James Harold "Red" Berry
May 11, 1943 - September 6, 2022
James Harold "Red" Berry, age 79, of Marion, KY, died Tuesday, September 6th, 2022, at Crittenden Health & Rehab in Marion.
Red grew up working with his father and brother on the farm in Union County. After graduating in 1961 from Sturgis High School where he was a key member of the school's football team, he spent more than 50 years working in the coal mines. The vast majority of those years (July 1968 - February 2016) were spent working at Webster County Coal (Dotiki) in Clay. After working long hours each day in the coal mines, Red came home and worked with the cattle on his farm near Mattoon. In the few hours of spare time that he had, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, riding horses, and boating.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Margaret Berry, a sister Peggy Eigel, and his birth mother, Wanda Stimson Overby.
Survivors include his children Lisa (Tod) Wallace of Fishers, Indiana, and Wade (Krista) Berry of Marion; grandchildren Dalton Wallace of Indianapolis, Indiana, Hannah Berry of Murray, and Lauren Berry Turner of Marion; former wife Ruth "Sissy" Markham Berry of Marion; brother, Carroll Berry of Salem; and Amy Doucet of Carrsville, a longtime family friend whom he considered to be a daughter.
Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 11,2022 at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis. Visitation begins at 12:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pythian Ridge Cemetery in Sturgis, KY.
May 11, 1943 - September 6, 2022
James Harold "Red" Berry, age 79, of Marion, KY, died Tuesday, September 6th, 2022, at Crittenden Health & Rehab in Marion.
Red grew up working with his father and brother on the farm in Union County. After graduating in 1961 from Sturgis High School where he was a key member of the school's football team, he spent more than 50 years working in the coal mines. The vast majority of those years (July 1968 - February 2016) were spent working at Webster County Coal (Dotiki) in Clay. After working long hours each day in the coal mines, Red came home and worked with the cattle on his farm near Mattoon. In the few hours of spare time that he had, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, riding horses, and boating.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Margaret Berry, a sister Peggy Eigel, and his birth mother, Wanda Stimson Overby.
Survivors include his children Lisa (Tod) Wallace of Fishers, Indiana, and Wade (Krista) Berry of Marion; grandchildren Dalton Wallace of Indianapolis, Indiana, Hannah Berry of Murray, and Lauren Berry Turner of Marion; former wife Ruth "Sissy" Markham Berry of Marion; brother, Carroll Berry of Salem; and Amy Doucet of Carrsville, a longtime family friend whom he considered to be a daughter.
Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 11,2022 at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis. Visitation begins at 12:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pythian Ridge Cemetery in Sturgis, KY.
James Harold "Red" Berry
May 11, 1943 - September 6, 2022
James Harold "Red" Berry, age 79, of Marion, KY, died Tuesday, September 6th, 2022, at Crittenden Health & Rehab in Marion.
Red grew up working with his father and brother on the farm in Union County. After graduating in 1961 from Sturgis High School where he was a key member of the school's football team, he spent more than 50 years working in the coal mines. The vast majority of those years (July 1968 - February 2016) were spent working at Webster County Coal (Dotiki) in Clay. After working long hours each day in the coal mines, Red came home and worked with the cattle on his farm near Mattoon. In the few hours of spare time that he had, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, riding horses, and boating.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Margaret Berry, a sister Peggy Eigel, and his birth mother, Wanda Stimson Overby.
Survivors include his children Lisa (Tod) Wallace of Fishers, Indiana, and Wade (Krista) Berry of Marion; grandchildren Dalton Wallace of Indianapolis, Indiana, Hannah Berry of Murray, and Lauren Berry Turner of Marion; former wife Ruth "Sissy" Markham Berry of Marion; brother, Carroll Berry of Salem; and Amy Doucet of Carrsville, a longtime family friend whom he considered to be a daughter.
Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 11,2022 at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis. Visitation begins at 12:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pythian Ridge Cemetery in Sturgis, KY.
May 11, 1943 - September 6, 2022
James Harold "Red" Berry, age 79, of Marion, KY, died Tuesday, September 6th, 2022, at Crittenden Health & Rehab in Marion.
Red grew up working with his father and brother on the farm in Union County. After graduating in 1961 from Sturgis High School where he was a key member of the school's football team, he spent more than 50 years working in the coal mines. The vast majority of those years (July 1968 - February 2016) were spent working at Webster County Coal (Dotiki) in Clay. After working long hours each day in the coal mines, Red came home and worked with the cattle on his farm near Mattoon. In the few hours of spare time that he had, he enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, riding horses, and boating.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Harold and Margaret Berry, a sister Peggy Eigel, and his birth mother, Wanda Stimson Overby.
Survivors include his children Lisa (Tod) Wallace of Fishers, Indiana, and Wade (Krista) Berry of Marion; grandchildren Dalton Wallace of Indianapolis, Indiana, Hannah Berry of Murray, and Lauren Berry Turner of Marion; former wife Ruth "Sissy" Markham Berry of Marion; brother, Carroll Berry of Salem; and Amy Doucet of Carrsville, a longtime family friend whom he considered to be a daughter.
Funeral services will be 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 11,2022 at Whitsell Funeral Home in Sturgis. Visitation begins at 12:00 p.m. until service time at the funeral home. Burial will follow at Pythian Ridge Cemetery in Sturgis, KY.
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