Thelma and Frank F. McDaniel Collection
Ms2020-001

For more than thirty years, Thelma and Frank McDaniel compiled and maintained a collection of funeral programs that chronicle the lives of relatives, friends, and acquaintances who lived and worked in the Charleston community. Listed below are the names, birth and death dates and a brief description of each of the former residents found in this collection. Photocopies of individual programs will be provided upon written request.

• Cheatham Alston, Sr., 1910 - 1978, educator (mathematics)
• Floydelh Anderson, 1919 - 1996, educator WV State University (administration)
• Martha Jane Anderson, 1918 - 1999, X
• Ernest Reginald Armstead, X - 1978, educator WV State University (business)
• Carl F. Bane, Jr. , 1939 - 1979, Chief Master Sergeant, US Army
• Gwendolyn Ealy Bane, 1945 - 1979, educator (business)
• Elmore Seals Barnes, 1912 - 1997, secretary Kanawha School Board
• Lewis Vernon Barns, Sr., 1909 - 1992, educator (English) high school
• Eloise Slash Barnett, 1916 - 1992, nurse
• Maude Lillian Vass Bass, 1886 - 1986, educator (music)
• Marvin E. Billups, 1924 - 1996, Lt. Col. (ret.) US Army
• Mary Henietta Bush Bowles, 1910 - 1980, nurse
• Augustine "Patsy" Boyd, 1896 - 1982, homemaker
• Mildred Leon Brady, 1917 - 1979, nurse
• Ruth Elaine Mitchell Broadnax, X - 1992, secretary State Capitol
• Anderson Hunt Brown, 1880 - 1974, real estate company owner
• Anderson Hunt Brown, II, 1958 - 1984, X
• Willard Lewis Brown, 1911 - 1978, lawyer
• Charlotte Marie Burke, 1911 - 1992, federal government employee
• Elizabeth Maria Burke, 1903 - 1993, educator Kanawha County Public schools
• Myrtle M. Burrell, 1913 - 1982, State government employee
• Gertrude Esther Cain, 1893 - 1981, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• James Aubrey Cain, 1897 - 1981, X
• Lillie B. Campbell, 1910 - 1995, homemaker
• Beatrice T. Cannaday, 1897 - 1985, educator
• Dorothy Elizabeth Cannaday, 1906 - 2000, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• Rebecca Vivian Carter, 1911 - 1999, educator WV State University (economics)
• Rosa Carter, 1905 - 1995, homemaker
• Ellen B. Christian, 1909 - 1987, homemaker
• Louise Madonna Tyson Clemons, 1927 - 1994, federal employee VA, Washington D.C.
• Peggy Jean Tinsely Coleman, 1946 - 1982, homemaker
• Roy Coleman, 1915 - 1995, glass worker, Libby Owens
• Marjorie Coles, 1932 - 1995, evangelist (newspaper clipping)
• Mary E. Cook, 1914 - 1993, homemaker
• Azeal Spotts Cooley, 1894 - 1985, homemaker
• Mack E. Cosby, 1918 - 1999, X
• Isabelle Hale Curry, 1910 - 1988, homemaker
• Phyllis Marie Howard Dorcas Curry, 1932 - 1998, Red Cross, Director Emergency Services
• Inez Campbell Cyrus, 1892 - 1990, homemaker
• Thelma Louise Cyrus, 1914 - 1979, X
• Robert Grant Davis, 1917 - 1987, glass worker, Libby Owens
• Beatrice L. Denny, 1910 - 1993, homemaker
• Mary A. Dews, 1909 - 2017, homemaker
• Oliver T. Dexter, 1915 - 1993, WV Department. of Public Safety, restaurant owner
• James Cecil Ealy , 1913 - 1988, minister
• Edna C Edwards , 1905 - 1989, independent seamstress & monogramist, Stone & Thomas
• Elijah Franklin Edwards, 1905 - 1994, X
• Louise Henderson Estes, 1901 - 1987, homemaker
• Ollie May Brown Evans, 1890 - 1982, homemaker
• James Edward Fields, 1903 - 1994, head bellman, Daniel Boone Hotel
• Irene Fleshman, 1925 - 1986, nurse, WV State University
