Bobby Honaker of Homerville, Ohio, David M. Honaker of Beckley, W.Va.; four sisters, Linda McGuigan of Loraine, Ohio, Denise Boots of Switchback, W.Va., Deborah Lambert of Bluewell, Janet Honaker of Princeton, W.Va. Funeral services will be conducted on Mon., June 9, 2014 at 11 a.m. at the Deliverance Temple in Brushfork with the Rev. David Kirby and the Rev. David Lusk officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton where Brian and Kevin Cochran, Travis and Damon Wells, James Hazelwood, and Jay Spencer will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call on Sunday from 6–8 p.m. at Deliverance Temple in Brushfork. Online condolences will be accepted at cravens-.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 12 Nov 2007: Bluefield, Va.—Ray C. Honaker, 94, of 411 Lynn St., Bluefield, Va., died Sat., Nov. 10, 2007 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. He was born in Bluefield and was a son of the late Charles Daniel Honaker and Esther Dooley Honaker. He was retired from National Electric Coil Co. after over 50 years of service and attended church at the Memorial Baptist Church. He was a member of the Bluefield Moose Lodge 1079. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Judith King; grandchildren, David Wayne Honaker and Lewis Carl Honaker. He was also preceded by brothers, Fred, Walt and Earl Honaker; and by sisters, Ethel Cochran and Jessie Mae Shrader. He is survived by his wife, Elsie Hopkins Honaker; sons, Buck Honaker of Monroe, La., Skip Honaker and wife, Kathleen of Bluefield, Va., Jack Honaker and wife, Brenda of Bluefield, Va.; daughters, Jeannie Lafon of Suffolk, Va., Anita Benoit of Suffolk, Va.; brother, Bill Honaker of Peoria, Ariz.; sister, Mable Painter of Maryland; nine grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tue., Nov. 13, 2007 at 11 a.m. at the Dudley Memorial Chapel in Bluefield, Va., with the Rev. David Plott officiating. Burial will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 10 a.m. until hour of services at the Dudley Memorial Mortuary in Bluefield, Va. To leave personal condolences online, visit .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 16 Mar 2008: Salisbury, Md.—Mabel Cleo Painter, 96, of Salisbury, Md., formerly of Bluefield, Va., died Sat., Mar. 8, 2008 at Salisbury Genesis Elder Care in Salisbury. Born in Bluefield, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Charles Daniel and Ester Louise (Dooley) Honaker. While living in West Virginia Mrs. Painter worked in the textile industry. She and her late husband, William B. Painter, moved to Salisbury in 1994 and attended St. Andrews United Methodist Church until she went to live at Salisbury Genesis Elder Care. She is survived by one son, Rev. Buford E. Painter and his wife Mildred of Salisbury; a brother, William Douglas Honaker and his wife Kitty of Peoria, Ariz., and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her brothers and sisters, Walton Scott Honaker, Jessie Mae Honaker, Frederick Leroy Honaker, Carl Raymond Honaker, Earl Hamilton Honaker and Ethel Virginia Honaker. A private service will be held at a later date at Monte Vista Park Cemetery in Bluefield, W.Va. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell [W.Va.] is in charge of arrangements.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 3 Sep 2012: Bluefield, Va.—E.J. (Jack) Honaker, born Dec. 17, 1941, in Bluefield, Va., where he resided, the son of Elsie and Raymond Honaker, went to meet the Lord, Aug. 31, 2012. He was preceded in death by his sons, David Wayne and Lewis Carl. His parents and sisters, Jean Lafon and Judy King were waiting to greet him in heaven also. Jack was a lieutenant on the Bluefield, Va. police force. He served his community for 38 years as an officer of this town. He also served 37 years with the fire department and helped to establish the rescue squad in his community. As a member of the Memorial Baptist Church, he served as a deacon and was active in all the affairs of the church. Jack honorably served our country as a member of the U.S. Army for three years. He is survived by his wife, Brenda L., and son, Robert Steven Honaker and his wife Charlene. He has one grandson, Michael Steven Honaker of Huntington, W.Va. He is also survived by brothers, Edward (Skip) Honaker and his wife Kathleen of Bluefield, Va., Raymond (Buck) Honaker and his daughter Mona Honaker-Dishman of Monroe, La.; and sister, Anita Benoit of Kapalii, Hawaii; and various nieces and nephews. Arrangements are being made by Dudley Funeral Home. Friends may pay their respect at Memorial Baptist Church, Mon., Sept. 3, 2012 from 6–8 p.m. and the funeral will be Tue., Sept. 4, 2012 at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Hugh Cole officiating. He will be interred at Roselawn Cemetery in Princeton, W.Va. Members of the Bluefield, Va. police department will serve as pallbearers. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1816 Jefferson St., Bluefield, WV 24701. Dudley Memorial Mortuary in Bluefield, Va. is serving the E.J. (Jack) Honaker family.
Shreveport [La.] Times, 4 Aug 2014: Benton, La.—Services for Mary Louise Honaker will be held on Tue., Aug. 5, 2014 at 10 a.m. at Hill Crest Memorial Chapel with Rev. David Stephens officiating. Interment will follow at Hill Crest Memorial Park. The family will be receiving friends on Mon., Aug. 4, 2014 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mary was born on April 11, 1960 and passed away on Aug. 1, 2014. She enjoyed fishing, riding motorcycles, movies and time spent with her family and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother and father Rozella and William Dick. She is survived by her husband, Don Honaker , son Trey Honaker, daughter Sarah Wilkerson and husband Ryan, grandson Tristan Wilkerson, sister Sandra Shelley and husband George, brothers Jesse and Eddie Dick and a host of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be James Robinson, Ray Reeves, Dale Presson, Brian Shelley, Kevin Shelley and Jonathan Cutrer. Honorary pallbearers will be Brad Wells and Jason Pate. Words of comfort may be shared with the family by visiting .
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 14 Dec 2013: Flemingsburg—Betty Dickson Honaker, 81, widow of Warren Honaker, died Thursday. Funeral 1 p.m. Tuesday at Denton-Workman Funeral Home. Visit 10 a.m –1 p.m. Tuesday.
Post-Tribune, Gary, Ind., 11 Feb 2014: Lowell, Ind.—Sue Hood, 69, of Lowell, passed away Sun., Feb. 9, 2014. She is survived by son, Christopher (Lynne Abernathy) of Indianapolis; uncle, Ron Hall; aunts, Peg Jones and Colleen Meahl; and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by her parents, Clarence Honaker and Virginia Consorti. Sue was a member of First United Methodist Church and a retired school bus driver with Tri Creek School Corp. Cremation will precede visitation Thurs., Feb. 13, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., concluding with funeral services at 12 p.m., all at the Sheets Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 604 E. Commercial Ave. in Lowell. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be given to American Diabetes Association.
Flint [Mich.] Journal, 1 Apr 2014: Robert T. Liddle, Jr., age 71, of Holly [Mich.], died March 31, 2014 at Genesys Health Park. Funeral mass will be celebrated 11 a.m., Fri., April 4, at St. Rita Catholic Church, 309 E. Maple St., Holly, Fr. David Blazek celebrant. Visitation will be 2–8 p.m. Thursday with a 5 p.m. Scripture service at Sharp Funeral Homes, 1000 Silver Lake Road, Fenton; and then 10 a.m. until the time of the mass at church on Friday. Those desiring may make memorial contributions to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Bob was born Feb. 8, 1943 in Worth, W.Va., the son of Robert Tyrus and Virginia Katherine (Honaker) Liddle, Sr. He married Judith Pearson on April 4, 1964. Bob retired from General Motors after 30 years of service and was a painter for 50 years. He was a hard worker and fantastic dad and husband. He loved sports, basketball, baseball, football and most of all golf. He loved all his golf buddies and coached his sons in baseball and basketball for years at Swartz Creek Schools. Bob loved God with all his heart and was a member of St. Rita Catholic Church, his Catholic faith was very important to him. He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Surviving are: wife, Judy; two sons, Bobby (Jamie) Liddle and Scott (Karie) Liddle; six grandchildren, Aaron, Darius, Braylon, Ciara, Kaylee and Gavin; siblings, Linda (Jerry) Parks, Joann (Larry) Harris, John (Gaye) Liddle, Patricia (Michael) Crane; in-laws, Tom (Joan) Wascha and Joyce Pearson (John Varner); his dog, Mojo and two cats; many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Friends may share an online tribute on the obituaries page at .
News Journal, Middletown, Del., 19 Mar 2014: Rose Bell Biddle of Middletown, Del., passed away at her home Feb. 15, 2014. Rose was born in West Virginia to the late Onnie Lewis and Harold Honaker. Rose moved to Middletown as a young lady where she met the love of her life George Biddle. Rose loved raising her children and being the support to her grandchildren at any time they needed her. She also enjoyed tending her vegetable garden and flowers. Rose had a very close relationship to many nieces and nephews and enjoyed weekly lunches with Phyllis Richardson and niece Lauren. Rose was preceded in death by her late husband George L. Biddle, Sr.; her son George L. Biddle, Jr.; and daughter Kay Biddle. Rose is survived by her daughter Beth Biddle Money and husband James Money of Middletown and their children, James Money, Jr., wife Amber of Newark, Del., Erin Money of Miami, Fla., Keith L. Biddle and wife Stacy Biddle of Middlewotn and their children Shaina, Gavin, and Saige Biddle, daughter –in-law Nancy Lee Biddle, wife of the late George Biddle, Jr. and their children Brent Biddle and wife Alice Biddle of Hockessin and Megan Biddle Snyder and wife Kim Snyder of Massachusetts. Thank you to the many friends and family who supported us during this past year. A graveside memorial service will be held Sat., March 22, 2014 at 11 a.m. to inter Rose and Kay Biddle at Townsend Cemetery. A celebration of life will take place at Tom Foolery’s in Middletown, Del., immediately after the interment, 712 Ash Blvd., Middletown, Del. 19709. In lieu of flowers please offer donations to Baskets of Hope, an oncology patient funded through Union Hospital, c/o Beth Money, 106 Bow St., Elkton, MD 21921. To send online condolences visit daniels-.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 5 Feb 2014: Pikeville—Rebecca Jean Honaker, 72. Services 11 a.m. Thursday at J.W. Call Chapel. Visitation 6 p.m. today.
Bradenton [Fla.] Herald, 2 Feb 2014: Billy Honaker, 54, of Bradenton passed on Jan. 31, 2014. Billy is survived by his loving and devoted mom and dad, Jack and Linda Matherly. A very special thank you to the Bubbas Too Family for all their love and support. Covell Funeral Home.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 17 Nov 2013: Samuel Dickey Davis, 69, of Wytheville, died Fri., Nov. 15, 2013. Dickey was a successful trainer and breeder of American Saddlebred Horses and exhibited at all of the top shows in the country. He was a member of the United Professional Horseman’s Association and operated Fort Chiswell Stables in Fort Chiswell. Dickey was a graduate of VPI/SU and had been an active member of the Iron Boots Society and the Wytheville Rotary Club. He was a member of the Wytheville Presbyterian Church and was preceded in death by his father, John Garnett Davis. He is survived by loving wife, and companion of 24 years, Rae Lee Mills Davis, of Wytheville; Rae Lee’s son and daughter-in-law, Burt and Miriam Honaker, and their daughter, Mila Honaker, of Wytheville; mother, Agnes Crockett Davis, of Wytheville; sister and brother-in-law, Susan Davis and Ronny Lynn Goforth, of Max Meadows; brother and sister-in-law, John “Jack” Garnett Jr. and Robin Davis, of Cumberland; nieces, Wendy DeMartini, Beth Wydra, Julie Scully; nephews, Davis Goforth, Lynn Goforth; several great-nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral service will be Tue., Nov. 19, 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Wytheville Presbyterian Church conducted by the Rev. Brad Simpson and the Rev. Cindy Privette. Interment will follow in the Crockett’s Grove Cemetery. Family will receive friends at the church Mon., Nov. 18, 2013 from 6 until 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Wythe County Humane Society, P.O. Box 362, Wytheville, Va. 24382. Grubb Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 12 Sep 2013: Cedar Bluff, Va.—Marshall Edward (Shorty) Honaker, Sr., age 77, of Cedar Bluff, Va., passed away Wed., Sept. 11, 2013 at his home. Born March 28, 1936 in Russell Co., Va., he was the son of the late Rufus and Maudie Bowman Honaker. He was a member of the Virginia National Guard for 29 years. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by two brothers, Bobby Joe Honaker and Vernon Honaker; two sisters, Phyllis Breedlove and Mary Alice Weaver and one great-grandson, Tyler VanDyke. He is survived by his wife, Alice Catherine Thompson Honaker; sons, Ricky Lee Honaker of Cedar Bluff, Va., Marshall Honaker, Jr. of Cedar Bluff, Va. and Larry Steven VanDyke of Cedar Town, Ga.; one daughter, Susie Copley of Bluefield, W.Va.; grandchildren, Jessica Sturgill, Christina Thompson, Kevin VanDyke, A.J. Martin, Cory Martin and Jessee Martin; great-grandchildren, Casey Thompson, Caroline Thompson, Conner Thompson, Kimberly Sturgill, Kayla Sturgill, Khloe Sturgill, Kole (Bob) Little, Phoenix VanDyke, Chole Martin and Ashley Jade Martin; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Fri., Sept. 13, 2013 at Singleton Funeral Service Chapel at Cedar Bluff, Va. Entombment will follow in the Greenhills Memory Gardens Mausoleum. Pallbearers will be family and friends. Military graveside rites will be conducted by Casey-Shortt VFW Post 9640. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Singleton Funeral Service at Cedar Bluff, Va. Online condolences may be sent to the family by going to . Singleton Funeral Service is serving the family of Marshall Edward (Shorty) Honaker, Sr.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 10 Jan 2014: Oak Hill—Ivory Delores (McGinnis) Dickerson, of Oak Hill, entered into heaven on Wed., Jan. 8, 2014. She was born in 1927 at Hazy, W.Va., to the late Pearl Brady McGinnis and Thomas Honaker. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Thomas J. Dickerson, and two beloved sisters, Iona Stewart and Glorene Stone. Ivory was a member of the Mountain View Church of God where she served as greeter and enjoyed taking part in Bible studies. She was also an avid reader and photographer and a member of the Cameras in Action Club of Oak Hill and, over the years, won numerous trophies for her work. She is survived by her daughter, Sherry Graves of Summerfield, Fla.; two sons, David Hatcher and wife, Lynda, of Wildomar, Calif., and Michael Dickerson and wife, Kathi, of Fairdale; one grandson, Brian Graves of Portland, Ore.; five granddaughters, Deana McCallum of Ocala, Fla., Christy Stone and Kathy Katcher both of Tucson, Ariz., Cybil Carlucci of Bluemont, Va., and Amy Linville of Eccles; four great-granddaughters; and two great-grandsons. She became acquainted with her sister, Debbie (Honaker) Westfall of Louisville, Ohio, later in life and they became dear friends and sisters in Christ. Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Sat., Jan. 11, 2014, at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Beckley, with Rev. Rudell Bloomfield officiating. Following her services she will be laid to rest beside her husband at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley. Friends may gather with the family from 2 p.m. until time of the service Saturday at the funeral home. Online condolences and other information can be found by visiting . Blue Ridge Funeral Hme, Beckley, is serving the Dickerson family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 30 Apr 2013 (with photograph): Albert Wayne Roland Sr., age 82, of Hurricane Ridge Road, Bluefield, W.Va., passed away on Sun., Apr. 28 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on Nov. 3, 1930 in Ada, he was a son of the late Ed and Lucinda Rose Roland. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and had lived most of his life on a farm, which he loved. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and was retired from Norfolk & Southern Railroad. He was a member of Ada Chapel. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife and the mother of his children, Louise Francisco Roland; his sons, Albert Wayne Roland Jr. and Mark Roland; sisters, Agnes Wimmer, Lucy Allen, and Lettie Neal; brother, Edgar Roland; half brothers, Jessie Rose, Arie Roland, Oaky Roland, Elmer Roland and Mason Roland; and a half sister, Mary Collins. Survivors include: wife, Alice Honaker Roland of the home; daughters, Diann Worley and husband Gary of Bluefield, Connie Surface and husband David of Bluewell, Kathy French and husband Mike of Troutville, Va.; son, Tommy Roland and wife Tamera of Bluefield; seven grandchildren, Jason Worley and wife Sarah, Amanda Lewis and husband Michael, Stephanie Winfrey and husband Darin, Amber Stacy and husband Brian, Justin Surface, Shane French, Joshua French and wife Kimberly; six great-grandchildren, Bryce, Brystal, Ty, Taylor, Noah and Evan; brother, Kenneth Roland of Bluefield; sister, Ruth Anderson of Maryland; several stepchildren. Funeral services will be conducted on Wed., May 1, 2013 at 2 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with the Rev. James Bassett officiating. Burial will follow at the Roland Family Cemetery on Hurricane Ridge with family and friends serving as pallbearers. Military honors will be performed by the U.S. Navy Honor Guard. Friends may call on Wednesday from 1–2 p.m. at the funeral home. The family may be reached at the home of Connie Surface, Rt. 20, Bluewell, 304-589-7202. Online condolences will be accepted at cravens- Cravens-Shires Funeral Home, 3431 Coal Heritage Road (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV 24701 is serving the family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 11 Jul 2013 (with photograph): Roy M. Ellison Sr., 67, of 10th Street, Princeton, died peacefully Monday morning, July 8, 2013 at the Princeton Health Care Facility on the Courthouse Road in Princeton. Born May the 21st 1946, at Dunns, he was the son of the late Arthur Carlyle Ellison and Eva Alice Moye Ellison. Roy was educated in Mercer County, and was a veteran of the Vietnam conflict serving with U.S. Air Force where he attained the rank of staff sergeant. For many years Roy was a machinist working in logging and was a sawmill operator. He was a member of the Rich Creek Baptist Church at Spanishburg. Roy was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and brother. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister, Ruby Josephine Gearhart and a brother, Robert Carlisle Ellison. Survivors include his best friend and wife of 45 years, Nancy Honaker Ellison; two children, Roy M. Ellison Jr. and wife Amy of Bluefield, Joseph M. Ellison and wife Kama of Athens; three grandchildren, Natalie, Noah and Cooper; two siblings, Athlene Hatcher of Dunns, John E. Ellison and wife Trudy of Princeton; brother-in-law Charles “Bud” Gearhart of Welch. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Fri., July 12, 2013 from the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with Pastors Ralph Calfee and Jim Mattox officiating. Burial will follow in the Ellison Family Cemetery at Dunns with military honors given by Wright-Patterson Air Force honor guards and Mercer County Veterans Council. Friends may visit with the family Friday morning from 10 a.m. until the service hour at the funeral home. Online condolences may be shared with the family via . Serving as pallbearers will be Bobby Honaker, John Ellison, Russell Ellison, Kevin Hatcher, Shawn Bush and Ronnie Wellman. Honorary pallbearers will be Charles Gearhart Jr. The Ellison family is being served by the Memorial Funeral Directory Cremation Center on the Athens Road in Princeton.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 12 Sep 2013 (with photograph): Bluefield, Va.: Leon David Crockett, 70, of 1947 Virginia Ave., Bluefield, Va., passed away on Mon., Sept. 9, 2013 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on May 11, 1943 in Freeman, he was a son of the late James and Mary L. Honaker Crockett. He was a member of the Harman Masonic Lodge #222 and was a member of the Bluefield Church of Christ. He was a retired electrician. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Leonard Crockett. Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Shirley Mitchem Crockett of the home; sons, David Crockett and Margie of Raleigh, N.C. and Ronald Crockett and Becky of Princeton, N.C.; three granddaughters, Denise Crockett of Raleigh, N.C., Karen Crockett of Raleigh, N.C., and Lindsey Kanode of Bluefield, Va.; one great-grandchild, Braylon Doss of Bristol, Va.; two brothers, James Wesley Crockett and Shirley of Winter Garden, Fla. and Donald Crockett and Juanita of Dunkirk, N.Y.; and two sisters, Violet Baldwin and Carl of Nemours, W.Va. and Joyce Fuller and Bob of Canandaigua, N.Y. Funeral services will be conducted on Fri., Sept. 13, 2013 at 2 p.m. at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. Mike Bales officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. where the Harman Masonic Lodge #222 will conduct graveside rites and serve as pallbearers. Friends may call on Friday from 1--2 p.m. at the funeral home.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 5 Jun 2013: Hester Ann Runyon, 76, from Rawl, W.Va., died Mon., June 3, 2013, at her home. She was born in Nolan, W.Va., Sept. 5, 1936, the daughter of the late Ira and Gladys Honaker Miller Sr. She was a homemaker and a member of the Ajax Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Benjamin Harrison Miller and Donnie Gene Miller; and two sisters Ruth Maynard and Mary Magdalene White. She is survived by her husband, Arnold “Doc” Runyon; one son, Mark Runyon of South Riding, Va.; two daughters, Tina Shank of Huntington, W.Va., and Lisa Hulett of Houston; three brothers, Clyde Miller and Roscoe Miller, both of Millers Creek, W.Va., and Ira Miller Jr. of Kentucky; four grandchildren, and three stepgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thurs., June 6, in the Hatfield Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Josh Hall officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain View Memory Gardens, Maher, W.Va. Arrangements are under direction of Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler. Visitation is from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 20 Aug 2013: Timberville, Va.: Rev. Roger Carson Young, Sr., 67, of Timberville, Va., died Aug 17, 2013 at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. He was born May 18, 1946 in Tazewell, Va., and was a son of the late Reese Mitchell and Ollie Honacker Young. He was a security officer at Pilgrim’s Pride, and a minister at Christian Fellowship Church in Broadway. On May 22, 1968 he married the former Theresa Dunford, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Roger C. Young, Jr. of Harrisonburg, Thomas M. Young of Lacey Spring; one daughter, Ollie Palmer of Timberville; one brother, Cecil Young of Pennsylvania; three sisters Kathleen Turner and Faye Taylor, both of Tazewell, Va., Sarah Simpson of Welch, W.Va.; five grandchildren; two great grandchildren. Pastors Claudett Wilcher and Jerry Buckner will conduct a memorial service Sat., Aug. 31, 2013 at 12:30 p.m. at Mt. Tabor United Methodist Church near Harrisonburg. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at the church. The body was cremated. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Grandle Funeral Home, P.O. Box 114, Broadway, VA 22815, to help with expenses. Online condolences may be left for the family at .
Hayworth-Miller Kernersville [N.C.] Funeral Home, 13 Jan 2016: Winston-Salem—Debra Marie Springfield Honaker, 59, passed away Wed., Jan. 13, 2016 at Wake Forest Baptist Health. Debra was born on Nov. 30, 1956 in Detroit, Mich. Debra was a dedicated employee of Southern Fasteners. She shared her kindness and generosity with all who knew her. Debra loved her family and had a huge love for animals. Debra was preceded in death by her father, J.C. Green; a brother, Danny Green, and a grandson, Jacob Honaker. Surviving are her son, Chad Honaker (wife, Amber) of Austin, Texas; her mother, Maude Green of Winston-Salem; a special cousin, Lori Wilson (husband, Troy) also of Winston-Salem; and many other friends and family. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m., Sun., Jan. 17, 2016 at Hayworth-Miller Kernersville Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service at the funeral home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 10 Jul 2013: King, N.C.--Jerry Eugene Honaker, Sr., passed away peacefully at his home July 9, 2013 following a courageous fight. He answered the Lord’s call and went home to be among the Angels. Funeral services celebrating his life will be held 1 p.m., Thurs., July 11, 2013 at Welcome Door Baptist Church in Rural Hall, N.C., where he was a member. Interment will follow in Crestview Memorial Park, Kernersville, N.C. Jerry was born June 20, 1945 in Bluefield, W.Va., to the late Kathleen “Kay” and Eugene “Gene” Honaker. Jerry was the owner of Mid State Roofing & Construction. After 35 years of service he had recently passed the business to his son and partner. He also was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Jerry leaves to cherish his legacy of wisdom, giving, and caring to his children Renee Ogelsby and Johnny, Rena Brown and Randy, Selena Honaker, and Jerry Honaker, Jr.; his former wife of 39 years Ann Honaker; grandchildren Johnny Ogelsby, Jr., Brittany Lawson and Jamie, Kendra Oglesby, Ashley Thurlow, and Amber Thurlow; great-grandchildren Khylie and Jordan; five loving sisters, two brothers, and a host of nieces, nephews, extended family and friends. The family will visit with friends from noon until time for the service on Thursday at the church . In lieu of flowers, Jerry requested donations to be made to St. Jude Children’s Hospital in his honor. The family sends a special “thank you” to “Will,” of Hospice Continuing Care team, for his compassion during his time of need. Friends and family may sign, and view the guestbook at Pierce-. Pierce-Jefferson Funeral Service of Kernersville, N.C.
Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., 30 Nov 2013: Martha Ann Honaker, 60, died Nov. 27, 2013. Forest Hill–East, (901) 382-1000.
Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, 8 Oct 2013: Frances W. Driscoll passed away in Waterford, Mich., on Oct. 5, 2013. Beloved wife of the late Henry W. Driscoll, Jr.; mother of Frank (Carol) Driscoll of Waterford, Mich. and Catherine (Eddy) Honaker of New Port Richey, Fla. Also survived by six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Thurs., Oct. 10th at the Community Congregational Church United Church of Christ in New Port Richey, Fla. The burial will take place at the Florida National Cemetery at 2 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Michigan Animal Rescue League, 790 Featherstone, Pontiac, MI 48342 or an animal rescue league locally of your choice.
Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, 1 Nov 2013: Jeannette Honaker, age 77, passed away October 31st; loving mother of Cheryl, Christine (deceased), Robert and Dennis (Dawn); dear grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt, sister, and friend of many. Visitation Sunday 2–6 p.m. at Craciun Barry Funeral Home, 7200 Detroit Ave., where services will be held at 6 p.m.
Wichita [Kan.] Eagle, 8 Sep 2013: Fredonia—Clay Jackson Honaker Jr., 78, born Feb. 22, 1935, died Sept. 6, 2013. A memorial graveside service will be held Thurs., Sept. 12, 2013 at 10:30 a.m. at the Fredonia City Cemetery. Memorials to Fredonia Senior Center, c/o Countryside Funeral Home.
Williamson [W.Va.] Daily News, 26 Aug 2013: An obituary for Daniel Workman, 82, of Trace Creek, W.Va., son of Perry and Sarah (Ball) Workman, was survived by a sister, France Honaker, of Martin Co., Ky.
Chicago [Ill.] Suburban Daily Herald, 22 Aug 2013: Fronzia “Kathy” Honaker of Warrenville, 72, passed away Aug. 20. Arrangements are being made by Friedrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Naperville, 630-355-0213.
Naperville [Ill.] Sun, 23 Aug 2013: Fronzia K. “Kathy” Honaker, age 72, of Warrenville, Ill., formerly of Chicago, Kentucky, and Virginia, peacefully passed away Tue., Aug. 20, 2013 at Community Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Naperville, Ill. Born Jan. 10, 1941 in West Virginia. Beloved mother of Bandy Hassel Honaker, George Garry (Lycia) Honaker, and Debra (the late Kerry) Higgins. Loving grandmother of Tim (Mary), Tom (Amanda), Kristy (Jason), Amber (Justin), Garrett (Katelyn), Brittany, Jessica, Danielle and Hassel. Great grandmother of ten. Preceded in death by her parents; Bandy Sr. and Sarah Nipper; brother, Buddy and sister, Peggy. Kathy loved gardening, volunteering at animal rescue shelters and especially her family. Memorial visitation Fri., Aug. 23, 3–5 p.m. at Fredrich-Jones Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 44 S. Mill St., Naperville, IL 60540. Memorial funeral servie to follow at 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Interment is private. For more information, please call 630-355-0213 or friedrich-
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 1 Oct 2000: An obituary for Blanche Rose Jennings Bailey, widow of Guy Charles Bailey, indicated that she was preceded in death by a daughter, Jewell Honaker of Connellsville, Pa. Survivors included a grandson, Charles Benjamin Honaker, of Normalville, Va.
Virginian Pilot, Hampton Roads, Va.: Virginia Beach—Dorothy D. Honaker, 67, passed away July 26, 2013. She was born in Johnstown, Pa., and is survived by her husband Harry E. Honaker; three daughters, Tammy L. Honaker, Kimberly A. Smardon and husband Keith all of Virginia Beach, Lori Jo Hale and husband Joseph of Big Island, Va.; five grandchildren, Taylor Smardon, Cody Hale, Scarlet Hale, Zachary Hale, Dylan Hale; two great grandchildren, Aiden and Zoey and their father Justin McDonough; sister, Peggy Bucks of Savannah, Ga., George Burkett and wife Debbie of Johnstown, Pa. A funeral service will be held on Fri., Aug. 2, at 11 a.m. in Hollomon-Brown, Great Neck Chapel, 1264 N. Great Neck Rd., Virginia Beach, Va., where the family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. Condolences may be made to the family at hollomon-
Akron [Ohio] Beacon Journal, 16 Jul 2013: Herman W. Honaker, Jr., of Fairlawn, Ohio, went home to be with the Lord on July 13, 2013. Herman was preceded in death by his mother, Ruth Williams; brother, James White; and sister, Sharon Letcher. A graduate of East High School in Columbus, Ohio, Herman was also a proud U.S. Navy veteran. He worked 30 years at the University of Akron and retired in 1995. He was also a faithful member of Second Baptist Church, where he was active in the food bank ministry and housekeeping ministry for many years. Herman was a dedicated husband, father, uncle, grandfather (“Poppa”) and friend to many and will be greatly missed by all. He loved his family and always had open arms to help those in need. He enjoyed traveling, gardening, sports, cooking, and firing up the grill for family and friend gatherings. He loved trains and proudly displayed models of classic vehicles he had collected over the years. Herman leaves to cherish his memory, his devoted wife of 44 years, Dr. Peggy Honaker; two sons, Derrick Honaker (Michelle), and Jason Honaker (Carmen); daughter, Tracy Honaker; niece, Angela Foster (Steven): four grandchildren, DeAndre and Miranda Honaker, Aaron Honaker and Jayden Honaker; father, Bishop Herman W. Honaker Sr. (Suzie); brothers, Paul Honaker (Brenda) Robert White (Crystal), Noway White, Jerald Honaker, Lewis Williams; and sister, Helen Bryson (John). Herman also leaves behind a host of other nieces, nephews, cousins, and other dear relatives and friends. Family will receive friends Thursday, July 18th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Catavolos Funeral Home, 3653 W. Market St., Fairlawn, OH 44333. The Homegoing Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, July 19th at Second Baptist Church, 690 S. Main St., Akron, OH 44311, where there will be viewing from 10 to 11 a.m. (one hour prior to Herman’s Celebration of Life Service). Entombment will be at Rose Hill Burial Park. Condolences may be sent to 2682 Abington Rd., Fairlawn, OH 44333. For online tributes and condolences please visit
Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., 14 May 2013: Karen D. Boyd-Kitts (1953-2013), age 60, formerly of Gulfport [Miss.] passed away on May 10, 2013 in Pensacola, Fla. She was preceded in death by her parents, George Nathaniel Boyd and Joyce Elizabeth Honaker. She is survived by her loving husband of 18 years, Bobby Kitts of Pensacola; her children, Brian (Deena) Boyd of Colorado Springs, Colo., Tracy Mohar of Pensacola, and Mark Holden of Pensacola; her siblings, Brenda Lada, Barbara Radar, Margaret Boyd, Elesia Smith, Florence McCollough, and Nathaniel Boyd; her grandchildren, Brian Boyd Jr., Ariel Boyd, Anthony Boyd, Christopher Jordan, Brandon Jordan, Heaven Holden, Angel Holden, Christian Riley, Jackie Brown, and Hailey Nicole Rozelle; her great grandchildren, Caden Jordan and Harley Brown. Karen was a loving mother and grandmother. She loved gardening and was a caretaker for many. The funeral service will be held on Wed., May 15, 2013 at Noon at the Riemann Family Funeral Home, 11280 Three Rivers Rd., Gulfport, with a visitation for family and friends from 11 a.m. until the service. Burial will follow at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens. An online guest book may be viewed and signed at
Middletown [Ohio] Journal, 30 Oct 2012: Wayne Anthony “Tony” Baker, age 56, of Middletown, died Mon., Oct. 29, 2012, at the Atrium Medical Center. He was born Oct. 3, 1956 in Middletown, the son of Jack Lewis Baker and Betty Jane (Keister) Baker. Tony worked as an airplane mechanic for ABX Air. He enjoyed riding motorcycles and playing darts. He is survived by his wife, Ida Karen (Honaker) Baker; three sons, Jeff (Kelly) Wilder, Justin Baker, and Marcus (Kelly) Baker all of Middletown; two grandchildren, Dillon and Christin Baker; two step daughters, Amy Perry of Trenton and Lori Carter of Middletown; two step sons, John (Sonya) Lindsey and Joseph (Renate) Lindsey both of Middletown; five sisters, Frances Terrell, Barbara Jones, Susanna (Carl) Ware, Kathy (Dave) Malott, and Denyne Dietz; and a special niece, Heather Terrell. He was preceded in death by his parents; one brother, Charles Eugene Baker; and a nephew, Jack Alexander Baker. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. Friday at the Breitenbach-McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home with Rev. James Anderson and Rev. Charles Denny officiating. Visitation will be 6–8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Woodside Cemetery. A guestbook is available at .
News Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, 7 May 2013: Erie McKinney, 88, of Mansfield, passed away on Sun., May 5, 2013 at his residence. Erie was born on May 23, 1924 in Herndon, W.Va., to Ballard P. and Alice L. McKinney. He honorably served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He enjoyed fishing, playing cards, horse shoes and playing pool. He is survived by three children, Luther (Bonnie) McKinney, Cindy McKinney, and Kathi Arter, all of Mansfield; seven grandchildren, J.R. Banks, Martie McKinney, Peggy Banks, John Sowders, Heaven McKinney, Angie Goodman, and Robert McKinney Sr.; and numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. Erie was preceded in death by his parents and his wife of 26 years, Helen Louise Honaker McKinney; son Allen McKinney; brother, Clyde McKinney; and two sisters, Dorothy McKinney and Goldie Fitzwater. Calling hours will be from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thurs., May 9, 2013 at Werner-Gompf Funeral Services, Ltd., 1106 Park Ave. East (St. Rt. 430E), Mansfield. Funeral services will follow at 3 p.m. with Pastor Rob Kurtz officiating. Full military honors will be performed by Richland County Joint Veterans Burial Detail. Burial will take place at a later date in Mansfield Memorial Park. Online condolences may be made at
Tyler [Texas] Morning Telegraph, 2 Apr 2013: Memorial services for Annetta Sue Hatfield Honaker, age 75, of Whitehouse [Texas] will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Tyler Memorial Funeral Home with Bro. Neil Thurman and Lyle Hatfield officiating. Mrs. Honaker was born on Sept. 6, 1937, in Ranger, W.Va., to L.C. and Susie Gilliam Hatfield and passed away on March 29, 2013, in Whitehouse. Mrs. Honaker is survived by her husband of 44 years, Dallas Honaker, of Whitehouse; daughter, Brenda Foster and husband Joel, of Paducah, Ky.; grandchildren, Sara and Nathan Foster, both of Paducah, Ky.; sisters, Mildred Elliott-Adkins, of Ranger, W.Va., Angeline Clay, of Walnut, Calif., Wilma Ford and husband Bill, of Whitehouse; brothers, Troy Hatfield and wife Jean, of Oxford, Miss., Tom Hatfield and wife, Vonnie, of Ravenna, Ohio; brother-in-law, Curt Neace, of Downers Grove, Ill.; 30 nieces and nephews; dozens of great-nieces and great-nephews; and many great-great nieces and great-great nephews, all of whom she loved dearly. She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Joe Humphrey and L.C. Hatfield Jr.; sisters, Mabel Hatfield Carter and Ida Mae Hatfield Neace. Sue graduated from Guyan Valley High School in 1956, continued her education in accounting and worked in education, finance and retail for more than 50 years, retiring from Dillard’s in Tyler, achieving Pacesetter status for 17 consecutive years. She was a faithful member of the Church of Christ and attended the University Church of Christ congregation for many years. Honorary pallbearers will be Lyle Hatfield, Roger Ford, Bill Ford, Jack Beard, Virgil Droughn, Clyde Elliott, Lenard Guns, Mike Honeycutt, Rod Jackson, Charles Shockley, Buddy Sparkman and Jeremy Taylor. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Hospice of East Texas Foundation, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Naperville [Ill.] Sun, 27 Mar 2013: Diane M. Honaker, of Pardeeville, Wisc., formerly of Naperville, passed away March 23, 2013 with her loving family by her side after a valiant battle against breast cancer. Diane was born Aug. 14, 1942 in Youngstown, Ohio, daughter of Harry and Marjorie Williams. While in Naperville Diane held positions at Commercial Resources and was a patent administrator for Amoco Chemical Research working with inventors and attorneys. In Naperville she met her current husband and love of her life, Donald, and successfully blended two families. She is survived by her children, Jim (Shannon) Strock, of Michigan, Lori (Chris) Strohl, of Wisconsin and Steven (Kelly) Strock of Nebraska and Don’s children, Tricia (Todd) Walzak, of Wheaton, Susan (Tom) Early, of Oswego, Kurt Honaker of Nebraska; and daughter-in-law, Juli Honaker of Naperville; and 16 wonderful grandchildren. She is further survived by her sister, Cindi (Fred) Kocher of Plainfield, and was the beloved Aunt Di to Kelly (Harold) Zimmerman, Naperville and Kristin (Tony) Lake, Plainfield. A memorial service will be held on Sat., March 30, 2013. Family requests in lieu of flowers memorials can be made to First Presbyterian Church, Main Street, Pardeeville, WI 53954.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 26 Mar 2013: Bristol, Va.—Patricia “Trish” Shipley DeVault, age 59, became a heavenly angel on Sun., March 24, 2013, at the Bristol Regional Medical Center. She was born June 2, 1953, in Johnson City, Tenn., and she was a daughter of the late James and Ruth Honaker Shipley and lived most of her life in the Bristol area. She was a front end manager for Food City on Euclid Avenue, Bristol, Va. She is survived by children, James Patrick DeVault and friend, Amanda Young, and Amber Ruth DeVault and boyfriend, Alexander Varney; sister, Sue Head and husband Ernest; two nieces, Angela Coxley, and Kristina Smith and husband Roland; and special friend, Margaret Tolbert. She had a wonderful supportive group of friends at Food City. Memorial services will be conducted 8 p.m. Wed., March 27, 2013, in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Keith McGrew officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 7:45 p.m. before the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Bristol Faith in Action, 703 Chester St., Bristol, VA 24201. Online condolences may be registered at . Arrangements have been made with Weaver Funeral Home and Cremation Services.
Windsor [Ontario, Canada] Star, 7 Jan 2013: Mary Louise Couvillon Pfahler Honaker, has risen into the arms of her Lord and Saviour on Jan. 4, 2013. Loving mother of Sandra Tribute, John Pfahler (2011) and Mark Pfahler (1979). Beloved sister of Janet Boldt, Dorothy Derochie, Eugene (1995) and Romeo (1999). Adored Grandma of Tara and Eric Babcock (Tribute), Melissa Tribute, Heather, Shelly and great-grandchildren. She will be missed by many nieces and nephews. As per Mary’s wishes, cremation has taken place. Everyone is welcome to join the family on Tue., Jan. 8, 2013 at Our Lady of Assumption Church (350 Huron Church Road, Windsor, ON N9C 2J9) at 10:30 a.m. until time of Mary’s memorial mass at 11 a.m. Interment to follow at Heavenly Rest Cemetery. Donations in memory of Mary may be made to the charity of your choice. Online condolences and cherished memories may be shared with the family at . Arrangements entrusted to Windsor Chapel Funeral Home, (Banwell Chapel) 519-253-7234, 11677 Tecumseh Rd. E. at Banwell Rd.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 30 Jan 2013 and Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 31 Jan 2013 (with photograph): Ronald David “Ronnie” Honaker, age 46, of Randleman, N.C., formerly of Honaker, Va., passed away Sat., Jan. 20, 2013 at his home. Born Nov. 23, 1966 in Tazewell Co., Va., he was a son of Alice E. Ray Honaker of Randleman, N.C. and the late Alfred Raymond Honaker. He spent his early life in the area prior to moving to North Carolina in 1988. He was formerly employed by Carolina Insulation. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by one sister, Teresa A. Miller; maternal grandparents, Miles and Joe Thelma Richardson Ray and paternal grandparents, Samuel and Nettie Belle Honaker. Survivors, in addition to his mother, include two brothers, Steve Allen Honaker and wife, Donna and Michael Dean Honaker both of Randleman, N.C.; one half-brother, Alfred Honaker of Atkins, Va.; three half-sisters, Nancy Honaker of Tennessee, Attie Mae Perkins of Atkins, Va. and Connie Honaker of Abingdon, Va.; five nephews, two nieces, three great-nieces and two great-nephews also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Leonard Meadows officiating. Interment followed in the Ray Cemetery at Miller Creek, Va. Relatives and friends served as pallbearers.
Winston-Salem [N.C.] Journal, 24 Jan 2013: Wanda Evelyn Honaker, 77, of Winston-Salem, passed away Tue., Jan. 22, 2013 at her home. She was born Jan. 18, 1936 in Welch, W.Va. to Roy and Lena Russell Compton. Mrs. Honaker was employed at Cloverdale Kitchen for 43 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Carlos Honaker. Surviving are two sons, Roy D. Honaker (Terry), and Rick C. Honaker (Laura); and her grandchildren, Tamra Hayes, Christian Honaker (Jaclyn), Amanda Honaker and Lena Honaker. A celebration of life service will be held at 10 a.m. Fri., Jan. 25 at Hayworth-Miller Silas Creek Chapel, the Rev. Rick Sides officiating. Memorials may be made to the [pic][pic]charity of the donor’s choice. Online condolences may be made at hayworth-.
Charlotte [N.C.] Observer, 22 Jan 2013: Eula Delema Agee Pierson, 100, died Fri., Jan. 18, 2013, at Presbyterian Hospital. One of ten children of the late Henry Frank Agee and Mary Emma Honaker Agee, she was born on Aug. 10, 1012 in Fayetteville, W.Va. Mrs. Pierson married Stanley Lavene Pierson on Jan. 10, 1942 and had been a resident of Charlotte since 1963. She was a member of Amity Presbyterian Church for almost 50 years and enjoyed writing poetry, researching family genealogy, gardening, needlework and quilting. A funeral to celebrate her life will be held at 11 a.m., Wed., Jan. 23, at Amity Presbyterian Church with Pastor Betsy Williamson officiating. Entombment will follow in Sharon Memorial Park Mausoleum. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the funeral. Mrs. Pierson is survived by a son, David A. Pierson and wife Lola, of Maple Grove, Minn.; a daughter, Sue L. Pierson and fiancée, John Davis, of Carboro, N.C.; a granddaughter, Deborah Lyche and husband Adam, of Geneva, Ill.; a great-grandson, Ian Lyche, of Geneva, Ill., and two sisters, Clarinda Duff, of Charleston, W.Va., and Sally Thewes and husband Ernest, of Brownstown, Mich. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Pierson was preceded in death by two brothers, Benjamin and James and five sisters, Jenivene, Frances, Marie, June and Naomi. Memorials may be made to Amity Presbyterian Church, 2831 N. Sharon Amity Road, Charlotte, NC 28205. Family and friends are invited to sign the online register book at . Wilson Funeral Service is serving the Pierson family.
News-Journal, Mansfield, Ohio, 14 Jan 2013: Shelby—Patricia L. Wilson, age 65, resident of rural Shelby, Ohio passed away on Sat., Jan. 12, 2013 at her home following a long illness. She was born on June 3, 1947 in Junction City, Ky., and had been an area resident since 1966. Mrs. Wilson was a homemaker who enjoyed her family and flower gardening, especially roses. She was a member of the Messiah’s House of Prayer in Shiloh. She is survived by her husband of 48 years, Claude H. Wilson; three children, Steve Wilson of Plymouth, Mark Wilson of Shelby, and Rita”Gayle” and Emery Back of Plymouth; her mother, Birdie (Rogers) Pulliam of Plymouth; four grandchildren, Lauren McClain, Steven Wilson, Brianna and Aden Back; a great granddaughter, Maddilynn Stump; one brother, James Honaker of Willard; and a sister, Linda Wilson of Willard. She is preceded in death by her father, Clifford Honaker; a son, Ricky Wilson; and a brother, David Honaker. Friends may call at the Messiah’s House of Prayer, 74 Pettit Street, Shiloh, Ohio on Tue., Jan. 15, 2013 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at the church on Wednesday at 11 a.m. with Rev. Bill Howell officiating. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery in Plymouth, Ohio. Online condolences can be made at .
News Journal, Willard, Ohio, 26 Sep 2014: Jason C. Honaker, age 43, of Willard, Ohio passed away Wed., Sept. 24, 2014 at the OSU Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio. He was born on Aug. 4, 1971 to James E. Honaker and Ruth Ann (Moore) Moore and had been a life long Willard resident. He graduated in 1989 from Willard high school and attended Pioneer. Jason worked at CSX as a carman and safety director for 16 years. He enjoyed biking, motorcycling, camping with the kids, adored his granddaughter, and spending time with family and friends. Jason is survived by his son, Tyler Honaker of Tiffin; granddaughter, Isabella Grace Honaker; mother, Ruth Moore of Willard; brother, James (Missy) Honaker of Bellevue; sister, Kathy Sanders of Willard; fiancé, Lori Stapleton of Willard; daughter, Kaylee Stapleton; father, James E. Honaker of Willard; three nieces, Amber Honaker, Karystin Kousma, Kalyssa Sanders; one nephew, Kaleb Sanders; and numerous other nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his paternal grandmother, Birdie Pulliam. Friends may call at the Secor Funeral Home in Willard, Ohio on Sun., Sept. 28, 2014 from 1–3 p.m. and 5–8 p.m. Funeral service will be Monday at 1 p.m. at the Willard Church of the Nazarene with Pastors Ricky Branham and Stephen Sickel officiating. Burial will follow in Greenwood Cemetery in Willard, Ohio. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions can be made to the Akron Children’s Hospital or donor’s choice. Online condolences may be made to the family at .
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 20 Nov 2012: Falls Mills, Va.—Arnold Leon Sipp Sr., age 77, of Brushfork Road, Falls Mills, Va., died on Sun., Nov. 18, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on May 9, 1935 in Coopers, W.Va., he was a son of the late Jessie Sipp and Ethel Virginia Honaker Sipp. He was a member of Liberty Chapel Church. He was formerly employed at Dunkirk Radiator Corporation with 42 years of service. He was a member of the U.S. Steelworkers Union No. 2693. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Fannie Elizabeth Hoops Sipp; his second wife, Ella Louise Crigger; sister, Betty Lou Baldwin; daughter, Linda Lou Taggert; and granddaughter, Elizabeth Sipp. Survivors: sons, Arnold Leon Sipp Jr. of Pocahontas, Va., Jesse Andrew Sipp and wife Debra of Pocahontas, Va., Dean Jasinski and wife Linda of Dunkirk, N.Y., Frank Crigger and wife Eara Mae of Bluefield, Va.; daughters, Diane Sedlacek and husband Mike of Dunkirk, N.Y., Anna Marie Houser and husband Keith of Dunkirk, N.Y., Verna Mae Boyles and husband Richard of Bradford, Pa., Sandra Cox and husband Tommy of Bluestone, W.Va.; sisters, Eara Mae Crigger and husband Frank of Bluefield, Va., Minni Lorraine Catron of Pocahontas, Va.; 17 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wed., Nov. 21, 2012 at Liberty Chapel Church, Airport Square, Brushfork, W.Va., with the Rev. R.C. Blankenship and assisted by the Rev. Virginia Shinault. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. The family asks that memorial contributions be made to the Liberty Chapel Church, Route 52 Airport Square, Bluefield, WV 24701 or the American Cancer Society. Friends may call at the church at the funeral hour. The family is accepting online condolences at . The Cravens-Shires Funeral Home, 3431 Coal Heritage Road, Bluefield, W.Va., is in charge of arrangements.
News Journal, Wilmington, Del., 12 Nov 2012: Shirley Ann (McDonald) Knight, age 60, of Elkton, Md., passed away at her home on Nov. 10, 2012, surrounded by her family. Born in West Grove, Pa., on April 30, 1952, Shirley was the daughter of the late William and Dorothy Turner. Shirley’s first love was her family and was a devoted and loving grandmother. She enjoyed camping, shopping and the beach; and was a fan of country music. She is survived by her husband Harry I. Knight; two daughters, Amy McDonald and her husband Tim of Galena, Md.; and Tina Honaker and her husband John of Elkton; her stepdaughter Angela Knight of Newark, Del.; six grandchildren, Tara and Kevin McDonald, Amber and Colin Honaker, Cody Elswick and Brett Knight; two nephews, Bobby and Chris Brown; and a sister, Linda Wright and her husband Terry of Elkton. A service honoring her life will be held at R.T. Foard Funeral Home, P.A., 259 East Main St., Elkton, MD 21921 on Wed., Nov. 14, 2012 at 7 p.m. Friends and family may call at the funeral home beginning at 6 p.m. Burial will be at Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery at a later date. Memorial contributions may be made to Susan B. Komen Foundation c/o the funeral home. To send condolences visit .
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 30 Jun 2012, with photograph: Bramwell—Betty Sue Honaker Meadors, age 82, of Rt. 1 Box 68, Bramwell, W.Va., entered into eternal life on Thurs., June 28, 2012 at her residence. Born March 19, 1930 in Bluefield, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late William Stanley and Cornelia Francis Woodward Honaker. Mrs. Meadors was a resident of Bramwell for the past 54 years where she was a homemaker and a member of the Riverside Baptist Church in Bramwell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin O. Meadors Sr. Survivors include one son, Benjamin O. Meadors, Jr. and wife, Vickie, of Bramwell, W.Va.; grandson, Chris Meadors and wife, Mandi, of Bluefield, W.Va.; two great-grandsons, Austin and Christian Meadors of Bluefield, W.Va.; one sister, Shirley Honaker of Bluefield, W.Va.; one niece, Vickie Honaker of Bluefield, W.Va.; and a dear friend, Gale Hoback of Bramwell, W.Va. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Sat., June 30, 2012 at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell, W.Va. with the Rev. James Davidson officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton, W.Va. Friends may call Sat., June 30, 2012 from 1 p.m. to time of services at 2 p.m. Chris Meadors, Mark Childers, Tommy Ellison, Joe Kowaleski, Dean Goins, and Doug Quesinberry will serve as pallbearers. Andy Childers will serve as honorary pallbearer. Those wishing to send online condolences may do so by visiting cravens-. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell, W.Va. is serving the Meadors family.
Virginian Pilot, Hampton Roads, Va., 17 Oct 2012: Chesapeake—Dottie G. Honaker, 86, passed away in her home on Tue., Oct. 16, 2012. Born in Florence, S.C., she was the daughter of the late Silas Flemins Ghoens and Sara Jane Ghoens. Dottie will be remembered as a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother and sister. She was a member of Eagles Lodge no. 33. Survivors include her husband, Kenny Honaker; a son, Daniel Balash and wife Joy of Chesapeake; a granddaughter, Lindsey Balash; special nieces, Deana and Patsy; a sister, Mamie and a large extended family. A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m., Thurs., Oct. 18, 2012 in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. Friends are invited to send condolences and to sign the online guest book at .
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 24 May 2012: Cathy L. Honaker Martin, 54, passed away Mon., May 14, 2012 at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, Fairlea, after a long illness. Born May 24, 1957 in Aliquppa, Pa., and was the daughter of the late Leonard Harold Honaker, Sr. and the late Patricia Louise Braden Honaker. Lifelong resident of Greenbrier County, she worked for 20 years as a [Certified Nursing Assistant] at the Greenbrier Manor Nursing Home in Fairlea and was a former employee of Rudy’s Corner Grill in Ronceverte. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Larry Ray “King” Honaker. Survivors include sisters, Debra J. Ramsey of Centerville, Va. and Linda J. Honaker of Ronceverte; brothers, Leonard, Jr. and wife, Leslie Honaker of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., Delbert “BooBoo” and wife, Karen Honaker of Centerville, Va., Cheyanne Honaker of Caldwell, John “Bucky” Honaker and Melvin “T.D.” Honaker both of Ronceverte; nieces include, Samantha Wilkerson, Becky Daniels, Shanna, Lindsay, Amanda and Kala Honaker, Andrea Panther, Lindsey Glover, CeCe Grant and Kimberly Grant; nephews include Michael, Benjamin, Tyler, Cody, Dakota and Zack Honaker. Josh Ramsey and Rasman Walker, great nieces, Cassie and Kristen Wilderson, Aubry Glover, Alexis Vanburen, Alexis Pressel, great nephews Christopher Wilkerson and Aiden Vanburen, great-great niece, Adeline Wilkeson, dear friends, Pamela Walker and Cindy Eplin. Remembrance of Cathy’s life was held Fri., May 18, 2012 at Rudy’s Corner Grill, Ronceverte. The family asks that all donations be made to St. Jude’s Children Hospital in memory of Cathy. Arrangements by Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea, W.Va.
Xenia (Ohio) Daily Gazette, 22 Aug 2012: William E. “Bud” Schmidt, 95, of Xenia, passed away peacefully Aug. 20, 2012, at Greene Oaks Rehabilitation Center in Xenia. He had been living at Greene Oaks for the last few years of his life where he received outstanding care. The family is grateful to the dedicated staff for all of their efforts to make him comfortable during his last illness. He was born Sept. 11, 1916, the son of Ernest Henry Schmidt and Edith Harner Schmidt. William was the great-grandson of Henry Edward Schmidt, Sr., who founded Schmidt Fancy Groceries in 1856, a family business that served the people of Xenia for 75 years. When William was young, he worked in the family store on Detroit Street after school and during the summer. He was preceded in death by his beloved wife of 60 years, Anna Virginia Honaker Schmidt in 2003, whom he married July 29, 1943 at the First Reformed Church in Xenia; his eldest son, Dr. William Henry Schmidt in 1993; his brother and sister-in law, Henry Edward Schmidt and Marjorie Kiser Schmidt; niece Shirley Schmidt Tinsley; and great-niece Anne Tinsley Mark. Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, James Walter Schmidt and Suzanne McPeak Schmidt of Xenia; three granddaughters, Katherine Anna Schmidt of Xenia; Aimee Schmidt Khan of Carlsbad, Calif.; and Lori Melissa Schmidt Davis of Dallas, Texas; five great-grandchildren, Zakkary Logan Sharp, Javed Khan, Maliah Khan, Mikhail Khan, and Luke Davis; nieces and nephews, Ernest Schmidt and his wife Laurie Schmidt of Lawton, Okla.; Francis Tinsley, Jr. and his wife Caroline Tinsley of Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Sharon Honaker Rab and husband Laurence Rab of Oakwood, Ohio; Anne Honaker Bolen and husband, Dr. George Bolen of Potomac, Md.; Deanna Kocher Schmidt Raizk of Maineville, Ohio, the mother of Aimee and Lisse Schmidt; and a number of extended family members. William graduated from Xenia Central High School in 1934 and attended The Ohio State University. In 1935 at the age of 19, he began his lifetime passion for aviation by obtaining his private pilot’s license, which he kept active until he was in his 80s. He flew solo to Key West, Fla., shortly after receiving his license, and eventually entered into contracts to fly cargo for commercial companies in the late1930s. As World War II approached, he became an accelerated test pilot and aircraft mechanic at Wright Field after enlisting in the United States Army Air Force. He worked on the development of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, as well as other military aircraft, and was acquainted with a number of well-known pilots and other notable figures of the early aviation era. After the Second World War, William worked at Wright Field, which later became Wright-Patterson AFB, as a civilian supervisor on the flight line. Following the death of his father in 1957, he assumed management of the Schmidt Realty Company in Xenia. Later, the business expanded to include the selling of insurance and he and his wife Virginia became licensed agents. He served as a member of the Xenia Beautification and Environmental Committee, and was active in community activities during his real estate and insurance career. William was also a lifetime member of the Greene County Fish and Game Association and the Air Force Association. His other memberships included American Legion Post # 95, Greene County Republican Club, Golden Age Senior Citizens Center, and the First Reformed Church in Xenia, now known as the Cornerstone Bible Church, where he was a lifetime member. William was devoted to his cherished wife Virginia, their two sons, daughters-in-law, and grandchildren, as well as his extended family. He was proud of his community and his country, and had many friends in all walks of life. William “Bud” Schmidt loved flying airplanes and sharing his adventures and enthusiasm with others. He often remarked that he felt blessed for the many opportunities God had given him during his long and memorable life. Bud leaves behind family and friends who will miss him dearly. Services will be held on Mon., Aug. 27, 2012, at 11 a.m., Neeld Funeral Home, 1276 North Detroit Street, Xenia. Pastor R. James Creamer and Pastor James Kirchoff will officiate. Visitation will take place at 9 a.m. Monday until the time of the service at the funeral home. The family suggests that contributions may be made to the Jackson Aviation Scholarship Committee, c/o the Greene County Community Foundation, 25 Greene Street, Xenia, Ohio, 45385-3101. Condolences may be made to the family at .
Herald Democrat, Collinsville, Texas, 17 Aug 2012: Larry Joe Gregory, 60, of Collinsville passed away on Wed., Aug. 15, 2012 at the Atrium Hospital in Corinth, Texas. Larry was born on June 30, 1952 in Princeton, Ind. to Jesse and Dorothy Heddon Gregory. He married Carol Honaker Miller on Oct. 16, 2004 in Oak Point. Larry was a veteran of the Air Force and a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Pilot Point. Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m. on Sat., Aug. 18, 2012 with a visitation time beginning at 6 p.m. at the Slay Memorial Funeral Center in Aubrey. Rev. Buddy Garland will be officiating. Burial will be in Union Community Cemetery in Union, Ind. next week. Larry is survived by his wife, Carol Miller Gregory of Collinsville; two sons, Jim Gregory of Indianapolis, Ind., and Corey Gregory of Mount Vernon, Ind. He also has two daughters, Pam Daughtery of Indiana and Frances Menees of Denton. Larry is also survived by three brothers, Jim and Anna Harrell of Henderson, Nev. and John and Sarah Gregory of Bowling Green, Ky. and Tim and Linda Gregory of Fairfield, Ind. He has one sister Dora and Buddy Garland of Collinsville. Services are under the direction of Terri Slay and Slay Memorial Funeral Center in Aubrey.
News Journal, Wilmington, Del., 7 Sep 2012: John W. Honaker 58, of Rittman, formerly of Newark, Del., peacefully passed away on Aug. 27, 2012 with his family closely by his side. Surviving are sisters, Lynette (Josh) Brown and Carol (Steve) Gibson; brothers, Ray (Sally) Honaker, John R. (Kathy) Bustard and David Honaker; best friend and nephew Chas Honaker; many other nieces and nephews; and fiance Teresa Semonelle and her three children. He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles and Avis; and wife Patricia Vincent. John enjoyed spending time with his family. Prior to falling ill in January, John enjoyed traveling to bike/car events along with driving his motor home. Graveside Services will be held at 1 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2012 at Gracelawn Memorial. Silva-Hostetler Funeral Home, 330-825-8700.
Roanoke (Va.) Times, 4 Aug 2012: Marie Bush Weeks, 68, of Roanoke, went home to be with the Lord on Thurs., Aug. 2, 2012. She was preceded in death by her parents, James “Butch” and Pauline Honaker Bush; and her former husband, Waitman Wayne Weeks. Surviving are her daughter, Teresa Marie Weeks Lavender and husband, Stacey; son, David Wayne Weeks, all of Roanoke; grandsons, David and Michael Weeks; and three great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be conducted 11 a.m. Mon., Aug. 6, 2012, in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens by Pastor Steve Russell. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Simpson Funeral Home 5160 Peters Creek Road, 540-366-0707.
Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, 14 Sep 2012: Mary Frances Adams peacefully went home to be with her Heavenly Father on Sept. 11, 2012. Funeral services for Mrs. Adams will be at 11 a.m., on Sat., Sept. 15, 2012 at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary with interment at Parkhill Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Fri., Sept. 14, 2012 from 6–8 p.m., at Striffler-Hamby Mortuary 4071 Macon Road Columbus. Mrs. Adams was born on Oct. 6, 1926 in Columbus, Ga. to Idelia and Clarence Thompson and she lived her entire life in Columbus. She is preceded in death by her husband of 57 years, Benton Adams. Mrs. Adams was a member of Wynnbrook Baptist Church and her passion was reading the Bible and singing gospel songs. She loved to read any type of book or magazine as she always wanted to learn more. She loved God, her family and building a loving home. She leaves behind to cherish her wonderful, sweet memory, her children Debra Adams Honaker, Cheryl Adams Stratigos, Nigel Adams, and Jeff Adams; her grandchildren Julie Honaker Reams (Scott), Kristin Honaker Bowman (Ryan), Joshua Adams, Nicholas Stratigos, Lauren Adams, Becca Diener, Zach Diener, Hannah Diener and Grace Adams; and three precious great-grandchildren Ryan Bowman, Zoey Bowman and Sophia Madrid; two sisters; Helen Johnson and Nell Gallup. Mom, you have always been a wonderful, loving mother and you have shown us the right way to live and love others. We will always hold you near to our heart and will miss you every day…until we see you again.
A special thank you to her niece Liz Davis and her sister Helen Johnson for selflessly giving their time throughout the years to sit with Frances. Flowers and online condolences may be offered at
Omaha (Neb.) World Herald, 24 Sep 2012: Michael Wayne Honaker—April 8, 1943–Sept. 22, 2012, age 69. Michael was proud of his service in the US Army as a Special Forces Green Beret and was a decorated Vietnam veteran. He worked for the city planning department and managed the lead removal program for the city of Omaha. Preceded in death by his parents, Max Wayne Honaker and Joyce (Rhodes) Honaker. Survived by wife, Elizabeth Stuht Borchers; son, Max Wayne Honaker; daughter and son-in-law, Alison Honaker Taylor and Shane Taylor and their children, Makaylin and Kaden; step-son and daughter-in-law, William Borchers and Kimberly and their child Hailey; daughter and son-in-law, Susan Boye-Lynn and Rob and their children, John Calahan and Dashell Anderson; son and daughter-in-law, Michael Beason and Alethea Rebman; brother and sister-in-law, Gordon and Sherrye Honaker; sister, Janelle Williams; brother Tim Honaker; sister and brother-in-law, Gaye and Mike Broshears; brother and sister-in-law, Pat and Robin Honaker; and many other loving relatives. Mike was a well loved husband, father and friend. Private family gathering was held. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to the American Lung Assn. Braman Mortuary, Southwest Chapel, 6505 S. 144 St. 402-895-3400.
Baltimore [Md.] Sun, 13 Jan 2012: On Jan. 11, 2012, Suddenly, Gene Raymond Edwards Jr., beloved husband of Debra (nee Honaker), devoted father of Nicholas and Gene Edwards, and loving brother of Cheryl Voris and Bobby Daniels.
A memorial service will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, on Saturday at 2 p.m. Visiting hours Saturday 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St. Clare Catholic Church, 714 Myrth Ave., Baltimore, MD 21221.
Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, 14 Jun 2012: Robert E. Williams, age 95, passed away June 12, 2012. He was born Feb. 10, 1917 in Akron, Ohio. Robert served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He retired from Ohio Edison with 34 years of service, and was a member of the Park United Methodist Church and the Men’s Club at Ohio Edison. Preceded in death by his wife, Marguerite, he is survived by son, Robert E. (Mary) Williams; daughter, Darlene E. (Robert) Honaker; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. The family would like to thank the doctors and staff at Copley Medical Group and Dr. Payton and Michelle Clapham CRNP and staff at Rockynol Nursing Home.
Funeral service will be Friday, June 15, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Cox Funeral Home, 222 Norton Ave., Barberton, with Rev. Dr. Linda Somerville officiating. Family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery. (COX, BARBERTON, 330-745-3311)
Indianapolis (Ind.) Star, 6 Jun 2012: Ralph Taylor Bain, 93 of Indianapolis passed away May 28, 2012. Ralph served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII. As a young man, he was recruited by and worked for the F.B.I. as an undercover support agent. Later, Ralph worked for many years as an insurance agent for John Hancock Life Insurance Company. He retired from Sears Roebuck & Company in 2007 after working there as a tool consultant. Ralph is survived by his wife, Arlene Joyce Honaker Bain; children, Kelly (John) Karavakis, Teanna (Tim) Ring, and Timothy (Kim) Foster; nine grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; and brother, Paul (Martha) Bain. He was preceded in death by a daughter, Beth Stevens. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, June 9th at noon at Lighthouse Baptist Church, 6950 E. Raymond St. with a calling from 10 a.m. until the time of service. Arrangements entrusted to [Aaron Ruben Nelson] Cremation Services.
St. Cloud (Minn.) Times, 26 May 2012: Emily J. Arvig, 56, Melrose, Nov. 19, 1955—May 18, 2012. Mass of Christian Burial will be 11 a.m. Wed., May 30, 2012 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Melrose for Emily Arvig who died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Friday, May 18 in Hilton Head Island, S.C. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.
Friends may call from 3 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 8 to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Melrose. Emily Jean Berscheit was born Nov. 19, 1955 in Sauk Centre, Minn., to Ernest and Virginia (Honaker) Berscheit. She grew up on a dairy farm near Grey Eagle and graduated from Grey Eagle High School in 1973. She furthered her education by receiving her diploma from Alexandria Technical School in Alexandria. She was united in marriage to Thomas “Tom” Arvig on Dec. 1, 1978 in Las Vegas, Nev. Emily worked and helped run the family business at Melrose Telephone Company, which had been in the family for over 80 years. The couple loved traveling in their early years and later, Emily was content and enjoyed staying home to take care of her family, especially her grandchildren. She was baptized in the Catholic faith and had most recently been attending Faith Baptist Church in Sauk Centre. Survivors include her husband, Tom Arvig of Melrose; son, Scott (Sara) Arvig of Grey Eagle; daughter, Elisabeth Arvig Kuhns of Melrose; mother, Virginia Berscheit of Melrose; grandchildren, Vanessa, Victoria, Alexander, Myra, Silas, Claire, and Lynn; brothers and sisters, Michelle Doucette of Burtrum, Larry (Kathy) Berscheit of Golden Valley, Rita (Ken) Ritter of Sauk Centre, Jerry (Fely) Berscheit of Ramsey, Linda (Mark) Berens of Grey Eagle, Ari (T.J.) Trollen of Black River Falls, Wisc., Lisa (Dave) Rahn of Melrose, Paul (Lynne) Berscheit of Rhinelander, Wisc., and Ronnie Berscheit of New Munich.Emily was preceded in death by her father, Ernest Berscheit.
St. Cloud (Minn.) Times, 9 Jul 2014: Virginia L. Berscheit, 88, Melrose, Aug. 24, 1925—July 7, 2014. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Thurs., July 10, 2014 at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Melrose for Virginia Berscheit who died peacefully surrounded by her family at the St. Cloud Hospital. Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery in Grey Eagle. Visitation will be from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Patton-Schad Funeral Home in Melrose. Virginia Lou Honaker was born Aug. 24, 1925 in Urbana, Iowa, to Benjamin and Lola (Devereaux) Honaker. She was united in marriage to Ernest Berscheit on July 16, 1943 in Hastings, Neb. She was devoted to her family, God, and her church and always said that her children were her greatest accomplishment. Survivors include her children, Margaret “Mickey” Doucette of Burtrum, Lawrence “Larry” (Kathy) Berscheit of Golden Valley, Rita (Ken) Ritter of Sauk Centre, Jerome “Jerry” (Fely) Berscheit of Ramsey, Linda (Mark) Berens of Grey Eagle, Ari (T.J.) Trollen of Black River Falls, Wisc., Lisa (Dave) Rahn of Melrose, Paul (Lynne) Berscheit of Rhinelander, Wisc., and Ronald “Ron” Berscheit of Sauk Centre; son-in-law, Tom Arvig of Melrose; 19 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren; brother and sister, Benjamin Honaker of Denver, Colo., and Lola (Jake) Feis of Denver, Colo. Virginia was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest Bersheit on Nov. 12, 1972; parents; daughter, Emily Arvig; son-in-law, Dennis Doucette; grandson, Blaine Arvig; and brothers, William Honaker and Duane Honaker.
Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif., 26 May 2012: Gary Frank Hardin, 72, native of Orange, Calif., went home to our Heavenly Father May 22, 2012 after battling five kinds of cancer. The eldest of four children born to Stanley and Lucille (Meyer) Hardin. He is survived by his wife of 45 years, Beverly (Honaker) Hardin; daughter, Katherine Hardin; son, David Hardin, Jill (Beck) Hardin; grandchildren, Matthew, Christian and Grayce; siblings, Linda Pister, Neil Hardin and Robert Hardin; nieces, nephews, cousins and their extended families. Gary loved his Lord and treasured his family (especially being grandpa.) He had a passion for travel and had become fond of cruising. He retired from the County of Orange after 30 years. He was a project manager and oversaw the rebuilding of Irvine Park, the Dana Point Harbor docks, the Madame Modjeska home, flood control projects, a pump station and several parks. He was organized, well read and well liked. He enjoyed being told he looked like John Wayne. Viewing Wednesday, May 30, 5 to 8 p.m., Shannon-Bryan Mortuary, 137 E. Maple, Orange, CA 92866. Graveside: Thursday, May 31, 10:30 a.m., St. John’s Cemetery on Fairhaven, Santa Ana. Funeral service: 12 noon, St. John’s Lutheran Church at Center & Almond, Orange, CA 92866.
Orange County Register, Santa Ana, Calif., 6 Apr 2014: Beverly Jean Hardin passed away on her 71st birthday, March 31, 2014. Beverly is survived by her daughter, Katherine Hardin; son, David Hardin (Jill); three grandchildren, Matthew, Christian and Grayce Hardin; and her brother, William Honaker. Visitation will be Thursday, April 10, 4-8 p.m. at Shannon-Bryan Mortuary. Funeral services will be Friday, 12 noon at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orange. In lieu of flowers please make donations in Beverly’s name to: St. John’s Lutheran School scholarship fund. Shannon Bryan Mortuary.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 17 May 2012: Ronceverte—Cathy L. Honaker Martin, 54, passed away Mon., May 14, 2012, at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, Fairlea, after a long illness. Born May 24, 1957, at Aliquippa, Pa., the daughter of the late Leonard Harold Honaker Sr. and Patricia Louise Braden Honaker. Cathy was a lifelong resident of Greenbrier County, had worked for 20 years as a [Certified Nursing Assistant] at the Greenbrier Manor Nursing Home in Fairlea and was a former employee of Rudy’s Corner Grill in Ronceverte. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Larry Ray “King” Honaker. Survivors include sisters, Debra J. Ramsey of Centerville, Va. and Linda J. Honaker of Ronceverte; brothers, Leonard Jr. and wife, Leslie Honaker of Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., Delbert “BooBoo” and wife, Karen Honaker of Centerville, Va., Cheyanne Honaker of Caldwell, John “Bucky” Honaker and Melvin “T.D.” Honaker, both of Ronceverte; nieces include: Samantha Wilkerson, Becky Daniels, Shanna, Lindsay, Amanda and Kala Honaker, Andrea Panther, Lindsey Glover, CeCe Grant and Kimberly Grant; nephews include: Michael, Benjamin, Tyler, Cody, Dakota and Zack Honaker, Josh Ramsey and Rasman Walker; great nieces, Cassie and Kristen Wilkerson, Aubry Glover, Alexis Vanburen, Alexis Pressel; great nephews, Christopher Wilkerson and Aiden Vanburen; great-great-niece, Adeline Wilkerson; dear friends, Pamela Walker and Cindy Eplin. Remembrance of Cathy’s life will be 6 to 8 p.m. Fri., May 18, 2012, at Rudy’s Corner Grill, Ronceverte. The family asks that all donations be made to St. Jude’s Children Hospital in memory of Cathy. Arrangements by Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 10 May 2012: Everett H. McClure Jr., 86, loving husband of 48 years to Bertha Cook McClure, went home to be with our Lord Wed, May 9, 2012 at St. Joseph Hospital. Born June 1, 1925 in Fleming Co., Ky., he was the son of the late Everett McClure, Sr. and Mary Elizabeth Plummer McClure. Mr. McClure was a U.S. Navy veteran, a retired accountant for the [Veterans Administration] Hospital on Leestown Rd. and a member of Devondale Baptist Church. In addition to his wife, survivors include a sister, Juanita Honaker, Frankfort, Ky.; nephews, Larry (Cathy) McClure, Cocoa Beach, Fla., James (Joyce) Honaker, Frankfort, Ky., and Michael (Martha) McClure, Utah; a niece, Carole (Dr. Raymond) Wells, Prospect, Ky.; two great nieces, Jennifer (Chad) Montgomery, Georgetown, Ky. and Sabrina (Sean) Loman, Prospect, Ky.; one great nephew, Kevin McClure, Florida; three great-great nieces; four great-great nephews; a dear cousin, Doris Lane; several second cousins; and extended family member, Emilie Bridges and family. He was preceded in death by a brother, Harold McClure, sister-in-law, Dorothy McClure, brother-in-law, James Honaker, aunt, Mary Roberts, uncle, Eli Roberts, and cousins, James Lane and Billy Roberts. Funeral services will be 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Kerr Brothers Funeral Home, Harrodsburg Rd. Burial will follow in Blue Grass Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 5– 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 14 Feb 2012: Baptist Valley, Va.—Carl Edward Honaker, 71, of Baptist Valley, Va. died Sun., Feb. 12, 2012 at Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell, Va. He was born July 27, 1940 at Canebreak, W.Va. and was the son of the late Joe and Edith Whittaker Honaker. He was a retired machine shop foreman, having worked for Buskill Mining Sales. He enjoyed tinkering in his shop with cars and tractors, and loved to hunt and fish when his health permitted. He enjoyed watching NASCAR, Little League Football and was a big Tazewell Bulldog fan. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend, and loved going to church, and was a member of the Tazewell Family Worship Center in North Tazewell, Va. He will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved him. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant son, Mark Honaker; and one sister, Ruth Honaker. Those left to cherish his memory include his loving wife of 51 years, Gay M. Honaker; one daughter, Debbie Lynn Honaker of Baptist Valley, Va.; two sons, Mike Honaker of Tazewell, Va., and Marty Honaker of Baptist Valley, Va.; three grandsons who were his pride and joy, Lucas Honaker, and twins, Andrew and Nathan Honaker; all of Baptist Valley, Va.; one sister, Virginia Hunt and husband, Robert of Witten Mill, Va.; many other family members; and many friends also survive. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wed., Feb. 15, 2012 at the Tazewell Family Worship Center, 112 Faith St., North Tazewell, Va., with the Rev. Lawrence Hayes and the Rev. Don Waddell officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Tazewell, Va. From 6–9 p.m. Tue., Feb. 14, 2012. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Tazewell, Va. is serving the family and those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at .
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 30 Jan 2012: Princeton—Ruby Rutherford Hankins, 82, of Princeton, formerly of War, passed away Wed., Jan. 25, 2012 in Princeton Community Hospital, Princeton. Born Aug. 27, 1929 in Canebreak, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Doak Henry Nelson and Grace Sparks Honaker. She retired from the City of War where she served as town judge, recorder and secretary. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, James Robert Rutherford; and two brothers, Charles and Fred Ray Nelson. Those left to cherish her memory are three sons, Robert Wayne Rutherford and wife Kathryn Elaine of Fairlawn, Va., David Rutherford and wife Yvonne of War, and Leslie Dean Hankins and wife Cindy of Hillsville, Va.; a daughter, Sharon K. Brewster of Max Meadows, Va.; a brother, James Burley Nelson of Alderson, W.Va.; two sisters, Minnie J. Moore and Barbara Jean Moore and husband David, all of Radford, Va.; and 11 grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. Graveside service will be held Sat., Jan. 28 at 1 p.m. at Maple Wood Cemetery in Tazewell, Va. Burial will follow in the cemetery. Friends are asked to meet at the cemetery. The Douglas Funeral Home of War is serving the family.
Middletown [Ohio] Journal, 2 May 2012: Ella [Pearl] Honaker, age 90, of Camden, Ohio, passed away Sat., April 28, 2012 at her residence. She was born Nov. 13, 1921 in Morgan Co., Ky., and lived in the Miami Valley area for 63 years. She was employed as a cashier at the Monroe [Independent Grocers Association] for 40 years. Ella was a member of the Grace Baptist Church for 50 years. She was a devoted mother and grandmother and enjoyed reading in her spare time. Preceding her in death were her parents, Lige and Ida (Helton) Lawson; four children, Reva Haddix, Charlotte Sizemore, James Honaker and Virginia Rose; two sisters, Rosetta Combs and Mary Taylor; two brothers, Herbert Lawson and Robert Lawson; and three grandchildren, Darrell Downs, Terri Sizemore and Lisa Marincic. She is survived by three daughters, Dorothy Kay Doyle and husband Bill, Vickie Taylor, and Karen Baker and husband, Tony; 13 grandchildren, 10 great grandchilodren, two great-great grandsons, two sisters, Nell Blevins and Hazel Leturgez; four brothers, Marvin Lawson, Charles Lawson, Jerry Lawson and wife Wanda, and Emmitt Lawson and wife Mickey; and many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be Wed., May 2, 2012 from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Herr-Riggs Funeral Home, 210 S. Main St., Middletown, followed by services at 2 p.m. with Rev. James Anderson and Rev. Charles Denny officiating. Interment will be at Woodside Cemetery, Middletown, Ohio. Arrangements by Herr-Riggs Funeral Home, 210 S. Main St., Middletown.
Journal-News, Middletown, Ohio, 9 May 2015: Donald Kevin Doyle, age 52, of Middletown, passed away Wed., May 27, 2015 at Reid Hospital. He was born July 9, 1962 in Middletown, Ohio. Donald was a member of the Enterprise Baptist Church. Preceded in death by his maternal grandmother Ella Honaker. Survivors include his parents William & Dorothy Kay (Honaker) Doyle, a brother, Tommy Doyle and wife Tammy, special aunts Vickie Taylor and Karen Baker, and three nephews, Tommy Doyle, Jr., Trevin Doyle and Tyler Doyle. A graveside service will be held on Mon., June 1, 2015 at the Fairmount Cemetery, 7371 Camden Rd., Camden, OH 45311 with Rev. David Wilhoit and Pastor James Anderson officiating. Arrangements in care of the Herr-Riggs Funeral Home, 210 S. Main St., Middletown, OH 45044. Condolences may be sent to the family at herr-.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 29 Apr 2012: Patricia Louise Honaker, 64, of White Sulphur Springs, died April 27, 2012. Service will be 2 p.m. Tue., May 1, at Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg. [Friends and relatives] may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Mon., April 30, at the funeral home.
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Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 12 Apr 2012: Bandy, Va.—Ralph Jerry Boothe Honaker “Hippie,” age 40, of the Dry Fork community in Bandy, Va., died Tue., April 10, 2012 at Bishop, Va. Born Jan. 24, 1972 in Tazewell, Va., he was a son of Retha “Susie” Boothe Honaker and Russell Honaker of Baptist Valley, Va. He was employed at Bishop Enterprises. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting and trapping with his son, Tyler. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Ralph and Mallie Bradley; one nephew, Dustin Lester; one aunt, Rachel Mitchell. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Sharon Graham Boothe; one son, Jerry Tyler Boothe of the home; stepdaughter, Jessica Renee Cooke and husband, Carlos Andre Cooke of Martinsville, Va.; one brother, Russell Honaker II of Baptist Valley, Va.; one sister, Roxanne Lester and husband, Roby of Dry Fork, Va.; three grandchildren, Ella Renee Cooke, Ethan Cooke, and Trenton Cooke; father-in-law, Gus Graham Jr. of Horsepen, Va.; brothers-in-law, Ronnie Shrader and wife, Nancy of North Tazewell, Va., and Donald Byrd and wife, Kathy of Wirtz, Va.; goddaughter, Courtney Lambert of Bishop, Va.; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sat., April 14, 2012 at Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell, Va. with the Reverend Roger Barnett officiating. Burial will follow at Boothe Cemetery at Dry Fork in Tazewell County , Va. Pallbearers will be Curtis Montaigne, Danny Shrader, Ray Childress, Ronnie Shrader, Jesse Childress, and James Asbury. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6–9 p.m. Fri., April 13, 2012. Online condolences may be sent to the family at .
Houston [Texas] Chronicle, 16 Apr 2012: Brittany Renee Honaker passed away April 15, 2012. She was born Jan. 14, 1988 in Houston, Texas. Visitation will begin at 1 p.m., Thurs., April 19, 2012 and will be followed by funeral services at 2 p.m. in the Chapel at Memorial Oaks Funeral Home.
Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash., 15 Mar 2012: Born in Riceville, [McMinn Co.] Tenn., in 1934, Dorothy (Scott) Honaker’s life ended blissfully on March 5 2012, at the age of 77. An inoperable cardiac condition was no deterrent to her genuine need to keep on living. A true Southern woman, Dot was raised in Riceville, later moved to Athens, [McMinn Co.] Tenn., and lived her adult life there until moving to Richland, [Benton Co.] Wash. in 1976. With the love of her family, Susan, her son in law Brian, and her granddaughters Emma and Clare Honaker Wirzbicki, her neighborhood friends, and the steadfast community of All Saints Episcopal Church in Richland, Wash., Dot, (Grandma Polka Dot) will be celebrated March 16th, 4 p.m. at All Saints, Richland. In lieu of flowers, contributions in the name of Dot Honaker to All Saints Outreach Committee, 1322 Kimball Ave. Richland, WA 99354, Camp Cross (Episcopal summer camp of the diocese) 245 E. 13th Ave. Spokane, WA 99202, or Invest-Ed ( a scholarship account for high school student involvement) at 3737 Shelton Springs Road., Shelton, WA 98584 would be appreciated.
Quincy [Ill.] Herald-Whig, 13 Mar 2012: Canton, Mo.—Mrs. Marilyn Maxine Lay, 69, passed away peacefully at 8:35 p.m. Sat., March 10, 2012 in Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, after a short battle with cancer. Marilyn was born May 21, 1942, to Henry Hughes and Twila Maxine Minnerly Honaker. She married Charles Edward Lay on May 14, 1961. He died June 2, 1987. Marilyn was a member of I.U.M.C. in Canton. She was a past president of Eagles Auxiliary Aerie 1800 of Canton. Marilyn enjoyed her children and grandchildren. She also enjoyed 32 years of work at Charles Manufacturing/Coil Industries and had been previously employed with the Richard DeCoster Law Office in Canton. She was very active for many years running the concessions for Canton R-V Booster Club and the CCAA summer ball league. She loved watching children's sports and NASCAR racing. She is survived by a sister, Sharon Hoewing of Canton; four children, Kathy Gorrell and her husband, Jr., of Canton, Karen Fishback and her husband, Tom, of New Bloomfield, Mo., Kim Ellison and her husband, Tom, of Canton and Kelli Fohey and her husband, Dax, of Palmyra; 14 grandchildren, Christina Carter and her husband, Steve, of Canton, Stacie Armstrong of Canton, Lauren Brooks of Canton, Travis, Emilee and Madison Gorrell of Canton, Craig and Tyler Fishback of New Bloomfield, Cameron Kirchner of Canton, Justin and Jordyn Ellison of Canton and Hailey, Taylor and Jaxson Fohey of Palmyra; five great-grandchildren, Haley Brooks, Keaton Boltz and Malachi and Denver Schluter, all of Canton, and Isaac Armstrong of Kahoka; a niece, Amy Bringer and her husband, Corey, of Canton; and two nephews, Scott Hoewing and his wife, Tabitha, of Canton and Mark Hoewing and his wife, Cindy, of Canton. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and a brother, Edward Honaker. SERVICES: 11 a.m. Thursday in the Davis Funeral Home, Canton, with the Rev. Amanda Ross conducting. Burial will be in Forest Grove Cemetery. VISITATION: 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday in the funeral home. MEMORIALS: CCAA or Canton R-V Booster Club. ARRANGEMENTS: Davis Funeral Home, Canton. WEBSITE: davis-. Condolences may be expressed online at .
Virginian Pilot, Hampton Roads, Va., 24 Feb 2012: Chesapeake—Lynne L. Honaker, 63, passed away Feb. 22, 2012, in Virginia Beach. She was born in Rhode Island, and was an import broker for FedEx. She is survived by two sons James Honaker and wife Debbie, Jeffrey Honaker and wife Denise; sisters Nancy Blakemore and husband John; Sally Oglesby and husband Richard, a brother David Foster and wife Debbie; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A memorial service will be held at Bethany Baptist Church, Sat., Feb. 25, at 6 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to COPD Foundation, Inc., copdfoundationinc. Condolences may be made at
Charlotte [N.C.] Observer, 7 Feb 2012: Stanley—Cheryl Lareah Moore Honaker, 59, died Feb. 4, 2011. Funeral Wednesday 7 p.m., Amazing Grace Baptist Church. Visitation 5– 6:45p.m. at the church. Good Samaritan Funeral Home entrusted.
