Stella Retha Phipps
1922 - 2010 (88 years)-
Name Stella Retha Phipps Birth 29 Jan 1922 Oswald, Raleigh Co., WV 
[1, 2, 3] Gender Female Find A Grave Link https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55581584 Find A Grave Memorial 55581584 Death 5 May 2010 Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV [1, 4] Cause: natural causes Burial 9 May 2010 Old Amwell Cemetery, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV [1, 5] Person ID I19395 Meadow Bluff Meanderings Last Modified 4 Nov 2025
Father Lewis Edward Phipps, Sr., b. 16 Jan 1888, Sand Lick, Raleigh Co., WV d. 13 Oct 1966, Crawley, 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 [6] - Married at the home of the minister, James Sweeney.
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 [7, 8] - Married by J. E. Cousor, Jr., a minister of the Presbyterian Church. [7]
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 4 Nov 2025
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Event Map 
Marriage - 7 Sep 1938 - Covington, VA 
Death - Cause: natural causes - 5 May 2010 - Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV 
Burial - 9 May 2010 - Old Amwell Cemetery, Meadow Bluff, Greenbrier Co., WV = Link to Google Earth
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Hunter, Roy M. & Stella R. 
Hunter, Roy M. & Stella R. 
Roy Hunter Family
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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.
- The Beckley Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, Online Edition, 8 May 2010
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Sources - [S2507] West Virginia Department of Health & Human Resources, Bureau for Public Health - Vital Registration, WV Dept. of Health & Human Resources Death Certificate (Original), death certificate 007146 (2010), Stella Retha Hunter (Reliability: 3).
- [S2508] West Virginia State Department of Health, Division of Vital Statistics, WV State Department of Health Delayed Birth Certificate (Original), delayed birth certificate 49266 (10 Jul 1973), Stella Retha Phipps. attesting to birth on 29 Jan 1922. (Reliability: 3).
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lists date of birth as 17 Jan 1922 in Oswald, a daughter born to Louis Phipps and Virginia Haley, reported by G. F. Grissinger. - [S1311] West Virginia. Beckley., Beckley Register-Herald (Beckley, WV), (http://www.register-herald.com/:), 21 May 2010, "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).
- [S1335] West Virginia. Raleigh County., Raleigh Co., WV Marriage Register, (Digital images. West Virginia Devision of Culture and History, West Virginia Vital Research Records. http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ : 2009.), marriage register, 6: 214, Phipps-Haley, 1908; accessed 7 Nov 2025. (Reliability: 3).
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