Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 3, 1993 TAG: 9311030373
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP LENGTH: Short
OBIT GRAYBEAL, HAZEL MYERS
GRAYBEAL, Hazel Myers, 87, of 18 West First Street, Big Stone Gap, passed
away Tuesday, November 2, 1993, at Community Hospital, Norton, Va. She was
born in Norton, Virginia and grew up in Harlan, Kentucky. She was a graduate
of Harlan High School, attended Virginia Intermont College and graduated from
Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College. She taught elementary school in
Harlan, Ky., Pineville, Ky., and Somerset, Ky., before moving to Big Stone Gap
in 1959, where she was employed by the Wise County School System. She was a
member of the Trinity United Methodist Church in Big Stone Gap, where she was
an active member of the Kelly Sunday School class and Circle 5. She was also a
past member of the Lonesome Pine Hospital Ladies Auxiliary. She was preceded
in death by her husband, Dean Graybeal, in 1983. Survivors include two sons,
Joe Graybeal, San Marco, Calif., David D. Graybeal, Roanoke; three
grandchildren; two brothers, Morris Myers, Harlan, Ky., and Gene Myers,
Lexington, Ky. The family will receive friends from 10 to 11 Thursday morning
at the Holding Funeral Home, Big Stone Gap, Va. Funeral services will be
conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Holding Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev.
Warren Wattenbarger and Rev. Ben F. Wheless officiating. Burial will follow in
the Glencoe Cemetery. Pall bearers will be Ben Allen, Harold Armsey, J. P.
Horton, Don Bunch, Jim Johnsn, Maurice Vanhook Jr. Honary pall bearers will be
V. F. Jackson, T. Reid Rankin, Bruce Robinette, Conrad Carter, Dr. B. E. Polly
Jr., George Polly, Paul Gillespie, and Dr. Gary Williams. Arrangements by
Holding Funeral Home.
by CNB