Clyde Witt

Clyde Alex Witt, age 93 of the Witten Valley community of Tazewell, VA died Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital. Born May 21, 1916 at Pisgah, VA he was a son of the late Charles C. Witt, Sr. and Josephine Boothe Witt. Mr. Witt was a retired coal miner having worked thirty-six years for Consolidated Coal Company at Bishop, VA. He was a member of the UMWA Local # 6025 at Bishop, VA where he received a fifty-year membership pin. Mr. Witt was a faithful member of the Maxwell First Church of God, where he was distinguished as the oldest member, and had served as Chairman on the board of trustees for many years. He loved the beauty and serenity of the outdoors; being an avid outdoorsman he was a former member of the Tazewell County Sportsman’s Club, and he loved to work in the garden. Of all that could be said about Mr. Witt, the cause of Christ and his family were his priorities and the joys of his life. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife of sixty-one years, Stella Gray Witt; his eldest daughter, Frances Jane Rye “Lovejoy”; five brothers, Raymond Witt, Charles C. Witt, Jr., Albert Witt, J.W. “Denny” Witt, and P.D. “Buck” Witt; one sister, Viola Stillwell. Survivors include two daughters, Edith Stella “Edie” Keenon and husband, Rodney, and Lena Josephine “Jo” Jones and husband, Eli, all of Witten Valley, VA; two grandchildren, Dr. Jennifer Ayn Jones of Blacksburg, VA and Joseph Alex Jones and wife, Jennifer Rachael Labowitz-Jones of Garnet Valley, PA; one great-granddaughter, Sophia Gray Jones; one sister, Mary Elizabeth Harrison of Salem, VA; two sisters-in-law, Janice Witt of Baptist Valley, VA, and Edith J. Puckett of Pounding Mill, VA; special cousin, whom he loved as a daughter, Christine Davison of Tazewell, VA; special friends, J.C. and Eleanor McCann of Burkes Garden, VA; special friends and caregivers, Ola Whitt, Diedra Whitt, Bernice Sparks, and Virginia Hinkle. Funeral services for Mr. Clyde Alex Witt will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, July 5, 2009 at Hurst-Scott Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell, VA with Dr. Claude D. Oliver, Jr. and the Rev. Trevor Belcher officiating. Burial will follow at Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, VA. Friends and family will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends at the funeral home after 12:30 p.m. Sunday, July 5, 2009. In lieu of or in addition to floral tributes, the family request memorial donations be made to Legacy Hospice: 1963 2nd Street, Richlands, VA 24641.

Clyde Witt

May 21, 1916 - July 1, 2009