Mercer Co WV Archives - Obituary --- Mrs. Lucy Combs McKinney, 1956

Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Sun., Sep. 9, 1956

   Mrs. Lucy Combs McKinney, 82, of 1104 College Avenue, Bluefield, died at 6
a.m. yesterday in St. Luke's Hospital, following a lingering illness.
   Mrs. McKinney was one of Bluefield's pioneer residents.  She was born July
1, 1874, at Cotton Hill, Va., the daughter of Friel and Millie Combs.
   She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Billie M. Riley, a grandson, Arthur
Gene Riley, and a great grandson, Arthur Gene Riley, Jr., all of Bluefield;
twin brothers, Albert and Elbert Combs of Princeton.
   She was preceded in death by her husband Arthur B. McKinney, in 1930, and
by her parents and one brother, the REv. W. C. Combs, of Cincinnati, Ohio.
   Mrs. McKinney was a member of the First Baptist Church, and was very active
in church work until her failing health.
   The Rev. Cecil V. Cook Jr., pastor of  the first Baptist Church, will be in
charge of funeral services tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Hawkins Funeral Chapel,
Interment in Monte Vista.
   Pallbearers will be Ray Henderson, Frank Forbes, Edgar Dillow, Bruce 
Riley, Dominick Buzzo and Earl Walk.
   Flower bearers will be members of the Ruth Kersey Circle and the Philathea-
Fidelia Class of the First Baptist Church.




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