• Maria Acosta Fortson, 1903 - 1996, homemaker
• Mildred Brown Gallion, 1907 - 1999, nurse (Kanawha County schools)
• Sarah Tyson Gartrell, 1912 - 1988, nurse & restaurant/catering owner
• Elizabeth Mason Harden Gilmore, 1910 - 1986, owner & director of Harden and Harden Funeral Home (First licensed woman Funeral Director in the State)
• Bennett G. Gray, Jr. , 1906 - 1980, Lt. Col. US Army
• Florence Eliza Seals Gregory, 1906 - 1993, Kanawha County Clerk's office
• Flossie T. Green, 1908 - 1979, nurse
• Edmonia Louise Walden Grider, 1904 - 1996, (home economics, chair WV State University), Dean of Women, Bluefield State College
• Shirley Hughes Hairston, Ph.D. , 1930 - 1998, educator (School of Social Work, chair WV State University)
• Robert V. Hale, 1912 - 1986, bell captain, Daniel Boone Hotel (His parents, Lydia and Lewellyn D. Hale were the first African American settlers in South Hills)
• Corrine A. Hall, 1925 - 1985, homemaker
• Mae Halsey, x -1992, community service volunteer
• Catherine Robinson Hamilton, 1905 - 1996, educator & student counselor WV State University
• Holly Woods Hancock, 1912 - 1995, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• Marguerite Frances Thompson Haston, 1921 - 1999, homemaker & teacher's aid
• James W. Hawkins, Sr., 1905 - 1995, WV civil service employee
• Sedalia Haynes, 1895 - 1979, clerk, Kanawha County Health Department
• Louise Catherine Henderson, 1899 - 1997, educator (science) Kanawha County Public Schools
• Prince Edna Clemons Holmes, 1924 - 1992, entrepreneur (restaurant, housekeeping and insurance businesses)
• Hazel B. Horsham, 1904 - 1985, educator (teacher for the first Head Start program in WV)
• James E. Horsham, Ph.D., 1944 - 1997, educator (political science) City Colleges of Chicago. Newspaper clipping
• Stephane P. Jackson, 1932 - 1997, educator (mathematics) Kanawha County Public Schools
• Theodore W. Jackson, Jr., 1941 - 1997, physical therapist, VA Medical Center, Huntington
• Grace Marillyn James, M.D., 1923 - 1989, pediatrician, civil rights activist and health care advocate
• Edward Lawrence James, Sr., 1892 - 1967, business owner and civic leader (James Produce Company, the oldest continuously operating African American business in the U.S.A.) (2 copies)
• James Rayford Jarrett, 1913 - 1980, educator (served as head basketball coach at Garnet High School and Charleston High School)
• Larry G. Jarrett, Sr., 1939 - 2016, geographic analyst, Department of the Army and Foreign Service analyst for the U.S. Department of State
• Ruth Carmen Fortson Jarrett, 1920 - 2016, homemaker and community volunteer and church volunteer
• Virginia R. Jarrett, X - 1983, City Hall of Charleston employee
• India Marie Jennings, 1906 - 1998, educator (science) Kanawha County Public Schools
• Nena Edwards Johnson, 1902 - 1978, nurse (first African American licensed Practical Nurse to be employed by a hospital in Kanawha County)
• Clarence A. Jones, 1945 - 1996, FMC Corporation employee
• Marian White Jones, 1913 - 2011, educator (English)
• William Thurber Jones, Sr., 1914 - 1998, US Postal Service and WV Department of Social Services
• Daisy Bell Robinson Joyce, 1901 - 1992, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• Henry Marshall Joyce, 1906 - 1988, First African American Occupational Counselor in the WV Department of Employment and Affirmative Action, Director of Equal Employment and Affirmative Action.