Mooresville [N.C.] Tribune, 8 Feb 2012: Cheryl Lareah Moore Honaker, 59, of Stanley, died Sat., Feb. 4, 2012. Funeral services will be held today, Feb. 8, 2012, at 7 p.m. at the Amazing Grace Baptist Church, 7280 Sifford Rd., Stanley. The family will receive friends from 5 to 6:45 p.m. A graveside service will be held Thurs., Feb. 9, 2012, at 2 p.m. in the church cemetery. The Good Samaritan Funeral Home, Denver, N.C., is serving the Honaker family.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 2 Sep 2011, with photograph: Raleigh, N.C.—Sheila Irene Shrewsbury, 99, of Raleigh, N.C., formerly of Lashmeet, died Wed., Aug. 31, 2011 in Raleigh, N.C. Born Aug. 5, 1912 at Crumpler, she was the daughter of the late Thomas A. Honaker and Ocie D. Shrewsbury Honaker. Mrs. Shrewsbury was a member of the Matoaka United Methodist Church where she was in the Women’s Society of Christian Service. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Oscar D. Shrewsburyin 2001; one daughter, Norma Jean Hurst; six sisters, Nellie Honaker Wolf, Verna Akers, Peggy Akers, Francis Suddreth, Leona Akers and Avilean Rhodes; one brother, Maynard B. Honaker; and one great-great-grandson, Madden Matthews. Survivors include one daughter, Carol Leonall and husband Victor of Raleigh, N.C.; six grandchildren, Carl, Tina, Diane, Ann, Ginny and Larry; nine great-grandchildren, Heather, Sarah, Amy, Christopher, Kellyann, Amber, Shawn, Jerome and Olivia; and one great-great granddaughter, Anabelle. A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m., Sat., Sept. 3, 2011 at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton with Pastor Connie Runion officiating. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call Sat., Sept. 3, 2011 from 1 p.m. until 1:45 p.m. at the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. Online condolences may be sent to the family at bailey-.
Ocala [Fla.] Star-Banner and Patriot-News, Middletown, Pa., 1 Feb 2012: Wayne Allen Searfoss, 33, of Middletown, died unexpectedly on Sat., Jan. 28, 2012. He was born in Gainesville, Fla. and was the son of Thomas and Phyllis Searfoss Honaker of Middletown. Wayne was currently working at the Dollar Tree in Middletown. He has previously worked as a cook at Fuddruckers Restaurant and McDonald’s, both in Hummelstown and Champion Sports Bar in Highspire. Wayne loved animals, drawing, tattooing, hunting and fishing. Surviving in addition to his parents are a son, Jordan Freed and a daughter Keira Searfoss; two sisters, Jessi Kimball of Highspire and Nicole Honaker of Middletown; a step-brother, Daniel Ryan of Inverrness, Fla.; maternal grandmother, Phyllis Searfoss of Starke, Fla.; two nephews, Jayden and Joshua Ryan. He is also survived by numerous aunts, uncles and cousins. Relatives and friends are invited to Wayne’s Life Celebration Memorial Service at Coble-Reber Funeral Home, 208 N. Union St., Middletown, on Saturday at 1 p.m. Interment will be held privately at the convenience of the family. Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from 12 noon until time of service. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Humane Society or SPCA in your local area. To share your fondest memories of Wayne, please visit obits
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 20 Jan 2012: Princeton—Meagan Jayne Honaker, age 25, of 1104 Harrison Street, Princeton, W.Va., formerly of 126 Bluestone Ave., Bramwell, W.Va., passed away on Wed., Jan. 18, 2012 in Bluefield, W.Va. Born on Aug. 18, 1986 in Las Vegas, Nev., she was a daughter of Kenneth Honaker of Texas and Melissa Jane Comer of Princeton. She was a graduate of Bluefield High School and attended National Business College and Bluefield State College. She was a certified nursing assistant. Survivors in addition to her parents include her father, Kevin Hedges of Princeton, W.Va.; maternal grandmother, Jane Comer of Bramwell, W.Va.; paternal grandparents, Jim and Janet Honaker of Nemours, W.Va.; brothers, Joshua Honaker and wife Paige of Rocky Gap, Va., Jack Honaker of Princeton, W.Va.; sisters, Brittany Hensley of Nemours, W.Va., Kendra Hedges of Montcalm, W.Va.; uncle, Chris Comer of Bramwell, W.Va.; nieces, Kaylie and Paris; nephews, Kaleb, Konnor and Daryl. Funeral services will be held on Sat., Jan. 21, 2012 at 2:30 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. Terry Choate officiating. Entombment will follow at Woodlawn Mausoleum in Bluewell. Pallbearers will be Joshua Honaker, Jack Honaker, Josh Pennington, Greg Lee, Zach Choate and Jed Choate. Friends may call on Saturday afternoon from 1—2:30 p.m. prior to the service. The family is accepting online condolences at cravens-. The Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 3 Nov 2011: Cedar Bluff, Va.—Janice L. “Flossie” Honaker, age 58, of the Baptist Valley section, laid down to finally rest in peace on Tuesday morning, Nov. 1, 2011, in an Abingdon, Va. hospital. After a life-time battle with different diseases, including diabetes and Addison’s disease, our precious Savior, Jesus Christ, finally gave her sleep. She now awaits His return. She was a member of Bandy Chapel Church of the Christian faith. She was preceded in death by her mother, Stella Louise Mitchell and father, [Arthur] W. Mitchell. She is survived by husband, Alan Honaker; son, Walton “Boo” Honaker; and very special friend and companion, Madison Blankenship and her parents, Teresa and Jeff Blankenship. She is also survived by two brothers, Troy and Carl Mitchell and one sister, Laura Young. Flossie is also survived by sisters and brothers-in-law, and many friends who grew near to her and loved her over the years. The family would like to take time to offer special thanks to the family of the late Dr. H.C. Scott for all he did for her in the 1980s and 90s. Also to all employees at Russell County Dialysis in Lebanon, Va. Also very special thanks and appreciation to the owner and all employees of Mercy Ambulance Service, Lebanon, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Fri., Nov. 4, 2011, at Singleton Funeral Service Chapel at Cedar Bluff with Brother Barry Jessee officiating. Burial will follow in the Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be Jeff Cordle, Eddie Jessee, Jeff Blankenship, Matt Johnson, Larry Avent and Eric Arnold. Honorary pallbearers will be Carl Christian, Gene Harrison, Jacob Harrison, Keith Harrison, Leo Barnett and Jerry Settle. The family will receive friends after 12 noon on Friday. Online condolences may be sent to the family by going to . Singleton Funeral Service is serving the family of Janice L. “Flossie” Honaker.
Dayton [Ohio] Daily News, 19 Dec 2011: Bessie Honaker, age 90, of Dayton passed away on Sat. Dec. 17, 2011 at the Elm Creek Nursing Center. She was born on Feb. 7, 1921 in Lee Co., Ky., the daughter of the late Richard and Martha (Rowland) Rader. Preceded in death by her husband, Dan Honaker, her brother Eli Rader and a sister, Mamel Reed. She is survived by three sisters, Carline Greene of West Carrollton, Halley Pigg and husband Bill of Dayton, Corina Dodridge of Miamisburg as well as numerous other family members and friends. Funeral services will be held on Thurs., Dec. 22, 2011 at 1 p.m. from the Swart & Wolfe Funeral Home, 207 E. Central Ave., West Carrollton with Rev. David Bowling officiating. Burial Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the funeral home.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 20 Nov 2011: Castlewood, Va.—Wilma Dingus Osborne, 82, passed away peacefully at her home Fri., Nov. 18, 2011, after a brief illness. She was born in Castlewood, daughter of the late Loyd and Rhoda Jessee Dingus. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert “Bus” Osborne; three brothers, Giles Dingus who was killed in the Korean War, John Dingus, and Gary Dingus. She was a life-long resident of Russell County. She was retired from Reynolds Metal of Bristol, Va. She was a member of Rings Chapel Baptist Church. She is survived by two daughters, Shirley Diana Gibson and husband, Homer, of Castlewood, and Brenda Kay Elam and husband, Freddie, of Castlewood; one grandson, Billy Honaker of Castlewood; three granddaughters, Krista Honaker Post and husband, Kip, Brittany Elam, and Kelsey Elam, all of Castlewood; one great- granddaughter, Cheyenne Brooke Elam; two sisters, Loraine Davis of Castlewood, and Sue Garland, and husband, Wayne, of Jacksonville, Fla.; one brother, Jack Dingus and wife, Pauline, of Castlewood; one sister-in-law, Nancy Dingus of Sandusky, Ohio; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services for Wilma Dingus Osborne will be conducted at 8 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20, 2011, in the Castlewood Funeral Home Chapel, Castlewood, with the Rev. Tom Anderson and the Rev. Charles Jones officiating. Committal services and interment will be conducted at 11 a.m., Mon., Nov. 21, 2011, in Dingus Family Cemetery, Castlewood. Family and friends will meet at the funeral home and go in procession to the cemetery leaving at 10:30 a.m. Monday. Pallbearers will be nephews. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sun., Nov. 20, 2011, in Castlewood Funeral Home, Castlewood. The family greatly appreciates and would like to thank the doctors and nursing staff on the sixth floor at Holston Valley Hospital and hospice nurse, Renee Cox, for all their care and attention to our beloved mother and sister. Online condolences may be sent to the Osborne family through our web site and a video tribute may be viewed at . Castlewood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Midland [Texas] Reporter-Telegram, 20 Nov 2011: Frances Caldwell, 90, of Midland, Texas, went to be with the Lord, on Nov. 17, 2011. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m., Mon., Nov. 21, 2011, at the Cotton Flat Baptist Church, with Rev. Rick Holeman, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow at Serenity Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sun., Nov, 20, 2011, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at the funeral home. She was born on Dec. 2, 1920, in Harrold, Texas, to Elizabeth A. Howell and Christian Peterson. She was raised in the Electra area and retired from MEPCO-ELECTRA in Mineral Wells in 1986. Frances is survived by her loving family, Pam Brookshire and husband, Roy of Midland, Patricia Moon and husband, Billy of Springdale, Ark., John Harrigal and wife, Brenda of Holiday, Texas, Jan McCormick, Dennis Caldwell, Sandy Moergali of Tacoma, Wash.; her grandchildren, Gene Brookshire, Dana Williams and husband, Micah, all of Midland, Angela Moon of Springdale, Ark., Lindy Knight and husband, Steven of Rogers, Arkansas, Lori Moon of Colorado Springs, Colo., Donnie Lowe and husband, Hayes, and Thomas Honaker, Debbie Honaker and Timmy Honaker, all of Electra, Doug Harrigal and Connie Harrigal of Holiday, Texas, Jeff McCormick, Jenny McCormick and Jackie McCormick, all of Tacoma, Wash.; 35 great grandchildren, including Joshua Munoz, Justin Brookshire, Deegan Williams, Tyler Moon, Noah Lowe, Aubrey Lowe, and Autumn Knight; and other family and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother, Elizabeth A. Payton; father, Christian Peterson; her son, Johnny Glen Honaker; her husband, Floyd Caldwell; and a great grandson, Trey Moon. Arrangements are under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Midland. Online condolences can be made at: .
News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 11 Feb 2011: Terri Nicole Zornes Honaker, 28, of Ransom, died Tue., Feb. 8, 2011. She was born April 7, 1982 in Logan, W.Va., the daughter of Randy Zornes of Delbarton, W.Va. and Betty Dotson Zornes of Ransom. She was a loving daughter, mother, granddaughter and sister. She was a faithful member of the Freeburn Church of God. Other survivors include her loving daughters, Cassie Honaker and Hailey Zornes, both of the home; grandmother, Norma Dotson of Ransom; sister, Evelyn Ellis of Lenore, W.Va., and a host of family and friends. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sun., Feb. 13, 2011, in the R.E. Rogers Funeral Home Chapel, with Johnny Matthew Fields officiating. Burial will follow in the Dotson Cemetery, Ransom, Ky., with family and friends serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be held after 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at R.E. Rogers Funeral Home, with special services both nights at 7 p.m. R.E. Rogers Funeral Home of Belfry is in charge of arrangements. Online condolences at .
Greenville [S.C.] News, 26 Oct 2011: Luther Burgess Honaker, 101, Clemson, died Oct. 18, 2011. Arrangements: Duckett-Robinson Funeral Home.
Record Searchlight, Redding, Calif., Oct. 9, 2011: Francille “Kaye” Honaker, 67, of Cottonwood died Friday at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are pending at Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel in Anderson (365-5466.)
Dayton [Ohio] Daily News, 27 Sep 2011: Charles E. Honaker, 61, Xenia, passed Sept. 24. Service 11 a.m. Sat., Oct. 1, 2011 at Newcomer Funeral Home, Beavercreek, Ohio.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 27 Mar 2011 (with photograph): Coaldale—Edna Mae Honaker Hazelwood, age 66, of Coaldale, went home to be with her Lord on Fri., March 25, 2011 at her home. Born in St. Smith, Ark., on May 12, 1944, Edna moved to West Virginia at a young age and lived the majority of her life as a housewife and mother to five children. She attended Coaldale Freewill Baptist Church for many years where she enjoyed singing solos and singing with the church choir. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter Harold Honaker and Lillian Irene Fortner Honaker; a brother, Gordon McRae “Mack” Honaker; and a sister, Novella Marie Wirt. Survivors include five children, Billy Wayne Hazelwood of Greenville, S.C., James “Jimbo” Hazelwood and Tammy of Boonville, N.C., Rebecca “Becky” Harmon of King, N.C., Katherine Spencer and Jessie of Tobaccoville, N.C., Jennifer Yuwapan and Patrapee of Thailand; four sisters, Linda McGuigan of Lorain, Ohio, Denise Boots and John of Switchback, Debra Lambert of Bluefield, Janet Honaker of Princeton; three brothers, Robert “Bobby” Honaker of Homerville, Ohio, Harold “Sonny” Honaker and Cola of Bluefield, David Honaker of Beckley; many other family and friends who helped to take care of her, including the staff of Hospice Compassus. Funeral services will be conducted on Mon., March 28, 2011 at 8 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with the Rev. Roger Lacy and the Rev. Tim Lacy officiating. Friends may call prior to the services on Monday, from 6 – 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Online condolences will be accepted at cravens-. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell is serving the family.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 16 June 2011 (with photograph): Audrey Mullins Honaker Henderson, 64, of Hurley, died Fri., June 10, 2011 at Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, Ky., following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Harry Lee and Mable Scarberry Mullins. She was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and was a member of the Hurley Church of God. She was a loving mother, grandmother and was a wonderful homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Dewey Honaker; one son, Jerry Honaker; and one infant brother. She is survived by one daughter, Tammy Coleman and husband, Timothy, of Canada, Ky.; two sons, Benny Honaker and wife, Tammy, of Canada, Ky., and Richard Honaker and wife, Sharon, of Middlesboro, Ky.; six sisters, Cassie Coleman, Juanita Lester and husband, Lincoln, Alice Matney and husband, Adam, and Charlotte Shortridge, all of Hurley, Peggy Sparks and husband, Ed, of Whitewood, and Deborah Kaler and husband, Dennis, of San [Angelo], Texas; three brothers, Clive Mullins, of Hurley, Monroe Mullins and wife, Linda, of Richlands, and Curtis Mullins and wife, Rita, of Whitewood; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Mon., June 13, 2011 at the Hurley Church of God with Revs. Dennis Prater, Doug Blankenship, Gary Charles and Austin Scarberry officiating. Burial followed in the Matney Cemetery on the Right Fork of Guesses Fork, near Hurley. Active pallbearers were family and friends. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Grundy Funeral Home was in charge of all arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 26 Jun 2011: Montcalm—Bernard Owen Watkins, age 96, of P.O. Box 103, Montcalm, W.Va., passed away on Fri., June 24, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on May 11, 1915 in Crystal, he was a son of the late Jim and Icie Honaker Watkins. He had been a lifelong resident of Montcalm and was of the Holiness faith. He was a retired carpenter and block mason. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in World War II. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of 63 years, Lorraine Watkins; six brothers, Paul, Thurman, Roy, Roscoe, Ralph and Ray; and one sister, Lucille White. Survivors include his son, Samuel Watkins and wife Ruby of Montcalm; three grandchildren, Deborah Conley, Samuel Watkins Jr., and Shelley Phillips; six great grandchildren; and seven great-great grandchildren; two sisters, Betty Shaw of Princeton, Marjorie Wolfe of Bluefield. Funeral services will be conducted on Sun., June 26, 2011 at 8 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with the Rev. Walter Shewbridge and the Rev. Vernon Fields officiating. Friends may call from 6–8 p.m. on Sunday evening at the funeral home. Graveside services will be conducted on Mon., June 27, 2011 at 1:30 p.m. at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton with Samuel Watkins Jr., William Conley, and family and friends serving as pallbearers. Those wishing to attend are asked to meet at the funeral home on Monday at 1 p.m. Online condolences will be accepted at cravens-. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is serving the family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 25 Jul 2011: Ruby Justine Honaker, age 81 of Richlands [Va.] died Sat., July 23, 2011 at Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell, Va. She was born Aug. 9, 1929 at Pikeville, Ky., and was a daughter of the late Joshua and Dona Adkins Silcox. Mrs. Honaker spent the majority of her life as a loving wife, mother and grandmother; seeing to her family’s needs. Later in her life she worked with the Senior Companion Program, helping make life better for many people. She was a lady who loved her flower garden and her Lord. She was of the Christian faith and attended the Open Door Christian Church. She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Arnold Lee Honaker; one son, Randy Lee Honaker; three brothers; seven sisters. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Those left to cherish her memories include two daughters, Donna Sue Howery and husband, Jack “Runt” Howery of Cliffield, Va. and Rose Marie Johnson of Tazewell; two sons, Jerry Lee Honaker and Bill Steven Honaker and wife, Teresa Ann Honaker, all of Richlands, Va.; nine grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews, other loving family members and many friends also survive. Funeral services for Ruby Justine Honaker will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tue., July 26, 2011 at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands with the Rev. Barry Absher and the Rev. Charlie McGlothlin officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Friends and family will serve as pallbearers. There will be no public visitation prior to the funeral service. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands is serving the family of Mrs. Honaker and those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 14 Jul 2011 (with photograph): Janet Gail Anderson, age 66, of 132 Tree Top Lane, Bluefield, W.Va., passed away Tue., July 12, 2011 at her residence. Born Nov. 2, 1944 in Bluefield, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Edward and Ethel Honaker Cochrane. Mrs. Anderson was a resident of the Bluefield area most of her life where she was a homemaker and of the Baptist faith. In addition to [her] parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Eddie Anderson. Survivors include one son, Mark Murphy and wife Deborah of Princeton, W.Va.; one daughter, Rebecca Pilkins of Bluefield, W.Va.; three brothers, Jim Honaker and wife Janet of Bluefield, W.Va., Bobby Cochrane and wife Linda of Princeton, W.Va., Joe Cochrane and wife Susan of Richmond, Va.; three sisters, Brenda Compton and husband Donald of Bluefield, W.Va., Kathy McCready of North Wilkesboro, N.C., Faye Collins of Norton, Va.; sister-in-law, Stella Cochrane Tate of Blountville, Tenn.; four grandchildren, David Pilkins II, Monica Pilkins, Robert Evans, and Crystal Wellman and husband Danny; two great-grandchildren, Dalyn Bethel and Haleigh Murphy; special friend, Ed Piedmont of Claypool Hill, Va. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Fri., July 15, 2011 at Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell, W.Va., with the Rev. Daniel Gunnoe officiating. Burial will follow in Monte Vista Cemetery, Bluefield, W.Va. Friends may call Thurs., July 14, 2011 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Those wishing to send online condolences may do so by visiting cravens-.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 27 Dec 2010 (with photograph): Princeton—D.L. “Jack” Bowling, 66, of 52 Crestview Dr. in Princeton, died Fri., Dec. 24, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born in Princeton Jan. 25, 1944 he was the son of Ruth Ester Earls Bowling of Princeton and the late D.L. Bowling Sr. Jack spent most of his life working in the mining industry. Starting as a sampler in the tipple at Keystone mines, Jack went on to become a successful salesman of mine equipment with FMC, Inc. In the mid 1980s Jack started True Energy Coal Sales and Southern Minerals, Inc. in the Maitland/Superior area of McDowell County where he spent his early years. He took great pride in his personal relationships with all the people in Mercer and McDowell County area he employed through these companies and enjoyed a mutual respect and admiration with each of them that is seldom seen in today’s market place. Jack was a graduate of Princeton High School, attended Concord College and earned his degree from Bluefield State College. He was a member of Princeton Masonic Lodge #134 in Princeton, 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Masons, Beni Kedem Tample, Shrine Jesters and Princeton Elks Lodge #1459. Jack served on the board of directors for the Dean Company and First Community Bank in Princeton. He attended the First Baptist Church in Princeton. In addition to his mother, Jack is survived by his wife, Rhonda Honaker Bowling, whom he considered his best friend and constant companion for the past 17 years; one daughter, Jackie Bowling Karnes; one son, Jason Bowling; four grandchildren that he adored, Colt Karnes, Courtney Karnes, Perris Bowling and Peyton Bowling; one brother, Bill Bowling and his wife Donna; and one niece, Beth Wiley and her husband Barry, all of Princeton. In keeping with his wishes, the body has been cremated. Memorial services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Tue., Dec. 28, 2010, at the First Baptist Church in Princeton with Dr. David Dockery officiating and Herbert McClaugherty serving as eulogist. Friends may call at the First Baptist Church in Princeton from 3 p.m. to the service hour on Tuesday. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church, 1116 Mercer St., Princeton, WV 24750, or to a favorite charity. Online condolences may be made at . Seaver Funeral Home in Princeton is serving the Bowling family.
Middletown [Ohio] Journal, 5 Nov 2006 and Osley Co., Ky., historical web site, 29 Mar 2010: Ethel (Sandlin) Honaker, age 69 of South Lebanon, Ohio passed peacefully Wed., Nov. 1, 2006 at Cedars of Lebanon with her family by her side. Born Feb. 25, 1937 in Owsley Co., Ky., she was the daughter of Shelby and Bethel (Gilbert) Gabbard and was a homemaker and mother of seven children. Preceded in death by her parents, dear husband, Jerry Honaker, one daughter-in-law, Tracy Johnson, two brothers, Hubert and Eulas Gabbard, two sisters, Inez Doughman and Mildred Spicer; she is survived by her children, sons Jerry Ray (Lula) Sandlin of Morrow, Robert (Pauline) Sandlin of Morrow and Rocky Sandlin of South Lebanon; daughters Sandra (Don) Wallace of Germantown, Patty (Daniel) Comley of Miamisburg, Tonya (Dallas) Hensley of Oregonia and Lesia (Matt) Sandlin of South Lebanon; brothers Hershel Gabbard of Morrow and Estil Gabbard of South Lebanon; 20 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren. Calling hours Mon., Nov. 6, 2006 from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. at Stine Kilburn Funeral Home of Lebanon. Funeral services at the funeral home at 1 p.m. with Pastor Matt Morgan officiating. Burial will follow in the Deerfield Cemetery in South Lebanon. Condolences may be sent to the family by signing the guest book at
Journal-News, Middletown, Ohio, 30 Mar 2014: Ruth J. Honaker, 86, of Monroe, died Fri., March 28, 2014, at Mt. Pleasant Retirement Village. She was born in Winchester, Ky., on Dec. 2, 1927 to parents Leoff and Alice (Eades) Curtis. Ruth earned her bachelor’s degree in education and was a teacher with Middletown City Schools for 32 years. She had been a member of Franklin First United Methodist Church. Mrs. Honaker is survived by her husband, John Honaker; daughter, Brenda (Jeffrey Mironov) Charles; brothers, O.B. Curtis & Lee Curtis; sisters, Frances Elliott & Opal Hollar and grandchildren: Traci Y. Charles; Robin Charles; great-grandchildren, Abella Jean Charles and Neil French Comstock. Ruth was preceded in death by her parents and son, Robert French Charles. Funeral service will be held Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 11 a.m. at Wilson-Schramm-Spaulding Funeral Home, 3805 Roosevelt Blvd., Middletown. Interment will be at Deerfield Cemetery, South Lebanon. Memorial donations may be made to Franklin First United Methodist Church, 303 South Main Street, Franklin, OH 45005. Please sign the guest book online at
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 11 Aug 2011: Glen Rogers—Barbara Christine Webb Hall, 79, of Glen Rogers, passed away Tue., Aug. 9, 2011, in Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley, following a long illness. Born Apr. 19, 1932, in Wyoming County, she was the daughter of Pug and Maggie Honaker Webb. Barbara was a member of the Pine Grove Baptist Church, Ravencliff. She enjoyed shopping, gospel music, going to church and being with her family. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years, Robert Holmes Hall on Oct. 7, 2001, and several brothers and sisters. Survivors include six sons, Chucky Hall and his wife, Annie, of Ravencliff, Harold Hall and his wife, Claudette, of Glen Rogers, Randy Hall and his wife, Patty, of Glen Rogers, Todd Hall of Glen Rogers, Mark Hall of Glen Rogers and Thomas Hall of Dunbar; three daughters, Sandra Fortner and her husband, Johnny, of Ravencliff, Pat Shumate and her husband, Tom, of Ravencliff and Wanda Cozort of Glen Rogers; two sisters, Orfa Webb of Beckley and Lynn Lafferty of Fairdale; 18 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren. A celebration of Barbara’s life will be 2 p.m., Fri., Aug. 12, 2011, at Pine Grove Baptist Church, Ravencliff, with the Rev. Dewayne Hurd officiating. Burial will follow in Pine Grove Cemetery, Ravencliff.
Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Family will receive friends from 1 p.m. until time of service at the church on Fri., Aug. 12, 2011. Online guest book may be signed at Calfee Funeral and Cremation Service of Pineville is serving the Hall family.
Dayton [Ohio] Daily News, 10 Aug 2011: Candy Renee Honaker, age 28, of Dayton passed away Fri., July 29, 2011. Candy is survived by her beloved daughter, Tabitha; her mother, Sandra D. Honaker; one sister, Natasha Honaker; one brother, Jason Ralston; her beloved “Mamaw” Georgia Honaker and “Papaw” Douglas Honaker and his wife, Susan, and Becky Lander; uncles, Danny & Doug Honaker, Greg Lander and James Snipes, Jr.; step-father, Lorenzo Cullins; God-sister, Tasana Gilbert; and by her extended family & many good friends, including her many friends from Northmont High School, class of 2001. Candy’s favorite pass-time was going to Kings Island, roller skating at Skate World in Vandalia and spending time with her daughter. She worked as a home health care provider through Blue-Green Home Health Care Agency. The family will be receiving friends from 1 to 2 p.m., Fri., (8/12) at Newcomer Funeral Home & Crematory, 4104 Needmore Road, Dayton. Funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. To send a special message to the family, please visit .
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 28 Aug 2011: Beulah P. Honaker, 89, of Hillsville, passed away Fri., Aug. 26, 2011. Funeral service 4 p.m. Sun., Aug. 28, 2011 at the Vaughan-Guynn-Mcgrady Funeral Home Chapel.
Courier Journal, Louisville, Ky., 21 Jul 2011: Joshua Ira Honaker died July 18, 2011. J.C. Kirby & Son, Broadway.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 18 May 2011 and Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 11 May 2011: Mr. Lonzo Allen Honaker, age 48, of North Cedar Acres, Lebanon, Va., passed away Sun., May 8, 2011 at his home following a battle with heart and lung conditions. Born Feb. 19, 1963 in Tazewell Co., Va., he was a son of the late Rev. William “Jim” and Lucille Ritchie Honaker. A lifelong resident of the area, he was a disabled coal miner and of the Christian faith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his infant son, Adam Lonzo Honaker, a very special sister, Judy Ball, paternal grandparents, Samuel and Louella Thomas Honaker, and maternal grandparents, Otis and Carrie Young Ritchie. Survivors include his wife, Rebecca Fields Honaker of the home; one son, Matthew Rasnake of Crestview, Fla.; two sisters, Tiny Dye and husband, Howard of Lebanon and Libby Hubbard and husband, Bill of Honaker; two brothers, William Nathan “Billy” Honaker of Honaker and Jimmy Dean Honaker and wife, Anna Mae of Swords Creek; nephews, Bryan Hess of Honaker and Matthew Hubbard and wife, Christy and children, Laken and Layla all of Belfast; nieces, Melinda Hale and husband, Mark and children, Chelsey and Tyler, Tonya Hart and husband, Brad and children, Corey and Koty, and Renee Hess and daughter, Destiny all of Honaker, and Tina Coleman and husband, Michael and children, Dalton and Whitley all of Lebanon; special mother-in-law, Frances McGlothlin; two grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Roy Lee Wilson and Rev. Gary Street officiating. Graveside services were conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Frank Smith Cemetery on Big A Mountain, Va. Pallbearers were Bryan Hess, Matt Hubbard, Jason Wilson, Nolan Stevens, David Sykes, and Roger Keen. Honorary pallbearers were Gary Street and Stevie Street.
News-Record, Greensboro, N.C., 6 May 2011: Liberty—Brenda Cordero, 60, of Liberty died Tue., May 3, 2011 at Wesley Long Community Hospital following a courageous battle with her cancer. Memorial Service will be 4 p.m. Sat., May 7, 2011 at Plainview Baptist Church. Brenda was known to all as a giving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, friend, and church member always putting the needs of others before her own, even to strangers. She was an operating room technician working originally with L. Richardson Hospital and later with Moses Cone and Women’s Hospital. She is survived by her husband of 41 years, Paul M. Cordero, Sr.; son, Paul Mike Cordero, II; daughter, Jimmie Lynn Peterson and her husband, Danny; sister, Linda Jean Duncan; brother, William Logan Honaker; half sisters, Sheila and Brenda; grandchildren, Kristina Peterson, Morgan Peterson, and Aryn Taylor; great grandchildren, Zoë Jade and Kailyn Rose; and a host of extended family and close friends that were touched by her. The family will receive friends from 7 until 9 p.m. Fri., May 6, 2011 at Pine Bluff Fellowship Hall, 1820 Mt. Hope Church Road in McLeansville and again following the memorial service. Memorial contributions can be made through Plainview Baptist Church, 1820 Mount Hope Church Rd., McLeansville, NC 27301 to assist the family with medical bills. George Brothers Funeral Service is assisting the family with funeral arrangements
News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., 30 Jan 2013: William L. Honaker, 59, Sanford, died Jan. 27, 2013. Arrangements: Smith Funeral Home, Moncure [N.C.]
Sanford [N.C.] Herald, 30 Jan 2013: Sanford—William Logan Honaker, 59, died Sun., Jan. 27, 2013 in Princeton, Ky. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sister, Brenda Cadero. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and was a truck driver with Lumbee Trucking. Funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Smith Funeral Home in Moncure with the Rev. Garland Smith officiating. Burial will follow at the Moncure United Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 1 until 2 p.m., one hour prior to the funeral service at the funeral home. He is survived by his wife, Lola Saunders Honaker of Sanford, daughters, Heather Honaker of Southern Pines, Therresa Honaker and Danielle Honaker, both of Maryland, Brenda Kathleen Raper of Sanford and Theresa Bass of Liberty; sister, Linda Duncan (James) of Aberdeen; and four grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Smith Funeral Home, P.O. Box 138, Moncure, N.C. 27559 for funeral expenses. Arrangements by Smith Funeral Home of Moncure.
News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C., 6 Mar 2016: Elizabeth C. Honaker, 61, Willow Spring, died March 4, 2016. Rose & Graham Funeral Home, Four Oaks, N.C., is in charge.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 9 May 2011: Bristol, Va.—Glenn Lewis Honaker, age 61, passed away Sat., May 7 2011, at the Bristol Regional Medical Center. Mr. Honaker was born Dec. 28, 1949, in Bristol, Tenn., and was the son of the late William and Ella Mae Honaker. Mr. Honaker retired as a maintenance worker for the Bristol Tennessee school system and attended Belle Meadows Baptist Church. Preceding Mr. Honaker in death is his sisters, Myrtle Harless, Mary Pippin and Ruth Ann Honaker. He is survived by his loving wife of 31 years, Vickie Honaker; son, Charles Dunbar and wife, Misty, Travis Dunbar and wife, Christy; daughter, Cheryl and fiance, John Bright; sister, Bonnie Rein and Ethel Morton; brother, James Allen Honaker, Donald Honaker, Freddie Honaker and wife, Phyllis, and Gary Honaker and wife, Debbie; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. The service for Mr. Honaker will be held Tue., May 10, 2011, at 6 p.m. in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Evangelist Dreama Hawkins officiating. The visitation will be from 4 to 6 p.m. prior to the service. Online condolences may be registered by visiting Arrangements have been made with Weaver Funeral Home.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 4 Feb 2011: Genevieve Easter Lehman, 88, of Glen White, passed away Tue., Feb. 1, 2011, at the Bowers Hospice House. Born April 16, 1922, in Lundale, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Charles and Lelia Honaker Nickell. Genevieve was a homemaker and a lifetime resident of Raleigh County. Besides her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Harry Lehman; daughters, Sharon Sanna and Brenda Lehman; brothers, Charles, James and Carmen Nickell; and a sister, Geraldine Westfall. Survivors include daughters, Dwanna Lehman of Piney View, Marilyn Lehman of Beckley; sons, Earl Lehman and wife Deborah and James Lehman, both of Glen White, and Charles Larry Lehman of Indianapolis, Ind.; grandchildren, Jason Lehman, Carmen and Mary Jo Sanna, Angie Grimes, Lelia Harold, Kari Forren, James Earl Lehman, Alicia Lehman, Mikel McDaniel, Ruth Ann Williams, Dewey McCoy; sister, Margaret Bourne; 14 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and special caretaker, Wendy Burnham. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Mon., Feb. 7, 2011, at Calfee Funeral Home with Pastor Fred Lovell officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon Monday until time of service. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Online condolences may be left at . Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Akron [Ohio] Beacon Journal, 28 Feb 2011: Mary Louise “Tookie” Livers, age 86, of Akron, went home to be with the Lord after a long and courageous battle against cancer on Sat., Feb. 26, 2011. She was born in Charleston, W.Va. on March 9, 1924 to the late Joseph Emmett and Sue Honaker Robinson and graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School where she wrote the school’s anthem. She was a great accomplished musician and was a member of the High School “All State Orchestra” as the first cello; she also played the viola, piano, and violin. She was a member of the Teamsters Union as she worked and retired from Commercial Motor Freight of Akron. After retiring in 1975 she took up playing Texas Hold ’Em with her friends/associates and was known around town as “full boat Weezie.” Her other hobbies were sewing, working crossword puzzles and she loved to read often times four to five books a week. She was preceded in death by her sister, Dorothy Lee Smith; she is survived by her best friend and companion of 44 years, Richard A. Breinich; and her two sons, Terry Shane (Michelle) and John Michael (Connie) Livers of Akron; her daughter, Stephanie Sue (David) Gardner of Ft. Myers, Fla.; her granddaughters, Crystal, Michelle, Elissa, Erika, Jenna, Jessica, and Emilee Livers and granddaughters Allie North and Lexie Smith; and special nephews, Lee, Mark and Charles Smith; along with numerous other cousins, nieces and nephews. Calling hours, March 1st. Tuesday 5 to 8, at the Hilliard-Rospert Funeral Home, 174 N. Lyman St. in Wadsworth, with a Memorial Service at 8 p.m. The family would like to extend a special Thank You to the staff at VNS Hospice Care Center in Fairlawn for their comfort and care of Tookie. In lieu of flowers please make donations to the VNS Hospice Center, 3358 Ridgewood Rd., Akron OH 44333. Hilliard-Rospert Funeral Home, 330-334-1501
Life Tribute Funeral Care (an electronic online site): Mary Virginia Honaker, 60, of Gulfport, [Fla.] died Thurs., March 10, 2011, at home. Born Jan. 6, 1951 in Centre, Ala., she came here from Lindale, Ga. She was a member of the American Cancer Society. She was preceded in death by her parents, Nellie Jo and Howard Lon Hunter, sister Shonda Hunter, and brother Jeffrey Hunter. She is survived by her husband of 21 years Bob Honaker, sons Brett Baker and Lou Honaker, daughters Syconda Baker and Kimberly Tucker, sisters Martha Padgett, Diane Glover, Cyndi Sills, Teresa Little and Karen Sanders, brother Greg Hunter, grandchildren Austin Baker, Cheyenne Cloud, Lindsey Honaker, Shaddy Calapardo, Angelika Calapardo, Emma Honaker, Morgan Tucker and Cooper Tucker. There will be a visitation on Sat., March 12 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm with a service at 1:30 pm at Anderson McQueen, 7820 38th Ave. North. Entombment will follow at Royal Palm Cemetery South, [St. Petersburg, Fla.]
Crouch Funeral Home, North East, Md., Jan. 20, 2011: Jason E. Honaker, 25, of Elkton, Md., died Sat., Jan. 8, 2011 in the Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del. Born in Elkton, Md., on June 11, 1985, he was the son of Carl and Rita Honaker of Conowingo, Md. He worked for Independent Disposal Service. He loved his X-Box and was a first degree black belt in the martial arts. He is also survived by his girlfriend: Michelle Regan of Elkton, Md.; daughter, Kyleigh Honaker, unborn son, Jason E. Honaker, Jr. and stepson, Joshua Ewing all at home; two brothers, Carl A. Honaker of Beckley, W.Va., his twin brother, Joshua Honaker of Conowingo; and two sisters: Becky Honaker of Elkton, Md., and Angela Honaker of North East, Md. Funeral services will be held Thurs., Jan. 13, 2011 at 11 a.m. at Crouch Funeral Home, 127 S. Main St., North East, Md., with visitation for family and friends beginning at 10 a.m. Interment will follow services in Gilpin Manor Memorial Park, Elkton.
Maryland Today, 8 Jan 2011, Man with sword killed by police, [Associated Press]
Elkton, Md.— Maryland State Police said they have shot and killed a Cecil County man who confronted state troopers with a sword and what appeared to be guns. Police said Jason E. Honaker, 25, of Elkton, was shot and killed in the incident on Friday night. He was taken to a hospital in Wilmington, Del., but died of his injuries. Police said Honaker called state police and said he would kill his neighbor if officers didn’t come to his apartment. Two officers responded, and Honaker confronted them with a 2-ft. sword and what appeared to be a rifle. It was actually an air rifle. Investigators said Honaker appeared to have a sword and handgun in his waistband. It turned out to be a BB gun. Police said Honaker threw the sword and rifle at the troopers. When he refused to drop the other weapons, an officer fired.
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, 22 Feb 2011: Thomas Lee Honaker went to be with his Lord on Feb. 18, 2011. Tommy was born on Nov. 10, 1951 in St. Albans, W.Va., to James W. and Peggy A. (Furrow) Honaker. He proudly served his country in the U.S. Army. He retained the rank of Specialist 5 and received numerous military medals. He was a truck driver for Kraft Co. and later worked with his father in his trucking company. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He moved to Bethany in April 2001. Tommy was preceded in death by his brother, Richard W.; and his father. He is survived by his mother, Peggy A. Honaker. The family wishes to thank the Veteran's Center staff for their care. Graveside services with military honors are 2:00 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 24, 2011, at Bethany Cemetery.
Daily Mail, Charleston, W.Va., and Guardian Funeral Homes West Chapel, Warr Acres, Okla (with photograph): Peggy Alma Honaker, 94, of Bethany, Okla., passed away May 9, 2014. She was born March 9, 1920, to Grover and Lula Bell Furrow in Blacksburg, Va. She married James Honaker and followed him into the U.S. Army, serving for two years during World War II. They were married for over 60 years before James’ death in 2009. Together they had two sons, Richard and Thomas, who also served in the U.S. military. During her life Peggy worked as a cosmetologist, owning her own shop in West Virginia, and she enjoyed sewing and cooking as well. She is preceded in death by her parents, Grover and Lula Bell Furrow; her husband James Honaker; and her sons, Richard and Thomas Honaker. She is survived by several nieces and nephews, as well as a host of friends. She will be sadly missed by everyone who knew her, as she was a joy to everyone she met. Funeral services will be Monday, 2 p.m., at Guardian Funeral Homes West Chapel, 5820 N.W. 41st St., Bethany, Okla., with visitation before the service beginning at 12 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to a veteran’s hospital of your choice.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald Leader, 26 Feb 2011: Mt. Vernon [Ky.]—Edith Thelma Gadd Honaker, 86, of Richmond, Ind., widow of Marvin Honaker, died Thursday [Feb. 24, 2011]. Services 1 p.m. Saturday, Dowell & Martin Funeral Home. Visit 11 a.m. Saturday.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 17 Mar 2011: Bristol, Va.—A memorial service for Juanita Louise Honaker (Pless) will be held on Thurs., March 17, 2011, at 8 p.m. in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Paul Ketron and Pastor Jim Walker of the Holston Valley Baptist Church officiating. Visiting hours will be 6 p.m. until 7:45 p.m. prior to the service. Graveside services will be private at the family cemetery in Coeburn. Louise has requested that there be no flowers and that memorials be made to the Haven of Rest Rescue Mission in Bristol, Tenn., or the Wellmont Hospice House in Bristol Tenn. Online condolences may be registered at . Louise Dingus Honaker, age 86, went to be with the Lord on March 13, 2011. Weaver Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of the arrangements.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 9 Apr 2011: Bristol, Tenn..— Norma Mae Honaker, age 90, went to be with the Lord on Fri., April 8, 2011. She was born Oct. 30, 1920, to the late Walter Vance and Dora Royston Vance. She was a homemaker and had lived in the Bristol area all of her life. Mrs. Honaker was a member of Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Paul Honaker, in 1985. Survivors are, sister, Mildred Leonard and husband, Narvel; several nieces and nephews; and several great-nieces and great-nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. on Sun., April 10, 2011, from the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Johnny Dillard and the Rev. Travis Chapman officiating. The family will receive friends from 6–8 p.m. prior to the funeral service. Burial will be in Glenwood Cemetery on Mon., April 11, 2011, at 1 p.m.. Online condolences may be registered at . Weaver Funeral Home and Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 31 Dec 2010: Marion, Va.—Lois Naomi Gross, age 72, passed away on Wed., Dec. 29, 2010, in the Francis Marion Manor in Marion. She was born in Russell Co., Va., to the late Harm B. Bise and Rassie Chafin Bise. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a son, Danny Lynn Honaker; a brother, Robert Bise; and a grandson, Jimmy Gibson. She was a loving homemaker and a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She is survived by her children, Attie and Mike Perkins, Atkins, Va., Alfred and Janice Honaker, Atkins, Nancy Honaker, Abingdon, Va., Connie Moore, Abingdon, and Arthur Honaker, Burkesville, Va.; a step-son, Darrell Gross, Marion; her brothers and sisters, Mary Hess, Abingdon, and Paul Hess, Lebanon, Va., Attie and Ernest Hicks, Castlewood, Va., David and Lois Bise, Rowe, Va., Lowell and Brenda Bise, Honaker, Va., William and Janet Chafin, Omaha, Neb., and Jimmie and Sylvia Bise, Roanoke, Va.; several grandchildren, to include a special granddaughter, Tonya Perkins; 12 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews, to include a special nephew Jimmy “Pooh-Bear” Fields. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Sat., Jan. 1, 2011, from the Bradley’s Funeral Home Chapel in Marion with the Rev. Neville Mozingo officiating. Interment will be held privately in Roselawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends Saturday afternoon from 12– 2 p.m. at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy may be sent to the family at . Bradley’s Funeral Home of Marion is serving the family.
Sun Journal, New Bern, N.C., 23 Apr 2011: Havelock—Joey Allen Honaker Sr., 38, died Wed., April 20, 2011, at Carolina East Medical Center. He is survived by his mother, Karen Honaker of Havelock; his father, Ronald Honaker of Dayton, Ohio; one son, Joey Honaker of Dayton, Ohio; one daughter, Skylear Oliver of Miamisburg, Ohio; and one brother, John Honaker of Dayton, Ohio. A private family service will be held. Arrangements are by Woodbridge Funeral Home, Havelock.
Rutland [Vt.] Herald, 21 Jan 2011: Castleton—Shirley Ann Honaker, 70, died Jan. 19, 2011, at Rutland Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. A full obituary will be published in a future edition of the Rutland Herald. Arrangements are pending with the Durfee Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Fair Haven.
Citrus County Chronicle, Crystal River, Fla., 5 Jan 2011: An obituary for Mrs. Rhonda Ross Freeman, 62, of Inverness, Fla., said she moved to Inverness from Webster, N.Y. in 1982 and was preceded in death by a sister, Roberta Rosa. She was survived by a daughter, Christina Honaker of North Carolina, and grandson Ethan Honaker.
Richmond [Va.] Times Dispatch, 2 Jan 2011: An obituary for Mr. Swanson Meade of Chesterfield, Va., preceded by parents John Jefferson and Ada (Belcher) Meade, was survived by a sister, Mag Honaker (Albert) of Chesterfield.
Wytheville [Va.] Enterprise, 1 Jan 2011: An obituary for Lois Naomi Gross, 72, said she died in Marion, Va., was born in Russell Co., Va. to Harm B. and Rassie (Chafin) Bise, was preceded by a son, Danny Lynn Honaker and survived by children Alfred and Janice Honaker of Atkins, Va., Nancy Honaker of Abingdon, Va., and Arthur Honaker of Burkesville, Va.
Bristol (Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 1 Jan 2011: Harold L. Honaker, 82, formerly of Bristol, passed away on Tue., Dec. 28, 2010, in the Master’s Healthcare Center in Algood, Tenn. He was a native of Coalwood, W.Va., and a son of the late William Lee Honaker Sr. and Mary Porter Honaker. Mr. Honaker was in sales and was of the Methodist faith. Survivors include one daughter, Susan Schneck; and one son, Harold Honaker Jr. both of Killeen, Texas. Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Sun., Jan. 2, 2011, from the Monte Vista Memorial Park in Johnson City. Rev. Bob Edmonds will officiate. Burial will follow the service. Online condolences may be sent to the family via . Arrangements are by Morris-Baker Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 2001 Oakland Ave., Johnson City, 423-282-1521.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 27 Oct 2010: Kopperston [W.Va.]—Palmer Blair, 81, went home in the arms of Jesus Mon., Oct. 25, 2010, from Logan Regional Medical Center after a long illness. He was born Aug. 19, 1929, at Johnson Co., Ky., a son of the late Ross and Minnie Octavia Honaker Blair. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by five brothers, Elmer, Lamar, Dexter, Willard, and Tildon Blair; one sister, Rouie Faye Lucas; one son, Teddy Rakes; and one stepson, Timothy Brewer; second wife Mildred Rae Pridemore Blair. Palmer was a member of Bible Baptist Church at Kopperston, where he also served as trustee and was known as Papaw to all the church. He a was retired coal miner and a member of [United Mine Workers of America.] He will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved him. Those left to cherish his memory are his wife of 14 years, Alma Jean Spaulding Blair of Kopperston; his first wife Betty Curry of West Hamlin; three sons, Palmer David (Imogene) Blair of Neibert, Jackie Ray (Penny) Blair of Monaville, and Darrell Gene (Patty) Blair of Accoville; five daughters, Brenda Gail Rowe of Ravenna, Ohio, Christina Lea (Jimmy) Dorton of Roseboro, N.C., Ernestine (Randall) Steele of Hanover, Delana Kay (Mike) Wingler of Accoville and Leona (Ed) Blair of Man; two step sons, James Carlos Brewer of Crum and Dale Brewer of Kopperston, two step daughters, Regina (Richard) Tilley of Lynco and Tracy (Ricky) Lewis of Hampton, Va.; two brothers, Dallas Blair of Illinois and Ted Blair of Danville, Va.; one sister, Bobbie Jean Scites of Woodbridge, Va.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and a host of other family members and friends. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Fri., Oct. 29, 2010 at Bible Baptist Church at Kopperston with the Rev. Earl Brewer officiating. Burial will follow in Forest Lawn Cemetery at Pecks Mill. Visitation will be held from 6– 9 p.m. Thursday at the church and one hour prior to services. Pallbearers will be family and friends. Online condolences may be sent to . Krantz-McNeely Funeral Home at Man will be serving the Blair Family.
Mundwiler Funeral Home, Milbank, S.D., 13 Oct 2010: Timothy R. Honaker, Sr., age 55, of Milbank, died Aug. 24th at his residence. Funeral services will be Wed. Aug. 29th at 11 a.m. at Parkview United Methodist Church in Milbank. Rev. Beth Conrad will officiate and burial will be in the LaBolt Cemetery. Visitation will be Tues. from 4 to 8 p.m. at Mundwiler Funeral Home and continue at the church one hour prior to the services on Wednesday. Honorary pallbearers will be all his family and friends. Casket bearers will be: Gary Reil, John Weyh, Wayne Loeschke, Jon Benson, Dan Kalber, Sr., and Eric Hooser. The vocalist and guitarist will be Tim Mundwiler. Timothy Ray Honaker was born Jan. 20, 1952, at Ironton, Ohio. He was the son of Donald and Betty (Nicols) Honaker. He graduated from Dawson-Bryant High School in Coal Grove, Ohio in 1970. He attended the Consolidated Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Washington, D.C. in 1973. In 1974 he attended Prince Georges County Community College in Landover, Md., taking courses in law enforcement and police administration and in 1977, attended Charles County Community College in LaPlata, Md., taking courses in Emergency Medical Care. Tim was recruited by the FBI in 1970, following his high school education. He served three years as a fingerprint technician, before spending two and a half years with the Executive Uniform Branch at the White House during the Nixon Administration. He transferred to the Foreign Missions section of the Secret Service, then joined the Charles County Police Department in Maryland, as deputy sheriff and stayed for nine years. Tim was united in marriage on May 13, 1983, with Lisa Ann Witherspoon. In April of 1988, they moved to South Dakota. Tim was an officer for the Milbank Police Department and the Fire Chief for the LaBolt Fire Department. He most recently was working at Saputo Cheese, Big Stone City, S.D. Tim was an active co-ed softball coach and an assistant Boy Scoutmaster. He enjoyed playing with his grandchildren and spending time with his family. He enjoyed playing cards, camping, cooking and making model cars. He was a huge Redskin fan! Tim is survived by one daughter, Katherine and husband Greg Hooser of Ortonville, Minn., and one son, Timothy Honaker, Jr. of Milbank. Two grandsons: Ashton and Dalton Hooser; one brother: Toney and wife Lori Honaker of Algonquin, Ill.; and special family Deanna Reil, Tracy (Reil) and husband Wayne Loeschke, Misty (Reil) and husband John Weyh; Gary and wife Michelle Reil, Alicia, Austin, Alex Loeschke and Madison, Kaylee, Samantha, and Cody Reil, all of Milbank, S.D. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Lisa, and one sister, Kerry “Cis” Honaker.
Patriot Ledger, Quincy, Mass., 22 Sep 2010: Noreen Eleanor Honaker, 64, of Robertsdale, Ala., and formerly of Plymouth, Mass., died on Mon., Aug. 9, 2010 in Alabama. Noreen was educated in Radford, Va. and was a graduate of Radford [licensed practical nurse] program. She worked as a nurse and educator by trade for most of her life. She had many hobbies, bingo, gambling, camping, and loved nature. She also enjoyed dancing and listening to music. Noreen spent countless hours doing volunteer work with Special Olympics. She tirelessly supported anyone affected with autism, striving to learn all she could along the way. She was an eight-year cancer survivor and participated in the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. She was a member of the American Legion post in Foley, Ala. Noreen will be dearly missed by her devoted husband, Everett E. Honaker of Robertsdale, Ala.; her parents, Harold and Eleanor Hogge of Robersdale, Ala.; her daughter, Michelle and her husband Paul Bratti of Plymouth, Mass.; three sons, Shawn Honaker of Robertsdale, Ala., Andrew and his wife Sharon Honaker of Radford, Va., and David Honaker of Fredericksburg, Va.; two sisters, Wanda and her husband Sammy Sells of Abingdon, Va., and Phyllis McFarland of Bristol, Tenn. She is also survived by three brothers, Ronald Hogge of Grafton, Mass., Rick and his wife Paula Marie Hogge of Blackstone, Mass., and Wayne Holbrook of Abingdon, Va.; five grandchildren; her beloved miniature schnauzer, Angel and many nieces and nephews. Noreen was preceded in death by two brothers; James Hogge and Ronnie Holbrook. Memorial Celebration of Life will take place at the Cartmell Funeral Home, 150 Court St., Plymouth, on Sat., Sept. 25, 2010 at 1 p.m. A visitation will take place at the Cartmell Funeral Home from 12 to 1 p.m. Donations in her memory may be made to the Special Olympics, Attn: Web Gifts, 1133 19th Street N.W., 12th Floor, Washington, DC 20036-3604. Email: donorservices@. For memorial guest book please visit .
Richmond [Va.] Times Dispatch, 2 Sep 2010: William H. Honaker, 89, of Richmond, passed away peacefully Tue., Aug. 31, 2010. He was born Jan. 13, 1921 in Georgetown, Ky. He is survived by his loving wife of 68 years, Dorothy Lancaster Honaker; his daughters, Anne H. Trom (Dave), Lisa H. Nickel (David); his son, William H. “Butch” Honaker III (Susie); seven grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. His love and counsel will be missed by them all. “H” was a veteran of the U.S. Army Air Corps, serving during World War II, piloting a B-24 bomber in Europe. He spent his entire working career with Reynolds Metals Company in various sales and management capacities, retiring after more than 40 years as a corporate vice president and as president of Reynolds Aluminum Supply Co. (RASCO.) He was a member of the Country Club of Virginia and River Road Presbyterian Church. The family will receive friends from 1 to 3 p.m. Sat., Sept. 4, 2010, at the Parham Chapel, Woody Funeral Home, 1771 N. Parham Road, followed by a private family service. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Bon Secours Hospice, 8580 Magellan Parkway, Richmond, VA 23227, American Cancer Society, 4240 Park Place Ct., Glen Allen, VA 23060, or River Road Presbyterian Church, 8960 River Rd., Richmond, VA 23229. Condolences may be offered at .
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, 21 Jul 1010: Louise H. Honaker, 88, of Gulfport, died Sun., July 18, 2010, at Egret Cove Center. She is survived by her son, Robert, grandchildren Lou and Kimberly and a loving family.
Olympian, Olympia, Wash., 8 Jul 2010: On July 4, 2010, Malisa Mcneil Honaker entered into peace with our Lord after a courageous battle with cancer. Malisa’s love for life showed in her smile, through love and support she gave to her family, her effortless and endless work ethic, and the many friends she made in her short journey through life. Malisa is survived by her loving husband, Saul Honaker. She is a hero to her children, Tyler, Ashley, and Travis. She is also survived by her father, Dave Mcneil; mother, Janet; brother and sisters, Storm, Jayne, Chris, Cheryl, David, and big brother and sister, Ken and Cindy; her in-laws, and the many extended friends that have become family. A viewing will be held on Sat., July 10th at 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. with services starting at 1 p.m. at 5930 Mullen Rd., S.E., Lacey, WA 98503 at Woodlawn Funeral Home.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 24 Jun 2010: Bristol, Va.—Nancy L. Honaker, age 91, went to be with the Lord on Tue., June 22, 2010, at the Johnston Memorial Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be made with Weaver Funeral Home.
Virginian Pilot, Hampton Roads, Va., 15 Aug 2010: Virginia Beach—Anita Gale Honaker, 49, died peacefully in her home Aug. 9, 2010. Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 19 years, David Honaker; mother, Barbara Ranson Smith; grandmother, Dora Ranson; brother, Cody Coats; sons, Glenn Riley and Dennis Honaker; daughters, Leanne Dayton and Amanda Aggar; grandchildren, Wesley Riley and Ryan Dayton; aunt, Andrea Nichols; cousins, Sandy Cunningham, Deana Carlson and Dara Phillips. Anita was a kind, loving and charitable person who always thought of others needs before her own. Although our hearts are broken, her memory lives on through every life she touched. Goodbye my Angel, you are loved. Cremation Society of Virginia is assisting the family. Online condolences may be expressed at .
John William Honaker, white male, first lieutenant, U.S. Air Force, born 29 Jun 1922, died 14 Mar 1952 on active duty in Korea, was buried 14 Aug 1952 in Sec. 3, Grave 7224B2 at Arlington National Cemetery. The widow, Mrs. Barbara F. Honaker, lived at N. Kenmore St., Arlington, Va. Born 8 Apr 1926. Died 10 Sep 1999. She was interred with him 20 Sep 1999 in Grave B1. Next of kin, daughter Caroline Rutter, 9 Grimsby Lane, Nashua, N.H., 03063.
Robert Wirt Honaker, sergeant, 573rd Air Materiel Squadron, 65th Air Service Group, U.S. Army Air Corps (enlisted 5 Jan 1942, separated 14 Oct 1945), born 13 May 1911, died 14 Jun 1959 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., and was buried 18 Jun 1959 in Sec. 44, Grave 115, Arlington National Cemetery. The widow, Annie Lee Honaker, lived at 2021 S.W. 12th Ave., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Born 1 Mar 1913, died 18 Jan 1972 in Miami, Beach, Fla., interred with him in Grave 116, 21 Jan 1972. Next of kin Howard Honaker, son, 241 N.E. 60th St., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. 33308.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 27 May 2010: Mrs. Rebecca Ann Honaker, 40, of Winfield passed away May 24, 2010, in [Charleston Area Medical Center] Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Honaker was a former employee of Valley Center Genesis Eldercare. She is survived by her loving husband of 22 years, Roy Honaker; mother, Diane Saunders of South Charleston; children, Kayla Honaker and Roy J.R. Honaker, both of Winfield; and two sisters, Linda Saunders and Crystal Calloway, both of South Charleston. A tribute to the life of Mrs. Rebecca Ann Honaker will be 10 a.m. Sat., May 29, in Grandview Memorial Park, Dunbar. Condolences may be sent to the family by visiting . Gatens-Harding Funeral Home, 147 Main St., Poca, is serving the Honaker family.
Peoria [Ill.] Journal Star, 14 May 2010: William F. Honaker, 79, of Peoria passed away at 11:22 p.m. on Wed., May 12, 2010 at OSF St Francis Medical Center. He was born on Sept. 12, 1930, in Johnson, Neb., to Benjamin S. and Lola B. Devereaux Honaker. He married Mary Ann Svymbersky on July 5, 1952, in Peoria, Ill. She survives. He also is survived by three daughters, Pamela (Alan) Lippert of Pekin, Janice (Randall) Gibson of Batavia and Tamara (Merle) Buttz of Des Moines, Iowa; three grandsons, Stephen Taghan, Aaron Taghan and R.J. Gibson; three granddaughters, Heather (Brian) Glesne, Michelle Lippert and Elizabeth Gibson; one great-grandson, Lucas Glesne; one great-granddaughter, Emily Glesne; one brother, Benjamin S. (Maxine) Honaker of Centennial, Colo.; and two sisters, Virginia Berschiet of Melrose, Minn., and Lola (Jake) Feis of Omaha, Neb. He was preceded in death by his parents; two grandsons, Michael Taghan and Peyton Gibson; and one brother, Duane. William was a barber for 40 years and also worked at Caterpillar Inc. and retired in factory accounting after 40 years. He was a Korean War Marines veteran, serving from 1950 to 1954. He was a member of St. Philomena Catholic Church and Men’s Club and Knights of Columbus. A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Mon., May 17, 2010, at St. Philomena Church with the Rev. Donald Henderson officiating. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday at Wright & Salmon Mortuary with recitation of the Rosary at 6:30 p.m. Additional visitation will be 30 minutes before the Mass at the church. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery, where military rites will be accorded. Memorial contributions may be made to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center Cardiac ICU or St. Philomena School Endowment Fund. Tributes and condolences may be submitted to .
Peoria [Ill.] Journal Star, 18 Oct 2013: Mary Ann E. Honaker, 85, of Peoria passed away at 12:30 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 27, 2013, at OSF Richard L. Owens Hospice Home. Mary Ann was born on Sept. 18, 1928, in Humphrey, Neb., to William and Anna (Melcher) Svymbersky. She married William F. Honaker on July 5, 1952, in Peoria. He preceded her in death on May 12, 2010. She also was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers; two sisters; son-in-law, Merle Buttz; and two grandchildren, Michael Taghan and Peyton Gibson. She is survived by three daughters, Pamela (Alan) Lippert of Pekin, Janice (Randall) Gibson of Batavia and Tamara Buttz of Des Moines; six grandchildren, Heather (Brian) Glesne, Michelle (Mike) Jost, Elizabeth Gibson, R.J. Gibson, Stephen Taghan and Aaron Taghan; three great-grandchldren, Lucas, Emily and Taylor Glesne; and one sister, Dorothea Payne of Mackinaw. Mary Ann was a member of St. Philomena Catholic Church. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Sat., Oct. 19, 2013, at St. Philomena Catholic Church. The Rev. David Richardson will officiate. Visitation will be one hour prior to the Mass at the church. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery. Wright & Salmon Mortuary is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be made to the St. Philomena Church Adoration Chapel. Tributes and condolences may be submitted to wrightand .
Washington [D.C.] Post, 8 May 2010: Eugene A. Honaker, 84, of Dunkirk, Md., formerly of Silver Spring, Md., died Thurs., May 6, 2010. Beloved husband of the late Josephine B. Honaker; father of Renee (Tex) Meadows, Allen (Elizabeth) Honaker and Donna (Dan) Rice; grandfather of Vicki, Mike, Kim, James, Christine and Danny. Also survived by 14 great grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Relatives and friends may call at Collins Funeral Home, 500 University Blvd., West, Silver Spring, Md., on Mon., May 10 from 10 to 11 a.m., where a funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Interment Parklawn Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to Calvert Hospice, 238 Merrimac Court, Prince Frederick, MD 20678. .
Richmond [Va.] Times-Dispatch, 11 Apr 2010: Sharon P. Honaker, 63, of Richmond, died Sat., Apr. 4, 2010. She is survived by her children, Lisa Honaker, James and Mark Belvin; her grandchildren; her brother, Darryl Spicer; and her sister, Eloise Matthews. Her graveside service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Oakwood Cemetery.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 6 Apr 2009 (with photograph): Atwell—Oma Marie Barnett, 81, of Atwell, W.Va., went to be with our Lord on Sun., Apr. 5, 2009. Born Nov. 1, 1927 in McDowell County, she was a daughter of the late Clyde Honaker and Mae Honaker. Oma retired from the McDowell County School System after a 30 year teaching career throughout McDowell County. She was a faithful and former active member of the Atwell Church of God where she taught Sunday school. She was a graduate of Big Creek High School and Bluefield State College. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by an infant son; her daughter, Judith Carol Street Jones; one sister, Audrey Fern Perkins; and one grandson, Clifford Vernon Barnett, III. Survivors include her huaband of 64 years, Clifford V. Barnett, Sr. of Atwell, W.Va.; one daughter, Nancy B. Altizer and Max Huffman of Peterstown, W.Va.; two sons, Clifford Vernon Barnett, Jr. and his wife Michele of Sherrill’s Ford, N.C., and James Darrell Barnett and his wife Layla of Atwell; her twin sister, Opal Lee Evans of Tazewell, Va.; six grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren; and special and loving caregivers, Sandy Morris and her daughters Jonie and Missy, who provided special care and love to Mrs. Barnett and the entire Barnett family throughout the past 11 months. Funeral services will be conducted on Tue., Apr. 7, 2009 at 3 p.m. in the Mercer Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Haskel Salmon, former pastor of Atwell Church of God and currently pastor of the Peterstown, W.Va. Church of God officiating. The family will receive friends at Mercer Funeral Home on Tuesday from 2 p.m. until the service hour. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions, if desired, be made to Sandy’s Home Sweet Home Adult Care, 1715 Pinoak Road, Lashmeet, WV 24733. Those wishing to share memories or e-mail condolence may do so by visiting . Mercer Funeral Home and Crematory is serving the family of Mrs. Oma Marie H. Barnett.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 3 Dec 2010: Tazewell, Va.—Opal Honaker Evans, age 83, of Tazewell, Va., formerly of Atwell, W.Va., died Fri., Nov. 19, 2010 at Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 24 Feb 2010 (with [photograph): Irene Richardson Boone, 84, of Salem, Va., passed away on Mon., Feb. 22, 2010. She was born on Aug. 18, 1925, in Sugar Grove, Va., daughter of the late James Walker and Lily Mae Williams Richardson. She was also preceded in death by her husbands, James Edward Honaker and Meredith M. Boone; brother, Patrick Richardson; and sisters, Audry Burton, Doris Roope, Sue Austin, Shelva Long and Cheryele Alexis. Mrs. Boone was a long time resident of Salem. She was a homemaker, formerly worked for Valleydale Meat Packers and was a retired beautician. She was a beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and sister who spent her life in devotion and care of her family. She will be greatly missed by her loved ones. She is survived by two daughters and son-in-law, Sandra H. and Teddy Baldacci, and Jerry H. Linkous; grandchildren, C. Todd Baldacci and wife, Kristi, Brooke Linkous Akers and husband, Chris, and Brigitte LeAnn Linkous; great-grandchildren, Claire Baldacci and Andrew Baldacci; brothers, James A. Richardson, Warren O. Richardson and Ronnie L. Richardson; and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted 11 a.m. on Thurs., Feb. 25, 2010, at the chapel of John M. Oakey and Son, Salem with Dr. Terry Elkins and the Rev. Bill Murdock officiating. Interment will follow at Sherwood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends on Wednesday evening, Feb. 24, 2010, from 6 to 8 p.m. at John M. Oakey and Son. Memorial contributions in Mrs. Boone’s name may be made to American Diabetes Assn., P.O. Box 11454, Alexandria, Va., 22312, or to Fort Lewis Christian Church Building Fund, Salem, Va. Arrangements by John M. Oakey & Son, 540-389-5441.
Flint [Mich.] Journal, 5 Jul 2010: Daniel Carl Honaker, age 66, died Wed., July 1, 2009 at McLaren Regional Medical Center. Cremation has already taken place. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the charity of the donor’s choice. Daniel was born in Flint on Oct. 23, 1942, the son of Carl Van and Carrie LaVerne (VanAuken) Honaker. He married Delores M. Rife in Flint on Mar. 23, 1963. Daniel began his working life at [General Motors Corp.] Chevrolet and Buick plants, but later made his career in music. He first played with the Bob Seger System and later with Doug Hedrick and the Country Class. Surviving are wife, Delores "Dodie" Honaker of Flint; son, Daniel C. Honaker II of Flint; daughter, Tamra Honaker of Flint; three grandchildren, Joshua, Madison and Nova; brother, Tom (Jill) Woodruff of Grand Blanc; many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents. Tributes and condolences may be shared with the family on the obituaries page of .
New Castle [Pa.] News, 23 Jan 2010: Ira W. Honaker, 40, of North Ray Street passed away the morning of Jan. 23, 2010, in Jameson Hospital. Ira was born Feb. 25, 1969, in New Castle to Auburn and Anna Mae Clark Honaker. His father preceded him in death. His mother survives in New Castle. He had previously worked at the cheese factory in West Middlesex. Ira was known for his sense of humor. In addition to his mother, he is survived by his girlfriend, Hazel Ryhal of New Castle; a brother, Dale Honaker of New Castle; a sister, Gay Honaker New Castle; and a step granddaughter, Kamara.
He was preceded in death by his father and a sister, Laurie J. Honaker. Calling hours are today from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Ed and Don DeCarbo Funeral Home and Crematory, 941 S Mill St. A service will be conducted tomorrow at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. The Rev. Dennis Bupp will officiate. This obituary may be viewed and online condolences offered by visiting . Please sign the guestbook at .
Tyler [Texas] Morning Telegraph, 27 Dec 2009: Winnsboro—Services for Howard Honaker, 80, Winnsboro, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday at Lowe Funeral Home, Quitman. Burial will be in Myrtle Springs Cemetery, Wood County. Mr. Honaker died Dec. 24, 2009. He was born April 17, 1929, in Drill, W.Va. He was preceded in death by his wife, Ella Mae Honaker in 1995. Survivors include his wife, Mary Jo Honaker; sons, Michael, Clayton and Gary Stracener; brother, David Honaker; and sister, Jackie Clopper. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Daily Times, Farmington, N.M., 9 Dec 2009: Don Gerald Honaker Jr., 53, of Farmington and Phoenix, Ariz., was called home Sat., Dec. 5, 2009. Don was born Jan. 6, 1956, in Paris, France, the son of Don Gerald Honaker Sr. and Shirley Mary Robbins VerStraten. He was preceded in death by his father; sister, Patricia Honaker; brother, Michael Honaker; son, Eric Uselman; and grandmother, Maude Mays. Don is survived by his mother; stepfather, Bill VerStraten; fiancee, Michele AuFrance; brother, Ron Honaker; daughter, Davon Ruiz; grandson, Gabe; nephews, Charles Morrow and Brian James Honaker; niece, Ronee Nicole Honaker; stepbrothers, John VerStraten and Bill VerStraten Jr.; and by his stepsister, Sissy Gunderson. Viewing will be from 8 to 10:30 a.m., followed by services at 11 a.m. on Thurs., Dec. 10, at Brewer, Lee & Larkin Funeral Home, 103 E. Ute St., in Farmington. The Rev. Brad Perry will conduct the service. Interment will follow at Memory Gardens, 6917 E. Main St., in Farmington. Those who wish to send condolences to the family may do so at . Don is in the care of Brewer, Lee and Larkin Funeral Home, (505) 325-8688.
Statesville [N.C.] Record & Landmark, 8 Dec 2009: Arthur Daniel Honaker, 57, of 116 Original Drive, Statesville, died Sun., Dec. 6, 2009, at Iredell Memorial Hospital. He was a native of McDowell Co., W. Va., born Nov. 17, 1952, and was the son of the late Arthur Ellis and Lillie Rouse Honaker. He had been a machine operator for Sackler Products and was an avid lover of cats. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Gail Philbrick. Mr. Honaker is survived by a brother, Jim Osborne (Faye), of Taylorsville; three sisters, Reba Kerley, of Statesville, Alice Hess (Lawrence), of Statesville, and Mary Shelton (Keith), of Cedar Bluff, Va.; seven nephews and a niece; four great-nephews and three great-nieces. Also surviving is a special friend, Jamie Jarvis. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Condolences may be sent to the family online@. Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is serving the family of Arthur Daniel Honaker.
Kennebec [Maine] Journal, 2 Dec 2009: Pittston—Carolyn S. Honaker, 67, of Pittston died at her home Monday evening, Dec. 1, 2009, surrounded by her family. Born in Pike County, Ky., she had made her home in Maine since 1989. She and her husband, Bill, deceased, built a house in Pittston. She lived there with her son, Christopher Buzzard and his wife, Jacqueline.
Carolyn was employed as a legal secretary by the Attorney General’s Office. She had many interests that included being a member of the Ladies Red Hat Society and Back Road Quilters. She was a very talented artist and loved working in her yard and many flower gardens. Carolyn was also well traveled, having been to Ireland and many other places. She also was an Elvis fan and she loved dancing. Visiting hours will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today, Wed., Dec. 2, at Staples Funeral Home, 53 Brunswick Ave., Gardiner, where a funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Thurs., Dec. 3. Burial will be at 9 a.m. Friday beside her husband Bill in the old Maine Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery, Civic Center Drive, Augusta. In lieu of flowers, donations may
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Telegraph, River Bend, Ark., 7 Oct 2009: London, Ark.—Eunice M. Crayne, 88, died on Sat., Oct. 3, 2009. Dear wife of Theodore Crayne, loving daughter of the late Leonard W. Honaker and the late Bessie Marie Honaker (nee Gage), loving mother of Jim (Donna) Crayne and Linda (Gene) Maynard; loving sister-in-law of Penny Carter and Clara Honaker; loving aunt to Patty Overfelt and to great-niece Melissa. She is preceded in death by brothers, Wallace and Bill Honaker. She was a member of the Retreads Motorcycle Association and Motor Maids. Visitation will be from noon to service time at 2 p.m. Fri., Oct. 9, at Baue Funeral Home Chapel, 620 Jefferson St., St. Charles, Mo. Interment will be at St. Charles Memorial Gardens. Memorials may be made to American Cancer Society. Share your condolences and memories at .
Lives Remembered, Cincinnati, Ohio, 14 Nov 2009: Dayton [Ohio]—Delbert Ray Honaker Sr., 53, died Fri., Nov. 13, at his home. He was a self-employed truck driver and a Navy veteran. Survivors include his wife, Debbie Honaker of Dayton; daughter, Tatiyana Honaker of Dayton; sons, Delbert R. Honaker Jr. and Brian G. Honaker, both of Dayton; mother, Grace Honaker of Florence; brother, David Honaker of Leesburg; sister, Sharon Spangler of Florence and two grandchildren. Visitation will be 5–8 p.m., Tue., Nov. 17, and services are 10 a.m. Wed., Nov. 18, at Dobbling, Muehlenkamp-Erschell Funeral Home in Bellevue. Burial will be in Kentucky Veterans Cemetery North in Williamstown [Ky.] Online condolences to .
Omaha [Neb.] World-Herald, 3 Nov 2009: Karen L. Honaker, July 11, 1938—Nov. 1, 2009, Plattsmouth, Neb. Preceded in death by husband, Sidney D. Honaker; sister, Bonita M. Christensen; father, Leon S. Kendall. Survived by mother, Clarice G. Kendall; brother, Dennis Kendall and wife Nancy; children: Susan Krueger, Shalli Hiles and husband David, Mike Krueger and wife Chris; stepchildren: Carl Honaker and wife Karen, Pam Cohen, Peggy Grace and husband Jim; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren. Services Thursday, 11 a.m., West Hills Church, 3015 S. 82 Ave. Memorials to American Diabetes Association or American Cancer Society. The family will receive friends Wednesday, 6 p.m.–8 p.m. at the West Center Chapel. Heafey-Heafey-Hoffmann Dworak-Cutler West Center Chapel, 78th & West Center, 391-3900.
Mansfield [Ohio] News Journal, 10 Aug 2009 (with photograph): Delaware [Ohio]—Joyce E. Honaker, 65, of Delaware and formerly of Galion, died Sat., Aug. 8, 2009 at Zusman Community Hospice in Columbus after a short illness. Born Sept. 2, 1943 in Mansfield, she was the daughter of the late Howard Charles Carver and Florence Harding (Marshman) Carver. Joyce was a graduate of Lexington High School and Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where she received a bachelor degree in Theology. She enjoyed gardening, fishing and square dancing and was a member of the Brown Jug Square Dancing Club in Delaware. Joyce was very family oriented and enjoyed reading to her grandchildren. She retired from [International Telephone & Telegraph] North Electric in Galion. Surviving are four daughters, Joetta Callentine of Columbus, Jami Oliver of Dublin, Jena Schantz of Lexington and Jodi Honaker of Mansfield; eight grandchildren; two great grandchildren; and one brother, Howard Thomas Carver of Delaware. She was preceded in death by one infant son, Bradley Eugene Nelson; and one brother, Ronald Engelke. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wed., Aug. 12, 2009 at Richardson-Davis Funeral Home where services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 13, with Pastor Walter Keib officiating. Burial will be in Iberia Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 2990 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 300C, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, 11 Aug 2009: Joyce E. Honaker, 65, of Delaware, died Sat., Aug. 8, 2009 at Zusman Community Hospice in Columbus. Mother of Joetta Callentine, Jami Oliver, Jana Schantz and Jodi Honaker. Visitation 6–8 p.m. Wed., Aug. 12; funeral 10:30 a.m. Thurs., Aug. 13, at Richardson-Davis Funeral Home, 218 S. Market St., Galion, OH. Memorial contributions to the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research, 2990 S. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 300C, Los Angeles, CA 90064.
Hawk Eye, Burlington, Ia., 25 Sep 2006: Rita Sue Honaker. Born April 21, 1936, she was the daughter of Homer Quinlan and Myrl Griffin Clark. On May 12, 1956, she married James H. Honaker in Quincy. He preceded her in death in 1991. She grew up in Perry, Mo., and Quincy. She graduated from Quincy High School in 1954 and attended the University of Iowa for two years. While living in Quincy, she was a member of Cedar Crest and Spring Lake Country Clubs and First Christian Church. She was a licensed real estate agent, working in Quincy and later in Burlington with Coldwell Banker Great River Realty. She was a member of the Burlington Board of Realtors, Iowa Association of Realtors and National Association of Realtors. She and her husband owned a radio station in Burlington for several years. Survivors include two daughters, Lisa Honaker Arnold of Freehold, N.J., and Amy Myers of Burlington; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Visitation with family will be 4 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Hansen Spear Funeral Home in Quincy. Funeral services for Mrs. Honaker will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Hansen Spear Funeral Home, with the Rev. Joby Brown officiating. Interment will be in Greenmount Cemetery. Memorials have been established for Habitat for Humanity of Quincy and the American Cancer Society.
Hawk Eye, Burlington, Ia., 24 Sep 2006: Woman Killed in Accident
Rita Sue Honaker, 70, was taken by ambulance to Great River Medical Center. She was later pronounced dead. Honaker was driving a 2002 Chevy Impala north on U.S. 61. She was two miles south of Wapello when police said she crossed the center line and struck a 1996 semi driven by Danny Robinson, 54, of Burlington. Robinson was not injured in the accident. Funeral arrangements for Honaker are pending.
Albuquerque [N.M.] Journal, 14 Dec 2008: Mildred “Allene” Honaker, 81, resident of Albuquerque, passed away Wed., Dec. 10, 2008. She is survived by her children, Herb Honaker, and Linda Powell; son-in-law, Jerry Powell; grandchildren, Vici, Herb III, and Jennifer Honaker, J.C. Powell and wife, Leann, Kristy Powell, Richard Powell and wife, Terri, Edwin Powell and wife, Danielle, and Jacque Powell; 13 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sister, June McLaughlin and husband, Bob; and step-daughter, Susan Wethersby and husband, Keith and family. She was preceded in death by her husband, Herbert W. Honaker; daughter, Carroll Powell; and sister, Peggy Shephard. Services will be held Tue., Dec. 16, 2008, 10 a.m., at Chester T. French Memorial Mausoleum Chapel at Sunset Memorial Park, 924 Menaul Blvd. N.E. Friends and family may visit one hour prior. Please visit our online guestbook for Allene at . French 1111 University Blvd. N.E (505) 843-6333
Rocky Mountain News, Colo., 14 Jan 1997: Myrll L. Honaker, 88, formerly of Denver, died Jan. 3 in Arizona. Services were Jan. 10 in Englewood. Mr. Honaker was born in Cortez on Sept. 2, 1908. He founded Colorado Molded Products Co. of Englewood. He is survived by wife Betty of Arizona; son Bill of Denver; daughters Alyce Crabtree of Lakewood, Alana Folsom of Montana, Betty Riel of Commerce City; step-sons Skip Oath, Dale Oath, Leonard Oath, all of Montana, Bob Oath of Illinois; 22 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren.
Wichita [Kan.] Eagle, 22 Jul 1990: Deborah Green Honaker, 81, retired St. Catherine’s School business manager, died Wed., July 18, 1990. Rosary 3 p.m. today, vigil wake service 7:30 p.m. today, both at Fryberger Mortuary; service 10 a.m. Monday, St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church. Survivors: husband, Joe; sister, Virginia Sullivan of Scottsdale, Ariz.; two grandchildren. Memorial has been established with the Arthritis Foundation. Harper
Wichita [Kan.] Eagle, 11 May 2006: Fredonia—Lillie Honaker, 70, died May 9, 2006. Service 1 p.m. Friday, Fredonia City Cemetery. Survivors: husband, Clay of Fredonia; mother, Ruth Darling of Salina; brother, Chuck Wells of Hayward, Calif. Condolences may be sent to timm . Timmons Funeral Home, Fredonia.
Deerfield [Ill.] Review, 4 Oct 2007: Janet Whitt Honaker, 71, of Evergreen Park, formerly of [Iaeger], W.Va., died Sept. 19 in Evergreen Park, Ill. She was born Mar. 6, 1936 in Panther, W.Va. Mrs. Honaker was a homemaker and enjoyed visiting her friends. Survivors include her four sons, Gregory and Richard of Evergreen Park, Phillip (Margot) of Lake in the Hills, and Brian and Lois of Rockford; three grandchildren; her sister, Hessie Mika of Deerfield; two brothers, James Harold (Mary Ann) Whitt of Iowa and Clarence Whitt of Tennessee; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence and Vonnie Whitt; her husband, William; her son Bobby; and her two sisters, Anita Blevins and Dursilla Bellomy. Funeral services were held Sept. 24 at Kelley and Spalding Funeral Home, Highland Park. Interment was held in Ascension Cemetery.
Chicago [Ill.] Tribune, 30 Jan 2006: Robert Newton Honaker, 78, passed away Fri., Jan. 27, 2006 in Houston, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Jeannetta Honaker; daughters, Darlene Vera and Vicki (Greg) Harbeck; grandchildren, Tony, Keisha, Derek, Tyler, Amber and Erik; four great-grandchildren; sisters, Mandy Bryce, Jeanett Wimmer and Marie Licari. Visitation will be held Tue., Jan. 31, 2005 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Forest Park East Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wed., Feb. 1, 2006 in the Chapel of Forest Park East Funeral Home.
Chicago [Ill.] Tribune, 12 Jul 2006: Olivia C. Honaker, beloved daughter of David and Melissa, nee McDonough; loving sister of Madison; cherished granddaughter of Maureen McDonough, and Dolly (Percy) Honaker; great granddaughter of Hope McDonough, and Jimmie and Myrtle Johnson; also loving niece of many aunts and uncles. Funeral service Tue., July 13, at 11 a.m. at Colonial-Wojciechowski Funeral Home, 6250 N. Milwaukee Ave. Interment Maryhill. In lieu of flowers, contributions to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Illinois Chapter, 100 W. Monroe St., Suite 1610, Chicago, IL 60603. Visitation Monday, 3 to 9 p.m. Info 773-774-0366 or
Daily Herald, Arlington Heights, Ill., 28 Dec 2003: Judy A. Honaker of Palatine. Funeral services for Judy A. Honaker (nee Mottes), 56, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, at Smith-Corcoran Funeral Home, 185 E. Northwest Highway, Palatine. Born Sept. 14, 1947, in Monaca, Pa., she died Thur., Dec. 25, 2003. Interment will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery, Arlington Heights. Judy was the beloved wife of Bruce; loving mother of Jason; dear sister of Betty Haller, Nancy Casper, Sally Sherman and John Mottes. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. Monday, at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 100 W. Palatine Road, Palatine, IL 60067. Friends may visit obits to express condolences and sign the guest book. For funeral information, (847)359-8020.
Rockford [Ill.] Register Star, 14 Feb 2002: Arrangements for Bobby Honaker, 47, of Rockford, who died Monday in Swedish American Hospital, are pending at Gasparini & Oliveri Funeral Home, 707 Marchesano Drive.
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 22 Oct 2001: Barbara Naomi Honaker, 88, of Choctaw, passed away at the Wolfe Living Center in Harrah, Okla., on Oct. 18, 2001. She was born on Dec. 11, 1912, in Hammon, Okla., to Charley and Mary Etta (Alles) Boulware. She graduated from Hammon High School in 1933; married Richard Woodrow Honaker on Sept. 4, 1934. After her husband’s death in 1958, she moved to Bethel, Alaska, where she developed a strong love and respect for the Eskimo people, taught in the public schools, and did lay-ministry work with the Pentecostal Holiness Church on the weekends. She was a woman of deep family values who regarded her children and grandchildren with great love. She is survived by her son, Col. Richard E. Honaker M.D. and wife, Col. Benita (Brothers) Honaker R.N. Ret., from Pretoria, South Africa; daughter, Owalah Calhoun and husband, Don of Choctaw; brother, Chuck Boulware and wife, Fran of Huntington Beach, Calif.; sisters-in-law, Bess Bradley of Amarillo, Texas, and Dorothy Boulware of Huntington Beach; four sisters, Elizabeth Luttrell of Wichita, Kan., Ola Mae Thomason and husband Tommy of Yukon, Okla.; nine grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, and two brothers. Services will be held at 10 a.m., Tue., Oct. 23, at the Aletheia Temple and the Hammon Pentecostal Holiness Church at 3 p.m., with interment at Red Hill Cemetery, Hammon, Okla.
[We previously thought that Richard E. Honaker was a son of Ellett[5] (Frederick[1]. Richard E. graduated from the University of Oklahoma, Norman, in the late 1960s or early 1970s, then went to nearby Nazarene College in Bethany, Okla. He became a thoracic surgeon and in the late 1990s was a medical missionary in Die Wilgers, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa. We did not know he had military experience, or had married Benita Brothers. It was reported to us that he married Marilyn Jo Unknown and had four children, names unreported. She may have been Marilyn Jo (Pearce) Honaker, from the following death notice:
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 23 Dec 1983: Marilyn Jo (Pearce) Honaker, 47. Services 10 a.m. Friday, Muse Memorial Church. Visitation 7– 9 p.m. Thursday.
Numerous attempts to contact Colonel Honaker in Pretoria were made but no replies were received. As a consequence we are not able to identify this line. Further information about him is below.]
[Frieda: transfer contents of para. 179, Frederick Chapter, to this place.]
