2007-09-12

Services are held for Meldia Baker



Funeral services for Meldia Slone Baker, 76, of Whitesburg, were held Sept. 1 at Everidge Funeral Home. Burial was in the Beaver Dam Cemetery at Colson. Born in Knott County, she was a daughter of the late Isom and Maggie Taylor Slone. She died August 29 at Letcher Manor Nursing Home. Mrs. Baker was a sister of the late Myrtle […]

Services held for Lucy Bell Boggs



Lucy Bell Boggs died July 31 at her home at Cowan. She was 59 years old. A daughter of Oshie Marie Baker Boggs and the late David Carrol Boggs, she was born in Letcher County. She was the grandmother of the late Caleb Ray Cornett and Aaron Joseph Eldridge. Surviving in addition to her mother are her husband, Wade Boggs; […]

Barry Cates dies



Barry Cates, 72, died August 29 at Whitesburg Appalachian Regional Hospital. Born in Granville County, N.C., he was a son of the late Erwin and Allie Mae Hall Cates. He was the father of the late Albert Cates and Chris Cates. Cates was a U.S. Navy veteran and worked for 30 years at the John Umstead Hospital in Buckner, N.C. […]