• Lily Van Sykes Kelly, 1917 - 1994, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• Nellie Marshall Kydd, 1899 - 1996, homemaker
• John Isaac "Ike" Lawson, 1910 - 1995, auto mechanic
• Helen Hall Lewis, 1917 - 1995, homemaker
• Jesse Bell Lewis, 1906 - 1984, X
• Leonard Strother Lewis, 1918 - 1987, X
• Mary Sistrunk Lewis, 1916 - 1994, educator and Director of the Mattie V. Lee Home
• Annetta Ellis Malone, 1918 - 1977, Supervisor, WV Department of Highways, Mail Division
• Jo Anne L. Manns, 1933 - 2000, X
• Beverly Jones Martin, 1944 - 2015, community activist and counselor
• Frank Frettrel McDaniel Jr., 1915 - 1990, US Postal Inspector, Charleston's main branch
• Thelma Lee White McDaniel, 1912 - 2013, educator and community leader
• Beatryce Womack Mickey, 1913 - 1991, State Department of Veterans Affairs
• Jones W. Miller, 1902 - 1979, X
• Margaret Ann Cyrus Mills, Ph.D., 1922 - 1997, educator, WV State Department of Education serving under 4 governors. First Commissioner of the WV Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration
• Elizabeth Brock Minton, 1926 - 1986, Director of Training and Associate Director of Grants Management at the WV Research and Training Center
• George Howard Mitchell, 1918 - 1989, attorney, Charleston City Council (1955), Assistant Attorney General, State of WV (1957)
• Myrtle S. Mitchell, 1900 - 1984, homemaker and community volunteer
• William H. Mitchell Sr., 1900 - 1979, employee, Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
• Dorothy B. Moody, 1907 - 1987, educator Kanawha County Public Schools
• Josephine Amelia Marshall Moore, 1895 - 1997, educator, high school English, numerous district and jurisdictional offices in the Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church. She was also a first cousin to Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall
• Lois Revella Moore, 1904 - 1984, homemaker, church volunteer, and pharmacist's assistant
• Zamphra Peters Moore, 1902 - 1986, educator, Kanawha County Public Schools
• Lottie P. Morris, 1909 - 1988, domestic worker, community volunteer
• Deother Rae Neely, 1890 - 1979, homemaker
• Elizabeth O. Nelson, 1907 - 1985, homemaker and community volunteer with Kanawha County School Dental Program and Job Corps.
• James H. Nelson, Jr., M.D., 1904 - 1994, physician and assistant medical director of Kanawha County Schools. First African American to become a member of the Kanawha Medical Society.
• Juanita Wright Nelson, 1905 - 1993, educator, Kanawha County Public Schools
• Maceo William Nelson, 1905 - 1987, educator, business administration Kanawha County Public Schools
• Ruth Stephenson Norman, 1898 - 1990, educator, high school English and speech, local director and host of a weekly ecumenical radio program, Church Women's News. She was also selected as WV Mother of the Year in 1975
• Edward Leon Nunnally, 1920 - 1978, Administrative Supply Technician with the Army Reserves
• Richard Arthur Parker, 1911 - 1988, Officer for the WV State Probation and Parole office, first director of the Kanawha County Juvenile Court, Director of Labor for the State of WV.
• Sylvia Davis Parker, X - 1993, social worker, charter member of the Academy of Certified Social Workers and gold member of the National Association of Social Workers
• Nancy Elizabeth Payne, 1896 - 1991, homemaker and church volunteer
• Mary Kathryn Parker Perkins, 1920 - 1996, nurse, Kanawha County Public Schools and WV Rehabilitation Center in Institute, WV
• Charles A. Preston, 1909 - 1987, educator, administrator and churchman. Principal of Boyd and Carter G. Woodson Elementary and Junior High Schools. EEOC officer with HUD
• Louise Eliza Buster Preston, 1912 - 1995, clerk, WV Dept. of Motor Vehicles, secretarial positions at WV State University and president of Preston Funeral Home, Inc. after the death of her husband.
