Monday, August 13, 2012

Obit


Clayton Clark Hutsenpiller

SMOOT — Clayton Clark Hutsenpiller, 88, of Smoot, WV, died Saturday, August 11, at Greenbrier Valley Medical Center of Parkinson's Disease.

Clayton was born on April 17, 1924, at Lawn, WV, the eighth child and fourth son of the late Milton B. "Mitt" Hutsenpiller an Arminta "Mintie" Keeney Hutsenpiller.

He attended the Woolard School at Dawson, called "Knob College," by students and graduates. He was a self-employed logger and worked in timber all of his adult life. He retired from logging in 2000 at the age of 76. He was named Logger of the Year in 1999 by the West Virginia Forestry Association. He was proud of his service in the United States Army during World War II. He was an MP during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. He attended the McElhenney Presbyterian Church. He was an avid bowler and bowled with the Ecumenical Church League for thirty years and then with the Over the Hill Gang for several years.

He was preceded in death by brothers Fred, Frank and Ray "Buster" Hutsenpiller, and sisters Clarice Hutsenpiller, Mary Good and Verna Douglas.

He is survived by his wife Billie Jean Hutsenpiller, sons David (Susan) Hutsenpiller and Michael Hutsenpiller; granddaughters, Sybil (Chad) Rodes and Shelly Hutsenpiller (Keith Chinault); great-granddaughter, Emma Jane Rodes, and great-grandsons, Aaron Evertt and Andrew Clayton Rodes; sister Erma Surbaugh and brother Gene Hutsenpiller (Mary Lou) and numerous nephews and nieces.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, August 14, at the McElhenney Presbyterian Church in Grassy Meadows with Stewart McMurray officiating. Burial with Military Honors will follow at Wallace Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held Monday, August 13, from 6 till 8 at the funeral home. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.

Arrangements by McCraw Funeral Home in Lewisburg.
 
~Rita~

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