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 12 May 2004: Robert E. Honaker, 66, died Monday. Graveside services 2 p.m. Thursday, Green Hill Cemetery (Krien). Durant
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 3 Feb 2004: Richard Honaker, 54, died Sunday. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday (John M. Ireland). Mustang
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 30 Nov 2003: Brenda Kay Honaker, 61, died Thursday. Services pending (Affordable Cremation).
Tulsa [Okla.] World, 5 Jul 1996: Eucha—Juanita Honaker, 70, retired from University of Tulsa, died Wednesday. Graveside services 11 a.m. Friday, Graham Memorial Cemetery, Pryor. Jim Green, Pryor.
Tulsa [Okla.] World, 23 Jun 1997: Muskogee—Roe Honaker, 73, laborer, died June 19. Services were Thursday. Ragsdale.
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 12 Feb 2005: Barbara Ann Honaker, 56, died Friday. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday. Resthaven, Oklahoma City.
Oklahoman, Oklahoma City, Okla., 16 Apr 1987: Everett Honaker, 41, of Moore, died April 15. He had been a Moore resident for over 20 years, owned and operated Honaker Equipment Company. He was an avid hunter and fisherman and was a little league coach for baseball and football in Moore. He was loved by his family and friends, was a loving Grandpaw, and will be greatly missed. He is survived by his wife of 24 years, Barbara; daughter and son-in-law and granddaughter, Susie and Steve and Misty Estell of Moore; son, Sonny; two sisters and one brother, numerous brothers and sisters-in-law, numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be Friday at 11 a.m., Resthaven Mortuary Chapel with Rev. Ralph Leonard officiating. Burial Resthaven Memory Gardens.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 10 Jul 2009: Yvonne M. Honaker, 70, of Arnoldsburg died July 9, 2009. There will be no service or visitation. The body was cremated. Burial will be at a later date in Husk Cemetery, Arnoldsburg. Taylor-Vandale Funeral Home, Spencer, is in charge of arrangements.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 2 Apr 2003—Keith Vinsant Honaker, an employee of Honaker Funeral Home, died Sunday of undetermined causes at his home. He was 38. Mr. Honaker was born in Slidell and lived in Tangipahoa Parish before moving back to Slidell. Survivors include his wife, Gail Mackenroth Honaker; his mother, Judith Vinsant Honaker Coxe of Ponchatoula; his stepfather, Milton M. Coxe of Ponchatoula; his stepmother, Vicki Kemp Honaker; three sisters, Jody L. Honaker of Covington, Susan Vinsant Sproull and Halley A. Honaker; and his grandfather, J. Fred Honaker. A funeral will be held today at 2 p.m. at Honaker Funeral Home, 1751 Gause Blvd. West, Slidell. Visitation will begin at noon. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 2 Apr 2003—Douglas M. Honaker Sr., a retired cab driver, died Tuesday of a heart attack in Picayune, Miss. He was 61. Mr. Honaker was born in New Orleans and lived in Picayune. Survivors include three sons, Brian Mark Honaker of Franklinton, and John David and Douglas Michael Honaker Jr.; a daughter, Pam Honaker; two half-brothers, Freddie and Glen Frolick, both of Kenner; and 12 grandchildren. Services will be held at a later date. Picayune Funeral Home in Picayune is in charge of arrangements.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 9 Mar 2000: Francis T. Honaker, vice president of Honaker Funeral Homes and Cemeteries, died Tuesday of heart failure at Slidell Memorial Hospital. He was 56. Mr. Honaker was a lifelong resident of Slidell. He was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Vicki Kemp Honaker; a son, Keith V. Honaker; two daughters, Jody H. Sandifer and Halley A. Honaker; his father, J. Fred Honaker; and a sister, Fredine Honaker Tranchina. A funeral will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Honaker Funeral Home, 1751 Gause Blvd. West, Slidell. Visitation will be today from 7 to 10 p.m. and Friday at noon at the funeral home. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 3 Oct 1996: Percy L. Honaker, co-founder of Honaker Funeral Home and Cemeteries, died Wednesday at her home in Slidell. She was 78. Mrs. Honaker was born in Mobile, Ala., and lived in Bogalusa until she moved to Slidell in 1937. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Slidell and Chapter 59 of the Order of Eastern Star. Survivors include her husband, J. Fred Honaker; a son, Francis T. Honaker; a daughter, Mary Fredine H. Tranchina; five brothers, William E. Lindsay of Douglasville, Ga., James W. Lindsay of Maylene, Ala., and Sam V., Burk H. and Murray E. Lindsay, all of Marietta, Ga.; two sisters, Mary L. Booth of Alabaster, Ala., and Vivian L. Dail of Marietta; six grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Honaker Funeral Home, 1751 Gause Blvd. West, Slidell. Visitation will be today from 7 to 9 p.m. and Friday from 9 to 11 a.m. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Tulsa [Okla.] World, 12 Nov 2000: Danny Lee Honaker, 52, died Saturday. Graveside services 1 p.m. Tuesday, Wafford Cemetery. Barnes & Johnson, Midwest City.
Milwaukee [Wisc.] Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb 2004: Karen E., Honaker, (nee Sobstad) age 61, Black River Falls, Wisc., formerly of Pewaukee, Wisc., died Wed., Feb. 25, 2004 in Pine View Care Center. Graduate of Pewaukee High School and nursing program of former Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital. She was an obstetrics nurse at Milwaukee Lutheran Hospital. Survived by husband Len, son Matthew, Black River Falls, two stepsons, Mark Honaker, Neosho, Wisc., Craig (Beth) Honaker, Ripon, Wisc., two stepdaughters, Kathy (Rick) Semrow, Marquette, Wisc., Mary (Eric) Haese, Berlin, Wisc., brother Jon (Pam) Sobstad, Hawaii, 10 step grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents Emil and Gertrude (Guehlstorf) Sobstad. Funeral services Sat., Feb. 28, 11 a.m. Peace Evangelical Lutheran Church, Acorn Ave., rural Cataract, Wisc. Visitation Friday 6–8 p.m. Torgerson’s Funeral Home, 408 N. Water St., Black River Falls, Wisc.
Grand Forks [N.D.] Herald, 2 Dec 1992: Alvina Honaker, 97, Cooperstown, died Mon., Nov. 30, 1992, in Griggs County Hospital, Cooperstown. Alvina G. Knutson was born Mar. 17, 1895, in Romness Twp., Griggs County, N.D.; near Cooperstown, the daughter of Andrew and Gina Knutson. She attended rural schools there. She married Michael Honaker Oct. 18, 1937, in Rapid City, S.D. They lived in Jollette, Ind., until they retired and moved to Cooperstown in 1975. He died Aug. 9, 1984. She became a resident of Griggs County Nursing Home, Cooperstown in 1988. Survivors are brother, Otis Knutson, Cooperstown.
She was preceded in death by three sisters and one brother. Services 2 p.m. Thursday in Quam-Plaisted-Cushman Funeral Home, Cooperstown. Visitation 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in the funeral home. Burial Ringsaker Cemetery, rural Cooperstown.
Delaware State News, Dover, Del., 16 Feb 1999: Milford—Gavin Christopher Honaker of Milford died Sat., Feb. 13, 1999, in Christiana Medical Center. He was five days old. Gavin is the son of Christopher M. and Samantha Lynn Hignutt Honaker of Milford. He is survived by a brother, Devin Hopkins of Milford; paternal grandparents, James F. and Denise Honaker of Smyrna; paternal great grandparents, Joseph and Karen Conneley of Milford; paternal great great grandmother, Mary C. Honaker of New Castle; maternal grandmother, Deborah K. Hignutt of Milford; maternal grandfather, Richard E. Hignutt of Harrington; maternal great-grandmother, Addie E. Sams of Laurel and great-grandparents, Marjorie and George Chambers of Hickman. Service will be 2 p.m. Thursday at the Chapel of Berry-Short Funeral Home, 119 N.W. Front St., Milford, where friends may call one hour prior to the service. Burial will be in Barratts Chapel Cemetery, Frederica.
Delaware State News, Dover, Del., 3 Sep 2000: Milton—Shawn E. Honaker of Milton died Fri., Sept. 1, 2000, in Beebe Medical Center, Lewes. He was 37. Mr. Honaker was born in Wilmington, the son of Bernard E. and Cynthia Meadwell Honaker of Milton. He previously worked in construction. Mr. Honaker enjoyed playing pool. In addition to his parents, he is survived by three children, Shawn Honaker Jr., Robert David Honaker and Jessica Honaker, all of Alabama; a sister, Terry Lee Lysinger of Townsend; and a brother, Johnny Ray Honaker of Milton. Service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Short Funeral Services, 416 Federal St., Milton, where friends may call one hour prior to service. Burial will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milton.
NewsZapDE, unknown place, 2 Jun 2015: Milton [Del.]—Johnny Ray Honaker “Whiteboy” went home to be with the Lord on May 29, 2015, surrounded by many loved ones at Christiana Hospital. He was born Sept. 3, 1968 in Wilmington, Del. Johnny Ray was an adventurous man who loved the thrills of life. He was a very talented artist, painter, drag racer and a true genuine soul who would always be there for anyone anytime. He listened to a wide variety of music but had a true love for country and the color purple. His favorite song was always Amazing Grace. He was preceded in death by a brother, Shawn Honaker. He is survived by his parents, Bernard and Cynthia Honaker; sister, Terry Lysinger and husband, William Lysinger, III; wife of six years, Ellen Fitzgerald; daughters, Tiffany Powell and Tabatha Allen; niece, Heather Scott; nephews, Michael, Matthew and Mark Lysinger; grandsons, Damien Haynie, Peyton Patrick, Jr.; Aunt and Uncle, Brenda and Wayne Campbell; lifelong friend, Charles Harkins and many more aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews, friends, family and loved ones. Funeral Services will be held Wed., June 3, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Short Funeral Services, 416 Federal St., Milton, where friends may come from 12 to 2 p.m. Interment will be in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Milton.
News Journal, Milton, Del., 15 Nov 2015: Cynthia S. Honaker, born June 17, 1946, went home to be with the Lord on Thurs., Nov. 12, 2015, surrounded by loved ones at her home in Milton. She was 69 years old and passed comfortably after years of illnesses. She is survived by her husband Bernard Honaker, of a wonderful 53½ years of marriage; daughters Terry Lysinger and her husband William, Ellen Fitzgerald; granddaughters Heather Scott, Tiffany Powell, Crystal Lysinger, Tabatha Allen, Jessica Honaker, and Ashley Bryan; grandsons Michael Lysinger, Matthew Lysinger, Mark Lysinger, Shawn Honaker Jr., David Honaker, Edward Symanski, Patrick Fitzgerald, Dominic Fitzgerald, and Will Fitzgerald; and her fur babies Killer and Elvis; great-grandchildren Dominick Hendrix, Kira Lysinger, Cheyenne Lysinger, Damien Haynie, April Lysinger, Matthew Cogle, Kenyan White, Alexis Pope, Colt Honaker, Ethan Honaker, Skylar Honaker, Peyton Fitzgerald, Patrick Fitzgerald Jr.; and numerous sister and brother in laws; nieces; nephews; family; friends and many loved ones. She was preceded in death by her parents, Helen and Robert Meadwell; sons Shawn and Johnny Ray Honaker; and sister Brenda Campbell. Cynthia was a kind soul, very forgiving, and unconditionally helping everyone and anyone. Her and her husband attended Zoar United Methodist Church for many years together. Cynthia’s favorite drinks were Dr; Pepper, coffee, and iced tea. She worked all her life and thrived on good quality time together with everyone. She loved sitting on her porch to watch the birds and squirrels eat the food she’d provide and use the bird bath. She had a beautiful laugh that would brighten any room and loved making people laugh. She enjoyed the cooler weather and was a very welcoming person. Songs she loved included Amazing Grace and Anne Murray’s Could I Have This Dance. A funeral service will be held on Tue., Nov. 17, 2015 at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Short Funeral Services, 416 Federal St., Milton, DE 19968. A visitation is being held the night before on Mon., Nov. 16, 2015 from 6–9 p.m. Interment will be in Milton Oddfellows Cemetery.
Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 28 Nov 2006: John Frederick Honaker passed away peacefully to be with the Lord at his residence on Sun., Nov. 26, 2006. Husband of the late Percy Lindsay Honaker for 60 years. Beloved Father of Fredine Honaker Tranchina and the late Francis Thomas Honaker. Father-in-law of Terry F. Tranchina. Son of the late Mary Bell Anderson and Isacc Honaker. Brother of the late Douglas F. Honaker and Vivian Honaker Brister. Step-brother of the late Charles McDaniel and Mabel Stewart. Grandfather of Gary Tranchina, Kevin Tranchina, Terri Travirca, Jody Honaker, Halley Honaker and the late Keith Honaker. Also survived by five great grand grandchildren and one great great grandson. Age 90 years. A native of Bogalusa, La., and a resident of Slidell since 1937. “Mr . Fred” was manager of Poole Funeral Home in Slidell for many years before acquiring Forest Lawn Cemetery and opening the first combination funeral home/cemetery operation in Louisiana in 1971. He was very active in his community by serving as Slidell City Alderman from 1958 to 1966. He was a charter member of Slidell Lodge No. 2321, B. P.O.E. and was a member of the Ritual Degree team for many years; Member and Past President of the Slidell Noon Lions Club (Melvin Jones Fellow); 50 Year Member of Slidell Lodge No. 311, F. & A.M. and Pontchartrain Chapter No. 68, Royal Arch Masons; a U.S. Navy veteran serving during WWII and member of American Legion Post 185, Slidell La., Member and former Deacon and Sunday School Teacher at First Baptist Church in Slidell. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral. Services at Honaker Funeral Home, 1751 Gause Blvd. W. (in Forest Lawn Cemetery,) Slidell, La., on Wed., Nov. 29, 2006 at 2 p.m. Rev. Jim Baham, officiating. Interment in Forest Lawn Cemetery. Visitation on Wednesday after 11 a.m. with Masonic Services at 1 p.m. Arrangements by Honaker Funeral Home, Inc., Slidell, La.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 5 Jul 2009: Vanceburg—Fern Click Honaker, 76, died July 4, 2009. Funeral 11 a.m. Tuesday at Globe Funeral Chapel in Camp Dix, Ky. Visit after 6 p.m. Monday at funeral home.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 21 Jun 2009 (with photograph): JoAnne Honaker Zell, of Pulaski, went to be with the Lord on Friday evening June 19, 2009. She was born on Aug. 8, 1941, in Montgomery County to the late Rev. Joseph Ashworth Honaker and Annie Perkins Honaker. Joanne was a faithful member of Faith Bible Church in Pulaski. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers, James Elijah Honaker and Joseph Franklin Honaker; a father-in-law and a mother-in-law, Frances R. and Thelma Zell; a brother-in-law, Cecil J. Hedge; a sister-in-law, Barbara Haynes; and a special Aunt, Pat Hafen. Joanne will be sadly missed by her husband of 42 years, Ronald Edward Zell, of Pulaski: two sisters, Joyce Honaker Hedge, of Radford, and Mary Honaker Elliott, of Radford; a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Daniel F. and Patricia Zell and Claudia Gault. Also survived by her special friends, Barbara Rosa and Ollie Linkous; along with many nieces, nephews, and a host of friends. Funeral services will be held Mon., June 22, 2009, at 2 p.m. at Faith Bible Church with the Rev. Jim Linkous officiating. Interment will follow in the Shiloh Cemetery. Visiting will be at Faith Bible Church on Sunday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Flowers will be appreciated, but for those who wish, they may make memorial contributions in Joanne’s memory to the Harvest Child Care Ministries or to P.O. Box 259 Duffield, VA 24244. Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting . Arrangements by Thomas M. Seagle &
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Augusta [S.C.] Chronicle, 24 May 2009: North Augusta, S.C.—Entered into rest Thurs., May 21, 2009. Mr. James L. Honaker, Sr., age 52, beloved husband of Mrs. Shannon D. Honaker. Mr. Honaker was a licensed insurance agent for the states of Georgia and South Carolina and represented the Insurance Center. He was an avid fisherman, outdoorsman, and enjoyed wood working. Family members in addition to his wife include daughter: Jennifer L. Honaker of Jacksonville, Fla.; son: James Lee Honaker, Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla.; stepdaughter: Jennifer N. Turner of Athens, Ga.; stepson: Matthew A. Turner of Winder, Ga.; six grandchildren; mother: Mutsuko Honaker of Augusta, Ga.; father: the late Carl L. Honaker; brother: Charles H. Honaker and his wife Ruth Ann of Thomson, Ga. A graveside service will be held Tue., May 26, 2009 at 11 a.m. at Westover Park with the Pastor Chuck Carswell officiating. Pallbearers will be Andrew J. Kilpatrick II, Scott L. Smith, John Voelker, Matthew A. Turner, John M. Honaker, and Stephen L. Hill. The family will receive friends Mon., May 25, 2009 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Thomas Poteet & Son Funeral Directors, 214 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA 30907. (706) 364-8484. A guestbook may be signed on our website .
Augusta [Ga.] Chronicle, 23 Feb 2016: Thomson, Ga.—Entered into rest Sun., Feb. 21, 2016, Mrs. Ruth Ann Honaker, 60, loving wife of 28 years to Charles “Charly” Honaker. Mrs. Honaker grew up in Reynolds, Ga.,but has lived in Thomson for 20 years. She attended Mercer University and for the past ten years she owned and operated Branum’s Embroidering. Family members, in addition to her husband, include her stepson: John Honaker and wife Britta of Warner Robins, Ga.; grandchildren: Kate and Marshall Honaker; parents: Dawson and Emily Mims of Reynolds, Ga.; brother: Dawson A. Mims III and wife Susan of Asheville, N.C.; sister: Laura Routt and husband Greg of Roswell, Ga.; mother-in-law: Mutsuko Honaker of Augusta, Ga.; and sister-in-law: Shannon Honaker of North Augusta, S.C. A memorial service will be held Wed., Feb. 24, 2016 at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Thomas Poteet & Son. The family will receive friends following the service. The family requests no flowers be sent but memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, 2607 Commons, Blvd., Augusta, GA 30909. Thomas Poteet & Son Funeral Directors, 214 Davis Rd., Augusta, GA 30907 (706) 364-8484. Please sign the guestbook at .
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 22 May 2009 (with photograph): Bobby Ryan Honaker of Sissonville went home to be with Jesus on Tue., May 19, 2009. Bobby was born July 8, 1976. He graduated from Sissonville High School and then attended West Virginia University, where he was an honor student and a member of the West Virginia University Marching Band and was loved by all. He graduated with a B.A. and master’s degree. Bobby was living in North Carolina and was self-employed. He is survived by his parents, Virginia and Bob Honaker; fiancé, Lael Jordan; brothers, Aaron Honaker of Maryland, Benjamin Honaker of Sissonville, and Jimmy Honaker of Sissonville; and many uncles, aunts and cousins. Friends may visit Bobby at the Honaker home, 7379 Turkey Pen Drive, Sissonville, W.Va., all day Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Services will be held at Smith Cemetery in Ripley, W.Va., at 3 p.m. Saturday. To get to the cemetery, take Route 33 to Station Camp Road. Follow Station Camp Road approximately one mile, and turn onto the gravel drive to the cemetery, which is located ¼ mile up the drive.
News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 27 Feb 2009: Jonah Bevins, 74, of Kimper, died Wed., Feb. 25, 2009, at Pikeville Medical Center. He was born in Pike County, Apr. 10, 1934, the son of the late Hiram and Mary Honaker Bevins. He was a coal miner, formerly employed by Justice Brothers Coal Company, and a member of the Church of Christ. He was preceded in death by five brothers, Woodrow Bevins, Luke Varney, Leaurah Varney, Walter Varney, Estill Varney; and one sister, Mertie Hackney; and one great-grandchild. He is survived by his wife, June Anderson Bevins; two sons, Roger Dale Bevins of Phyllis and Danny Ray Bevins of Kimper; one daughter, Patty Sue Hunt of Phyllis; one sister, Mae McCown of Ohio; five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sat., Feb. 28, in the Upper Grapevine Church of Christ with Church of Christ ministers officiating. Burial will follow in the Justice Cemetery, Kimper. Arrangements are under direction of Lucas & Son Funeral Home of Pikeville. Special services will be held at 7 p.m. Friday. The guest book may be signed online at .
Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tenn., 15 May 2009: Dresden—Paul Howard Honaker, 43, died May 13, 2009. Bowlin [Funeral Home, Dresden, Tenn], 731-364-3101.
News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 25 Mar 2009 (with photograph): Arnold W. Coleman, 78, of Elyria, Ohio, died Mar. 22, 2009. He was born in Pike County, May 29, 1930, the son of the late Paris and Missouri Honaker Coleman. He retired from Ford Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1992, was a U.S. Army veteran and fought in the Korean War, and was of the Primitive Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Mary Ruby Coleman, who died June 3, 2008; one daughter, Dollie Marie Coleman; four brothers, Arvil Coleman, Frank Coleman, Donald Coleman, Larry Coleman; two sisters, Daisy Miller and Gracie Newton; and one grandson, Charles Andrew Coleman. He is survived by two sons, Andrew Coleman of Tennessee, Edward Coleman of North Ridgeville, Ohio; four daughters, Marie Stevens of Kentucky, Ruby Lanning of the home, Edith Sue Hall of Lower Salem, Ohio, Karen McKinney of Elyria; one sister, Faye Coleman of Kentucky; 10 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren, one step-granddaughter, and three stepgreat-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Sat., Mar. 28, in the Johns Creek Primitive Baptist Church with Primitive Baptist ministers officiating. Burial will follow in the Coleman Cemetery, Kimper. Arrangements are under direction of Community Funeral Home of Zebulon. Visitation is after 1 p.m. Thursday and Friday.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 8 May 2009, Lebanon [Va.] News, 13 May 2009, and Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 14 May 2009: Honaker, Va.—Mr. Garnet Earl Stinson, age 79, passed away Thurs., May 7, 2009 at his home. Born Oct. 14, 1929, in Beckley, W.Va., he was a son of the late Mitchell and Eula Honaker Stinson. He had resided in Arizona for several years prior to moving back to Honaker five years ago and was a member of Bethany Baptist Church. He was formerly employed as a heavy equipment operator and most recently as a self-employed tool salesman. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Sue Stinson; two brothers, Wayne Stinson and Harry Counts Stinson; two nieces, Robin Edwards and Brenda Thompson; and two brothers-in-law, Gonion Edwards and Bill Counts. Survivors include two sons, Gary Stinson of Lebanon, Va., and Larry Stinson and wife Patricia of Honaker; four sisters, Imogene Thompson and husband Earl, Claudia Stinson, Wanda Edwards and Sylvia Vandyke and husband Bill, all of Honaker; five grandchildren, Gregory Stinson, Heather Reynolds, Blake Stinson, Jonathan Stinson and Beth Ann Thomas; seven great-grand-children and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, with Larry Stinson and the Rev. Vonley Pruitt officiating. Interment will follow in the Lockhart Cemetery in Honaker. Friends may call at the Honaker Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Friday. Pallbearers will be Jackie Taylor, Kevin McGlothlin, Jerry Stinson, Glen Stinson, Randy Stinson, William Counts, Bill Vandyke and Greg Stinson. Honorary pallbearers will be Jim McGlothlin, Daniel Johnson, Steve Ray, Marion Compton and Dr. Corley.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 1 May 2009: Berwind—Eva Leora Wallace Matney, age 83, of Berwind, W.Va., passed away Tue., Apr. 28, 2009 at her home. Born Sept. 26, 1925 in Rift, W.Va., she was a daughter of the late Lloyd Wallace and Hester Wallace Honaker. She was of the Holiness faith. Mrs. Matney was a homemaker and a resident of Berwind most of her life. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Dooley Matney; one son, Ronald Curtis Matney; four sisters, Helen Chewning, Mary Lawrence, Joann Baggerly, and Evelyn Christian. Survivors include two sons, Ernie Matney, Larry Matney and wife, Carol all of Berwind, W.Va.; two daughters, Peggy Mitchell and husband, Bobby of Elgin, S.C. and Sherry Byrd and husband, Craig of Cedar Bluff, Va.; two sisters, June Geier of Roseburg, Ore. and Patsy Somoskey and husband, Bobby of Marietta, Ga.; special caretaker and granddaughter, Theresa Campbell and husband, John and great-grandson, Tyler, with whom she made her home; eleven grandchildren, Arlie Matney, Ernest David Matney both of Berwind, W.Va., Marsha Burch of Byron Springs, Va., Ronald Matney of Olin, N.C., Denise Spell of Columbia, S.C., Bobby Mitchell, Jr. of Tazewell, Va., Diana Wells of Skygusty, W.Va., Theresa Campbell of Berwind, W.Va., Michele “Mickey” Crigger of Newhall, W.Va., Sandra Russell of Caretta, W.Va., and Joshua Sparks of Charlottesville, Va.; and twelve great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Sat., May 2, 2009 at Peery and St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell, Va. with the Rev. Lawrence Hayes officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6–9 p.m. Fri., May 1, 2009. To leave personal condolences online, visit .
Pittsburgh [Pa.] Post Gazette, 6 Apr 2009: Charles Clinton Honaker. Age 95, of Monroeville, on Sun., Apr. 5, 2009. Husband of the late Jane Honaker; beloved father of Thomas (Debbie) Honaker, Terry (Tim) Petrosky, Kim (Rob) Davidson; grandfather of five; brother of Gerald, Carl and John Honaker. He will be missed by his beloved dog, Bailey. Retired by Port Authority, he was an avid pilot. Friends received Tue., 7–9 p.m. at Soxman Funeral Homes, Ltd./Roth Chapel, 7450 Saltsburg Rd. (at Universal Rd.), Penn Hills, where a service will be held Wednesday, 11 a.m. Send condolences at gb.
Winston-Salem [N.C.] Journal, 6 Apr 2009: Honaker Walnut Grove—Ruth Honaker, 49, went home to be with her Lord on Sat., Apr. 4, 2009. Funeral services celebrating her life will be held at 1 p.m. on Tue., Apr. 7, 2009 at Welcome Door Baptist Church with the Rev. Roger Pinnix officiating. Interment will follow in Mt. Gur Cemetery. Survivors include her loving husband, Charles “Chub” Honaker of the home; daughters, Tammy Clifton and Jessica Absher; son, Shannon Green; granddaughters, Serenity Green and Arionna Clifton; grandson, Zachary Clifton; sisters, Mary, Teresa, and Robin; brothers, Freddie and Allen. The family will visit with friends from 11 a.m. until time for the service on Tuesday at the church. Online condolences may be sent to the Honaker family at Pierce-.
Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., 12 Apr 2008: John David Honaker, 39, of Picayune died Apr. 12, 2008. Memorial services will be held at a later date. Picayune Funeral Home is in charge.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 27 Apr 2009 (with photograph): Ruth Ann Honaker, age 65, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sun., Apr. 26, 2009. She was a lifelong resident of the Bristol area and attended Victory Baptist Church. She was loved by everyone who met her and a friend to all. She will be greatly missed. She was preceded in death by her father, William “Archie” Honaker; mother, Ella Mae Honaker; and two sisters, Myrtle Harless and Mary Pippin. She is survived by her sisters, Ethel Morton, Bristol, Tenn. and Bonnie (Honaker) Rein, Orlando, Fla.; brothers, Allen James Honaker, Donald Honaker, Freddie Honaker and wife Phyllis and Gary Honaker and wife Debbie, all of Bristol, Tenn., and Glen Honaker and wife Vickie of Bristol, Va.; several nieces and nephews; several great-nieces and great-nephews; her very special friend, Mary Hawk; and special pets, Benji and Callie. Funeral services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Tue., Apr. 28, 2009, in the Weaver Funeral Home Chapel, with Dr. Austin Cook officiating. The committal will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Glenwood Mausoleum Chapel. Ruth Ann will be entombed in Glenwood Mausoleum. Pallbearers will be the nephews. The family will receive friends from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Weaver Funeral Home. Online condolences may be registered at . Flowers will be accepted or condolences may be sent to the Wellmont Hospice House, 280 Steele’s Road, Bristol, TN 37620. Arrangements were made with Weaver Funeral Home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 10 Mar 2009: Elsie E. Hopkins Honaker, 94, of 411 Lynn St., Bluefield, Va., died Sun., Mar. 8, 2009 at her home. She was born in Pulaski, Va., and was a daughter of the late John Wesley Hopkins and Ardella Rorrer Hopkins. Mrs. Honaker was a member of the Memorial Baptist Church in Bluefield, Va. and was retired from the Kroger Co., having worked at many of their [grocery] stores and retired from the Bluefield, Va. Kroger. She was also a member of the Bluefield [Fraternal Order of] Eagles. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond Carl Honaker; daughter, Judith L. King and by grandsons, David Honaker and Lewis Carl Honaker. She was also preceded in death by brothers and sister. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. She is survived by daughters, Jeanie Lafon of Suffolk, Va., Anita Benoit of Suffolk, Va.; sons, Buck Honaker of Monroe, La., Skip Honaker and wife Kathleen of Bluefield, Va., Jack Honaker and wife Brenda of Bluefield, Va.; 9 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Wed., Mar. 11, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the Dudley Memorial Chapel in Bluefield, Va. with Pastor Lacy Brooks officiating. Burial will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Family members will serve as pallbearers. The Honaker family will receive friends today from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Memorial Baptist Church, 401 Virginia Ave., Bluefield, VA 24605. Dudley Memorial Mortuary in Bluefield, Va. is serving the Honaker family. To leave personal condolences online, visit .
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Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nev., 22 Nov 2005: Music fixture Honaker remembered
Las Vegas brims with thankless, low-wage jobs, from the muck-mopping hotel maids to those guys who skim butts from casino ashtrays. But even those jobs have better prospects for pay than Rick Honaker’s chosen profession: booking and promoting bands playing local venues such as the Double Down Saloon, the Cooler Lounge and the Cheyenne Saloon.
With his giant pork-chop sideburns, strangely endearing nasal voice and rampant motormouth, the barrel-chested Honaker has long stood out in the Las Vegas music scene for constantly putting musicians before profit, often to his own detriment. “Nobody has treated any of my bands any better than he did over 20 years of playing in Vegas,” said veteran scenester Rob Ruckus, bassist for local acts Jupiter Shifter and the Vermin.
Honaker, 41, was found dead in his Las Vegas home Nov. 13. The cause remains unclear, but he was being treated for a severely absessed tooth. Authorities theorize he succumbed to complications related to the diseased oral tissue. Since last week, friends have been lamenting the loss of a scene fixture known for bringing punk legends such as the Adolescents to town, as well as for his unflagging support of up-and-coming Las Vegas acts. Dozens have posted remembrances and messages to Rick on his personal Web site (dickielugnutz).
“You took a chance and let us old timers play when others wouldn’t,” local rockers the Vibemerchants posted. In interviews, local musicians gushed about Rick’s generosity. “He was nothing but good to every band in town,” said Joe Mescalino of local punk-pop outfit the Pervz. Rick’s reputation stretched far beyond Las Vegas’ tight-knit scene. “He kept his word, which is kind of a rarity in this business,” said Ginger Cyote, singer for the Los Angeles-based punk band the White Trash Debutantes. “Rich went into hock a lot of times, borrowing money and sacrificing paychecks to take care of bands.”
Rick’s fellow promoters are reeling at the loss. “He’d always pay bands out of his own pocket if something went wrong,” said promoter “Poizen” Ivy Hover. “He’d rather see the bands get taken care of than reimburse himself for the fliers and promotion,” said Ryan Kinder of local label Big Lizard Records. “He had a heart of gold, and sometimes that wasn’t to his best advantage,” said Jennifer “Jenny-O” Davis, whom Rick mentored. Unsurprisingly, Rick’s friends are celebrating his life the way they find most fitting, a memorial concert Dec. 3 at the Cooler Lounge, 1905 N. Decatur Blvd. Two dozen bands have signed on to play the 11 a.m. marathon festival. A $10 donation will benefit Rick’s 13-year-old daughter.
Bozeman [Mont] Daily Chronicle, 4 Jul 2006: Daniel Gordon Honaker, 77, of Bozeman, died June 27, 2006, at the Gallatin Rest Home. He was born Apr. 15, 1929, in Sellersburg, Ind., the son of Henry Isaac and Laura Belle (Noble) Honaker. During his life, Daniel worked in factories throughout the Midwest, the South and Montana, and he enjoyed singing. He was preceded in death by his parents; his sister and brother-in-law, Florence and Ed O’Neal; brothers, Oliver, Troy, Moody, Wallace, Roy, Rhoe, Elzie, and Everett. Survivors include his nieces, Kay Kreyser of Bozeman, Wilma Hinds of Tulsa, Okla., Hazel Allyn of Catloosa, Okla., and their families. Cremation has taken place at Dahl Crematory. A memorial service was held July 3 at Abundant Life Fellowship Church in Bozeman.
Boston [Mass.] Herald, 6 Sep 2003 and Boston Globe, 5 Sep 2003: David William Honaker of Brockton, a parcel delivery supervisor, died suddenly Tuesday in Brockton. He was 41. Born in Brookline, he was raised in Brockton and educated in Brockton and Ohio schools. He later graduated magna cum laude from Eastern Nazarene College in the Lead Program. He lived in Brockton for the past 20 years. Mr. Honaker served in the Marine Corps from 1980 until 1983 as a lance corporal, specializing in demolition. He worked as a supervisor at the Norwood office of the U.S. Postal Service. He loved fishing and was a regular donor to the Children’s Hospital Blood Clinic. He was a member of the Christ Congregational Church in Brockton and enjoyed doting on his two daughters. He is survived by his wife, Susan Beth (Petersen); two daughters, Constance and Katherine, both of Brockton; three sisters, Lee Lindquist of Brockton, Janet of Bridgewater and Jane of East Bridgewater; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held today at 1 p.m. at Christ Congregational Church. Burial will be at a later date. Arrangements by the Dahlborg-MacNevin Funeral Home, Brockton.
The following are African-Americans thought to be descended from slaves of James Honaker, first sheriff of Pike Co., Ky.:
Hartford [Conn.] Courant, 12 Sep 2003: Edward J. Honaker passed away Tue., Sept. 9, 2003 at Riverside Health Care Center. Born in Pikeville, Ky., to the late Bruther and Roxie Honaker. One of 12 children, five predeceased, loved by many nieces and nephews. Visitation commencing at 6 p.m. with funeral service at 6:30 p.m. at Clark, Bell & Bell Funeral Home, 319 Barbour St., Hartford.
News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 8 Apr 2009 (with photograph): Eldora Garvin, 61, of Pikeville died Fri., Apr. 3, 2009, at her home. She was born in Pike County, June 12, 1947, the daughter of the late Bruther and Roxanne Honaker.
News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 14 May 2011 (with photograph): Arthur Leotis Weems, 68. of Spring Lake, N.C., died Tue., May 10, 2011, at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. He was born in Floyd County, Oct. 17, 1942, the son of the late Richard Weems, Sr. and Louise Bailey Weems. He was a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Marshall Weems. He is survived by his wife, Martha Honaker Weems; one son, Arthur L. Weems, Jr. of San Antonio; two brothers, Richard Weems, Jr. of Atlanta, and Ronnie Weems of Columbus, Ohio; and five sisters, Carol Layne, Cynthia Johnson, Mural Silvers and Robin Bradley, all of Pikeville, and Darlene Childers of Columbus. The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Tue., May 17, in the J.W. Call and Son Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor Gene Layne officiating. Burial will follow in Johnson Memorial Park, Pikeville, with full military honors. Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Arrangements are under direction of J.W. Call and Son Funeral Home. An online guestbook may be signed at .
The Sun, Baltimore, Md., 7 Apr 2003: Emmett E. Honaker died Apr. 5, 2003, beloved husband of Susan Honaker, devoted father of Keith, Melissa and Jacob; loving son of Shirley and the late Clarence Honaker. He is also survived by three sisters. Friends may call at the family owned Leonard J. Ruck, Inc., Funeral Home, 5305 Harford Road (at Echodale), on Tuesday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m., where funeral services will be held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. Interment Parkwood Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Joseph Hospital Oncology Department.
The Sun, Baltimore, Md., 24 Jul 2007: Jason Eric Cohen, Attorney, Developed an Interest in Bodybuilding in Law School and Founded a Fish-Oil Supplement Business
Jason Eric Cohen, an attorney whose interest in bodybuilding led him to found a fish-oil food supplement business, died of melanoma Sunday at his Owings Mills home. He was 38. “He was charismatic and a character you wanted to be around,” said Jonathan Kagan, a close friend and an Annapolis attorney.
Born in Baltimore and raised in the Bonnie Ridge section, he was a 1986 graduate of Pikesville High School, where he wrestled as a freshman on the varsity team. He earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a law degree at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. “He was an excellent wrestler and was always fit and in shape,” Mr. Kagan said. “He caught the bodybuilding bug while in law school and got into the culture of bodybuilding.”
Mr. Cohen established a legal practice on Eastern Avenue in Fells Point and established Performance Biomedical Laboratories, a sports supplement business. He sold and promoted Pure Omega 3 Fish Oil, which he believed to be beneficial for the arteries. He also modeled and competed in bodybuilding events. “Whenever Jason did anything, he had to do the best,” said his wife of three years, Jessica Honaker, who is also a bodybuilder and posed with him in competitions. “He believed in science and health,” said his father, Dr. Edward Cohen of Sparks. “He lectured on diet, exercise and doing things in moderation.”
A 1998 Sun news article detailed how his business enjoyed brisk sales after baseball player Mark McGwire said he used supplements. Mr. Cohen said in the interview that the core of his business was bodybuilders, weightlifters and fitness enthusiasts. “It’s helping them out primarily in the gym to maintain a leaner, stronger body,” he said, adding that he marketed the supplements in muscle magazines and on his company Web site. He said his products helped enthusiasts work out longer, lift more and recover faster.
“Jason was always trying to help everyone get into shape so they would live healthier lives,” said another friend, Richard Sher of WJZ-TV. “Every time I saw him, he wanted to know if I was taking the fish oil capsules he gave me. He was truly one of a kind, very special.”
Mr. Cohen was in the South Beach section of Miami in December 2005 when he discovered a skin blemish that was later diagnosed as melanoma. He underwent rounds of chemotherapy and surgery for a brain tumor. “He was the perennial optimist,” said his father. “Just a week ago, he looked at me and said, ‘Doctors don’t know everything.’ He said when he was first diagnosed and could not sleep, he would just start thinking of all the things he was grateful for—a beautiful wife and child, nice home, good job that he loved.”
Services will be held at noon today at Sol Levinson & Brothers, 8900 Reistertown Road. In addition to his wife and father, survivors include his 2-year-old daughter, Carly Madison Cohen; his mother, Carolyn Steinberg of Baltimore; his stepmother, Patricia Cohen of Sparks; a brother, Stuart Cohen of Lutherville; and nieces and nephews.
Review-Journal, Las Vegas, Nev., 29 Oct 2004: Fernette Maurine Honaker, 90, of Silver City, N.M., died Oct. 27, 2004. She was a retired teacher. She is survived by her daughters, Jessica Scullion of Salem, Ohio, Roberta Karnes of Las Vegas and Crystal Gray of Silver City, N.M. Visitation will be from 5–7 p.m. Sun., Oct. 31. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Mon., Nov. 1, both at Palm Mortuary, 7600 S. Eastern Ave. Memorial services will follow at 5:30 p.m., at Trinity United Methodist Church, 6151 W. Charleston Blvd.
Columbian, Vancouver, Wash., 30 Jul 1997: Sheri A. Honaker, a homemaker, who lived in Vancouver since December 1996, died in Vancouver Fri., July 25, 1997, of endocarditis and renal failure. She was 30. She is survived by her husband, David H., at home; her mother, Sandi Harlow of Vancouver; her father, Merle Ray of Arkansas; two sons, David A. and Brandon Lee, both at home; one brother, Ricky Alkana of California; and one sister, Kimberly Alkana of Vancouver. Mrs. Honaker was born May 6, 1967, in California. A memorial service will begin at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home.
Oregonian, Portland, Ore., 31 Jul 1997: A memorial service will be at 4:30 p.m. Fri., Aug. 1, 1997, in the chapel of Hamilton-Mylan Funeral Home in Vancouver, Wash., for Sheri A. Honaker, who died July 25 of endocarditis and renal failure at age 30. Mrs. Honaker was born May 6, 1967, in Encino, Calif. Her maiden name was Alkana. She was a homemaker. Survivors include her husband, David H.; mother, Sandi Harlow of Vancouver; father, Merle R. of Arkansas; brother, Ricky of California; and sister, Kimberly of Vancouver. Disposition was by cremation.
Yakima [Wash.] Herald-Republic, 9 Nov 2002: Vivienne Rose Honaker, 74, of Buena died Wednesday. Mrs. Honaker was born in Clatskanie, Ore. She lived in Buena more than 30 years. Survivors include three daughters, Cynthia Barks, Margaret Honaker and Carolyn Wagner; a son, James Honaker; five sisters, Evelyn, Donna, Betty, Deloris and Beverly; 10 grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Colonial Funeral Home in Toppenish. Graveside interment will follow at Zillah Cemetery.
Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss., 30 Jan 2008: Douglas Michael Honaker Jr., 46, of Picayune died Jan. 17, 2008 at Highland Community Hospital, Picayune. Arrangements are by Picayune Funeral Home and Crematory.
Sun Herald, Pass Christian, Miss., 8 Apr 2005, Times-Picayune, New Orleans, La., 8 Apr 2005: Joyce Boyd Honaker, 75, of Pass Christian, Miss., died Wed., Apr. 6, 2005, in Gulfport. She was a native of New Orleans, La., and had been a lifelong resident of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She was a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary of Gulfport. Mrs. Honaker was preceded in death by her parents, Edwin P. Champagne, Sr. and Alberta Landry Champagne. Her survivors include her loving husband of 31 years, Nathan Honaker of Pass Christian; her son, Nathaniel Boyd of Long Beach, Miss.; five daughters, Brenda Ladda of Harvey, La., Barbara Rader of Gretna, La., Karen Kitts of Pensacola, Fla., Margaret Boyd of Gulfport, Miss., and Lisa Smith of Pass Christian, Miss.; two brothers, Edwin Champagne of Diamondhead, Miss., and Roy Champagne of Long Island, N.Y.; two stepbrothers, Alex Bordonaro of Algiers, La., and Johnny Bordonaro of Chicago, Ill.; two stepsisters, Nora Dupont of Lutcher, La., and Meca James of Waveland, Miss.; 13 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. A visitation will be held on Fri., Apr. 8, 2005, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Riemann Memorial Funeral Home, Hwy. 49N, Gulfport, Miss. The funeral service is Sat., Apr. 9, 2005, 2 p.m., in the funeral home chapel, with burial following at Floral Hills Memorial Gardens in Gulfport. An online guestbook may be viewed and signed via .
Sun Herald, Pass Christian, Miss., 5 Jul 2015 (with photograph): Nathan “Pappy” Honaker, 75, of Pass Christian, passed peacefully from this life on Thurs., July 2, 2015. Nathan served his country honorably and was a veteran of both the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, having served in the Vietnam War. They say that the true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Nathan’s selfless affection and dedication not only nourished his family and friends, but all of those he came in contact with. With Nathan, there was no distinction: spouse, sibling, child, step-child, grandchild, or friend. If he lovedyou, you were his family, and his love was unconditional. Nathan is survived by his wife Aletha and his son Greg. He leaves behind six sisters, four brothers, and a magnitude of family and friends who loved him unconditionally. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tue., July 6, 2015, at 10:30 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church, where friends may visit one hour prior to the service. Interment with full military honors rendered by the U.S. Navy Honor Guard will follow at Biloxi National Cemetery at 12:30 p.m. Riemann Family Funeral Home, 9113 Kiln Delisle Road in Pass Christian, served the family. Tributes may be offered at .
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 12 Feb 2009 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 18 Feb 2009: Honaker, Va.—Mrs. Judy Carol Ball, age 54, of the New Garden Road section, passed away Mon., Feb. 9, 2009, at her home. Born Apr. 1, 1954, in Richlands, Va., she was a daughter of the late Rev. William N. “Jim” Honaker Sr. and Lucille Ritchie Honaker. A lifelong resident of the area, she was of the Holiness faith. A disabled health care worker, she was formerly employed as a [certified nursing assistant] at Maple Grove in Lebanon, Va. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Steve Ball; paternal grandparents, Samuel and Louella Thomas Honaker; and maternal grandparents, Otis and Carrie Young Ritchie. Survivors include one son, Anthony Bryan Hess of Honaker; one daughter, Virginia Renee Hess of Honaker; one granddaughter, Destiny Nicole Hess of Honaker; two sisters, Libby Hubbard and husband Bill of Honaker, and Tiny Dye and husband Howard of Lebanon; three brothers, Billy Honaker, Lonzo Honaker and his wife Rebecca, all of Honaker, and Jimmy Dean Honaker and wife Anna Mae of Swords Creek, Va.; three nieces, Melinda Hale and husband Mark, Tonya Hart and husband Brad, all of Honaker, and Tina Coleman and husband Michael of Lebanon; two nephews, Matthew Hubbard and wife Kristy of Cedar Bluff, Va., and Matthew Allen Honaker of Florida; aunts and uncles, Frank and JoAnn Ritchie, and Brenda and Jackie Bise, all of Honaker, and Shirley Blackwell of Kingsport, Tenn.; special cousins, Darrell Ritchie and wife Tammy, and Lisa Lester and husband Sherman; numerous additional cousins; and several special great-nieces and great-nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Stephen Musick and the Rev. Arnold Street officiating. Interment will follow in the Sutherland Cemetery on New Garden Road, Honaker, Va. Pallbearers will be Matthew Hubbard, Mark Hale, Darrell Ritchie, Tom Hubbard, Gary Street and Steve Street. Friends may call at the Honaker Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Bakersfield Californian, 7 Jan 2009 and Ely [Nev.] Times, 8 Jan 2009: Bill Honaker 1942-2009—A memorial service for Bill Honaker will be held Sat., Jan. 10, 2009 at 10 a.m. at Greenlawn Southwest Chapel, 2739 Panama Lane. Billy J. Honaker, born Sept. 11, 1942 in Canebrake, W.Va., passed away on Jan. 1, 2009 at the age of 66 in Bakersfield. Bill was raised in War, W.Va., spent his teenage years in Cleveland, Ohio, then enlisted in the Army in 1961. Bill was stationed all over the U.S., Korea, Germany, and Vietnam. He retired as a master sergeant in 1984. He then moved his family to Bakersfield where he worked for Dole Fresh Fruits and retired from his job as the maintenance supervisor at Rancho Loma in 2002. He moved to Ruth, Nev., in 2003 where he lived until July 2008 when he returned to Bakersfield to receive treatment and care for lung cancer. Bill’s hobbies were hunting, fishing and camping but his favorites were shooting and reloading. He loved the hours spent with his sons teaching them to shoot. Bill was also very proud to have served his country for 24 years in the U.S. Army. Bill is survived by his sons, Jon Honaker of Gabbs, Nev., and Keith and Wendy Honaker of Duckwater, Nev.; caregiver and former wife, Dee Daniels of Bakersfield; brothers, James Maguran of Phoenix and Larry Maguran of Cleveland; sisters, Brenda Goins and Mary Benefiel of Cleveland and all of their families; as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Bill had many caring and supportive friends, especially Gwen and Marty Nielsen, Linda and Butch Stewart, PamTaylor, Bing and Chit Gotico, Adeline Mike, David Blackeye and their families. He will also be missed by his beloved animal companions. The family thanks the staff of Optimal Hospice, especially Bridgett, Tanya, and Sandra for their care and support during Bill’s illness. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations in Bill’s name to The Cat People, P.O. Box 13610, Bakersfield, CA 93389; Veterans of Kern Co., Inc., 1120 Golden State Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301, or Optimal Hospice. A memorial service for Bill will be held on Sat., Jan. 10, 2009 at 10 a.m. at Greenlawn Chapel, 2739 Panama Lane, Bakersfield, Calif. If you would like to contact Bill’s family, please call (661) 589-7821.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 4 Feb 2009: Mrs. Teresa Ann Miller, age 43, of the Drill section of Honaker, Va., passed away Thurs., Jan. 29, 2009 in a Lebanon, Va. hospital. Born March 24, 1965 in Russell Co., Va., she was a daughter of Alice Ray Honaker of Randleman, N.C. and the late Alfred Raymond Honaker. She had spent most of her life in the area and was of the Holiness faith. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Miles and Jo Thelma Ray and paternal grandparents, Samuel and Nannie Belle Honaker. In addition to her mother, survivors include her husband, Jimmy Miller of the home; two daughters, Amanda Nicole Miller and Katherine Rose Miller both of the home; two sons, Charles Stump, Jr. of the home and Timothy Allen Stump of North Carolina; three sisters, Nancy Honaker, Connie Honaker, and Atta Mae Perkins all of Atkins, Va.; four brothers, Ronald Honaker and Michael Honaker both of Randleman, Steven Honaker of Denton, N.C., and Alfred Lee Honaker of Atkins; two granddaughters, Adora Canita Hess and Alyson Isabella Paige Miller; several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Arvil Arwood and Rev. Leonard Meadows officiating. Interment followed in the Martin Cemetery at Stinson Ridge, Va. Pallbearers were Lonzo Stiltner, Oscar Stiltner, Mike Woodward, Brad Stacy, Patrick Wheeler, and Emory Honaker. Honorary pallbearers were Dave Price and Henry Lowe.
De Soto Explorer, Lawrence, Kan., 2004: Expected Baby Gives Solace to Firefighter’s Family, by Sara Stites, reprinted in , 22 Jul 2004, updated 14 Jun 2007
Things weren’t supposed to end up like this. Instead of getting married and living happily ever after with her fiance and their yet-unborn daughter, Melissa Schurman went to her future husband’s funeral Sunday. Nathan Honaker, a seemingly healthy 22-year-old volunteer firefighter for the DeSoto Fire Department, died last month when his heart stopped beating for apparently no reason. Schurman and other family members are trying to cope with the surprise of his death and anxiously waiting for answers about what might have caused it.
In the meantime, Schurman said she was struggling with grief about losing Honaker, happiness about having their baby, and questions about what she’ll do now. “I’ll just kind of, you know, pick up the pieces,” she said. “There’s a lot of stuff I’m worried about, a lot of stuff I’m excited about, a lot of stuff I feel—How am I going to do this without him?” Honaker was working at Papa John’s Pizza in Westport, Mo., where he was training to become a manager, when he died June 28. During that evening’s shift, a fellow employee remembers Honaker talking on his cell phone in the restaurant’s kitchen. When the co-worker glanced over moments later, Honaker was blue all over and had collapsed to the floor. After failing to revive him at the scene, paramedics rushed Honaker to the University of Kansas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead soon afterward.
Instead of a traditional memorial service, family put on a “Celebration of Life” Sunday in downtown Lawrence. Honaker’s mother, Bobbie Hardeman, said it was only fitting for the way her son had lived. “I really think his life needs to be celebrated, even if he’s not walking around among us,” she said. “He’s probably watching down and saying, ‘Hey, that’s really cool.’ ”
Hardeman described Honaker as “quite a character” who really loved life. Schurman said he was talkative, outgoing and caring. “He was just an all-around terrific guy. He loved to help people and he loved what he did,” she said. “That’s what I loved about him: He always put other people first.”
Schurman said she and Honaker, friends and then sweethearts since high school, had decided to set their wedding date after the baby was born, Honaker was finished with school, and she was back on her feet. They were going to look for a bigger place, too, and try to save up some money. Very family-oriented, Honaker was thrilled about starting one himself.
“He didn’t know his own father,” Schurman said. “So being a father meant a lot to him.” Schurman said when she and Honaker discovered their child would be a girl, they chose the name Alexys Danielle Honaker. Honaker circled the name “Alexys” on a list of about ten of Schurman’s favorite girls’ names. “I like that one,” he told Schurman. Their baby is due in November. When Honaker found out he would be a father, he was “absolutely ecstatic,” Hardeman said.
It’s just unbelievable that this happened,” she said of his untimely death. “I can’t believe that God would take Nathaniel and then bring Alexys into the world and not get to know her dad.” Since her fiance’s death, Schurman has been thinking of ways she’ll be able to help her daughter learn about her father.
She’s trying to save some tape recordings from Honaker’s college days and maybe something from his cell phone so the baby can hear his voice. A scrapbook and some of his clothes, like his fire uniform, will be the best she can do to show the child what he looked like. A former wrestler and football player, Honaker graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001. He had only lived in De Soto since March, when he joined Schurman, who had lived there since November.
Besides training at Papa John’s, Honaker was an umpire for Douglas County Amateur Baseball Association and volunteered for two fire departments—De Soto and Wakarusa. He was close to finishing requirements at Longview College and Western Missouri Regional Fire Academy to become a full-time firefighter.
Honaker first lost interest in his computer science major after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Hardeman said. He wanted to do something to help people, she said, and instead focused his attention on becoming a rescue worker. Honaker’s choice to be an organ donor helped many others even after he died, Hardeman said.
During Sunday’s services, friends and family shared thoughts and memories, both somber and comical. They released message-laden balloons in the park after Wakarusa firefighters took an urn holding Honaker’s cremated remains for one last ride on a department fire truck, adorned with black shrouds for the occasion. As an emergency worker, Honaker passed his physical tests with “flying colors,” Hardeman said. He had a brief bout with seizures when he was a small child but had been seizure-free for years and years, his mother said. Schurman said Honaker went to the hospital earlier this year for having low levels of potassium, but he wasn't diagnosed with a particular problem.
Hardeman said she was told a cursory examination of her son’s heart revealed nothing abnormal besides stress from the cardio-electric shocks and the adrenaline shot medics used when they tried to revive him. “I am at a total loss as to why this happened,” she said. “He was very healthy. He ran, he worked out at Gold’s Gym when he could. Other than that God needed a special angel ...” she mused, trailing off into tears. “Other than that, we won’t know until the final report comes.”
Thomas Young, a doctor at the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office, said this week that the cause of death was still pending while Honaker's heart—removed before he was cremated—underwent further testing. Young refused to make any guesses about what went wrong. “We’re still working on this,” he said. “I’m not going to jump the gun on this sort of thing.” Although Young said it was uncommon for young people to die under similar circumstances, he said, [remainder missing]
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 3 Feb 2009: Alderson—Christine Beard Morgan, 98, passed away Sun., Feb. 1, 2009, at the home of her daughter, Sharon Hypes, after a long illness. Born June 25, 1910, in Ronceverte, she was the daughter of the late James and Alice Morgan Honaker. Mrs. Morgan had been a resident of Clayton for 30 years and was formerly of Ronceverte, was a member of the Greenbrier Baptist Church at Ronceverte and was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hunter Morgan, in 1957; a daughter, Eleanor McCoy; two sons, Harold Morgan and Perlley Morgan; a daughter-in-law, Jennie Morgan; three sons-in-law, Manuel Long, Harold Reed and Myrle Dixon; three sisters, Glenna Morgan, Pauline Bland, Margaret Toothman; one brother, Woodrow Honaker; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Survivors include five daughters, Mary Long of Caldwell, Norma Reed of Hampton, Va., Sue Dixon of Strongsville, Ohio, Geraldine McMillion and husband, Sherman, of Fairlea and Sharon Hypes and husband, Richard, of Alderson; two sons, Jimmy Morgan of Ronceverte, Elwood Morgan and wife, Jean, of Berea, Ky.; a son-in-law, George McCoy of Ronceverte; a sister, Blanche Shafer of Caldwell; 22 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchildren; 43 great-great-grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009, at the Greenbrier Baptist Church, Morgan Hollow Road, Ronceverte, with Pastor Tim Dillon and Pastor Mark Shafer officiating. Burial will follow in the Morgan Cemetery, Ronceverte. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009, at Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea, and at the church one hour prior to the service on Thursday. Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea, is in charge of the arrangements.
Probably descended from slaves of Pikeville, Ky., sheriff James Honaker:
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 23 Nov 2008 (with photograph): Elizabeth Honaker, 88, died Sun., Nov. 23, 2008 at Duke Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was a resident of Gallipolis, Ohio and was born Aug. 19, 1920, a child of the late John Henry and Cora Bell Williams. She was retired from the housekeeping department of the former Pikeville Methodist Hospital and a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church since 2005. She was preceded in death by her husband, Varney Honaker, and a daughter, Louise Honaker, a son, Ronnie Honaker, and a brother, Dallas Jackson. She is survived by three sons, Varney (Brenda) Honaker of Hartford, Conn., William Ed Honaker of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Virgil (Annette) Honaker of Flint, Mich. Also by seven daughters, Fannie Pennington, Helen Jean Honaker, Linda (Stanley) Bradley, Geraldine Ward, Loretta (Sarhan) Ashley, Phylis Ann Honaker, all of Cincinnati, Ohio, and by Betty (Haven) of Detroit, Mich. As well as by a brother, Andrew Jackson of Brooklyn, N.Y., and a sister, Lenora Mae Jackson of Detroit, Mich. She also is survived by 35 grandchildren, 90 great grandchildren, and eight great-great grandchildren. Visitation was held Fri., Nov. 28, 2008, at the J.W. Call Funeral Home, with G.C. Childress officiating. A funeral service will be held Sat., Nov. 29, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at the Honaker Cemetery in Pikeville. Pallbearers will be Antoan Honaker, Anton Honaker, Virgil Honaker Jr., Cordero Honaker, Joshua Lightner, Timothy Wilson, Tedrick Wilson, Everett Jones, Calvin Mullins and Kevin Harris. On-line condolences can be made at .
Funeral home obituary, July 1, 2008: Ronnie Honaker, age 54, of Pikeville, passed away, Sun., June 29, 2008 at the Harmony Court Nursing Home in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was an employee of the Kentucky State Highway Department and a member of the Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church. He was a former coach with the Junior Varsity Football at Pikeville High School. He loved to hunt and fish. He was born in Pike Co., Ky., on Sept. 26, 1953, the son of Elizabeth Williams Honaker and the late Varney Honaker. He was born the ninth of 12 children and raised three of his great-nieces, Kenee, Kendra and Casondra. He loved his nieces and nephews. Along with his father, he was preceded in death by one sister, Louise Honaker. Along with his mother, Elizabeth Honaker of Cincinnati, he is survived by three brothers, Varney Honaker Jr. and his wife, Berda of Hartford, Conn., Virgil Honaker and his wife, Annette of Flint, Mich., and William Ed Honaker of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also survived by seven sisters, Fannie M. Pennington of Cincinnati, Ohio, Helen Jean Honaker of Detroit, Mich., Betty S. Mitchell and her husband, Haven of Detroit, Mich., Phyllis Ann Honaker of Cincinnati, Ohio, Geraldine Ward of Cincinnati, Ohio, Loretta Alsheyab of Cincinnati, Ohio and Linda Kay Honaker of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also survived by a host of nieces and nephews and great-nieces and great-nephews. Visitation will be in the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel, Pikeville, Ky., after 10 a.m. Saturday. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Sat., July 5, 2008 at the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor G.C. Childress officiating. Burial will follow in the Honaker Cemetery at Pikeville, Ky.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 11 Sep 2009: Eloise Honaker Layne, age 71, formerly of Pikeville, passed away Sun., Sept. 6, 2009 at Emory University Midtown Hospital in Atlanta, Ga. She was a retired machinist of many years. She was a member of Ministry of the Heart of Atlanta, Ga. Eloise was born Apr. 17, 1938, the daughter of the late Richard and Katharine Honaker. Along with her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Vernon A. Layne and one sister, Mary Margret Lewis. She is survived by two daughters, Rhonday Delisa Layne of Atlanta, Ga., Donna Lynn Bugg of Pikeville, Ky., two granddaughters, Katharine Layne (daughter, Myka) of Atlanta and Bethany Watkins, (husband, Gary, daughters, Lauryn and Lindsey) of Pikeville, Ky.) She is also survived by two brothers, Herman Honaker of Colorado, Richard Honaker of Atlanta, two sisters, Shirley Bailey of Atlanta, Esther Hill of New York and many nieces and nephews. Visitation will be in the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel after 7 p.m. Friday. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Sat., Sept. 12, 2009 at the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Gene Layne officiating. Burial will follow in the Honaker Cemetery at Pikeville, Ky.
Knoxville [Tenn.] News Sentinel, 22 Aug 2008 (with photograph): It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Mr. James Earl Yelder. After a courageous battle against throat cancer he passed away suddenly at the age of 63. James was born in Stone, Ky., on Jan. 24, 1945 to the late Mrs. Jessie Yelder Honaker and Mr. William J. Yelder, Sr. He was the second of three children. He was reared in a Christian home in Tram, Ky., and confessed to Christ at ten years old and joined the Mount Harmon Baptist Church in Tram, Ky. under the pastorate of Rev. Jones. He served in this church for many years as a boy and other churches as an adult. After graduating from Betsy Layne High School in Betsy Layne, Ky., he received a basketball scholarship to attend Stillman College in Alabama, but he followed his brother William to Knoxville College in Knoxville, Tenn., where he majored in sociology. He enjoyed the academic environment and various debates on all intellectual levels. Simply put, he was very opinionated. James was very worldly, where he enjoyed and lived in most of the larger cities in the U. S. A. Then in 1970 he came back to Tram, Ky. where he met his wife Barbara Hill. This union produced five children, Malik, Ossie, a set of twins, Barbara and Chris, and James, Jr. In the last few years his physical movements and spirit were slowed by his illness, which continued to worsen. On Aug. 7, 2008, his journey ended and his home going began. Preceding him in death were his parents; two children, Chris and James, Jr.; one uncle, Andrew Yelder; aunt, Laura Johnson; half brother, J.T. Yelder. James leaves to cherish his memory: a wife, Barbara of Knoxville; two sons, Malik of Knoxville and Ossie of Atlanta; one daughter, Barbara of Knoxville; four grandchildren; two brothers, William J. of Courtenay, British Columbia, and George T. of Las Vegas; two aunts, Lucy B. Jones of Silver Springs, Md. and Marjesta Walker of Selma, Ala; three cousins, Neil Hayes of Silver Springs, Md. , Van Childress of Stone, Ky., and Andrea Gandy of Silver Springs, Md.; three nephews, three nieces, and a host of other relatives and friends. A service of remembrance of his life will be held at 1 pm, Sat., Aug. 23, 2008 at the Chapel of Jarnigan’s Mortuary at 2823 Martin Luther King Ave., Knoxville, Tenn. Arrangements by Jarnigan & Son Mortuary.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 9 May 2009 (with photograph): Keene Elaine Mullins Clark, 23, of Frankfort, died Wed., May 6, 2009, at St. Joseph Hospital. She was born in Pike County, Aug. 21, 1985, a daughter of Kenneth Hal (Dumps) Honaker of Pikeville and Sheri Nicole Mullins of Frankfort. She was a server at Johnny Carino’s, a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and attended 7 Star Ministries in Frankfort. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Walter Steele; maternal grandfather, Herbert Newland. She is survived by her husband, Terrell Edward Clark; one son, Terrell Edward Clark II of the home; paternal grandmother, Fannie Pennington of Cincinnati, Ohio; maternal grandparents, Loretta Mullins Smith and Michael Smith of Pikeville; three sisters, Casendra Mullins and Kendra Mullins, both of Frankfort and Kenna Elizabeth Jude Honaker of Pikeville; mother-in-laws, Carrie Clark of Russellville and Cheryl Smith of Louisville; two uncles, Brian Mullins and Kelvin Mullins, both of Pikeville; four aunts, Lisa Johnson (Carl) of Pikeville, Sonia Honaker and Monica Honaker, both of Cincinnati, and Deborah Johnson of Lexington. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tue., May 12, in the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Louis and Robin Miles officiating. Burial will follow in the Johnson Memorial Park, Pikeville. Arrangements are under direction of J.W. Call Funeral Home of Pikeville. Visitation is after 6 p.m. Sunday in the chapel with evening services Monday at 7 p.m. Online condolences may be made at .
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 18 Sep 2009: Pikeville—Kenneth Hal Honaker, 47. Service 11 a.m. Wed. J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel. Visit 6 p.m. Mon.
Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va.: Kenneth Honaker, 47, of Pikeville, died Tuesday in Pikeville Medical Center. Funeral service 11 a.m. Sept. 23, J.W. Call Funeral Home, Pikeville; burial at Honaker Layne, Pikeville. Visitation after 6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 18 Sep 2009: Kenneth Hal Honaker, age 47, of Pikeville, passed away Tue., Sept. 15, 2009 at the Pikeville Medical Center. He was a disabled brakeman for CSX Railroad. He was a member of the Church of God M.P.G. of T. He was born in Pike Co., Ky., on Dec. 20, 1961, the son of Fannie Mae Honaker Pennington and the late Walter Steele. Along with his father, he was preceded in death by one daughter, Keneé Elaine Mullins Clark. Along with his mother, he is survived by his wife, Amanda Dawn Justice Honaker and two step-sons, Cody Compton of Pikeville and Dustin Compton of Pikeville and three daughters, Casondra Mullins of Frankfort, Ky., Kendra Mae Mullins of Frankfort, Ky., and Kenna Elizabeth Jade Honaker of Pikeville, and one stepdaughter, Kaitlyn Compton of Pikeville; two sisters, Sonia Elizabeth Honaker and Monica Pennington, both of Cincinnati, Ohio and a special friend, Sheri Mullins of Frankfort. He is also survived by two grandchildren, Terrell Edward Clark II and Isaiah Dashaun Mullins. Serving as active pallbearers will be Hunter Wolford, Cody Compton, Ted Honaker, Tim Honaker, Donnell Kent, Jr. and Daleano Henderson. Serving as honorary pallbearers will be Terrell Clark, Kelvin Mullins, Joey Slone, Tyrone Habern, Deno Henderson, Dwayne Johnson and Haven Mitchell. Visitation will be in the J.W. Call Funeral Home chapel after 6 p.m. Monday, with evening services at 7 p.m. Tuesday evening. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wed., Sept. 23, 2009 at the J.W. Call Funeral Home Chapel with Elder Gene Layne officiating. Burial will follow in the Honaker Cemetery at Pikeville, Ky.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 2 May 2015: Amanda Dawn Justice Compton, 37, of Pikeville, died
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 29 Jan 2009: Sinks Grove—Eddie Thomas Mann, 50, passed away at his home Tue., Jan. 27, 2009, after a short illness. Born Dec. 3, 1958, in Ronceverte, he was the son of Mrs. Helen Honaker Mann of Ronceverte and the late Edward Mann. Mr. Mann had been a resident of Sinks Grove for 15 years and was formerly of Ronceverte, member of the McLean Presbyterian Church of Organ Cave and was an equipment operator for the West Virginia Department of Highways for 20 years. He was preceded in death by his father, Edward Mann; and a sister-in-law, Geneva Mann. Survivors include his wife, Linda of Sinks Grove; mother, Helen H. Mann of Ronceverte; two sisters, Rita Green and husband, Larry, of Ronceverte and Judy Mann of Ronceverte; a brother, Johnny Mann of Ronceverte; nieces and nephews, Kendra Wilson and husband, Jamie, Kelly Green, Christopher Mann and wife, Miranda, Brian Humphreys, Sharon Boggs and husband, Kevin, Christopher Daugherty and wife, Heather, and Cody Daugherty; a sister-in-law, Brenda Humphreys and husband, Bob; brother-in-law, Mike Daugherty and wife, Darlene; great-niece and nephews, Breanna and Owen Boggs and Michael Daugherty. Service will be 11 a.m. Fri., Jan. 30, 2009, at the Longanacre Funeral Home Chapel, Fairlea, with the Rev. Mark Shafer and the Rev. Carl Pattison officiating. Burial will follow in the McLean Cemetery, Organ Cave. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. today at the Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea. Pallbearers will be Bob Humphreys, Brian Humphreys, Duke Waid, Mike Daugherty, Jamie Cox, Frank Joliffe; and honorary pallbearer, Jimmy White. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1808 Jefferson St., Bluefield VA 24605 or Kanawha Hospice Care, 223 Maplewood Ave., Lewisburg WV 24901. Arrangements by Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 28 Oct 2003: Ronceverte—Edward Lee Mann, 70, passed away Sun., Oct. 26, 2003, at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Fairlea. Born Sept. 26, 1933, at Ronceverte, he was the son of the late Leonard and Bertha Morgan Mann. He was a U.S. Army veteran, retired from CSX with 45 years of service and was a member of McLean Presbyterian Church at Ronceverte. Survivors include his wife, Helen; daughters, Rita Green and her husband, Larry, of Ronceverte and Judy Mann at home; sons, Johnny and his wife, Genevea, of Ronceverte and Eddie and his wife, Linda, of Sinks Grove; a sister, Edna Deaver of Hampton, Va.; grandchildren, Kendra Wilson and Jamie of Ronceverte, Kelly Green of Keyser, Lisha Webb and Michael of White Sulphur Springs and Christopher Mann at home and several nieces and nephews. Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at McLean Presbyterian Church, Ronceverte with the Revs. Carl Patison and Bill Dent officiating. Burial will follow in McLean Cemetery. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg. Arrangements by Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 21 Aug 2008: Haysi, Va.—John Thomas Honaker, 83, of Haysi, died Tue., Aug. 19, 2008 at his home. Born in Russell County, he was a son of the late Nick and Nannie Stump Honaker. He was a retired coal miner and member of [United Mine Workers of America] Local 7170 and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Ross Honaker, and sisters, Virginia Edwards, Myrtle Wampler and Rhea Fields. He is survived by his wife, Rita; nieces and nephews; and seven adopted grandchildren. Services will be held today (Thursday), Aug. 21, at 11 a.m. at Haysi Funeral Home with Elder Allen Edwards officiating. Burial will follow in the Rebecca Willis Cemetery at Haysi. Pallbearers will be nephews and friends.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 1 Dec 2008, and Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 1 Dec 2008: Alma Honaker, 91, formerly of Lewisburg, died Nov. 28, 2008. Service will be 11 a.m. Tue., Dec. 2, at Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg. Burial will follow at Adwell Cemetery, near Ronceverte. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. this evening at the funeral home.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 3 Dec 2008: Alma Honaker, 87, of Pulaski, Va., and formerly of Lewisburg, W.Va., passed away on Nov. 28, 2008, in Pulaski Health and Rehabilitation Center in Pulaski after a long illness. She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Honaker; parents, Robert and Sarah Bennett; and her brothers and sisters. Mrs. Honaker is survived by her two sons, Richard Honaker, of Pulaski, Va., and Jack Honaker, of Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands; six grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren. Services were held 11 a.m. on Tue., Dec. 2, 2008, at Morgan Funeral Home in Lewisburg, W.Va. Burial followed in the Adwell Cemetery near Ronceverte. Visitation was held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday at Morgan Funeral Home in Lewisburg. Seagle Funeral Home of Pulaski and Morgan Funeral Home of Lewisburg were in charge of the arrangements.
Statesville [N.C.] Record & Landmark, 3 Dec 2008: Frazier Gene Honaker, 71, of 817 East Front Street, died Dec. 1, 2008, at his residence. He was born May 3, 1937, and was the son of Charles David and Bonnie Mae Helton Honaker. Mr. Honaker was a handy man. On Aug. 1, 1961, he married the former Hattie Louise Parks, who survives. In addition to his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Donna Jean Honaker and husband, Dwight D. Hudspeth, of Statesville; a sister, Ann Zona (Pete); three grandchildren, Randy, Michael and Christopher Honaker; four sisters-in-law: Peggy Davis of Indiana, Frona Scott of Florida, Rita Brayboy of Florida, and Janice Parks of Indiana; two brothers-in-law, Jesse and Danny Parks, both of West Virginia. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Linda Sue Honaker; a son, Randy Lynn Honaker; five brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday in the Westmoreland Chapel of Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home with the Rev. Terry Tevepaugh and the Rev. Randy Mitchell officiating. Interment will follow at 2 p.m. in the National Cemetery in Salisbury. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 Thursday evening at Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home. Condolences may be sent to the family at . Bunch-Johnson Funeral Home is serving the family of Mr. Honaker.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 25 Nov 2008 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 3 Dec 2008: Michael Honaker, age 55, died Mon., Nov. 24, 2008, in the Wellmont Hospice House. Born June 27, 1953, in Richlands, Va., he had lived in Honaker most of his life, moving to Bristol 10 years ago. He was a disabled welder and was of the Baptist faith. He was preceded in death by his grandparents, Henry and Maude Snead; and an uncle, Lee Snead. Survivors include his parents, Mike and Margaret Snead Addison, Bristol, Va.; aunt, Shelby Snead Honaker; special cousins, Alica McGlothlin and husband Scott and Terry Snead, all of Honaker, Casey Snead and Sarah Outen, Raleigh, NC.; and special friends, Trigg and Susan Moore, Castlewood, Barbara Presley, Bristol, Va., Doris Rasnake, Abingdon, Va., Darrell Johnson, Honaker, and James Randolph, Mendota, Va. The funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wed., Nov. 26, 2008, in the Combs Funeral Service Chapel with Pastor Jerry Russell officiating. Burial will follow in Ketron Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Trigg Moore, Michael Moore, Terry Snead, Darrell Johnson, James Randolph and Scott McGlothlin. The family will receive friends 6 until 8 p.m. Tue., Nov. 25, 2008, at the funeral home. Combs Funeral Service, 291 Fincastle Rd., Lebanon, VA 24266, (276) 889-4444, is serving the family of Michael Honaker.
Times-News, Burlington, N.C., 4 Sep 2008: Hamersville, Ohio—Phyllis Honaker Hagedorn Farrell, 69, of Hamersville, died Mon., Sept. 1, 2008. Survivors include her husband, Robert Farrell of Burlington; daughters, Vickey Murrell of Burlington, and Virginia Lapan of Browns Summit; sons, Kenneth Hagedorn of Burlington, and Douglas Hagedorn of Gibsonville; three grandchildren; and one great-grandchildren. The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sat., Sept. 6, 2008, at Lowe Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 12 noon to 1:45 p.m. Saturday prior to the service.
Northwest Florida Daily News, Ft. Walton Beach, Fla., 23 Oct 2008: Michael Alan Honaker, age 48, of Laurel Hill, Fla., passed away Fri., Oct. 17, 2008. He was born on May 20, 1960, in Burlington, Vt., and lived most of his life in Okaloosa County [Fla.] Michael was a 1979 graduate of Laurel Hill High School. He was an independent sheetrock contractor with his company Hon-Acres Drywall and a veteran of the U.S. Army. Survivors include his mother and her husband, Aldina and James W. Fowler; father, Mont Honaker; two brothers, Monty and Mark Honaker; and sister, Melany Honaker. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Sat., Oct. 25, in the chapel of Brackney Funeral Service with Brother Pete Crawford officiating. Burial will follow in Almarante Cemetery. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Brackney Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
G.W. Cox Memorial Funeral Home, Del Rio, Texas, 5 Oct 2015, with photograph: Aldina B. Fowler, 80, passed away Sept. 29, 2015 in Del Rio, Texas. She was born Feb. 15, 1935 in Pond Gap [Kanawha Co.] W.Va. She is survived by her spouse James W. Fowler of 32 years marriage; daughters: Melany Jane Mahurin (Joseph), Susan Sawtelle (Michael), Teresa Boyden (Kirk); sons: Monty Ray Honaker (Doreen) and Mark Steven Honaker (Patricia); brother: William Donald Summers; sister: Christine Lyons; seven grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren. Visitations will be on Sun., 6–9 p.m., Oct. 4, 2015 at G.W. Cox Memorial Funeral Home. Chapel service will be on Mon., 10 a.m., Oct. 5, 2015 with interment at Sunset Memorial Oaks Cemetery. Funeral arrangements with G.W. Cox Memorial Funeral Home, of Del Rio, Ltd., 114 Fletcher Drive, Del Rio, Texas, 78840, ph: 830-775-2000.
Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville, Fla., 28 Sep 2008: Susan Kay Honaker, 47, died Sept. 25, 2008.
Daily Breeze, Torrance, Calif., 10 Oct 2008 (with photograph): Mavis Honaker passed away Sept. 19, 2008, with her family by her side and joined her beloved husband John Honaker. Mavis was born Sept. 3, 1930, in Boone, Iowa. She lived in Manhattan Beach for 50 years and moved to Menifee [Calif.] in 2006. Mavis was a fabulous mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a wonderful wife. She enjoyed family gatherings, sports and traveling. She is survived by her five children, Mardi Berry, Robin Suitt, Scott Honaker, Sue McCarthy, and Julie Zimmerer. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. A memorial for Mavis will be held Mon., Oct. 20, at 2:30 p.m. at the Portofino Banquet room in Redondo Beach. Please come help us celebrate her life! Please sign the guest book at obits.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 27 Oct 2005: Cassandra Jean Kessler, 21-day-old daughter of Justin Carl and Mary Beth (Honaker) Kessler of Toccoa, Ga., died Oct. 23, 2005 at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. She was born Oct. 2, 2005 in Toccoa. She was preceded in death by a paternal great-grandfather, Guy Kincaid, and maternal great-grandfathers, Creed Evans Bradshaw and Charles Honaker. Other survivors include paternal grandparents, John C. Kessler of Ramsey [W.Va.] and Janet Payne of Jodie [W.Va.]; maternal grandparents, William E. Honaker of Eccles [W.Va.] and Billie Jean Honaker of Beckley [W.Va.]; paternal grandparents, Jean Kincaid of Victor [W.Va.] and John L. and Wanda Kessler of Hico [W.Va.]; maternal great-grandmothers, Mary Bradshaw of Shady Spring [W.Va.] and Addie Honaker of Eccles; aunt, Buffy Slate and husband, Okey, Jr., of Beckley; and uncles, Jerod Kessler of Hico, Joshua Kessler of Jodie and “Boo” Kessler of Jodie. Services were at Mount Hope [W.Va.] First Church of God, the Revs. Joe Shaffer and Ronnie Stapleton officiating. Burial was at Gethsemane Memorial Gardens, Oak Hill [W.Va.] Online condolences may be sent to . Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Mount Hope.
[Note: This child is reported as the grandchild of a William Ellis Honaker and Billie Jean Honaker. There was a William Ellis[6] Honaker (Frederick[1]) of Huntington, W.Va., who married Billie Jean Chapman and had one child in that marriage, but her name was Tracy Ann, which we verified with William’s brother and daughter. Therefore, despite the striking name similarity, the grandparents are not the William Ellis[6] and Billie Jean that we know.]
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail and Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 7 Sep 2008: Ronceverte—Mary Ruth Honaker, 85, of Ronceverte, passed away Fri., Sept. 5, 2008, at her home in Ronceverte. Born Feb. 8, 1923, at Ronceverte, she was a daughter of the late Burnette S. and Mary Lipps McDowell. Ruth was a member of Ronceverte Presbyterian Church and was a member of Church Circle and the Women of the Church. She was a member of the Modern Woodman of America and worked for Westinghouse in New Jersey during World War II. Preceding her in death, in addition to her parents, were her husband, James Woodrow Honaker; two sisters, Emma Susan McDowell and Alice Morgan; and a brother, Richard L. McDowell. Survivors include a son, James David Honaker of Harrisonburg, Va.; grandchildren, Heather Honaker of Ronceverte, W.Va., Jason Honaker and wife Mozella of Ronceverte, W.Va., Melinda Metz and husband Eric of Fayetteville, W.Va., and Holly Martinez of Harrisonburg, Va.; great-grandchildren, Hope Dunbar, Kendra Honaker, Porter Bolen, Caleb Price, Trilson Price, Khalil Honaker, Isabella Metz, and Xavier Honaker; a sister, Elizabeth Ann “Peggy” Honaker and husband LeRoy of Ronceverte, W.Va.; brothers, Robert “Bob” McDowell and wife Virginia of Clifton Forge, Va., William “Bill” McDowell and wife Anna of Ronceverte, W.Va., and James McDowell and wife Betty of Fairlea, W.Va.; 16 nieces and nephews; and several great-nieces and great-nephews. Services will be 2 p.m. Tue., Sept. 9, 2008, at Ronceverte Presbyterian Church, with Rev. Stephen H. Baldwin and Rev. Gary Baker officiating. Burial will follow at Honaker Cemetery on Coffman Hill. Friends may call Monday from 6 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home in Ronceverte. In lieu of flowers, it was her request that donations of sympathy be made to the Honaker Cemetery Fund. Please send online condolences by visiting . Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Ronceverte is in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 2 Jul 2008: Sherrills Ford, N.C.—Judith Carol Jones, 62, of 4452 Enoch Dr., Sherrills Ford, went to be with the Lord, Monday, June 30, 2008, at Charlotte Presbyterian Hospital. She was born on Jan. 3, 1946, in McDowell Co., W.Va., to Clifford Vernon Barnett Sr. and Oma Marie Honaker Barnett of Atwell, W.Va. She worked as a hairdresser and a home health care provider. She was also a member of Atwell, W.Va. Church of God. Mrs. Jones was preceded in death by a son, Scotty Ray Street. She is survived by her husband, Timothy William Jones of the home; one son, William Ray Street and wife June of Statesville, N.C.; two brothers, Clifford Vernon Barnett Jr. and wife Michele of Sherrills Ford and James Darrell Barnett and wife Layla of Atwell, W.Va.; one sister, Nancy Fern Altizer and husband Max Huffman of Peterstown, W.Va.; grandchildren: Adam Burton of Jolo, W.Va. and Makala Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla.; along with many nephews and nieces whom she loved dearly. A memorial service will be conducted Thurs., July 3, 2008 at North Oak Ridge Baptist Church, 2504 North Oak Ridge Baptist Church Road, Booneville, N.C. at 7 p.m. Mrs. Jones’ nephew, Pastor John Altizer will officiate. Condolences may be e-mailed to the Jones/Street family by visiting our web site at . Chapman Funeral Home of Stony Point, N.C. will be assisting the family of Judith Carol Jones.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 27 Nov 2007: Shelly R. Honaker Gray, 62, of St. Albans, passed away Sun., Nov. 25, 2007, at Seebert, Pocahontas County. She was a wife, mother, beloved pet owner and an avid gardener. She was a graduate of St. Albans High School Class of 1963. She and her family lived in Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Virginia and Florida and returned to West Virginia following Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Shelly was preceded in death by her parents, Raymond W. Honaker and his wife, Vivian V. Burdette Honaker. Survived by her husband, Lionel M. Gray “Mac” and daughter, Whitney A. Gray, and her loving pets. Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Thurs., Nov. 29, at Cooke Funeral Home, 2002 20th St., Nitro. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Kanawha Charleston Humane Assoc. Animal Shelter, 1248 Greenbrier St., Charleston, WV 25311.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 26 Jun 2008: Raymond E. Honaker, 82, of Hurricane, brother of Jo Ann Jarrell, died Tuesday in Morris Memorial Nursing Home. There will be no services. Heck Funeral Home, Milton, is assisting the family.
[Raymond was born in Logan, W.Va., and never married. He was a son of Herbert Honaker Jr. and Mary (Adams) Honaker.]
