Stella Retha Phipps b. 29 Jan 1922 Oswald, Raleigh Co., WV d. 5 May 2010 Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV: Meadow Bluff Meanderings

1922 - 2010 (88 years)

Name	Stella Retha Phipps
Birth	29 Jan 1922	Oswald, Raleigh Co., WV [1]
Gender	Female
Census-Household Member	8 Apr 1940	Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV [2]
Census-Household Member	Role: Household Member He was 23 years old, and an independent truck driver. Also living in his household were his wife Stella R. (age 18) and daughter Shirley A. (age 1). They lived on Route 8 (Kieffer Road).
Death	5 May 2010	Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV [3, 4]
Burial	9 May 2010	Old Amwell Cemetery, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV [5]
Person ID	I19395	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
Last Modified	1 May 2017

Father	Lewis Russell (Edward) Phipps, Sr., b. 16 Jan 1888, Sand Lick, Raleigh Co., WV d. 13 Oct 1966, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 78 years)
Mother	Virginia Ellen Haley, b. 22 Jul 1892, Hinton, Summers Co., WV d. 21 Aug 1975, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 83 years)
Marriage	27 Jul 1908	Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV
Family ID	F6480	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Roy Marshall Hunter, b. 6 Mar 1917, Kieffer, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 4 Jan 2002, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 84 years)

Marriage 7 Sep 1938 Covington, VA [6, 7]

Married by J. E. Cousor, Jr., a minister of the Presbyterian Church. [6]

Children

	1. Shirley Ann Hunter, b. 29 Jan 1939, Charmco, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 26 Jan 2021, Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV (Age 81 years)
	2. Alice Faye "Shelvie Jean" Hunter, b. 17 Mar 1941, Crawley, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 17 Oct 1973, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 32 years)
	3. Janet Dale Hunter
	4. Diana Marcelle Hunter, b. 15 Jun 1946, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV d. 22 Oct 2021, Ronceverte, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 75 years)
	5. Warren Marchel Hunter
	6. Wyatt Lester Hunter

Family ID F7836 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Sep 2015

Event Map

	Marriage - 7 Sep 1938 - Covington, VA
	Census-Household Member - 8 Apr 1940 - Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV
	Death - 5 May 2010 - Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV
	Burial - 9 May 2010 - Old Amwell Cemetery, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV

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		Hunter, Roy M. & Stella R.
		Hunter, Roy M. & Stella R.
		Roy Hunter Family (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)
		Roy Hunter Family (At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.)

Notes

The Beckley Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, Online Edition, 8 May 2010

MEADOW BLUFF - Stella R. Hunter, 88, of Meadow Bluff, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, May 5, 2010, at her home following a long illness.

Born on January 29, 1922, at Oswald, Raleigh County, she was the daughter of the late Lewis and Virginia Haley Phipps.

Mrs. Hunter was a homemaker and attended Soule United Methodist Church at Meadow Bluff. Stella blessed many with her baking and cooking.

In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband Roy M. Hunter (January 4, 2002); 1 daughter, Alice Faye Miller; 4 brothers, Hansford, Eddie, Frank and Noah Phipps; and 6 sisters, Effie Chase, Blanch Thompson, Margie Counts, Nellie Hiser, Louise Lloyd and Gertrude Thompson; and 1 son-in-law, Bill Miller.

Survivors include 2 sons, Warren Hunter (Kay) of Meadow Bluff and Wyatt Hunter (Bonnie) of Alta; 3 daughters, Shirley King (Jim) of Crawley, Dale Riffey (David) and Diana Miller all of Meadow Bluff; 1 brother, Ulysses Phipps of Arizona; 16 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren. The family would like to thank her granddaughter, Dorothea Wickline, who took good care of her grandmother for the last year and a half.

Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday, May 9, at Smathers Funeral Chapel with Pastor Mike Tincher officiating. Burial will follow in the Old Amwell Cemetery at Meadow Bluff.

Friends may call Saturday, May 8, at Smathers Funeral Chapel from 6 to 8 p.m.

Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Chapel, Rainelle.

Sources

[S951] Raleigh Co., WV Births Book 5.
[S1747] West Virginia, Greenbrier County, FCR: Greenbrier Co., WV 1940, (http://www.ancestry.com: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), T627, roll 4404, Meadow Bluff, enumeration district (ED) 13-28, sheet 2B, p. 407, household 42, Roy M. Hunter, accessed 26 May 2016 (Reliability: 3).
[S671] Information from Kay Hunter (Reliability: 3).
[S1311] West Virginia. Beckley., Beckley Register-Herald, (http://www.register-herald.com/:), "Obituaries," 8 May 2010, online archives (http://www.register-herald.com/obituaries/x1989606448/Obituaries-Saturday-May-8-2010 : accessed 21 May 2010). (Reliability: 3).
[S1333] Personal Knowledge (Troy M. Hunter), I was a pallbearer at my grandmother's funeral. (Reliability: 3).
[S1460] Virginia. Alleghany County., Alleghany Co., VA Marriage Register, marriage register, 3: 68, Hunter-Phipps, 1938. (Reliability: 3).
[S1775] Virginia Department of Health, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014, (http://www.ancestry.com :2015.), marriage certificate 20938 (1938), Hunter-Phipps accessed 30 May 2015. (Reliability: 3).