William Elson Honaker, 89, a former merchant of Red House and employee of the State Road Commission Garage there, died yesterday in a Charleston hospital after a long illness. He was a member of the Kanawha Valley Masonic Lodge 36, Buffalo and the Riverside Baptist Church, Red House.
Survivors: A son, William H. Honaker, Logan; stepsons, Ray, Hoffsinger, Charleston; Ralph Neffsinger, Beth H. A. and J. D. Hoffsinger, both of Red House: a daughter, Mrs. Stephen L. Harmon, Red House; sisters, Mrs. Alice Woodrum, Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Kempton. Tasco, Wash., and Mrs. Edith Chittum, Baltimore; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The body is at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
-Charleston Daily Mail, April 24, 1963, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
He married
Mary Frances Armstrong on December 25, 1899 in Putnam Co., West Virginia. To this union were born two children: William H. Honaker and Bessie "Bertie" Honaker (Harmon). His wife died in 1907. He married Mary E. Watkins in 1927. She died in 1950.
Son-in-law: Stephen L. Harmon
Survivors: A son, William H. Honaker, Logan; stepsons, Ray, Hoffsinger, Charleston; Ralph Neffsinger, Beth H. A. and J. D. Hoffsinger, both of Red House: a daughter, Mrs. Stephen L. Harmon, Red House; sisters, Mrs. Alice Woodrum, Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Kempton. Tasco, Wash., and Mrs. Edith Chittum, Baltimore; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The body is at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
-Charleston Daily Mail, April 24, 1963, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
He married
Mary Frances Armstrong on December 25, 1899 in Putnam Co., West Virginia. To this union were born two children: William H. Honaker and Bessie "Bertie" Honaker (Harmon). His wife died in 1907. He married Mary E. Watkins in 1927. She died in 1950.
Son-in-law: Stephen L. Harmon
William Elson Honaker, 89, a former merchant of Red House and employee of the State Road Commission Garage there, died yesterday in a Charleston hospital after a long illness. He was a member of the Kanawha Valley Masonic Lodge 36, Buffalo and the Riverside Baptist Church, Red House.
Survivors: A son, William H. Honaker, Logan; stepsons, Ray, Hoffsinger, Charleston; Ralph Neffsinger, Beth H. A. and J. D. Hoffsinger, both of Red House: a daughter, Mrs. Stephen L. Harmon, Red House; sisters, Mrs. Alice Woodrum, Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Kempton. Tasco, Wash., and Mrs. Edith Chittum, Baltimore; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The body is at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
-Charleston Daily Mail, April 24, 1963, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
He married
Mary Frances Armstrong on December 25, 1899 in Putnam Co., West Virginia. To this union were born two children: William H. Honaker and Bessie "Bertie" Honaker (Harmon). His wife died in 1907. He married Mary E. Watkins in 1927. She died in 1950.
Son-in-law: Stephen L. Harmon
Survivors: A son, William H. Honaker, Logan; stepsons, Ray, Hoffsinger, Charleston; Ralph Neffsinger, Beth H. A. and J. D. Hoffsinger, both of Red House: a daughter, Mrs. Stephen L. Harmon, Red House; sisters, Mrs. Alice Woodrum, Newark, Ohio, Mrs. Bertha Kempton. Tasco, Wash., and Mrs. Edith Chittum, Baltimore; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The body is at Gatens Funeral Home, Poca.
-Charleston Daily Mail, April 24, 1963, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
He married
Mary Frances Armstrong on December 25, 1899 in Putnam Co., West Virginia. To this union were born two children: William H. Honaker and Bessie "Bertie" Honaker (Harmon). His wife died in 1907. He married Mary E. Watkins in 1927. She died in 1950.
Son-in-law: Stephen L. Harmon
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