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 26 Jan 2008: White Sulphur Springs—Hazel Honaker Morgan, 78, died Thurs., Jan. 24, 2008. Service will be 2 p.m. Mon., Jan. 28, 2008, at Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Arrangements by Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 29 Sep 2007: Princeton—Judith “Judy” L. King, age 66, of 40 Morningside, Princeton, passed away Fri., Sept. 28, 2007 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born Oct. 23, 1940 in Bluefield, she was the daughter of Ray and Elsie Honaker of Bluefield, Va. Mrs. King was a resident of Princeton for 38 years, where she was a homemaker and an employee of King Tire Service Inc. in Bluewell. She was a graduate of Graham High School, a graduate of McClain’s Business College in Bluefield, and a member of Memorial Baptist Church in Bluefield, Va. In addition to her parents survivors include: her husband Sam King of Princeton; two sons, Edwin King and wife Patsy of North View Estates Bluewell, Matthew King and wife Laura of Bluewell; three brothers, Buck Honaker of Monroe, La., Skip Honaker and Kathlene of Bluefield, Va., Jack Honaker and Brenda of Bluefield, Va.; two sisters, Jeanne Lafon of Sulfolk, Va., Anita Benoit of Sulfolk, Va.; six grandchildren; caregivers, Reca Dillow and others. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Sun., Sept. 30, 2007 at Craven-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell, with Pastor Roger Cook and Rev. Jim Reed officiating. Entombment will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum, Bluewell. Friends may call at the funeral home Sat., Sept. 29, 2007 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to the local American Cancer Society, 1808 Jefferson St., Bluefield, WV 24701. Friends and family will serve as pallbearers. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell is serving the King family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 21 Nov 2007 and Wytheville [Va.] Enterprise, 22 Nov 2007, with a death notice in The Roanoke [Va.] Times, Nov. 20, 2007: Speedwell, Va.—Alice Faye Samuels Honaker, age 58, of Speedwell, Va., passed away Sun., Nov. 18, 2007. She was a walker in the Relay for Life and a 13-year breast cancer survivor. She was preceded in death by her father, John Samuels; brother, John Samuels, Jr. She is survived by her husband, Kenneth A. Honaker of Speedwell; daughter and son-in-law, Mary Alice and Jimmy Dunford of Ivanhoe, Va.; sons and daughters-in-law, John and Amy Smith of Newport News, Va., David and Debbie Smith of Georgia, Rodney and Mary Jo Smith of Newport News, Va.; her mother, Dorothy L. Samuels of Hampton, Va.; sisters and brothers-in-law, Brenda and John Hunter of Newport News, Jane Simms of Oak Hill, Sheila and Rodney Smith of Hampton, Va., Barbara Fuller of Hampton; brothers and sisters-in-law, David and Paula Samuels of Newport News, Hughie and Debbie Samuels of Roanoke, Va.; sister-in-law, Robin Samuels of Logan; 11 grandchildren also survive. A graveside service will be Saturday at 11 a.m. at the High Lawn Cemetery, Oak Hill. There will be no visitation at the funeral home. Grubb Funeral Home in Wytheville, Va. is in charge of arrangements. To leave personal condolences online, visit .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 15 Oct 2011, with photograph: Princeton—Charles Leonard “Pete” Honaker, 79, of Robbin Street, Princeton, died Thursday afternoon, Oct. 13, 2011 at Mercer Continuous Care Facility in Bluefield. Born Jan. 1, 1932 at Kegley, he was the son of the late Charles R. Honaker and Laticia Mae Belcher Honaker. Pete was a veteran of the Korean Conflict, serving with the U.S. Army. For many years, Pete was a heavy equipment operator for West Virginia Department of Highways and was a carpenter for Marcey Construction Company in Rocky Mount, Va. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four siblings, C.R. Honaker, Billy Eugene Honaker, Clifford “J.C.” Honaker and Mary Evelyn Wanda Howell; along with two grandchildren, Kathy Marie Shain Roan and Ladonna Claudette Thompson. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 57 years, Ora C. Dillow Honaker; six children, James Clifford “Jimmy” Honaker, Charles Allen “Chuckie” Honaker, both of the home, Shelia Annette Ayers and husband Chuck, Cynthia Marlene Thompson and husband Clyde, Michelle Renee Hardin and husband Chuck, all of Princeton, Kathy Sue Shain and husband Bob of Verna Beach, Fla.; nine grandchildren, David Kennedy and wife Elizabeth, Charles Michael Shain, Chad Thompson, Chase Ayers and wife Margaret, Hunter Honaker, Carrie Ann Kenney and husband Brian, Maria Curry and husband Joseph, Carrie Lynn Honaker and Cheyenne Hardin; five great-grandchildren, Rebecca, Adrienne, Austin, Katelyn and Little Man; three siblings, Robert Honaker and wife Naida of Bluewell, Kenneth Honaker of Speedwell, Va., Frances Eloise Bowling and husband Elderige of Madison, Fla., and Willa Honaker, sister-in-law. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sun., Oct. 16, 2011 from the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton. Burial will follow in the Honaker Family Cemetery, Clover Dew Dairy Road near Princeton with military honor given under the direction of the West Virginia Honor Guard. Friends may visit with the family on Sunday from 1 p.m. until the service hour. Serving as pallbearers will be Jack Boviere, Norm Galyon, Scott Farley, Kenny Crotty, David Kennedy and Chad Thompson. Honorary pallbearers will be Richard Leeper and Charlie Shain. The Memorial Funeral Directory & Cremation Center is serving the Honaker family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 30 Oct 2015, and Wytheville [Va.] Enterprise, 31 Oct 2016: Kenneth Andrew Honaker, 81, of Speedwell, Va., formerly of Princeton, died Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, 2015 at Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Radford, Va. Born June 20, 1934 in Princeton, he was the son of the late Charles Robert Honaker & Laticia Mae Belcher. Kenneth was a graduate of Princeton High School and joined the U.S. Navy following the Korean War to serve four years for his country. Following his time with the Navy, he located to Newport News, Va., to work at the ship yards until his retirement in 1990. While his health permitted, he enjoyed hunting, horses and his family. He will be remembered for his willingness to help his family and friends. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Forest Gay Wiley Honaker, along with four of his siblings: Gene, Pete, Jay Honaker and Wanda Howell. He will be lovingly remembered by his three children, Sonya Yvonne Pate, Kenneth Shayne Honaker both of Speedwell, Va., Sherie Dawn Honaker Hayes & husband John of Monroe, N.C., two grandchildren, Ashley Nicole Kegley & Charity Dawn Pate, two great grandchildren, Bradley Tyler Riggins & Caleb Andrew Riggins. Two siblings, Robert Honaker & wife Naida, & Frances Eloise Bowling & husband Elderige. A host of nieces, nephews and many friends. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Sat., Oct. 31, 2015 from the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with Mr. Roger Thomas serving as his eulogist. Burial will follow in the Honaker Family Cemetery on the Clover Dew Dairy Road near Princeton. Friends may visit with the family Saturday from 10 a.m. until the service hour at the funeral home. Online condolences may be shared with the family via . Family & friends will serve as pallbearers.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 4 Jan 2007: Helen June Compson Ramey, 71, of Grundy, died Thurs., Dec. 28, 2006 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, following an extended illness. Born in Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Willard Compton and June Honaker Compton Mazusiak. She was a resident of Buchanan County several years and was of the Church of Jesus faith. She was a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Ramey, Sept. 28, 1993, and one brother, Paul Auburn Compton. She is survived by six daughters, Aurelia Matney of Rt. 1, Grundy, Candy Olgetree of Georgia, Patty Mullins of Jolo, W.Va., Shelia Carter of Oceana, W.Va., Charlene Looney of Statesville, N.C. and Portia Justus of York, S.C.; three sons, Bobby Ramey of Big Rock, Paul Ramey of Seagrove, N.C. and Michael Ramey of Randleman, N.C.; 19 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Services were held Sun., December 31 at Grundy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Clyde Dawkins officiating. Burial followed in the Potter Cemetery at the mouth of Looney’s Creek, near Grundy. Active pallbearers were brothers-in-law and grandsons. Grundy Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 29 Apr 2007: Deanna Lea Brooke Honaker, 26 days old, of Williamson, W.Va., died Wed., Apr. 25, 2007 at her residence. She was born in Williamson, W.Va., Mar. 31, 2007, a daughter of Dennis Allen and Denise Honaker of Williamson. She is survived by one brother, Nicholas Honaker; three sisters, Katlyn Steele, Kristina Honaker and Ty Honaker; grandparents, Don Paul and Joann Bevins of Hatfield, Allen and Kathy Honaker of Johns Creek and Delores Honaker of Chicago. Graveside services will be held 2 p.m. Sat., April 28, at the Hunt Family Cemetery, Hardy. Arrangements are under direction of R.E. Rogers Funeral Home of Belfry. Visitation is 6–8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 26 Jun 2007: Kenneth Lewis Jeffery, age 81, of 849 New Hope Road, Bluefield, died on Sun., June 24, 2007 at his residence. Born on March 2, 1926 in Pocahontas, Va., he was a son of the late Walter and Bessie Jeffery. He had lived in Bluefield for the past 15 years and was a retired brick mason with 40 years of service. He was a veteran of WWII having served in the U.S. Navy. He was of the protestant faith. In addition to his parents, a sister, Ruth Barnette and a stepson Aaron Lail preceded him in death. Survivors: wife of 27 years, Lucille Honaker Jeffery of the home; daughter: Georgette Coates and husband John of Monroe, N.Y.; stepdaughters: Patricia Broyles of Kernersville, N.C., Frances Houck of West Jefferson, N.C., Lynn Tickle of Greensboro, N.C., Angela Sanders of Winston-Salem, N.C.; stepsons: Larry Lail of North Carolina, Rodney Lail of Bluefield; brothers: Ted Jeffery of Edison, N.J., Charles Jeffery of Florida; sister: Jeanette Tedesco of Johnson City, Tenn.; 12 step-grandchildren and 13 step-great-grandchildren. A memorial service will be held on Thurs., June 28, 2007 at 1 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with Rev. Carl Baldwin officiating. Friends may call from 12–1 p.m. before the service. The Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 15 Jul 2007: Woman dies in rollover, by Bill Archer: Bluefield, Va.—
A Tazewell County woman was pronounced dead at the scene of a single vehicle accident early Friday morning in the westbound lanes of U.S. Route 19/460 a few miles west of Bluefield, Va. Cynthia Ann Tabor, 34, of Bandy, Va., was driving a Ford van owned by Cimarron Coach, a transportation service based in Falls Mills, Va., when she slipped off the right side road, struck a pile of rocks and overturned into the roadway according to Trooper R.L. Hamilton of the Virginia State Police.
“The driver was ejected,” Hamilton said. “It was a single-vehicle accident. No one else was involved. The driver was the only occupant. She was not wearing her seat belt.” Hamilton said the accident occurred about one-tenth of a mile west of Bailey Switch Road in front of Green Acres. “The van landed in the middle of both westbound lanes,” Bluefield, Va., Fire Chief Jim Hardy said. “Both lanes of traffic were blocked for a time. After we secured the accident scene, we re-routed one lane of traffic through a parking lot.”
Hardy said the fire department received the call at 5:39 a.m., and cleared the scene at 7:25 a.m.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 15 Jul 2007: Bandy, Va.—Cynthia (Cissy) Ann Tabor, 33, of Bandy, died Fri., July 13, 2007 at Springville, Va. She was born at Richlands, Va. and was the daughter of Will and Brenda Sparks Honaker of Amonate, Va. She had made her home in Amonate, Va. for most of her life. She was a Tazewell High School graduate, class of 1991. She was employed as a driver for Cimarron Coach of Virginia. She was of the Holiness faith. Survivors, in addition to her parents, include: Husband, Brian Tabor of Bandy; sons: Christopher Tabor of Amonate, Va. and Michael “Mikie” Tabor of the home; sister: Lisa Barnett and husband Dale of Taylorsville, N.C.; brothers: Randy Honaker and wife Michelle of Tazewell, Va., Richard Honaker and wife Joyce of Oakwood, Va., and Michael Honaker of Tazewell; two nieces: Erica Bandy and Raina Barnett; nephew: Corey Honaker; several aunts, uncles and a host of friends; special friend: Josie Nowlin of Amonate, Va. Funeral services will be Tue., July 17, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel of Tazewell, Va. with the Rev. H.F. Simpson officiating. Interment will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens, Bluefield, Va. Pallbearers will be Ellis Hagerman, Dale Barnett, Chris Nowlin, Richard Honaker, Michael Honaker and Randy Honaker. Honorary pallbearer, Russell Honaker. Friends may call at the funeral home Monday evening from 6 to 9 p.m. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home of Tazewell, Va. is serving the Tabor family. Those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at .
Bristol [Va.-Tenn.] Herald Courier, 25 Jul 2007, Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 26 Jul 2007, and Lebanon [Va.] News, 1 Aug 2007: Mr. Jerry Fane Deskins, age 69, of the Wysor Valley section of Honaker, Va., passed away Mon., July 23, 2007, in a Richlands, Va. hospital. Born Nov. 1, 1937 in Russell Co., Va., he was a son of the late Leonard and Norma Richardson Deskins. He had spent over 40 years in the Ohio area before moving back to Honaker six years ago. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran, a retired employee with Whirlpool and a member of Amvets in Galion, Ohio. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Clifford Deskins and J.P. Deskins. Survivors include his wife of 28 years, Linda Honaker Deskins of the home; two daughters, Dana Alley and husband, Richard of Huntington, W.Va., and Renee Williams and husband, Mark of Galion, Ohio; one son, Larry Booth and wife, Sharon of Crestline, Ohio; one sister, Ruthie Hale of Honaker; two brothers, Donnie Deskins and wife, Susie of Honaker and Richard Deskins and wife, Debbie of Bucyrus, Ohio; eight grandchildren, George Alley, Nicole Mitchell, Curtis Mitchell, Christy Booth, Whitney Booth, Erica Phillips, April Phillips, and Michele Phillips; several nieces and nephews and his special pet, “Bubby” Rusty also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Arvil Arwood officiating. Interment followed at the Richardson Cemetery in Honaker, Va. Military graveside honors were conducted by VFW Post 9864 of Lebanon, Va. Pallbearers were George Alley, Rodney Whited, Curtis Mitchell, Josh Hale, Waylon Deskins, Jackie Deskins, Eric Deskins, Greg Deskins and David Deskins.
Bristol [Va.-Tenn.] Herald Courier, 23 May 2007 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 30 May 2007: Amelda Sue Stinson, age 66, of 106 Maplewood Drive, Honaker, Va., passed away Tue., May 22, 2007 at her home. Born Aug. 6, 1940 in Russell Co., Va., she was a daughter of the late Mitchell and Eula Honaker Stinson. A lifelong resident of the area, she was a graduate of Honaker High School. She [was] formerly employed at Russell Manufacturing and as a cook at Honaker High School cafeteria. She attended Mt. Zion Free Will Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two brothers, Wayne Stinson and Harry Stinson; two brothers-in-law, Bill Counts and Bonion Edwards, and two nieces, Robin Edwards and Brenda Thompson. Survivors include four sisters, Imogene Thompson and her husband, Earl, Claudia Stinson, Wanda Edwards, and Sylvia Vandyke and her husband, Bill all of Honaker; one brother, Garnett Stinson of Honaker; special caregivers and friends, Renee Wolford, Susie Rasnake, and Connie Harris; four nephews and three nieces also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Claude Rose, Rev. Larry Stinson, and Rev. Coty Stinson officiating. Interment followed in the Lockhart’s Chapel Cemetery at Honaker, Va. Pallbearers were Gary Stinson, Randy Stinson, Larry Stinson, Rodney Howard, Chuck Eaton, Phillip Harris, Kevin McGlothlin, Jackie Taylor, and Jim McGlothlin. Honorary pallbearers were Dr. Faisal Chaudhry, Renee Wolford, Susie Rasnake, Connie Harris, William G. Counts, III, Bill Vandyke, Independent Home Health, and employees of Tiger X Pharmacy.
Bristol [Va.-Tenn.] Herald Courier, 23 Apr 2007 (with photograph): Cleveland, Va.—Brenda Joyce Thompson, age 55, passed away Sunday morning, Apr. 22, 2007, in a Lebanon hospital. Born May 22, 1951, in Lebanon, she was a daughter of Earl Gene Thompson and Imogene Pearl Stinson Thompson of the Big A Mountain section of Honaker. A lifelong resident of the Russell County area, she was a member of Bethany Baptist Church of Honaker. She was a 1969 graduate of Honaker High School, attended Southwest Virginia Community College and received her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from East Tennessee State University. She was formerly employed as a child protective service worker for Russell County Department of Social Services and had also worked for Washington County and Buchanan County Department of Social Services. Brenda lived her life by these Scriptures, Matthew 25:35-36, 40, “For I was [hungry], and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” In addition to her parents, survivors include one sister, Linda Thompson Eaton and her husband Chuck of Blacksburg, Va.; two nephews, Charlie Eaton and Clint Eaton, both of Blacksburg; double first cousins, Gary Stinson and Larry Stinson; aunts, Gay Cox, Daisy Fletcher, Claudia Stinson, Sue Stinson, Wanda Edwards and Sylvia Vandyke; uncle, Garnett Stinson; special friends, Alta Romans, Larry Combs and Sherry Combs; special dog, Hugo; a host of additional cousins and many friends. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, with Pastor Vonley Pruitt and the Rev. Larry Stinson officiating. Interment will follow in the Thompson Cemetery on Big A Mountain, Va. Pallbearers will be Gary Stinson, Randy Stinson, William Counts III, Daryl Taylor, Wayne Taylor, Jonathan Stinson, Rodney Howard and Tony Puckett. Friends may call at the Honaker Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Monday.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 22 May 2007: Raysal—Eugene (Allen) Honaker, 31, of Raysal, passed away Saturday evening, May 19, 2007, at the home of his parents, due to an illness of cerebral palsy and cancer. Allen was born Nov. 7, 1975 in Welch, a son of Reba Blevins Mullins. He attended Bradshaw Elementary for five years and enjoyed stuffed animals, balloons, and watching T.V. He also loved music. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Robert and Elma Gross Blevins, and his stepfather, Thomas Perry Jenks Sr., who loved him as his own until the time of his death. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Reba Blevins Mullins and Lonnie Mullins of the home; two brothers, Donnie Mullins also of the home, and Robert Brad Honaker and companion Peggy Webber of Pineville; a special friend, Dorothy Vance of Bradshaw; a special caregiver, Jeannie Parker of Cucumber; and a host of uncles, aunts, and friends. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wed., May 23, 2007 with the Reverend Charles Rose and the Reverend Ulis Mullins officiating at the Family Worship Center in Jolo. Burial will follow in the Tom and Belle Mullins Cemetery at Paddle Fork near Raysal. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call at the church after 6 p.m. Tuesday (today), May 22, 2007.
Arrangements by Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger.
Bristol [Va.-Tenn.] Herald Courier, 15 Dec 2006: Coeburn [Va.]—Arvil Earnest Honaker, 82, born Sept. 18, 1924, went home to be with the Lord Thurs., Dec. 14, 2006, at Mountain View Medical Center in Norton [Va.] He was preceded in death by his wife, Carrie Skeens Honaker; a brother, Lee Honaker; and a sister, Polly Honaker. Survivors include three daughters, Ruth Skeens, Hamblin Va.; Sue Delph, Dante, Va., and Sarah Lawson, Coeburn; one son, Willard Skeens, Castlewood; one sister, Plina Honaker, Nora, Va.; one brother, Bill Honaker, McClure, Va.; grandchildren, Linda Michaels, Tina Lawson and Melissa Monk, all of Coeburn, Caroline Skeens, Lebanon, Willard J. Skeens, Castlewood and Paige Delph; and eight great-grandchildren. Visitation for Arvil Earnest Honaker will be at Estes Funeral Home Chapel after 6 p.m. Fri., Dec. 15, 2006, and funeral service will be held at 7:30 p.m., with Melissa Monk officiating. Burial will be at Greenwood Acres Memorial Gardens in Coeburn on Sat., Dec. 16, 2006, at 11 a.m. Arrangements are by Estes Funeral Home, 114 High Ave., N.E., Coeburn.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 13 Dec 2006: Phyllis Honaker Powell, 72, of Ronceverte, died Dec. 11, 2006. Service will be 2 p.m. Thurs., Dec. 14, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Ronceverte. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery, Organ Cave.
Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 8 Feb 2007 (with photograph): Rosa M. Hill, 85, of Huntington, W.Va., passed away Mon., Feb. 5, 2007, at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Funeral service will be conducted 1 p.m. Fri., Feb. 9, 2007, at Henson Mortuary, the Rev. Heron Adkins officiating. Interment will follow at Bowen Cemetery, Wayne Co., W.Va. She was born July 16, 1921, in Cabell Co., W.Va., a daughter of the late Jacob and Rebecca Kindrick Mathis. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Eugene Hill in 1986 and a grandson, Tommy Collins, in 1993. She retired from Hill Grocery in Guyandotte. Surviving are grandchildren Cathy Thompson of Shoals, W.Va., Shirley Wilcox and Jerry Collins, both of Huntington, Jamie Schell of Streetsboro, Ohio, and Elizabeth Honaker and Travis Honaker, both of Garland, Texas; son Dave Tomblin of Huntington; three special nieces, Becky Farnsworth and Sandy Adkins, both of Huntington, and Connie Blevins of Havelock, N.C., and several other nieces and nephews; great-grandchildren Randy and Justin Thompson of Shoals, Taylor and Nicole Wilcox, Benjamen, Charlotte and Kazuo Collins, all of Huntington, Austin, Autumn and Jimmie Schell, all of Streetsboro, Ohio; daughters Judy Dowler of Streetsboro, Ohio, and Priscilla Honaker of Garland, Texas; and sisters Hazel Smith and Daisy Sacre, both of Huntington. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 8, 2007, at Henson Mortuary, Barboursville, W.Va. Condolences may be expressed to the family at henson.
Times-News, Burlington, N.C., 20 Jan 2007: Lincoln, Neb.—Ricky Von Larabee was born Aug. 23, 1955 in Clarinda, Iowa, to Leland Clem Larabee and Elizabeth Elnora Honaker. Rick passed away Jan. 16, 2007 in Lincoln, Neb., at the age of 51. Rick graduated from Lincoln High School and attended one year at Columbus, Neb. Rick was a veteran of the U.S. Navy and served in Desert Storm. He previously had lived in North Carolina. He was preceded in death by his parents; and son, Leland Scott Larabee. He is survived by his wife, Pamela Larabee; sons, Andrew Larabee, Aaron Larabee, Craig Larabee, Michael Vowell, Jeremy Vowell; daughters, Andrea Larabee, Jordan Elizabeth Larabee; granddaughters, Mya and Olivia White; grandson, Robert Von-Gage Larabee; brothers, Gary Larabee and wife, Clara, of St. Joseph, Mo., Craig Larabee and wife, Janet, of Lincoln, Neb.; and a sister, Susan Jackson and husband, Alan, of Lincoln. The funeral was held Fri., Jan. 19, 2007, at Eickemeyer Funeral Chapel, Clarinda, Iowa, with interment and military rites held at Clarinda Cemetery. Memorials are suggested in his name. Eickemeyer Funeral Chapel of Clarinda was in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 21 Jan 2007: Princeton—Patricia June Brock, 69, of 110 Sutton Street, Princeton, died Wed., Jan. 17, 2007, at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. Born July 10, 1937 at Camp Creek, she was the daughter of the late Paul Barton Rose and Otholene James Neely Rose. Mrs. Brock was a graduate of Spanishburg High School. She was a homemaker and was of the Baptist faith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Leston H. Brock; one sister, Frances Gail Davis; and two brothers, Jimmy Rose and Billy Gene Rose. Survivors include a son, Kris Brock of Manchester, Tenn.; a daughter, Sue Anne Honaker and her husband Bobby of Spanishburg; two grandsons, Devin Honaker of Chicago, Ill., and Casey Honaker of Orlando, Fla.; and a granddaughter, Kellen Honaker of Spanishburg. A cryptside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Mon., Jan. 22, 2007, at Roselawn Memorial Gardens Mausoleum in Princeton with the Rev. Gary Lyons officiating. Friends and family attending the service are asked to meet at the mausoleum. Friends may call today from 6–8 p.m. at Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. Online condolences may be sent to the family at bailey-.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 12 Jun 2011: Kristin Mullins and Casey Honaker of Spanishburg are the parents of a son, born May 10, 2011 at Princeton Community Hospital. Casen O’Reilley Honaker weighed 7-lb. 7-oz. Grandparents are Debbie Shumate of Princeton and Willie Mullins Jr. of Pipestem, and Bobby Honaker and the late Sueanne Honaker of Spanishburg.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 10 Jan 2007: Mamie G. Honaker, age 84, died Wed., Jan. 3, 2007 in the Maple Grove Health Care Center. Born Nov. 10, 1922 in Russell County, she was a daughter of the late Harvey James Clark and the late Mary Atla Fuller Clark and the wife of the late William A. Honaker and a former employee of Russell Manufacturing in Lebanon. In addition to her parents and husband she was preceded in death by two daughters: Patty Castle and Betty Gillooly. Survivors include one son: Bill Honaker, Lebanon; four grandchildren: David Castle and Kim Castle, both of Kingsport [Tenn.], Billy Honaker and Krista Honaker both of Castlewood; five great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; one sister: Lucy Mann, Beckley, W.Va.; two brothers, Eugene Clark, Beckley, W.Va. and Donald Clark, Massachusetts; also several nieces and nephews. The funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m. Sat., Jan. 6, 2007 in the Combs Funeral Service Chapel with the Rev. Gracy McGlothlin officiating. Burial followed in Russell Memorial Cemetery. Family and friends served as pallbearers.
Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., 26 Nov 2006 (with photograph in nursing uniform): Edith “Edie” Wright Honaker, 58, passed away Thurs., Nov. 23, 2006 at Hospice of Louisville, after a courageous battle with breast cancer. She was a registered nurse with Kosair Children’s Hospital. She was born Oct. 19, 1948 in Louisville, Ky., to Cornelia C. Wright and the late Oscar Lewis Wright. Edie is survived by her loving husband, Richard L. Honaker of Martinsburg, Ind.; sisters, Bettie L. Dally of Charlotte, N.C., Barbara A. Treadway and Paula Schwartz (David) of Richmond, Ky.; stepsons, Mike Honaker (Jennifer) of Indianapolis, Ind. And Tim Honaker of Georgetown, Ind.; granddaughter, Samantha Honaker of Indianapolis, Ind.; and grandson, Nolan Honaker of Georgetown, Ind.; as well as a host of devoted cousins, nieces and nephews as well as three great nieces and one great nephew. Edie has donated her body to the University of Louisville School of Medicine, fulfilling a long desire to help the medical community with an understanding of the human condition. A celebration of her life will be announced at a future date. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the American Cancer Society or Kosair Charities, P.O. Box 37370, Louisville KY 40233.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 20 Mar 2006: Woodrow Wilson Bevins, 75, of Mouthcard, died Sat., March 25, 2006, at Pikeville Medical Center. He was born in Pike County, Apr. 19, 1930, a son of the late Hi and Mary Honaker Bevins. He was a retired coal miner and a member of the Feds Creek Church of God. He was preceded in death by one son, Junior Bevins. He is survived by three sons, Michael Michaels of West Virginia, Lloyd Bevins of Mouthcard, Charlie Hackney of Virginia; three daughters, Jackalene Deel, Dosie Fitzwater and Polly Reynolds, all of Virginia; one brother, Jonah Bevins of Kimper; two sisters, Mertie Hackney of Mouthcard and May McConn of Ohio; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and his former wife, Leatha Bevins. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wed., March 29, in the Feds Creek Baptist Church with J.R. Thompson and others officiating. Burial will follow in the Flanary Cemetery. Arrangements are under direction of Lucas & Son Funeral Home of Pikeville.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 6 May 2008 (with photograph): Mertie Varney Hackney, 85, of Mouthcard, died Sun., May 4, 2008, at her home. She was born in Pike County, Dec. 5, 1922, a daughter of the late Cleveland and Mary Honaker Varney. She was a homemaker and member of New Zion Freewill Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by two sons, Clifton Hackney and Clinton Hackney; six brothers; and one sister. She is survived by three sons, Estle F. Hackney and Carl Hackney, both of Mouthcard, Charlie Hackney of Virginia; two daughters, Jewel France and Julia Wolford, both of Mouthcard; one brother, Jonah Bevins of Kimper; one sister, Mae McCan of Ohio; 12 grandchildren, and 15 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wed., May 7, in the New Zion Freewill Baptist Church with Jimmy Kerr, F.C. Honaker, Michael Casey and Morgan Chapman officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain Valley Memorial Park, Big Rock, Va. Arrangements are under direction of Lucas & Son Funeral Home of Pikeville. Special services will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 6 Jan 2006: Nancy Irene Honaker, 78, of Winchester, formerly of Phelps, died Tue., Jan. 3, 2006, at Clark Regional Medical Center, Winchester. She was born in Pike County, Sept. 28, 1927, a daughter of the late Melvin and Cindy Wolford. She was a homemaker and of the Presbyterian faith. She is survived by one son, Jerry Honaker of Lexington; two daughters, Brenda Watson of Deille, La., and Yvonne Rowlett of Winchester; two brothers, Wade Wolford of Waycross, Ga., and Melvin Wolford Jr. of Phelps; four sisters, Bertha Dotson, Geraldine Dotson and Dorothy Wolford, all of Phelps, Josephine Adams of Orient, Ohio; 10 grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sat., Jan. 7, in the Phelps Funeral Home Chapel with Justin Marple officiating. Burial will follow in the Dotson Cemetery, Phelps. Arrangements are under direction of Phelps Funeral Services of Phelps. Visitation is after 6 p.m. Friday.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 15 Jun 2007: Lena Katherine Honaker, 57, of Phelps, died Tue., June 12, 2007, at her home. She was born in Pike County, Nov. 12, 1949, a daughter of the late Cecil and Molly Ray Cline. She was a homemaker and of the Protestant faith. She is survived by her husband, David G. Honaker; one son, David Honaker of Phelps; one brother, David Cline of North Carolina. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sun., June 17, in the Phelps Funeral Services Chapel with Rev. James Terry Smith officiating. Burial will follow in the Wallace Cemetery, Majestic. Arrangements are under direction of Phelps Funeral Services of Phelps. Visitation is 6 p.m. Saturday in the chapel.
Winchester [Va.] Star, 6 Sep 2002: Lawrence Dana “Larry” Honaker, 53, of 100 Mulligan Lane, Winchester, died Wed., Sept. 4, 2002, as a result of a motorcycle accident in Winchester. Mr. Honaker was born Feb. 22, 1949, in Roanoke, the son of Lawrence Hassell and Martha June Binkley Honaker. He owned and operated Goldleaf Custom Painting. Surviving are two sons, Lawrence Honaker of Winchester and James Honaker of Augusta, W.Va.; four daughters, Dana Meile and Martha Honaker, both of Augusta, Sarah Honaker of Winchester and Danielle Honaker of Martinsburg, W.Va.; two sisters, Laurel Ricki of Casselberry, Fla., and Lauren Nojin of Lexington, Ga.; two brothers, David Yegley of Fern Park, Fla., and Daniel Honaker of Panama City, Fla.; and six grandchildren. A funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in McKee Funeral Home, Augusta, with the Rev. Wayne Stotler officiating. Burial will be in Green Lane Cemetery, Delray, W.Va. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Lawrence [Kan.] Journal-World, 12 Jul 2004 and De Soto Explorer, Olathe, Kan., 14 Jul 2004: Nathaniel Ryan Honaker, 1982–2004—A celebration of life ceremony for Nathaniel Ryan Honaker, 22, De Soto, will be from 4:30 to 8 p.m. Sunday at Maceli’s, 1031 New Hampshire St., Lawrence. Mr. Honaker died Mon., June 28, 2004, in Kansas City, Mo. He was born June 25, 1982, the son of Sara “Bobbie” Hardeman. He attended Lawrence public schools and was a 2001 graduate of Lawrence High School, where he participated in football and wrestling. He attended Longview College and the Western Missouri Regional Fire Academy, graduating in 2003. Mr. Honaker was a volunteer firefighter with the De Soto and Wakarusa fire departments. He also worked as an umpire for Douglas County Amateur Baseball Association, and was in management training with Papa John’s restaurant in Westport. Survivors include his mother and stepfather, Richard G. Hunt, both of Lawrence; his fiancée, Melissa Schurman; De Soto; a brother, J.R. Honaker, Independence, Mo.; two stepsisters, Racheal Moeding and Rachelle Moeding, both of Lawrence; and a stepbrother, Brian Moeding, Lawrence. The family suggests memorials to the De Soto Fire Department or the Wakarusa Fire Department, sent in care of Penwell-Gable Funeral Home, 14275 S. Blackbob Road, Olathe 66062.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug 2006: Princeton—Emma Dean Lilly, 81, of Mercer Springs Road, Princeton, died Wed., Aug. 16, 2006 at her home. Born Sept. 9, 1924 in Green Valley, she was the daughter of the late Roy Hutchens and Lina Belle Honaker Hutchens Asbury. Mrs. Lilly was a former employee of Celanese Corp. in Narrows, Va. She last worked as a nutritionist for the W.Va. Dept. of Agriculture. She was of the Pentecostal faith and enjoyed crocheting and quilting. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two grandchildren, Buford Haven Price III and Timothy Scott Price; one sister, Mary Jewell Suttle; one stepdaughter, Rosie Mitchell; and one stepson, J.W. Lilly. Survivors include one daughter, Jewell Susan Burton and her husband Donald of Princeton; three sons, Buford H. “Rick” Price Jr. and his wife Deborah Faye of Roanoke, Va., and David Price and Jim Lilly both of Princeton; two stepdaughters, Betty Parks of Wytheville, Va. and Patty Burton of Princeton; 14 grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and nine step-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Sat., Aug. 19, 2006 at the Rowland H. Bailey Funeral Chapel of the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton with the Revs. Paul Hall and Steve Lilly officiating. Interment will follow at the Pilgrim's Rest Honaker Family Cemetery on Old Ingleside Road in Princeton. Serving as pallbearers will be son-in-law, Don Burton, Mark McPherson, John Worley Sr., Jimmy Worley, Jimmy Jennings and Curtis Lilly. Friends may call today from 6–8 p.m. at the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. Online condolences may be sent to the family at bailey-.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 4 Jun 2006: Dry Fork, Va.—Dustin Roby Lester, 6-day-old son of Roby Luther and Roxanne Honaker Lester of Dry Fork, went to be with the Lord Fri., June 2, 2006 in a Johnson City hospital. He was born at Johnson City, Tenn., on May 27, 2006. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Roger Lester. In addition to his parents, survivors include sisters, Savanna and Summer Lester of the home; and maternal grandparents, Russell and Susie Honaker of Bandy, Va. Funeral services will be conducted Mon., June 5, 2006 at 2 p.m. at Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel of Tazewell, Va., with the Rev. Roger Barnett officiating. Interment will follow at Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be Jerry Boothe and David Houchins. Friends may call at the funeral home today after 6 p.m. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home of Tazewell is serving the Lester family. Those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 21 Apr 2006: Frederick Arthur Horton, 90, of 108 Bryant Street, Bluefield, went to be with the Lord on Thurs., Apr. 20, 2006 after a long illness at the home of his daughter and son-in-law. Born on Apr. 23, 1915 in Bluefield, he was the son of the late Andrew Jackson and Margaret Nancy Honaker Horton. He was a resident of Bluefield most of his life, was employed by Citizens Coal and Supply for years, and owned and operated his own lawn mower repair shop at his home. He was a charter member of Calvary Tabernacle in Glenwood for 45 years. In addition to his parents, his wife of 64 years, Vida Mae Arnold Horton, and 10 brothers and sisters preceded him in death. Survivors: daughter, Dorothy Mae Pennington and husband Rev. Mark Pennington of Bluefield; grandsons, Shane Scott and Corey Scott, “C.J.” of Bluefield; great grandchildren, Tiffani Scott, Kristen Scott, and Matthew Scott of Bluefield and Tanner O’Bryan Scott due in May. Funeral services will be held on Sat., Apr. 22, 2006 at 11 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. George Johnston officiating, and the Rev. Brandon Dunford assisting. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Serving as pallbearers will be Donnie Hager, Brian Walker, James Gills, Teddy Warden Jr., Mike Compton, Bud O’Donell, Mike Ford and Keith Bailey. Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy Warden Sr. and Russell East. Friends may call today from 6–8 p.m. at the funeral home. The Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is serving the Horton family.
Richlands [Va.] News-Press/Clinch Valley News, unknown date: Brandy Michelle Perkins Underwood, 25, of Dye Hollow Road in the Lynn Springs section of Swords Creek, died Nov. 25 [2005] in a Richlands hospital. Born Oct. 7, 1980 in Lebanon, she was a daughter of Virginia Johnston Perkins of Wardell and the late Donald Gene Perkins. A lifelong resident of the area, she was currently employed at Big Lots in Richlands. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by her paternal grandfather, Donald Honaker. Additional survivors: husband, Rocky Underwood of Richlands; sisters, Jessica Perkins of Lynn Springs, Misty Owens of Wardell; brother, Larry “J.R.” Price Jr. of Swords Creek; paternal grandmother, Jessie Perkins Ward of Lynn Springs; paternal grandfather, Elmer Perkins of Swords Creek; maternal grandmother, Doris Green of Wardell; uncles, Eugene Perkins and Brian Perkins, both of Lynn Springs, Bill Green and Terry Johnston, both of Wardell, Donald Honaker and Michael Honaker, both of Honaker; aunts, Linda Fitzgerald of Honaker, Wilma Miller of North Carolina; nieces, Megan Owens and Jasmine Price; nephews, Skylar Owens and Keith Perkins; and special friends, Ricky Shelton, Keith Eure, and Shawn Sargent. The funeral was conducted Nov. 29 at 2 p.m. in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel in Honaker with Rev. Dennis White and Rev. Tommy Dye officiating. Interment followed in Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 20 Mar 2006 (with two photographs): Pauline L. West Persinger Honaker, 93, of Nitro, passed away Fri., March 27, 2006, at home after a short illness. Pauline lived most of her life in Nitro and was a 1931 graduate of Nitro High School, a member of the Nitro Church of God for over 50 years, and served her Lord daily. She loved life and lived every day to the fullest. Pauline was a retired cook, having worked for over 32 years at Nitro Junior High School and Nitro High School. Pauline started her working career for Hills Grocery Store, then on to American Viscoe-FMC Corp., and then Kanawha County Board of Education as a school cook. She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Ada Tucker West; husband, Murrell D. Honaker; and son, George E. Persinger. Pauline loved her family deeply and is survived by sons and their wives, Bryan and Regina Honaker of Charleston, Stephen and Cynthia Honaker of Charlotte, N.C.; daughter, Jan Diehl and her husband Steve of Poca; sister, Maurine Davis of Nitro; grandchildren, Bryan Honaker Jr., Stephanie Radford, Meredith Bowen, Megan Honaker, Amy Tillis and Flint Diehl; great grandchildren, Reagan Radford, Abbey and Hannah Honaker-Buzzard, Ryder Bowen, Gary Tillis, Morgan Diehl and Patrick Diehl. Services will be at 2 p.m. Mon., March 20, 2006, at the Nitro Church of God, 15th St. and Second Ave., Nitro, with the Rev. Rob VanFossen officiating. Burial will follow the services in Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes. Visitation was from 6 until 9 p.m. Sun., March 19, 2006, at Cooke Funeral Home, Nitro, and will also be from 1 p.m. until service time at the church on Mon., March 20, 2006. Condolences may be sent to the family by the funeral home web site . Cooke Funeral Home, Nitro, is in charge of arrangements.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 22 May 2006 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 24 May 2006: Joann Fogleman Honaker, age 63, of 24154 Fantasy Court, Bristol, Va., passed away Sat., May 20, 2006 at her home. Born Aug. 14, 1942 in Russell Co., Va., she was a daughter of the late Willie and Hettie Hubbard Fogleman. She was a former resident of Honaker, Va., had lived most of her life in Northern Virginia, and had moved to Bristol over a year ago. She was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church in Meadowview, Va. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by one sister, Mary Ruth Darnell. Survivors include her husband of 45 years, Clifford Honaker of the home; one son, Jeffery Honaker and his wife, Charity of Woodbridge, Va.; two grandchildren, Samantha Honaker and Christopher Honaker both of Woodbridge, Va.; two sisters, Mildred Honaker of Honaker, Va. and Bea Price and her husband, Henry of Rosedale, Va.; several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Chad Johnson officiating. Interment followed in Ketron Memorial Gardens at Lebanon, Va. Relatives and friends served as pallbearers.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 4 Nov 2005: Harriman, Tenn.—Donald Ray Perkins, 55, of Harriman, formerly of Jolo, [W.Va.], Died Mon., Oct. 31, 2005 at an Oak Ridge, Tenn., medical center following a long illness. Born Nov. 27, 1947 in Jolo, he was a son of Walter Ray Perkins of Bluefield, Va., and the late Audrey Fern Honaker Perkins. He was formerly employed as an electrician for Jewell Ridge Coal Company, a former member of the West Virginia National Guard and was of the Pentecostal faith. In addition to his mother, Audrey “Billie” Honaker Perkins, he was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Okey Williams and his maternal grandparents, Clyde and May Honaker. Survivors include his father, Walter Ray and wife, Brenda Perkins of Bluefield, Va.; two sons, Chad Perkins and wife, Bessie of Sunbright, Tenn., and Donald Ray Perkins II of Harriman; one sister, Diane Ward and husband, Steve of Harriman; one brother, Larry Perkins and wife, Karen of Harriman; two granddaughters, Kassie and Rachel Grace Perkins, both of Sunbright; one niece, Allie Ward of Harriman; and two nephews, Larry Willis Perkins of Knoxville, Tenn., and James Perkins of Nashville, Tenn. Funeral services will be conducted Sat., Nov. 5, 2005 at noon with the Rev. Hobert Kennedy and Speaker Freddie Anglin officiating at the chapel of Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger. Burial will follow in the Lone Oak Cemetery at Three Forks near Jolo. Larry Wills Perkins, James Dean Perkins, Jimmy Miller, Freddie Allen, Steve Pauley, Bobby Moody, Junior Marshall, and Dickie Nevi will serve as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers will be Cole Davis, Jimmy Lester and Randy Tabor. Friends may call at the funeral home today, Nov. 4, 2005 from 6–8 p.m. Arrangements by Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 15 Feb 2006: Radford, Va.—Doris Lee Setliff, 82, of Radford, passed away Mon., Feb. 13, 2006. He was retired from the military, serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army and a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force with 20 years combined service. His service was in World War II, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. He received many military honors including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Medal. He also retired from the Virginia Employment Commission with 20 years of service. He was a member of the Fairlawn Baptist Church, the Lewis & Clark No. 132 AF&AM, the Scottish Rite Bodies of Bismarck, N.D., and the Bahia Shrine Temple in Orlando, Fla. Mr. Setliff was born Mar. 16, 1923 in McDowell County, the son of the late Dennis Noel and Hazel Gaynell Honaker Setliff. He was preceded in death by his wife, Jane Mullins Setliff. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Dennis and Imogene Setliff of Radford; a granddaughter, Jennifer Denise Setliff of Alexandria, Va.; and one sister, Blanche Farley of Pikeville, Tenn. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thurs., Feb. 16, 2006 at the Fairlawn Baptist Church with the Rev. Danny Collins officiating. Interment will follow in the Highland Memory Gardens in Dublin where members of V.F.W. Post No. 776 will conduct military graveside rites. The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. today at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to either the Alzheimer’s Assoc., 70 East Lake St., Chicago IL 60601-9971 or the American Cancer Society, 9 East Church Ave., Roanoke VA 24011. The Setliff family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford. ()
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 19 Sep 2005: Princeton, W.Va.—Roberta Mary Jones, 77, of 1503 Princeton Ave., Princeton, died Fri., Sept. 16, 2005 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C. Born Oct. 4, 1927 in Crumpler, she was the daughter of the late Dennis Noel and Hazel Gaynell Honaker Setliff. She was a retired teacher’s aide working for the Mercer County Board of Education. She was a member of the Johnston Chapel Baptist Church in Princeton. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Joseph K. Paciona and one brother, Houston Setliff. Survivors include her second husband, Fredrick H. “Ted” Jones of Princeton; one daughter, Joetta “Jodie” Bassett and her husband Charlie of Crossville, Tenn.; three stepsons, Dave Jones and Steve Jones both of Charlotte, N.C. and Scott Jones of Princeton; four step grandchildren; one brother, Doris Lee Setliff of Radford, Va. and one sister, Blanche Helen Farley of Pikesville, Tenn.; and a host of cousins. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the George W. Seaver Chapel of Seaver Funeral Home in Princeton with the Rev. John King and the Rev. Jim Simmons officiating. Entombment will follow in Resthaven Park Cemetery Mausoleum in Princeton. Pallbearers will be Dave Jones, Steve Jones, Scott Jones, Eugene Broyles, Harold Holdren and John Robinson. Friends may call at Seaver Funeral Home in Princeton from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. today. The family can be reached at 1503 Princeton Ave., Princeton.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 29 May 2006: Pocahontas, Va.—James Martin (Red) Shrader, 51, of Pocahontas, passed away May 27, 2006 at [University of Virginia] Medical Center, Charlottesville, Va., following a long illness. Born Jan. 5, 1955 in Bluefield, he was the son of Albert (Gene) and Margaret Honaker Shrader, Pocahontas. He was a graduate of Pocahontas High School and a retired United Mine Worker. He was a member of Mudfork Church of Christ. He was preceded in death by one great niece, Haley Nicole Shrader. In addition to his parents, he is survived by one son, Anthony (Scott) Shrader, Pocahontas; two brothers, Albert Shrader and wife, Delores, Yadkinville, N.C., and Joe Shrader and wife Tammy, Abbs Valley, Va.; one sister, Kathy Wilson and husband Pete, Glastonbury, Conn.; special friends, Debbie Shrader Jones, and Ronald Fleming and wife Sharon. Funeral services will be held Tue., May 30, 2006 at 2 p.m. at the Rodriguez Pocahontas Funeral Home, Pocahontas, with Johnny Elmore officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens, Bluefield, Va. Friends may call from 6 – 8 p.m. today, May 29, 2006 at the Rodriguez Funeral Home Chapel, Pocahontas.
Pallbearers: Joe Shrader, Ronald Fleming, Mark Groseclose, Mack Compton, Rick Perdue and Troy Wills. E-mails of condolences may be sent to info@. Rodriguez Pocahontas Funeral Home, Pocahontas, is serving the Shrader family.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 18 Mar 2006; Lebanon [Va.] News, 22 Mar 2006; Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 23 Mar 2006 (with photograph): Mrs. Ella Mae Goetz, age 67, of Rosedale, Va., passed away Thurs., March 16, 2006, at her home. Born Aug. 8, 1938 in Buchanan Co., Va., she was a daughter of the late James Coy and Mary Lea Honaker Hess. She spent her early life in Buchanan County, moving to Baltimore, Md. for 40 years and then back to Russell County in 1998. She was of the Baptist faith and a member of the Countess Rebekah Lodge #31 of Honaker, Va. She was a volunteer at Russell County Medical Center and Helping Hearts of Lebanon, Va. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Goetz and four brothers. Survivors include one daughter and son-in-law, Judy and Ed Patti of Orlando, Fla.; one son, Robert Goetz of Baltimore, Md.; six grandchildren, Christin Lea Patti, Jamie Lee Goetz, Anthony Edward Patti, Kyle David Goetz, Michael Edward Patti and Nicholas Edward Patti; six brothers, Raymond Hess and David Hess both of Rowe, Va., Harvey Hess and Carl Hess both of Honaker, Va., and Nelson Hess and Otis Hess both of North Carolina; four sisters, Della Parkhurst of North Carolina, Eula Blankenship of Rowe, Va., Linda Woodward of Rosedale, Va., and Anna Moats of Clarksville, Tenn.; special friend and companion, Orin Mallory of Rosedale, Va. also survives. Funeral services were conducted at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Rowe Pentecostal Holiness Church with Rev. Ancil Childress officiating. Interment followed in the Nuckles-Hess Cemetery at Fletcher’s Ridge, Va. Honaker Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements.
West Virginia Gazette, Charleston, W.Va., 27 Jan 2005: Mildred “Kitty” Withrow, 81, of South Charleston, W.Va., died Jan. 25, 2005. A lifelong resident of South Charleston, she retired from the Kanawha County Board of Education where she was a cook at Village Elementary. She was also an active member of the First Baptist Church of South Charleston where she was on the Board of Trustees, and American Baptist Women. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Mary Ethel Honaker; husband Denzel R. Withrow; and brother, Thomas H. Honaker Jr. She is survived by her son, Lloyd Withrow of Cross Lanes; daughters, Kathy Withrow of South Charleston and Denise Hammack and Alisa Crump, both of Cross Lanes; brothers, Jack W. Honaker of Montgomery, Ala., and Richard E. Honaker of South Charleston; sister, Dorothy Honaker Stewart of South Charleston; grandchildren, Craig and April Hundley; and great-grandchildren, Meranda Hundley and Samara D’Arco. Services were at First Baptist Church of South Charleston. Burial was in Graceland Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, the family suggested donations be made to the family or the church. Snodgrass Funeral Home, MacCorkle Ave., South Charleston, was in charge of arrangements.
West Virginia Gazette, Charleston, W.Va., 10 Feb 2005: Jacob Isaiah McFarland, infant son of Stephanie Raines and Jerry McFarland Jr. of St. Albans, W.Va., died Feb. 4, 2005. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his sister Halie; two brothers, Jeremi and Jaden; grandparents, Judy Raines, Sandra Honaker, Tony Raines, Jerry McFarland and Clayton Honaker; great-grandparents, Patricia Raines and Daniel Raines. A graveside service was held at Grandview Memorial Park, Dunbar, W.Va., the Rev. Don Burdette officiating.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 27 Nov 2005: Herman Woodson Honaker, 54, of Lewisburg, W.Va., died Nov. 25, 2005. Services were at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg. The family received friends at the old home place on Monroe Draft.
Mountain Messinger, Lewisburg, W.Va., 3 Dec 2005: Lewisburg—Herman Woodson Honaker, 54, passed away Fri., Nov. 25, 2005, at his home in Lewisburg. He was born Jan. 23, 1951, at Caldwell and was the son of the late Oather W. and Audrey Wheaton Honaker. Mr. Honaker was of the Pentecostal faith. Survivors include: companion, Margie Adwell and her two children, Amanda and Jamie; two sons, Cecil Honaker or Rainelle and James Honaker of Asbury; five sisters, Brenda Hull and husband, Ronald of Caldwell, Janie O’Conner and husband, Thomas of Covington, Va., Susie O’Conner and husband, Lee of Covington, Va.; Bertha Morgan and husband, William of Caldwell, and Cynthia Elmore and husband, Gary of Sinks Grove; brother, Roger Honaker and wife, Melinda of Caldwell; and granddaughter, Kaylie Smith of Rogersville, Tenn. Services were held Tue., Nov. 29, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg, where Rev. Kenny Baker officiated. Burial was in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 27 Nov 2005: Herman Woodson Honaker, 54, of Lewisburg, W.Va., died Nov. 25, 2005. Service will be 2 p.m. Tue., Nov. 29, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m., Mon., Nov. 28, at the funeral home.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 8 Dec 2005: Herman Woodson Honaker, 54, of Lewisburg, W.Va., died at home Nov. 25, 2005. He was born Jan. 23, 1951 at Caldwell, W.Va., a son of the late Oather W. and Audrey Wheaton Honaker. He was Pentecostal. Survivors include his companion, Margie Adwell and her two children, Amanda and Jamie; sons, Cecil Honaker of Rainelle and James Honaker of Asbury; sisters, Brenda Hull and husband Ronald of Caldwell, Janie O’Conner and husband Thomas of Covington, Susie O’Conner and husband Lee of Covington, Bertha Morgan and husband William of Caldwell, and Cynthia Elmore and husband Gary of Sinks Grove; brothers, Roger Honaker and wife Melinda of Caldwell; and granddaughter, Kaylie Smith of Rogersville, Tenn. Services were at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg with Rev. Kenny Baker officiating. Burial followed at Greenbrier Memorial Gardens. Send online condolences to wwfh..
Lebanon [Va.] News, 5 Jan 2005: Shirley Ruth Puckett, 66, of Lebanon, Va., passed away on Mon., Dec. 20, 2004 at Russell County Medical Center in Lebanon. Born in Liberty, N.Y., on June 18, 1938, she was the daughter of the late Forest Dean and Thelma T. Brown Miller. She was a member of Lebanon Memorial United Methodist Church and was dearly loved by the church family. In addition to her parents, her husband, Kemper Gilmer Puckett and one son, Richard Honaker, also [preceded] her in death. Survivors include five sons, Thomas Honaker, Paul William (Billy) Honaker, James Arthur Honaker, Theodore Honaker and Hardy Honaker. Funeral services were held on Thurs., Dec. 23, at 8 p.m. at Owens Funeral Service Chapel with Rev. Mike Carter officiating. A graveside service was held on Fri., Dec. 24, at 10 a.m. at West Hill Cemetery in Lebanon.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 26 Dec 2004: Lori J. Vecellio Honaker, 44, of 503 Maxwell Hill Road, Beckley, died Fri., Dec. 24, 2004 in a local hospital after a two year battle with brain cancer. Born Oct. 12, 1960 in Beckley, she was the daughter of Oscar and Lois Lickliter Vecellio, Jr. of Beckley. Lori was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School and West Virginia University. She was formerly employed by WTNJ Radio for 16 years and later by the U.S. Postal Service at Mt. Hope and Charleston. She was a member of St. Francis deSales Catholic Church in Beckley, was a member of the Business and Professional Club and the Mt. Hope Lions Club. She was a member of the Board of Directors of the Raleigh County Humane Society and was involved in many other community activities. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Josephine and Oscar Vecellio, Mr. and Mrs. J.I. Hungate and Lois Johnson; and also by an aunt, Lillian Massinople. Lori was a lifelong resident of Beckley. In addition to her parents, survivors include her husband, Dale Honaker of Beckley; her sister, Lee Ann Vecellio of Charleston; aunts, Lena Nekoranec of Florida, Adeline Wuslich of Arizona, and Betty Britton of Beckley; mother and father-in-law, Alan and Linda Honaker of Beckley; two sisters-in-law, Gail Bailey of Arnett and Rhonda Gunoe of Bolt; many nephews and cousins also survive. Funeral liturgy will be held at 10 a.m. Monday from St. Francis deSales Catholic Church, Beckley with Rev. Samuel Sacus as celebrant. Rite of committal will follow in the Vecellio Family Room at Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Mausoleum Chapel of Peace (#2). Friends may call at the Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley from 6 until 8 p.m. today where a vigil prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. led by Rev. Mr. Don Wise. Pallbearers will be Fred Persinger, Walter Peplowski, Jimmy Bonham, Jimmy Lucas, Jimmy Workman and Ben Boyce. Honorary pallbearers will be members of the Mount Hope Lions Club, Grant Lilly and John Peplowski. Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
(Grundy) Virginia Mountaineer, 7 Oct 2004: Hazel Edith Wilson Boyd, 61, of Bristol, Va., died Tue., Oct. 5, 2004 at her home. Born in Russell County, she was the daughter of the late Willie E. and Nannie B. Honaker Wilson. She was a homemaker and member of Vansant Church of Christ. She had been a lifetime resident of Buchanan County before moving to Bristol. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Bobby Boyd, and four sisters, Betty Ward, Geneva Estep, Wilma Sue Wilson and Barbara Yates. She is survived by two sons, Chris Boyd and Gregory Boyd, both of Bristol; six sisters, Elizabeth Coleman of Grundy, Lois Coleman of Vansant, Irene Rash of Pulaski, Patsy Collins of Jonesboro, Tenn., Phyllis Wiley of Bland and Bobbie Fuller of Walkertown, N.C.; two brothers, Carson Wilson of Roanoke and Elbert Wilson of Dublin. Services will be held today (Thurs.), Oct. 7 at 1 p.m. at Little Prater Church of Christ with Evangelists Michael Trent and Mike Rife officiating. Burial will follow in the Coleman Cemetery at Vansant. Active pallbearers will be Ronnie Cantrell, Joey Fuller, Jimmy Estep, Eugene Coleman, Lee Coleman, Anthony and Doug Yates. Honorary pallbearers were George and Ruby Hagy, Linda Sloan, Tolbert and Shirley Mullins, Maxine Perry, [Cardiac Care Unit] nurses at Johnston Memorial Hospital and Russell County Hospice nurses. Virginia Funeral Home, Grundy, is in charge of arrangements.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 2 Sep 2010: Sacred Grounds—Walking Through Buchanan County’s Family Cemeteries with Brian Shortridge Coleman Cemetery—Coleman Cemetery consists of 25 graves…..Directions: From Vansant take Rt. 83, Lovers Gap Road, for 4 miles. At the top of the mountain turn right onto Rt. 718, Airport Road. Travel .8 miles before turning right onto Sky View Drive. The cemetery is located straight ahead about .1 mile. (Burials include) Hazel Edith Boyd, Oct. 7, 1942– Oct. 5, 2004, daughter of Willie E. and Nannie B. Honaker Wilson, widow of Bobby Lee Boyd; Bobby Lee Boyd, Dec. 1, 1942–May 22, 1981, son of Clarence Morgan and Maudie Viers Boyd, husband of Hazel Edith Wilson.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 7 Oct 2004: Crystal Ann Honaker, 42, passed away Fri., Oct. 1, 2004, in Lawrenceville, Ga. She will always be the loving mother of Kenneth Eugene Honaker II. She was the separated wife of Ken Honaker and the girlfriend of Henry Buzzard. Her surviving family are her mother, Gather Stoots; and her sisters, Cindy Suratt, Tina Allen and April Suratt and husband, Dave Binsmer. She was also the loving sister of her recent brother, Jerry Suratt. Crystal was one of the most kind-hearted and caring women you could have ever found. She was the best mother that God could give. Now God has called her home to be in heaven and forever roam. Rejoicing with Jesus and her father, too, happily waiting for her loved ones and helping us through. Service will be 1 p.m. Saturday at the Bolt [W.Va.] Church of God. Family will be arriving at noon and friends at 12:30 p.m. Arrangements by North Cremation Society Crematory in Georgia.
Kansas City (Mo.) Star, 11 Jul 2004: Nathaniel Ryan Honaker, born June 25, 1982, died June 28, 2004. He attended Lawrence Public Schools and graduated from Lawrence High School in 2001, where he participated in football and wrestling. He attended Longview College and the Western Missouri Regional Fire Academy, graduating in 2003. Nathan worked as a volunteer firefighter with the Wakarusa Fire Dept. and the De Soto Fire Dept. He also enjoyed umpiring for DCABA, and was presently in management training with the Westport Papa John’s Restaurant. He is survived by his mother, Sara “Bobbie” Hardeman of Lawrence, Kan.; his brother, J.R. Honaker, and nephew, Chaz, both of Independence, Mo.; his aunts and uncles, Robin (Mike) Clayton of Bailey, Colo., Mary Adkins of Lakewood Colo., Jeff (Karen) Hardeman; nieces, Emma, Jillian, and nephew, Griffin, all of Leawood, Kan. He is also survived by a large, extended family, including his stepfather, Richard G. Hunt, and his stepsisters and brother, Racheal, Rachelle and Brian Moeding, all of Lawrence, Kan. Our family would like to give a special acknowledgment to Nathan’s fiancee, Melissa Schurman, and their daughter, Alexys Danielle Honaker, of De Soto, Kan. We would also like to thank Cliff True, Cindy Sopher, Don and Sandy Welsh, and Anita and Dan Schurman for all of their support and encouragement throughout Nathan’s life and during this difficult time. A Celebration of Life Ceremony will be held on Sun., July 18, 2004, from 4:30– 8 p.m. in Maceli’s, Inc., 1031 New Hampshire, Lawrence, Kan. Memorials may be given to the Wakarusa Fire Dept. or the De Soto Fire Dept. (Arrangements: Penwell Gabel Funeral Home, Olathe, Kan.)
Potomac News [Prince William Co., Va.] and Manassas [Va.] Journal Messenger, 6 Oct 2004: Howard Carroll Honaker, age 68, of Heathsville, passed away on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Survivors include his loving wife Beverly Honaker; devoted children, Debra Carhart, Sandra Brisentine, Linda Dean, and Kimberly Honaker; and his grandchildren, who he loved very much, Jennifer Carhart-Rihan, Andrew Dean, Ryan Dean, and Lindsay Dean. He is also survived by his sisters, Mary Irvin, Margaret Pierce, and Frances Pierce; brothers, Reginald Honaker and David Honaker; and his mother-in-law Ruth Conway. The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 p.m. on Sat., Oct. 9, at Miller Funeral Home, 3200 Golansky Blvd., Woodbridge, [Va]. Interment will be private. Sign the guestbook at .
Manassas [Va.] Journal Messenger, 20 May 2012: Reginald Kincer Honaker, Jr., 48, of Manassas, passed away on May 13th, 2012 at Washington Hospital Center, Washington, D.C. Mr. Honaker was a long time resident of Manassas and was a 1982 graduate of Osbourn High School. He was recently employed with Labor Ready in Manassas. He was predeceased by his mother, Janice E. Honaker. Survivors include his father, Reginald K. Honaker; two sisters, Donna L. Turner and Brenda E. Hart. He is also survived by several nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles. Services and interment will be private. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to SERVE, 10056 Dean Drive, Manassas, VA 20110, in memory of Reginald K. Honaker, Jr. Arrangements have been entrusted to the Baker-Post Funeral Home & Cremation Center, under the direction of Michael Ward.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 9 May 2004: Frankfort—Janice Faye (Smither) Honaker, 62, died Thurs., May 6, 2004. Services Mon., 1 p.m., Harrod Brothers Memorial Chapel. Visit Sun., 4–8 pm, at the funeral home. Visit .
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 24 May 2003: Montvale, Va.—Anna Ripley Honaker, 80, died Wed., May 21, 2003. Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Pickaway First Church of God. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. today at Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea. Arrangements by Longanacre Funeral Home, Fairlea.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 30 Jun 2013: Ernita A. Honaker, 74, of Montvale, died Friday. Arrangements by Burch-Messier Funeral Home, Bedford, 540-586-7360.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 1 Jul 2013 (with photograph): Ernita Athenia Honaker of Montvale, passed away suddenly on June 28, 2013 just after sunrise. Nita was born in Spring Creek, W.Va., in 1938. She was preceded in death by her beloved mother, Eunice Zenah Fogus in 2000. She is survived by her three sisters; three daughters; two granddaughters; and also a great-grandson. Nita was a gifted artist who had a very strong belief in God from an early age and practiced that faith throughout her life. She is now spending eternity dancing with God in heaven, and painting landscapes in the sky. A memorial service to celebrate her life is planned for Tue., July 2, 2013 at the Montvale Baptist Church on Yeattes Street in Montvale, Va., from 6 to 9 p.m. Please come and join us in celebrating the exciting story of a woman who embraced life to the fullest. Arrangements by Burch-Messier Funeral Home, Bedford, Va. 540-586-7360.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 18 Sep 2003: Richlands [Va.]—Troy Allen Monk, 41, of 2417 Charles St., Richlands, passed away Tue., Sept. 16, 2003 in a Lebanon, Va. Hospital following a brief illness. He was born in Richlands, and was the son of James Henry Monk of Honaker, Va. and Shirley Ann Cox Pyles of Richlands. He had made his home in the Richlands area all of his life and was a truck driver for Buchanan Oil Company at Oakwood, Va. He was a Richlands High School Class of 1980 graduate and a U.S. Army veteran. Survivors are: He was the loving father of his two-year-old son, Nathan, as well as a devoted husband to his wife of 10 years, Leana Newberry Monk. He was loved dearly by his only sister, Vickie Lynn Childress of Raven, Va., and one brother, Roy Lee Monk of Richlands. He also had one nephew, Mark Anthony Horn, who was his best friend and one niece, Chelsey Horn, that he loved with all of his heart. He will always be in our hearts and minds forever. God Bless You. Additional survivors: Stepfather–Gomer Harold Pyles of Richlands; paternal grandfather, Clarence Justice Honaker of Honaker. Funeral services for Troy Allen Monk will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel in Richlands with the Rev. Barry Absher, the Rev. James Salyers, and the Rev. Grady McGlothlin officiating. Interment will follow at Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be: Kenny Lester, Mike Lester, Haze Gilbert, Gordon Mullins, Kenny Hess, Chris Horton, Eddie Monk, and Jerry Monk. Honorary pallbearers will be: Gomer Harold Pyles, Burley Childress, and J.C. Monk. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at the funeral home. Services will be held both today and Friday. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands is in charge of arrangements and those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 16 Dec 2009: Richlands [Va.]—Mrs. Shirley Ann Pyles, age 67, of 409 South Center St., Richlands, Va., died Mon., Dec. 14, 2009 at her home following a courageous battle with cancer. She was greeted at the pearly gates by her son, Troy Allen Monk where they will rejoice forevermore. She was born in Russell Co., Va., and was a daughter of the late Nathan and Flora Honaker Cox, both Russell County natives. She was a lifelong resident of the Richlands area, was a 1960 Richlands High School graduate, and a 30 year retired employee with the Tazewell County School Board. In addition to her parents and son, she was preceded in death by one sister, June Lowery; and nephews, Doug Lowery and Bill Street. Survivors are her husband, Mr. Harold J. “Gomer” Pyles; one daughter, Vicki Monk of Pounding Mill, Va.; one son, Roy Monk and wife, Chrissy of Tazewell, Va.; one stepdaughter, Cathy Collins of Pounding Mill, Va. whom she helped raise; one stepson, Eddie Pyles of Wardell, Va.; one daughter-in-law, Leana Monk Nichols of Richlands, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Street of Richlands, Va., Mrs. Darlene Case and husband, Don of Wardell, Va.; grandchildren, Mark Horn, Chelsey Hill, and Nathan Monk; step-grandchildren, Lindsie Collins, James Collins, Jr., Robert Lawson, and Matthew Lawson; great-granddaughter, Justice Hill; nieces, Ginger Mullins and husband, Gordon, Carol Ann “Sissy” Gilbert and husband, Haze; nephew, Bob Street and wife, Betty; special aunt, Waldean Ball; and a host of family and friends. Funeral services for Mrs. Shirley Ann Pyles will be conducted Thurs., Dec. 17, 2009 at 11 a.m. at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel in Richlands with the Rev. James Salyers, the Rev. Barry Absher, and the Rev. Grady McGlothlin officiating. Interment will follow in Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be Howie VanDyke, Daniel Keene, Mark Anthony Horn, Kenny Lester, Brandon Dolin, Monroe Pruitt, Haze Gilbert, and Gordon Mullins. Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Madhvan Pillai, Total Home Care Hospice employees, and Tammy Spencer. Friends may call at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands after 6 p.m. Wednesday. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home in Richlands, Va. is in charge of arrangements, and those wishing to express sympathy on line may do so at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, unknown date: Princeton [W.Va.]—Audrey Mathis Honaker, 75, of GlenWood Retirement Village, Princeton and formerly of Bluewell died on Thurs., July 29, 2004 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on Sept. 21, 1928 in Maybeury, she was the daughter of the late V.L. Mathis and Lucy Caldwell Mathis. Mrs. Honaker had been a resident of Bluewell for 30 years, was a homemaker and was a graduate of Gary High School. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Jimmie O. Honaker; three brothers, Stanley, Ronnie and Jack Mathis; and a sister, Virginia Buffalow. Survivors include daughter, Sharon Duncan and husband Bobby of Route 5, Bluefield; grandson, Mason Duncan of Route 5, Bluefield. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with Dr. Kenneth Powell officiating. Entombment will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum in Bluewell where family and friends will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 6– 8 p.m. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is serving the Honaker family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 27 Mar 2003: Danny Ray Honaker Sr., 45, of 173 Acorn Court, Bluefield, died on Sat., March 22, 2003 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton. Born on March 3, 1958, in Bluefield, he was a son of Paul Caldwell and the late Frances Louise Rasnake. Mr. Honaker had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield, was formerly employed as a route salesman in Tazewell, Va. for Pepsi and was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include his wife, Mary Green Honaker of 173 Acorn Court, Bluefield; son, Danny Ray Honaker Jr. and wife Tammie of Bluefield; daughters, Michelle Renea Honaker of the home and Autumn Hope Honaker of the home; sister, Evelyn Ann Porter of Princeton; grandchildren, Danny Ray Honaker III and Gretchen Faith Honaker. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. Jimmie Russ officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Bluewell where Tommy Green, Jeffrey Green, Robert Elsaid, Matthew Sparks, David Gates, Mike Gates, Stanley Metz and Jerry Perdue will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6–9 p.m. Friday.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 3 Aug 2008: Michelle Renea Honaker and Corey Justin Scott of Bluefield are the parents of a daughter, Brooke Alexis Scott, born July 9, 2008, at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. The baby weighed 5 lb. 14¾ oz. Grandparents are Mark and Dorothy Pennington, Jesse and Judy Scott of Bluefield, Mary Honaker of Bluefield and the late Danny Honaker Sr.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 9 Sep 2010 (with photograph): Corey Justin “C.J.” Scott, age 29, of 173 Acorn Court, Bluefield, W.Va., went to be with the Lord on Tue., Sept. 7, 2010 at VCU Cancer Center in Richmond, Va. Born on Feb. 21, 1981 in Bluefield, he was the son of Dorothy Pennington of Bluefield and the late Jesse Scott Jr. He had lived in Bluefield his entire life and was a mechanic for Cole Chevrolet for ten years. He enjoyed 4-wheeling and spending time with friends. He had fought leukemia valiantly for two years and never complained even though the experience became tough. He was a loving son, husband, father and brother. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Arthur and Vida Horton; and his paternal grandparents, Jesse and Margaret Scott. Survivors include his wife Michelle Honaker Scott of the home; four year old son, Tanner; two year old daughter, Brooke; mother and stepfather, Dorothy and Pastor Mark Pennington of Bluefield; brother, Christopher Shane Scott of Bluefield; three nieces and nephews; as well as many special friends; special caregivers, doctors and nurses at VCU, especially Dr. Toor and Dr. Schor who took care of Corey at Bluefield. Funeral services will be held on Fri., Sept. 10, 2010 at 1 p.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. George Johnston officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. His friends will be serving as his pallbearers. Friends may call on Thursday evening from 6 – 8 p.m. at the funeral home. The family is accepting online condolences at cravens-. The Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 9 Mar 2003: Montcalm [W.Va.]—Richard Lee White Sr., 70, of P.O. Box 225 Montcalm, died Fri., Mar. 7, 2003 in a Bluefield hospital. Born on Dec. 17, 1932, in Ashland, he was a son of the late Lonnie White Sr. and Ferol Honaker White. He had lived in Montcalm for the past 22 years, was a member of the Brushfork Baptist Church, and was retired from the U.S. government and the Bluefield Sanitary Board. He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict having served in the U.S. Air Force. Survivors include wife, Shirley Dunford White of the home; sons, Michael White of Princeton, Richard White Jr. of Montcalm, and Kevin White of Princeton; daughter, Linda McLeod of Bluewell; brothers, Gene White of Montcalm, Homer White of Montcalm, Lonnie White Jr. of Ashland, and Bertram White of New Hampshire; 20 grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell with the Rev. Jim Richardson officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton where the Mercer County Veterans Council will perform military graveside honors. Pallbearers will be Michael White, Richard White Jr., Kevin White, Burton McLeod, Lloyd McLeod, and Jason McLeod. Friends may call 6–9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 Oct 2003: Montcalm [W.Va.]—Homer “Jack” White, 73, of P.O. Box 401, Montcalm, died on Tue., Oct. 21, 2003 in a Bluefield hospital. Born on Oct. 10, 1930, in Ashland, he was a son of the late Lonnie B. and Ferol V. Honaker White. He had been a resident of Montcalm for 21 years and was a member of the Montcalm United Methodist Church. He was retired from the maintenance department at Princeton Community Hospital. He was a U.S. Navy veteran and served during the Korean conflict. Survivors include: wife, Betty Jane Sexton White of the home; two daughters, Judith A. White of Huntsville, Ala., Susan C. Santiago and husband Filberto of Kissimmee, Fla.; one granddaughter, Emily Jane Santiago; three brothers, Lonnie B. White Jr. and wife Maybell of Ashland, Wallace Gene White and wife Mary Nell of Montcalm, Bertram M. White and wife Darlene of Hampton Beach, N.H. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with the Rev. David Ratcliff officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton where the Mercer County Veterans Council will conduct military graveside services. Rocky, Ritchie, Randy, Michael and Bertran White, Fil Santiago, Butch McCloud, and Jim Taylor will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call today from 6–8 p.m. at the funeral home. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell is serving the White family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 13 Feb 2013 (with photograph): Montcalm [W.Va.]—Wallace G. “Gene” White, 85 of Montcalm, W.Va., passed away Sat., Nov. 30, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center, in Bluefield, W.Va. Born May 31, 1928 in Ashland, W.Va., he was the son of the late Lonnie White Sr. and Ferol Honaker White. He was a veteran in the U.S. Navy and a mine foreman. He attended the Bluefield Congregation of Jehovah’s Witness and was a member of the United Mine Workers of America. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his five brothers Lonnie B. White Jr., Jack White, Richard White, Larry White and Buddy White. He will be sadly missed by his wife Mary Nell (Hart) White of Montcalm; son Randall K. White of Montcalm; and his daughter Rebecca A. Griffith and husband Randall of Rock, W.Va.; his brother Bert White and wife Darlene of New Hampshire; his very special sister Betty White of Montcalm, W.Va.; and his four grandchildren Jamie Hurt, Kelly Hurt, Rena Lambert and husband Sam, and Robbie Hurt and wife Emily. He also had nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Visitation for Gene will be 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Tue., Dec. 3, at Roselawn Funeral Home Chapel. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. with Elder Thomas Baynes, and Elder Tom Boone officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens. Pallbearers will be Jamie Hurt, Rocky White, Richie White, Kevin White, Rod McMillan and Butch McLeod. To leave online condolences with the family, please visit . Services entrusted to Roselawn Funeral Home, 450 Courthouse Road, Princeton, W.Va.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 21 Sep 2003: Bradenton, Fla.—Margaret Ann Bowling, 62, of 5519 41st Street East, Bradenton, formerly of Bluefield, died Thurs., Sept. 18, 2003 at her residence. Born Jan. 22, 1941 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late John and Ruth Bowling Honaker. She had been a resident of Bradenton for 10 years and was a homemaker. She was of the Protestant faith. In addition to her parents, her husband, Marvin L. Bowling; and a daughter, Kimberly Bowling, preceded her in death. Survivors include two sons, Marvin Bowling of Bradenton and Michael Bowling of Bradenton; one daughter, Lora Myers of Bradenton; six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, three brothers, Dan Honaker of Arizona, Joe Honaker of Bradenton, John David Honaker of Princeton; two sisters, Rowena Lester of Peterstown and Sammy Cox of Bluewell. Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel in Bluewell with Ministers Paul Delida and Tom Reid officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park in Princeton where James, Walter, and Conley Goins, Eric Baker, Jimmy LaVake will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call on Monday from 6–8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 27 Oct 2011 and Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 3 Nov 2011: Rowena K. Lester, 75, of Ballard, passed away Tue., Oct. 25, 2011 at Summers ARH in Hinton. Born Aug. 23, 1936 in Bluefield, W.Va., she was a daughter of the late John F. and Ruth R. Honaker. Mrs. Lester was a member of the Cashmere Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by one sister, Margaret A. Bowling. Mrs. Lester is survivored by her husband of 58 years Wallace Lester of Ballard, her children Beverly Kay Gwyn and husband Ricky of Kernersville, N.C., Brad Lester and Jane Lester of Ballard, Amanda Weikle and husband Charles of Union, Erin Copenhaver and husband Brian of Princeton, Jessica Lester and Joshua of Peterstown, Andrea Edwards and husband Brandon of Pipestem, three brothers, David Honaker and wife Becky of Princeton, Daniel Honaker and wife Anita of Blytheville, Ark., Joseph Honaker of Charleston; one sister, Sammy Cox of Bluefield; grandchildren, Rachel Lester, Tristan, Olivia and Abby Copenhaver, Jordan Weikle, Josiah and Josie Ackleson; three great-grandsons, Seth, Michael and Hunter Adkins. A service of remembrance will be held Sun., Oct. 30, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. at the East End Baptist Church in Bluefeild with Rev. Danny Gunnoe officiating. In lieu of flowers the family ask for donations be made to the Peterstown Public Library at P.O. Box 698, Peterstown, WV 24963. In keeping with her wishes, she was cremated. Arrangements by Wickline Funeral Home of Lindside.
Grundy [Va.] Mountaineer, 30 Oct 2003 (with photograph) and Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 26 Oct 2003: Marlin Henry “Bucky” Honaker, 39, of Buford, Ga., formerly of Buchanan County [Va.], died Fri., Oct. 24, 2003 at his home from an apparent heart attack. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Hattie Yates Prater of Vansant and the late Lloyd Q Honaker. He was a resident of Buchanan County several years and was of the Baptist faith. He was a graduate of Hamilton High School and was a forklift operator. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frenchman Yates; and paternal grandparents, Tom and Lottie Honaker. In addition to his mother, he is survived by one half-sister, Yvonne Lynn Roncelle of War, W.Va. and seven aunts, Rebal Keen, Christine White, Roxie Sain, Allene Yates, Pinkie Rife, Helen Marr and Catherine Goodman. Services were held Tue., Oct. 28 at the Rowe Pentecostal Holiness Church on Garden Creek with the Revs. Ancil Childress and E.C. Honaker officiating. Burial followed in the Richard and Nancy Coleman Cemetery on Sunset Hollow, Route 1, Vansant. Active pallbearers were family and friends. Grundy Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 12 May 2003: Maglinda Honaker, 58, of Sissonville passed away May 10, 2003, in St. Francis Hospital after a long illness. Born Jan. 29, 1954, in Charleston, she was the daughter of William and Ollie Johnson of Tyler Mountain. Maglinda was a loving mother, sister and friend. Her love of life and warm personality will never be forgotten. In addition to her parents, she is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Paula and Craig Minner of Sissonville; son, Patrick Higginbotham of Hometown; granddaughter, Shannon Minner of Sissonville; sisters, Susan Hall of Tyler Mountain, Brenda Adkins of Chelyan, Jewell Goldizen of Liberty; and brothers, William Johnson Jr. and Alfred Johnson, both of Tyler Mountain. Memorial service will be 8 p.m. Mon., May 12, at Keller Funeral Home, Dunbar. Friends may call two hours prior to service at Keller Funeral Home, Dunbar. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association, 1221 Ohio Ave., Dunbar WV 25064.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., unknown date: Brutus Honaker, 81, of Pikeville, widower of Roxie Darnell Honaker, died Sunday [Aug. 30, 1989] at his residence. He was a retired Pikeville Methodist Hospital employee and a former coal miner. Surviving are six daughters, Thelma Honaker, Rebecca Honaker and Eldora Garvin, all of Pikeville, Emma Murrell of Cincinnati [Ohio], Hazel Bailey of Clinton, Iowa, and Martha Weems of Springfield, N.C.; and four sons, Hubert Honaker of Louisiana, Edward Honaker of Hartford, Conn., Arnold Honaker of Pikeville and Robert Honaker of Davenport, Iowa. Funeral 11 a.m. Thursday at J.W. Call & Sons Funeral Home, Pikeville; burial in Honaker Cemetery, Coldwater. Friends may call after 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Unknown newspaper and date: David James Honaker Sr., 56, of Columbus, Ohio, formerly of Nolan [Mingo Co., W.Va.,] died Thursday [Aug. 3, 1989] in Columbus. He was a retired warehouse and security employee. Surviving are two daughters, Sharon Kennedy and Dorothy Honaker, and two sons, Davis [stet] J. Honaker Jr. and James Honaker, all of Columbus. Funeral 11 a.m. Monday at Ball Funeral Home, Williamson; burial in Mountain View Memory Gardens, Maher. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, 16 Feb 2013: Dorothy Elaine Honaker, age 50, of Columbus, passed away Thurs., Feb. 14, 2013 at the Columbus Rehabilitation and Subacute Institute. Dorothy was the daughter of David James and Edna (Preston) Honaker, and is believed to be survived by two brothers, David Honaker and James Lee; as well as a sister, Sharon Honaker. Anyone having information regarding Dorothy, or her relatives, please contact Rutherford-Shroyer Funeral Home, 1278 West Broad St., Columbus, Ohio 43222, (614) 274-1161. A memorial service will be held 4:30 p.m. Wed., Feb. 20, 2013 at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1003 West Town St., Columbus, Ohio 43222.
South Bend [Ind.] Tribune, 14 Jun 2003: Sharon K. Honaker, Sept. 26, 1941–June 12, 2003 LaGrange—Sharon Kaye Honaker, 61, of 1600 N. County Road 080 East, died Thursday in LaGrange Community Hospital. Survivors include two daughters, Monica Elick of LaGrange and Trisha Lalancette of Wolcottville; two stepdaughters, Becky Miley and Renee Kaiserling, both of California; three stepsons, Randy and Ronnie Staggs, both of California, and Roger Staggs of Florida; and a sister, Shirley Harp of Wolcottville. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Frurip-May Funeral Home, where friends may call from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday.
Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., unknown date: Mr. Robert “Mike” Honaker, 39, of Huntington, W.Va., died Wed., Sept. 23, 1992 in Cabell Huntington Hospital. Graveside services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hughes Memorial Park, Fayetteville, W.Va. He was born Sept. 22, 1953 at Oak Hill, W.Va. He was preceded in death by his mother, Honaker. He is survived by his wife, Peggy Chafin Honaker; his father, Robert L. and his wife, Dorothy A. Honaker of Fayetteville; his two sisters, Elizabeth Leckie and Sandra Copeland, both of Charleston, W.Va.; one brother, Dwight David Honaker of Smithers, W.Va., and many friends. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday at Reger Funeral Home.
Winchester [Va.] Star, 6 Sep 2002: Lawrence Dana “Larry” Honaker, 53, of 100 Mulligan Lane, Winchester, died Wed., Sept. 4, 2002, as a result of a motorcycle accident in Winchester. Mr. Honaker was born Feb. 22, 1949, in Roanoke, the son of Lawrence Hassell and Martha June Bickley Honaker. He owned and operated Goldleaf Custom Painting. Surviving are two sons, Lawrence Honaker of Winchester and James Honaker of Augusta, W.Va.; four daughters, Dana Meile and Martha Honaker, both of Augusta, Sarah Honaker of Winchester and Danielle Honaker of Martinsburg, W.Va.; two sisters, Laurel Ricki of Casselberry, Fla., and Lauren Nojin of Lexington, Ga.; two brothers, David Yegley of Fern Park, Fla., and Daniel Honaker of Panama City, Fla.; and six grandchildren. A funeral will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in McKee Funeral Home, Augusta, with the Rev. Wayne Stotler officiating. Burial will be in Green Lane Cemetery, Delray, W.Va. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Richlands [Va.] News-Press/Clinch Valley News, 15 Aug 2004 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 18 Aug 2004 (with photograph): Regina Renate Honaker, age 52, of Honaker, Va., passed away Sat., Aug. 14, 2004 in a Lebanon, Va. hospital. Born Aug. 20, 1952 in Berlin, Germany, she was a daughter of the late Worst Walter and Ilse Gurmann Drecke. She came to the United States in 1972 and had made Russell County her home for the past 34 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Honaker. Survivors include one son, Mark David Honaker of Lodi, Calif.; one daughter, Trish Marsha Honaker of Lebanon, Va.; two brothers, Lutz Drecke and Axel Drecke, both of Germany; five sisters, Barbara, Sylvia, Ilona, Helga, and Sabrine, all of Germany; her former husband, James Honaker of Richlands, Va. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Chris Musick officiating. Interment followed in Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery at Richlands, Va. Justin Trout, Nick Trout, Randall Fuller and Ricky Shamburg served as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers were Elizabeth Hatfield, Ervin Johnson, and Kenneth Johnson. Honaker Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Life’s roads are sometimes smooth and often rough; but it is not the roads that matter, but who you walk them with. Thank you Regina for such a lovely walk.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 8 Dec 2005—Herman Woodson Honaker, 54, of Lewisburg, passed away Fri., Nov. 25, 2005, at his home in Lewisburg. Mr. Honaker was born Jan. 23, 1951, at Caldwell, and was the son of the late Oather W. and Audrey Wheaton Honaker. He was of Pentecostal faith. Survivors include his companion, Margie Adwell and her two children, Amanda and Jamie; sons, Cecil Honaker of Rainelle and James Honaker of Asbury; sisters, Brenda Hull and husband, Ronald, of Caldwell, Janie O’Conner and husband, Thomas, of Covington, Susie O’Conner and husband, Lee, of Covington, Bertha Morgan and husband, William, of Caldwell, and Cynthia Elmore and husband, Gary, of Sinks Grove; brothers, Roger Honaker and wife, Melinda, of Caldwell; and granddaughter, Kaylie Smith of Rogersville, Tenn. Services were held Tue., Nov. 29, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg with Rev. Kenny Baker officiating. Burial followed at Greenbrier Memorial Gardens. Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home in Lewisburg was in charge of arrangements. Please send online condolences by visiting wwfh..
