Wolfe County News - July 1968 ZACHARIAH MAN DIES TUESDAY William Thacker, 63, died at his home at Zachariah at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, after a five month illness. He was a native of Lee County, a member of the Baptist Church and a retired oil field worker. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Vada Thacker; six sons; Robert Thacker, Hopewell; Gerald, Jerry and Dennis Thacker, Madison, Ind.; Vernon, Ray Thacker, Zachariah, and Mitchell Thacker, at home; five daughters, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Warner, Cincinnati; Mrs. Edna Fay Relyea, Beattyville; Mrs. Louise McKinney, Zoe; Mrs. Barbara Sue Green, Madison, Ind., and Mrs. Linda Marie Drake, Northville, Mich.; his mother, Mrs. Maude Wells Thacker; five brothers, Curtis Thacker, Louisa; Emery Thacker, Beattyville, Route 1; Lloyd Thacker, Beattyville, and Delmer and James Thacker, Middletown, Ohio; a sister, Mrs. Edna Burnett, Louisville, 27 grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Services will be conducted at 8 p.m. Friday in the Zoe First Church of God by the Rev. Willard Brewer and the Rev. G.B. Morrison. Burial will be in the Thacker Cemetery, Zachariah. The body is in the Porter and Son Funeral Home. Carole