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From: "Julie McGrew-Ayres" <>
Subject: [WVFAYETT] Obit: Harold "Hick" Higgenbotham
Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 14:28:37 -0500


***The following obituary is taken from Sunday's Charleston Gazette. "Hick"
was my great-Uncle and was married for many years to Mary Ann Martin,
daughter of Pearl Beckett and Walter Franklin Martin of Glasgow, Kanawha
Co., WV. Mary Ann was a sister to my grandmother, Violet I. Martin
McGrew.***

Harold Robert Higginbotham, 90, of Dunbar, died Friday, Nov. 30, 2001, at
Thomas Memorial Hospital after a short illness.

He was a retired foreman with Union Carbide and was a World War II Navy
Veteran. Mr. Higginbotham was a member of the Dunbar Masonic Lodge No. 159
and the Beni Kedem Shrine. He had been a 60-year resident of Dunbar.

Surviving are his nephew, Walter G. Martin of Poca; niece, Viola Ann Culler
of Chester, W.Va.; sisters, Clara Reedy of Albany, Ohio, Mildred Jeffers of
Dexter, Ohio, and Naomi Glassburn of Bidwell, Ohio.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday, at Keller Funeral Home, Dunbar, with
Pastor John A. Mason officiating. Burial with Masonic graveside rites will
be in Grandview Memorial Park.

Friends may call at Keller Funeral Home from 6 to 9 p.m. Sunday

Link: http://wvgazette.com/static/Obituaries/index.php3

Julie McGrew-Ayres
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