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 17 Jul 2002: Abingdon [Va.]—Mr. John Thomas White, 53, passed away Mon., July 15, 2002, in a Kingsport hospital following a short illness. Born in Richlands, he was the son of the late Roy T. White Jr. and Bessie Honaker White. He was employed by Pioneer Chevrolet of Abingdon and a former employee of Jack Sykes Chevrolet of Richlands. He is survived by his wife, Shirley Joyce White; one son, Jonathan White and wife Julia of Bassett, Va.; two daughters, Valerie Hess of Tazewell, Va., and Michelle Smith of Bassett; one stepson, Randall Dwayne Hess of Swords Creek, Va.; two stepdaughters, Melissa Lowe and husband Billy of Swords Creek, and Michelle Hess of Swords Creek; one brother, J.R. White and wife Bonnie of Bristol Va.; two sisters, Kay Mutter of Belfast, Va., and Anita Hagy and husband Roger of Richlands; and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at Singleton Funeral Service Chapel in Cedar Bluff at 2 p.m. Thurs., July 18, 2002, with Brother Leslie Ritchie officiating. Burial will follow in Greenhilis Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be Bob McCracken, Jonathan White, Allen (Junior) Johnson, Bob Sparks and employees of Pioneer Chevrolet. Honorary pallbearers will be Walter Adams and Bob Romans. The family will receive friends at the Singleton Funeral Service in Cedar Bluff from 6– 9 p.m. Wednesday. The family may be contacted at the home of Roger and Anita Hagy, 413 Kents Ridge Road, Richlands. Singleton Funeral Service at Cedar Bluff is serving the White family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 9 Jul 2002: Iaeger—Funeral service will be conducted at noon Thurs., July 11, 2002 for Jettie Mae Honaker Gardner, 71, of Lick Branch, near Iaeger, who went home to be with the Lord Sun., July 7, 2002, in Welch Community Hospital after a long illness. The Rev. Jonathan Hunt will officiate at the chapel of Fanning Funeral Home, Iaeger. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluewell. Born Aug. 13, 1930 in Honaker, Va., she was the daughter of the late Ellis and Leamon Whitt Honaker. She was a retired cook with the McDowell County Board of Education and a member of the Panther Missionary Baptist Church. She was a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and a friend to all who knew her. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Retha Keene and Betsy Honaker; one brother, Bill Honaker; and two grandsons, Terry Gardner and Christopher Lester. Survivors include her husband of 54 years, Billy Gardner, of the home; three daughters, Judith Lester and husband, George, of Thompson Valley, Va., Teresa Lester and husband, Garmon, of Isaban, and Linda Snead and husband, Steven, of St. Petersburg, Fla.; five sons, Jimmy Gardner and wife, Marie, John Gardner and wife, Donetta and Jerry Gardner and wife, Lori, all of Iaeger. Michael Gardner of St. Petersburg, Fla. and Jeffery Gardner of Asheboro, N.C.; four sisters, Inez Licolie and Jennett Wimmer, both of Oregon, Mandy Bryce of Arizona and Helen Blankenship of Pennsylvania; one brother, Robert Honaker of Texas; 17 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Friends may call from 6–9 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be family and friends.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 26 Oct 2011, with photograph: Iaeger—Billy Gardner, 82, of Gary, formerly of Iaeger, went home to be with the Lord on Mon., Oct. 24, 2011 in the McDowell Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Billy was born Dec. 21, 1928 in Rock, W.Va., a son of the late John Henry and Carrie Smith Gardner. He was a retired Road Master for [Norfolk & Western] Railroad and a member of the Panther Missionary Baptist Church. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and a friend to all. He loved to draw and sing. Mr. Gardner was the last surviving member of his immediate family. In addition to his parents, he is preceded in death by his loving wife, Jettie Mae Honaker Gardner; his only sister, Vivian; and six brothers, Earnest, Frank, Dennison, Albert, John and Otha Byrd; and two grandsons, Terry Gardner and Christopher Lester. Survivors include three daughters, Tresa Lester and husband Garmon of Isaban, Linda Sneed and husband Steven of Port Richey, Fla., and Judith Lester and husband George of Thompson Valley, Va.; five sons, Jimmy Gardner and wife Marie of Princeton, Michael Gardner of St. Petersburg, Fla., Jerry Gardner and wife Lori, John Gardner and wife Donetta, all of Iaeger, and Jeffery Gardner of Asheboro, N.C.; 17 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren; three sisters-in-law, Helen, Joyce, and Ruth Gardner; and many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted Sat., Oct. 29, 2011 at 11 o’clock with the Rev. Don Morgan officiating at the chapel of Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Park in Bluewell, W.Va. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Friends may visit with the family at the chapel of Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger on Friday evening, Oct. 28, 2011, from 6 to 9 p.m. Fanning Funeral Home in Iaeger is assisting the Gardner family. Online condolences may be sent to the family at .
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 4 Feb 2006: Ashland—Lonnie Boyd White Jr., 79, of HC 76 Box 665A, Ashland, passed away on Wed., Feb., 1, 2006 at his residence. Mr. White was born on April 2, 1926 in Ashland, to the late Lonnie Boyd White Sr. and Ferol Honaker White. Mr. White had been a resident of Ashland his entire life and had worked for Ashland Coal Company for 38 years. He was retired from Stevens Clinic as a maintenance worker. He was a member of the [United Mine Workers of America], veteran of World War II and was a member of the Prosperity United Methodist Church. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a daughter, Linda White and four brothers, James Larry White, Richard White, Houston “Buddy” White and Homer Jack White. Survivors include wife, Bettie Maybelle Owens White of Ashland; sons, Kenneth Boyd White of Fort Myers, Fla., Lonnie “Rocky” White of Ronceverte; brothers, Wallace Gene White of Montcalm, Bert White of Hampton, N.H.; sisters of the heart, Norma Jean Johnson of Rock, Irene Osborne of Ashland; grandchildren, Bryan White, Lillie White, Linda White and Raycheal Osborne. Mr. White loved his Lord, family, children and friends. Funeral services will be conducted Mon., Feb. 6, 2006 at 11 a.m. at the Cravens-Shires Funeral Home in Bluewell, with the Rev. Douglas Hyndrich and the Rev. Earl Hill officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens on the Courthouse Road in Princeton, where Randy White, Johnny East, Johnny Hazelwood, Keith Dargo, Wayne Wyatt and Cody Johnson will serve as pallbearers and the Mercer County Veterans Council will conduct military graveside rites. The White family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday from 6–8 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Prosperity United Methodist Church at Route 2 Box 140-A, Rock, WV 24747. Cravens-Shires Funeral Home is serving the White family.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 8 Oct 2002: Billy Eugene “Gene” Honaker, 72, of 103 Mahood Ave., Princeton, died Sun., Oct. 6, 2002 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born in Red Sulphur Springs, Jan. 1, 1930, he was the son of the late Charles Robert and Lutchia Mae Belcher Honaker. He retired from Kroger Co. in 1991 after 42 years of service in management. During his tenure with Kroger he served stores in Northfork, Welch, Kingsport, Tenn., and retired in Greensboro, N.C. He was a member of McDowell County Masonic Lodge #112, York Rite Masonic Bodies and the Beni Kedem Shrine Temple in Charleston. In addition to his parents, one brother, J.C., preceded him in death. Survivors include his devoted wife of 52 years, Willa Mae Terry Honaker of Princeton; one son, Jerry Wayne Honaker and wife, Jodi, of Reedsville, N.C.; two daughters, Frances J. “Frankie” McCawley-Beamer and husband, Harold, of Orlando, Fla., and Debi Honaker Blades of Morehead City, N.C.; five grandchildren; three brothers, Robert Honaker and wife, Nada of Bluewell, Leonard “Pete” Honaker and wife, Ora, of Princeton and Kenneth Honaker and wife, Alice, of Rural Retreat, Va.; two sisters, Eloise Bowling and husband, Eldridge of Kegley and Wanda Howell of Orlando, Fla. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the George W. Seaver Chapel of Seaver Funeral Home in Princeton with Rev. Rick Setser officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6–8 p.m. today. Memorial contributions may be made to Kegley Baptist Church, P.O. Box 29, Kegley, WV 24731.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 14 Feb 2003: James C. Francis, 32, of Turkey Creek, died Mon., Feb. 10, 2003, at the Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio. He was born in Williamson, W.Va., June 17, 1970, a son of Robert L. Francis of Turkey Creek and Barbara Kay Honaker Francis of Pikeville. He was a machine operator formerly employed by Valu-City Furniture Company; a U.S. Army veteran, and was of the United Baptist faith. Besides his parents, he is survived by his ex-wife, Dorothy Francis of Delbarton, W.Va.; two daughters, Stacey E. Francis and Amber A. Francis, both of Delbarton; one brother, Robert L. Francis Jr. of Lexington; one sister, Margaret E. Francis of Lexington; and his maternal grandmother, Frances Honaker of Turkey Creek. Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 13, in the Hatfield Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Harrison Baisden officiating. Burial followed in the Francis Family Cemetery, Turkey Creek. Arrangements were under direction of Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Dec 2005: Ruby Fowler Honaker, 85, of South Charleston, formerly of Buffalo, passed away Thurs., Dec. 22, 2005, at Valley Center, South Charleston, following a long illness. Born March 7, 1920, she was a daughter of the late Daniel M. and Annie Elizabeth Davis Stover. She was a member of New Hope Church, Robertsburg. Ruby was preceded in death by her husbands, Charles Ralph Fowler and Billy Ray Honaker. Survivors include his foster daughter, Anna Long of St. Albans; brother, Taft Stover of Fostoria, Ohio; and a sister, Alice Meehan of Columbus, Ohio. Service will be held at 10 a.m. Sat., Dec. 24, at Raynes Funeral Home, Buffalo, with Pastor Jasper Herdman officiating. Burial will follow in Buffalo Memorial Park, Buffalo. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 28 Aug 2002, and Fremont [Ohio] News Messenger, 30 Aug 2002: Lundy Honaker, 69, of Shelbiana, died Tue., Aug. 27, 2002 at Pikeville Methodist Hospital. He was born in Pike County, Aug. 29, 1932, a son of the late Matthew and Dixie Blair Honaker. He was a retired coal miner, a U.S. Army veteran, and a member of the Marrowbone Missionary Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by two brothers. He is survived by his wife, Juanita Keene Honaker; two daughters, Brenda McCoy of Pikeville and Patricia Potter of Collins Highway; one brother, Frank Honaker of Texas; one grandchild, Brandi McCoy; and one great-grandchild, Abbi McCoy. Funeral services will be held at noon Fri., Aug. 30, in the Lucas & Hall Funeral Home Chapel with Roger Johnson and others officiating. Burial will follow in the Annie E. Young Cemetery, Chloe Road. Arrangements are under direction of Lucas & Hall Funeral Home of Pikeville. Special services will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday.
Unknown newspaper and date: Lundy Honaker (Aug. 29, 1932–Aug. 27, 2002) Former Gibsonburg resident Lundy Honaker, 69, of Shelbiana, Ky., died Aug. 27 at Pikeville Methodist Hospital. He was born in Pike County to Matthew and Dixie (Blair) Honaker. Mr. Honaker worked for Martin Marietta in Woodville. He was a U.S. Army veteran, a retired coal miner and a member of Marrowbone Missionary Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Juanita (Keene) Honaker; daughers Patricia Ann [Potter] of Collins Highway, Ky., and Brenda McCoy of Pikeville; brother Frank D. Honaker of Texas; and grandchild Brandi McCoy and great-grandchild Abbi McCoy. He is preceded by brothers James Dallas Honaker, who had lived in Lindsey, and Douglas Ray Honaker. Services: Were Aug. 30 at Lucas Hall Funeral Home Chapel, Kentucky, with Pastor Roger Johnson officiating. Burial: Annie Young Cemetery, Kentucky.
News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 1 Jun 2007: Juanita Honaker, 74, of Slones Branch, Shelbiana, died Thurs., May 31, 2007, at Pikeville Medical Center. She was born in Pike County, Jan. 1, 1933, a daughter of the late Jim and Golda Runyon Keene. She was a retired school teacher for the Pike County board and a member of the Marrowbone Missionary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lundy Honaker; and sisters, Olga Reynolds and Ann Keene. She is survived by two daughters, Patricia Potter of Shelbiana and Brenda McCoy of Rocky Road, Pikeville; one brother, James D. Keene of Gibsonville, Ohio; one grandchild, Brandi McCoy; and one great-grandchild, Abbi McCoy. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Mon., June 4, in Lucas and Son Funeral Home Chapel with Roger Johnson officiating. Burial will follow in Annie E. Young Cemetery, Chloe Road. Arrangements are under direction of Lucas and Son Funeral Home of Pikeville. Visitation is 6 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home with special services Saturday and Sunday at 7 p.m.
Toledo [Ohio] Blade and Fremont [Ohio] News Messenger, unknown date: James Dallas Honaker, 66, of Hessville, Ohio, died in his home on Mon., May 13, 2002. He was born on July 8, 1935 to Matthew NMN Honaker and Dixie NMN Blair in Pikeville, Ky. He came to this area after graduating from Feds Creek High School in Kentucky in 1953. He also was a graduate of the Fostoria Police Academy and was an ordained Baptist minister. He worked at the Chrysler plant in Perrysburg until his retirement in 1999. After his retirement he went to work as a security guard at Whirlpool in Clyde, Ohio. He was a member of Fremont Baptist Church, the [United Auto Workers,] the [United Auto Workers] Retirees, the Southern Baptist Association, and enjoyed fishing, camping and his Jeep CJ5. On Feb. 20, 1954 he married Lois Jean McCollum in the Christian Missionary Alliance Church in Fremont. She survives. Also surviving are daughters Deborah J. Hill, Lori K. Rakay, both of Lindsay, and Elizabeth A. Bryant of Fremont; brothers Lundy Honaker of Shelbiana, Ky., and Frank Honaker of Conroe, Tex.; eight grandchildren, six step grandchildren, one foster grandchild and two great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Ray Honaker. Funeral services will be on Friday in the Nopper-Veh Funeral Home in Gibsonburg, where friends may call on Wednesday from 7–9 p.m. and Thursday from 2–4 and 7–9 p.m. Memorials may be made to the family. Burial was in Washington Chapel Cem., Fremont, Ohio.
Fremont [Ohio[ News Messenger, 18 Sep 2014: Deborah J. Hill, 59, of Lindsey passed away Sept. 16, 2014 at Windsor Lane Health Care Center in Gibsonburg. Debbie was born in Fremont on May 9, 1955 to James and Lois Jean (McCollum) Honaker. In 1974 she graduated from Woodmore High School. She was a medical assistant for Endocrine &
Diabetes Center of NOW, retiring in 2012. Debbie loved to camp, enjoyed crocheting, was a NASCAR fan and was a member of Fremont Alliance Church. She is survived by her mother, Lois Jean of Lindsey; husband, Gherold; children, Jeremy (Nikki McDonald) Hill of Northwood, James (Kimberly) Hill of Gibsonburg, and Natasha (Joe) Edwards of Lindsey; stepchildren Gherold “Tom” (Michelle) Hill, Jeff (Becky) Hill and Mark Hill all of Columbus; many grandchildren and a great grandson; and siblings, Elizabeth (Joe Alcala) Halm of Clyde and Lori (Frank) Rakay of Lindsey; and several beloved nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her father James; her first husband, David Hill; stepson, Brian Eldridge; and grandson, Tyler. Memorial services will be held at the Fremont Alliance Church on Sat., Sept. 20, 2014, 4:30 p.m. with Rev. Glenn Merrill and Rev. Paul Miller officiating. Burial at Washington Chapel Cemetery, Helena, will be at a later date. Donations may be directed to the American Diabetes Association or to research for a cure of ALS. To express online condolences, please visit . Herman-Kinn Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Fremont, was in charge.
Herald Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 10 Jul 2002: Oscar Honaker, 74, of Ironton [Ohio] died Tue., July 9 in King’s Daughters Medical Center. Funeral 11 a.m. Friday, July 12, O’Keefe Baker Funeral Home, Ironton; Burial in Woodland Cemetery, Ironton. Visitation 6 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 19 Jun 2002: Margaret Sue Honaker, age 57, of Pickerington, Ohio, died Wed., June 12, 2002 at [Ohio State University] Medical Center [Columbus, Ohio]. Born Oct. 10, 1944 in Ragland, W.Va. to the late Thomas W. and Eula Mae (Chafin) Land. Graduate of Honaker High School in Honaker, Va. and Belleville Area College in Belleville, Ill. She was a registered nurse for 14 years. She attended Broad Street United Methodist Church in Columbus, assisted in the food and clothing program at Christmastime, and was a member of O.E.S. Survived by her husband of 39 years, Lanny; sons Jeffrey (Kathy) Honaker, Blanchester, Ohio, Anthony (Jeni) Honaker, Florence, Ky.; grandchildren Ashley, Brooke, Steven, Jayden and Brittney Honaker; sister Sally J. (Robert) Campell, Metairie, La.; brother Bill Land, Varney, W.Va.; mother-in-law Dorena Honaker, Lebanon, Va.; sisters-in-law Linda (Jerry) Deskins, Honaker, Va., Judy Honaker, Charlotte, N.C.; several nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles. Funeral service [was] Monday at the Dwayne R. Spence Funeral Home with the Rev. Beverly Hume officiating. Entombment followed at Lithopolis Cemetery Mausoleum. Friends who wish may make
contributions to the National Kidney Foundation or the American Diabetes Association in Sue’s memory.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 13 Jan 2016: Aiken, S.C.—Sandra Honaker, age 73, passed away Tue., Jan. 5, 2016 in Johnson City Medical Center with her loving husband and family by her side. Sandra was born July 5, 1942 in Davin, W.Va., a daughter of the late Eules Meyers and Jewel Green. She was a retired employee of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Smyth County Department of Social Services. She was a member of Talatha Baptist Church in Aiken, S.C. Sandy was the most loving wife, daughter, mother, grandmother and friend. She was generous in every way and made everyone she knew feel loved and important. She had a wonderful sense of humor and loved to make people laugh. Sandy’s sense of style and grace was one of her greatest virtues. She will be dearly missed. In addition to her father she was preceded in death by her granddaughter: Haley Mitchell. Survivors include her husband: Lanny Honaker, Aiken, S.C.; mother: Jewel Green Land; two daughters: Valerie Mitchell and husband Jeff, Elizabeth City, N.C., Belinda Vanderlip and husband Jason, San Tan Valley, Ariz.; step-sons: Scott Honaker and wife Kathy, Midland, Ohio, and Tony Honaker, Covington, Ky.; grandchildren: Kelsie Mitchell, Dylan Vanderlip, Ashley South, Steven Honaker, Brooke Honaker and Jayden Honaker; seven great-grandchildren; three sisters: Arlene Kennedy and husband Don, Aiken, S.C., Rosemary Taylor and husband Tommy, Honaker, Va., and Brenda Russo and husband Vince, Atoka, Okla.; one brother: Michael Meyers and wife Pat, Emory, Va.; also many special nieces and nephews. The funeral service was conducted at 2 p.m. Fri., Jan. 8, 2016 in the Combs Funeral Service Chapel with the Rev. Steve Pate officiating. Entombment followed in Ketron Memorial Gardens in Lebanon. Pallbearers were Chris Taylor, Jason Meyers, Scott Honaker, Tony Honaker, Jeff Shortt and Myung Bae. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Foundation, P.O. Box 650309, Dallas, TX 75265-0309, CURE SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy, 925 Buss Road., Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. Expressions of sympathy may be made to the family online at . Combs Funeral Service, Lebanon, Va., served the Honaker family.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 28 Jun 2002 and Lebanon [Va.] News, 3 Jul 2002: Mr. Russell Clifton Sykes, age 77, of the Tunnel Hill section of Honaker, Va., passed away Wed., June 26, 2002 in Lebanon, Va. Born Oct. 23, 1924 in Virginia, he was a son of the late Grover and Lillie Honaker Sykes. He had served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a recipient of the Purple Heart. He was a member of the Tunnel Hill Freewill Baptist Church in Honaker, Va. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one son, Jerry Sykes, two sisters and one brother. Survivors include his wife, Mildred Belcher Sykes of the home; three sons, Larry Sykes, Douglas Sykes and his friend Sandy, David Sykes and his wife Brenda, all of Honaker, Va.; one daughter, Barbara Sykes Combs and her husband Berton of Lebanon, Va.; one brother, Dallas Sykes of Bristol, Va.; 11 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Howard Reynolds and Rev. Ralph Dye officiating. Interment followed in the Tunnel Hill Cemetery in Honaker, Va. Relatives and friends served as pallbearers.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 1 May 2002 and [Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 2 May 2002: Carl McKinley “Ken” Price, 62, of Oakwood, died Sat., Apr. 27, 2002 in a Richlands hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Delatha and Lavania Honaker Price. A lifelong resident of the Buchanan County area, he was of the Pentecostal faith. He was a disabled coal miner, having been employed by Harman Brothers Coal Company. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one son, Ricky Carl Price; one brother, Clyde Price; and three sisters, Thressie Strouth, Thelma Yonker and Devonia Price. [He] is survived by his wife, Flora “Sis” Price; three daughters, Darlene Price Boyd of Rosedale, Loretta Price Boyd of Doran and Sherry Price Sutherland of Richlands; adopted daughters, Judy Mullins of Oakwood and Phyllis Winchester of Elizabethton, Tenn.; three sisters, Della Mae Honaker of Grundy, Monnie Alice Keen of Richlands and Gracie Lee Lester of Honaker; three brothers, Dallas Price of Swords Creek, Warner Price of Johnsville, Ohio and Oliver Price of Lynn Springs; four grandchildren. Services were held Tuesday at Rowe Free Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Revs. Ancil Childress, Bobby Smith and Michael Justice officiating. Interment followed in the Mutter Cemetery at Page. Pallbearers were Doug Mullins, Stanley Adams, Hurley Ratliff, Wayne Keen, Josh Helton and David Mitchell. Honorary pallbearers were Baskim Price, Michael Price, Adam Price, Andy Mitchell, Randall Ball, Gary Sutherland, David Boyd and Randall Prater. Honaker [Va.] Funeral Home was in charge.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 2 Sep 2010: Sacred Grounds—Walking Through Buchanan County’s Family Cemeteries with Brian Shortridge Mutter-Addison Cemetery—Directions: From Rt. 460 at Marvin, Va., take Rt. 626, Chambers Road, for 1.1 miles. The cemetery is located on the left at the top of the mountain. (Burials include) Carl McKinley “Ken” Price, 1939–Apr. 27, 2002, son of Delatha and Lavania Honaker Price, husband of Flora “Sis”; Ricky Carl Price, May 11, 1961–Jan. 13, 1985, son of Carl McKinley and Flora Bea Meadows Price, husband of Sherry Diane Deel.
[Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 6 Dec 1990: Geneva Bernice Wilson Estep, 44, of Grundy, died Sunday in a Richlands hospital. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Willie Edward and Nannie Bell Honaker Wilson. She was a member of Trinity Free Pentecostal Holiness Church in Raven. She was preceded in death by two sisters. Survivors: husband, James Wayne Estep; daughter, Regina Estep of the home; son, James David Estep of Grundy; sisters, Elizabeth Coleman and Barbara Yates, both of Grundy, Irene Rash of Pulaski, Lois Coleman and Hazel Boyd, both of Vansant, Patsy Collins of Knoxville, Tenn., and Bobbie Fuller of Winston-Salem, N.C.; brothers, Carson E. Wilson of Salem and Harvey Elbert Wilson of Dublin. Funeral services were Wednesday at Trinity Free Pentecostal Holiness Church in Raven with the Revs. T.R. Stump, Jim Clark and David Estep officiating. Burial followed in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill. Nephews served as pallbearers. Buchanan County Funeral Home, Keen Mountain, was in charge of arrangements.
[Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 18 Oct 1990: Mrs. Myrtle R. Rasnake, 79, of Baird, Texas, formerly of Tazewell and Cedar Bluff, died Sunday at an Abilene, Texas hospital. Born in Drill, she was the daughter of the late John Dallas and Marie Honaker Perkins. She was a resident of the Cedar Bluff area for the past 11 years before moving to Texas and was a member of the Richlands Church of God. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter P. Rasnake. Survivors: daughter, Mrs. Nancy Rasnake of Cleveland, Ohio; son, Will Rasnake of Baird; sisters, Mrs. Thelma Asbury of Cedar Bluff, Mrs. Kathleen Madrill of Oregon, Mrs. Sarah Huffman of War, W.Va., Mrs. Ethel Addington of Richlands; brothers, Whitt Perkins and Frank Perkins, both of Cedar Bluff; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Private graveside services were held at Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill. Information was submitted by Hurst-Scott Funeral Home, Richlands.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 18 Apr 2002: Marie Honaker Cartwright, 79, of Huntington, died Tue., Apr. 16, 2002, at her home. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Sat., Apr. 20, 2002, at the Wallace Funeral Home and Chapel by the Rev. Tim Conrad. Burial will be in Ridgelawn Memorial Park. She was born Feb. 8, 1923, in Huntington, a daughter of the late Clyde and Bess Adkins Honaker. She was also preceded in death by three brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-law, and one nephew. She was a member of Faith United Methodist Church. She is survived by her husband, Victor L. Cartwright; one son and daughter-in-law, David and René Cartwright; three grandchildren, Daniel Cartwright, Elizabeth Cartwright and Sarah Cartwright; two brothers-in-law and wives; one sister-in-law and husband; 13 very special nieces and nephews; and other extended family members. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the Wallace Funeral Home, Barboursville. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Leap Scholarship Fund, in care of Faith United Methodist Church, 2044 5th Ave., Huntington WV 25702.
The 1930 Cabell Co., W.Va. census, Gideon District, Huntington, enumerated dwelling 173, family 176, at 1919 Bungalow Ave.—C.E. Honaker, age 35, a carpenter, rented a house for $18 month, did not own a radio, married at age 27, born in W.Va., mother born in W.Va., father born in Ky.; wife Bess, age 32, married at age 24, born in W.Va., mother born in Ohio, father born in W.Va.; Marie, adopted daughter, age 7, born in W.Va., parents born in United States.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 21 Jan 1986: Mrs. Julia Mae Wood Daniels, 66, of Daniels, Raleigh County, died Sunday in Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital after a long illness. She was a 28-year resident of Daniels and was a member of Light House Baptist Church, Grandview. Surviving: husband, Thomas Jess Wood; son, James E. “Tinker” Cales of Hinton; brother, C.J. “Brud” Honaker of Hinton; half-sister, Mrs. Harry Morris of Hinton; two grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday in Ronald Meadows Funeral Home, Hinton, with the Rev. Larry Easler officiating. Burial will be in Greenbrier Burial Park, Hinton. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 20 Apr 1995: Carlos J. “Brud” Honaker, 68, of Hinton, died April 16, 1995, at home.
He was a retired conductor of CSX Corp., a member of United Transportation Union and a Navy veteran of World War II.
Surviving: son, Steven at home; daughter, Patricia Ann Honaker Mills of Hilldale; four grandchildren. Private service was held at 2 p.m. April 19, 1995, at Greenbrier Burial Park, Hinton, with Pastor Eileen Schneider officiating. Ronald Meadows Funeral Home, Hinton, was in charge of arrangements. In lieu of flowers, the family request memorial donations be made
to the Special Olympics of West Virginia, 914 Market Street, Suite 201, Parkersburg, W.Va., 26101.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Nov 1994: Jo Ann Mann Honaker, 68, of Hinton died Nov. 21, 1994, in a Charleston hospital after a short illness. She was born at Beckley and was a member of Hinton First United Methodist Church, the Order of Eastern Star and Women of the Moose. Surviving: husband, C.J. “Brud” Honaker; son, Steven E. at
home; daughter, Patricia Mills of Hilldale; sisters, Helen Phlegar of Floyd, Va., Mary Jane Kammer of Hilldale; brothers, Herndon “Punk” and Phillip E. “Bob” Mann Sr., both of Hilldale; four grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Ronald Meadows Funeral Home, Hinton, with Pastor Eileen Schneider officiating. Entombment will be in Greenbrier Burial Park, Hinton. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home, where an Eastern Star service will be held at 8 p.m.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 18 Feb 1986: Fort Spring—Mrs. Elizabeth “Betty” Honaker, 60, of Fort Spring, Greenbrier County, died Monday in a Roanoke, Va., hospital after a long illness. She was a lifelong resident of Fort Spring and was a member of Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. She was a retired employee of Leggett Department Store, Lewisburg. Surviving: sons, Harry of Fort Spring; sisters, Mrs. Ruth Ferrell of Colonial Heights, Va., Mrs. Barbara Walker of Union; two grandchildren. Longanacre Funeral Home, Fort Spring, is in charge of arrangements.
Richlands [Va.] News-Press, 9 Oct 2002 and Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 9 Oct 2002: Mary Frances Honaker, 63, of Tazewell, died Oct. 7 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born at Cliffield, she was a daughter of the late James L. and Mary Emily Reedy Brewster. She was a member of the Baptist Valley Assembly of God. She was retired from the former John’s Motel and Restaurant in Tazewell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her stepmother, Iantha Brewster; and one daughter, Stephanie Dawn Honaker. Survivors: Bill H. Honaker; daughters, Sheila Meadows and husband, Ferlin, of Rocky Mt., Sherri Asbury and husband, Jessie, of Liberty; granddaughters, Jessica Asbury and Emily Asbury, both of Liberty; brothers, James Brewster and wife, Shirley, and William Brewster and wife, Stella, all of Tazewell; and sisters, Betty Roland of Roanoke, Connie Cundiff of Tazewell, Hazel Phillips and husband, Raymond, of Tazewell, Phyllis Brewster of Hickory, N.C., Donna Keene and husband, James, of Rocky Mt., Lynn Snapp and husband, Stephen, of Burkes Garden. The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Oct 10 at Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell with the Rev. David Reedy officiating. Burial will follow at Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6–9 p.m. today. The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the American Diabetes Association Memorial Program.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 19 Feb 1986: Honaker, Mrs. Elizabeth. Service will be 1 p.m. Thursday in Mount Vernon United Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles Dameron and the Rev. Roy Gwinn officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Longanacre Funeral Home, Fort Spring, and one hour prior to service at the church. Mrs. Honaker, 60, of Fort Spring, died Monday in a Roanoke, Va. hospital after a long illness.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 7 Feb 1985: Henry Gus Cooper, 82, of Landville, Logan County, died Tuesday in Man Appalachian Regional Hospital after a long illness. He was a retired employee of Powellton Coal Co. and was a [United Mine Workers of America] member. Surviving: wife, Helen Elaine Honaker Cooper; sons, Joe of Man, Glen of Davin, John of Williamson, Gus Jr. and Carl, both of Columbus, Ohio; daughters, Della Mae Browning, Gail Conn, Sandra Blake and Mildred Browning, all of Columbus; 28 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren. Service will be at 1 p.m. Friday in McNeely Funeral Home, Man, with the Rev. Ronald Vance officiating. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Pecks Mill. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 8 Jun 2004: Helen Elaine Honaker Cooper, 89, of Landville, widow of Henry Gus Cooper, died Monday [7 Jun 2004] in Logan (W.Va.) Regional Medical Center. She was a homemaker. Funeral 1 p.m. Wednesday at Krantz-McNeely Funeral Home, Man, W.Va.; burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Pecks Mill, W.Va. Visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. today and one hour prior to service Wednesday at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 2 Feb 1985: Mrs. Maude E. Honaker, 87, of Amma, Roane County, died Thursday in General Division, CAMC, after a long illness. She was a member of Left Hand Union Church, Roane County.
Surviving: son, Paul of Amma; daughters, Mrs. Garnett Mitchell of Peoria, Ill., Mrs. Dormal Parsons of Canton, Ohio, Mrs. Linda Bailey of Cincinnati, Ohio; 20 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren. Service will be at 1 p.m. Sunday in Knight-Young-Matics Funeral Home, Clendenin, with the Rev. John McCune officiating. Burial will be in McCune Cemetery, Amma. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 10 Jun 2008 (with photograph): Mary Ann McCune Jones, 75, of Walton, went home to be with the Lord on Sat., June 7, 1008 at home after a long illness. Mary was a member of Shepard’s Chapel of Texas and a retired employee of Norris Industries and Kellwood Company of Spencer. She was preceded in death by her husband, Glenn Devoe Jones; parents, John and Maggie Honaker McCune; brothers, Clyde McCune and Billy Ray McCune; and sister, Sally Hicks. Survivors include her son, Jeff Jones and wife Brenda of Walton; daughter, Brenda Greathouse and husband David of Spencer; adopted daughter, Rebecca Jo McCune of Montana; sister Barbara Mangus of Clendenin; grandchildren, Mark, Adam, and Joseph, and Robin; and great-grandchildren, Chloe, Macy, Johnthan, Christopher, and Caitlin. The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Tue., June 10, 2008, at Matics Funeral Home in Clendenin with the Rev. Jack McCune officiating. Burial will be at Jones Cemetery in Walton. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in the funeral home. Condolences may be expressed online at .
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 27 Mar 1993: Wilbert Russell Parsons, 63, of Scio, formerly of Amma, W.Va., died March 25, 1993, at home after a long illness. He was retired from L.T.V. Steel Company, Canton, with 37 years’ service and was a Army veteran of World War II. Surviving: wife, Dormal Mae Honaker Parsons; sons, Ricky and Roger, both of Carrollton, Russell of Canton; mother, Sadie A. Parsons of Amma; brothers, Calvin Brooks of Malvern, Alvert Virgil of Walton, W.Va., Ivan Gary of Canton, Donald Ray of Florida; sisters, Emma Lou Ward of Amma, Pauline May Belcher of Bailey, N.C., Dormal Ann Smith of Clendenin, W.Va., Dorothy Alma Lewis of Walker, W.Va., Donnie Jean Cline of Charleston, W.Va.; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Service will be 1 p.m. Sunday at Matics Funeral Home, Clendenin, with the Rev. Sam Lewis officiating. Burial will be in Parsons Family Cemetery, Amma. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Apr 1988: Clarence M. Honaker, 81, of Red House, Putnam County, died Apr. 18, 1988 in Putnam General Hospital, Teays Valley. Gatens Funeral Home, Poca, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 20 Apr 1988: Honaker, Clarence M. Service will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca, with the Rev. William Layne Jr. and the Rev. Carl Arthur officiating. Burial will be in Wade Chapel Cemetery, Red House. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca. Mr. Honaker, 81, of Red House, Putnam County, died April 18, 1988, in Putnam General Hospital, Hurricane. He was a native of Putnam County and was a former miner, construction worker and farmer. He was retired from the state Department of Highways. He was a member of Lone Oak Church of God Mission. Surviving: wife, Ada Marie Underwood Honaker; daughters, Mrs. Janet Simmons of Nitro, Mrs. Joann Pauley of Hurricane; son, Kenneth Lee of Red House; stepsister, Mrs. Hazel Cunningham of South Charleston; half brother, James Honaker of Phoenix; stepbrothers, Charles Bowles of Charleston, Houston Atkinson of St. Albans; six grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 13 Jan 1985: Sterling D. Honaker, 55, of Belleview, Fla., formerly of Ronceverte, W.Va., died Saturday at home after a long illness. A 17-year resident of Belleview, he was a construction worker and a Baptist. Surviving: daughters, Mrs. Patty Betz of Dublin, Va., Mrs. Donna Wykle of Fairlea; sons, Darrell of Belleviw, and Doug of Fairlea; mother, Mrs. Mary Honaker of Belleview; sister, Mrs. Phyllis Powell of Ronceverte; brother, Lonas of Belleview; five grandchildren. Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Ronceverte, is in charge of arrangements.
Ozark [Ala.] News, unknown date: Mrs. Ruth May Honaker, age 89, died Thurs. , Jan. 6, 2000 at Dale Medical Center in Ozark, Ala. Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Jan. 8, 2000 from the Fuqua-Bankston Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Kelsey Brantley officiating. Burial followed from the Woodlawn Memorial Gardens with Fuqua-Bankston Funeral home directing. Visitation was 6-8 p.m. Fri., Jan. 7, 2000. Survivors include: one son, Benjamin and Shirley Honaker of Ozark, Ala.; one sister, Helen C. Glumm of Coventry, R.I.; and three grandchildren, Tammy Fayard of Enterprise, Ala., Robin Morris of Ozark, Ala., and Mark Honaker of Enterprise, Ala.
Dothan [Ala.] Eagle, 21 Dec 2011: Harry J. Dack of Enterprise, Ala., passed away Mon., Dec. 19, 2011, at his home. He was 80. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Wed., Dec. 21, 2011, at Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory Chapel with Rev. Dwayne Sims, Rev. Jim Duhaime and Rev. John McCrummen officiating. Burial will follow in Meadowlawn Cemetery with Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 1 p.m. until service time. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Hillcrest Baptist Church, 500 Alberta St., Enterprise, AL 36330. Mr. Dack was the former owner of Dack Auto Service for 41 years, and is now owned by his daughter and son-in-law, Harriet and Mark Honaker. He was preceded in death by his parents, Herald and Mary (Sell) Dack; and two brothers, Dale Dack and Ernest Dack. Survivors include his wife, Anne Dack, Enterprise, Ala.; daughter and son-in-law, Harriet and Mark Honaker, Enterprise, Ala.; grandson and his wife, Kelley and Brittany Honaker, Birmingham, Ala.; three brothers, Donald Dack, Clarkfield, Minn., John Dack, Granite Falls, Minn., Ed Dack, Montevideo, Minn.; a number of nieces and nephews and other relatives. Searcy Funeral Home and Crematory, (334) 393-2273, is in charge of arrangements. Send condolences to the family at . Sign the guest book at
Unknown Arkansas newspaper and date: (Johnson County Graphic)—Bobby Honaker, 53, of Clarksville died Saturday, April 21, 2001, in Ozark. He was a native of Manilla, son of the late Willie H. and Ruby Leona Brown Honaker, and an Army veteran of the Vietnam War. He is survived by two sisters, Rose Mary Skaggs of Lamar and Ruby L. Honaker of Clarksville; and several nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, April 27, at the Hartman Cemetery. The body was cremated. Arrangements are under the direction of Hardwicke Funeral Home.
In 2002 a web site of the Johnson County [Ky.] Historical Society (eastern Kentucky) identified a Bascom Vanhoose Family Cemetery located on Kentucky State Route 993, no further directions provided, which had the graves of Arthur Vanhoose, son of Bascom Vanhoose and Julia Hylton, born 31 Oct 1886, died 11 Dec 1968, and his wives (1) Emma (Honaker) Vanhoose, born 27 Oct 1894, died 23 May 1921, and (2) Dixie Mae (maiden name not given) Vanhoose.
In 2002 a death announcement appeared on a memorial web site for Sandra Kay Honaker, born 9 Sep 1954, died 14 Mar 2001, arrangements by Forest Lawn Funeral Home, Ocala, Fla.
, 11 Feb 2008: Sandra Kay Honaker, 55, of Holley Creek Road, Greeneville, Tenn., died at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metarie, Wed., Feb. 6, 2008. Visitation will be 2 to 4 p.m. today at Kiser Funeral Home in Greeneville. Funeral services will be at noon Tuesday at Victory Church of God, with burial in Horse Creek Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, James T. Honaker; one son, Brian Berryhill and wife, Denielle, of Arlington, Texas; one granddaughter, Brooke Berryhill of Arlington; her mother, Hilda Shelton of Greeneville; two brothers, Gary Shelton and wife, Ann, and Rick Shelton and wife, Ann, all of Greeneville; one sister, Kim Ottinger and husband, Tony, of Greeneville; two aunts, Glenn Ertzberger of Asheville, N.C., and Delora Stidham of Merrit Island, Fla.; three uncles, Dove Shelton of Greeneville, Richard Shelton of Chuckey, Tenn., and Jack Shelton of Asheville; her sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Gary and Jean Cochran of Virginia, Thelma Davis of Bristol and Helen Beecher of Bristol; several nieces and nephews; her special nieces, Jessica Ottinger and Chasity Shelton; her special nephews, Trandon Ottinger, Garrett Shelton and Josh Davis; her special friends, Terry, Doug and Hugh Jay McKay, Sandra Hensley, Jim Goodwin and Teresa of Thibodaux; her co-workers at TI Group and her church family at Victory Church of God; her adopted sister, Patty Tilson; and her former mother-in-law, Bertha Berryhill. She was a former employee of TI Group Automotive and attended Victory Church of God. Kiser Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald-Courier, 24 Sep 2001: Honaker, Va.—Mr. Ira “Junior” Hurd Jr., 64, passed away Sat., Sept. 22, 2001, in a Lebanon hospital. Born June 18, 1937 in Honaker, he was a son of the late Ira Hurd Sr. and Mae Lois [also May Lois] Honaker Hurd. He had spent most of his life in the Honaker area and was a construction worker. He was a member of the Church of Christ. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one sister, Mary Alice Hurd. Survivors include his wife, Lois June “Junie” Hurd of the home; two sons, Bryan Hurd of Honaker and Michael Shyane Hurd of the home; two sisters, Glenna Edwards of Bristol, Va., and Margaret Campbell of Honaker; six brothers, Robert William Hurd of Bristol, Va., William Junior Hurd of St. Paul, Paul Anderson Hurd of Lebanon, John Lee Hurd of North Carolina, Kenneth Hurd of Baptist Valley, Va., and Russell Hurd of Chicago, Ill.; and one granddaughter, Veronica Rena Perkins. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, with Bro. Mark Gaminde officiating. Interment will follow in the Hurd Cemetery on Big A Mountain, Va. Pallbearers will be Doug Shepard, Howie Bartee, Jason Maggard, Joshua Maggard, Dave Farmer, Scott Shamburg and Frank McGraw. Honorary pallbearers will be Daniel Stapleton and Shawn Plaster. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that contributions be made to the American Cancer Society or to the family. Friends may call at Honaker Funeral Home after 6 p.m. Monday.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald-Courier, 4 Dec 2011: Bristol, Va.—Glenna Edwards, age 82, went to be with the Lord Sat., Dec. 3, 2011, at her residence, with her loving family by her side. She was born Feb. 5, 1929, in Russell Co., Va. and is the daughter of the late Ira and Mae Louis Honaker Hurd. She was a life-long resident of the Bristol, Va. area and was a member of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Belcher Edwards; brothers, Ira Hurd Jr., William Hurd and Kenneth Hurd and sister, Mary Alice Hurd. Survivors include daughter, Shelby Whited; granddaughter, Chrystal Stoots; grandsons, Jeffery Stoots and Justin Stoots; special buddy, Zac Carter; brothers, Robert Hurd, Paul Hurd, John Lee Hurd and Russell Hurd; sister, Margaret Campbell. A funeral service will be held Tue., Dec. 6, 2011, at 11 a.m. in the Forest Hills Mausoleum Chapel with the Rev. Paul Price and the Rev. Gary Roark officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at Weaver Funeral Home. Online condolences may be registered at . Arrangements have been made with Weaver Funeral Home.
Salisbury [N.C.] Post, 9 Dec 2012: John Lee Hurd, 71, of Salisbury, died Dec. 7, 2012, at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice House in Winston-Salem. He was born Oct. 1, 1941, in Russell Co., Va., the son of the late Ira E. Hurd and Mae L. Honaker Hurd. Mr. Hurd worked as a finish carpenter before retiring due to disability. A member of Sloan Lake Community Church in China Grove, John served our country in the Marine Corps. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by sister Glenda Edward. Those left to cherish his memories are wife Linda Jones Hurd of Salisbury; brothers Russell (Linda) Hurd, Jake (Nadine) Hurd and Robert Hurd, all of Virginia; sister Margaret Campbell of Virginia; adopted son Auther Wilder and son Bobby Hurd of Mississippi; daughter Tammy H. McCain of Mississippi; mother-in-law Robena Jones of Salisbury; brother-in-law Clarence “Pete” (Sarah) Jones of Salisbury; and sisters-in-law Elaine (George) Hardy of Greensboro and Vanessa Taplah of Linwood. Memorial service: 12 p.m. Wed., Dec. 12 at Sloan Lake Community Church, 10255 Old Concord Road, China Grove. Burial: 2 p.m. Wed., Dec. 12 at Salisbury National Cemetery, 501 Statesville Blvd., Salisbury, NC 28144 with the Pastor Zackary Sizemore officiating. Full military honors performed by Lyerly Volunteer Honor Guard. Memorials: Proceeds may be sent to Linda Jones Hurd c/o Robena Jones, 503 Correll St., Salisbury, NC 28144. Special thank you to Mrs. Alice Faye Jeffries, Pastor Zachary Sizemore, family and friends and Lyerly Funeral Home. Lylerly Funeral Home is serving the Hurd family. Online condolences may be made at .
Lebanon [Va.] News, 20 Feb 2013: Mrs. Margaret Ellen Hurd Campbell, age 85, of Honaker, Va., passed away Tue., Feb. 12, 2013 in a Richlands, Va. hospital. Born March 26, 1927 in Russell Co., Va., she was a daughter of the late Ira and May Lois Honaker Hurd. She had spent most of her life in the area and was of the Baptist faith. She had formerly been employed as a supervisor at Russell Manufacturing with 30 years of service. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Millard Marvin Campbell, five brothers, and two sisters. Survivors include three daughters, Bonita Crabtree and husband, Bill of Honaker, Betty Arney and husband, Danny of Honaker, and Dacy Hale and husband, Tommy of Columbus, Ohio; two sons, James Terry Campell and wife, Margaret of North Tazewell and Ralph Campbell and wife, Jan of Rosedale; three brothers, Robert Hurd of Bristol, Va., Paul Hurd of Lebanon, and Russell Hurd of Claypool Hill; five grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild also survives. Funeral services were conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Va., with Rev. Craig Barber and Rev. Katie Miller officiating Interment followed in the Hurd Cemetery at Honaker, Va. Relatives and friends served as pallbearers.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 29 Apr 2013: Russell E. Hurd, age 67, of Claypool Hill, Va., left his earthly home in the early morning hours of Sat., April 27, 2013 in Bristol, Tenn. He was born May 26, 1945 in Russell County and was the son of the late Ira and Mae Lois Honaker Hurd. He was retired from the steel industry in Elmhurst, Ill., and spent most of his adult life in Illinois, prior to moving back to Virginia in 2004. His hobby was woodworking. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by sisters, Mary Alice Hurd, Glenna Edwards, and Margaret Campbell; and brothers, William “Bingo” Hurd, Ira Hurd Jr., Kenneth Hurd, and John Lee Hurd. Those left to cherish him include: His loving wife of 48 years, Linda C. Lankford Hurd; one son, Jeffery Scott Hurd of Pounding Mill, Va.; one daughter, Tina Louise Shrader and husband, Tod of Franklin Park, Ill.; grandchildren, Ashley Hurd of Bloomingdale, Ill., Brittney Roberts and husband, Alex of Addison, Ill., Kyle Schrader, and Candace Schrader of Franklin Park, Ill.; great-grandchildren, Jayden Hurd and Alexa Roberts of Addison, Ill.; two brothers, Paul “Jake” Hurd of Lebanon, Va., and Robert Hurd of Carpentersville, Ill. Memorial services for Russell E. Hurd will be conducted Mon., April 29, 2013 at 11 a.m. at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Chapel in Richlands, Va., with the Rev. Troy Lester officiating. Hurst-Scott Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements and those wishing to express sympathy online may do so at
Lebanon [Va.] News, 26 Sep 2001: Joan Street, 65, of Bostwick, Fla., died Tue., Sept. 18, 2001 at the Putnam Community Medical Center in Palatka following an extended illness. She was a native of Honaker, Va., and had been a resident of Bostwick for the past 13 years, coming from Honaker. She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Bertha Clark Honaker; her husband, Homer Street; one son, Joe Street; and one daughter, Christina Street. She is survived by her companion, John Robert “Bob” Mullins of Bostwick; one son, Richard Street of Abingdon, Va.; three sisters, Reba Street and Carol Ames, both of Battle Creek, Mich., and Ada Honaker of Port Richey, Fla.; five grandchildren; one great-grandson; six nieces and two nephews. Services were held Sept. 20, 2001 at the Masters Funeral Home of Palatka, Fla. Memorial gifts may be sent to Wanda Matthews, P.O. Box 527, Bostwick, FL 32007. Masters Funeral Home of Palatka, a ministry of the Masters family since 1953, was in charge.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 10 Jun 2003: Arnett [W.Va.]—Billy Joe Farley, 69, of Arnett, passed away Sun., June 8, 2003 at home following a long illness. Born July 5, 1933 in Glen View, he was the son of the late Jennings Bryant Farley and Pina Ruth Farley. Mr. Farley faithfully served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean Conflict. He earned the Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, and the National Defense Medal. He was honorably discharged May 4, 1954. He lived most of his life in Arnett where he was an avid fisherman and hunter. He retired as an auto mechanic, and enjoyed playing cards, dominoes, and horseshoes in his retirement. He was preceded in death by a brother, Homer Farley; and a sister, Kathleen Farley. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Norma L. Honaker Farley; four children, Toni and her husband, Randy Pack, of Rock Creek, Terri Farley of Arnett, Teddy Farley and his wife, Annetta, of Weston, and Traci and her husband, John L. Lewis, Jr., of Helen; a brother, Page Farley and his wife, Rosalie, of Sullivan; a sister, Shelby Jean Fitzhugh and her husband, Pete, of Martinsburg; two grandchildren, Billy Joe “B.J.” and Michelle Farley; two stepgrandchildren, John L. “Trey” III and Erin Lewis; and several brothers-and-sisters-in-law, nieces, and nephews. Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Blue Ridge Funeral Home with Pastor Gilbert Dodson officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Pallbearers will be Billy Joe “B.J.” Farley, Trey Lewis III, John L. Lewis, Jr., Randy Pack, Vernon Honaker, and Jimmy D. Lucas, Jr. Honorary pallbearers will be Teddy L. Farley, Oma Milam, Jr. and Jarvis Williams. Arrangements by Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Beckley.
[Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 18 May 2000: Jessie Honaker, 78, of Grundy, died Mon., May 15, 2000 in Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, Tenn., following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Floyd and Lovis Cline Honaker. He was a member of Grundy Baptist Church where he served as a deacon. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, attaining the rank of corporal. He received the American Theater Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific Service Medal, Good Conduct Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. He was a retired employee of Harman Mining Company and was a member of United Mine Workers of America local union No. 7025. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three sisters, Alice Hurley, Etta Honaker and Mary Honaker; and six brothers, Matthew, Tilden, Garland, Floyd Jr., Oscar and Elliott Honaker. He is survived by his wife, Alta Keen Honaker; two daughters, Barbara Honaker Rowlett of Grundy and Lillian Keen of Lutz, Fla.; two sons, Johnny A. Honaker of Grundy and Steve Honaker of Abingdon; two sisters, June Matusiak of Baltimore, Md., and Estelle Gallager of Ironton, Ohio; five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services will be held Fri., May 19 at 1 p.m. at Grundy Baptist Church with the Revs. Don Pope and Rick Ellis officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain Valley Memorial Park, Big Rock. Active pallbearers will be Michael Rowlette, Mike Lester, Brian Allen, Shannon Prater, Ted Newsome, Arlie Boyd, Lonnie Raines, Jay Rife, Homer Newsome and Charlie Wood. Honorary pallbearers will be Dillard Keen, Raymond Lester, Herald Lee Shortridge, Mike Yates, Chuck Crabtree, Scott Keen, Ross Mullins, Ronnie Stiltner, Doug Baldwin, Leonard Matney, James E. Dellinger, Dr. J.P. Sutherland Jr., Kenny Prater, current and former deacons of Grundy Baptist Church and men of Grundy Baptist Church. Full military rites will be conducted at the cemetery by members of John Ratliff Post 164 of the American Legion. The family suggests expressions of sympathy be made in the form of contributions to Roy David Rowlett Scholarship Fund, c/o Whitewood High School, Pilgrim Knob, VA 24634. Grundy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 8 Oct 2008 and Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 9 Oct 2008 (with photograph): Grundy, Va.—Alta Mae Honaker, 83 years of age, of Grundy, Va., passed away Mon., Oct. 6, 2008 at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital, Pikeville, Ky., following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John Arthur and Mahaley Davis Keen. She was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County, graduated from Grundy High School and was a member of Grundy Baptist Church since September of 1957, where she taught Sunday school and worked in the nursery. Mrs. Honaker was a devoted wife, loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, was a produce manager for Piggly Wiggly and Food City for 22 years and was a wonderful homemaker. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Mrs. Honaker was preceded in death by her husband: Jessie Honaker, May 15, 2000. She is survived by: two daughters, Barbara Honaker Rowlett of Grundy, Va. and Lillian Keen of Lutz, Fla.; two sons: Steve and wife Judy [Honaker] of Abingdon, Va., Johnny A. and wife Lisa [Honaker] of Grundy, Va. Also, survived by six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by five sisters: Jenny Ratliff, Stella Lester, Ellen Ratliff, Della Stiltner, Sarah Shortridge; two brothers: Milton and Johnny A. Keen; one grandson and one great-grandson. Funeral services for Alta Mae Keen Honaker will be conducted Fri., Oct. 10, 2008 at 11 a.m. at the Grundy Baptist Church with Brother Donald Tittle and Rick Ellis officiating with burial to follow in Mountain Valley Memorial Park, Big Rock, Va. Friends may call at the Grundy Baptist Church Thursday evening at 6 p.m. with services at 7 p.m. Active pallbearers will be Doug Baldwin, Hearl Shortridge, Charlie Perkins, Walley Pritchard, Roger Lester, Charlie Woods, Brian Allen and Curtis Crouse. Honorary pallbearers will be Men of the Grundy Baptist Church. The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be made in the form of donations to the Grundy Baptist Church Memorial Fund, Box 675, Grundy, VA 24614. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Grundy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 23 Oct 2008 (with photograph): Card of thanks from the family of Alta Mae Keen Honaker—The family of Alta Mae Keen Honaker would like to express our gratitude for the many acts of kindness shown our family during the loss of our mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. The family would like to say a special thank you to Brian, Dawnetta, and Justin Allen for their songs during the wake service. We would also like to thank Rev. Rick Ellis for the inspiring poem he wrote and delivered during the service. A very special thank you to Pastor Donald Tittle for his comforting words and for the time he spent with us at the hospital before mom’s death. The family wishes to thank Eddie and Kathy Hannah as well as the choir for the beautiful music. A very special thank you to everyone at Grundy Baptist Church and Grundy Funeral Home for all their acts of kindness during this very difficult time.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 1 Apr 2009 and Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 2 Apr 2009: Abingdon, Va.—Steve Honaker, 59, formerly of Grundy, Va., passed away on March 30, 2009, at Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, Va., following a short illness. Born in Grundy, he was the son of the late Jessie Honaker and Alta Keen Honaker. He graduated from Grundy Senior High School and was a member of Highlands Fellowship Church. He loved meeting and talking to people. He enjoyed listening to music and socializing with his friends. He enjoyed being outdoors, playing golf, and watching high school and college sporting events. He especially enjoyed cooking for and spending time with his family. Steve loved life and lived it to its fullest. He was outgoing and never met a stranger. Mr. Honaker was certified in electricity, underground mining, surface mining, and first aid. He worked as an engineer for United Coal Companies and Tri-State Engineering before going into underground mining. When he retired from mining, he started building and remodeling, which was his favorite trade. He loved tearing down walls and rebuilding, and he took pride in making sure every aspect of his work was to perfection. He is survived by his wife, Judy Harman Honaker; sister, Lillian Keen of Lutz, Fla.; sister, Barbara Rowlette of Grundy, Va.; brother, Johnny Honaker of Grundy, Va.; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services for Steve Honaker will be held on Thurs., Apr. 2, 2009 at 7 p.m. at Highlands Fellowship Church, 22417 Watauga Rd., Abingdon, Va. with Pastor Jimmie Davidson and Jerry Harman officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. prior to the service at the church. Active pallbearers will be Eddie Rainey, Jerry Silcox, Butch Kitts, Max Stanley, Dave Merritt, A.D. Witt, Charlie Farmer, and Alex Gibson. Honorary pallbearers will be James Harman, Brogie Harman, Ren Harman, Richie Drum, Mark Bandy, Michael Brown II, Mike Brown, Clyde Harman, Jerry Harman, Delmer Vencill, Emory Wright, Michael Rowlette, and Jonathan Rowlette. The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be made in the form of donations in his memory to the Abingdon High School Scholarship Fund, 705 Thompson Drive, Abingdon, VA 24210. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Frost Funeral Home, 250 E. Main St., Abingdon, Va., is serving the Honaker family.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 2 Apr 2009: Abingdon, Va.—Steve Honaker, 59, formerly of Grundy, Va., passed away on March 30, 2009, at Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, Va., following a short illness. Born in Grundy, he was the son of the late Jessie Honaker and Alta Keen Honaker. He graduated from Grundy Senior High School and was a member of Highlands Fellowship Church. He loved meeting and talking to people. He enjoyed listening to music and socializing with his friends. He enjoyed being outdoors, playing golf and watching high school and college sporting events. He especially enjoyed cooking for and spending time with his family. Steve loved life and lived it to its fullest. He was outgoing and never met a stranger. Mr. Honaker was certified in electricity, underground mining, surface mining and first aid. He worked as an engineer for United Coal Companies and Tri-State Engineering before going into underground mining. When he retired from mining, he started building and remodeling, which was his favorite trade. He loved tearing down walls and rebuilding and he took pride in making sure every aspect of his work was to perfection. He is survived by his wife, Judy Harman Honaker; sister, Lillian Keen of Lutz, Fla.; sister, Barbara Rowlette of Grundy; brother, Johnny Honaker of Grundy; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services for Steve Honaker will be held on Thurs., April 2, 2009, at 7 p.m. at Highlands Fellowship Church, 22417 Watauga Road, Abingdon, Va., with Pastor Jimmie Davidson and Jerry Harman officiating. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m., prior to the service at the church. Active pallbearers will be Eddie Rainey, Jerry Silcox, Butch Kitts, Max Stanley, Dave Merritt, A.D. Witt, Charlie Farmer and Alex Gibson. Honorary pallbearers will be James Harman, Brogie Harman, Ren Harman, Richie Drum, Mark Bandy, Michael Brown II, Mike Brown, Clyde Harman, Jerry Harman, Delmer Vencill, Emory Wright, Michael Rowlette and Jonathan Rowlette.
The family suggests that expressions of sympathy be made in the form of donations in his memory to the Abingdon High School Scholarship Fund, 705 Thompson Drive, Abingdon, VA 24210. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Frost Funeral Home, 250 E. Main St., Abingdon, Va., (276) 628-2131, is serving the Honaker family.
Newspaper and date unknown: Brenda May Gordon, 52, of Petersburg, died Sat., July 22, 2000 at her residence. She was a native of Covington, Va., and was the daughter of Clyde E. and Lily Montgomery May. Mrs. Gordon was a member of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chester. She is survived by her husband, Daniel Howe Gordon of Petersburg; a daughter, Beverly Anne Honaker, and son-in-law, Steven Douglas Honaker of Roanoke; a son, Christopher Howe Gordon, and daughter-in-law, Tamara Josaitis Gordon of Alexandria; a grandson, Jacob Ryan Honaker of Roanoke; a granddaughter, Mackenna Mae Gordon of Alexandria; a sister, Anne Hanzlik of Prince George; a brother, Clyde E. May Jr. of Winston-Salem; and several nieces and nephews. A funeral service will be held 12 noon on Mon., July 24, at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Chester, with Rev. Bob Armstrong officiating. Interment to follow in Southlawn Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the Petersburg Chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son on Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. Flowers are acceptable but the family requests memorial contributions be made to Brain Tumor Research, c/o Dr. William Broaddus, MCV Massey Cancer Center.
Evansville [Ind.] Courier & Press, 27 May 2000: Emma Mateline Pfender, 82, of Evansville, died Thurs., May 25, 2000 at Deaconess Hospital. She retired from National Can-Bernardin Bottling after 30 years. Surviving are a daughter, Brenda McFarland of New Harmony, Ind.; a son, Robert Wentz of Lexington, Ky.; five sisters, Mary Bennington of Dayton, Ohio, Helen Curran of Niangua, Mo., Barbara Curran and Janice Lee, both of Hamilton, Ohio, and Arlene Duke of Richmond, Ind.; four brothers, James Honaker of Omaha, Neb., Carl Honaker of Mesa, Ariz., Quincy Honaker of Valencia, Calif., and Raymond Honaker of Evansville, who helped to care for her; three grandchildren, Terry, Kristi and Bill Wentz; six great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandson; and nieces and nephews, including niece Ricki Newman, who helped to care for her. Her husband, Jack E. Pfender, died in 1979. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Alexander Funeral Home West Chapel, the Rev. Robert George officiating, with burial in Park Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 11 a.m. to service time at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to a favorite charity.
Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz., 27 Apr 2016: Lea Dee Anne Honaker, 52, of Mesa passed away on April 20, 2016 of a sudden heart attack. An only child, Lea was truly one-of-a-kind, a tomboy and at the same time the funniest and most beautiful woman in any room. While Lea loved gardening and listening to music with a good cup of coffee, her true love in this life was caring for her family. Her children will remember her as a devoted mother, wife, best friend and daughter who weathered life’s challenges with determination and humility. She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Jim; her mother Judy and her three children; son Nathan; daughter Trisha and her husband Jim, and their daughter Logan; younger daughter Valerie and her husband Joe. She is preceded in death by her grandmother Esther and father Morey, both of whom she lived so dearly. A visitation will be held at 10 a.m. with services at 11 a.m., Sat., Apr. 30, 2016 at Bunker Hill Bunker’s University Chapel, 3529 E. University Dr., Mesa, Ariz.
Harrodsburg [Ky.] Herald, Jan. 4, 2001: Jacob Edward Honaker, 2 months, died Wed., Dec. 27, 2000 at the [University of Kentucky] Medical Center in Lexington. Born Oct. 28, 2000, he was the son of Terry and Julie Logue Honaker. He was a member of Burner’s Chapel Baptist Church. Survivors, in addition to his parents, include one brother, Matthew Honaker, Harrodsburg; maternal grandparents, Donald and Eva Logue, Harrodsburg; paternal grandparents, Frebert and Jean Honaker, Mitchellsburg; great grandmother, Vina Underwood, Danville. Funeral services were held Sat., Dec. 30, at the Alexander and Royalty Funereal Home with Rev. Larry Redding officiating. Burial was in the Bruner’s Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were Jaret Reinsmith and Kyle Curtis. Honorary bearers were Clay Long, Devin Honaker and Cameron Honaker. Donations may be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 176, Harrodsburg, KY 40330 and to the Bruner’s Chapel Baptist Cemetery Fund, 829 Mackville Road, Harrodsburg, KY 40330.
Harry F. Honaker, born 17 Feb 1892, died 30 Dec 1908, was buried in Culloden [W.Va.] Cemetery. Other burials in the cemetery during that timeframe were descendants of Henry[3] (Martin[1], Martin[2]), to whom this young man was probably related.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 8 Aug 2000: Caldwell—Charles Eugene “Doak” Honaker, 63, died Tue., July 25, 2000. Services were 2 p.m. Friday at the Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church, Caldwell. Arrangements by Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Unknown newspaper and date: Leonard H. Honaker, Sr., 74, of White Sulphur Springs, died Wed., Sept. 29, 1999 at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Fairlea, W.Va., following an extended illness. He was born March 28, 1925 at Glace, W.Va., a son of the late Gus and Daisy Carter Honaker. Mr. Honaker was a veteran of the U.S. Army, having served in World War II. He was a caddie at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs and was an avid golfer. He was preceded in death by a son, “Larry King” Honaker in 1982. He is survived by his wife, Patricia L. Honaker; six sons, Leonard Honaker, Jr. and Melvin Honaker, both of Lewisburg, W.Va., Delbert Honaker of Centerville, Cheyenne Honaker of Ronceverte, W.Va., John Honaker of White Sulphur Springs, and Michael Honaker of Camp Pendleton, Calif.; three daughters, Debra Ramsey and Linda Honaker, both of White Sulphur Springs, and Cathy Martin of Ronceverte; two brothers, James Honaker and Larry Honaker, both of White Sulphur Springs; a sister, Hazel Morgan of White Sulphur Springs; 15 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in the chapel of the Shanklin Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert McClintic officiating. Interment will follow at Whatcoat Cemetery, White Sulphur Springs. The family will receive friends Saturday from 6 until 8 p.m. at the funeral home in White Sulphur Springs. Arrangements by Shanklin Funeral Home, White Sulphur Springs.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 26 Jul 2000: Phillip “Jimbo” Honaker, 62, of Phelps, died Sat., July 22, 2000 at Good Shepherd Community Nursing Center, Phelps. He was born at Phelps July 4, 1935, a son of the late Phillip and Ocie Stiltner Honaker. He was preceded in death by one brother, Ermel Honaker. He is survived by two brothers, Willis Honaker of Phelps, Bernard Honaker of Flushing, Mich.; and three sisters, Caroline Dotson and Ruby Compton, both of Majestic, and Emma Lou Blankenship. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tue., July 25 in the Phelps Chapel, with DeWitt Furrow officiating. Burial followed in the family cemetery. Arrangements were under direction of R.S. Jones & Son Funeral Home—Phelps Chapel of Phelps.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 5 May 2010: Dewey B. Honaker, 75, of Speedwell, Tenn., formerly of Phelps, died Fri., Apr. 30, 2010, in Tennessee. He was born in Phelps, Jan. 11, 1935, the son of the late Archie and Rosie Stiltner Honaker. He was a retired coal miner and of the Baptist faith. He is survived by four children, Benny Honaker and Tammy Coleman, both of Canada [Ky.], Richard Honaker of Harrogate, Tenn., and Jerry Honaker of LaFollette, Tenn.; one brother, Dallas Honaker of Phelps; four sisters, Maggie Greer, Macie Blankenship, Patsy Justice and Glenda Wright; six grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Mon., May 3, in the R.S. Jones & Son Funeral Home Chapel with Darrell Wolford and Eddie Belcher officiating. Burial followed in the Community Cemetery, Phelps. Arrangements were under direction of R.S. Jones & Son Funeral Home of Phelps.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 29 Mar 2013: Willis Honaker, 87, of Phelps, died Tue., March 26, at his home. He was born in Phelps, Dec. 13, 1925, the son of the late Phillip and Ocie Honaker. He was a retired coal truck driver and of the Baptist faith. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by one son, Jimmy Darrell Coleman; four brothers, Ermel Honaker, Jimmy Honaker, Bernard Honaker and Archie Honaker; four grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Vicy Stump Honaker; ten children, Linda Smith of Somerset, Kay Casebolt of Shelbiana, Bonney Casey, Willa Wolford, Eddie Honaker and Teddy Honaker, all of Phelps, Ky., Allen Honaker of Meta, Roger Honaker of McCarr, David Honaker of Freeburn and Ronnie Honaker of Beech Creek, W.Va.; three sisters, Ruby Compton, Carol Dotson and Emmalou Honaker, 31 grandchildren, and 46 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Sat., March 30, in the R.S. Jones & Son Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Michael Casey officiating. Burial will follow in the family cemetery, Phelps. Arrangements are under direction of R.S. Jones & Son Funeral Home of Phelps. Special services will be held at 7 p.m. Friday.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 11 Nov 2013: Vicy Honaker, 87, of Phelps, died Thurs., Nov. 28, 2013, at the Good Shepherd Community Nursing Home in Phelps. She was born Sept. 2, 1926, in Coleman, the daughter of the late George and Stella Smith Stump. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willis Honaker; one son, Jimmy Darrell Coleman; six brothers, Tolbert Stump, George Stump, Western Stump, Willie Stump, Andy Stump and Bill Stump; four sisters, Nancy McCoy, Judy Howard, Roxie Stump Casey and Bline Casey. She is survived by six sons, Allen Honaker of Meta, David Honaker of Freburn, Ronald Honaker of Beech Creek, W.Va., Roger Honaker of McCarr, Eddie Honaker and Teddy Honaker, both of Phelps; four daughters, Bonnie Casey of Phelps, Linda Smith of Somerset, Kay Casebolt of Pikeville and Willa Wolford of Phelps; 31 grandchildren; and 46 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Mon., Dec. 2, at R.S. Jones and Son Funeral Home of Phelps with Johnny Fields and Michael Casey officiating. Burial will follow in the Honaker Family Cemetery. Visitation is after 6 p.m. Saturday with special services at 7 p.m. Arrangements are under the direction of R.S. Jones and Son Funeral Home.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 16 Apr 2014: Robbie Casey, 44, of Phelps, died Sat., April 12, 2014, at his home. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, July 2, 1969, the son of Bonnie Honaker Casey of Phelps and the late Anthony Casey. He was a disabled factory worker. In addition to his mother, he is survived by one son, Robbie Jordan Casey of Morristown, Tenn.; two brothers, Timothy Dean Casey and James Anthony Casey, both of Phelps; two sisters, Camella McCoy of Hardy and Sheena Marie Casey of Phelps; and 11 grandchildren. A graveside memorial service was held at 2 p.m. Tue., April 15, in the Casey Family Cemetery, Phelps, with Johnny Fields and Carl Blankenship officiating. Arrangements were under direction of Phelps Funeral Services of Phelps.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 25 Jul 2006: Anna Gail Honaker, 61, of McCarr, died Sun., July 23, 2006, at Holston Valley Hospital, Kingsport, Tenn. She was born in Pike County, Oct. 20, 1945, a daughter of the late Alonzo and Grace Hatfield Brown. She was a homemaker. She is survived by her husband of 36 years, Roger Lee Honaker; two sons, Billy Honaker and James W. Honaker, both of Forest Hills; three daughters, Tina (Mrs. Marlon) Blair of Ransom, Mable (Mrs. Rodney) Bentley of Forest Hills and Shirley (Mrs. David) Mounts of Matewan, W.Va.; and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tue., July 25, in the Hatfield Funeral Home Chapel with burial following in the Hatfield Cemetery, Ransom. Arrangements are under direction of Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler.
Williamson [W.Va.] Daily News, 30 Nov 2015: Roger Lee Honaker, 65, of McCarr, Ky., passed away Sat., Nov. 28, 2015, at Williamson Memorial Hospital. Born Sept. 2, 1950, in Pike Co., Ky., he was a son of the late Willis and Vicy Stump Honaker. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by a great-granddaughter, Jessica Box, and a half-brother, Jimmy Darrell Coleman. Roger was a former coal miner and carpenter. Survivors include two sons, Billy (Jennifer) Honaker and James Honaker, both of Forest Hills, Ky.; three daughters, Tina (Marlon) Blair of Thompsonville, Ind., Mable (Rodney) Bentley of Williamson, W.Va., and Shirley (David) Mounts of Matewan, W.Va.; five brothers, Allen (Kathy) Honaker of Meta, Ky., Ronnie (Imajean) Honaker of Beech Creek, W.Va., and Teddy Honaker, David Honaker and Eddie (Shirley) Honaker, all of Phelps, Ky.; four sisters, Bonnie (the late Anthony) Casey of Phelps, Linda (Turner) Smith of Somerset, Ky., Kay (Mike) Casebolt of North Carolina, and Willa (Pete) Wolford of Phelps; his grandchildren, Nicholas Bentley, Kyla Bentley, Jacob Blair, Katelyn Blair, Dylan Mounts, Brooke Mounts, Dustin Honaker, and Shelby Honaker; a great-granddaughter, Paisley Renee Gannon, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Funeral services will be conducted at noon, Tue., Dec. 1, at Hatfield Funeral Chapel with Bro. Hiram Justice officiating. Burial will follow in Hatfield Cemetery at Ransom, Ky., with family and friends serving as pallbearers. Visitation will be from 6–9 p.m. Monday evening at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left for the family by going to . Arrangements have been entrusted to the Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler, Ky.
Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, W.Va., 30 Nov 2015: Roger Lee Honaker, 65, of McCarr, Ky., died Nov. 28 in Williamson (W.Va.) Memorial Hospital. He was a former coal miner and carpenter. Funeral service will be noon Tuesday, Hatfield Funeral Chapel, Toler, Ky.; burial in Hatfield Cemetery, Ransom, Ky. Visitation from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 4 Jul 2001: Lewis E. “Eddie” Hypes, 73, of 625 Fayette St., Princeton, was dead on arrival Mon., July 2, 2001 at the Princeton Community Hospital. Born Jan. 4, 1928 in Mercer County, he was the son of the late Lewis J. and Minnie Honaker Hypes. He was a self-employed auto mechanic and former employee of Lewis Skeens. Mr. Hypes was a lifelong resident of Mercer County. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers, John Clark, Tommy Clark, and Charles Clark; and one sister, Josephine Jennings. Survivors include his former wife, Lena Hypes Durham of Princeton; sisters, Mary Worrell and husband, Richard of Princeton and Robertine Branson of Cana, Va., and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory of Athens Road, Princeton, with the Rev. James Coburn officiating. Burial will follow at the Honaker Family Cemetery, Princeton. Friends may call Thursday at the funeral home from 10-11 a.m. before the funeral services.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 5 May 2013 (with photograph): Princeton—Mary Elizabeth Worrell, 82, of Twelve Mile Road, Princeton, went to be with the Lord on Fri., May 3, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born Jan. 22, 1931 in Princeton, she was the daughter of the late Lewis and Minnie Lee Honaker Hypes. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Richard E. Worrell and six siblings, Tom Clark, Junior Clark, Pete Clark, Eddie Hypes, Robertine Branson and Josephine Jennings. Survivors include her son, Bobby Wayne Worrell and his wife Joann of Princeton; two grandsons, Travis W. Worrell and his wife Jenni and Robbie Worrell and his wife Kathy; one great-grandson, Tanner Joe Worrell and two great-granddaughters, Christina and Dana Cromer. Funeral services will be held 1:30 p.m. Tue., May 7, 2013 from the Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with Pastor Dan Jividen officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Friends may visit with the family Monday evening from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 7 Apr 2000: Spanishburg—Maynard B. Honaker Sr., beloved father and grandfather, 84, of 379 Maynard Road, died Thurs., Apr. 6, 2000 at his home. Born Dec. 2, 1915 in Crumpler, he was the son of the late Thomas Albert and Ocie Dale Shrewsbury Honaker. Mr. Honaker was a retired bus driver for the Mercer County School System and a long time farmer. He was a member of the Spanishburg United Methodist Church and the Spanishburg Ruritan Club. He was preceded in death by his wife, Sarah Elizabeth “Trixie” Honaker; a son, Maynard B. Honaker Jr.; and three sisters, Nellie Gray, Avalean Rhodes and Peggy Akers. Survivors include a son, Bobby Honaker and his wife, Sueanne, of Princeton; six daughters, Joan Griffith and her husband, David, of Spanishburg, Barbara Witten and her husband, Tom, of Richlands, Va., Vicki Bush and her husband, Mont, of Suwanee, Ga., Betsy Whittington and her husband, Jim, of Windermere, Fla., Sandra Wellman and her husband, Ronnie, of Spanishburg, and Nancy Ellison and her husband, Roy, of Spanishburg; 22 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Verna Akers of Huntington, Shelia Shrewsbury and her husband, Oscar, of Lashmeet, Leona Phillips of Alexandria, Va., and Frances Suddreth of Crab Orchard. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at George W. Seaver Chapel of Seaver Funeral Home, Princeton, with the Rev. Casper Dalton, Barry Wellman and Tom Witten officiating. Burial will follow in Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Princeton. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 11 Dec 2015: David D. Griffith, Jr., 79, of Spanishburg died Mon., Dec. 7, 2015 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va. Born Aug. 5, 1936 in Ghent, W.Va., he was the son of the late David D. Griffith, Sr. and Ruby Lilly Griffith. David was a graduate of Spanishburg High School and a member of the Spanishburg United Methodist Church. He was a retired rebuild estimate specialist with EIMCO in Bluefield. David was a loving husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle. He enjoyed working in his workshop and could make anything out of wood. He was well known for making and collecting Kentucky long rifles and was known as Mr. Fix-it to many neighbors and friends. He had a true ear for music and could play numerous musical instruments. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one nephew, David Clay Griffith. Survivors include his wife of 59 years, Joan Honaker Griffith of Spanishburg; two daughters, Jennifer Watkins of Cross Lanes, W.Va. and Susan Hale and husband Brian of Tazewell, Va.; two sons, Jim Griffith and wife Debby of Winfield, W.Va. and Danny Griffith and fiancé Diane Terry of Princeton; 11 grandchildren, Jason Watkins and wife Stacy, Chris Watkins, Derrick Griffith and companion Brianne, Dylan Griffith and wife Emily, Danielle McManaway and husband Ryan, Brent Griffith and wife Meagan, Kelsey Griffith, Colton Griffith, Megan Griffith, Dedra Owens and husband Chris, and Garrett Hale; nine great grandchildren; and two brothers, Ronald Griffith and wife Terry and Donald Griffith and wife Sharon, and their loving sons all of Richmond, Va. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m., Sat., Dec. 12, 2015 at the George W. Seaver Chapel of Seaver Funeral Home in Princeton with Rev. Ralph Calfee officiating. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. until the service hour on Saturday. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society/Hope Lodge NYC, 132 West 32nd St., Attn: Karen Radwin, New York, NY 10001.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 2 Apr 2009 (with photograph): Spanishburg—Sueanne Honaker, 53, of Spanishburg, died Sun., March 29, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton. Born March 13, 1956 at Camp Lejeune, N.C., she was the daughter of the late Leston H. Brock and Patricia June Rose Brock. Mrs. Honaker was a member of the First Christian Church in Princeton. She enjoyed reading her Bible and was studying The Purpose Driven Life. She was a 1974 graduate of Princeton High School and a graduate of Concord College. She was a retired school teacher from Mercer County Schools having taught at Matoaka High School, Princeton Junior High School, Princeton Senior High School and Thorn Elementary School. In 2004 she was an honoree of Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She loved animals including her little dog, Footie. In her spare time, she enjoyed her flower garden and writing poetry. Survivors include her husband of 31 years, Bobby Honaker of the home; two sons, Devin Honaker and his wife Leanne of Yorkville, Ill. and Casey Honaker of the home; one daughter, Kellen Honaker of the home; one brother, Kris Brock of Manchester, Tenn.; and an aunt, Judy Bell of Princeton. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Fri., Apr. 3, 2009 at the Rowland H. Bailey Funeral Chapel of the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton with the Rev. Gary Lyons officiating. Interment will follow at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Serving as pallbearers will be Willie Walker, Josh Walker, Jason Dotson, Matt Karnes, Steve Carter and Andrew Dunford. Friends may call today from 6–8 p.m. at the Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 1816 Jefferson St., Bluefield, WV 24701. To view a video tribute to Mrs. Honaker, or send the family online condolences, please visit bailey-.
Seaver Funeral Service, Princeton, W.Va., 10 Aug 2016: James Alan Griffith, 53, found peace on Sun., the 7th of August, after fighting a long battle with cancer. Jim was born to the late David D. Griffith and Joan Honaker Griffith in Princeton, W.Va., on Oct. 23, 1962. He graduated with a Bachelors in Applied Mathematics from West Virginia State College. Jim was employed with [United Parcel Service] for 36 years, starting part-time while in college and finishing his career as a package division manager. On Aug. 20, 1982, Jim married Deborah Karickhoff Griffith and together they had three wonderful children: Brent A. Griffith and wife Meagan Mahon Griffith, who resides in Charlotte, N.C.; Kelsey N. Griffith who resides in Morgantown, W.Va.; and Colton H. Griffith who resides in Morgantown, W.Va. Jim is survived by three siblings, Jennifer Watkins of Cross Lanes, W.Va.; Danny Griffith of Princeton, W.Va.; and Susie Hale and husband Brian Hale, of Tazewell, Va. Jim will be remembered for his unique sense of humor, enduring strength, and his ability to fix anything. He enjoyed surrounding himself with family and friends, whether it be riding his Harley-Davidson, tinkering in his garage, or cooking new recipes. The love and support he provided for his family was unimaginable, and will always be remembered. A time of sharing will be held at Seaver Funeral Services in Princeton, W.Va. on Sat., Aug. 13th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph and Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 26 Mar 2009: Gloucester, Va.—Evelyn Honaker, age 62, died March 22, 2009, at her home. Evelyn was born in Swords Creek, Va., to the late Andrew and Mary Vance Honaker. She spent her career as a professional seamstress. Evelyn was an avid reader, reading two or three books a week. She was a special lady who loved her family and she will be deeply missed. She was also preceded in death by her daughter, Menida Wells. She is survived by son, Scott Honaker and wife Carla; daughters, Pamela Obelander and Maeleen Wells and friend Jeffrey Ball; eight grandchildren, Amanda, Kristi, Amber, Christopher, Michelle, Marc, Andrew and Ashley; and sister, Kathy McGlothlin and husband Tommy Dean. Memorial services officiated by Pastor Doug Allen will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at Souls Harbor Church, Rosedale, Va. Inurnment will be private. Hogg Funeral Home of Gloucester Point, Va., is serving the Honaker family. To leave personal condolences online, visit .
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 18 Apr 2009: Bluffton, S.C.—Donna Honaker Mark, 50, of Bluffton, passed away on Thurs., Apr. 16, 2009, at her home. She was born in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., on Sept. 1, 1958. She was the daughter of the late Richard Adair Honaker Sr., Shelva Dalton Burr and stepdaughter of Charles Marion Burr. She was a massage therapist, a former Realtor and a manager at The Greenbrier Hotel for 20 years. She was a Daughter of the King candidate and a member of The Church of the Cross. She is survived by her husband, Chris Mark of Bluffton, S.C.; her mother, Shelva Dalton Burr and stepfather, Charles Marion Burr of White Sulphur Springs; her son, Morgan; her daughter, Lilly; brothers, Shane L. (Lani) Honaker of Gadsden, Ala., Richard Adair (Johanna) Honaker Jr. and Michael James (Lisa) Honaker, all of White Sulphur Springs; sisters, Belinda H. (Paul) Jameson of White Sulphur Springs, and Cynthia (John) Patton of Bonita Springs, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held at noon on Tue., Apr. 21, 2009 at the Emmanuel United Methodist Church, White Sulphur Springs. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Daughters of the King, c/o The Church of the Cross, P.O. Box 278, Bluffton, SC 29910. Sauls Funeral Home of Bluffton, S.C. is assisting the family with their arrangements. [Shane L. Honaker of Gadsden, Ala., m. Lani McDowell, daughter of Jon McDowell and Unknown. They had two children, Makenzie and Reilly Honaker.]
An obituary appeared in The Sun, Bremerton, Wash., 3 Jun 1998, on Violet Elaine Murphy-Meyer of Manchester, Wash., wife of Paul Meyer, stepmother of Patricia Honaker of Santa Barbara, Calif.
Daily Record, Wooster, Ohio, 19 Sep 2001: Ashland—John R. Stepp, 46, of Claremont Avenue, died Sat., Sept. 15, 2001, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Services will be Friday at 5 p.m. at Ashland County Memorial Park Mausoleum Chapel with Mike Schoenian officiating. Burial will be at Ashland County Memorial Park. Friends may call Friday from 4-5 p.m. at the Mausoleum Chapel. Arrangements are being handled by Roberts Funeral Home, Sherwood Chapel of Wooster. He was born March 2, 1955, in Augsburg, Germany, to William F. and Martha Ann (Honaker) Stepp. He married Betty L. Gray on May 6, 1988. She survives. Surviving in addition to his wife are children, Audra Gray and Sandy and Candy Stepp of the home; five grandchildren and sisters, Gloria Day of Ashland and Becky (William) Bursley.
A 2002 web site identified a Marion L. Honaker, 89, of Germantown, unknown state, who died 21 May 2001.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 15 May 1987: Mrs. Edith Ruth Daniel Honaker, 61, of Fairdale, Raleigh County, died Wednesday in Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital after a long illness. She was assistant director of Raleigh County Head Start Program and was a lifelong resident of Raleigh County. She attended Fairdale Freewill Baptist Church and was a former cook at Fairdale Grade School. She was a member of Eagles Club and was past president of Women’s Auxiliary. Surviving: son, James R. and Jesse A. Daniel, of Fairdale, Harold Eugene Daniel, address unavailable; brothers, James P. Brooks of Glen Rogers, John J. Brooks of Rogersville, Tenn.; sisters, Ada Snuffer of Marsh Bottom, Marie Bailey of Arlington, Va., Ora Massey of Cool Ridge; three grandchildren. Service will be 1 p.m. Friday in Melton Mortuary, Beckley, with the Rev. Daniel Legg officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 11 Oct 1987: Fred Jackson Honaker Jr., 60, of Chicago, formerly of Minden, W.Va., died Oct. 8, 1987, at home after a short illness. He was a disabled construction worker and a veteran of World War II. Surviving: son, Fred III of Shelbyville; daughters, Loretta Evans of Decatur, Rose Lynn Honaker of Chicago; brothers, Thomas of Oak Hill, W.Va., John of Bensenville and James of Lakeland, Fla.; sisters, Edna Gwinn and Marlene Honaker, both of Oak Hill, Linda Hillas of Port Charlotte, Fla.; five grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. today at Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill, with the Rev. Jim Cole officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF Cemetery, Oak Hill.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 11 Aug 1987: Mrs. Ina Honaker, 95, of Mount Hope, Fayette County, died Sunday in Hilltop Nursing Home, Hilltop, after a long illness. She was a member of Assembly of God Church, Mount Hope. Surviving: daughter, Mrs. Bessie Stewart of Mount Hope; nine grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren; eight
great-great-grandchildren. Service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday in Melton Mortuary Chapel, Beckley, with the Rev. Dorothy Osborne officiating. Burial will be in Honaker Cemetery, Arnett. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 18 Mar 1987: Nile C. Casto, 68, of Star Route, Red House, died Tuesday in Putnam General Hospital after a long illness. He was retired from Monsanto and attended Red House UB Church. Surviving: wife, Norma Honaker Casto; daughter, Miss Brenda Casto at home; son, Nelson G. Casto of Nitro; sister, Mrs. Delphia Dolin of Gainesville, Ga.; one grandchild. Gatens Funeral Home, Poca, is in charge of arrangements.
Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 29 Apr 2001: Russell Bennett, 62, of Eccles, died Fri., Apr. 27, 2001, in a Beckley hospital following a long illness. Born July 11, 1938, he was the son of Annie Jewel Honaker Bennett of Eccles, with whom he made his home, and the late Norman Wilson “Buster” Bennett. Mr. Bennett spent his childhood in Eccles, where he resided for many years. He lived in the Jacksonville, Fla., area from 1985 until 1998, when he returned to Eccles. He was retired from Allied Signal Technical Services, Inc. in Jacksonville. He was of the Christian faith. He was preceded in death by his wife, the former Anna Marie Devlin, who was originally from Stanaford, on July 7, 1996; two sons, Norman Russell Bennett, in November 1979, and Dennis Wayne Bennett, in May 1988; and a daughter, Sharon Denise Bennett, in 1960. Other survivors include a daughter, Tina Marie Bennett Astrea and her husband, Miguel, of Miami; three sons, William Earl Bennett and his wife, Kimberly, of Fayetteville, Pa., Anthony Owen Bennett and his wife, Sissy, of Jacksonville and Paul Jason Bennett of Daytona Beach, Fla.; eight grandchildren; three sisters, Patricia Kopec of Sophia, Diana Berkebile of Johnstown, Pa., and Linda Ferrell of Fort Worth, Texas; and three brothers, Robert and David Bennett, both of Lexington, N.C., and Bobby Bennett of Beckley. Service will be 1 p.m. Monday at Melton Mortuary Chapel, Beckley, with the Rev. Timothy Vaughan officiating. Burial will follow at the end of the week at Town and Country Cemetery, Jacksonville, beside his wife, Anna Marie.