• Merrill H. Preston, 1910 - 1983, president and owner Preston Funeral Home, Inc. Civic and community leader and church leader
• Edith L. Poindexter, X - 1981, educator and homemaker
• George Benjamin Raymond Rayford, 1892 - 1983, educator and elementary school principal
• Marvin Hansford Richardson, 1915 - 1995, educator and high school coach (newspaper clipping) Kanawha County Public Schools
• Lula A. Roberts, 1895 - 1993, X
• Alice Louise Robinson, 1919 - 1996, homemaker
• Howard Gory Robinson, 1903 - 1984, X
• Verna Robinson, X - 1984, homemaker
• William Beverly Robinson, 1914 - 1990, educator (mathematics) Kanawha County Public Schools
• Betty A. Rogers, 1911 - 1987, X
• Arthur Henry Rosebourgh, 1922 - 1986, employee of the United States Postal Service. Part of the first black families to live in South Hills along with the Hales and White families
• Waxanna B. Sales, 1922 - 1999, educator, Kanawha County Public Schools
• Wilton Albert Sales, 1918 - 1988, employee, United States Postal Service
• David A. Scott (Flatire), 1905 - 1983, barber and business owner, The Annex Barber Shop (54 years), realtor
• Nathan A. Scott, 1899 - 1986, employee of Charleston Milling Company and the office of Dr. James H. Walker
• Alice C. Shell, 1935 - 1987, employee of Virginia Power
• Clara Patria Slash, 1918 - 1990, homemaker
• Dennis Edward Smith, D.D.S., 1902 - 1974, dentist
• Willa Hundley Smith, 1902 - 1995, educator and artist
• Staci Marie Spencer, 1976 - 1997, X
• Benjamin R. Stark, 1920 - 1983, editor and publisher Beacon Digest
• Elmer Bandy Strader, 1921 - 1993, employee, United States Postal Service
• Olivia G. Strader, X - 1984, educator and nurse at the Deaf and Blind School at Institute and Romney, WV
• Anna Marie Tolliver Taylor, 1896 - 1989, homemaker and community volunteer
• Mary S. Thomas, 1885 - 1988, educator, church volunteer, and businesswoman. Mrs. Thomas operated the first Beauty Culture School in the State of WV
• Winnie Page Thomas, X - 1981, educator (English) and librarian
• Gentry Arthur Thompson, 1913 - 1987, master carpenter and member of AFL/CIO Carpenters and Joiners Union Local 1207
• Phyllis Payne Tinsley, 1909 - 1985, employee of McJunkin Corporation
• Cleo Fleshman Triggs, 1928 - 1994, printer, WV Department of Highways (typewritten eulogy)
• Eva F. Twist, 1899 - 1995, homemaker
• Elizabeth Randolph Tyson, 1891 - 1981, homemaker
• Richard Emerson Tyson, 1922 - 1995, steel worker and army veteran
• Margaret Roberts Tyson Watkins, 1916 - 1983, beautician and church volunteer
• Thomas Jessie Watkins, 1913 - 1986, X
• Neva Spotts Watson, 1897 - 1997, seamstress and dietician
• Norman Earl Watson, 1912 - 1989, educator (industrial arts)
• Edna C. Wells, 1910 - 1991, educator (English)
• John Arthur White, Sr., 1917 - 2007, building contractor and educator (industrial arts) WV State University
• Mattie Price White, 1886 - 1973, homemaker and church volunteer
• Ruby Johnson White, 1920 - 1983, homemaker
• Virginia Glade Parker White, 1909 - 1998, educator
• Hazel Campbell Wilcher, 1913 - 1984, X
• William Roland Wilcher, 1912 - 1981, employee, WV State Auditor's Office
• Mary L. Williams, X - 1974, educator (English), civic leader, and promoter of youth. Secretary of the WV State Teachers Association, President of the American Teachers Association, Chairperson of the Joint Committee of the NEA and the ATA Association

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