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Rites set for Kenneth Childers


Funeral services for Kenneth Childers, 80 of Cumberland, will be held at 12 p.m. today (Wednesday, April 7) at Letcher Funeral Home. Burial will follow in the Miles Family Cemetery at Cowan.

Mr. Childers was a son of the late Bill and Willie Mae Childers and the widower of Sharon Miles Childers.

He died April 3 at his daughter’s residence in Lexington.

Surviving are three daughters, Regina Napier and husband Lloyd of Lexington, Lisa Childers Cress of Kingsport, Tenn., and Kendra Cavins and husband James of London; a brother, David Childers of Benham; 1 half-brother, Jimmy Stapleton of Kingsport, Tenn.; a sister, Doris Burns of Alexandra, Va.; two grandchildren, Lauren and Ashley; and six great-grandchildren, Jackson, Harper, Axel, Cora, Lucas, and Eli.

Mr. Childers was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

He was preceded in death by two brothers, Fred and Bill Childers; three sisters, Jessie Childers, Carol Garrett, and Lorene Webb; and a son-in-law, David Cress.

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