Unknown newspaper and date: Geneva J. Honaker, 65, of 216 W. Austin Ave., Connellsville, died Mon., Oct 25, 1993 at the Highlands Hospital, Connellsville. She was born Jan. 21, 1928 at Beckley, W.Va., a daughter of Blanche Jennings Bailey of Beckley and the late Guy Bailey. She was a former cafeteria employee for the Connellsville Area School District. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Connellsville and the E.M. Snyder Sunday School Class. Surving are her husband, Charles L Honaker Jr.; one son, Charles B. Honaker of Normalville; one daughter, Helen Honaker of Pittsburgh; four grandchildren; two brothers, Lovell Bailey and Delbert Bailey, both of Beckley; three sisters, Mrs. Howard (Gloria) Moll of Indianapolis, Ind., Mrs. Thomas (Geraldine) Roscana of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. David (Noma Jean) Aldridge of Ridgecrest, Calif. She was predeceased by a brother, Elvin Bailey.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 27 Aug 1987: Mrs. Betty Caroline Belcher, 57, of Caldwell, Greenbrier County, died Wednesday in Humana Hospital Greenbrier Valley, Fairlea, after a short illness. She was a member of Caldwell Presbyterian Church. Surviving: husband, Frank E. Belcher; son, Roy E. of Caldwell; brothers, Jesse Honaker of Radcliff, Ky., Arthur J. Honaker of Caldwell, Richard Honaker of White Sulphur Springs; sisters, Mrs. Marguerite Ford of Glen Burnie, Md., Mrs. Anna Critzer of Hampton, Va., Mrs. Mary Bahmer of Lewisburg, Mrs. Anita Stuhu of Davenport, Iowa
Graveside service will be 10 a.m. Friday in Rosewood Cemetery, Lewisburg, with the Rev. Ben E. Gurley officiating. There will be no visitation. Shanklin Funeral Home, White Sulphur Springs, in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 5 Aug 1987: Miss Michelle Lynn Richmond, 20, of Alderson, Greenbrier County, died Tuesday in Thomas Memorial Hospital from acute bronchial asthma. She was a 1985 graduate of Greenbrier East High School, Fairlea, and was a student at the West Virginia Rehabilitation School. Surviving: mother and stepfather, Orah E. and Richard P. Honaker of Alderson; stepbrother, Paul R. Honaker of Fort Polk, La. Lobban Funeral Home, Alderson, in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 25 Dec 1988: Mrs. Erma L. Honaker, 61, of 2728 Bard Ave., St. Albans, died Dec. 23, 1988, in Memorial Division, CAMC, after a long illness. She was retired from the Larobee’s Pizza, St. Albans.
Surviving: son, John Prouse Sr. of Dunbar; sisters, Mrs. Kathleen Martin of Charleston, Mrs. Della Reese of Kansas City, Kan.; brother, Sylvester Prouse of Charleston; three grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. Monday at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home, Charleston.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 26 Dec 1988: Honaker, Mrs. Erma L. Service will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at
Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home, Charleston. Burial will be Sprouse Cemetery, Rutledge Road. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m.and 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Mrs. Honaker, 61, of 2728 Bard Ave., St. Albans, died Dec. 23, 1988, in Memorial Division, CAMC, after a long illness.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 5 Sep 1988: Richard A. Honaker Sr., 53, of White Sulphur Springs, died Sept. 3, 1988, in Humana Hospital Greenbrier Valley, Fairlea, of an apparent heart attack. He was employed by Kroger Co. in White Sulphur Springs. He was a member of United Food and Commercial Workers union. Surviving: wife, Shelva Dalton Honaker; sons, Rick, Mike, Danny and Shane, all of White Sulphur Springs; daughters, Donna Patterson and Belinda Honaker, both of White Sulphur Springs, Cynthia Patton of Lewisburg; brothers, Jesse R. of Radcliff, Ky. and Arthur of
Caldwell; sisters, Marguerite Ford of Glen Burnie, Md., Anna Critzer of Hampton, Va., Mary Dahmer of Lewisburg and Anita Stuhr of Davenport, Iowa; nine grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. today at Shanklin Funeral Home, White
Sulphur Springs, with the Rev. Lowell O’Dell and the Rev. Robert Kroll officiating. Burial will be in Mapledale Cemetery, White Sulphur Springs. The family suggests donations to Valley Evangelical Methodist Church, White Sulphur Springs.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 8 Oct 1988: Brian David Honaker, 14, of Beckley, died Oct. 5, 1988, in a Beckley hospital of a gunshot wound, according to a spokesman for the Beckley Police Department. Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Prosperity, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, Oct 1988: Honaker, Brian D. Service will be 3 p.m. Sunday at Blue Ridge
Funeral Home, Prosperity, with the Rev. Ernest Barley officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Brian, 14, of Beckley, died Oct. 5, 1988, in a Beckley hospital of a gunshot wound. He was a ninth-grade student at Beckley Junior High. Surviving: parents, Larry G. and Edna L. Back Honaker of Beckley; maternal grandmother, Vicky Merritt of Beckley; paternal grandparents, Douglas F. and Rosella Honaker of Tucson, Ariz.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 26 Nov 1988: Mrs. Bonnie Hazel Honaker, 63, of Fairdale, Raleigh County, died Nov. 22, 1988, in Metropolitan General Hospital, Cleveland, after a short illness. She attended Shiloh Community Church, Saxon. Surviving: son, Gary Lee of Fairdale; daughters, Shirley Atkins of Lafayette, Tenn., Patricia Hale of North Ridgeville, Ohio, Katherine Jarrell of Fairdale, Tina Ayers of Shady Spring; brothers, Willard Age of Kennesaw, Ga., Robert Lee Age of Snow Hill, Md.; sisters, Dola Davis of Red Boiling Springs, Tenn., Moline Graybill of Enola, Pa.; 15 grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Sunday at Shiloh Community Church, Saxon, with the Rev. Jerry E. Brooks officiating. Burial will be in Honaker family cemetery, Saxon. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Melton Mortuary, Beckley.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 18 Jun 1988: Mrs. Creola Honaker of Ranger, Lincoln County, died June 15, 1988, in Tampa, Fla., after short illness. Surviving: daughter, Jackie Lyle of Tampa, Fla.; brothers, Buddy Belcher of Tampa, Tennis Belcher of Florida, Lewis Belcher of Smyrna, Tenn.; sisters, Helen Hollowell of Smyrna, Vivian Dietrich of
Michigan, Janet Raynold of North Hampton, Pa., Christine Rainey of Phoenix, Ariz.; six grandchildren; one great-grandchild.
Service will be 2 p.m. Sunday at McGhee-Handley Funeral Home, West Hamlin, with the Rev. Farris Burton officiating. Burial will be in Cummings Cemetery, Brady. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 21 Mar 1989: Mrs. Hazel P. Honaker, 57, of Fairlea, Greenbrier County, died March 19, 1989, at home after a short illness. She was a lifelong resident of Fairlea. She was a member of the Pentecostal Church of Christ, Fairlea. She was a member of the Sweet Adalines. Surviving: daughters, Jennifer Lilly of Lewisburg, Pamela Honaker of Roanoke, Va.; sons, Jeffrey of Second Creek, Gregory of Lewisburg; sisters, Betty Morris of Roanoke, Va., Janet Quick of Lewisburg, Hallie Cary of Fairlea, Anna Mae Price of Fairlea; brother, Murl of Beckley; seven grandchildren. Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 22 Mar 1989: Honaker, Mrs. Hazel P. Service will be 1 p.m. today at
Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg, with Kate Erskine and Allan Church officiating. Burial will be in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens, Lewisburg. Mrs. Honaker, 57, of Fairlea, died March 19, 1989, at home after a short illness.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 18 Jul 1989: Mrs. Mary Honaker Chambers, 81, of Madison, formerly of Ottawa, Boone County, died July 16, 1989 in Marmet Health Care Center after a short illness. She was a former employee of Bell Department Store and Manning’s Department Store, Logan, and a member of Freewill Baptist Church. Surviving: daughters, Thelma Hall of Madison, JoAnne Jarrell of Seth, Eva Lowery of Powell Creek; sons, Ray Honaker of Ashland, Ky., Jim Chambers of Powell Creek, John Chambers of Michigan; brother, Paul Adams of Logan; sister, Ann Farley of Chapmanville; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. Service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Handley Funeral Home, Danville, with the Rev. John Hager officiating. Burial will be in Family Gardens Cemetery, Madison. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 18 Jun 1989: Mrs. Ada Honaker, 81, of Route 1, Red House, died June 17, 1989, in Putnam General Hospital, Teays Valley, after a long illness. She was a native of Kanawha County and a 57-year resident of the Red House area. She attended Lone Oak Church of God Mission, Red House. Surviving: daughters, JoAnn Pauley of Hurricane and Janet Simmons of Nitro; son, Kenneth L. of Red House; sisters, Mae Facemyre of Cross Lanes, Hazel Jones and Leora Christy, both of Titusville, Fla., Juanita Dawson of Poca; brothers, Willis Underwood and Wilbur
Underwood, both of Titusville; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Monday at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca, with the Rev. William Layne Jr. and the Rev. John Taylor officiating. Burial will be in Wade Chapel Cemetery, Red House. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Florida Today, Brevard, Fla., 14 Mar 2013: Dolores M. Honaker, 95, of Cocoa, died Tue., March 12, 2013. Arrangements by Funeral Solutions, Cocoa.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 4 Feb 1989: Titusville, Fla.—Virginia D. Honaker Hartley, 68, of Titusville, formerly of Dunbar and Nitro, W.Va., died Feb. 2, 1989, in Jess Parrish Hospital, Titusville, after a short illness. She was retired from Brevard Community College of Cocoa, Fla. She was a member of Temple Baptist Church, Titusville. Surviving: son, Ray of Titusville; daughter, Peggy Hartley of Bradenton; sisters, Agnes Raynes of Titusville, Jewell Crews of Nitro; brother, Arnold Honaker of Titusville; two grandchildren. Service will be 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Temple Baptist Church with
the Rev. Wendell Correll officiating. Entombment will be 10 a.m. Monday in Floral Memorial Cemetery, Melbourne. The family suggests donations to the Temple Baptist Church choir, 1400 N. U.S. 1, Titusville, Fla. 32796. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at North Brevard Funeral Home, Titusville.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 6 Mar 2009: Cecil R. Crews, 83, of Nitro passed away on March 3, 2009, at Thomas Memorial Hospital. He was a graduate of Stonewall Jackson High School and an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. Cecil was a retired insurance agent from Prudential Insurance Company. He attended the Nitro Church of God. Cecil was preceded in death by his parents, Cecil Sr. and Lillian Crews; a brother, Gene Crews; and a sister, Betty Carpenter. He is survived by his wife, Jewell Honaker Crews; daughter, Linda (Jimmy) Carter of Rowlett, Texas, Mikell (Chuck) Hagedorn of Hopedale, Mass., and Julie (Mitch) Wheeler of Roanoke, Va.; sons, Dr. Steven (Rita) Crews of Sorrento, Fla., and Jeff (Chrissy) Crews of Durham, N.C.; stepdaughters, Jo (Jim) Hackett and Cathy (Butch) Miller, both of Nitro; grandchildren, Trip Carter, Danielle Carter, Caitlin (Josh) Stowe, Alexander Crews, Mica Crews, C.K. (Gwen) Hagedorn, Andrew Hagedorn, Tom Hagedorn, Mason Wheeler, Vincent Wheeler, Michael Crews Cortina and Gabriel Crews Cortina; six stepgrandchildren and 14 stepgreat-grandchildren. The service will be held at 2 p.m., Sat., March 7, at Cooke Funeral Home, Nitro, with Pastors David McCormick and Rob Van Fossen officiating. Burial will follow in Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association, 160 Court St., Charleston, WV 25301, or any charity of your choice. Condolences may be sent to the family via our Web site: . Cooke Funeral Home & Crematorium, Nitro, is in charge of arrangements.
Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va., 12 Oct 2014, with photograph): James L. Raynes, 89, of Nitro passed away Tue., Oct. 7, 2014, at Thomas Memorial Hospital, after a short illness. Jim was a retired fireman for the City of Nitro with over 30 years of service. Jim also worked for Cooke Funeral Home Nitro for over 25 years. He was a U.S. Army World War II veteran and a member of the St. Paul’s United Methodist Church in Nitro. He was preceded in death by his wife of 62 years, Agnes “Aggie” Honaker Raynes; and seven brothers. Surviving daughter, Bobbie Raynes Glock of South Charleston; grandson, Ryan Glock of Nitro; great-grandchildren, Andrew, Hailey, and Abygail; brother, Donald Raynes of Buffalo; several nieces, nephews; and a host of other family members and friends. Services will be 2 p.m. Mon., Oct. 13, at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church 20th St. Nitro with Rev. Mark Smith officiating. Burial will follow in Wade Chapel Cemetery Red House, WV. Friends may call two hours prior to the service Mon., Oct. 13, at the church on 29th St. in Nitro. Condolences may be sent to the family via . Cooke Funeral Home Nitro is serving the Raynes family.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 24 Apr 1989: Mrs. Donnie May Reveal, 87, of Titusville, Fla., formerly of
Charleston, W.Va., died April 21, 1989, in Titusville Nursing and Convalescent Center after a long illness. She was a member of Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Surviving: daughters, Henrietta Reveal and Betty Buksi, both of
Titusville; brothers, James R. Honaker of Cocoa and Charles K. Honaker of Titusville. Memorial service will be Wednesday at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Titusville. Brevard Funeral Home, Titusville, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 15 Jan 1989: Funerals Today—Honaker, Charles, 2 p.m., Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Prosperity [W.Va.]
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 9 Dec 1989: Gilbert Silas Phillips, 80, of Ghent, died Dec. 7, 1989, in Care Haven of Raleigh, Beckley, after a long illness. He was a retired employee of [Norfolk & Western] Railway and attended Church of God. Surviving: wife, Leona J. Honaker Phillips; son, Kevin of Oak Hill; stepsons, Ronald and Thomas Acres, both of Washington; daughters, Joann Gration and Frances Coalson, both of Besoco; brother, Posey of Saulsville; sister, Mae Sarver of Oak Hill; 14 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren Service will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Rose-Quesenberry Funeral Home, Beckley, with the Rev. Warren C. Greggor officiating. Burial will be in Mount View Cemetery, Coolridge. Friends may call one hour prior to service at the funeral home.
Erie [Pa.] Daily Times, 28 Dec 1997: Earl Honaker, U.S. Army veteran of World War II—Earl Honaker, 69, of 901 W. Fourth St., died Fri., Dec. 26, 1997 at the Lutheran Home of Erie. He was born May 17, 1928 in Kentucky. Mr. Honaker served with the U.S. Army during World War II and was employed as a security guard in the Erie area. He is survived by five children: Terry, Frank, Linda and Elizabeth Honaker, and Lana Vermates, all of the Lorain, Ohio, area; a brother, Bruce Coleman; and a longtime companion, Violet Marie Proctor of Erie. Friends may call at the John J. Quinn Funeral Home, West Ninth and Liberty streets, Monday from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at which time funeral services will be conducted. A private burial will be held at Erie Cemetery. Memorials may be made in his name to the American Cancer Society, 2115 W. 38th St., Erie, PA 16508.
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, 15 Dec 2007: Police: Lorain man ambushed, shot boyfriend of his ex-wife, by Chuck Humel
Lorain—A Lorain man killed his estranged wife’s boyfriend Thursday after bringing their two children to her West Erie Avenue apartment for a surprise visit, police said. Frank Honaker, 45, was charged with aggravated murder Friday morning in Lorain Municipal Court for the shooting death of Christopher Betts, 37, of Columbia Township. He was being held on a $1 million bond at the county jail.
Lorain police found Betts lying on his back and conscious about 7:35 p.m. outside the rear entrance of
Lakeshore Colonial Apartments. He was breathing and had a pulse but couldn’t speak, the police report said. Betts was transferred to CHP Regional Medical Center, where he died at 8:20 p.m. as a result of a gunshot wound to his lower chest and abdomen, according to county Coroner Paul Matus. Betts had been dating Honaker’s estranged wife, Lori Honaker, for the past couple months and was inside her apartment when she received a phone call from her 15-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son saying that they were outside her apartment. Lori Honaker told police that her husband had threatened to kill Betts when he first learned of their relationship, so she told him to go out the apartment’s rear exit to avoid a confrontation.
While welcoming her kids inside the front of the building, Frank Honaker walked to the rear of the
building, where he confronted Betts and shot him, according to police. Lori Honaker told police she heard a loud “popping” noise, and several seconds later she saw her husband walking from the rear of the building to the front. “There, how do you like that?” Frank Honaker said to her, according to the police report. The daughter told police she saw her father place a black handgun in his waistband and pull his shirt over top of it as he made his way to the front of the building, according to the report. He drove away as Lori Honaker and her children ran to the rear of the building where they found Betts, police said. He turned himself in to the Lorain County Sheriff’s Office about 9 p.m. Thursday.
Both children told police that it was their father’s idea to surprise their mother with their visit, and that they
would not have gone had they known Betts was going to be hurt, the report said. Sgt. Mark Carpentiere said police still are investigating whether Honaker had planned to kill Betts. A family member who answered the phone at Betts’ Hawke Road residence said the family was “devastated” by the news that Betts had been killed. On Wednesday, Betts’ wife, Peggy, filed papers for divorce from him. She and her husband had two children, ages 13 and 6. Betts had been employed as a maintenance worker for 17 years at Beckett Air, Inc. in North Ridgeville, and made friends easily with all those he came in contact with, according to company president Chuck Visocky. “He was really good at serving people and was well-liked,” Visocky said. “It’s been a tough day for all of us.”
Chronicle-Telegram, Elyria, Ohio, 2 Aug 2008: Honaker Found Guilty, by Brad Dicken
Elyria—It took a jury a little more than three hours Friday to convict Frank Honaker of murder and felonious assault for the Dec. 13 shooting that left his wife’s lover dead. The jury cleared Honaker, 46, of aggravated murder —which could have sent him to prison for life without a chance for parole — and a second count of murder. Honaker sat still as the verdict was read by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Edward Zaleski. His family and the family of the dead man, Christopher Betts, also were silent.
“He’s in shock,” said Honaker’s attorney, Jack Bradley, after the verdict was read. “But he knew he was
going to prison.” Members of the Betts family declined comment, saying they’ll wait until Monday’s sentencing hearing, when Honaker will receive a mandatory sentence of 18 years to life in prison. Honaker’s family also didn’t want to discuss the verdict. The jurors, who declined comment as they left the Lorain County Justice Center, rejected a request from Honaker’s attorney, Jack Bradley, to clear his client of all the murder charges and instead find him guilty of voluntary manslaughter, which potentially carried a lesser sentence. During closing arguments earlier in the day, Bradley said Honaker never planned to kill the 37-year-old Betts when he and his two children went to Lori Honaker’s apartment the night of the shooting. While his 10-year-old son and 15-year-old daughter went to the front door, Honaker ran around the back of the building where he encountered Betts slipping out the back. When he testified Thursday, Honaker said Betts taunted him, saying that he was there having sex with Honaker’s wife. Honaker said he chambered a round in the 9 mm Ruger pistol he was carrying and fired. Betts was hit in the chest and was pronounced dead when he reached the hospital.
Honaker ran back to his Jeep and sped off, but not before yelling out to his wife, “There. Take that,” Lori
Honaker testified earlier this week. Frank Honaker surrendered at the county jail a little more than an hour later. “This is a good man. He did a bad thing,” Bradley told jurors Friday, arguing that Frank Honaker had been driven to the edge by his wife’s cheating, which his daughter had discovered a few months before when she found love notes Betts had text messaged to Lori Honaker. Assistant County Prosecutor Peter Gauthier said Honaker had planned and carried out the murder of Betts after threatening to do just that in the moments after he learned of the affair. The shooting was “up-close and personal,” Gauthier said, and it’s exactly what Honaker had planned to do. “This wasn’t some wild shot in the dark,” he said. “This was purposely done.” Betts, Gauthier said, was fleeing the apartment to avoid a confrontation with Frank Honaker, who had arrived unexpectedly at Lori Honaker’s apartment with the couple’s children.
Gauthier also rejected Bradley’s argument that Honaker wouldn’t have taken his children to the scene of a planned murder, nor carried it out with them so close. Honaker planned the murder, he said, which was enough to justify the aggravated murder charge. “It doesn’t have to be a good plan, it only has to be a plan,” Gauthier said. Lorain police Detective Steyven Curry said after the verdict that he believed the jury reached a reasonable conclusion. “It’s fair, it’s sad,” he said. “It’s a tragic situation.”
Bradley said he’s still holding out hope that Zaleski will throw out the murder count on a technicality that
the judge has not yet ruled on. If he doesn’t throw the charge out, Bradley said, Honaker will likely appeal his conviction.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 30 Sep 1990: Mrs. Margaret L. Honaker, 63, of Garten, died Sept. 29, 1990, in Appalachian Regional Hospital, Beckley, after a long illness. She was a retired supervisor for J.C. Penney Co. Surviving: husband, Edgar Honaker; daughters, Linda Legg of Florida, Betty Jean Kramer of Indiana; two brothers; one sister; four
grandchildren. Private service will be 11 a.m. Monday at Dodd-Payne-Hess Funeral Home, Fayetteville, with the Rev. Robert Morey officiating. There will be no visitation.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 21 Dec 1990: Woman Charged in Husband’s Murder
Naoma (AP)—A Raleigh County woman was charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her husband, authorities said. Ronald Eugene Honaker, 36, was stabbed once in the chest late Wednesday and died later at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, said Cpl. D.B. Gregory of the Sheriff’s Department. Sherry J. Honaker, 36, remained Thursday in the Raleigh County Jail pending a bond hearing, said Barbara Andrews, a correctional officer. The stabbing allegedly stemmed from a domestic dispute, Gregory said. One of the couple’s children was home at the time, Gregory said. Gregory said he didn’t know if the child widnessed the incident.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Dec 1990: Ronald Eugene Honaker, 36, of Naoma, died Dec. 19, 1990, of injuries received in a domestic dispute. He was a truck driver for C. Grote Industries, Elk Grove, Ill. Surviving: wife, Sherry; daughter, Tasha Chris of Chicago; son, John James at home; sister, Jeanette D. Woodard of Naoma; brother, Donald E. of Connellys Springs, N.C. Service will be 2 p.m. today at Armstrong Funeral Home, Whitesville, with the Rev. David Cook officiating. Burial will be in Honaker Cemetery, Pine Knob. Friends may call one hour prior to service at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 6 Jun 1990: Stephen Clyde Adkins, 47, of Sias, Lincoln County, died June 5, 1990, at home, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a trooper with the state police detachment in Hamlin. He was a timberman. Surviving: parents, Orville and Lena Honaker Adkins of Sias; brother, Keith of Sias; sisters, Hope Merritt and Vernie Adkins, both of Sias. Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, with the Rev. Russell Adkins, the Rev. Walton Smith and the Rev. Sherman Bragg officiating. Burial will be in Goldsbury Cemetery, Sias. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 8 Aug 1991: Orville O. Adkins, 69, of Sias, Lincoln County, died Aug. 6, 1991, in the Veterans Administration Hospital, Huntington, of a long illness. He was a gas field driller retired from Jackson Drilling Co.,
Hamlin. He was a World War II Army veteran. Surviving: wife, Lena Honaker Adkins; son, Keith of Sias; daughter, Verna Adkins and Hope Merritt, both of Sias; brother, Darless of Sias; sisters, Mildred Adkins of Sumerco, Betty Baker of
Ranger, Jewell Adkins of Sias, Sally Adkins of South Charleston; six grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday at Koontz Funeral Home, Hamlin, with the Rev. Russell Adkins and the Rev. K.D. Bragg officiating. Burial will be in Goldsbury Cemetery, Sias, with graveside military rites conducted by the American Legion. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 16 Feb 1990: Posey Rhodes, 77, of 303 Northwestern Ave., Beckley, died Feb. 15, 1990, in a Beckley hospital after a long illness. He was a produce salesman, founder of Carolina Supermarkets, Crab Orchard, Sophia, Beckley and Bradley and founder of Carolina Seed & Hardware Store and Carolina Gun & Sports Center. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He was a pastor for Christian Interfaith Church, Beckley. Surviving: wife, Avilean Honaker Rhodes; daughters, Phyllis Wheeler of Daniels, Karen Atha of Beckley; brother, Hollis Rhodes of
MacArthur; sister, Nina Blair of Crab Orchard. Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Christian Interfaith Church with the Rev. Paul Brendiar and the Rev. Tom Waldron officiating. Entombment will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Mausoleum, Prosperity.
Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Melton Mortuary, Beckley, and one hour prior to service at the church.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 24 Jul 1990: Cottageville man found shot to death
Cottageville—A Jackson County resident was found dead in his home Monday morning, the victim of a shotgun blast. William D. Honaker, 30, of Cottageville was found dead in his residence at 9:15 a.m., said Jerry Walters, Jackson County chief deputy. Few details were available, but Honaker apparently was shot through a window of his home, Walters said.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 25 Jul 1990: William D. Honaker, 30, of Cottageville, died July 23, 1990, at home from a gunshot wound. He was a native of Bluefield and a truck driver for Steel Branch Mining. He was a member of Ripley Baptist Temple. Surviving: father and stepmother, Tommy and Helen Honaker of Staats Mill; mother, R. Elizabeth West of Parkersburg; brothers, Kevin Eugene and Kenneth Dewayne, both at home; sisters, Tamela Sue Zando of High Point, N.C., Melissa Ann Honaker of Lexington, Ky.; maternal grandmother, Alverta Water of Princeton; paternal grandparents, Brady and Hazel Monk of Princeton. Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Parsons Funeral Home, Ripley, with the Rev. Eddie Estep officiating. Burial will be in Rest Haven Cemetery, Princeton. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Jackson Herald, Ripley, Jackson Co., W.Va., 25 Aug 1990, photo caption: Awaiting Arraignment; photo cutline—Jerry Mahood, seated, is seen above shortly after his arrest Thursday night by chief deputy Jerry Walters, deputy Grover Anderson (pictured above with Mahood) and sheriff Bob Westfall. Mahood and James Wayne Westfall, both of Statts Mill, have been charged with the murder of Billy Honaker, July 22, at Honaker’s home in Cottageville. Headline: Two Face Charges—Murder First Degree
“It wasn’t something he had done, but rather something he saw or knew.” Jackson County chief sheriff’s deputy Jerry Walters summed up the reason for the July 21 weekend murder of Billy Honaker, 30, of Cottageville shortly after the arrest of two Statts Mill men Thursday night charged with the shotgun slaying.
James Wayne Westfall, 18, was arrested by Walters and sheriff Bob Westfall at his Statts Mill home at 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Jerry Mahood, 38, also of Statts Mill, was arrested 1½ hours later by deputies Walters and Grover Anderson and sheriff Bob Westfall. Both were arraigned before magistrate Mary Jane Jarrell and charged with first degree murder. They are lodged in the county jail. Walters and Anderson, assisted by sheriff Westfall and state trooper Michael Comer, had conducted an intensive investigation of the murder the past 33 days.
Rumors had been rampant since the slaying and Walters said each one was checked out. The sheriff’s department had urged anyone with knowledge of the bizarre case to contact the law officials, but he said some were hesitant. “They were too scared to come forward,” he added.
The body of W.D. “Billy” Honaker was discovered in the living room of his Cottageville home on the morning of Mon., July 23, after neighbors checked on him when they were notified that he had not reported for work. He had been struck in the head with a blunt instrument and shot repeatedly with a shotgun.
At least two shots were suspected of being fired through a screen window in the living room. The time of death was established by the chief medical examiner as late Sunday morning, July 22. The investigation had frustrated investigating officers, as Honaker had been described as a well-liked, quiet, respected young man with no known enemies.
On Aug. 1, The Jackson Herald, at the request of county law officials, had appealed to the public to come forward with any information regarding the last 12 hours of Honaker’s life. Chief Walters said Friday morning that appeal produced additional information to help solve the case. When asked if additional arrests would be forthcoming in connection with the murder, Walters said he could not comment.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 6 Sep 1990: Victim “Knew too much,” Police Say
Ripley—A murder victim in Jackson County was killed because “he knew too much or saw too much,” the investigating officer said Wednesday. William Honaker, 30, was found dead in his Cottageville home July 23. He had been shot twice by 12-gauge shotgun blasts fired through the screen door. Honaker lived alone, worked with his father, attended church regularly and was never in trouble with the law. His death puzzled authorities, especially Jerry Walters, chief deputy of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department, who knew Honaker.
Robbery was not a motive, as the killer or killers never entered Honaker’s home. A month to the day after Honaker’s body was discovered, Walters arrested two men from Staats Mills and charged them with murder.
Walters would not say what Honaker apparently knew about Jerry Keith Mahood, 38, whom Walters called “a suspect from the start.” He said he has no witnesses, “but good evidence,” linking Mahood and James Wayne Westfall, 18, to the crime. Westfall worked for Mahood, a self-employed drywaller, and lived near him. Staats Mills is about 15 miles from Honaker’s isolated home. Mahood was denied bond last week by Circuit Court Judge Charles McCarty. Westfall has not asked for a bond hearing. Charges against the men will go to a grand jury in October, Walters said.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 3 May 1991: Jackson Woman Arrested in Her Stepson’s Slaying
Ripley (AP)—A woman who took the Fifth Amendment at the trial of her stepson’s killer was charged Thursday with aiding and abetting first-degree murder, authorities said. Helen Honaker, 36, was being held in the Jackson County Jail Thursday night without bond. Mrs. Honaker was a longtime friend of Jerry Mahood, who was convicted April 5 of first-degree murder in the death of William Honaker, police said. Honaker was found shot to death last August in his Cottageville home. When asked during Mahood’s trial if she had hired him to kill her stepson, Mrs. Honaker declined to answer and invoked her constitutional protection against self-incrimination. She was hospitalized for a drug overdose the day after Mahood’s conviction, police said. Jackson County Prosecutor David Karr said sheriff’s deputies arrested Mrs. Honaker about 2:30 p.m. Thursday at her Statts Mills home. Mahood is awaiting sentencing.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 28 Jun 1991: Woman Indicted in Slaying of Stepson
A Jackson County woman accused of helping her boyfriend kill her stepson has been indicted
in the slaying, police said. A Jackson County grand jury Wednesday indicted Helen Honaker, 36, of Statts Mills on charges of conspiracy to commit murder and aiding and abetting murder in the death of her stepson, William Honaker, 30, of Cottageville, said Jackson County Sheriff’s Department Correctional Officer Charles Bare. She was accused of being an accomplice to Jerry Mahood, 39, also of Statts Mills, who was convicted in April of first-degree murder in the August shooting, Bare said. According to trial evidence, the stepson was interfering in an affair between Mahood and Honaker. When called to testify during Mahood’s trial, she invoked her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination when asked if she had hired Mahood to kill her stepson.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 4 Sep 1991: Murder Victim’s Stepmother Hospitalized
Ripley (AP)—A woman who took the Fifth Amendment at the trial of her stepson’s killer was hospitalized for a possible drug overdose, an official said. Helen Honaker was a longtime friend of Jerry Mahood, who was convicted Friday of first-degree murder in the death of William Honaker. Emergency medical crews were called to Mrs. Honaker’s home shortly before midnight Saturday, said a dispatcher at the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department who would not identify herself. The woman was taken to Jackson General Hospital in Ripley, the dispatcher said. A nursing supervisor at the hospital refused to disclose Mrs. Honaker’s condition Monday. William Honaker was found shot to death in his Cottageville home last August. At Mahood’s trial, Mrs. Honaker was asked if she hired Mahood to kill her stepson. She declined to answer, protecting herself against self-incrimination. She has not been charged in her stepson’s killing. Mahood is awaiting sentencing.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 26 Sep 1991: Court refuses to lower woman’s bail, by Mark Paxton
Hearing—Helen Honaker of Jackson County is accused of having her lover kill her stepson because he was interfering with their affair. (AP)—The state Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to reduce bail for a Jackson County woman accused of having her lover kill her stepson but took no action on an appeal of the murder conviction of a Wood
County bank president’s son. The justices voted 4-1 not to lower bond for Helen Honaker, 36, of Staats Mills, Jackson County. Honaker is charged with first-degree murder in the July 23, 1990, death of her stepson, William D. Honaker, 30. Prosecutors contend Honaker and her lover, Jerry Mahood, 39, conspired to kill the stepson because he was interfering in their affair. Mahood was convicted earlier this year of first-degree murder in Jackson County Circuit Court and is cooperating with authorities, court records show. Mrs. Honaker, who was still living with her husband when she was arrested, initially was freed on $125,000 bond. But that bond was revoked following an Aug. 2 hearing. She now is being held in the
Wirt County Jail pending $500,000 bond while awaiting trial. Jackson County Prosecutor David R. Karr Jr. said Mrs. Honaker threatened Mahood’s 19-year-old son and verbally abused a neighbor who had secretly taped more than 100 telephone calls that Mrs. Honaker made using a cordless telephone. Karr called Mrs. Honaker “a very manipulative individual.” …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 10 Jul 1992: Closing arguments in Honaker murder trial will be today
Ripley (AP)—A Jackson County woman testified Thursday that her stepson had made sexual advances toward her, but she denied any role in his murder. Helen Honaker is accused of arranging her stepson’s murder to cover up a love affair. Testimony in her trial in Jackson County Circuit Court ended Thursday and closing arguments were scheduled today.
Prosecutors alleged she had her lover, Jerry Mahood, kill W.D. Honaker to keep him from telling her husband and his father, Tommy Honaker, about her affair. Mahood was convicted earlier of shooting W.D. Honaker in July 1990.
Mrs. Honaker testified Thursday that her stepson made sexual advances toward her for several months, at the same time she was involved with Mahood. She said the advances made her “uncomfortable,” but that she didn’t tell her husband.
Mrs. Honaker filed for divorce in 1989, but she and Tommy Honaker remain married.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 18 Aug 1992: Woman Jailed for Plotting Stepson’s Death
Ripley (AP)—A Jackson County woman convicted of arranging the murder of her stepson to cover up a love affair was sentenced Monday to at least 11 years in prison. Helen Honaker of Statts Mills was convicted last month on one count of being an accessory before the fact to first-degree murder in the shotgun slaying of W.D. Honaker. Circuit Judge Charles McCarty sentenced her to life in prison with the possibility of parole on the accessory charge, which carried a minimum prison term of 10 years. McCarty also sentenced her to up to five years for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. McCarty ordered the sentences to be served consecutively. Both sentences were the maximums allowed by law. “This is not what W.D. would want,” Helen Honaker said afterward. Prosecutors said Honaker arranged for her lover, Jerry Mahood, to kill her stepson to keep him from disclosing her affair to her husband and his father, Tommy Honaker. Mahood was convicted earlier of being the trigger man in the Honaker slaying. He testified that Mrs. Honaker had given him $1,000 to hire someone to kill her stepson. McCarty called the July 1990 slaying at the stepson’s Cottageville home slaying “horrid.” Mrs. Honaker's attorneys said the shooting was Mahood’s idea.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 26 Feb 1991: Bernard O. Ruffner, 76, of Rainelle, died Feb. 24, 1991, in Allegany Regional Hospital, Low Moor, Va., after a short illness. He was a member of First Baptist Church, Rainelle. He was a
retired miner and former chief of police of Rainelle. He was an Army veteran of World War II, and a member of VFW.
Surviving: wife, Mildred Honaker Ruffner; daughters, Sharon McClung of Barboursville, Karen Robbins of Rainelle; stepdaughter, Jackie King of Hillsdale, Va.; son, Robert Ruffner of Proctorville, Ohio; sisters, Ruth Viers of Rainelle, Iva Robinson of Dickerson, Md.; brothers, Roland of Rainelle, Jack of Fredricksburg, Md.; 13 grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronal Williams and the Rev. Greg Scott officiating. Burial will be in Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle.
West Virginia Gazette, Charleston, W.Va., 15 Jan 1992: Oather W. Honaker, 77, of Caldwell, died Jan. 13, 1992, in Humana Hospital Greenbrier Valley, Fairlea, after a long illness. He was a lifelong resident of Caldwell and worked as a caddy for the Greenbrier hotel with more than 50 years’ service. He was a member of Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church and an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. Surviving: wife, Audrey Wheaton Honaker; daughters, Brenda Hull and Bertha Morgan, both of Caldwell, Janie O’Conner and Susie O’Conner, both of Callaghan, Va., Cynthia Elmore of Second Creek; sons, Hermon and Roger, both of Caldwell; half sister, Hazel Morgan of White Sulphur Springs; half brothers, Leonard, Larry and James Honaker, all of White Sulphur Springs; 16 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church with the Rev. Tim Hall officiating. Burial will be in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens, Lewisburg. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
West Virginia Gazette, Charleston, W.Va., 16 Feb 2004: Audrey Wheaton Honaker, 80, of Caldwell, died Feb. 14, 2005. Service will be 2 p.m., Thurs., Feb. 17, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday. Burial will be in Greenbrier Memorial Gardens.
Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va., 17 Nov 1991: Mrs. Charlotte Honaker, 45, of Soak Creek, near Sophia, died Nov. 15, 1991, at home after a long illness. She was a lifelong resident of Raleigh County and a homemaker. She attended Soak Creek Gospel Tabernacle. Surviving: daughter, Sherri Honaker Milam of Soak Creek; brothers, Thomas Cook of Cool Ridge, David Cook of White Stone, Va., Edward Cook of Beckley; sisters, June Booth of Lincoln Park, Mich., Norma Fink of Soak Creek, Geneva Yarad of Northwood, Ohio, Katherine Plumley of Crab Orchard; one granddaughter. Service will be 1 p.m. Monday at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Prosperity, with the Rev. Okey Cox and the Rev. Robert Mills Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Chart Mullins Cemetery, McCages Ridge, Wyoming County. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Feb 1992: Jason Alexander Milam, 2-month-old son of Delmer Johnson and Sherry Honaker Milam Jr. of Soak Creek, died Feb. 18, 1992, in a Beckley hospital after an illness. Williams-Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Sophia, is in charge of arrangements.
Unknown West Virginia newspaper, 4 Sep 2002: Fairlea—Elmer L. Honaker, 47, of Fairlea died Sept. 2, 2002. Service will be 2 p.m. Fri., Sept. 6, at Rhema Christian Center, Fairlea. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Morgan Funeral Home, Lewisburg. Burial will be in Adwell Cemetery [Ronceverte, W.Va.]
Unknown Charleston, W.Va. newspaper, 2 Oct 2001: Thomas Newton Honaker, 77, of Spencer died Sept. 24, 2001, in Jackson General Hospital, Ripley. He was born July 5, 1924, in Cunard, Fayette County, a son of the late John and Relda Vass Honaker. He grew up in Union, Monroe County, where he graduated from high school. Honaker enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1942 and later transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a Navy hospital corpsman with E Co., Fifth Medical Battalion, Fifth Marine Division, and served during the World War II invasion of Iwo Jima. He attended Morris Harvey College, Charleston, to study liberal arts. He won the 1948 Parkersburg [W.Va.] Lightweight Golden Gloves [boxing] championship and turned professional. During his life, he worked as a surgical technician, a salesman and later as a security guard. Thomas N. Honaker was a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Grantsville. He had been a member of the Appalachian Fiddlers and played the harmonica. Survivors include: wife, Flora; son, Thomas; daughters, Trisha, Corrine and Diana; cousins, Winnie Rymer and Garldene Wilbourne. Vail Funeral Home, Ripley, was in charge of cremation services, taking the cremains to West Virginia National Cemetery, Grafton, for interment and placement of the monument for the grave.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 22 Nov 2012, reprinted in Honaker Family Newsletter, Spring 2013, photograph with cutline: (Front—left to right) Bill Ballard and Newton Honaker in Hawaii, 1945. This picture is of two Union men who fought in World War II, Bill Ballard and Newton Honaker. Bill was in the Marines and Newton was in the Navy. The other man pictured in back was from Michigan. The photo was taken after Iwo Jima in Hawaii. Newton is no longer living, but Bill Ballard is 93 years old and lives in Pearisburg, Va.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 24 Mar 1992: Emory E. Honaker, 65, of Caldwell, died March 22, 1992, at Humana Hospital, Greenbrier Valley, Fairlea, after a long illness. He was a veteran of World War II, retired from C&O Railway, and
was a member of Caldwell Presbyterian Church, [Veterans of Foreign Wars] Post 3116 and American Legion. Surviving: wife, Frances; son, Rodney P. of Caldwell; sister, Winifred Erwin of Daniels. Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Jack K. Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg, with the Rev. Kenny Baker, the Rev. Tim Hall and the Rev. Samuel Tate officiating. Burial will be in Adwell Cemetery, near Ronceverte. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 4 Jan 1992: Carra O. Honaker, 88, of St. Albans, died Jan. 2, 1992, at Wellman’s Personal Care Home, St. Albans, after a short illness. She was a homemaker, a member of South Ruffner Presbyterian
Church, Charleston, and a lifelong resident of Kanawha County. Surviving: stepdaughter, Mary Jean Craigo of Charleston;
brother, Woodrow Oxley of Scott Depot; sisters, Ruth Hancock of South Charleston, Katherine Brubeck of Beckley; five stepgrandchildren; several stepgreat-grandchildren. Memorial service will be 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Bartlett Funeral Home, St. Albans, with the Rev. C.W. McNutt officiating. There will be no visitation. The body has been cremated.
Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va., 17 Sep 1995: Mary Jean Honaker Craigo, 70, of Charleston, died Sept. 14, 1995, at [Charleston Area Medical Center] Memorial Division after a long illness. She was retired from Blue Cross. Surviving: nephews, Charles Ray Honaker, of Sahuarita, Ariz., John Wayne Honaker and David Alan Honaker of Bear, Del.; nieces, Lynette Isabel Brown of Rittman, Ohio, Carol Ann Gibson of Newark, Del.; friend, Shirley Aliff, with whom she lived. Service will be 10 a.m. Monday at Wilson Funeral Home, Charleston, with the Rev. Pete Payne officiating. There will be no visitation. Family suggests memorial contributions to the American Lung Association.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 2 Mar 1992: Mrs. Danelle Jean Honaker, 38, of Arnett, Raleigh County, died Feb. 29, 1992 at General Division, CAMC, after a short illness. She was a member of Assembly of God Church, Arnett, secretary of
Women’s Missionary Council, president of Missionettes and a member of the Women’s Club. She was a former employee of Raleigh General Hospital, Beckley. Surviving: husband, Dewey Dale; sons, Joshua and Jason, both at home. Service will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Assembly of God Church, with the Rev. Danny Moore and the Rev. George Hendrick officiating. Burial will be in Honaker Family Cemetery, Arnett. Friends may call from 6 to 10 p.m. today at the church. Armstrong Funeral Home,
Whitesville, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 9 Jun 1992: Elizabeth “Boots” Honaker Landers, 75, of Poca, died June 8, 1992, at Beverly Health Care Center, Glasgow, after a long illness. She was a seven-year resident of Poca, formerly of Eleanor and
Hometown. She was a founder of Hometown Senior Citizens and a member of Wilkinson Memorial United Methodist Church. Surviving: son, Phillip M. Honaker of Poca; sisters, Mildred Goddard of Point Pleasant, L.G. McCormick of Charleston; one granddaughter. Service will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens Mausoleum, Cross Lanes, with the Rev. Okey B. Harless officiating. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Mar 2001: Agnes Ann Daniels Martin, 90, died Mar. 17, 2001, in St. Francis Hospital, Charleston. She was born in Minden at the late John Carl and Elizabeth Mae Honaker Daniels on Oct. 18, 1910. A longtime resident of the Cabin Creek area, she attended the Chelyan United Methodist Church, where she was an active member having taught Sunday school and helping wherever needed. She was an active member of the Upper Kanawha Valley Senior Citizens. She retired from Highland Hospital in Charleston, where she was a medical secretary and registered radiology technician for many years. She was preceded in death by husband, Henry M. Martin; daughter, Mary Haynie; son-in-law Wayne E. Haynie of Lexington, Ky.; sisters, Mable White and Edna Graham; and great-great-grandson, Jamie Pauley. She is survived by daughters, Jean M. Strong and son-in-law Edward StroanReenen Fung of Garrison, Ky., Faith Ann Bowyer and son-in-law the Rev. Richard Boyer of Fairmont; nine grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren. Friends may call Monday, Mar. 19, at the Chelyan United Methodist Church from 7 to 9 p.m. and one hour prior to funeral services at the church. Funeral services will be 11 a.m., Tuesday, Mar. 20, at the church with the Rev. Richard Bowyer and the Rev. Keith Forkey officiating. In lieu of flowers, the family suggest donations to the church or a charity of one’s choice.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Aug 2001: Vivian B. Honaker, 81, of St. Albans died Aug. 21, 2001, in Thomas Memorial Hospital after a short illness. She was retired from Cora Lea’s Beauty Salon, where she worked as a beautician for 39 years. She had been a resident of St. Albans since 1947. Mrs. Honaker was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond W. Honaker, also by her sister, Mary G. Scott and brother, Charles P. Burdette. She is survived by her daughter, Shelly H. Gray and son-in-law, Mac of St. Albans; granddaughter, Whitney A. Gray-Sigman of St. Albans; two nieces and one nephew. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, Aug. 24, at Cunningha. Frank Allen oand Dm Memorial Park Lower Mausoleum Chapel, St. Albans with A. Eddie Bassitt officiating. Burial will be in Cunningham Memorial Park. Friends may call one hour prior to the service at the mausoleum. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the American Cancer Society, 301 RHL Boulevard, Charleston, W.Va. 25309. Casdorph & Curry Funeral Home, St. Albans, is in charge of the arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 3 Oct 2001: Mary Agnes Honaker, 96, of Ronceverte died Oct. 1, 2001. Service will be 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Organ Cave. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Ronceverte.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 31 Jan 2002 and [Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 7 Feb 2002: Vansant, Va.—Chester C. Lewis, 76, of Vansant, passed away Wed., Jan. 30, 2002, at Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, Va., following a short illness. Born in Jenkins, Ky., he was a son of Mrs. Letha Margaret Honaker Lewis of Vansant and the late George M. Lewis. He had been a resident of Buchanan County several years and was a charter member of Vansant Church of Christ for more than 50 years. He was a graduate of Grundy High School Class of 1944 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a member of Sandy Valley Lodge #17, AF&AM of Grundy, Kazim Temple of Roanoke and was a commissioned Kentucky Colonel. He was a self-employed certified electrical contractor. Mr. Lewis is survived by his wife of 50 years, Ivris Matney Lewis of Vansant; two daughters, Maxine and husband, Gary Morris of Christiansburg, Va. and Patricia Ann and husband, John Lucas of Sturgis, Ky.; two sisters, Betty Joe and husband, Shorty Vandyke of Deerfield, Va. and Maxine Lewis Morgan of Vansant; one brother, Max and wife, Loraine Lewis of Grundy, Va.; and two grandsons, Matthew Tyler Morris and Andrew David Morris both of Christiansburg. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at Vansant Church of Christ, Vansant, with Evangelist Mike Rife and Evangelist Michael Trent officiating with entombment to follow in Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Va. Friends may call at the church today at 6 p.m. Members of Sandy Valley Lodge No. 17 will conduct Masonic rites at 7 p.m. followed by a song service. Active pallbearers will be Todd Vandyke, Michael Lewis, Michael K. Lewis, J.K. Perkins, Cary Perkins, and Harold Vandyke. Honorary pallbearers will be Kenny Perkins, George Mitchell, Paul Yates, Roger Yates, Ralph Rowe, S.M. Raines, Donald Hagerman, Henry Deel, William S. Cook, Tobe Rife, Willard Hess, Hearl Shortridge, Edd Woodard, Arnold Deel, and Easley Miller.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 25 Apr 2003: Vansant, Va.—Letha Margaret Honaker Lewis, 94 years of age, of the Deskins Fork section, passed away Thur., Apr. 24, 2003, at her home following an extended illness. Born in Huntington, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Martin and Rhoda Rice Honaker Sanders. She had been a resident of Buchanan County for the past 67 years, a member of the Vansant Church of Christ and a former cook for the Grundy Drug. Mrs. Lewis is survived by two daughters, Betty Jo and her husband Shorty Vandyke of Deerfield, Va., and Maxine Morgan of Vansant; one son, Max and his wife Loraine Lewis of Grundy; one sister, Lillian Reinert of Montgomery, Ill.; five grandchildren, Michael Lewis of Grundy; Ginger and her husband Jerry Merritt of Florida, Maxine and her husband Gary Morris of Riner, Va., Patty and her husband John Lucas of Sturgis, Ky., and Melinda Lewis of Yorktown, Va.; eight great-grandchildren, Melanie Lewis, Leia and her husband Nick Shortridge, Michael and his wife Miranda Lewis, Meagan Newberry, Tyler Morris, Drew Morris, Teresa and her husband Erick Coleman and Todd and his wife Angie Vandyke; and six great-great-grandchildren, Erica Coleman, Maverick Coleman, Hunter Vandyke, Ryan Keen, Antonia Keen and Chandler Lewis. Mrs. Lewis was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, George M. Lewis on Jan. 7, 1985; her parents, Martin V. and Rhoda Rice Honaker Sanders; stepfather, Tom Sanders; one son, Chester Lewis; one grandson, Jerry Vandyke; one sister, Laura Honaker; and three brothers, Mack, Glen and Martin Honaker. Funeral services will be conducted Sun., Apr. 27, 2003, at 1 p.m. at the Vansant Church of Christ with Evangelist Mike Rife and Evangelist Michael Trent officiating with burial to follow in the Mountain Valley Memorial Park at Big Rock, Va. Friends may call at the Grundy Funeral Home Chapel after 6 p.m. Friday and there will be an evening service Saturday evening at 7 p.m. Active pallbearers will be grandsons, great-grandsons and Auburn McNutt. Honorary pallbearers will be Brad Vandyke, Tobe Rife, W.S. “Red” Cook, Henry Deel, Tom Pruitt, Harold Vandyke, Dr. Clint Sutherland, William P. Harris, Gordon Deel, Onnie Skeens, Maynard Gardner, Larry Looney and Earl Scott. Grundy Funeral Home of Grundy is in charge of all arrangements.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va. (with photograph): Maxine Lewis Morgan, 82, of Vansant, died Sat., April 14, 2012 at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Jenkins, Ky., she was the daughter of the late George M. and Letha M. Honaker Lewis. She was a member of the Vansant Church of Christ and was retired from the former Grundy Drug Store. She was an avid supporter of the American Cancer Society and was a 1947 graduate of Grundy High School. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her former husband, F.E. Morgan, Jr.; one brother, Chester Lewis; and one nephew, Jerry Vandyke. She is survived by her twin brother, Max, and wife, Loraine Lewis, of Grundy; one sister, Betty Jo Vandyke, of Santee Cooper, S.C.; one sister-in-law, Ivris Lewis, of Vansant; one nephew, Mike and wife, Sharon Lewis, of Grundy; four nieces, Patty and husband, John Lucas, Maxine and husband, Gary Morris, Ginger and husband, Jerry Merritt and Melinda Lewis; one niece-in-law, Angie Wyatt of Vansant; nine great and great-great nephews, Kelvin Michael Lewis, Chandler Lewis, Todd Vandyke, Maverick Coleman, Ryan Keen, Ian Shortridge, Drew Morris, Tyler Morris and Hunter Vandyke; eight great and great-great-nieces, Teresa Coleman, Erica Coleman, Megan Vandyke Newberry, Melanie Lewis Rubin, Antonia Keen, Leia Shortridge, Dakota Jaden White and Emma Grace Vandyke. Funeral services were conducted Tue., April 17 at Grundy Funeral Home Chapel with Evg. Mike Rife officiating. Burial followed in Mountain Valley Memorial Park, Big Rock. Active pallbearers were family and friends. Online condolences may be sent to the family at . Grundy Funeral Home of Grundy was in charge of arrangements.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 20 Jan 2002: Gary (W.Va.)—Beulah Mae Meredith, 89, of McDowell Continuous Care Center, Gary, formerly of Northfork, died Friday night, Jan. 18, 2002 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center following a long illness. Born Aug. 12, 1912 at Upland, she was the daughter of the late Wiley and Laura Honaker Kemp. She was a 70 year member of the Northfork Baptist Church, Northfork. She was a homemaker and resident of McDowell County all her life. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Walter R. Meredith in 1994; one daughter, Beverly Meredith; one sister, Virginia Wiles; and five brothers, Clarence Kemp, Woodrow Kemp, Walt Kemp, Henry Kemp, and Hoover Kemp. Survivors include two daughters, Nancy Childress of Union Street, Bluefield, and Janet Decker and husband, Jerry of Johnson City, Tenn.; three sons, Robert “Bobby” Meredith and wife, Linda of Bluefield, Rev. Richard Meredith of Upland, and James “Jimmy” Meredith and wife, Paula of Bluefield; one brother, James Kemp of Glenwood Park, Princeton; nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday at the Widener Funeral Home Chapel, Northfork with the Rev. Darrell Church officiating. Burial will follow at the Woodlawn Memorial Park, Bluewell. Pallbearers will be Rob Meredith, Michael Meredith, David Meredith, Rick Meredith, Michael Pittman, Jerry Decker, J.C. Davis, and Jerry Farmer. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5–7 p.m. today.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 Mar 2002: Glenwood (W.Va.)—James W. Kemp, 80, of Glenwood Park Retirement Village, formerly of Northfork, died Wed., Mar. 20, 2002 at the retirement village after a long illness. Born Dec. 8, 1921, in Osgood, Ind., he was the son of the late Wiley and Laura Honaker Kemp. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, was a former owner and operator of the Central Quick Lunch, Northfork (known by many as the Hole in the Wall,) was affiliated with the Protestant faith, was a resident of the Northfork area most of his life and was the last surviving member of his immediate family. Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by five brothrs, Clarence, Woodrow, Walt, Henry, and Hoover Kemp; and two sisters, Beulah Mae Meredith and Virginia Wiles. Survivors include several nieces and nephews; several great-nieces and nephews. Committal service will be conducted at noon today at the Roselawn Memorial Gardens Mausoleum Chapel, Princeton, with the Rev. Richard Meredith officiating. Burial will follow in the cemetery. Friends may call today one hour prior to service at the mausoleum chapel. Widener Funeral Home of Northfork is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 31 Mar 2001: Lillian M. Conner Shaw, 80, of Sissonville departed this life March 30, 2001, at Cedar Ridge Nursing Home in Sissonville, W.Va., of a short illness. Mrs. Shaw was born Aug. 10, 1920, at Harewood, W.Va., to the late Charlie W. and Virginia Alice Honaker Conner. Mrs. Shaw was a retired cook with … the Womens Club of Charleston, W.Va., and had attended Boyd Memorial Christian Church. Mrs. Shaw was preceded in death by her husband, Franklin E. “Bubby” Shaw; and one son, Robert Eugene Shaw. Survivors include three daughters, Ida Jean Rupersburg of Charleston, W.Va.; Alice Ann Byers of Bloomington, Ind.; Ruth Lee Harper of Lakeland, Fla.; two sons, Kenneth Ray Shaw of Sissonville, W.Va., Richard Allen Shaw of Alum Creek, W.Va.; 12 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Monday, April 2, at Long & Fisher Funeral Home, Sissonville, W.Va., with the Rev. Gerald Crabb officiating. Burial will follow at Montgomery Memorial Park, London, W.Va. Friends may call Sunday April 1, 2001, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Long & Fisher Funeral Home, Sissonville, W.Va.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 30 May 2001: Colonial Heights, Va.—Elsie Honaker Silvey, 75, of Colonial Heights, formerly of Layland, W.Va., died May 27, 2001. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, June 1, at Wallace & Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday. Private funeral service at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Jun 1993: Mrs. Jean Phillips Honaker, 65, of Beckley, died June 18, 1993, in a Charleston hospital after a short illness. She was born in Chicago. She was of the Baptist faith, a 40-year resident of Raleigh County, an interior decorator for Ballengee Furniture Co. with 20 years’ service, and a homemaker. Surviving: son, Terry Phillips of Beckley; daughters, Sherry Phillips of Beckley, Kathy Evans of Dallas, Texas; brother, Adolph Benson of Chicago; sisters, Darlene Burm of Leawood, Kan., Gloria Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, Betty Hopkins of Tampa, Fla.; four grandchildren. Service will be 1 p.m. Sunday at Melton Mortuary, Beckley, with the Rev. Bryce Phillips officiating. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Park, Beckley. Friends may call two hours prior to service at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 22 Oct 1993: Charles Leo Minor Sr., 55, of Victor, Fayette County, died Oct. 20, 1993, at Memorial Division, [Charleston Area Medical Center], Charleston, after a short illness. He was an Army veteran and a buyer for Gauley Sales Mining Equipment. He was a member of First Assembly of God, Oak Hill. Surviving: wife, Ethel Honaker Minor; daughters, Donna Marie Gill of Ansted, Lori Lynn Minor at home; son, Charles L. Jr. at home; sister, Carolyn Hill of Cleveland, Ohio; brother, Billy Joe of Wichita Falls, Texas, Ronald Paul of Ansted, Bobby Gene of Broadway, Va.; one grandchild. Service will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Ansted, with Pastor Douglas Seaman and Pastor Michael Angelona officiating. Entombment will be in the Chapel of Rest Mausoleum, Victor. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Sep 1993: John F. DeBernardis, 74, of Charleston, died Sept. 22, 1993, at Thomas Memorial Hospital after a short illness. He was a retired chemical engineer from FMC, formerly with Westvaco. He was a member of Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral, Charleston, a graduate of Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., and R.P.I., Troy, N.Y.
Surviving: wife, Stella Honaker DeBernardis; brother, Paul C. of San Francisco. Service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Bartlett-Burdette-Cox Funeral Home, with Father Edward Sadie officiating. Entombment will be in the family mausoleum, Assumption Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home, where a Christian wake service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friends may also call from 9 a.m. until time of service Friday at the funeral home.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 5 Oct 2007: Mrs. Stella Elizabeth Honaker DeBernardis, 78, a lifelong resident of Charleston, died Thurs., Oct. 4, 2007, in Hubbard Hospice House. She was a registered nurse for many years at [Charleston Area Medical Center] Hospital and a member of the American Nurses Association [and the Honaker Family Assn.]. She was of the Methodist faith. Mrs. DeBernardis was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Eddie Honaker, and her husband, John F. DeBernardis. She is survived by her sister, Athalea E. Honaker Craig of Daytona Beach, Fla. At this time, no services are planned. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Hubbard Hospice House, 1001 Kennawa Dr., Charleston, WV 25311. Johnson-Harding Funerals & Cremations, 514 50th St., S.E., Kanawha City, 304-925-4784, is serving the DeBernardis family. Condolences may be sent by visiting .
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 21 Mar 1994: Waycross, Ga.—Mrs. Blanche Christ Honaker, 88, of Waycross, formerly of Pratt, W.Va., died March 19, 1994, at Baptist Village, Waycross, after a long illness. She was an 11-year resident of Waycross, formerly of Augusta. She was a retired elementary school teacher and a former member of Hill Baptist Church, Augusta. Surviving: daughter, Caroline Mitchell of Augusta; son, John C. Bott of Springfield, N.H.; three grandsons; two great-grandchildren Service will be 3 p.m. today at Waycross Primitive Baptist Church. Graveside service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at West View Cemetery, Augusta, with Elder William Mullis and the Rev. Al Cadenhead officiating. Miles-Odum Funeral Home, Waycross, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 15 Dec 1994: Annabelle L. Honaker, 70, of Cross Lanes died Dec. 13, 1994, in Thomas Memorial Hospital after a long illness. She was a 20-year resident of Cross Lanes, a former beautician, a former employee of Bobbi Brooks and member of the Order of Eastern Star and Tyler Mountain Church of Christ. Surviving: husband, Clifford V. Honaker; daughters, Lenora Burdette of Florida, Beverly Norvel of Cross Lanes; sons, Carl V. of
Cross Lanes, Leonard Ray of Stone Mountain, Ga.; sister, Billie Quinlin of Ashland, Ky.; 10 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren. Service will be 2 p.m. Friday at Tyler Mountain Church of Christ with Elder David Sneed and Minister Jeff Maynard officiating. Entombment will be in Legacy Memorial Gardens Mausoleum, Cross Lanes. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
An obituary appeared in the Lebanon [Va.] News, 27 Feb 2002, for Vita Ruth Dye Harris, widow of the Rev. Worley Harris, whose daughter Delores Honaker lived in Raven, Va.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 2 Feb 1994: Austin Wayne Cline, infant son of James Lester Cline Jr. and Scarlet Michelle Honaker, both of Union, died Jan.29, 1994, in Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, Fairlea. Also surviving: paternal grandparents, Kathy Jo Cline of Powhatan Point, Ohio, James Lester Cline Sr. of Union; maternal grandparents, Lesley Seibert Honaker of Fairlea, Patricia Ann Honaker of Asbury. Graveside service will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Alderson Cemetery, with the Rev. Rick Curtis officiating. Lobban Funeral Home, Alderson, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 27 Jul 1994: Kistler man identified as fatal roof fall victim, by Ken Ward Jr.
Federal officials on Tuesday identified the man killed Monday in a roof fall at a West Virginia coal mine. Carl Honaker, 51, of Kistler, was crushed to death in the accident, according to a preliminary report from the U.S. Mine Safety
and Health Administration. The roof fall occurred at about 10 a.m. in Laurel Run Mining Co.’s Holden 20DB Mine near Holden. Four other miners escaped without injury.
Authorities had withheld Honaker’s name Monday night pending notification of his family. Laurel Run is one of the mines CONSOL Coal Group purchased last year from Island Creek Coal Co. Paul Kvederis, a CONSOL spokesman in Pittsburgh, confirmed Honaker died in a roof fall, but declined further comment. MSHA’s report said Honaker was crushed by a piece of roof that was 8 ft. thick, 30 ft. long and 18 ft. wide.The roof fell onto a continuous mining machine and part of a
roof-bolting machine next to where Honaker was standing, MSHA’s report said.
Steve Webber, director of the state Office of Miners’ Health, Safety and Training, said Honaker was an electrician who normally should not have been at the face of the underground mine. Webber also said CONSOL had encountered “some bad roof conditions” including numerous cracks and holes. He said the company could face citations if his agency finds CONSOL did not take adequate measures to protect miners from those bad roof conditions.
Honaker is the seventh coal miner in West Virginia and the 25th nationwide to die on the job this year, according to MSHA records. In 1993, there were 13 coal miners killed in the state and 47 killed nationwide. Honaker was a mine electrician for Consolidated Coal Co. and a former of Island Creek Coal Co., with 26 years of service. He was a member of UMW Local 5817 and VFW Post 5817. He was an Air Force veteran of Vietnam and a Baptist.
Surviving: companion, Cheryl Bostic of Kistler; daughter, Carla Michelle Honaker of Man; son, Marcus Joseph of the Navy station in Charleston, S.C.; sister, Ruth Davis of Charleston; brother, Dean of Fairmont; one grandchild. Service will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Krantz-McNeely Funeral Home, Man, with the Rev. Charlie Garrett officiating. Burial will be in
Hager-Ellis Cemetery, Twelve Pole, near Dingess. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home and one hour prior to service at the funeral home Thursday.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 12 Aug 1995: David Ray Blankenship, 27, of Williamsburg died Aug. 11, 1995, at home after a short illness. He was a member of Enon Baptist Church, employee of BUTA and 1988 graduate of Greenbrier East High School. Surviving: wife, Tina Honaker Blankenship; son, Michael T. at home; daughter, Alice Marie Blankenship at home; parents, Alva and Leula Underwood Blankenship of Williamsburg; sister, Hilda M. Wilburn of Daniels; brothers, Alva W. of Maxwelton, Melvin of Lewisburg, Carl, Bobby and Dennis, all of Williamsburg, Jimmy of Frankford; grandmother, Margie Coleman of Long Island, N.Y. Service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Andrew Chapel United Methodist
Church, Williamsburg, with the Rev. James Yates and the Rev. Jim Anderson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Jack K. Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 14 Feb 1995: Hunter Allen Bennett, infant son of Jimmy L. and Michelle Marie Gay Bennett of Caldwell, was stillborn Feb. 11, 1995, at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center, Fairlea. Also surviving: paternal grandparents, Jerry and Margaret Falls Bennett of Caldwell; paternal great-grandparents, Louvine Gray of Clintonville, Melvin and Ruth Honaker Bennett of Caldwell; maternal grandparents, Rick and Debbie Cox Gay of Asbury; maternal
great-grandparents, Violet Gay of Charleston, Glendola Cox of Belle. Service will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Caldwell Pentecostal Holiness Church, Caldwell, with the Rev. Russell Spence officiating. Burial will be in Adwell Cemetery, Ronceverte. There will be no visitation. Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Lewisburg, is in charge of arrangements.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 3 Mar 1995: Laws, Walter Wayne. Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Cranberry Community Church, with Pastor Roger Pauley and the Rev. Ernest Barley officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Prosperity, with military rites conducted by Varney-Cline American Legion Post 133, Pineville. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the church. Rose-Quesenberry Funeral Home, Beckley, is in charge of arrangements. Laws, 77, of Prosperity died March 1, 1995, at Beckley [Veterans Administration] Medical Center after a long illness. He was a Navy veteran of World War II and a member of Cranberry Community Church. He was a miner with 10 years’ service, and manager of E.D. Motor Co. Surviving: wife, Billie Honaker Laws; son, Wayne Morgan of Brown Mills, N.J.; daughter, Elaine Kershner of Covington, Va.; brothers, Clarence of Prosperity, Henry of Ohio; sisters, Hazel McGuffin of Prosperity,
France Dangerfield of Ohio; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 28 Feb 2002: Cedar Bluff [Va.]—Mrs. Phyllis Ann Honaker Breedlove, 59, passed away Tue., Feb. 26, 2002, at home following a short illness. Born in Tazewell County on Jan. 22, 1943, she was the daughter of the late Rufus and Maudie Bowman Honaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Aaron (Avery) Breedlove; one daughter, Shelby Jean Breedlove; and one brother, Bobby Joe Honaker. Mrs. Breedlove is survived by two daughters, Mrs. James (Sherry) Roberts of Roanoke and Mrs. Michael (Donna) Casey of Pounding Mill, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Mary Alice Weaver of Richlands; and five grandchildren, Michael Wayne Casey, Perrie Roberts, Chris Roberts, Sarah Casey and Michelle Casey. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2002, in Singleton Funeral Service Chapel in Cedar Bluff with Rev. Jody Bishop officiating. Burial will follow in Clinch Valley Memorial Cemetery at Richlands. Pallbearers will be Michael Casey, Perrie Roberts, Chris Roberts, Junior Honaker, Ricky Honaker and Rick Pruitt. The family received friends at Singleton Funeral Service in Cedar Bluff from 7–9 p.m. Wednesday. Singleton Funeral Service in Cedar Bluff is serving the Breedlove family.
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WVNS Television, Ghent, W.Va., 17 Sep 2012: Battling Cancer with Faith, Home and Love, by Lauren Hensley
Fayette County—One local family is in the fight of a lifetime but they’re not giving up their faith, hope and love for one another. The loving coo of 4-year-old Jacob Honaker echoes throughout his happy home. He the youngest of Miranda and Curtis Honaker’s four sons and they said in this home family takes center stage. “Oh I love football with them. We play football in the yard. We have a pond we fish in non-stop,” Curtis Honaker, who is battling cancer, said. Happy family photos grace the walls with reminders to laugh and love in abundance, making it very difficult to believe the head of the household, Curtis, is battling multiple myeloma. And the prognosis didn’t look good. They said he was already in the last stages and they couldn’t understand why he had progressed so far.
And part of the reason for the fast progression is that Curtis is combating a very aggressive form of the cancer. Doctors call this kind of cancer an “old persons” disease and find it very shocking to diagnose a 34-year old father with this condition. Curtis is gearing up to undergo a painful and extensive 45- day stem cell treatment procedure. With Curtis out of work and Miranda facing her own medical conditions in addition to taking on the role of his primary caregiver, the family is now faced with the daunting task of a hefty medical bill.
“When you go from making a couple thousand a week and that was a mediocre amount, when you go from that kind of income to leaving on hopes, love and faith, that is really hard,” Curtis said. No matter the price, the Honakers are optimistic the procedure will extend Curtis’s life by five to 10 years. They said through their faith they are able to see light in their dark situation. “I want to see a miracle happen, but throughout it all, I just want to see someone smile while I'm down there,” Curtis said.
Milwaukee [Wisc.] Journal Sentinel, 27 Nov 2016: An obituary on JoeAnne (Ables) Ladwig, 70, daughter of Joseph and Norma Jean Ables, named a surviving sister, Margaret Honaker (wife of Damon Honaker).
Russell Co., Va., circuit court records show the following marriages which we are not able to connect to presently-known descendants: Fannie Honaker m. Dewey Belcher 23 Jul 1917. Louise Pansey Honaker m. Dewey Belcher 7 Apr 1924. Dorothy Honaker m. Robert Lee Belcher 7 Jul 1913.
Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch, 17 Nov 2016: An obituary on Diane K. (Barker) Masters, 71, wife of Robert E. Masters, was also survived by a daughter Dottie (Don) Honaker and grandchildren Tyler Allen Honaker and Casey Elizabeth Honaker.
Markiewicz Funeral Home, Lemont, Ill., 30 Dec 2016: An obituary on Mary L. Gorski, 91, of Lemont, preceded in death by husband Robert W. Gorski, was survived by three daughters including Peggy (David) Honaker of Texas.
Times Recorder, Zanesville, Ohio, 15 Nov 2016: An obituary on Donald R. Fulkerson of South Zanesville, Ohio, survived by his wife Eleanor also was survived by a daughter Pamela (Nathaniel) Honaker and grandsons Jeremy Honaker and Brandon Honaker.
Columbus [Ga.] Ledger-Enquirer, 14 Apr 2016: An obituary on Ferril Homer Jones, widower of first wife Maude Jones and second wife Martha Armour, gave a surviving daughter as Linda Honaker, wife of Carl Honaker, of Kennesaw, Ga.
Kentucky Explorer, 24 Mar 2016. An obituary for Rebecca Sue Mobley, 60, of Latonia, Ky., daughter of Leslie and Ophelia Beagle, was survived by daughter Chrissy Honaker, grandson Edward Joseph Honaker, and great granddaughter Ella Marie Honaker.
Madison Press, London, Ohio, 8 Dec 2015. An obituary for Joe Edinger, husband of Lucy (Snyder) Edinger, listed a daughter, Tina, wife of Greg Honaker of London.
People’s Defender, West Union, Ohio, 7 Dec 2015. An obituary for Wilma Pennywitt, 80, gave her parents as Harley and Elizabeth (Davis) Young of West Union, and a surviving sister, Elma Honaker of Midlothian, Va.
Pioneer News, Shepherdsville, Ky., 9 Dec 2015. An obituary for Ellen Ann Gwinn, 79, of Mt. Washington, Ohio, gave her parents as Harold Edstrom and Louisa Honaker.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 28 Mar 2015: large photograph, caption “Clubwoman of the Year,” cutline: “Members of the GFWC/Kentucky Pikeville Woman’s Club voted and named Rose Honaker the Outstanding Clubwoman of 2014. Honaker was given this honor for all the things she does for her community, her church, her family and the club. She was presented a large wooden clock with a gold engraved plate stating the date and ‘Outstanding Clubwoman 2014.’ Honaker is pictured with Judy Backus, third vice president.”
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 10 Jul 2015: Poets Corner—Where? Oh, Where?
Yes, the huge old pin oak is gone. But I’m not the only one sad. My friend, a little gray squirrel, Whom I had watched many times Scamper up and down the tree Was now on the ground Running, running back and forth, Looking! Looking! I’m sure he was wondering—Where? Oh, Where?
--Rose Honaker In memory of an old friend and a little friend.
The following story was reprinted in Honaker Family Newsletter, Spring 2015.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 14 Feb 2015, by Travis Williams, photos by Matt Gentry—A husband’s love continues to resonate: Sarah Kathryn Pinson is in the clutches of Alzheimer’s, but she smiles when she listens to the stories her late husband left her.
Three-column cutline: “Above: Sarah Kathryn and Larry Pinson in the mid-1970s. Top: Larry Pinson recorded a compact disc with family stories and songs for his wife before he died. The couple’s daughter Sharon Honaker plays it often for her mother, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s.”
Three-column cutline: “Sarah Kathryn Pinson, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, is able to listen to the voice of her late husband Larry Pinson singing and telling stories on a compact disc that her daughter Sharon Honaker plays for her.”
Willis—A smile grew across Sarah Kathryn Pinson’s face at the first sound of the baritone voice. It was the same voice the 80-year-old walked down the aisle to hear say “I do” in 1959, raised three children alongside, and grew old with until Larry Pinson’s death in February 2012. Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 200, Sarah Kathryn Pinson no longer walks or feeds herself, and she rarely mumbles a word. But she does listen to and interact with the audio retelling of how the couple met and fell in love her husband left as a gift to her before his death.
“If you turn it on, she kind of like listens for his voice,” said daughter Sharon Honaker. “You can tell she’s kind of looking for him and it usually makes her quiet and calm.”
The family knew Larry Pinson desired to record his stories as he grew increasingly ill with pulmonary fibrosis, but Honaker said it wasn’t until a year and a half after his death the compact disc surfaced with the words, “Songs and Stories for Sarah Kathryn” handwritten on it.
Despite the many hours spent with her mom, it wasn’t until Valentine’s Day last year that Honaker finally heard her father’s recording of the couple’s love story out loud. Previously, Sarah Kathryn pinson had only listened to the CD through headphones. “I just sat here and cried. And mom was just sitting there lighting up and smiling and enjoying his voice,” Honaker said.
Sarah Kathryn Pinson’s reaction came as no surprise to Rosemary Blieszner, an alumni distinguished professor in Virginia Tech’s Human Development department who specializes in gerontology. “The understanding is that people, even though they might not be able to remember names or what they ate for lunh, that they still have the capability to respond to emotion,” Blieszner said.
Though cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s affects individuals differently, Blieszner said it was very possible the cadence and intonation of Larry Pinson’s voice was providing a level of comfort to his wife. “I would say that’s really tapping into that idea of emotional memory. That’s giving her, even if she doesn’t remember all the details of her life, in that moment, a positive experience, she said.
Virginia Tech Adult Day Services Director Ila Schepisi, whose program cares for up to 18 geriatric patients each day, confirmed Blieszner’s thoughts. “I could just imagine the level of comfort and familiarity his voice brings her, Schepisi said. “What a wonderful gift he gave to her in his passing.”
Honaker said the fact that her father thought to leave such a gift was the most touching aspect of the entire situation, but she doubted Larry Pinson ever realized how important that gift would become to the woman he loved. “I guess he had no way of knowing how just listening to his voice was going to be the comfort to her that it has been,” Honaker said.
The recording, about 30 minutes long, contains a handful of spiritual songs and family stories, including the two’s earliest encounters at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital in Pikeville, Ky., where an 18-year-old orderly [worked] in the central supply room to pay for college. “At the beginning of each shift the nurses would come there and get their trays,” said Larry Pinson through the CD player’s speakers.
“There werethree sisters working there…they were beautiful girls. They all had this dark brunette hair and I call it, green mountain eyes, and the combination just kind of, as they say, blew me away,” he said.
Despite his early morning college courses, Larry Pinson’s voice continues on, he began to go out with the sisters once their work shift ended at 11 p.m. “I didn’t get a lot of sleep that semester,” he said.
Sarah Kathryn Pinson was the eldest of the girls, six years Larry Pinson’s senior, which led to her encouraging her sisters to date their new friend. “Finally, after she had nagged them, Anna, the youngest said, ‘Well Kathryn, if you think so much of him, why don’t you date him,’ ” Larry Pinson said.
“She and I finally got married in November 1959 on Thanksgiving weekend. End of story,” Larry Pinson said. Or perhaps it was just the beginning. Larry Pinson went on to earn bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky and later a doctorage in engineering science and mechanics from Virginia Tech in 1973. In 1963, he began a 32-year career researching and working with launch vehicles, spacecraft and aircraft for NASA. In 2006 Larry Pinson received the Career Achievement Award from the UK Civil Engineering Alumni.
Honaker said her mother worked as a nurse to get her father through school and then became a stay-at-home momto her and her two siblings, Earl and Leigh. The couple eventually became the grandparents of 10 children and relocated to Willis from Northern Virginia in 2000. Since her father’s death, Honaker said she has lived with her mother and helped to provide a large part of the 24-hour care Sarah Kathryn Pinson now requires. “He didn’t want her in a nursing home ever,” Honaker said.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 29 Nov 2014: New arrivals at [Pikeville Medical Center]
Katelyn and Clifford Honaker, Jr., a son, Clifford Allen Roy Mitchell, born Oct. 31, 2014, 6 lb. 13-oz.
Appalachian News Express,Pikeville, Ky., 13 Sep 2014, with photograph—Real People, Real Recoveries.
Mountain View Health Care Center celebrates the recent rehab success of Rose Honaker. Rose was admitted to our facility following a fall which resulted in pelvic fractures. Prior to the fall, she lived alone in the Pikeville community and was independent with self-care and mobility.
Individualized plans of care were developed to address declines in strength, balance and coordination that limited safe ambulation with decreased weight bearing status in her right leg and her ability to complete self-care without additional caregiver assistance. She required assistance getting in and out of bed, dressing, hygiene and for toileting as a result of the fractures.
With determination to return to her prior level of function,Rose successfully completed physical and occupational therapy programs. With the support of family, friends and loved ones who visited her with encouragement, Rose worked tirelessly to progress through the Ready…Set…Go! discharge-to-home program that promotes an easy-transition home and includes recommendations for home equipment.
Our personalized therapy programs are designed to improve your quality of life. Call our admissions department to schedule a tour.
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Virginian Leader, Grundy, Va., 4 Jun 2014: Congratulations James Monroe High School
A photograph appeared of Derrick Ryan Honaker, a 2014 graduate of James Monroe High School, Fredericksburg, Va.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 19 Mar 2014: The Burgs Schools--EastMont student Lauryn Honaker selected as scholar
The National Society of High School Scholars recently announced that Eastern Montgomery High School student Lauryn Honaker from Elliston [Montgomery Co., Va.] has been selected to become a member of the esteemed organization. The society recognizes top scholars who have demonstrated outstanding leadership, scholarship and community commitment. The announcement was made by the society’s founder and chairman, Claes Nobel, a senior member of the family that established the Nobel Prizes.
“On behalf of NSHSS, I am honored to recognize the hard work, sacrifice and commitment that Lauryn has demonstrated to achieve the exceptional level of academic excellence,” said Nobel. “Lauryn is now a member of a unique community of scholars—a community that represents our very best hope for the future.”
Membership in the society entitles qualified students to a wide variety of benefits, including scholarship opportunities, academic competitions, free events, members-only resources, publications, participation in programs offered by educational partners, personalized recognition items and publicity honors.
--Submitted by Julie Honaker
Lebanon [Va.] News, 21 May 2014: Appalachian College of Pharmacy Graduates Seventh Class
Oakwood, Va., May 12, 2014 and Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 15 May 2014—Appalachian College of Pharmacy proudly announces the graduation of the Class of 2014, its seventh class of graduates. Comprised of 70 students, the Class of 2014, their families, friends, and college faculty and staff gathered in Appalachian College of Pharmacy’s Garden Hall Sat., May 10, 2014 at 11 a.m. for the commencement exercises and hooding ceremony. The Hon. M. Keith Hodges, a delegate in Virginia’s House of Delegates (R-98th Dist.) and owner of Gloucester Pharmacy in Gloucester, Va., delivered the ceremony’s keynote address. Mr. Hodges emphasized the importance of perseverance and taking risks to accomplish one’s professional goals.
Dr. Justin Honaker, of Honaker, Va., elected by his classmates to give the student address, congratulated his classmates on their shared achievement. The students, from a total of 13 states, were awarded a Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) degree; at the conclusion of the ceremony. ACP assistant professor of pharmacy practice, Dr. Richard S. Nicholas, led the Class of 2014 in the Pharmacist’s Oath. (story continues)
Photo with cutline: “Dr. Justin D. Honaker, PharmD, Class of 2014, of Honaker, Va., was invited by his classmates to give the student address.”
Bastrop [La.] Daily Enterprise, 1 Apr 2014: an obituary on Jesse D. Brown Jr., whose wife was Anne McCormack Brown, gave as one of his children a son, Don Edward Honaker, whose wife was Mary, of Benton, La. There was a grandson, Don E., III.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 13 Jun 2013 (photo cutline) The Good Old Days—Upon first glance, one might think they were seeing in duplicate but in all actuality, they are viewing six sets of twins who attended the old one-room Cane Creek School in Dickenson County in 1946. Front row, Dorothy and Danny Honaker…The picture was taken by their teacher, Eloise T. Duty. Photo submitted by Pansy Colley of Orange, Va.
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 25 Feb 2013: Brickhouse Cardio holds dedication at future site, by Bill Archer
Photo cutline: Abby Honaker, owner of the Brickhouse Cardio Club, leads a prayer to officially dedicate the new location of the club Sunday. The Brickhouse will be moving from its present location near the Athens Crossroads to the former Schewels Furniture site beside the Werblin Center on Stafford Drive in Princeton
Princeton—The key to getting a good Zumba workout is to keep moving, and for the Princeton Brickhouse Cardio Club, moving will take on a new dimension over the next few weeks. The Brickhouse will be moving from its present location near the Athens Crossroads to the former Schewels Furniture site beside the Werblin Center on Stafford Drive in Princeton.
“We kinda knew we had to move to a larger facility,” Abby Honaker, Princeton Brickhouse Cardio Club owner said. “I had to turn 10 people away one night because we were too crowded. That’s probably 10 people we’ll never get back. It gave me the push I needed to move to a larger facility.”
Honaker invited Princeton Brickhouse members and friends to the future location for a combination prayer dedication plus painting session. “I just wanted to take a sec and pray over it,” Honaker said to a group of about 30 people who attended the event. “Thank you guys for coming out.” She admitted to being a little intimidated about the new challenge. “I figured asking the Lord for His help would be a good thing,” Honaker said.
Honaker said that she had considered the Stafford Drive location two years ago when she launched her Zumba franchise, but she decided to start at the Athens Crossroads location.
“We have to paint it and put the new floor in, but what do you think?” Honaker said to each of her friends who turned out for the event. She has plans for a reception area near the entrance and a yoga room in the back. “We might be in as early as mid-March, but I’m shooting for April,” Honaker said. “Our big second anniversary in business will be here on April 20,” she said.
In addition to the store, Honaker said she will get to put her sign on one of the poles in front. “This location has more parking and better lighting in the parking lot,” she said. “I think it will help people enjoy the experience.” Several people attending the dedication added their prayers to Honaker’s prayer before the group took up paint brushes and started working. --Contact Bill Archer at barcher@
Wytheville [Va.] Enterprise, 24-26 Dec 2010: Hospital honor longtime employees
Wythe County Community Hospital recently honored five employees for their dedication and length of service to the hospital. Ruby Hudson, Emergency Services nurse, was recently recognized for 20 years of service; Deborah Hurley in Food and Nutrition Services was honored for 25 years; Michael Honaker in the Respiratory Therapy Department was acknowledged for 20 years of service; Jennifer Akers was recognized by [stet.] for 20 years of service; and Hee Nam Park, RN, BSN was honored for 30 years of service. ….. Michael Honaker started at the hospital as a Certified Respiratory Therapist in 1990. He is currently a Registered Respiratory therapist and serves as the Respiratory Therapy Clinical Supervisor. Michael’s respiratory education was obtained from Southwest Virginia Community College. He graduated in 1987 from the Entry-Level Respiratory Care Practitioner program and the Advanced-Level program in 1996. In addition , he is certified as an instructor for AHA Pediatric Advance Life Support. He is married to Janet and has two stepsons, John and Luke Trent. Michael’s hobbies include horseback trail riding, camping and ice hockey. When asked about working at WCCH for 20 years Michael remarked, “Many places will say that their people make the difference, but here at WCCH it is really true. I am very blessed to work with some of the best people I have ever known.”
Lebanon [Va.] News, 14 Nov 2012, with photograph, cutline “Milissa Honaker Eddie Judd: Engagement & Forthcoming Marriage Announced
Mrs. Betty Taylor of Honaker and Larry Hagy of Pounding Mill announces the engagement of their daughter, Milissa Honaker of Cedar Bluff, to Eddie Judd of Greensburg, Ky. He is the son of Mr. & Mrs. Larry Judd of Greensburg, Ky. The wedding will take place Dec. 1, 2012 at 11 a.m. at Living Word Faith Center in Greensburg, Ky.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 27 Apr 2012 (photograph with cutline) “Dr. William Luke Blackburn, (pictured on right), recently graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa. Formerly of Pikeville, he is a graduate of Pikeville High School and the University of Kentucky. Dr. Blackburn is currently practicing at Collins Chiropractic in the Seattle, Wash., area. He is the son of Bill and Gail Blackburn and the grandson of Rose Honaker.”
