This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: RickyNJ58 Surnames: Akers Moye Honaker Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.akers/1298/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Name: AKERS, Ernest Ray Date of death: 16 Sept 1999 Mercer, WV Publication: Bluefield Daily Telegraph Date of Obit: 21 Sept 1999 Notes: Glenwood- Ernest Ray Akers, 82, of GlenWood Park Retirement Village, formerly of Hill Top Lane, Princeton, West Virginia, died at a Princeton hospital. Born 2 Dec 1916, in Widemouth, West Virginia, he was a son of the late Willis Boyd Akers and Cordie Moye Akers. He was of the Baptist faith. He was the assistant mine forman at Deerfield, West Virginia, and was the mine foreman at Herndon, West Virginia and Itmann, West Virginia, before retiring. He was preceded in death by his wife, Alva "Peggy" Honaker Akers; one daughter, Linda Frye; and one sister, Ennis Akers. Survivors include two grandsons, Dr. Thomas Jay Frye III of Kingsport, Tennessee and Steven Ray Frye and wife Davenne of Edgewater, Florida; one great-grandson, Duncan Frye of North Carolina; three brothers, Clifford Akers and wife Marie of Eatonville, Washington, Willis Akers of Matoaka, West Virginia and Arnold Akers and wife Drema of Rock, West Virginia; two sisters, Ruby Davis of Bluefield, West Virginia and D! elores Steele and husband Robert of Pembroke Pines, Florida; several nieces and nephews, including Marietta Buckner of Princeton, West Virginia and Vicki Bush of Suwanee, Georgia. Services were Bailey-Kirk Funeral Home in Princeton. Burial followed at Roselawn Memorial Gardens in Princeton. Source: obit Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.