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Mark Justice
Mark Ellery Justice, 52, died Friday, Aug. 1, 2014, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington.
He is survived by his mother, Iva Gail Justice.
Funeral services were held at noon Tuesday, Aug. 5, in the Oldham, Roberts & Powell Funeral Home Chapel with burial following in the Berea Cemetery. Arrangements were under direction of Oldham, Roberts & Powell Funeral Home of Richmond.
Christopher
Milam Sr.
Christopher Bryan “Binky” Milam Sr., 35. of Rawl, W.Va., died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, at Rawl, from injuries suffered in an ATV accident.
He was born in South Williamson, March 11, 1979, the son of Jimmie and Margaret Mabe Milam of Rawl.
He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Ivan and Hettie Milam;
and his maternal grandfather, Jack Mabe.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by one son, Christopher Bryan Milam Jr. of the home; one sister, Joyce Smith of Pinsonfork; and his maternal grandmother, Patricia Lawson of Dayton, Ohio.
include his son Christopher Bryan
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the Hatfield Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Danny Lucas officiating. Burial will follow in the Rawl Community Cemetery. Arrangements are under direction of Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler.
Visitation is Wednesday, from 11 a.m. until time for the service.
Betty Moore
Betty Jean Adams Moore, 75, of Robinson Creek, Virgie, passed from this earthly life Friday Aug. 1, 2014, at Pikeville Medical Center.
She was born in Pike County, Feb. 25, 1939, the daughter of the late Curtis Adams and Anzie Tackett Adams.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Energyville Freewill Baptist Church.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Ralph Moore; and two sons, Danny Ray Moore and Ricky Karrel Moore.
She is survived by one son, Paul Edward Moore of Long Fork Virgie; three daughters, Jennifer Louise Newsome of Penny Road, Patricia Lynn Ousley of Harold and Dwanna Michele Johnson of Robinson Creek; one brother, Ernie Dale Adams of Jonancy; 13 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, in the Energyville Freewill Baptist Church with David Bentley and others officiating. Burial followed in the Sabastian Johnson Cemetery, Virgie. Arrangements were under direction of Community Funeral Home of Zebulon.
“Ernie” Rhoten Jr.
Ernest “Ernie” Cecil Rhoten Jr., 42, died Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, Tenn., due to a horse accident.
He was a native of Washington County, Va., and had lived in Kentucky the past two and a half years.
He was an employee of the Pike County Sheriff’s Department, serving as a bailiff at the Pike County Judicial Center. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Police and would have achieved his goal of becoming a state trooper in January 2015. He was of the Baptist faith.
He was preceded in death by his father, Ernest Rhoten Sr.; his maternal grandparents, Elizabeth Widner Sweet and Wilton Sweet; and his paternal grandparents, Ashley Rhoten and Dolly Greer Rhoten.
He is survived by his mother, Virginia Price of Abingdon, Va.; his stepfather, Hubert Price of Abingdon; two children, Alex Rhoten and Amber Rhoten of Glade Spring, Va.; three sisters, Penny Baldwin of Troutdale, Va., Delores Lester of Bristol, Va., and Barbara Able of Abingdon; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in the Frost Funeral Home Chapel with Johnny Weddle and Eddie Gobble officiating. Burial followed in Forest Hills Memory Gardens. Arrangements were under direction of Frost Funeral Home & Cremation Services of Abingdon.
Obituary courtesy of Lucas & Son Funeral Home of Pikeville.
Margaret Smith
Margaret Elaine Smith, 74, of Belfry, died Sunday, Aug. 2, 2014, at the South Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital’s Skilled Nursing Facility.
She was born in Williamson, W.Va., June 24, 1940, the daughter of the late Milford L. and Mildred E. Noe Simpson.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her ex-husband Claude McCoy; her husband, James A. Smith; one brother, Marvin Simpson; one sister, Mary E. Simpson; and sibling triplets, Milford, Gilford, and Brenda Simpson.
She was a retired LPN from the South Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital, and following her retirement she worked in the deli at Velocity Market, Toler. She was a member of the Christian Assembly of God at Turkey Creek.
She is survived by one daughter, Karen McCoy Keesee of Belfry; two sons, David Claude McCoy of Roanoke, Va., and Charles McCoy of Kimper; one stepdaughter, Diana Davis of Sevierville, Tenn.; one brother, Glen Simpson of Hardy; one sister, Mary Nakagawa of Lawrenceburg; six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the Hatfield Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Gary Hackney officiating. Burial will follow in Mountain View Memory Gardens, Huddy. Arrangements are under direction of Hatfield Funeral Chapel of Toler.
Pauline Stump
Pauling Dorothy Stump, 84, of Sharps Chapel, Tenn., died Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014, at her home.
She was born at Coleman, Feb. 16, 1930, the daughter of the late Sidney and Elizabeth Boyd Smith.
She was a member of Peter Creek Presbyterian Church where she served as a ruling elder and teacher.
Besides her parents, she was preceded in death by one brother, John Sidney Smith; and two sisters, Della Mae Baker and Jacqueline Smith.
She is survived by her husband of 64 years, Glen Stump; seven children, Sheryl Elizabeth Anderson, David Glen Stump, Frank Marshall Stump, John Mitchell Stump, Keith Gordon Stump, Samuel Blake Stump and Gregory Paul Stump; two brothers, Robert L. Smith and Johnny Smith; seven sisters, Anna Marie Chapman, Francis Jean Michaliszyn, Patricia Rose Wagner, Billie Jane Hatfield, Elizabeth Sue Proietto, Virginia Lea Hawkins and Audrey June Smith; 14 grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, in the Cooke-Campbell Mortuary Chapel with the Rev. Keith Mowery officiating. Burial will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, in the Pleasant Valley Cemetery, Maynardville, Tenn. Arrangements are under direction of Cooke-Campbell Mortuary of Maynardville.