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 24 Jun 2012: Eric and Ami Lester, of Princeton, are the parents of a son, Benjamin Mason Lester, born May 23, 2012, at Princeton Community Hospital. The baby weighed 8 lb. 2.4 oz. The mother is the former Ami Meadows. Grandparents are David and Becky Honaker of Princeton, Wayne and Lee Meadows of Greensboro, N.C., and Roger and Darlene Lester of Princeton.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 17 Feb 2011: History with Hayes—Not a Typical Night of Hoops in 1984, by Tim Hayes
At first glance, Feb. 21, 1984 was a typical night on the area high school basketball scene. Tennessee High eked out a 57-56 victory over archrival Virginia High. Rich Valley’s Dale Jackson gunned in 29 points as the Steers stopped Castlewood. Behind 30 points from David Breeding, Council collected a win over Saltville.
Oh yeah, Whitewood’s Danny Honaker scored 78 points as the Indians triumphed over Keokee, 139-69. Yep, you read that correctly. No misprint. Seventy-eight points. On that night late in the season, Honaker had the biggest scoring output of any player in the history of Southwest Virginia basketball.
It still ranks [fourth] on the state’s single-game scoring list according to the Virginia High School League record book, trailing only Johnny Morris (Norcom, 1961, 127 points), Freddie James, (Churchland, 1954, 83 points) and Roy Ebron (Booker T. Washington, 1970, 82 points).
So, how did this all come about?
Well, Honaker scored Whitewood’s first 12 points of the game and had 41 by halftime. He finished the night hitting 25 of 39 shots from the field and connecting on 28 of his 31 free throws.
Head coach Danny Yates told the Bristol Herald Courier when reporting the score later that night he didn’t want people to think he was running it up on overmatched Keokee. “I felt bad about it in a way and I apologized to the Keokee coach afterward,” Yates said. “But with Danny in the running for a school record we decided to let him stay in. I pulled the rest of my starters out early. “Without a doubt it was the greatest individual performance I’ve ever seen. I just hope nobody takes it the wrong way.”
Two things make the record even more impressive when looking back. The school record Yates was talking of was equally mind-bending. Mark Robinson had put up 74 in a game 14 years earlier. That made the two highest individual scoring games in Whitewood history 78 and 74 points. Amazing.
You also have to understand Whitewood played in a bandbox of a gym that had unique features and dimensions. Games that didn’t end up in triple digits were an oddity. The facility, which closed in 1987, once saw the hometown Indians defeat Rocky Gap, 155-114, in a 1970 game. That night Robinson finished with 65 points and 42 rebounds and Whitewood built a 43-28 lead–after one quarter.
Secondly, Honaker didn’t have much time to revel in his accomplishment. Twenty-four hours later he was on the floor at Hurley in an important contest. For an encore, he tossed in 31 points as Whitewood posted a victory and earned a share of the Black Diamond District regular-season title.
Whitewood would cease to exist in 2001 when it consolidated with Garden to form Twin Valley High School. But Whitewood’s hoops tradition is far from forgotten. You see, it turns out that February night in 1984 was anything but typical. It was full of history.
“When he gets hot, he’s like a firecracker,” Yates said of his scoring star that night nearly 20 years ago. “He’s had two 40-plus games already this season, but naturally I never figured something like this.”
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 10 Feb 2012 (with photograph, cutline Missy Honaker): Teacher of the Week—Every week, a teacher from one of the county schools—public and private—will be featured in “Teacher of the Week.” If all schools participate, by the end of the 2011-2012 school year, a teacher from every school will have been featured.
Name: Missy Honaker. School: Virgie-George F. Johnson campus. She teaches third grade reading. Educational Background: I graduated from Virgie High School in 1988 and from Morehead State University in 1992 (elementary education degree.) I received my master’s degree from Union College in 2007. Years Teaching: Seven. Favorite Subject to Teach: Reading. Best Moment as a Teacher: There are so many “best” moments that I could never choose just one. I will say that the most memorable times are when I can see “the” look in my students’ eyes that lets me know they realize at that moment they can be as successful as they desire to be and that I believe in them! Teaching Philosophy: I truly believe that every child is a unique individual who has the potential to bring something special to the world. I will help my students reach their full potential by believing in them and teaching them to believe in themselves. Strong Point in Teaching: I think my strong point would probably be my love for the children. This love is what drives me to want the best for each student. Pet Peeve: My biggest pet peeve is when teachers form an opinion of a student based on what others say, before they ever even interact with the student. Advice for Aspiring Teachers: My advice to anyone desiring to be a part of the teaching field is that although becoming a teacher is a long and difficult process, the experience of being able to make a difference in the lives of children is much more rewarding than you can ever imagine. Family: Married to Roy Honaker. Children: Savannah Honaker and Zachary Honaker.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 23-25 Dec 2013 (2-column photo by Cory Vance, with cutline): Shelby Valley’s Savannah Honaker blocks a Westside player during the Debbie Hunter Lady Memorial Tournament at Belfry Friday night.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 10 Jan 2014 (3-column photo by Randy White, with cutline): Shelby Valley’s Savannah Honaker pulls down a rebound against Pikeville Wednesday night in the 15th Region All “A” Classic at the East Kentucky Expo Center.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 1 Sep 2011: Jerod Honaker leads Tigers to impressive 31-14 win at Lebanon
Jerod Honaker ran for 171 yards and a touchdown on 22 carries, one of them a key 59-yard scoring run in the second half as Honaker pulled away in the second half to a 31-14 non-district win over Lebanon Friday at Tommy Bryant Stadium.
The season-opening victory broke the Tigers five-game losing streak against their Russell County rivals.
Jerod Honaker’s long TD run came on the first play of the second half and Honaker went on to outscore the Pioneers, 17-0, to snap a 14-14 halftime deadlock.
Scoring summary: Honaker 59 yard run…..Honaker 1 yard run…..
Lebanon [Va.] News, 15 Feb 2011: SWVA Touchdown Club Presents Player of the Year Awards
Photograph cutline: Jerod Honaker (left) receives the “Player of the Year” award from Coach Doug Hubbard.
Honaker High School 2011 football players were honored by the Southwest Virginia Touchdown Club last Wednesday night during a ceremony held at the Lebanon Bonanza Steakhouse. This is the third year that Tim Fields, owner of the restaurant, has sponsored the event. The Honaker High School “2011 Player of the Year” award went to Jerod Honaker. (story continues)
Honaker Tigers Players of the week throughout the 2011 season were: Jerod Honaker at Castlewood vs Honaker game. Jerod Honaker at Richlands vs Honaker game.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 23 Nov 2011: Tigers’ Honaker Runs Over Raiders, by Anthony Stevens
Photograph cutline: Tigers tailback Jerod Honaker (#5) running behind fullback Tyler Bailey (#31) in the win over J.I. Burton. Honaker scored four touchdowns for the Tigers.
Honaker—Perennial Lonesome Pine District power J.I. Burton didn’t have an answer for Jerod Honaker and the Tigers. Honaker amassed 293 yards rushing and scored four touchdowns to lead the Tigers to a 39-34 win over J.I. Burton at EMATS Stadium on a beautiful Saturday afternoon in the Western Section, Division I playoffs. Honaker was a workhorse. The Tigers ran 68 offensive plays with 40 of those handoffs to the premier tailback.
“That was our game plan,” commented Honaker. “My line just worked their tails off. It wasn’t me. It was the line, the fullback and the swing back. They were just in complete control.”
After struggling to put four quarters of football together the last few weeks, the Tigers put together an outstanding game against the Raiders. ….. “The offensive line did a tremendous job,” said [Honaker Coach Doug] Hubbard. “The fullback and our swing backs did a great job but Jerod was patient and made good cuts. He finished his runs strong, very few times did you see him get knocked backwards. That was the key.” Honaker scored on runs of four, two, seven and 17. The 17-yard scamper was the big one. It culminated a nine-play, 64 yard drive to give the Tigers their final margin. …..
The Tigers took the second half kickoff and quickly went up by two scores. It only took them two plays and 25 seconds to score. On the first play, Jerod gained 54 yards. Then he scored from seven yards out.
“I really think that was the big play, when we came out, went down the field and got up by two scores,” commented Hubbard. “I thought that was huge. …”
In 2010, Honaker Family Assn. member and researcher Johnny Honaker of Annandale, Va., found a web site for AirAligned Aerial Dance Group, whose site identified it as founded in 2002, and continued, “…Background training for the group varies from member to member including classical dance and gymnastics to in-depth training in several martial arts including kung fu san soo, tae kwon do, jujitsu, capoeira and extensive training in several forms of aerial arts. The group is available for hire for non-profit and for-profit agencies as well as corporate and commercial projects.”
The web site contained highly professional photos of the troupe and wonderful posters advertising its performances in Chicago and Sacramento, Calif. The following biographical information appeared, with photo, on Tresa Honaker, the troupe’s founder and artistic director:
“Tresa attended the St. Louis Visual and Performing Arts Academy on a dance scholarship, where she studied classical ballet, jazz, and modern dance. She worked exclusively with young children at the Lagervale Dance Institute in Minneapolis, Minn.
“On the West Coast, Tresa continues to choreograph and perform both in Northern California and in the Los Angeles area. She is involved extensively with The Edge and Focus Fish, in L.A., at Step I in Sacramento, and with Trapeze Arts and The San Francisco Circus School in San Francisco.
“Tresa was an accomplished young gymnast as well as a skilled diver and dancer. She was a founding member of The Movement Alliance Modern Dance Company and is currently the founder and director of AirAligned aerial dance group. Over the last several years as director of AirAligned, Tresa has produced several amazing, innovative works.
“Tresa is a seasoned instructor and has taught and choreographed for NCSA, Stellar Gymnastic Academy, TMA and for AirAligned. Tresa is currently the team Dance Coach at Rising Starz Gymnastics and a staff instructor for Sierra Dance Institute where she has worked for over six years teaching Jazz, Acro and Ballet.
“Tresa is a contributing member of The Center for the Arts in Grass Valley, Calif. She has directed, choreographed and performed for many events over the last several years and has been instrumental in the growth of children’s performance workshops held at The Center.”
Southwest Virginia Today, Saltville, Va., 12 Jul 2011: Wythe man found guilty on fraud charges, by Amanda Evans
A Wytheville man has been convicted on embezzlement charges stemming from his use of government funds to pay for items such as hay, a heat pump and shipping horse semen. Jurors in Mercer County, W.Va., found Robert Terry Honaker, 59, of Wytheville, guilty last Thursday on four counts of fraudulent scheme and not guilty on one count of fraudulent scheme and one count of obtaining money by false pretense. Each charge can carry up to a 10-year prison term.
Prosecuting Attorney Scott Ash said he couldn’t remember seeing such a widespread misuse of government funds. Honaker, a former Bluefield Sanitary Board executive director, was indicted in February 2010 after police investigations turned up discrepancies in the board’s finances.
Several years ago, members of the Board of Directors for the Sanitary Board became suspicious of the activities of Honaker and others, Ash said, and reported their misgivings to the Commission on Special Investigations, a watchdog-like group that specializes in overseeing how state funds are spent. The commission, made up of three men with extensive experience in investigations, confirmed the suspicions. Honaker was terminated from the position in 2007, three years prior to his indictment.
“The figures of the indictment,” stated Ash, “represent the tip of the iceberg, I believe.” The prosecution claimed Honaker used close to $1,700 to pay for shipping horse semen to horse breeders, $1,500 for a heat pump at his home and several thousand dollars for the purchase of several thousand bales of hay.
“It was a terrible breach of trust for the citizens of Bluefield,” Ash said. “I’m just happy the jury saw the same way that I read the evidence.” Four defendants who were indicted with Honaker entered plea agreements.
Honaker is out on bond and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 16.
Amanda Evans can be reached at 228-6611 or aevans@.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 30 Nov 2001, photo cutline: Honaker-Tackett—Mike and Donna Honaker of Elkhorn City announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Stephanie, to Seth Tackett, son of Eddie and Kathy Tackett of Pikeville. The bride-elect is a 1995 graduate of Elkhorn City High School and is employed by Sykes Enterprises. Tackett is a 1997 graduate of Pikeville High School and is employed by Whayne Supply. The wedding will take place at half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, Sat., Dec. 8, 2001 at the Elkhorn City Church of Christ. A reception will follow immediately after the ceremony. The custom of open church will be observed.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 13 Aug 2011, Whayne employee honored, photo cutline: Pike County Judge-Executive Wayne T. Rutherford presents Ted Honaker an Honorary County Judge certificate in recognition of his over 30 years at Whayne Supply. Honaker retired in May of this year.
Roanoke [Va.] Times, 29 Dec 2011: What will the new year bring? A job, some hope, by Amanda Codispoti
Photo cutline: Amber Honaker, 27, talks with Suzanne Gandy and Joe Stanley with 101.5 The Music Place during Roanoke’s annual Holiday Career and Lifestyle Fair. The fair targets Roanoke natives returning home for the holidays.
Chris Haden is looking for a job in Roanoke so he can relocate from South Carolina and be closer to his family.
Amber Honaker has a job in retail but is searching for something better and more pertinent to her college degree.
Sharlett Poindexter is still in college and looking for work to give herself a jump on her career when she graduates.
In today’s economy, one might expect the 600 job seekers at Roanoke’s annual holiday job fair to be part of the 6 percent of Virginians who are unemployed. But the job fair on Wednesday at the Roanoke Civic Center didn’t convey a mood of desperation. Instead, not only were the 57 businesses in attendance hiring, but they courted a smaller pool of applicants than last year, when the state’s unemployment rate was 6.4 percent.
It’s the sixth year the city has put on the Holiday Career and Lifestyle Fair, which not only helps the unemployed but also targets native Roanokers returning home for the holidays. The next job fair is scheduled for April 25.
Job openings ranged from hospitality-related positions at The Homestead to management jobs at Waffle House, from case aid workers at Goodwill to software engineering jobs at Sunapsys in Vinton, from commercial real estate positions with Thalhimer to law enforcement openings with the Virginia State Police.
Honaker, 27, has been working the sales floor at Men’s Wearhouse. But it’s not the career path she had in mind when she graduated from National College with a degree in tourism and hospitality.
“I’m very lucky to have a job,” she said. Impending student loans and the desire to use her degree, perhaps as a relocation specialist, are what prompted her to attend the job fair, she said.
“If I don’t step up my game, I’ll be in the same situation” as some of the other job seekers, she said.
[story continues unrelated to Honaker]
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 Mar 2011: W.Va. chief justice to determine if Sadler can preside in Honaker case, by Greg Jordan
Princeton—West Virginia’s chief justice will decide whether a Mercer County judge should preside over the trial of a Bluefield man facing charges of financial wrongdoing related to the Bluefield Sanitary Board.
Robert Terry Honaker, 58, of Wytheville, Va., was indicted February 2010 with fraudulent scheme and obtaining money under false pretenses. The charges were the result of an investigation into finances at the Bluefield Sanitary Board.
Honaker appeared Monday in Mercer County Circuit Court for pretrial hearing before Judge William Sadler.
Honaker’s attorneys made a motion that Judge Sadler recuse himself from the case because he had previously made a ruling in a civil case involving Honaker that related to credibility, according to Prosecuting Attorney Scott said.
Sadler ruled that there may be the possibility of a conflict, so the chief justice of the State Supreme Court of Appeals will be asked to rule on the matter, Ash said.
Honaker’s trial is scheduled for May 2.
Unknown W.Va., newspaper, probably Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va., unknown date:
Cops: Man used truck, ATV in assault, theft Beckley—A man who crashed his pickup through the door of a liquor store after striking two people with his all-terrain vehicle earlier is being held on $75,000 bond. Forty-one-year-old Ralph Edward Honaker of Surveyor was in the Southern Regional Jail Tuesday. Charges include domestic assault and battery, attempted malicious assault, destruction of property, breaking and entering, petit larceny, fleeing police, obstructing an officer, battery on a police officer and leaving an accident scene. State Police Capt. S.F. Van Meter says Honaker struck two people with the ATV during a dispute at home Sunday night, then fled. He crashed into CJ’s Tobacco and Liquor in Beckley, stole some liquor and returned home. Van Meter says he then fled from and fought with police.
Ben R. Honaker, of Ohio Co., W.Va., Republican, was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, elected 1950.
Baltimore [Md.] Sun, 8 Jan 2011: Elkton man with swords fatally shot after confronting state troopers
Maryland State Police said they shot and killed a Cecil County man Friday night after he confronted troopers, pulling out a sword and carrying what appeared to be a rifle and a handgun. According to a police news release, Jason E. Honaker, 25, of the 700 block of W. Pulaski Highway in Elkton, was pronounced dead after undergoing surgery at Christiana Hospital in Wilmington, Del. State police said the man pulled a short, curved martial arts-type sword while he was less than 10 feet from troopers, and one officer, fearing for his life, shot him with a handgun.
Honaker had called state police, the release said, and told an officer that police must come to his apartment or he would kill his neighbor. Two officers, identified as Trooper 1st Class Matthew Telep and Trooper Brian Schweers, arrived and were met by Honaker’s girlfriend. Police said the woman told them Honaker was armed with “swords and guns” and had consumed a pint of vodka, then led them to a bedroom where he was located.
Troopers ordered him to come out, and when he emerged, police said, he was carrying a 2-foot sword and what appeared to be a rifle. Police later determined the gun to be an air rifle. Honaker also had another sword
Roy J. Honaker, son of Albert Honaker and Julia Unknown, married Edna Pack, widow, daughter of Thomas and Evelyn Unknown, 11 Aug 1945 in Scarbro, Fayette Co., W.Va. They were both 39 years old. She may have been Edna Bolt, widow of Howard W. Pack, who died 1927 in a mine explosion.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 6 May 2010: Marriage Licenses—Keith Edward Honaker, 19, and Lorie Ann Pryce, 22, both of Rowe, April 23.
Russell Co., Va. marriage records show that a Mollie W. Honaker married Alfred Hart 28 Apr 1883.
Air Force Print News Today, 18 Aug 2010 (photo cutline): Air Force Col. Kenneth Honaker, right, salutes Col. John Weeks, 919th Special Operations Wing commander, before accepting the [flag] of the 919th Maintenance Group during a change of command ceremony Dec. 5, 2009 at Duke Field, Fla. [The 919th is the Air Force Reserve’s only special operations wing. It operates MC-130 Combat Talon and Combat Shadow aircraft designed for covert operations.]
Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W.Va., 7 Aug 2011: Joshua David and Paige M’Leigh Honaker, of Rocky Gap, Va., are the parents of a son, born July 6, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Konnor Lee Honaker weighed 8-lb. 15-oz. The mother is the former Paige Fulcher. Grandparents are Melissa and Kevin Hedges of Princeton, and James and Beth Morris of Twin Branch.
U.S. Air Forces in Europe Public Affairs, 18 Aug 2010 (photo cutline): Staff Sergeant Elizabeth Honaker is a native of Barberton, Ohio. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance from Youngstown State University in 2000.
In 2001 Sergeant Honaker joined the Air Force and was assigned to the Heritage of America Band, Langley AFB, Va. She proceeded to serve in the Band of Flight, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, in 2005, and has been stationed with the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Band at Sembach AB, Germany since 2008.
Sergeant Honaker plays the flute in Winds Aloft, Concert Band, and Ceremonial/Marching Band. In her spare time, Sergeant Honaker likes to read, play pool, and spend time with her family, friends, and cats, Betty and Sally.
Honaker Family Newsletter, Summer 2010 (with photographs): Miss San Francisco—Preliminary to Miss California and Miss America
Once a competitive gymnast and cheerleader, Nicole Honaker is now reaching new heights as the newly crowned Miss San Francisco 2010. This California State University, Sacramento alumna graduated with a degree in Kinesiology with plans to pursue a masters degree in Business Administration.
Sports and nutrition have always appealed to this California beauty. Her accomplishments include coaching three state champions in her first year as a competitive gymnast coach. She’s also a member of a nationally ranked collegiate cheerleading team. Additionally, Nicole is passionate about working with children and health causes. She’s interned at the Autism Center for Excellence and the University of California Davis Medical Center Emergency Room.
In her spare time, Nicole enjoys adventure and outdoor activities from swimming with dolphins to skydiving. Recognizing that she’s a role model for young girls in San Francisco, she’s an advocate of eating right, exercising, and staying on top of your health.
Crowned March 21, 2010, Nicole will spend the year as a San Francisco ambassador and will be the city’s official representative at the Miss California competition at Fresno. During the year she will make appearances on behalf of charities, sponsors, and civic events. As a benefit of her achievement, she will work with a team of professionals on educational,
professional and personal endeavors. Source: index.htm, 8 May 2010
Nannie Honaker Wilson, b. 25 Jul 1914, d. 9 Sep 1965, daughter of Tom & Mattie Honaker and widow of Willie Wilson, is buried in McGlothlin Family Cemetery, Buchanan Co., Va.
Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 1992) (with photograph), Ashland, Ashland Co. [Ohio] Historical Society, 2008: Howard Honaker
Howard Honaker and softball have become synonymous, not only in Ashland, but around Ohio and the entire nation. As an administrator, Honaker has been Amateur Softball Association state commissioner for 22 years, guided the organization’s national office for two years (1980-81), was a member of the United States Olympic Committee for four years and International Softball Federation delegate for five years.
Honaker was inducted into the ASA National Hall of Fame in 1987. Six years earlier, he had been inducted into the ASA’s Ohio Hall of Fame. Honaker played a large role in the tremendous growth of the sport over the past two decades, and takes great pride in the role softball now enjoys in the Olympic Games. Softball has not been Honaker’s lone administrative strength. He also has been president of the Ashland Little League, Ashland Pony League, and Ashland Colt League. He also managed numerous youth baseball, soccer, basketball, and golf teams. In addition, Honaker started and founded the National Industrial Recreation Association bowling tournament. Softball, however, is what Honaker will be best remembered for. He even dabbled in managing the Faultless Rubber fastpitch team over 30 years ago, helping lay the groundwork for the club becoming a world-class power.
Under Honaker’s leadership, Ohio has led the nation in umpire registration for 17 straight years and in adult team registration 13 of the last 17 years. As an athlete, Honaker won two varsity letters in football, track, and baseball at Ashland High School. He was also the sports editor of his high school paper and later was a correspondent for both the Ashland Times Gazette and Mansfield News Journal. Honaker has always been known as a tremendous family man. While his numerous work and administrative-related activities kept him away from home for many hours, he has always tried to include his family in those activities and his traveling. “He is definitely responsible for helping make Ashland a better place to raise a family,” says one of his biggest supporters – son Dave. Nominator: Dave Honaker
Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 2000) (with photograph), Ashland, Ashland Co. [Ohio] Historical Society, 2008: David F. Honaker
The success of David F. Honaker as an athlete encompasses three sports and spans from the playing field to the coaching arena. An Ashland native, Dave has achieved recognition and high honors in basketball, baseball, and softball, both as a player and as an outstanding coach. On the basketball court, he helped Ashland win three straight Cardinal Conference titles. Named All-Cardinal Conference in his junior and senior years with Ashland High School, he was named All-District in both those years. Named All-Ohio his senior year as well as Most Valuable Player, he remains among the top 20 all-time scorers at AHS. He went on to play college basketball at Alderson Broaddus College in West Virginia and Wooster College.
Dave served as assistant basketball coach in the Ashland City Schools for 15 years. The past two years, he has been head coach at Hillsdale High School where he holds a record of 31-12 and named District 4 Coach of the Year in 1999. An enduring competitor, he continues to play in many independent leagues. He played two years of varsity baseball at AHS and was all-Cardinal Conference his junior year. He received an invitation to try out with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization Dave has served as District Commissioner for the Amateur Softball Association for 25 years where he has been a state leader in registration of teams, tournaments, and umpires. In 1996, he was inducted into the Ohio A.S.A Hall of Fame. He has been a strong voice in keeping fastpitch alive in Ohio.
A commanding presence on the playing field, Dave has competed in both fastpitch and slowpitch for over 25 years. He has pitched and played third base in fastpitch. He pitched in the 40 and Over National Fastpitch Tournament in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994, placing fifth, and in Las Vegas, Nev., in 1993. In 1989, he pitched in the “B” Nationals in Sacramento, Calif. Dave was named All-Ohio twice and All-Regional once as a player. He has managed the Ashland Abbott team, winning the state title in 1996 and going 2-2 that year in Nationals at College Station, Texas. In 1998, Dave and his team went 2-2 in Nationals in Prescott, Ariz. The following year, his team went back to College Station, Texas, and went 3-2, finishing 13th in the U.S.A.
A lifetime resident of Ashland, Honaker has been with Western-Southern Life Insurance for 25 years and has been a long-time top producer for the company, earning many sales awards. He has four grown children and one granddaughter. Chad, who is the all-time leading scorer in AHS basketball history, is 26 and a CPA. He and his wife, Erika, have a daughter, Ryleigh, who is one year old. Jeff, also a top ten all-time scorer at AHS, is 23 and attends Akron Law School. Twin daughters are 21: Hayley Marth, married Chad Marth, resides in Missouri where her husband is stationed in the U.S. Air Force; Heather is a beautician and resides in Columbus. Dave was raised with sports and community-mindedness a strong presence. His father, Howard Honaker, is also a member of the Ashland County Hall of Fame. Nominator: Howard Honaker
Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame (Class of 2004) (with photograph), Ashland, Ashland Co. [Ohio] Historical Society, 2008: Chad Honaker
When one thinks of sports in Ashland, particularly boy’s basketball and men’s softball, one of the first names that comes to mind is “Honaker.” The 2004 induction of Chad Honaker brings the total family members in the Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame to three, as he follows in the footsteps of his grandfather Howard, inducted in 1992, and his father Dave, inducted in 2000. Chad was raised at the ball parks and gymnasiums in Ashland, spending most of each summer during his youth as a bat boy for the varsity men’s fast pitch teams that his father played for and most of each winter as a ball boy for the Arrow Freshman and eighth grade teams that his father coached. Chad’s personal accomplishments began on the baseball diamond at the young age of eleven, when he started touring the Midwestern United States as part of the Johnny Appleseed Baseball Club. A few years later, he was part of the 13 and Under Pony League baseball All-Star team from Ashland which won numerous qualifying tournaments and was one win from qualifying for the 13 and Under World Series, one of the most successful runs of any Ashland team in the age category.
It was, however, upon entering the varsity high school basketball scene that Chad began to truly make his mark. Starting every game at Ashland High School for his tenth grade year on. Honaker set the sophomore scoring record and helped the Arrows to win their first winning season in nearly a decade. As part of this, he was also one of the few sophomores to earn All-Ohio Heartland Conference honors as well as All-Ashland Area accolades. As a junior, Honaker averaged nearly 18 points per game and helped lead the Arrows to another winning season. Chad was awarded First Team All Ohio Heartland Conference as well as earning All Ashland Area and All Northwest District recognition. As a senior during the 1991-92 season, Honaker led both the Ohio Heartland and the Ashland Area in scoring, averaging nearly 24 points per game, and in the process led the Arrows to their third winning season in a row. It was during this season that Chad broke the all time Ashland High School scoring mark (1,113) points, as well as setting the standard for the most 3-point baskets in a game, season, and career. Honaker earned First Team All-Ohio Heartland Conference, Ashland Area Player of the Year, First Team All Northwest District, Special Mention All-Ohio and participated in the News Journal North-South All Star game.
While at Ashland High School, Honaker also lettered three years on the golf team. He was a member of the state qualifying team of 1990, and was First Team All-Ohio Heartland Conference both as a junior and senior. His senior year, Honaker took medalist honors at the McClean Invitational, held at Brookside Golf Course in Ashland, and placed in the top five at numerous other events throughout the year. Upon graduating from Ashland High School, Honaker enrolled at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. As a freshman basketball player, Honaker earned significant playing time, and even started numerous games. He was the only freshman in his class to earn a varsity letter in basketball.
In the summer of 1993, Honaker jumped into the men’s fast pitch scene, playing first with Ohio Carbon, then Abbott Laboratories, Ashland Lumberjacks, and currently with Ashland Coors Light. In twelve years of playing, Honaker has played in eleven ASA national tournaments, acting as a player/manager for five of those years. In 2001, at the ASA Class C National Tournament in Hastings, Neb., Chad hit .685 and won the overall batting title. The following year at the NSA World Series in Salem, Va., Honaker managed the Abbott Laboratories squad to a runner-up finish, and earned First Team All Tournament Honors. Honaker also spent six years as the Assistant Boy’s Varsity Basketball coach at Hillsdale High School, the last three as an assistant to his father Dave. This stint with his father included the 2000-01 season which saw the Falcons have one of the most successful runs in Hillsdale High School history, posting a 24-1 record, and recording a Wayne County League Championship and a District Championship.
Chad married high school sweetheart Erika (Clark) in the summer of 1996 and they have two daughters, Ryleigh age 5 and Reegan age 3. The Honaker family continues to reside in Ashland where Chad, who earned his CPA designation in 1999, is the Vice President of Finance at Bendon Publishing International and Erika, a former schoolteacher, now enjoys being a stay at home mother. Chad would like to acknowledge and thank his parents, Dave Honaker and Sandie Maynard, his brother Jeff, also a leading point scorer in Ashland High School basketball history, his sisters Hayley Marth and Heather Honaker, and his grand parents Howard & Kitty Honaker and Donna and the late Stanley Young for all of their support and encouragement. Nominator: Howard Honaker
Times-News, Kingsport, Tenn., 18 Dec 2009: Hatchet-wielding suspect charged in Bristol Quik Stop robbery, by Kacie Breeding
Blountville—Sullivan County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a man suspected of using a hatchet to rob a Bristol Quik Stop. Christopher Michael Honaker, 32, 1020 Fifth St., or 470 Bristol Caverns Highway, Bristol, Tenn., is charged with aggravated robbery, aggravated assault and theft in connection with a Dec. 12 robbery at the Quik Stop/BP station on Highway 11-W.
According to Sullivan County Sheriff's Det. Sgt. Dora Cessor’s report, witnesses said a white male came into the store about 5 a.m., bought a cigar and left. The same white male came back into the store a minute later to buy another cigar but didn’t have enough money. He pulled something with a shiny handle from under his shirt and the clerk activated the alarm. The suspect had a hatchet and went behind the counter demanding the money from the register.
A regular customer who was in the store at the time stepped between Honaker and the door as he tried to leave with the money. Honaker swung the hatchet at him, missing his chest by a mere five or six inches. Honaker left the store in what was described as a faded red Chevy Blazer type vehicle.
Cessor’s report says Honaker was waiting outside in a faded red GMC Jimmy when the clerk arrived to open the store about 5 a.m. The clerk said she waited until the SUV left the parking lot to open the door, and that she had locked the door behind her until a regular customer arrived. When she let that customer in, Honaker had been waiting at the other door so she let him in as well. Honaker made no attempts to hide his identity, and the incident was captured on surveillance video.
Alderson [W.Va.] Advertiser, 19 Aug 1936: Indians Show Promise of Developing Into a Formidable Team, by J.R. Dodie Vaughn
…..The backfield quartet of Honaker, Simmons, Copeland and Hedrick are really looking good, with the first named showing promise of developing into a real ball carrier…..
Alderson [W.Va.] Advertiser, 4 Sep 1936: Great Things Expected of Indians—Alderson High School Slated to have Best Grid Team Since ‘32
…..[Coach Abe McLaughlin] is especially pleased with the looks of Pugh, Honaker, and Hedrick, backs…..
Alderson [W.Va.] Advertiser, 18 Sep 1936: Indians Play at Rainelle Tomorrow in Opening Tilt, by J.R. Dodie Vaughn
…..and Melvin Honaker will form the starting backfield in the opener and all four have been working hard and will probably be heard from tomorrow. Honaker playing his first year of football is fast, elusive, a good runner, an excellent blocker, a good passer and kicker, but his first game against real opposition will be watched closely Alderson fans.
Probable Alderson starting line-up tomorrow: …H.B. Honaker…
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 22 Dec 2009: An obituary on Ruth Gail Fletcher Burton, widow of William Varis Burton, said she was survived by a daughter, Phyllis, wife of Tommy Honaker of Rocky Gap, Va.
Albion [Mich.] Morning Star, 5 Jul 2009 (with photograph): 1949 Albion Malleable Giants—Summer has traditionally been a great time in Albion’s history for that great American past-time, the sport of baseball/softball. One team that was prominent for many years was the Albion Malleable Giants, sponsored by our leading foundry.
Malleable ball teams date back to the turn of the century, ca. 1900. Later, when Malleable secretary-treasurer Montford B. Murray began recruiting African-American men living in the South to work at the Malleable beginning in 1916, he was also recruiting ball players for the team. As a result, Malleable teams of the 1920s especially gained a reputation of being strong competitors as they played across Southern Michigan.
From our Historical Notebook this week we present a photo of the 1949 Albion Malleable Giants. This photo was taken Aug. 21, 1949 at Victory Park, just prior to the game against Pulaski. That game ended in a 5-5 tie after the Pulaski players walked off the field following the Giants’ tying run in the 10th inning.
Front row, (L-R) Manager Willie Harris, Bill Honaker, Henry Newton (bat boy’s helper), Allen Harris (bat boy), and William Chandler. Middle row: Eli Lewis, John Woods, Nathaniel Howard, James McIntosh, Roy Stallworth, Josephus Jones, Ed Honaker, and Dale McDonald. Top row: George Stallworth, Ulysses Curtis, A.D. Ware, Richard Anderson, Jessie Davis, Charles Gray, and Bob Habern. How many of our readers remember the Albion Malleable Giants?
Wikipedia online encyclopedia, 22 Dec 2009:
Richard Henderson Honaker, born March 10, 1951, is a lawyer in Rock Springs, Wyo., who was nominated Mar. 19, 2007 by U.S. President George W. Bush to serve as one of three U.S. District Judges for the District of Wyoming. The nomination was given the highest “well qualified” rating by the judicial evaluation committee of the American Bar Association. Honaker was initially recommended to Bush by U.S. Sen. Craig L. Thomas of Wyoming, who died some three months later. Honaker had co-chaired Thomas’ reelection campaign in 2006 in Rock Springs.[1] Honaker never obtained a Senate vote on his confirmation. The succession of Barack Obama to the presidency ended his candidacy. Had he been confirmed, Honaker would have succeeded Judge Clarence A. Brimmer in Cheyenne.
Honaker was one of two children adopted by Hayward E. Honaker (1911-2001) and the former Faola Henderson (born 1917) in Laramie, the seat of Albany County in southern Wyoming. He has a sister (born 1954.) The Honakers were of Swiss ethnicity; originally “Honegger,” they came to Philadelphia, Pa., in the early 18th century. One of Honaker’s ancestors was with George Rogers Clark in the march to Vincennes, Indiana during the American Revolution. The Honakers settled in western Virginia, and most Honakers still reside in either Virginia or West Virginia.[2] Honaker’s paternal family came to Laramie in 1919 and operated a grocery store and meat market. His maternal family came to the Bighorn Country in 1915 and farmed sugar beets.
Honaker graduated in 1969 from Laramie High School and was the first member of his family to receive a college degree. He procured his bachelor of arts with honors in English and government in 1973 from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. At Harvard, he and future U.S. Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota washed dishes together as work-study students. Still another classmate of Honaker’s was the assassinated Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan. At Harvard, he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Club.[3]
In 1976, Honaker obtained his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Wyoming Law School in Laramie. He worked his way through law school by serving as the night editor of the Laramie newspaper with the unusual name the Daily Boomerang.[3] Honaker is recognized by Super Lawyers magazine as among the top 5 percent of attorneys in the United States.[4] In 1989 he was licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.[5]
From 1976-1978 he was a state assistant attorney general and an aide to Democratic Gov. Edgar Herschler. In 1979 Herschler named Honaker as Wyoming’s second state public defender, in which capacity he supervised in criminal law the work of thirty trial lawyers during a two-year stint. While he was a public defender, Honaker prosecuted a lengthy homicide case in Rock Springs and decided to open a law office there. He is the only person to have served as president of both the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association and Wyoming Bar Association, a position he held in 2002 and 2003. He was appointed by the Wyoming Supreme Court to the bar association’s rules and disciplinary committees.[6]
From 1987-1993, Honaker served in the Wyoming House of Representatives as a conservative Democrat from Rock Springs, the seat of Sweetwater County. Part of a five-member Sweetwater County delegation, Honaker’s three terms coincided with the administration of Democratic Gov. Michael J. Sullivan, who endorsed Honaker’s judicial nomination. Honaker served on the House corporations, judiciary, and rules committees.[5] He did not run for a fourth term in 1992 because of redistricting. He changed his affiliation to Republican in 1994 and was defeated in a bid to return to the Wyoming House under a revised district plan. Honaker said that his party switch was motivated by his opposition to policies of U.S. President Bill Clinton. Since 2000 Honaker has maintained a solo law practice in Rock Springs, a Democratic and organized labor stronghold within usually otherwise Republican-leaning Wyoming.[7]
In 2002 Honaker joined the Federalist Society, a body from which President Bush has procured numerous court nominees. He is a board member of the Home School Legal Defense Association.[8] He has also been an adjunct professor of business law at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs.[9]
Honaker is an elder at Providence (formerly Pilgrim’s) Reformed Church in Rock Springs, a small congregation akin to conservative Presbyterian.[10] In 1978 he married the former Shannon Kathleen Casey (born 1957), originally from the state capital of Cheyenne, the seat of Laramie County. The wedding ceremony, held in the home of Shannon’s parents, was performed by U.S. District Judge Alan B. Johnson, based in Cheyenne. Johnson first met Honaker when Honaker headed the indigent defender program. Judge Johnson describes Honaker as having a “warm and attentive demeanor to all persons without regard to their station in life.” If confirmed to the court, Honaker and Johnson would be judicial colleagues.[11]
The Honakers have three children. Shannon Honaker is the chairman of the Sweetwater County Republican Party and a trustee of Western Wyoming Community College.[12] The Shannon C. Honaker Scholarship, created by then-Rep. Honaker in 1991, is given annually to a home-educated student attending the University of Wyoming.[13]
Abortion Question
The Senate Judiciary Committee under Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont delayed holding a hearing on Honaker’s nomination until Feb. 12, 2008. His nomination has since been held up in committee. Opposition has also come from interest groups which support access to abortion: National Abortion Rights Action League Pro-Choice America, Feminist Majority, and Planned Parenthood, among others.[14]
In his legislative races, Honaker was supported by the Wyoming National Right to Life Committee. In 1991 and 1992, Honaker introduced a bill that would prohibit abortion in Wyoming except in cases of rape, incest, or the threat to the life of the mother. His colleagues defeated the bill both years. Honaker explains that his activity post-dated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a 1989 case from Missouri. The court then had impliedly invited legislation regarding abortion from the states. In the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, the court closed the door on such proposals. More than 40 states considered abortion legislation during that time.[2]
In 1994 Honaker represented a political action committee that sought to get the anti-abortion measure on the ballot as a statewide initiative.[15] The case was reported as Wyoming NARAL v. Karpan. Honaker was not involved in drafting the initiative because he maintained that the Casey decision had rendered the measure moot. “My client, the PAC, thought otherwise and paid me to represent their views. . . . I won the case, and then the voters of Wyoming voted down the initiative by a 61-39 percent margin,” Honaker explained.[2] At the time, Honaker said: “Unborn children are human beings, and abortion is the taking of the life of an unborn child who is a member of the human race,” a statement which alarmed abortion-on-demand proponents.[9]
Honaker has, however, procured support from some abortion supporters: Robert Shively, a Casper lawyer who formerly represented Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains,[16] Kate Fox of Cheyenne, who formerly represented Wyoming NARAL in the case,[17] and former Democratic State Senators Lisa Kinney[18] and Bob Reese,[19] and State Representative Don Sullivan of Cheyenne.[20]
Eric M. Alden of Wheatland in southeastern Wyoming, a former Republican legislator who opposed Honaker’s anti-abortion bills, was nevertheless quoted accordingly in the Casper Star-Tribune: “I believe he has the potential to be one of the finest trial judges ever to serve in this state. His commitment to fairness is second to none. I can truthfully say that there is no person I would rather have as a judge on a case, no matter what side of any issue I was on, than Dick Honaker.”[21]
Wyoming leaders rally for Honaker
Shortly before his death, Senator Thomas released a statement which asserts that Honaker “has a broad range of experience over the last 30 years in both state and federal courts in Wyoming. While his credentials are certainly outstanding, I am particularly impressed with his character and his values which are deeply rooted in Wyoming. He has the right judicial philosophy—he knows the importance of interpreting the law while not legislating from the bench.[3]
Republican U.S. Sen. Michael B. Enzi also hailed Honaker’s nomination: “[He] will be an excellent jurist . . . He has the experience and the temperament to serve our state and the judiciary well. . . . He knows the difference between legislating—from his experience as a Wyoming representative—and judging—from all his years of court work. Since the criteria is fairness, I want to assure you, Richard is among the fairest people I know.”[22]
Enzi’s Republican colleague, John Barrasso of Casper, who succeeded Thomas, agrees: “I know Mr. Honaker and respect him as an individual. I admire his legal abilities and his passion for the law. There is no question he is ready to fill the seat for which he has been nominated.”[22]
Judge Brimmer describes Honaker as “very well-qualified” for the position.[23] Former Governor Sullivan, in a letter to U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, defends Honaker: “He is not, as some have tried to portray him, a radical or person of extreme views.” Sullivan said that he has observed Honaker, as a lawyer for injured plaintiffs, having represented clients “very well . . . with care and concern. . . [He] carries a demeanor which would translate into a classic judicial temperament and a respect for and an understanding of the rule of law and legal precedent which would position him to be an outstanding trial judge.”[24]
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1. Casper Star-Tribune online - Wyoming
2. Statement of Richard Honaker, Apr. 24, 2008
3. Casper Star-Tribune online
3. Richard H. Honaker :: Lawyer - Rock Springs, Wyoming (WY) :: Attorney Badge :: Super Lawyers
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5. USDOJ: OLP: Honaker Resume
6. National Abortion Federation: Nomination of Richard H. Honaker
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15. Letter from Robert Shively to Patrick Leahy, July 12, 2007
16. Letter from Kate Fox to Patrick Leahy, July 16, 2007
17. Letter from Lisa Kinney to Patrick Leahy, July 5, 2007
18. Bob Reese, Guest Editorial, Casper Star-Tribune, Feb. 24, 2008
19. Letter from Don Sullivan to Joseph Biden, Feb. 21, 2008
20. Eric Alden, Letters and Commentary section, Casper Star-Tribune, March 28, 2007
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22. Letter from Clarence Brimmer to Richard Honaker, Apr. 3, 2007
23. Letter from Michael J. Sullivan to Edward M. Kennedy, Feb. 29, 2008
, 22 Dec 2009, a computer information service of The Cincinnati [Ohio] Enquirer, reported that Locust Corner Elementary School, New Richmond, Clermont Co., Ohio, had announced its honor roll and that Dana Honaker was on the honor roll for the sixth grade 1st quarter of the 2009-10 school year.
WVLT, Knoxville, Tenn., 25 Jun 2009 (with photographs): Teen one in half a million, by Alan Williams and Nick Bona
Union Co., Tenn.—A 14 year old Union County girl is one in nearly half of a million. That’s because she was actually hit by lightning on June 18th while powerful storms were rolling through East Tennessee. Madison Honaker and her family sat down with Volunteer TV News six days later to talk about the experience.
“I feel extremely lucky,” Honaker said. “I know what could have happened. I could have died very easily at the flip of a coin.” The odds when flipping a coin are 50/50. The odds of being struck by lightning are significantly higher. The National Weather Service says your estimated chance of being struck in any given year is 1/400,000. Honaker was struck after opening a sliding glass door into her home and holding onto the door frame.
“I had one hand here and another hand here,” she said while reenacting her position when she was struck. “The lightning traveled somewhere through the door, we could never figure that out, and went through my hand and out the other.” Experts say a single stroke of lightning contains between 100 million and 1 billion volts of electricity with a current averaging around 30,000 amps. As a comparison, a 100 watt light bulb draws 240 volts at a current of 1 amp.
Honaker was the victim of a contact strike, which occurs when someone is touching an object that has been struck by lightning. The jolt threw her several feet and onto her back. Family members quickly ran to her side. “I had to really get her to talk to me and focus because she was really confused,” said Marcaira Beeler, Honaker’s mother.
“I was just scared because I didn’t know if anything was broken and I couldn't figure out why my hands were burning, ”Honaker said. “I couldn't feel anything. All I could feel is tingling and burning.” She quickly became aware exactly what happened when she looked at where she had been holding onto the door frame. “It burned my hand and left a big swollen mark after knocking me back a good two or three feet,” Honaker said. “It just looked like I touched my hand to a cast iron skillet. It was all burned, like when you burn your hand on something.”
Honaker was quickly rushed to the hospital and spent the next three hours hooked up to monitors. Gradually the marks have faded and the burning feeling has mostly subsided. “There’s a little one right there,” she said pointing to her hand. “All of this was swollen. It was all puffed and bruised and I had a slight bruise on my arm. Six days later there was little physical evidence of where the bolt went through her, which she credits to those at the hospital who took quick action.
Lightning strikes have killed 15 people so far in 2009. They kill an estimated 70 Americans each year. For Honaker, her scary brush with Mother Nature makes quite a story to tell her friends at school, but more importantly, she’s just thankful for her quick recovery.
Watertown [N.Y.] Daily Times, 1 Aug 2009: An obituary for Thomas Schwalm, born in Oshkosh, Wisc., son of A. Thomas Schwalm and Doris Hardy Schwalm, said he had a surviving sister, Susan Schwalm Honaker, wife of William Honaker.
A 2009 funeral home obituary on Jerry Lee Patton of Clifton Forge, Va., formerly of Ronceverte, W.Va., said he was survived by a daughter Marcie Honaker, wife of Paul Honaker of White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., and grandfather of Brandon Honaker and Jacob Honaker.
Marriage Licenses of Frederick County [Md.], 1811-1840, Margaret E. Myers, lists a 4 Nov 1811 marriage between Peter Honicher and Susannah Welsh.
Times-Reporter, New Philadelphia, Ohio, 6 Oct 2009: Dover man facing felony charges—Shawn Honaker due back in court after alleged run-in with police, by GateHouse News Service.
Massillon, Ohio—A Dover man is facing felony charges for reportedly spitting on a Navarre police officer, kicking a paramedic and damaging a police cruiser window—all after being stopped for suspicion of drunken driving. Shawn Honaker, 23, of 5761 Short Dr., N.E., was arraigned Tuesday in Massillon Municipal Court on multiple charges. He is being held in the Stark County Jail on $100,000 bond.
Court records show Honaker was pulled over around 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the 500 block of Main St. N. by Navarre police officers Joseph Hill and Christopher Hummel. Officers found Honaker to be under the influence of alcohol and placed him in the rear of the cruiser, according to court records. Honaker was removed after he kicked the left rear window of the car, causing an estimated $800 in damage.
Following a brief struggle, Honaker was subdued after officers took him to the ground, Navarre Police Chief Scott Baushka said. “He refused the field (sobriety) tests and said he would take a breath test, but they never made it that far,” Baushka said.
Honaker was injured in the fall and started spitting blood and saliva on Hummel’s leg and foot. He later kicked a paramedic in the left shoulder while en route to Affinity Medical Center in Massillon for treatment, court records show. Court records also show Honaker is charged with two counts of assault, both fourth-degree felonies, vandalism, a fifth-degree felony, and misdemeanor counts of driving while intoxicated, driving with a suspended license for driving a vehicle intoxicated and speeding. Honaker is due back in court Thursday for a preliminary hearing.
Virginian Leader, Grundy, Va., 9 Sep 2009: A true sign of fall (with photograph,) cutline—Naida Honaker, member of the Methodist Church of Bluewell, W.Va., stirs the apples as they slowly cook to make apple butter at the MacArthur Inn in Narrows on Sat., Aug. 29, 2009. The church makes the apple butter, which is sold by the Inn, as a fund raising activity for the church.
Cleburne [Texas] Times-Review, 5 Oct 2009: Life-changing event—Self employed, single mother still recovering from effects of breast cancer, by Monica Green
When Leigh Anne Honaker found a lump in her breast, she immediately went to the doctor. “I did yearly mammograms,” the Cleburne woman said, “but I found the lump on my own.” She was 44 at the time, and her life changed forever in that moment. “My kids did not take it that well,” she said. “It was a real struggle.”
Honaker has two children and is raising a great-niece. She also has a daughter-in-law and three grandchildren. She faced the battle as a self-employed, single mother. “I had to quit work because it ended up I had chemo brain real bad, and I couldn’t work if I wanted to because I couldn’t get my thoughts straight,” she said. “I’m a hairdresser. Working wasn’t much of an option.”
Without work, money for treatments was hard to come up with. “Well I was one of the ones that did not have insurance so that was kind of a struggle but by the grace of God I was blessed with Dr. Trey Webb, Dr. Kent Hughes and Dr. Pot Luri,” she said. “Between those three I was able to have my biopsy and my mastectomy. “I will have to say Walls Regional Hospital too. Without them I couldn’t have done it either. They all pulled together and helped me get my biopsy and mastectomy at no charge or very minimal.” Luri led Honaker to a Medicaid program called Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention. “I tell everyone about this program,” she said. “It has taken me through the rest of my journey for health insurance reasons.”
Honaker went through two chemotherapy treatments. “The first one was the normal chemo, and the second one was the last resort, no other option chemo,” she said. After chemotherapy, she spent seven weeks in radiation, finishing in October 2008. “I tried to go back to work that October,” she said. “Just physically it was a very slow start. Mentally it was a very slow start. I got up doing pretty good, but with the economy I couldn’t afford to pay a lease so I had to quit.” She plans to begin working again soon.
“My best friend is opening a salon and helping me get back on my feet, which is a godsend,” she said. “We’re hoping to open Tuesday.” The salon, LaBelle Áme, is located at 212 S. Main St. Now 46, Honaker is gradually easing back into her routines. “It’s not back to normal,” she said. “I’m just a year out of radiation, so I got a little ways to go. I would say I’m about 75 percent back — mindwise too.”
“I got lymphedema in my arm. That will keep me from being able to be 100 percent in my profession.” Honaker said the hardest part is when the treatments are over. “When it’s over, everyone thinks it’s over, when it’s not really for us,” she said. “You have all the testing to make sure it’s not back. It’s not ever over.” Another hard part is the body recovering, she said. “That physically has been the hardest for me,” she said. “When you’re self employed, and you have no spouse, and you’re the only income, and you have to bounce back — you can’t do it without friends.”
Friends and support groups helped her through the struggle. “I joined the American Cancer Society support groups,” she said. “They were wonderful in helping out. We did Relay For Life, and we all had our own shirts. There were probably 30 or 40 of us.” She said she has also met many people since who have had it. “I was going through it with two people I know, and they both passed away. That was difficult,” she said. “When Stephanie [Huffman] passed I was freaking out, thinking ‘Am I going to be that person?’ ”
She advocates for breast cancer awareness with people she meets and through work. “You never know what people are going through until you’ve been through it yourself. It’s been a huge impact,” she said. “Mainly while I was sick and bald-headed, I was able to really advocate because people would approach me about it. I was able to share a lot of information, especially about the health care program.
“I advocate a lot through my work and talking about it. Two customers have ended up going and getting mammograms and found out they have lumps. With the mastectomy and reconstruction, people always want to talk about that. I’m hoping with this new business we’re opening we can really push for breast cancer awareness. “People have got to be aware and get early diagnosis and do something about it. That’s what I’ve learned, never wait.”
Monroe Watchman,Union, W.Va., 15 Jan 2009: Fire Destroys Home at Sweet Springs: …Another county residence, the home of Les and Leona Honaker on Knobs Road, was likewise totally destroyed by fire a few days after Christmas.
Billings [Mont.] Gazette, 7 Sep 2009: Billings attorney Liz Honaker has penchant for unpopular cases (with photograph,) by Ed Kemmick—
Billings [Mont.] attorney Liz Honaker, seen in her downtown office, opened her own practice in 1999. Lately, she’s handled some high-profile cases involving disputes over city and county code enforcement. As the granddaughter of a federal judge, Liz Honaker spent a lot of time in the courtroom as a young girl. It became a tradition for Judge William Jameson to take Honaker and her four siblings to the federal courthouse after church on Sundays. “We’d play in the courtroom while he wrote decisions,” she said. “We just kind of grew up like that.”
That helps explain why, many years later, as a single mother with two young boys, she decided to go back to school and earn a law degree. It was her mother’s example that helped determine what kind of law she would eventually practice.
Honaker’s father, Walker, a physician, died in 1965 when Liz was 12. Her mother, Mary Lucille, had been a nurse who practiced with her husband, and, after he died, she went back to school so she could become a public health nurse.
She worked for School District 2 for many years, setting up clinics in low-income schools and coordinating the collection of clothes for needy students. She and her five children spent many days cleaning and painting the homes of her clients, and she sometimes invited underprivileged children to join family excursions.
Honaker’s mother later earned a master’s degree and went to work as a counselor at the Mental Health Center, where she helped start outreach programs for low-income people and also helped open a neighborhood community center.
“That’s how we grew up—trying to help our mother help these people,” Liz Honaker said. “She stood up for people. She was a big influence on my life.” That attitude is reflected in some of the cases Honaker has taken on in recent years—cases that put her, a woman described by one colleague as “a shy introvert”—in the middle of front-page stories again and again.
Her most notorious client was Linda Kapsa, the Ballantine woman who was sentenced last month after pleading no contest to a charge of aggravated animal cruelty. County officials found two dozen dead dogs on Kapsa’s property and seized 200 other dogs, many of them injured and malnourished. On Friday, Honaker filed a lawsuit on behalf of two women who volunteered to care for Kapsa’s dogs while they were in Yellowstone County’s custody. The women, Penny Ronning and Kelly Dennehy, are suing the county and the group National English Shepherd Rescue, alleging breach of Kapsa’s plea agreement for not giving the volunteers preference in the adoption of four of the dogs.
Honaker also represented Bill Milligan, the owner of Good Stuff secondhand store on Broadwater Avenue, who has been fighting with Billings code enforcement officials for years. Another client in the news this summer was Charles Albert, whose ramshackle house burned to the ground in August, the day he was supposed to appear in Municipal Court to update the judge on his progress on a court-ordered cleanup of his South Side property.
Honaker said she has represented at least half a dozen similar clients whose disputes with city and county code enforcement authorities were settled out of court. She has been concentrating on cases that involve fundamental issues of constitutional and civil rights since opening her own law practice in 1999. “I think I was interested in that since I was a kid,” she said. “I was always interested in justice and seeing people get a fair shake.” It took her awhile, though, to be in a position to do that.
Like her mother, Liz Honaker worked at the Mental Health Center, where she was a social worker for two years, and then for 12 years she ran her own toy shop, Wee Whimseys, on Grand Avenue.
In 1991, newly divorced and with 2- and 6-year-old sons to take care of, she enrolled in law school at the University of Montana in Missoula, living with the boys in family housing. “It was hard at times,” she said. “I had to wait until they went to bed before I could study.” She earned a law degree in 1994, moved back to Billings and spent a year clerking for District Court Judge Robert Holmstrom. Before starting her own practice 10 years ago, she put in four years working at two other law firms.
The last person she worked for was Randy Nelson, who hired her as an associate in his independent law firm. Nelson had clerked for Holmstrom before Honaker, and it was Holmstrom’s high praise of Honaker’s intellect—and the fact that she had graduated first in her law class—that persuaded Nelson to hire her as an associate.
“She has extraordinary credentials,” Nelson said. “The intellectual ability she has—if you asked her to write a paper on recombinant DNA, she’d probably do it better than anyone.” Nelson said his practice is fast-paced and high-stress, dealing mostly with what he called institutional civil defense involving insurance companies. “We’re not exactly the bleeding-heart, lost-cause type of law firm,” he said, and, though Honaker did her work well, her heart clearly wasn’t in it. Nelson said she was drawn more toward people “who never in a million years could
afford to pay for her services.”
Nelson, who called Honaker “a shy introvert,” said he has been amused but not surprised to read about the cases in which she’s been involved lately. “I kind of smile and think she’s definitely in the niche for which she was “destined, he said.
Honaker feels that way, too. “I really want government to be accountable, and I really think they have to be if they want the people to be accountable,” she said. “It’s not like the most lucrative type of law,” she added. “And it sometimes makes enemies of people you don’t want to be enemies.”
The need for government accountability is what drew her to the Kapsa case, Honaker said. She objected to the way county officials conducted an involuntary cleanup of Kapsa’s property in 2003, and she filed Kapsa’s suit against the county in 2004. It was the county’s failure to obtain a warrant that led to an out-of-court settlement, which included a $45,000 payment to Kapsa. Another county case against Kapsa, in the early 1990s, was dismissed.
Honaker said the raid in 2008, which resulted in the animal cruelty charge against Kapsa, was unnecessary and vindictive.
She said Kapsa was working with her daughter, a veterinarian, to do something about her dogs and other animals, but the county swept in before she had a chance to deal with the problems. At Kapsa’s sentencing on the criminal charge, Honaker, her civil attorney, was the only person to testify on Kapsa’s behalf. Some people found that odd, not to say troubling, given the condition of Kapsa’s animals and the fact that Honaker was also president of the Yellowstone Valley Animal Shelter.
Honaker doesn’t see any conflict. “I never defended the condition of the animals,” Honaker said. “I was just offended by the way the county went in there. They brutalized the animals. They could have gone about this in a much different way.”
Honaker said she is a “great animal lover” who was asked to join the animal shelter board by former Billings City Councilwoman Joy Stevens, who was then board president. When Stevens resigned from the council and moved to Wyoming, Honaker took over as board president.
Honaker said the case of Charles Albert was similar to Kapsa’s. She said she understood the city’s desire to have Albert clean up his very messy property, but “I think they could have been more diplomatic about it.” Albert suffers from schizophrenia and was basically a junk collector for most of his life. What the city didn’t seem to understand, Honaker said, is that “the stuff he collected was precious to him. And he was living on his own without needing help from other people.”
Honaker did have kind words for City Administrator Tina Volek, who she said has gone out of her way since the fire to offer help in resettling Albert in a new house or apartment. “She’s been very decent and caring about it,” Honaker said.
In the case of Milligan, who recently had Municipal Court convictions for code violations overturned by a District Court judge, Honaker said the problem was that code enforcers ignored the nonconforming-use clause in city code, which should have prevented the city from trying to make Milligan’s decades-old business conform to rules created years after he started the business.
“Bill and Cindy Milligan have been tortured for a decade,” she said. Milligan, understandably, is a fan of Honaker’s.
“She kept the big, bad wolf from blowing over the straw house of this little piggy,” he said. But, beyond helping him win his case, Milligan said, Honaker always appeared personally interested in his plight, not in the money she might make off it or the time she’d have to put in on it. “She’s a different type of lawyer,” he said. “I don’t think money is the concern at all.”
Honaker said the thing that ties most of her cases together is that the people she represents are more than clients to her.
“I also see them as people,” she said. “I think we all need to be gentler with other people. It’s a pretty mean-spirited world.”
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Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 26 Jun 2009: An obituary on Peggy Jane Dickens identified her as the sister of Linda Honaker, wife of Alan Honaker of Beckley; her parents were Luther James Dickens and Delcie Combs.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, 6 Jun 2009: Mine Rescue Teams Put Skills to Test, by Debra McCown
Cedar Bluff, Va.—They volunteer to go into spaces that are dangerous, on fire and full of deadly smoke. They’re willing to risk their own lives to help co-workers in trouble. They train constantly—at work, after work and on weekends. They’re on call 24/7.
On Friday, 16 mine rescue teams demonstrated their skills at the Governor’s Cup Mine Rescue Contest, held annually at Southwest Virginia Community College. For participants, the contest is fun—but it’s also dead serious because in the event of a real emergency, entering an underground disaster zone is a matter of life and death.
“If you think about what these guys do, the mine rescue teams, they sacrifice a good deal of their own time away from their families to train and prepare in the event that there’s a mine disaster,” said Bill Bledsoe, executive director of the Virginia Mining Association. “And they’re prepared to risk their own lives to save others.”
J.P. Richardson, captain of this year’s winning team, the Jewell Smokeless Coal Corporation red team, said they provide a necessary service. “We don’t think of ourselves as heroes,” Richardson said. “We’re just ordinary people who work at a job that has to be done.” Richardson said with so many people dedicated to safety, coal mining is getting safer all the time—and he credits the hard work by his team members for their contest victory.
The Governor’s Cup Mine Rescue contest is among many held in coal-mining areas; state and federal mining regulations require coal companies to have mine rescue teams and also require them to train through competition as well as in the mines. Frank Linkous, division of mines chief for the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy, said many of the teams go far beyond the regulations—because they believe enthusiastically in the importance of what they do. “You can’t call the fire department if you’ve got a mine fire,” Linkous said. “You can’t call [Emergency Medical Service] or any other emergency response unit. It takes people that have the special set of skills that they are developing.”
Dan Quesenberry, captain of Consol Energy’s black team this year, which won the contest last year as the orange team, said his team has been involved in three real-life rescue operations since 2005. He describes the worst of these, the Aracoma mine disaster near Logan, W.Va., as “your worst nightmare.”
“There was a raging fire, and we were in by the fire,” Quesenberry said. “You could hear rocks falling, but you couldn’t see them.” Two men died in the mine, but Quesenberry still says coal mining is “safer than being on a highway.”
“We’re a close-knit family, and we want people to be safe,” said Josh Honaker, a member of a Quesenberry’s team at the Buchanan No. 1 Mine.
“If they can be found, we will find them,” Quesenberry said. “We do things that a lot of people won’t do, and I look at our guys and I tell them they are heroes because any time you’re willing to put your lives on the line for somebody else’s…you’re heroes, just like our men and women in Iraq.”
Their T-shirts say, “We walk where the Devil dances.” Linkous said members of mine rescue teams are simply “the best of the best.”
[Grundy] Virginia Mountaineer, 8 Oct 2009 (with photograph, cutline “Members of the Buchanan red team are Scott Honaker, Keith Richardson, Kenny Richardson, Matthew Lane, Randy Cox, Tim Bandy, Brian Johnson, Jeff Begley and Reginald Lambright. Team trainer is Don Hager.”): CONSOL Energy Buchanan Team Recognized as Top Mine Rescue Team in Virginia
CONSOL Energy’s Buchanan Mine Rescue Team has been recognized as the top mine rescue team in the state of Virginia, having posted the highest finish in national competition of any Virginia team in the contest. At a National Mine Rescue Contest Virginia Post 7 dinner Sat., Oct. 3, in Castlewood, Va., Buchanan red team members, who serve the Buchanan Mine, located near Oakwood, were presented with belt buckles, recognizing them as finishing in the top spot among Virginia teams competing in the recently held national mine rescue contest in Nashville, Tenn. The Buchanan team finished ninth overall among 89 teams competing in the national contest, but was the highest finisher among Virginia teams competing.
The Buchanan team was also awarded the National Mine Rescue Association Virginia Post 7 traveling trophy recognizing it as the highest finisher among Virginia teams at the Virginia Mining Institute Mine Rescue Contest held earlier this year in Blacksburg, Va. The Buchanan team finished third overall in that contest.
Also at the national competition, in the Bench (BG-4) competition, CONSOL Energy Buchanan red team member Keith Richardson placed in the top 15, finishing 13th in the field of 77 competitors. Richardson was the top Virginia finisher in the bench competition.
Members of the Buchanan red team are Scott Honaker, Keith Richardson, Kenny Richardson, Matthew Lane, Randy Cox, Tim Bandy, Brian Johnson, Jeff Begley and Reginald Lambright. Team trainer is Don Hager.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 24 Jan 2009: Tazewell women experience monumental day in person, by Bill Archer
Tazewell, Va.—Alicia Honaker and Jackie Crisp are still walking on a cloud and wearing smiles so bright that they almost shine through a telephone line. The two thirty-something mothers of three children each—both health care professionals—were among the crowd estimated at 1 to 2 million who witnessed the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
“Here we were, just two country girls from Tazewell, going to Washington to see the inauguration,” Honaker, 31, said. Honaker is the director of Cardio, ICU and the Emergency Department at Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital. “It was a great feeling. It was like we were all part of one huge family.”
Honaker and Crisp, 30, a respiratory therapist also at Carilion TCH, received tickets to the inauguration through U.S. Rep. Frederick C. “Rick” Boucher, D-Va., and had already seen Obama when he visited Lebanon, Va. Obama visited Southwest Virginia and spoke at Lebanon on Sept. 9, 2008. The two women volunteered to work as ticket-takers at Lebanon High School during Obama’s campaign stop.
“At some point, one of his campaign volunteers came back and asked if anyone had a car available and a cell phone,” Honaker said. “I thought I was in a good place to see Obama, but I said I did and they sent me to Abingdon, Va., told me to park on the street and be a go-for if anyone needed anything.”
“I didn’t want to go with Alicia when they came and asked,” Crisp said. “We were right at the door and I thought it would be the best chance to get a look at (President) Obama.”
As it turned out, Honaker took the wise course. She was in Abingdon waiting for any instructions that might come her way when she saw Obama arrive. She met him and had her picture taken with him. Boucher didn’t forget the efforts of the young Tazewell volunteers, and rewarded them with tickets to the inauguration.
The two friends traveled to Woodbridge, Va., on Saturday, and took the Metro into the city Monday to find the gate they would be entering through as well as to pick up their tickets. The Metro trip from the Springfield station to downtown that took 20 minutes on Monday took three hours on inauguration day. People were jammed everywhere and the gates had barricades where they hadn’t been the day before.
“All these people were heading in the direction of the gates, but there was no guidance,” Honaker said. “Still, the atmosphere…it was good. There was no aggression, and we never felt like we were in danger. There was a lot of love, hope and unity for real. It wasn’t like a hippie thing. It was very exciting.”
“There was a real spirit of hope,” Crisp said. “When you bumped into someone and said: ‘I’m sorry,’ they would say: ‘Oh, that’s all right. Go right ahead.’ Any other place, if we would have been in a crowd like that, we would have felt some danger, but not there.”
“It made me feel how great the American people really are,” Honaker said. “I had never experienced the feeling of love, happiness and joy as I did there. We saw so many elderly black people there. Even though it was cold, they didn’t seem to mind. It was good for us just to see the joy on their faces.”
Honaker and Crisp enjoyed great support from their husbands, children and families. “Everyone in our family was excited about it.” Crisp said. “We couldn’t have gone there without their support.”
“On Tuesday, there was a time when we couldn’t get cell service to get a call out, and that caused some anxious moments, but we were never in any danger,” Honaker said.
Both women hope to keep the spirit of hope alive by sharing their story with people in their home area. Honaker’s mother made the request to Boucher. Monday marked Honaker’s second trip to the nation’s capital, but it was Crisp’s first visit to Washington.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 30 Apr 2009—(Sports): Twin Valley Cross Country Standout Josie Honaker Inks Letter with Tusculum, by Lloyd Combs, Sports Reporter; photo cutline: Twin Valley senior cross country standout Josie Honaker, seated, inked a letter of intent last Friday to continue her running career at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn. On hand for Honaker’s signing were her mother, Sheila, and sister, Nikki (standing at right), and TVHS cross country coaches (from left), Jeff Lester and Dominique Traverse. (contributed photo)
Josie Honaker, a senior at Twin Valley High School, will continue her running career at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn. She signed her letter of intent with the NAIA school on Friday and will join the college’s Cross Country team in the Fall. Honaker is a four-year standout in both cross country and as a distance runner in track at Twin Valley.
“The last couple of years Josie has learned how to get out front and stay out front,” says her coach at Twin Valley, Dominique Traverse. “She’s a smart racer and she loves the sport. We’ve been fortunate to have her, and Tusculum College will be fortunate to have her.” Honaker, Traverse said, plans to major in pre-physical therapy at Tusculum. The Twin Valley senior should also get a chance to run at the northeast Tennessee school as a freshman.
“She’ll be an asset to their school, to their academic programs and athletic programs. They have a new coach coming in and she’s been in contact with him. She’s real excited about going there and she’ll be one of their top runners going in as a freshman.”
Tampa [Fla.] Tribune, 20 Aug 2008: Valrico Teen Makes National TV Debut, by D’Ann Lawrence White
Although he didn’t win the opportunity to make his own music video as a contestant on “High School Musical: Get in the Picture Competition,” Valrico native John Wesley Honaker managed to win the hearts of teenage girls from around the country July 20 when he made his national TV debut. The 18-year-old 2008 graduate of Grace Christian School in Brandon was among 12 finalists who performed on the ABC summer reality show hosted by pop singer and actor Nick Lachey, best known for his appearance on a reality TV show with his former wife, Jessica Simpson.
Honaker and five other contestants were eliminated in the first round, but not before he had a chance to perform a duet of the Backstreet Boys’ hit, “I Want It That Way,” with contestant Bailey Purvis of Louisiana in front of millions of television viewers. The performance, which can be seen on the popular video Web site YouTube, has generated more than 2,200 hits—along with comments from fans disappointed that Honaker, who was portrayed as the class clown during the televised auditions, was eliminated.
“OK, John should have moved on. I love his voice and goofy personality. He’s cute, too,” said one devotee. “John did awesome. It would have been real cool to see him go on. I think he is so cute,” commented another admirer.
Honaker took it all with a grain of salt. After all, the experience was just an excuse to get out of class. His mother, Cecelia Honaker, was surfing the Internet in May when she came across a notice about a casting call for the reality show. Auditions were being held at Disney World in Orlando and Disneyland in Los Angeles. She suggested her son try out. Because it was close to the end of his senior year, and he had finished all his tests, Honaker jumped at the opportunity to miss a day of school. “I figured I wouldn’t make it anyway,” John Wesley Honaker said.
As evidenced by the posters and trophies throughout his bedroom, Honaker is into sports. His focus has been on soccer and helping Grace Christian win the state championship three out of the past four years. In between, he won some singing roles in school plays. And he sings in church. His father, Johnny Honaker, is senior pastor of the River of Life Assembly of God, with campuses in Riverview and Wimauma.
After the younger Honaker performed in “Beauty and the Beast,” at Grace Christian in ninth grade, Music Showcase of Brandon vocal coach Miguel Oquendo approached him and gave him his business card. “He said he liked my voice and told me to give him a call,” Honaker said. “I kept the card, but soccer, basketball, baseball or something else always got in the way. Then, finally, about a year ago, I called and started taking lessons. Miguel’s very patient.”
When Honaker arrived at the “High School Musical: Get in the Picture Competition” casting call at the Wide World of Sports baseball stadium in Orlando, there were about 1,000 teens from across the country waiting to audition. Many had been preparing for this moment all their lives. Honaker figured he didn’t stand a chance. “I waited an entire day to audition,” he said. “I was just kind of taking it all in. I met Nick Lachey. That was fun.”
He filled out some paperwork, answered some questions. Then, to his surprise, he was called back for another audition in front of a single judge, then another in front of all six judges, then another. One of the judges, acting coach Rob Adler, told Honaker his voice could use some work and was curious about how his voice would change as he moved on in the competition. “Next thing I knew, they handed me a card and sent me down this red carpet, and I got to move on,” Honaker said.
The one-day excuse to miss class turned into two weeks of whirlwind activity culminating with Honaker’s television debut. Honaker said he wasn’t at his best in that performance. He didn’t make the cut. “Between the heat and nerves, I got really sick,” he said. “They chose six finalists from the East Coast and West Coast to go on in the competition. I found out that I was seventh.” Even so, he signed a contract with Disney Studios for possible future work. Until then, Honaker will proceed with plans to attend Southeastern University in Lakeland to major in communications and minor in music. He said he’s not sure what the future holds for him. “I’m not ruling anything out,” he said.
Raleigh Co., W.Va., marriage records show that James P. Honaker, 38 (born 1847) of Pulaski Co., (Va.) married Elizabeth Fanstina Sanders, 21 (born 1854), of Wythe Co., Va., married in Raleigh County 1 Apr 1885.
Thunderbolt, Luke AFB, Ariz., May 2 May 2008: Community College of Air Force announces graduates (607th Air Control Squadron)
Master Sgt. Raylando Honaker…..
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 2 Oct 2008: 50 Years Ago—Sept. 25, 1958: Grundy Hospital announces the following births: born to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Honaker, a son, Dale William…..
Henry Countian, Paris, Tenn., 12 Aug 2008: Murder Suspect Honaker to Receive Mental Evaluation, by Ernie Smothers. Photo cutline: “Paul Howard Honaker stands with Carroll County deputy Tommy Decanter as Honaker explains to Judge Larry Logan that he is deaf during a court hearing attempted Wednesday. It was rescheduled for Thursday when an interpreter was present. Honaker is accused of killing Linda Jackson, mother of Henry teacher, Cindy Webb.”
Huntingdon (August 7)—During arraignment proceedings, Carroll County General Sessions Court Judge Larry Logan ordered accused murderer Paul Howard Honaker, 42, of Gleason, to undergo mental evaluation at Western State Mental Hospital to determine if he is competent to stand trial for the murder of 58-year-old Linda Jackson inside her Carroll Street residence in McKenzie on July 16, 2008. Having rescheduled Honaker’s arraignment from Wednesday to Thursday after being unable to make the deaf defendant understand the first-degree murder charges he was facing, Logan began by asking, “Mr. Honaker, can you hear me?” Pausing momentarily, Honaker responded, “I can...a little bit.”
Reading from a written statement, Logan said, “You are being charged today with first-degree murder for intentionally inflicting multiple stab wounds upon Linda Jackson inside her residence located on 35 Carroll Street in McKenzie, using a butcher knife obtained in the victim’s home. Do you understand?” Honaker asked his attorney, Billy Roe, “What did he say?” A court-appointed interpreter, present at the arraignment per Logan’s request, was called by the judge to utilize sign language to explain the charges to Honaker.
Observing that Honaker was having difficulty understanding the interpreter, Logan, motioning to the court bailiff to approach the bench, handed the officer the written statement and said, “He can’t hear me...let him read the indictment.” Upon reading the indictment, Logan asked Honaker, “Do you have any questions?” He responded, “No.”
Continuing, Logan handing the bailiff a written statement detailing the defendant’s constitutional rights, said, “Let him read this as well.” Upon reading the statement, Logan again asked Honaker, “Do you understand?” Honaker’s attorney, Public Defender Billy Roe responded, “Your honor, my client understands.”
Addressing State District Attorney Hansel McCadams and attorney Roe, Logan said, “Based upon Mr. Honaker’s acknowledgement of understanding, I order that he be transported to Western State Mental Hospital in Bolivar for the purpose of receiving evaluation to determine his mental capacity.” Roe responded, “My only objection is that I want my client be held without bond at the Carroll County Jail.” Logan responded, “I can’t do that. I can’t have people from Western State come here to evaluate him (Honaker) at the Carroll County Jail.”
Roe said, “I thought my client would be taken to Western State—I understand now. I just didn’t want my client to be entered into the prison system prior to trial.” Logan concluded, “We will wait until the results of Mr. Honaker’s mental evaluation before proceeding any further.” Heavily manacled, Honaker was escorted from the courtroom by Carroll County Sheriff deputies.
According to reports and Jackson’s family, Honaker rode his bicycle from Gleason to McKenzie on that fateful night. He hid the bike and convinced Jackson to allow him inside. David Jackson, Linda’s eldest son, told the Banner that Honaker had arrived at his mother’s home on a bicycle, which he apparently used to travel from the home he shared with his mother in Gleason. David said his mother was outside the home when Honaker arrived and told her he didn’t feel well. He asked for a glass of water, and reportedly followed Jackson inside when she went to retrieve the water, he said. Honaker’s mother had reportedly followed her son to Jackson’s residence in McKenzie.
As MPD Officer Richard Sawyers approached the home, Honaker was heard shouting at the two women (Summers and Tillman) through an open window near the carport door of the residence. Just as the officer came around the corner of the carport, Honaker slammed the window down and pulled down the window shade, according to the police report. The door to the residence was locked and the officer heard a woman’s screams coming from the interior of the house. Sawyers tried unsuccessfully to gain entry by kicking open the door, however, the steel door was secured with a deadbolt lock. The officer broke out a window and reached inside to unlock the door.
“As I was breaking the door glass, I noticed the woman inside had stopped screaming,” Sawyers wrote in his report.
The officer observed Jackson just inside the doorway, also unlocking the deadbolt despite having sustained critical injuries. Upon entering the residence, the officer observed blood on the front of Jackson’s clothing. Sawyers found Honaker lying in a fetal position on the floor of the living room, with the handle of a knife in his abdomen. Both Jackson and Honaker were airlifted from McKenzie Regional Hospital enroute to The Med in Memphis. Jackson died enroute. Honaker underwent surgery and recovered.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 18 Dec 2008: An obituary appeared for Denver Doan Pettry, 62, of Fairdale, Raleigh Co., W.Va., born 30 Aug 1946 in Charleston, W.Va., husband of Debra Doby Pettry. He was survived by a daughter, Virgie Honaker, and her husband Chris Honaker of Fairdale, and two grandchildren, Alyssa and Christopher Honaker.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 30 Oct 2008 (photo cutline): Robert J. Honaker and Heather Lea Adams were married Sept. 5, 2008, in Union, in a private ceremony officiated by Rev. Bob Ratliff. Heather is the daughter of Richard and Glenna Adams of Lewisburg. Robert is the son of Les Honaker of Clifton Forge, Va., and Pat Spade of Union.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 24 Oct 2007 and Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 24 Oct 2007: Oak Hill—Gloria Dotson Honaker, 74, of Oak Hill died Mon., Oct. 22, 2007, at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill. Born May 31, 1933 at Willis Branch, she was the daughter of the late James Nelson and Ada Mae Bennett Dotson. Mrs. Honaker was a Christian. She was the retired owner of Main Street Exxon in Oak Hill. Her husband, Thomas E. Honaker Sr., preceded her in death on Apr. 1, 1998. Survivors include a son, Thomas E. Honaker Jr. and wife, Margaret, of Davidson, N.C.; a daughter, Teresa L. Brown and husband, Lester, of Willow Springs, N.C.; three brothers, Larry Dotson of Oak Hill, Louie Dotson of Rossville, Ga., and Curtis Dotson of Oak Hill; and a sister, Phyllis Bibb of Oak Hill. She is also survived by three grandsons, J.R. Miller, Christian Honaker and Caitlin Honaker. Service will be 1 p.m. Thurs., Oct. 25, at Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill, with the Rev. James Miller officiating. Burial will be at High Lawn Memorial Park, Oak Hill. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers. Online condolences may be sent at . Arrangements by Tyree Funeral Home, Oak Hill.
Register Herald, Beckley, W.Va., 14 Oct 2007: An obituary on Paul E. Boland of Oak Hill, W.Va., identified a daughter, Olivia Honaker, whose husband was Freddie Honaker of Oak Hill.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 26 Sep 2007: An obituary on George Perry Richardson, husband of Julie “Tootsie” Richardson, identified survivors including a daughter, Connie Honaker, wife of Jay Honaker of Honaker, Va.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 3 May 2007: Photo cutline—Belinda Honaker (center), director of Buchanan County’s Youth Outreach program chats with Rural Development Authority representative Sally Hammer (right) about grant possibilities associated with the repair and renovation of the former Whitewood Elementary School. (Staff photo/Cathy St. Clair)
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 31 May 2007: Classified ad with photo—Belinda Honaker announces candidacy for School Board Member Garden District—My name is Belinda Honaker, and I am announcing my candidacy for School Board Member of the Garden District. I am a 1983 graduate of Whitewood High School. My love and passion for God, family, and children is my life. I have been a dedicated youth worker for over 20 years in our local churches and community organizations. In 1999, I began the annual Youth Lock-In. In 2004, I started a non-profit organization called Youth Outreach of Buchanan County, Inc. In 2006, I completed a leadership program at the Appalachian School of Law, where the PICK (Playing Instruments Changes Kids) program was adopted. If elected as your School Board Member, I will be a BB fair and impartial advocate for our School System, and work diligently to see our children have the best programs available. I am asking for your support on Nov. 6, 2007. Thank you, Belinda Honaker (Announcement authorized and paid for by Belinda Honaker.)
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 30 May 2013 (with photograph): Named to Dean’s List—Sarah Honaker, a 2007 Twin Valley High School graduate and [2010] Virginia Tech graduate, was recently named to the Marshall University School of Pharmacy’s dean’s list. She is the daughter of Alan and Belinda Honaker of Pilgrims Knob.
Virginia Mountaineer, Grundy, Va., 5 Jul 2007: Photo cutline—Honaker Honored—Sonja Honaker, Nutrition Program Assistant Educator for the Buchanan County Extension Office received an Outstanding Performance Award at the Nutrition Assistants’ Tri-State Conference in Raleigh, N.C. recently. Honaker has worked for 14 years in Virginia Cooperative Extension in Buchanan County. She has worked jointly with the Health Department, WIC, [General Equivalency Degree], and Head Start receiving kudos during the federal review of Head Start for the best cooperative effort in the state of Virginia. Pictured from left are: Dr. Karen Gehrt, Director Family and Consumer Sciences at Virginia Tech; Honaker; and Dr. Cathy Sutphin, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 16 Oct 1996: Neighbors
Michael Honaker of Campbells Creek won the Sunburst International Beauty Pageant recently in Charleston. He won in the prettiest eyes and best attire categories. He received three trophies, a banner and crown. The 18-month-old will compete in the state finals in May. He is the son of Billy and Penny Honaker of Campbells Creek.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Giles Co., Va., 30 Aug 2006, cutline: New first graders, caption: Jennifer Honaker stands with her 1st grade class at Jefferson Christian Academy.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Giles Co., Va., 25 Apr 2007, cutline: One of the first kindergartners to graduate JCA, caption: The Jefferson Christian Academy has reached another milestone in its educational career as one of its first kindergartners, Brooke Honaker, graduates.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Giles Co., Va., 5 Aug 2009, Meet the teachers at Jefferson Christian, with photo: Jennifer Honaker will be teaching third grade at Jefferson Christian Academy this year. After a two year absence she is excited to be back with her JCA family. She has worked for JCA for six years and is looking forward to what the Lord has in store for this wonderful ministry. She resides in Pearisburg with her husband Carl and three daughters, Brooke, a JCA graduate and current nursing student; Savannah, a sophomore at GHS and Mackenzi, a freshman at GHS. She is a member of Riverview Baptist Church where she has served an an AWANA leader for 18 years and currently serves as the nursery director.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Giles Co., Va., 31 Aug 2011, Brooke Honaker is wed to Hunter Williams, with photo:
On a beautiful spring day, Sat., April 23, 2011, Mr. Hunter Evan Williams took Miss Autumn Brooke Honaker to be his wife. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Shahn Wilburn and took place in a gorgeous, outdoor country setting at the home of the bride’s grandparents, Bill and Connie Copeland. Old fashioned quilts adorned the tables and various pictures of Hunter and Brooke were displayed in the trees. The colors of the day were royal blue and yellow. After the ceremony, a picnic-style meal was served and eaten at beautifully decorated tables in the yard.
The bride is the daughter of Carl and Jennifer Honaker of Pearisburg, Va. She is the granddaughter of Bill and Connie Copeland of Pearisburg, Va., Drucella Honaker of Ronceverte, W.Va., and Jesse and June Honaker, also of Ronceverte. Brooke is employed at New River Dermatology as a nurse.
The groom is the son of Chris Williams of Eggleston, Va. And Amy Jill Williams of Pembroke, Va. He is the grandson of Janice Sargent of Christiansburg, Va., Roland Hudson of Pearisburg, Va., Bobby and Judy Williams of Lindside, W.Va., and the late Larry and Carol Martin of Pembroke, Va. Hunter is employed at Mundy Construction as a welder.
Miss Macy Boylan, cousin of the bride, served as the flower girl. Mrs. Melissa Guynn, family friend, handled the photography.
Following the ceremony, the couple and numerous friends and family members continued the celebration at The Inn at Virginia Tech and topped off the evening with fun and dancing. The couple enjoyed a honeymoon trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. They are making their home in Pearisburg, Va.
Hunter and Brooke expressed their appreciation to their friends and family members for making this day so special for them. Their family and friends sent the couple a wish for a long and happy life together.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 10 Jan 2007: Russell County Roundup Nets Over 50 Suspects in Drug Cases, by Heather Powers
Approximately 75 individuals in Russell County have collected over 150 charges all related to distribution of drugs. Fifty-seven of these individuals had been arrested as of Friday. Most were transported to the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail. Several were bonded and released on Thursday when the roundup began…..Following is a list of suspects, their age, address, and charges placed against them during last week’s round up……Deborah Gail Honaker, 35, 9097 River Mountain Rd., Lebanon, sell/distribute schedule III drug.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Va., 31 May 2006: Narrows High School [Graduates]
A photograph appeared of Meagan Marie Honaker.
On 5 Sep 2006, Julie Cano, jewlz209@, requested information about her family, whom we were unable to identify. She was a daughter of Anna Lee Pryor and Raymond Rodriguez. Anna was a daughter of Betty Ann Earlywine and Charles Keller Pryor. Charles was a son of William Pryor and Bessie Honaker, b. 6 Mar 1931 in Bourbon Co., Ky.
