Powers Messer, 71, retired coal miner and auto factory worker, died Thursday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after a short illness.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boyd Funeral Home with military burial in Trinity Cemetery.
A World War II Army veteran, he was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and a 33rd-degree Mason.
Mr. Messer, the husband of Myrtle Brown Messer, also leaves three daughters, Betty Lou Potts of Decaturville, Drucilla Huson of Morgan Hill , Calif., and Wanda Sue Messer of Taylor, Mich.; a sister, Virgie Davis of Barbourville, Ky.; five half- sisters, Mable Messer and Wavll Messer, both of Louisville, Ky., Tava Bargo and Blanch Wooley, both of Corbin, Ky., and Marie Mills of Barbourville; a brother, Forster Messer of Pleasant Hill, Ohio; two half-brothers, Reed Messer of Virginia and Lundy Messer of Corbin, five grandchildren and a great- grandchild
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boyd Funeral Home with military burial in Trinity Cemetery.
A World War II Army veteran, he was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and a 33rd-degree Mason.
Mr. Messer, the husband of Myrtle Brown Messer, also leaves three daughters, Betty Lou Potts of Decaturville, Drucilla Huson of Morgan Hill , Calif., and Wanda Sue Messer of Taylor, Mich.; a sister, Virgie Davis of Barbourville, Ky.; five half- sisters, Mable Messer and Wavll Messer, both of Louisville, Ky., Tava Bargo and Blanch Wooley, both of Corbin, Ky., and Marie Mills of Barbourville; a brother, Forster Messer of Pleasant Hill, Ohio; two half-brothers, Reed Messer of Virginia and Lundy Messer of Corbin, five grandchildren and a great- grandchild
Powers Messer, 71, retired coal miner and auto factory worker, died Thursday at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital after a short illness.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boyd Funeral Home with military burial in Trinity Cemetery.
A World War II Army veteran, he was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and a 33rd-degree Mason.
Mr. Messer, the husband of Myrtle Brown Messer, also leaves three daughters, Betty Lou Potts of Decaturville, Drucilla Huson of Morgan Hill , Calif., and Wanda Sue Messer of Taylor, Mich.; a sister, Virgie Davis of Barbourville, Ky.; five half- sisters, Mable Messer and Wavll Messer, both of Louisville, Ky., Tava Bargo and Blanch Wooley, both of Corbin, Ky., and Marie Mills of Barbourville; a brother, Forster Messer of Pleasant Hill, Ohio; two half-brothers, Reed Messer of Virginia and Lundy Messer of Corbin, five grandchildren and a great- grandchild
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Boyd Funeral Home with military burial in Trinity Cemetery.
A World War II Army veteran, he was a member of Mt. Zion Baptist Church and a 33rd-degree Mason.
Mr. Messer, the husband of Myrtle Brown Messer, also leaves three daughters, Betty Lou Potts of Decaturville, Drucilla Huson of Morgan Hill , Calif., and Wanda Sue Messer of Taylor, Mich.; a sister, Virgie Davis of Barbourville, Ky.; five half- sisters, Mable Messer and Wavll Messer, both of Louisville, Ky., Tava Bargo and Blanch Wooley, both of Corbin, Ky., and Marie Mills of Barbourville; a brother, Forster Messer of Pleasant Hill, Ohio; two half-brothers, Reed Messer of Virginia and Lundy Messer of Corbin, five grandchildren and a great- grandchild
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