Frank Wilhite
Frank Wilhite, 71, of Jackson, Ohio, died Tuesday, July 29, 2014, at Community Hospice Care Center, Ashland.
He was born in Pike County, Oct. 31, 1942.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Hollan Wilhite Sr. and Verna (Harris) Wilhite; and two brothers, Hollan Wilhite Jr. and Darrel Wilhite.
He was a retired mine worker, a member of the United Mine Workers of America, and the Walking Horse Association.
He is survived by his wife, Sandra (Ogier) Wilhite; one daughter, Cassadie Wilhite; one stepdaughter, Courtney Simpson; one sister, Connie Deskins; and two grandchildren, Eli Coll and Sofia Simpson.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 2, in the Mayhew-Brown Funeral Home Chapel with burial following at the convenience of the family. Arrangements were under direction of Mayhew-Brown Funeral Home of Jackson.
Dr. Mary Wiss
Dr. Mary Lucille Wiss, 88, died Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014, at Pikeville Medical Center, with her beloved sister in Christ, Dr. Mary Pauline Fox, by her side.
Born Aug. 7, 1925, in Chicago, she moved with her family at age 10 to Columbus, Ohio, where she completed her elementary and secondary education.
She attended Ohio State University for three years, from 1942 through December 1944. On Jan. 18, 1945, she joined the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, making her vows on July 19, 1947.
A cradle Catholic, Dr. Wiss told Elizabeth Bishop, for an article in “Cross Roads, ” a newspaper of the Catholic Diocese of Lexington, that she dreamed of becoming a doctor, even as a child. After her novitiate, her Catholic community offered her the opportunity to study medicine.
She completed her undergraduate work at two Catholic institutions of higher learning: Spalding University in Louisville, founded in 1814 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth; and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the oldest Catholic and Jesuit University in the country, established in 1789.
While living in Washington, Dr. Wiss missioned at Georgetown University Hospital. She earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1947, and graduated cum laude from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1953.
Dr. Wiss completed her internship and surgical residency at St. Joseph’s Infirmary in Louisville (1953-1958). After finishing her board exams in early 1959, she sailed for India in March of that year, where she became medical director at Nazareth Hospital, Mokameh, Bihar, India.
Following some serious illness, she returned to the United States in September 1964. Because of her health at the time, she left the religious community in 1965. Later in the year she accepted the post of medical director at Frontier Nursing Service in Hyden, where she served until 1969 when she joined Dr. Ballard Cassady in private practice in Pikeville.
If you were one of Dr. Wiss’s patients, you knew that prayer covered everything she did. She prayed with her patients before an examination or surgery. As a surgeon, she shared life and death with her patients. She told Elizabeth Bishop for her “Cross Roads” article that she believed “in order to cope with death, one must be comfortable with his own mortality.” Speaking of her own career, she said, “The longest mile is the death of a child during surgery. Faith is all you’ve got to sustain you. I don’t know how doctors do it who don’t have faith.”
After serving the people of Eastern Kentucky for 21 years, she retired from private practice in August 1990.
Dr. Wiss joined St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in 1969. She was the first woman accepted for membership in the Pikeville Rotary Club. The year was 1981. She later served as club president.
Dr. Wiss was a long-time member of Delta Kappa Gamma, the teachers’ honorary society; GFWC/KFWC – Pikeville Woman’s Club; and Daughters of the American Revolution, of which she was local regent.
A member of the Pike County Medical Society, she was the first female chief of staff at Pikeville Methodist Hospital, now Pikeville Medical Center.
In addition, she held memberships in the Kentucky and American Medical Associations, was a Fellow, American College of Surgeons, Kentucky Chapter; Diplomate, American Board of Surgery; Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons of Canada; and a Fellow, International College of Surgeons.
She was the first female surgeon in Kentucky certified by the American Board of Surgery, and the first female president of the Kentucky Chapter, American College of Surgeons.
On Nov. 20, 2012, the Pike County Fiscal Court honored Dr. Wiss for her “important and numerous contributions” to Pike County.
She was well known in the region and state for her hobbies as well as her medical service. She won a state award for her needlework during the 1976 American Bicentennial at the Capitol Expo-Homecoming’s Needlework Fair in Frankfort. She raised exotic orchids in her greenhouse. And for several years she taught basket-weaving and donated many of her own basket creations for various community fundraising projects.
Dr. Wiss was preceded in death by her parents, Lucille Manny Wiss and John Edgar Wiss.
She is survived by her beloved Christian sister of 48 years, Dr. Mary Pauline Fox; her special Christian sister, Lucille Howell; one brother, John Wiss, of Pittsburgh; two sisters, Martha (Bill) Blakeman of Blacklick, Ohio, and Margaret (Dexter) Thornton of Williamston, Mich.; and several dozen precious nieces and nephews.
The funeral mass for Dr. Mary Wiss will be conducted by Father Richard Watson at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 6, at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, South College Street, Pikeville. Arrangements are under direction of J.W. Call Funeral Home of Pikeville.
Following mass, graveside services will convene at 3 p.m. at Barbourville City Cemetery, 106 KY 255, Barbourville, Ky. Services in Barbourville are under direction of Hopper Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, Dr. Wiss hoped that her friends would make contributions in her memory to the St. Francis Catholic Church Building Fund, 132 Bryan Street, Pikeville, KY 41501.