On 1 Aug 2006 Tracy Danielson, tdaniels@, requested information about her family, whom we were unable to identify. Her mother, Ann Russell, married Tracy’s stepfather, William “Dutch” Honaker and had two daughters, Kelly Ann and Gretchen (deceased). William’s parents were Clyde Honaker, an accountant who had Berger’s Disease which caused both his legs to be amputated) and Nellie Unknown. In addition to William, Clyde and Nellie had other children: Thomas (married Gretchen Ann Unknown); Peter, and Nancy.
Lexington [Ky.] Herald-Leader, 12 Aug 2011: Kelly Ann (Honaker) Thomas, 46. In loving memory of our little sister who fell asleep in death Mon, Aug 8, 2011. Kelly died the way she tried to live her life, with courage, strength, and dignity. At her side were her sisters, Michelle O’Bryan, Tracy Danielson (Gage & Rachel); brother, Steve Fox; and very close loving friends Yvonne Reid, Bobbi Muncy and Tammi Sweet. She is also survived by many more loving family and friends. No services planned.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 22 Jun 2006
An obituary on Jeffery Scott Green, son of Robert Lee Green and Estell Louise King, said he was survived by a sister, Mary Honaker of Bluefield, W.Va.
On 2 Apr 2006 an e-mail was posted by Troy M. Hunter, Glen Allen, Va., thunter@vt.edu, asking for information about his great grandfather’s sister, Della Jane Phipps, b. 20 Sep 1895, daughter of David Crockett Phipps and Mary Milam, who married John A. Pomeroy, B.G. or George T. McGraw, and (3) Charles Honaker and lived in Beckley, Raleigh Co., W.Va. Troy believed she died between 1966 and 1977 but there is no death record in Raleigh County.
Virginian Leader, Pearisburg, Va., 15 Nov 2006 (photograph cutline): Teach your children well—The Veterans Day observance at Narrows Veteran’s Memorial Park last Saturday morning attracted the young as well as the old. The rains and winds held off, and it was a beautiful day as (left to right) Parker Caldwell, Emma Caldwell on Gigi Honaker’s lap, Camden Honaker and Landon Patteson listened to the songs, poems and speeches accompanying Veterans Day ceremonies.
Appalachian News Express, Pikeville, Ky., 21 Nov 2006 (photograph cutline): Pikeville junior Tim Honaker slashes to the basket during action last season in the 15th Region All “A” Classic. Honaker is one of four returning starters for the Panthers as they look to defend their 59th District title.
The Rev. Al Elswick, on 14 Apr 2006, reported notes he had made many years previously from U.S. Census Mortality Schedules for Southwest Virginia counties for the censuses of 1860, 1870 and 1880. The schedules were compiled by census enumerators who gathered data on persons who had died between Jun 1859 and Jun 1860, similarly for 1870 and 1880. The parents and spouses were not recorded so that their identities are hard to determine, but they may be the only official record of the existence of some born after one census and died before the next. These persons are:
(1860 Russell Co., Va.)—Benjamin F. Honaker, age 2, b. in Virginia, d. 3 Sep 1859 of “Disenterry,” sick 3 months; Isaac St. Honaker, age 2, b. in Virginia, d. 2 Feb 1860 of “Scarlet feaver,” sick 5 days.
(1880 Giles Co., Va.) Pearisburg District—Mary Honaker, age 4 months, born in Virginia, d. Sep 1879 of whooping cough, Drs. Johnson & Easly; O.F. Honaker, age 3, male, b. in Virginia, d. Nov 1879 of scrofula, Dr. H.G. Johnston. [In 2006, Al Elswick reported, Dr. Johnston’s 1829 brick house and 1850s frame office still stood on N. Main Street, Pearisburg, where they were the nucleus of the Giles County Historical Society’s museum and genealogical library.]
Lebanon [Va.] News, 24 May 2006
An obituary on Donald Wayne Martin, son of the late Arthur and Octavia (Sanders) Martin, said that he was preceded in death by a sister, Margaret Honaker. We are unable to identify her.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 22 Mar 2006: DAR Presents Good Citizen Awards (with photographs)
The Tabitha Adams Russell Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution presented its Good Citizens awards at its regular meeting on Feb. 26, 2006, to an exemplary member of the senior class from each high school in Russell County. Helen Owens, Chairman of the Good Citizen Committee, presented certificates and medals on these students. Recipients were chosen by the schools on the basis of honor, dependability, patriotism, and unselfish loyalty to American ideals. These traits are demonstrated by the student’s service to school, church, and community.
The winners are:
Justin Honaker, Honaker High School, son of Larry and Christy Honaker.
Stephanie Parsley, Lebanon High School, daughter of Conley and Lori Parsley. Stephanie will also receive a $100 scholarship for her essay on our American Heritage.
Justin Smith, Castlewood High School, son of Donald and Judy Smith.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 18 May 2005
An obituary on Orbra Lee Dotson of Cleveland, Va., who was married to Madie C. Dotson, said that he was preceded in death by a daughter, Evyleen Honaker.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 23 Apr 2004: Mom Accused of leaving 3-month-old alone in car
Beckley [W.Va.]—An Oak Hill woman accused of leaving her 3-month-old daughter alone in an unlocked car with the windows rolled up during a shopping trip has been charged with child neglect. Olivia Dawn Honaker, 27, was arrested Wednesday, Beckley police Detective Sgt. Jeff Shumate said Thursday.
Several people saw the baby in the back seat of the vehicle in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Beckley at about 6 p.m. Saturday, Shumate said. “[They] became concerned about the well being of the child, so they removed the child from the vehicle and contacted law enforcement,” Shumate said. “The baby appears to be in good health at this time.”
The outside temperature at the time was between 65 and 75 degrees but would have been warmer inside the vehicle, he said. Honaker and the child’s grandmother were heading back to the car when police arrived. “The mother and grandmother said they went in to shop and had forgotton about the child being in the rear of the vehicle,” Shumate said. Based on interviews with the women and witnesses, police determined that the baby had been left alone for about 15 to 30 minutes, Shumate said.
Honaker was arraigned before a Fayette County magistrate on a charge of child neglect creating a substantial risk of serious injury and/or death. She remains free on a $50,000 bond. State Child Protective Services was also investigating.
Appalachian News-Express, Pikeville, Ky., 24 Sep 2003: (with photograph, cutline: Bentley-Casebolt)
Johnny and Donna Bentley of Jenkins announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Christan Tennille, to Michael Franklin Casebolt, son of Mike and Kay Casebolt of Greasy Creek. The bride-elect is a 2002 graduate of Shelby Valley High School and attends Prestonsburg Community College. She is employed by Long John Silver’s and A&W, Pikeville. She is the granddaughter of Jonah and Joyce Bentley of Dorton and the late Clennon and Betty Jones. Casebolt is a 2000 graduate of Shelby Valley High School and is employed by Meade Engineering, Stanville. He is the grandson of Frank and Lona Casebolt of Greasy Creek and Willis and Ivy Honaker of Phelps. The wedding will take place at half-past one o’clock in the afternoon, Sat., Sept. 27, 2003, at the Long Fork Freewill Baptist Church. Rev. Teddy Tackett will officiate. A reception will follow in the fellowship hall of the church. After a wedding trip to Gatlinburg, Tenn., the couple will reside at Virgie.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 29 Oct 2003: (with photograph, cutline: Laken Dachelle Taylor) Turns One Year Old Oct. 30, 2003
She is the daughter of David Taylor and Tonya Lester and one brother, Kainen. She is the granddaughter of Connie and Johnny Honaker of Honaker, Glenda Lester of Meadowview, Va., William Lester of Knoxville, Tenn., and Bob Taylor of Gate City, Va. Laken is the great granddaughter of Imagene Lester of Council, Va., Perry Richardson of Pine Creek, Va., Earline Strouth of Rosedale, Va., Hazel Presley of Abingdon, Va. and the late Bill Lester of Blackford, Va. and Bob Hale of Barberton, Ohio. Happy Birthday Baby. We love you! Daddy, Mommy & Bubby.
Undocumented source
Laura Honaker, born ca. 1862 in Johnson Co., Ky., married Broudas R. Perry in 1887. Born ca. 1861 in Cabell Co., W.Va. They lived in Huntington, Cabell County. (Researcher Ralph W. Honaker)
(Grundy) Virginia Mountaineer, 31 Jul 2003: Collins-Boyle (with photo of the couple)
Dana Rae Collins and Brett Allen Boyle were married May 24, 2003 at Southland Christian Church in Lexington, Ky. The bride is the daughter of Evelyn Ruth and Danny Collins of Nicholasville, Ky. She is the granddaughter of Ray and Thelma Honaker, of Pilgrim’s Knob. The groom is the son of Dwight and Eulene Boyle, of Lexington, Ky. The bride is employed as an occupational therapist at Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital in Lexington and is pursuing her Master of Science degree at Eastern Kentucky University. The groom will graduate in December 2003 with a bachelor of science degree in nursing from the University of Kentucky.
(Grundy) Virginia Mountaineer, 12 Sep 2002: Engaged (with photo of the couple)
Harry and Phyllis Scott, of Vansant, announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, April Lynn, to Daniel Brandon Wimmer, son of Dennis and Claris Wimmer, of Compton Mountain. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of John and Mag Merricks, of Hurley and the late John and Fern Scott. She is a 1993 graduate of Grundy High School and a 2000 graduate of the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, [Colo.], where she earned a bachelors degree. She is currently employed with the United States Air Force as a first lieutenant deputy missile combat crew commander at Malmstrom AFB, Great Falls, Mont. Wimmer is the grandson of Walter and Katherine Honaker, of Compton Mountain and the late Tommy Daniels. His paternal grandparents are the late Columbus and Lula Wimmer. He graduated from Whitewood High School in 1996 and is a graduate of Newport News Apprentice School. He is currently employed at Newport News Shipbuilding. An open church wedding is planned at the Vansant Church of Christ on Oct. 19, 2002 at 5 p.m.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 11 Jun 2003, 2nd Birthday Celebrated, (with photograph, cutline Lauren Denise Perkins).
Lauren Denise Perkins celebrated her second birthday on June 3, 2003. She is the daughter of Rick and Leslie Perkins, Rosedale. Her grandparents are Roy and Beverly Honaker of Finney and Charlie and Connie Perkins of Swords Creek.
Bristol [Tenn.-Va.] Herald Courier, ca. 2001, West Virginia man charged in thefts on Blue Ridge Parkway
(AP) Roanoke [Va.]—A West Virginia man pleaded innocent to charges he roamed the Blue Ridge Parkway and other national parklands, breaking into cars and stealing property. Roger Lee Honaker, 44, of Caldwell, W.Va., was arraigned Wednesday on eight counts, including two felonies, stemming from several burglaries between August 1997 and November 1999. The indictment alleges Honaker stole merchandise from cars parked along the parkway, in the Shenandoah National Park and in the George Washington National Forest.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig “Jake” Jacobsen said the suspect preyed on tourists. “The suspect would sit in his car and pretend to be asleep as people would park their cars and go down and look at the waterfall,” Jacobsen said, referring to three incidents that took place near Falling Waters Cascades on the parkway. “Once the people were safely out of view, the suspect would use a stick to break into the cars.”
In one case, the perpetrator made off with jewelry valued from $7,000 to $8,000. But another theft of a wallet yielded only $1.12, Jacobsen said. Jacobsen said Honaker was identified by video surveillance cameras along the parkway. The trial was set for March 19.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 10 and 17 Apr 2002, Engagement & Forthcoming Marriage Announced, (with photograph, cutline Aleshia Honaker and Adam Dale).
Roy and Beverly Honaker are pleased to announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Aleshia Brooke Honaker of Finney, Va., to Adam Wayne Dale of Hansonville, Va. Adam is the son of Darrell and Judy Dale. An open church wedding will take place at Finney Baptist Church on Apr. 20, 2002 at 2 p.m. All friends and family welcome.
Washington [D.C.] Post, 28 Aug 2002, Honaker-Alexander (with photograph)
The marriage of Anita Stanley Honaker and Gary R. Alexander took place at their home in Davidsonville, Md. on July 20th. Long-time friend of the groom, United States Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz, officiated. The bride is a mobile manager with Sun Trust Bank in Maryland and the groom is an attorney and senior founding partner with the Law Office of Alexander & Cleaver of Annapolis and Fort Washington, Md. The couple plans to continue to live in Davidsonville and travel frequently.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 Feb 2002: North Tazewell man arrested in connection with bank robbery, by Charles Owens
Tazewell, Va.—A North Tazewell man has been arrested in connection with the Feb. 15 robbery of the First Sentinel Bank in Tazewell, police announced Friday. Thomas Donald Honaker, 37, of Creekside Mobile Home Park, North Tazewell, was arrested by members of the Virginia State Police, FBI and the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Department, according to Commonwealth Attorney Dennis Lee.
Honaker was subsequently charged by Virginia State Police Special Agent John Santolla with entering a bank while armed with the intent to commit larceny and the use of a firearm in the commission of robbery. Lee said the charge of entering a bank while armed with the intent to commit larceny carries a punishment of 20 years to life in prison and the charge of the use of a firearm in the commission of a robbery carries a mandatory punishment of three years incarceration. The man was initially contacted for questioning on Wednesday, but fled the area, according to Sheriff H.S. Caudill. A manhunt followed involving dogs and helicopters and officers with the sheriff’s department, the state police and FBI agents.
“The search dogs found the subject hiding under some materials in Drytown,” Caudill said. The investigation continues, but at this time no charges have been filed in connection with a bomb threat that was called in to the courthouse just minutes before the bank robbery. Authorities had originally speculated that the bomb threat was used as a diversion tactic to keep local police away from the bank. The caller indicated there was a “ticking” package at the courthouse. He declined comment when asked if the suspect had been questioned in connection with the bomb threat.
“Agent Santolla will probably be doing a follow-up on the [bomb threat] investigation,” said Tazewell Police Chief R.A. Brewster. Lee said Honaker entered the bank in Four-Way section of Tazewell wearing a toboggan and dark glasses.
“Honaker passed a hand-written note to a teller demanding money and indicating that he was armed,” Lee said. “The teller complied and Honaker left on foot with approximately $2,300 in currency. The investigation is continuing and further charges may be placed against Honaker.”
The man is currently being held without bond at the county jail. A preliminary hearing date is set for March 22 in Tazewell County General District Court. Lee said the Commonwealth would actively oppose any bond motion for Honaker. Last week’s incident was the second bank robbery in Tazewell County in a matter of months. Caudill said two men were arrested by the sheriff’s department last fall for the robbery of the New People’s Bank at Claypool Hill.
“It looks like America just this year has been overwhelmed with threats, and we just wonder why at this time?” Caudill asked. “I think people should understand these bomb threats are being taken very seriously. People are at their wit’s end now with what has happened since 9/11, the airplane crashes and terrorism. Homeland security is now more important to us far beyond what it was ever intended to be.”
Lee said the investigation was a joint effort of the FBI, the sheriff’s department and the state police.
Bluefield [W.Va.] Daily Telegraph, 23 May 2002: Grand jury indicts Tazewell robbery, bomb threat suspect, by Troy Sarver of the Daily Telegraph staff
Tazewell, Va.—A North Tazewell man who allegedly called in a bomb threat earlier this year to divert police while he robbed a Tazewell County bank has been indicted by a Tazewell County Circuit Court grand jury. Thomas Honaker, 37, faces charges of robbery, calling in a bomb threat and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony. The charges are in connection with the robbery of the First Sentinel Bank in Tazewell on Feb. 15.
According to an investigation by the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Department, just minutes prior to the robbery on Feb. 15, someone called the Tazewell County Courthouse to say there was a “ticking” package in the building. At the time authorities speculated the bomb threat was used as a diversion to get police preoccupied and away from the bank.
The suspect got away from the crime scene on the day of robbery, but officials with the Virginia State Police, FBI and Tazewell County Sherif’s Department apprehended and arrested Honaker a few days later. According to Tazewell County Sheriff H.S. Caudill, Honaker was found by some search dogs hiding under materials in Drytown.
A trial date of July 19 has been scheduled for Honaker. Chip Hurley has been appointed to serve as his attorney. Honaker’s indictment was one of more than 90 released by the Tazewell County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office on Wednesday.
Richlands [Va.] News-Press/Clinch Valley News, 8 Nov 2002
A North Tazewell man has pleaded guilty to bank robbery.
Thomas Donald Honaker, 37, pleaded guilty to bank robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. Honaker entered a plea of no contest to the charge of making a bomb threat.
The charges came about after someone called 911 last February 15 and said there was a ticking thing in the courthouse. After police began evacuating the courthouse and looking for a bomb, a call came in saying a man was at First Sentinel Bank in Fourway demanding money.
Police used a helicopter and tracking dogs to search the area and streets were closed off for part of the day. Honaker was apprehended five days later in the Drytown area of Tazewell.
His capture came after a foot chase involving sheriff’s deputies and Virginia State Police. He has been lodged in the Tazewell County Jail since his arrest. Honaker had been released from the Bland Correctional Center just a few days prior to the bank robbery.
Judge Henry Vanover accepted Honaker’s pleas and issued findings of guilt on all three charges. Vanover ordered a pre-sentence report and scheduled sentencing for February 7.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 27 Mar 2002, with photograph, cutline Sheena Lynn Honaker, Joshua James Mabe: Engagement Announced
Gary and Linda Gregory of Honaker, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Sheena Lynn, to Joshua James Mabe, son of Jim and Claudette Mabe of Swords Creek, Va. The wedding will take place on April 27, 2002 at 7 p.m. in Elk Garden Methodist Church.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 31 Dec 1991: Business Briefs
…..Bob Honaker has been named client representative for the St. Albans office of AH&M Carolina Inc., the environmental consulting and contracting firm. He will help marketing and sales efforts for the company and its ASBESTECH and JHM Laboratories divisions. ….. [This was not Robert Travers[6] (Abraham[1]) Honaker, who lived in St. Albans at the time.]
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 14 Jan 1995: Warrant used to seize guns illegal, man says
A South Charleston man alleges police used an illegal search warrant when they seized more than 50 firearms and other items from his house that were allegedly stolen during a five-county burglary spree. David A. Honaker filed a Kanawha Circuit Court petition Friday seeking to quash a Dec. 16 search warrant executed on his residence, along with the return of items seized during the search.
Police used the warrant to raid Honaker’s residence at 5507 MacCorkle Ave. They seized dozens of hunting rifles and shotguns, pistols, rare coins, home appliances and other items. A Putnam County crime task force said the items represent the fruits of burglaries committed in Putnam, Kanawha, Lincoln, Fayette and Mason counties over the past year.
Putnam County prosecutors have charged Bobby D. Hogue, 27, of Charleston; David W. Sanford, 32, of Pliny; and Cleveland M. Meador IV, 20, of St. Albans with a total of 13 counts of burglary and grand larceny in connection with the spree. Kanawha County prosecutors have also charged Hogue and Sanford with burglary. Court documents allege Honaker bought some of the stolen firearms as well as other items. Police seized items allegedly stolen in the burglary spree in three other Kanawha County residences Kanawha Magistrate Court records indicate Honaker has not been
charged in connection with the burglaries or the items allegedly seized at his residence.
Honaker’s petition alleges the search warrant failed to identify the property to be seized and argues state law requires such detail. The petition said the search warrant referred to an attached affidavit describing the items to be seized, but alleges the affidavit was not attached to the warrant.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 31 Oct 1995: Defense alleges fondling during search for guns, by Maryclaire Dale
A defense lawyer questioned a suspect’s teen-age daughters in court Monday, asking if they were fondled by police during a nighttime search in South Charleston. Lawyer Steven L. Miller suggested that the girls, ages 13 and 17, were
awakened by police, patted down in their underwear, and left without a blanket or robe during the two-hour search. However, a prosecutor said that one girl testified she was not touched at all, and a second said she was not fondled. One daughter said she was wearing boxer shorts and a T-shirt, while the suspect’s wife and other daughter were wearing nightgowns, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Thacker.
A state police task force seized 55 weapons at the Spring Hill home of the girls’ father, 46-year-old Donald Honaker. Police believed that Honaker knowingly bought stolen guns from men involved in a Putnam County house burglary ring. Miller argued that the search warrant was too vague, but lost his bid to suppress the evidence. Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden ruled Monday that the search was legal, Thacker said.
Putnam County Detective Roger Blankenship testified at the hearing that a suspect in the burglaries admitted stealing weapons, TVs and videocassette recorders, and said he sold some of the items to Honaker. Police then raided Honaker’s house at 1:30 a.m. one night in December 1994. Blankenship said the nighttime raid was necessary because of local news reports about the burglary suspect’s arrest. At the house, police found guns in a gun cabinet, on the wall, behind a
dresser, in the corner of the room, and in the attic. “They were coming from everywhere,” Blankenship said. Some were lying on top of one another, suggesting they were not collector’s items.
Blankenship said he interviewed Honaker for 30 minutes that night, and Honaker admitted buying the guns from the Putnam suspect. Honaker said he initially bought three guns from the Putnam man, and later bought nine. By the second time, when he met the seller in an alley, Honaker thought they were stolen, according to Blankenship. Honaker is set to go to trial Nov. 7. …..
Roanoke, Va., newspaper, Oct 2004: photo cutline—“[Specialist] Bobby Honaker (left) from Montvale [Va.] helps load equipment with Sgt. Michelle Washington, 33, and several other National Guard members at the National Guard Armory in Rocky Mount on Wednesday afternoon.”
A self-employed truck driver from Montvale, Spc. Bobby Honaker, 51, joined the guard in 1996. An Army veteran who served from 1972 to 1977, he signed up with the Guard mainly for the retirement benefits he’d be eligible for. When he deploys Wednesday, he’ll leave behind Shelia, his wife of 26 years. “Ain’t nothing I can do to stop it. I’m not real thrilled about it,” he said. He expected to be deployed sometime, he said, “but not this quick.”
Something that helps his wife cope, as it does many of the family members of the 1173rd, is the fact that members of the unit were almost sent to Iraq last year when attached to the 1710th Transportation Company. “We were deployed but we didn’t actually go overseas,” he said.
Honaker met his wife in 1978, when she caught him trespassing. While he lived at his mother’s house in Montvale, he used to cut across a cemetery, then a neighboring yard to walk to the store. That neighboring property turned out to be where his future wife lived. Her first question to him was, “You know you’re on private property?” Three months later, they were married, and they still live in the same place where they first met.
Hopkins-Baldwin,“Pike County, Kentucky Marriages, 1818–1875” indicated that a Mary Honaker married John N. Layne 10 Oct 1842.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 21 Nov 1994: On File Kanawha County
The following people filed for divorce between Nov. 4 and 16…..Malinda Mary Honaker from Carl Victor Honaker.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 17 Feb 1988: Students Win Putnam Math Competition, by Amy Neal—Hurricane—More than 60 elementary and middle school students competed Tuesday in Putnam County’s annual Math Field Day at Hurricane Middle School. Winners in the elementary and middle school division will be eligible to compete in the Regional Math Field Day March 22 at Sherman High School in Seth. Math Field Day for high school students will be Feb. 25. The winners in the competition were (first, second, third and alternate): ….. Sixth grade: Barry Drennan, Poca Middle School; Erika Tull, Winfield Middle School; Nikki Farrington, Winfield Middle School; Jason Honaker, George Washington Middle School.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 14 Sep 1994: Putnam Neighbors
….. Matthew Jason Honaker [was] awarded [a] $500 [scholarship] from the Attison McClanahan Academic Scholarship Fund. [He is a] 1994 graduates of Poca High. The scholarship, established in 1988 to help academic achievers to further their education, is named in honor of J. Attison McClanahan, a teacher at Poca schools for 49 years. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 31 Oct 1994: Class Notes
…..Matthew Honaker of Red House [won a] $20,000 [scholarship] from Wal-Mart. The four-year scholarships are given to students pursuing degrees in technology-related fields. … Honaker studies chemical engineering at West Virginia University.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 1 Feb 1994: Man seeks home confinement for third DUI conviction
AP—The state Supreme Court received a petition Monday from a man who wants to be sentenced to home confinement instead of prison for his third drunken-driving conviction. John W. Honaker was sentenced in Greenbrier County Circuit Court last year to up to three years in the state penitentiary on the conviction. He asked to place him on home confinement, but the request was denied, the petition said.
He wants the Supreme Court to send the case back to the lower court and tell it to reconsider the sentence. State law requires all people convicted of a third-offense drunken-driving charge to be confined in the state penitentiary, but the Supreme Court has said the alternative of home confinement could be considered by trial judges until a new penitentiary is opened this summer at Mount Olive, Fayette County. The court did not immediately act on the petition. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 16 Feb 1994: Man accused of assault with mace
Eccles—A Raleigh County man was hospitalized Tuesday night after he was hit in the head with a mace, a steel ball with spikes, the Raleigh County Sheriff’s Department said. Rodney Dale Honaker, 22, of Eccles, was in critical condition at
Raleigh General Hospital and was to be transported to General Division, [Charleston Area Medical Center], late Tuesday, a nursing supervisor at Raleigh General said. Police arrested Quincy Lee Honaker, 23, also of Eccles, three hours after the incident, the sheriff's report said. He was charged with malicious wounding and was held in the Raleigh County Jail on
$25,000 bond. Police were called to the scene of the assault on W.Va. 3 and Stoots Road at 4:22 p.m.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 7 Mar 1994: CAMC not picking on workers, by Linda Honaker
I must respond to the “Compassion will survive” letter about CAMC [Charleston Area Medical Center]. Here are my beliefs: I have the ability to change things I do not agree with. I have a responsibility to my employer to do a good
job, be prompt, and respect those around me. My employer has a responsibility to me, to pay me. Everything else I receive is a gift, to keep me happy and to make me want to stay here. All the things that happened to “nurses” happened to everyone in the organization. Our management isn’t even getting a merit increase. We can still receive education assistance. It is a little more difficult to receive, but everyone who applied this semester was approved. The retirement cut was necessary for many reasons, and everyone who listened heard these explanations thoroughly. Do you really believe that what has happened is because CAMC is picking on us as employees? Are the ones in charge not CAMC employees also? Lastly, to allow someone to make you change your way of being is impossible. Who you are inside is who you have decided to be. Star Route Box 257, Red House.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 7 Feb 1993: (AP)—The state Supreme Court…failed to act on an appeal filed by a man
sentenced to up to 110 years for convictions on sex crimes. George Wilson Honaker, 42, asked the court to review his conviction in McDowell County in 1990 on charges of two counts of incest, two counts of second-degree sexual assault and two counts of sexual abuse by a custodian. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 7 Apr 1993: (AP)—The state Supreme Court…justices agreed 5-0 to hear the appeal of George W. Honaker, who was convicted of sexual assault and incest charges. Honaker, 42, was sentenced to up 110 years in prison in August 1990 in McDowell County Circuit Court. He denied ever having sex with the child, the appeal said. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 24 Nov 1993: Student News …..Mary Ellen Honaker of Marsh Fork recently received the Proctor and Gamble American Dental Hygienist Association Institute for Oral Health Scholarship. The $1,000 scholarship is awarded to an entry-level dental hygiene student in each of the 21 Proctor and Gamble sales areas. Honaker is a graduate of Marsh Fork High School. She received a certificate in dental assisting from the Raleigh County Vocational
School before entering the dental hygiene program at the West Virginia Institute of Technology where she is a first-year student. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Nov 2001: Marriages
The following people applied for marriage licenses in Kanawha County between Nov. 8 and 15 ….. Brian Keith Honaker, 26, and Michele Elaine Kirby, 24, both of Dunbar.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 16 Apr 2001: Marriages
The following people applied for marriage licenses between April 5 and 12: ….. Robert Bradley Honaker, 23, and Nora Jean Myers, 17, both of Belle [W.Va.]
News Observer, Blue Ridge, Ga., 8 Jan 2002: Photo caption—Nursing Graduates
With the lighting of a candle, five students from Fannin County graduate Appalachian Technical College’s practical nursing on Dec. 13. Pictured are (seated, left to right) Rochelle Honaker, Marie McGinn, Janet Cochran of Polk Co., (standing) Heather Chancey and Mary Reece.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 18 Jan 2001: Diabetes Association Recognizes Award Recipients
The American Diabetes Association West Virginia Area Office recognized several local volunteers at their Greatland Region Volunteer Meeting in Indiana in November. Awards were given for help in accomplishing the “Three R’s of the ADA: Reaching, Raising and Recruiting.” ….. The Recruiting Award was given to Jennifer Honaker, a long-time ADA volunteer. Having a son diagnosed at an early age has been her motivation to be the best volunteer she can. For many years, Honaker has helped recruit people to assist in accomplishing the ADA mission.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 30 Mar 1992: Woman Seeks Friend, by Mrs. John Laymon. If the former Edith Jane Monk or any of her close relatives sees this, please call me at Seth, 837-8349. She was formerly married to Jerry Lee Honaker, Star Route Box 48, Seth.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 12 Feb 1991: Monsanto’s Conduct Not Appreciated
Safety at the Monsanto plant in Nitro is of the deepest concern to me. As a resident of Nitro and a locked-out employee of Monsanto, I am aware of highly toxic chemicals used in the plant. Since the lockout began, there has been one senseless fatality and several serious injuries suffered by salaried workers in the plant. There have been fires and chemical releases. Monsanto management, in their judgment, has chosen to not sound the emergency siren as was routinely done prior to the lockout to alert the community and other parts in the neighborhood that there was a problem at Monsanto. There is no trained fire brigade in the plant. Monsanto’s attitude toward their employees and the community is unconscionable and should not be tolerated.
Bryan D. Honaker, 812 Kanawha Ave., Nitro
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 16 Feb 1990: Record number of fingerling hybrid striped bass stocked
….. The current state record fish of 31.5 inches and 16.75 pounds was caught in 1985 at Kanawha Falls by Robert Honaker of Prosperity. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 21 Apr 1990: Smiles and Scowls, by Paul Crabtree
Smiles ….. To Christopher Honaker of Lewis County, who has overcome the curse of autism enough to attend West Virginia Wesleyan College at Buckhannon. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 12 Nov 1989: 14-Month Investigation Ends with Arrest of 5 in Raleigh
Beckley (AP)—Five people are being held on federal drug charges in Raleigh County after being arrested in the culmination of a 14-month investigation, police said. “These arrests were part of a large drug distribution ring in the area,” Raleigh County Deputy J.W. Stone said.
Stone said the five charged were: Eva K. Bailes, 22, of Prosperity, on two counts each of sale
and transfer of a controlled substance and one count each of conspiracy to distribute morphine and dilaudid. Jack Honaker, 44, of Arnett, on one count of conspiracy to distribute marijuana and one count of possession with intent to distribute.
Michael A. Gosnell, 28, of Beckley, on one count of conspiracy to distribute crack and one count of distribution of crack
cocaine within 1,000 feet of a school. Jon C. Hall, 41, of Beckley, on one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine and 10 counts of selling cocaine. Hall also was charged for using his residence to sell cocaine. Hewett M. Grasty Jr., 33, of Oak Hill, on one count of possession of marijuana and one count of obstructing an officer.
The arrests were made Thursday night. The five will be held in Raleigh County Jail until Monday, when Stone said they will be sent to federal court in Bluefield for bond hearings.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 9 Nov 1989: Fayetteville Wants to Annex Land by Corridor L—Fayetteville—
The mayor believes Fayetteville is “Hometown, USA.” But if the business community is to expand, he feels the town must annex approximately three miles along Corridor L of U.S. 19. Mayor Jim Murdock said Wednesday that Fayetteville is a fine town, but its growth potential is tied to U.S. 19. Murdock added that the city of Oak Hill has annexed portions along 19 that move its corporate limits ever closer to Fayetteville.
Fayetteville’s proposed annexation would be from Oak Hill’s corporate limits near the Lochgelly exit on 19 to the Possum Creek Road, north of the New River Gorge Bridge. The annexation would take in only the right of way strip that
parallels 19 for approximately 3.5 miles, but it would give town officials the first step they need to annex future property.
Town officials are now having engineers prepare maps to present to the division of highways for approval. They must also have a hearing before the Fayette County Commission.
Murdock hopes the annexation will be completed by January. Fayetteville police officers would be allowed to patrol that stretch of highway if the annexation goes through. But town manager Robert Honaker said having Fayetteville police chase speeders is not the main idea behind the annexation.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 22 Dec 1989: Paternity Case Blood Test OK’d—
…..In other action Thursday, the [West Virginia Supreme Court…..Upheld, in a unanimous ruling, a special judge’s order that Elizabeth Honaker, 6, be returned to her natural father after a six-month transition period. Honaker was in the custody of her stepfather after her mother was killed in a car accident in 1988.
After his ex-wife’s death, Leonard Honaker, the girl’s father, sued for custody and won. The stepfather, Bradley Tuckwiller, appealed the Greenbrier County judge’s decision. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Apr 1991: Kanawha, Logan Circuit Judges’ Decisions Appealed to High Court
A Logan County judge was prejudiced against awarding custody of an infant daughter to her father, an appeal filed Thursday with the state Supreme Court said. The court also received an appeal petition from a couple who claimed a Kanawha County judge showed favoritism toward their opposing attorney by joking with him in an automobile negligence case. The court didn’t immediately act on either request.
Michael Honaker sought to appeal a decision by Logan County Judge J. Ned Grubb last year awarding custody of Honaker’s child to his ex-wife. State law says the primary caretaker of a child should be awarded custody and Honaker had sought to show he spent 85 percent of his time with the child.
The appeal, written by attorney Gretchen Lewis, said the amount of time Honaker spent with the child “did not matter to the court.” It quoted Grubb as saying: “But to spend X amount of hours per day or percentage of the time with this baby does not impress me. A lot of the time I spent with my babies I always knew my babies had good shoes because I would be laying on the floor drunk when they were out to school every day. I can always say they had good shoes. I don’t know what kind of dresses they had, but I know they had socks and shoes.”
The appeal said there was no evidence Honaker drank. The statement by the judge “indicated his predisposition not to give custody of an infant daughter to the father and his personal belief that mothers are better caregivers than fathers,” the appeal said. Grubb had an unlisted telephone number and could not be reached for comment. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 4 Feb 1989: Man Facing Weapon Charges May Finally Get In at Jail, by Jack McCarthy—
Huntington—A man with a love-hate relationship with the law was arrested Wednesday at the Cabell County Jail [Huntington] on an outstanding warrant for illegal gun manufacturing after he was told he had the job he sought with the department.
William E. Honaker of Cabell County, formerly of Havelock, N.C., had applied for a job with the Cabell County Sheriff’s department. But when doing a routine background check on Honaker, authorities found a warrant was on file for him in Raleigh, N.C., according to U.S. Marshal Walt Biondi. Further checking showed he was charged in a sealed indictment with 13 counts of illegally making, possessing and transporting machine pistols, silencers and explosives.
Marshals, other federal agents, county and city police devised a plan to capture Honaker, Biondi said. “By way of a ruse, we had him called and told him his application for employment was about to be approved and asked him to report to the Sheriff’s Department to fill out one more form,” Biondi said. On arrival, he was arrested. “He was put behind bars at the place he wanted to work,” Biondi said.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 14 Jan 1987: Students, by Jennifer Bundy (accompanied by photograph with cutline, “Nitro Junior High Cook Pauline Honaker is going strong at 74”)—
Pauline Honaker spent her 74th birthday last Wednesday making lunch for 270 Nitro Junior High School students. It was all in a day’s work for the woman who has been a Nitro Junior High cook for 20 years. “Pauline retired nine years ago and returned to work the next day. She could not accept idleness,” said Sam F. Lee Jr., the school’s principal. Honaker retired at the end of the school year and returned as a substitute cook the first day of school the next fall. She has been “substituting” every day since then. “She believes and practices the American work ethic,” Lee said. “During the past 20 years, her work attendance has been outstanding. Absence, tardiness and waste are not part of her lifestyle. Her lifestyle is a beautiful example to young people,” Lee said.
“I’m happier being busy. I like to have something to get up for in the morning,” Honaker said. “I just like being around students and young people. I still do. I just like the kids.” Honaker is an energetic, gray-haired woman who looks 20 years younger than her age. She said she will continue to work “As long as my health holds out, as long as they need me and want me.” Honaker was embarrassed by all the attention she received from her co-workers last week. She smiled, ducked her head, and briskly took homemade rolls out of the oven and buttered them as the school’s other two cooks praised her.
“I’ve known Pauline for years. I’ve never met anybody as fun to work with,” said head cook Wanda Gibeaut, 52, who has worked at Nitro Junior High for 18 years. Gibeaut and Faith Pauley, 51, lauded Pauline’s cooking. “She does like to have the best to cook with. She doesn’t like to cook with second-rate food,” Gibeaut said. “I make more cookies than anything else,” Honaker said. “That’s what our students like most.” Although Honaker still rises at 5 a.m. and is at work by 5:45 a.m. every weekday, her job is probably not as tough as it was when Nitro Junior High had its capacity of 1,000 students. Now that enrollment is down 75 percent, the Kanawha County Board of Education now frequently uses empty classrooms at the school for administrative meetings.
Lee said Honaker’s chocolate chip and sugar cookies are one of the reasons the school is a popular meeting place. Her chocolate chip cookies are known all over the valley. “I’ve had I don’t know how many schools call wanting the recipe,” Gibeaut said. Honaker said she enjoys cooking. “I cook at home for everybody. They always come home to granny,” she said. “Granny” has four children and six grandchildren. Stephen Honaker is a district salesman for a business forms company in North Carolina, George Honaker is unemployed and Brian Honaker works for Monsanto. Jan Honaker Diehl and her husband own Diehl’s Restaurant in Nitro.
“She’s a better cook than I am,” Honaker said of her daughter. Honaker has lived in the same house on Layne Avenue in Nitro for 36 years. Besides cooking for her family, Honaker also quilts, sews and is taking a painting class. She walks one to three miles every evening and swims and travels in the summer. “I walk so fast people think I’m jogging,” she said. In her youth, Honaker worked at a grocery store and a local chemical plant that has since gone out of business. She quit work a few years after she married. She went to work at Nitro Junior High after her husband died. Honaker says the school has “great” children, but she knows few of them well. The children who do know her, “think I’m ancient.”
Sunday Gazette-Mail, [Charleston, W.Va.], 21 Aug 1994: Regatta Sternwheelers, Towboats Return to the Riverfront, by Eric Douglas.
Piloting a 63-foot sternwheeler takes concentration. J.D. Pauley, pilot of the Hobby III, takes it slow and steady up the river while passenger Stuart Douglas looks on. The Hobby III is owned by Capt. Brian Honaker of Nitro, and is just one of many sternwheelers expected to return to the 24th Annual Sternwheel Regatta Festival after a year's absence.
After a year of conspicuous absence, the very thing that has made the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta Festival noteworthy is returning to the riverfront. More than 40 sternwheelers and towboats are expected to participate in regatta this year. Last year, for lack of a place to dock, the boats were not a part of the festival. At the time, many people feared that they
never would return. Organizers for this year’s regatta already have commitments from more than 40 boats, captains and crews, and a few more are expected to sign up by festival time, according to Margaret Gardner, administrative assistant for the Charleston Festival Commission.
“Having the boats back at regatta is everything,” said Nelson Jones, vice president of river events. “The sternwheelers are the regatta. Without them, we don’t have a regatta. They are the focal point of the whole event.” …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 4 Sep 1995: Paddlewheeling for the pleasure of it, by Linda B. Blackford
Jimmy Buffett warbled over the stereo as the Hobby III chugged up the river, and all the crew members sang along.
“There’s a very serious Jimmy Buffett theme here,” said crew member Eric Douglas. It’s not just the boat, and it’s not just the beer piled in coolers on the upper deck. It’s the attitude. “We’re not that fast, but we’re cute,” said pilot J.D. Pauley. No one on board expected to win any of Sunday’s sternwheel races. But like their mentor, Buffett, the crew members were living for the moment under a hot sun and a cool breeze.
“We try to get their attention and drink more beer than they do,” Pauley said, explaining the race strategy against the 40 or so sternwheelers gathered at Haddad Riverfront Park. Hobby III is a midsize boat with a strong, but not particularly fast, engine. “It’s what they call a power-to-weight ratio, and we don’t have it,” Pauley said. “We’re out there for the fun of it.” Life for the river rats, as they call themselves, consists of long weekends and evenings on the rivers, cruising from regatta to regatta in West Virginia and Ohio. “It’s just like one big happy family out here on the river,” Douglas said.
Of course, not everyone is as laid back as Hobby III crew. The Miss Sterling has won the premiere regatta race nine of the past 11 times. The atmosphere on board Miss Sterling before the races was decidedly more businesslike, facing heavy competition from the three-story Winnie Mae. “We’re going to have to run today,” said Dempsey Jones, father of Capt. Tom Jones. He explained that the ship’s engine was made out of two truck engines, giving it extra push. They invite only family and close friends along so the ballast won’t be too heavy.
Meanwhile, the Hobby III crew had finished their 10-minute undocking procedure. They sat around eating, drinking, trading boat gossip and making jokes (mostly of the kind not allowed in a family newspaper). The boat crawled upriver past the 35th Street bridge until just before 2 p.m., when it and the three other boats in their heat embarked off from the Capitol steps. “Well, we’re racing now,” somebody said. Then everybody continued with the eating, drinking and joking.
The boat’s speed climbed to about 6 mph. Capt. Brian Honaker said the boats try to keep even until the end; otherwise the races aren’t as exciting. Sure enough, as the South Side Bridge came into view, the Brenda J and Lakie Marie kicked their sternwheels into high gear and pulled ahead. As everyone on the Hobby III watched with interest, the Brenda J nosed ahead to win. “Congratulations, Brenda J,” Pauley called over his radio. The Hobby continued its leisurely pace back toward the dock. Victory had eluded them again, the crew found success just the same. “Any day on the river is a good day,” Honaker said.
Sunday night’s West Virginia Symphony concert and the following fireworks display delighted the crowd of about 3,000, which filled most of the nooks and crannies of Haddad Riverfront Park. On a wonderfully cool, clear evening, Maestro Thomas Conlin’s …..
Sunday Gazette-Mail, Charleston, W.Va., 8 Jul 1992: Counter Culture, by Ben Calwell
Ruby Honaker, a short-order cook and waitress at the Ben Franklin store lunch counter in Nitro, has been serving home cooking and hospitality across the counter to hungry customers for 25 years. Regular customers like the homey atmosphere and sit-down service.
The regulars come in to linger over freshly brewed coffee and to watch Ruby and the others bustle about, serving up slabs of pie and old-fashioned hospitality. At the Ben Franklin store snack bar in Nitro, it’s non-stop movement as Ruby Honaker, Virginia Dodson, Rosemary Vincent and Ruth Gandee use their combined 100 years of short-order cooking experience to satisfy those hungry customers who reject fast-food restaurants in favor of slower-paced dining. They enjoy sitting on the well-worn stools to listen to the clatter of china and silverware and to watch the coffee drip into the carafes.
Honaker is a short-order cook and a waitress there with 25 years of experience behind the counter. She sees the same faces across the counter on a daily basis, and that’s just fine with her. “Mostly senior citizens, and there’s a few young ones that come every day, too,” said Honaker, a resident of Buffalo. “It’s mostly the same customers, just about always.”
The Ben Franklin snack bar is a throw-back to the days of mom-and-pop diners, soda fountains and plates heaped high with home-cooked delights. “We usually have three to four dinners every day—all home-cooked,” Honaker said. All meals are served with side dishes of smiles and conversation. “We talk and carry-on about everyday things. Mostly the weather or ‘How are you feeling today?’ And the customers talk among themselves,” she said. Honaker and the others have a daily routine. “The first thing you do is turn on the stove, get your oven hot, turn on the grill and steam table and make a pot of coffee,” Honaker said.
The lunch counter veteran said her job sometimes gets hectic. “It does, believe me, it does. You’ve got to know how to cut corners. You’ve got to stay on your feet and keep after it,” she said. And stay on her feet she does. “We take the orders, we do our own cooking and we deliver it—the whole nine yards,” she said. Rosemary Vincent has worked behind the counter for 28 years and she knows her customers like the back of her hand. She anoints her customers with hot coffee and warm smiles. “We know what they want to eat and if they drink their coffee black. They sit down, and it’s just like home,” Vincent said. “We treat everybody good and joke with them and laugh with them.”
Some of the lunchtime regulars took time from their coffee and sandwiches to talk about their love of the lunch counter. Larry Landers of Bancroft has been a regular customer for about eight years. He likes the atmosphere, he said. “It’s the home-cooked food and the friendly people. It’s a nice place to spend a little time and have a snack.”
Kathy Garrison of Nitro has been a customer since she was a child. Her mother first brought her to the snack bar when she was 6 months old. The 26-year-old said she’s known the staff at the snack bar all her life. She likes meeting her friends there. “It’s the people. I know everybody and I like to socialize,” she said. Garrison’s mother, Betty, was at her daughter’s side sipping coffee. “I used to set her up on the counter in her little baby suit,” she remembered. Like her daughter, Garrison likes the people and the cooking. “The girls are wonderful behind the snack bar. It’s a friendly place to come,” she said.
Nitro resident Jackie McClanahan is a fixture at the snack bar. She was a regular customer when the Ben Franklin store was at its old location on 21st Street. About 15 years ago, the store and snack bar moved into the old Kroger’s building on the same street. “I enjoy talking to everyone, and it’s good food. Everybody’s pleasant—we just have a good time,” McClanahan said. “We talk about first one thing and then another. Whatever topic comes up, that’s what we talk about.”
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 1 Jan 1986: Columbian Coal Test Burn Starts Despite Opposition, by Dorothy Gasta
Virginia Power has started its test burn of 30,000 tons of South American coal despite the opposition of southwest Virginia miners and mine operators, who fear the state could lose business and jobs to foreign imports. “We can’t understand why they need to bring in imported coal when we have it right here,” Hobart Honaker, spokesman for District 28 of the United Mine Workers of America, said Tuesday. “You start out with 30,000 tons, and who knows how much more they’ll bring in.”
The Colombian coal was transported to Newport News by ship and from there by barge to Virginia Power’s Chesterfield plant, company officials said. The delivered price of the South American coal was less than what the utility pays for coal from Virginia, West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, according to the utility. Eight UMW members protested outside the Chesterfield plant Monday, and Honaker said the union will have more demonstrations if the test burn results in a contract between Virginia Power and Carbocol, a coal company run by the Colombian government. “We’re not going to sit idle and let this happen,” said Honaker, coordinator of District 28’s Coal Miners Political Action Committee. “If we have to bring the whole district’s miners there, we'll do that.”
E.B. Leisenring Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Westmoreland Coal Co., said Colombia got favorable loans from the International Monetary Fund, a United Nations affiliate that attempts to stabilize the world balance of trade with loans to developing countries. The United States is the biggest single contributor to the IMF. “This capital competes directly with the production of coal in the U.S. and the higher cost of money that we bear”' Leisenring said in a prepared statement. “Coupled with dirt-cheap labor, this capital allows foreign coal to come into the U.S. to displace what may soon be thousands of American coal-mining jobs.”
The Philadelphia-based Westmoreland operates coal mines in Virginia. Bill Hall, spokesman for Virginia Power, said the utility is far from setting up a contract with Colombia. The imported coal first must prove to be competitive with domestic coal without hurting company equipment, he said. And the utility must be able to burn it within environmental limitations, he said.
“We are very sympathetic to the plight of the miners, but we have an obligation to our customers to seek out the most economic source of fuel,” Hall said by telephone. He said the results of the test burn, prompted by increasing rail transportation costs, won’t be available until spring. On Monday, [Delegate] Ford Quillen, [Democrat]–Gate City, said he will consider legislation to make it more difficult for utilities to buy coal outside Virginia. Quillen, chairman of the House Mines and Mineral Resources Committee, said the firm is obligated to buy Virginia coal, morally if not economically.
Hall said last week that Virginia Power currently gets its coal by rail from central Appalachia, with 20 percent of it coming from southwest Virginia. Honaker said he would be pushing for legislation that would force Virginia utilities to use Virginia coal. Virginia has about 10,000 laid-off miners, about 5,500 of them UMW members, he said. Colombia produces coal inexpensively by paying poor wages and avoiding safety precautions, he said. “They want us to go back to those days, to give up everything we’ve fought for and go back to slave labor,” Honaker said. “We’re just not going to do that.”
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 8 Sep 1986: City Crimes—
The following crimes were reported to the Charleston Police Department. Anyone with information about the crimes is urged to call the Detective Bureau at 348-6480. Charles E. Honaker of Lexington Avenue reported the larceny of a weed cutter, a chain saw, a plow, a galvanized tub, a hedge trimmer, motor oil and assorted electrical and plumbing supplies occurred at an unknown time Aug. 9.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 14 Jan 1985: Peaytt-Honaker, by Sue Shaffer—
Lynn Renae Honaker of Ameagle and Monty Eugene Peaytt of Whitesville were married Nov. 30 in the First Presbyterian Church at Colcord. The Rev. Jeffery Myers performed the ceremony. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Honaker of Ameagle. The bridegroom is the son of Martha Peaytt of Whitesville and the late Ernest Peaytt. Sarah Honaker was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Kelley Keyes, Sherry Hoppe and Rebecca Belcher. Christina Jarrell was flower girl. Jerry Jarrell was best man. Ushers were Lee Peaytt, Ernie Peaytt and Henry Hoppe. Mark Jarrell was ring bearer. A reception followed the ceremony. The bride is a graduate of Clear Fork High School. The bridegroom, a graduate of Marsh Fork High School, is serving in the U.S. Army and stationed in West Germany.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 28 Mar 1986: On to Regional; Monroe, Mercer Pick Spelling Champions, by Jack Deutsch
A couple of killer bees knocked off all but four spelling champions in Monroe and Mercer counties. The champions survived the polysyllabic toughies, tricky words that violated every known rule. ….. Expectations were also low for Krista Honaker, the winner of the Mercer County Bee. “I didn’t study that much so I didn't expect a whole lot,” said the eighth-grader at Princeton Junior High School. But she studied the right words, including the clincher, “lienholder.” The secret to spelling the words correctly is to think out the words before opening your mouth, Krista said.
As the county bee narrowed to two spellers, Krista thought she might get tense and lose. “It wasn’t that the words were more difficult. I was just more nervous,” she said. Krista, 13, said her favorite classes are math and choir. During her free time, she reads, rides horses and thinks about owning her own horse. Krista, the daughter of Maynard and Linda Honaker Jr. of Princeton, said she is interested in a career as a lawyer or psychologist. …..
The…students will compete with 28 other top spellers in the regional bee to be held April 5 at the Capitol Plaza Theater in Charleston. The bee will be taped by WSAZ-TV, Channel 3, and broadcast from 2 to 3 p.m. April 6. The Daily Mail will send the regional winner, accompanied by a parent and a reporter, to Washington, D.C. May 26-30 for the Scripps-Howard National Spelling Bee. The regional winner will also receive a pocket television, a gift of Zenith and Eskew Smith & Cannon, the local Zenith distributor. The regional runner-up will receive a 32-volume set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a gift of that company. The Daily Mail will present each of the county champions with a check to buy a $50 savings bond. The Department of Community Education of Kanawha County Schools co-sponsors the spelling bees with the Daily Mail.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 26 Apr 1990: Merit Scholars from State Named, by Trina Kleist
Evanston, Ill.—Fifteen West Virginia high school seniors are among 1,800 students across the country to win National Merit Scholarships. The students will each win $2,000 Scholarships were awarded to the 50 states in proportion to their populations. Students were selected on the basis of their performance on the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as high school juniors. They were also selected for their academic performance,
accomplishments, interests, goals, recommendations and potential to succeed in college. Winners are in the top one-half of 1 percent of high school seniors nationally.
West Virginia winners are: ….. Krista R. Honaker, Princeton, of Princeton High. Honaker is class salutatorian, won a Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Award, is Student Council vice president and is a member of Spanish Club, Pep Club, Junior Civitans and Interact. She attended the Model United Nations and the Governor’s Honors Academy. She plans to study corporate law.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 30 Jun 1985: Men Released on Bond After Murder Convictions
Men convicted in two area murders have been released on bond pending appeal action of their convictions.
Rodney K. Pennington, 35, sentenced to life after being found guilty for hiring Robert Michael Honaker to shoot and kill Amma Lee Mathews of Oak Hill, was released on 25,000 bond pending a July 16 habeas corpus hearing. A habeas corpus is a petition filed to seek the prompt release of someone in custody. It places the burden of proof on those detaining the person to justify it.
Also posting a 25,000 bond was George Ballard Guthrie II, 33, convicted of the 1980 murder of Princeton businessman David B. Cloud. Guthrie’s retrial has been docketed for Nov. 26. The state Supreme Court has ruled state police, in taking Guthrie into custody, should have brought him directly before a magistrate rather than acting directly on his apparent confession of guilt.
Both bonding actions took place in Princeton before Mercer County Circuit Judge William O. Bivens. In the Pennington case, Mrs. Mathews was found April 8, 1981, shot in the head at her home. Pennington was sentenced Oct. 8, 1983. The case was tried in Mercer County on a change of venue. A first trial ended in a mistrial. Pennington’ wife, Carolyn Sue, signed as surety for his bond. Copies of the bond were ordered recorded with the Fayette County clerk.
In further action in Penningtons case, Mercer Judge John R. Frazier granted a motion by Pennington and attorney Michael Cline of Charleston that Cline be relieved as counsel. Pennington was represented in these proceedings by Charleston attorney John W. Swisher. Swisher represented Pennington during the latter’s first trial,in which Swisher successfully claimed a remark by Fayette Prosecutor Paul Blake was prejudicial to Pennington. Swisher contends Pennington should not be detained in prison because transcripts from the second trial, which ended in conviction, were not prepared for appeal within the required eight months time, which ended June 17.
Swisher said he was appearing as special counsel in the bond hearing and will represent Pennington at the Mercer County habeas corpus hearing as well as a similar hearing July 9 in Marshall County. Frazier ruled files compiled during Pennington’s two trials be transferred from Cline’s office to the State Bar Association office in Charleston where they may be reviewed by Swisher. The attorney then will decide whether to again serve as Pennington’s legal counsel.
In the Cloud murder case, Guthrie has maintained he was under the influence of drugs the night of the murder and has no recollection of specific events.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Oct 1985: Unfinished, by Susan Williams—
The transcript for the second trial in a Fayette County murder case is still not completed four years after the murder. The man convicted of the murder remains free on bond while he appeals the charge and waits for the transcript. Former Mercer County court reporter Susan Zeller took the trial notes with her when she moved to Alabama to work as a court reporter, according to Mercer County Circuit Judge John Frazier. He and the administrator’s office for the West Virginia Supreme Court are trying to get the notes from Zeller and any pages she has already transcribed, he said. Frazier said it is “not a common practice” to get notes from one reporter for another reporter to transcribe.
Rodney K. Pennington of Oak Hill was found guilty of first-degree murder Oct. 17, 1983. Robert Michael Honaker of Fayetteville testified at Pennington’s trial. Pennington promised to pay him $1,000 to kill Amma Lee Mathews of Oak Hill in April of 1981. Pennington’s first trial ended in a mistrial. The case was
moved to Mercer County because of pretrial publicity. Pennington appealed his conviction, but a transcript of his trial must accompany his appeal. Frazier resentenced Pennington for the second time Thursday. The jury recommended mercy for Pennington, making him eligible for parole after serving 10 years of his sentence. Mercer County Judge William O. Bivens released Pennington from prison June 27, 1984 while his appeal was pending. Pennington has served about eight months of his life sentence.
Clarifying what he said in open court Thursday, Judge Frazier said it “serves no one’s interests to delay a case. The defendant has to live in a state of anxiety, not knowing what his status is, and for the state the matter is not resolved.” Since the Pennington trial, Mercer County, like other circuits, has adopted the electronic reporting system, Judge Frazier said. With the new system, trial records can be produced in 60 to 90 days, he said. He has not had to resentence anyone under the new system, he said.
With Thursday’s resentencing, Pennington has an additional eight months to appeal his conviction. Judge Frazier said he hopes the transcript will be completed in that time. Ted Philyaw, an assistant administrator for the state Supreme Court, said notes from a trial are considered property of the court. He also said he knew of few cases where a court reporter took the notes out of the court’s jurisdiction. Judge Bivens said another Supreme Court case, the Green case, states after a defendant has been resentenced and the case is not before the high court within two years, the state has 30 days to take action. After that time period, “the man is absolutely turned loose and cannot be prosecuted.” Bivens said the court has declared a defendant is denied due process if an appeal runs for more than two years without court action. Bivens said he did not know if the Green case could apply with Pennington’s appeal. Pennington, his wife, Carol, and Honaker were jointly indicted for murder. Charges against Mrs. Pennington were dropped for lack of evidence. Honaker served time in prison for the theft of the gun used to kill Mathews, but Honaker was never tried for murder because of a plea agreement with Fayette County’s former prosecutor.
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 12 Jun 1986: Judge Sentences Paraplegic to House Arrest in Own Home, by James McIntyre
A Mercer County Circuit judge has temporarily sentenced a paraplegic to house arrest in his own home while the man appeals his conviction in a 1981 murder for hire. Rodney K. Pennington, convicted in the 1981 death of Amma Lee Mathews, has been confined to his home by Judge William O. Bivens. …..
Pennington was convicted in 1983 in his second trial on the murder of Amma Mathews. During the trials, Robert M. Honaker of Fayetteville testified Pennington promised to pay him $1,000 for killing Mrs. Mathews, the widow of a former Fayette county clerk who controlled Pennington’s grandfather's estate. The first trial ended in a mistrial because of prejudicial remarks made by the prosecutor, Bivens said. The second trial, moved to Mercer County in a change of venue ruling, ended in Pennington’s conviction. …..
Charleston [W.Va.] Daily Mail, 19 Dec 1987: Court Upholds Pennington Conviction
The state Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a Fayette County man in a case in which the actual triggerman was granted immunity from prosecution. In a 27-page opinion that upheld the conviction of Rodney K. Pennington in the 1981 shooting death of Amma Matthews, the high court brushed aside his contention he deserved a new trial because of the “extraordinary dereliction of duty” by the state in producing a trial transcript. It was not produced for two years.
Pennington’s first trial ended in mistrial. Then the case was moved to Mercer County, where a conviction resulted. Matthews died from a gunshot wound to the back of her head. The wound was inflicted, the state said, by Robert Michael Honaker, whom Pennington hired for $1,000. Honaker, who was granted immunity in return for his testimony, said Pennington sought to have the murder committed so Matthews would not interfere with Pennington’s inheritance from his grandfather’s estate.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, 19 Jan 1988: Murder Case Principal Arrested for Shoplifting, by Rich Steelhammer—
Oak Hill—A man who testified he shot a Fayette County woman for the promise of money was arrested Monday for shoplifting. Oak Hill Police Chief Jim McCoy said he arrested Robert Michael Honaker, 28, of Charleston, after a United Super grocery store employee swore out a shoplifting warrant for Honaker. Honaker posted a $165 bond and will stand trial Jan. 28 in Oak Hill city court, McCoy said. Honaker testified in a highly publicized murder trial that he shot Amma Lee Mathews in 1981 in her home for the promise of $1,000. Mathews was the widow of a former Fayette County clerk. Honaker confessed to the crime after he was jailed on other charges. Honaker told authorities that Rodney Pennington of Oak Hill promised to pay him for the killing, but no money ever changed hands.
Honaker served time in prison for stealing guns from an Oak Hill home. Police later identified one of those guns as the murder weapon. But Honaker was never charged with murder because a prosecutor promised him immunity in exchange for his testimony. Later developments revealed that no judge approved that offer of immunity; therefore, it was not valid. Honaker was granted probation in 1984. The original terms of his probation called for Honaker to stay out of Fayette County. A jury found Pennington guilty in 1983 of first degree murder, but recommended mercy, making him eligible for parole after 10 years. Pennington, a paraplegic, served part of his term in prison, and is under house arrest in Oak Hill.
Charleston [W.Va.] Gazette, Jan 1988:
Oak Hill—Robert Michael Honaker pleaded guilty to shoplifting Thursday before his case came to trial.
Honaker, 33, testified in a highly publicized murder trial that he shot Amma Lee Mathews in her home in April 1981. Mathews was the widow of a former Fayette County clerk. Honaker said he killed her for $1,000 promised to him by Rodney Pennington. Pennington was found guilty of first-degree murder, but Honaker was never prosecuted on that charge.
In a plea agreement in exchange for his testimony, Honaker served a sentence for nighttime burglary and was paroled from prison in 1984. Honaker and a companion had broken into an Oak Hill home and stole guns. One of those guns eventually was used to kill Mathews. The original terms of his parole barred him from Fayette County, but Honaker has now served his parole.
When Honaker was arrested on Jan. 18 on a shoplifting charge, he gave police a Charleston address. Honaker took a $5.73 piece of beef from the United Super grocery store without paying for it. Oak Hill Police Chief Jim McCoy said he had a scuffle with Honaker outside the store after he was alerted that Honaker was shoplifting.
Oak Hill City Court Judge Wilbur Toney said Thursday that Honaker paid a $165 fine and promised to return to an alcohol treatment center in Beckley. When Honaker testified about killing Mathews, he also said he had alcohol and drug abuse problems.
Billings [Mont.] Gazette, Arts & Entertainment Ed., 9 Apr 1993: Walkers brings European charm to Chamber—An evening at Walkers Grill is like an evening in a French café or a Manhattan pub, by Christine C. Meyers
Warm friendly, low-key. Unsurpassed in this area. I’d compare the food–and proudly do so–to lovely meals I’ve had in Europe’s finest restaurants. The bistro, in the old Chamber building, has been given new life through the flair of Mitch Thompson and River Run Interiors. It is at once sleek and comfortable, contemporary and “Old Worldly.” Handsome wood, a welcoming bar and convivial hosts make Walkers a relaxing place for an after-work drink and appetizer. It also gained a quick reputation for convenient before-and-after theater suppers.
The Grill features an array of changing specials, including small plates, soups an salads for $3 to $7, Mediterranean pizzas and pastas for $5 to $10, and steaks, chops, birds and fishes from $9. No menu item is higher than $17, which means that one can feast with a friend, including a nice bottle of wine, and get change back from a $50 bill.
Behind the venture are brothers Bill and James Honaker, and Michael Callaghan, who have been working over the landmark since last autumn. In my nine trips to Walkers, I’d set the tone as casual city dining. Jim Honaker, who achieved fame for his culinary wizardry at La Toque, supervises the cooking. He’s assisted by friends and professional acquaintances he’s imported from across the country and as far away as Ireland. Bill works the tables, serves the wine, and, along with Callaghan, greets people and works the space.
I’ve eaten my happy way through a good share of the menu and hereby report my favorites: The grilled lamb steak with a balsamic vinegar glaze, at $12.50, is gorgeous. The pan-seared duck breast with a Saskatoon berry sauce, at $13.25, is a special-occasion dish–elegantly served, artfully prepared. But the beauty of Walkers is that you needn’t order a full-course meal. Two of my favorite suppers have been varieties of small dishes shared with friends: the grilled duck sausage with polenta and chutney, at $4.75; the forest mushrooms with mozzarella, also $4.75; the crab fritter with red pepper, for $4.50; the Yucatan pizza with ham and jack cheese, at $6.75, and the daily soup which was creamed garlic when a friend and I tried it, for $2.25. It’s one of the best soups I’ve eaten.
The sweetbreads are succulent and dishes I’m looking forward to are the mixed grill, the menu’s highest priced dish, at $17.75, and the Caribbean chicken with banana and pineapple, for $9.75. Beneath artwork by Ted Waddell and other regional favorites, diners may sample dishes inspired by Malaysia, Polynesia, Burgundy and New Orleans. All peacefully cohabitat to season the carefully chosen menu. And Honaker, a master at the spice cabinet, knows how to use rosemary, thyme, curry, basil, bay, cilantro and their appetizing relatives.
At a recent birthday celebration, friends enjoyed the rib-eye steak, a 12-ounce beauty, for $14.75, and shared it after we all split starters. The corn cakes with country ham, black beans, Jack cheese and sour cream, is terrific, for $3.50. The Oysters Rockefeller, for $5.75, are memorable. The casserole of Pacific fishes, at $13.75, is a heavenly concoction of four friends of the deep, laced liberally with mushrooms and wine cooked. A fresh grilled fish of the day is also served, along with a Walkers burger, $6.75 with Gruyere cheese and already a menu hit.
I’ve sampled and endorse both large salads, the chicken pecan and apple, for $7.75, and the grilled lamb, with a pungent vinaigrette and crunchy new potato salad, for $8.75. The full bar offers reasonably priced well drinks and all the usual mixed fare, and the bartenders will stir up requests. An excellent line of draft beers ranges from Henry Weinhard’s to Red Hook, with levels of light and dark in between. An intriguing selection of bottled beer includes Blue Heron and Pete’s Wicked Ale, and a tasty bitter named Ballard – all for $2.75.
Other eateries could take a cue from the modestly priced wine list, which includes respectable offerings for under $10, excellent French, Italian, California and Australian wines in the $15 to $20 range and the list’s top priced offering for $65, a Veuve Cliquot brut for those in a champagne mood. As any fine restaurant does, Walkers offers a half-dozen fine wines by the glass, much appreciated by people who want to stay awake for the whole opera, ballet or musical. And it’s nice to see aperitifs offered: kir and Dubonnet, for $3, and a rich port for $3.75, pleasant after a feast.
The Honaker brothers, ever enterprising, even gave the menu an original touch. Each one bears a different cover from all family portraits, including one of Mary Honaker as a high-school cheerleader and others of the boys growing up, playing sports, taking driving trips and in their adult years posing with friends.
The place is a hang-out for performance folk, and favorite place to be after an Alberta Bair Theater function. I like it for that reason: I can have a late supper, long my custom, after I do a review. The desserts are among the best in town–custards, cheese cakes, white chocolate mousse, pecan tarts and more. Another pleasant aspect of the ambiance is seeing the cooks at work. Jimmy and crew run a meticulous ship, and the attractive kitchen is a busy but not frenzied montage of cooking, garnishing, serving. The only complaint I’ve heard in my bountiful forays is that service initially was a bit slow. This never bothers me; it’s a place to socialize.
But if one is in a hurry, it’s good to build that possibility in. Besides the booth and table areas, though, and the tables above the bar, one may eat at the bar in the bistro tradition. As Bill said the other night, “We’re working out the wrinkles and people have been patient.” For good reason: Walkers rewards with every bite.
A 2002 web site identified a Sarah Honaker, born in 1849, who married Charles A. Hamrick, son of Righley Hamrick and Margaret Broce, in 1869. Born in 1845 in Tazewell, Va.
A 2002 web site identified an Allen C. Osborn, whose Bible showed him to be born 23 Dec 1839, died 8 Mar 1916. Pension papers showed him born 23 Dec 1838 in Covington, Campbell Co., Ky., to Richard and Sarah (Hayes) Osborn; married 21 Feb 1863 to Cassie Honaker; 16 Sep 1864 enrolled as a private with Co. G, 53rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry Volunteers; 15 Sep 1865 discharged at Louisville; 31 Jul 1876 wife Cassa Jane (Honaker) died in Owen Co., Ky., leaving son Vick Osborn. The Bible showed Vick born 12 Aug 1902. 31 Jul 1876 witnesses for dependents pension gave date of Cassa Jane’s death as Aug 1882. 18 May 1886, Allen married Lucinda McCormack, who died in May 1906 in Owen Co., Ky. 1 Mar 1907 Allen’s pension application, age 68, gave his description as 5 ft. 8-in., dark complexion, black eyes, black hair; he then had four children living—Nancy Jane Osborn b. 31 Dec 1863, Asa Porter Osborn b. 17 Feb 1887, Richard Thomas Osborn b. 11 Apr unknown, Sarah Elizabeth Osborn b. 7 Mar 1893. On 8 Mar 1916, Allen died in Owen County leaving no widow and one son, Vick, born in Owen County. On 27 Mar 1916 A.P. Holbert was appointed Vick’s guardian.
A 2002 web page identified a Mary Farris (widow of R.W. Farris), of Glade Spring, Va., who died in 2000 in Chilhowie, Va. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Sue Farris Honaker.
A web site in 2002 identified a Tammy Kay Honaker who married Donald Wayne Naylor and had one child, Donald Keith Naylor.
A web site for the Pipes family in 2002 identified a Sallie Honaker, born 3 Oct 1880, died 16 Jan 1967, buried in Buffalo Springs Cemetery, Lebanon, Ky.
A web site in 2002 identified a James Looney, born 21 Aug 1856, died in 1932, who married, first, Jennie Unknown; married, second, Isabel Stanley; married, third, Nancy Margaret Honaker 12 Oct 1910.
Pocahontas Times, Marlinton, W.Va., 20 Jan 2000, Magistrate Court: Benjamin T. Honaker, of Ronceverte, was arrested on Monday by Deputy Sheriffs M.C. Doss and K.L. Sawyers and charged with attempted robbery. Honaker is alleged to have attempted to take money from an employee of the Heritage Shop at the Top of the World condominium building at Snowshoe. He was placed in jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.
The 1860 Miller Twp., Dearborn Co., Indiana census identified Mary A. Honaker, age 1, white, born in Indiana, a child of William and Mary Honaker.
A 2002 web site identified a Garland Sellers, son of William R. and Drusella (Claypoole) Sellers, born 3 May 1908, died 17 Apr 1986 in Milford, Ohio, buried in Memorial Gardens, Milford, who married a Bessie Honaker.
A 2002 web site for Howard & Howard Attorneys, P.C., identified the firm’s attorneys, one of whom was William H. Honaker of its Bloomfield Hills, Mich., office. His company profile, accompanied by a photograph:
Mr. Honaker is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan and registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He received his B.S.M.E. degree from the University of Toledo, College of Engineering and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Toledo. He was an examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and was responsible for mechanical and electro-mechanical inventions including farm equipment, hydraulic cylinder assemblies, linkage systems, propulsion devices and gear drive arrangements. Mr. Honaker also has extensive experience in litigating patent, trademark, trade secret and copyright matters. His experience encompasses a wide range of technologies including: surgical and medical apparatus; food processing equipment; welding equipment and processes; metal cutting tools; marine products; hydrostatic drives; fastener assemblies and manufacturing processes; tool holding assemblies; gas spring assemblies; farm and garden equipment; windshield wiper assembly; ABS brake systems; seat assemblies; die assemblies; mold assemblies and controls; and computer hardware and software.
Mr. Honaker has written “Ownership Issues Involving Employees and Consultants,” published in The Licensing Journal, August 1998; “Employment at the Patent and Trademark Office: Can You Leave With What You Learned?” published in JPOS , February 1990; “Ownership of Intellectual Property Rights,” published in Laches, the Oakland County Bar Association magazine, November 1995; “Information and Innovations of Employees and Consultants — Ownership and Licensing Issues,” Licensing and Other I.P. Transactions, published by the American Conference Institute, January 1996; and various newsletter publications.
Mr. Honaker is past chairman of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan and is a member of the American Bar Association, Michigan Patent Law Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association and International Trademark Association. Mr. Honaker regularly lectures on various Intellectual Property topics in the U.S. and abroad. He presently specializes in intellectual property matters including national and international protection of inventions and inventors, trademarks and copyrightable subject matter, evaluation of patents, trademarks and copyrights of others; and the licensing of technology with a special emphases on computer related technology and ownership issues.
A 2001 personal genealogical web site at e- identified a Hughes Honaker who married Twila Minnerly, daughter of James Albert Minnerly (called Chuck) and Daisy Cleek and had three children—unknown son who died at birth, Marilyn Honaker who married Charles Lay, and Sharon Honaker who married Wayne Hoewing. A computer web search of deaths in Adams Co., Ill., showed that Twila M. (Minnerly) Honaker, 76, of Quincy, Ill., died 24 Jan 1998 and that her obituary appeared 26 Jan 1998 in the Quincy Herald-Whig; and that Alma L. (Nesbitt) Honaker, 91, of Quincy, died 20 Aug 1997 and that her obituary appeared 21 Aug 1997 in the Quincy Herald-Whig.
Merle Honaker was convicted by the State of California of a sexual offense involving a minor. (People v. Honaker, 205 Cal.App.2d 243, Criminal case 4098, First District, Division 3, 28 Jun 1962.)
Lisa Honaker prepared a Ph.D. dissertation, “Reviving Romance: Gender, Genre, and the Late-Victorian Anti-Realists” [DAI 54 (1993): 939A] at Rutgers University, 1993. It “Examines the shift in the ideal of character in Victorian boys’ adventure fiction from the spiritual/female to the action-oriented/male. Cites Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights, Prince Otto, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
Washington Post Metro Section, 31 Dec 2001: National Slavery Museum Timetable Accelerates, by Steven Ginsberg and Craig Timberg
Construction on a national slavery museum planned for Fredericksburg [Va.] will begin in the coming year, and a portion of the extensive project could open as soon as 2003, a year earlier than originally expected, museum officials said.
“It’s going full steam ahead,” said former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder, who is heading the group building the museum. “It’s way, way along.”
The site for the museum, originally slated to be about 22 acres, has grown to almost 35 acres, said Jud Honaker, vice president of the Silver Cos., which is donating the land. Honaker said the deed for the property, valued at about $17.5 million, would be handed over soon. The museum will be a centerpiece of Celebrate Virginia, a 2,100-acre commercial, recreational and tourism project in Fredericksburg and adjacent Stafford County. It will sit on a bluff overlooking the Rappahannock River and Interstate 95, and the extra acreage will serve as a buffer between the site and other parts of the project, Honaker said.
Planners envision Celebrate Virginia as a catchall for working, shopping, playing and vacationing. It is slated to include an office park, golf courses, hotels, stores, eco-tourism activities and a convention center. But it has drawn considerable criticism from local officials and residents who fear it will harm the environment, pull visitors away from downtown Fredericksburg and spur suburban sprawl. [Story continues with no further mention of Jud Honaker.]
A Special Certificate of Birth, in lieu of a regular birth certificate, exists for Archie Honaker, born 11 Sep 1910 in Phelps, Pike Co., Ky., to Robert Luther Honaker, 43 at Archie’s birth, born in Buchanan Co., Va., and Merica [America(?)] Dotson, age unknown at Archie’s birth, born in Phelps. At the time of the Special Certificate, 4 Feb 1965, Robert Luther was living but Merica was deceased. The affidavit was signed by Archie and his sister, Lear Dotson. Lear was then 69, living in Phelps.
Thomas T. Honaker graduated from the West Virginia University School of Dentistry in 1946.
Graham, History of Graham Family, lists a marriage between H. Graham Burdette, son of Washington E. Burdette and Hettie Arabell Graham, and Bess Honaker, 12 Apr 1930. H. Graham Burdette was born 12 Aug 1908 in Charleston, W.Va., died 20 Aug 1937 in South Charleston. The Burdettes were from Summers Co., W.Va., and Grahams married into the Frederick Honaker line, but this Bess has not been identified.
Murphy, Gates to Glory—Cemeteries of Pulaski Co., Va., Vol. I, lists two Honakers who are presently unidentified. They are Lillian Sayers Honaker, born 23 Sep 1883, died 28 Jan 1954, buried in Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Draper Valley, Pulaski Co., Va., and Jeffrey H. Honaker, buried 18 Jan 1981 in Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, Va. Three children of Samuel Pack[4] Honaker (Henry[1]) are known to be buried in Presbyterian Church Cemetery. Lillian must be related to them as a sister or wife, but just how is not presently known.
Leach, 1929-1949—The First Twenty Years, includes an article on page 120, “The Garden Club of Kentucky,” by Mrs. David B. Honaker, President, not presently identified. Mrs. Honaker gives a history of the Kentucky organization, organized in 1931, which consisted of 32 clubs and 2,700 members in 1949.
Unknown newspaper, possibly the Covington Virginian, 11 Jul 1986: Mrs. Nannie Hepler of 1539 Greenlawn Avenue in Covington has received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Henrietta Honaker in Silver Spring, Md. Mrs. Honaker was widow of the Rev. Charlie Honaker.
Monroe Watchman, Union, W.Va., 25 Sep 1950: Marriages—September 25, in Union, Miss Betty James Honaker and Mr. Junior Thomas Galford, both of Gap Mills.
An unidentified book on West Virginia gunsmiths listed a Joseph C. Honaker, who with his son Jason made rifles ca. 1861-1875 in Fayette Co., W.Va. Descendants of Frederick were in Fayette County, but these two are unidentified.
In 2001 Boyce Pickett, a Kentuckian born in 1921, telephone 217-429-5817, informed us he had looked for years for a former Army buddy, Robert M. Honaker, about his age. Robert was from Ohio. They met in California during World War II when they were in the 344th Signal Co., U.S. Army Signal Corps. In 1945 their Signal Company was north of Rome, Italy, when they were both replaced by wounded and became infantry replacements. Boyce lost track of his friend then.
An obituary of Beckley, W.Va. resident Mary Ann Martina, 71, wife of Vittorino Martina and mother of five children including Eva Honaker, wife of Frank E. Honaker of Pineville, N.C., appeared in The Register-Herald, Beckley, 15 Jul 2001. Her grandchildren included Matthew Vaughan Honaker of Pineville. Frank and Matthew were among the pallbearers.
Lebanon [Va.] News, 12 Dec 2001: Sheriff’s Office Issues Charges Following Four Investigations, by Shawn Street
The Russell County Sheriff’s Office has issued charges against a number of individuals following four unrelated and separate investigations. According to Chief Investigator J.R. Lockhart, an investigation was recently launched at the request of a local, unnamed firm into the alleged uttering, forgery and larceny of certain checks. Lockhart said he was furnished with copies of certain treasury checks and further documentation, which he said revealed that the checks were removed from the incoming mail to the firm.
“The accused then later forged the signature of the firm’s executive officer’s name on them and then cashed them at local banks,” Lockhart alleged. He added the alleged incidents occurred from May 1997–March 2001. Following the investigation, 24 felony warrants were issued against Russell County resident Pamela Culbertson, and 30 felony warrants were issued against Indiana resident Nadra Honaker. Lockhart said Culbertson was arrested and later posted bond. Honaker, who was a resident of Russell County at the time of the alleged offense, is currently being held in Boone Co., Ind., awaiting extradition. The charges against the two range from grand larceny, forgery, and uttering, Lockhart said. A tentative court date of Jan. 8, 2002 has been scheduled. …..
In 2001 a query was posted by Frances Macias, grumpymacias@, 3393 N. Forestiere, Fresno, CA 93722, who was assisting a friend. They were looking for the family of Lydia Timberlake, whose sister Johnnie married Hale Honaker ca. 1878 in Tennessee and had a daughter, Rhonda Elizabeth Honaker.
Part III
Honeggers of Illinois
Apostolic Heritage History & Genealogy Newsletter
Serving the greater Livingston County Area
Number 5 – May 2001
[On June 30, 1989, after 60 years of business, Honeggers & Co., Inc., ceased operations.
The following history appeared in the Apostolic Heritage History & Genealaogy Newsletter.]
Honeggers & Co., Inc.
Honeggers’ 50th Anniversary
July 1978
The Honegger feed business goes back to the late 1920s when Sam and Frank Honegger owned one of the top Guernsey dairy herds in Illinois. The herd’s success was attributed to the Honeggers’ development of better feed rations. As their achievements became better known, neighboring farmers began asking to buy Honegger feed.
Their first mill was built in Forrest, Ill., but after a few years, they moved to nearby Fairbury and established another. That mill burned down in 1949, to be rebuilt the following year. A grain terminal was added and the company was on its way to becoming a major manufacturer and distributor of formula feeds.
In the early 1950s Honeggers was responsible for putting a good number of farmers into the poultry business when they found out that farm flocks could net $4 a layer. Part of that new business was based on the economics of putting poultry houses on 40 acres of land and showing a profit.
Honeggers also was one of the first to show the profits that could be gained from central farrowing houses for swine. Their new scientific feeding programs in the 50s could boast that pigs fed “Big H” feeds were “the fastest growing pigs on earth.”
Honeggers’ reputation for efficient field was widened when it took those fast-growing pigs around to dealers in what is called the “pigmobile.” Open houses to show off the Honegger “pig poppery” at the Fairbury research farm attracted thousands of farmers. And to protest price controls 30 years ago, company officials took a pig to Washington and walked it down the Capitol steps.
During the late 40s, Honeggers was producing half its feed products for poultry. Within a decade, it would double the number of feeds made for hogs and cattle. The trend toward integrated poultry production and processing had begun to cut into the firms’ traditional markets.
The late 1960s were problem years financially. In Fiscal 1968, the company lost a half million dollars. Late that year, Petroleum Resources Corp., later called PRC and then Corterra, purchased the stock of Honeggers. PRC’s only business until 1968 was oil and uranium, but it was driving to become a totally integrated food and protein company. With Honeggers as a base, PRC took aim at the egg market. It established three operating divisions: Honeggers (feed), Big H Food (pullet and egg production business) and Big H Country Farms (egg and poultry processing and marketing.)
William Walker was installed as president of Honeggers in 1971. Rich Funk was named executive vice president and treasurer.
At [that] point, the eleven outlying feed mills represented about 20 per cent of Honeggers’ dollar-volume, but tied up 40 per cent of its working capital, and generated about three-fourths of the internal paper work. By liquidating operations, streamlining the office system and reducing personnel by nearly two-thirds, the company reversed the financial picture. In the process of reorganizing, Honeggers lost a good portion of its feed business, on purpose.
Honegger Feed had been sold in ten states, as far east as Pennsylvania, up to the late 1960s. Its sales territory has since been pulled back from the eastern region. Today, Big H feed is manufactured at only four locations—Fairbury; Jasper, Ind.; and Chelsa and Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
Walker retired in 1974 and was succeeded by George Hawkins, who is credited with bringing back much of the feed business and making the company profitable. Honeggers sold its 240 acre research farm in 1971. The company is now owned by EHE Corp., a group of private investors.
Feed volume today accounts for more than $10 million in annual sales—about 50 per cent of the firm’s business. Grain, which has become increasingly important in the company’s overall operation, accounts for the other 50 per cent. Poultry feeds, which made up about 50 per cent of the tonnage when Hawkins joined Honeggers, now accounts for only 20–25 per cent. Hog feeds are the biggest part of the business now, with the trend toward more supplements and less complete feeds. Honeggers has been adding new product lines and can provide swine complexes to provide complete farrow to finish operations.
The founders of Honeggers and Co., Inc.
Samuel Honegger 1905-1991
Forrest—The funeral of Samuel R. “Sam” Honegger, 86, lifelong resident of Forrest, former owner of a poultry and feed business in Forrest and Fairbury, was held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Forrest Apostolic Christian Church. Ministers of the church officiated. Burial was North Apostolic Christian Cemetery, rural Forrest. Visitation was held from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Culkin-Diggle Funeral Home, Forrest, and one hour before the services at the church Tuesday. Pallbearers were Brent Honegger, Andy Honegger, Adam Honegger, Doug Honegger, Dan Honegger and Randy Rich. Mr. Honaker died at 4:52 p.m. Fri., July 19, 1991, at Fairview Haven Nursing Home, Fairbury. He had been in ill health the past several years. He was born March 9, 1905, in Forrest, a son of Edward and Bertha Haab Honegger. He married Leah Rieger Feb. 10, 1932, in Forrest. She survives. Also surviving are four sons, Lyle, Fairbury; Jerry, Forrest; Gordon, Morton; Sam, Albuquerque, N.M.; 11 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; one brother, Frank, Fairbury; and two sisters, Kathryn and Nathalia Honegger, both of Fairbury. He was preceded in death by four brothers and six sisters. Mr. Honegger was co-founder of Honegger’s and Co. at Fairbury and also of Honegger Farms, Inc., in Forrest. He served as chairman of the board of directors until retiring in 1971. He was a member of Forrest Apostolic Christian Church. Memorials may be made to Fairview Haven Nursing Home, Fairbury.
Frank Honegger 1901-1992
Forrest—Frank E. Honegger, 90, formerly of Forrest and former owner [of] a Fairbury business, died at 2:30 a.m. Wed., Sept. 2, 1992 at Fairview Haven Nursing Home, Fairbury. His funeral was at 10 a.m. Friday at Forrest Apostolic Christian Church Ministers officiated. [stet] Visitation was held Thursday at Culkin-Diggle Funeral Home, Forrest, and for one hour before the services at the church Friday. Mr. Honegger was born Nov. 30, 1901, in Forrest, a son of Edward and Betha Haab Honegger. He married Hulda Kilgus Sept. 12, 1928, in Forrest. She died Dec. 13, 1977. Surviving are one son, James, Forrest; two daughters, Velma Koehl and Joan Glendenning, both of Forrest; two sisters, Kathryn Honegger and Nathalia Honegger, both of Fairbury; four grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by five brothers, six sisters and one grandchild. Mr. Honegger was a member of Forrest Apostolic Christian Church. He was co-owner of Honegger Co., Inc., at Fairbury and Honegger Farm, Inc., at Forrest. Mr. Honegger served on the board of directors of Fairview Haven Nursing Home, Fairbury, and Apostolic Christian Home for the Handicapped, Morton. Memorials may be made to Fairview Nursing Home or Apostolic Christian Home for the Handicapped.
This web page was prepared and maintained by Adam J. Barrone of Fort Wayne, Ind., for the author, Derrick K. Babbs. Last modified: 21 April 2002. [copy made 7 May 2013]
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