Dillie Mae Akers was born on a rural farm near Lindside, Monroe County, West Virginia on September 8, 1894. She was the third child of James Clay Akers and Mahala Adaline 'Biggs' Akers.
At age 17 (on May 1, 1912) Dillie married Howard Richard Garvin of Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia and they made their early home in Greenville.
She became the Mother of 6 children (one, a boy named James only lived for 3 days); the other 5, were 3 girls and two boys, that grew to adulthood. Her children, after the baby James, were Faye Elizabeth, Richard Clay, Homer Mason, Zula Mahala, and Geraldine Gray. She was Granny to 14 grandchildren. These grandchildren were, Margaret Lowe, John Clay, Mary Angela, Linda Jane, Suzanne Diane, Pamela Kay, Barbara Lee, Brenda Lou, Tommy Ann, Terry Lynn, Dallas Gene, Rita Jo, Nancy Jo and Sammy Lynn. Later in this recounting it was discovered that she also had another grandson who was born out of wedlock.
During Dillie's married life she lived 1st in Greenville, then next in Turkey Knob, West Virginia, a very short time in Mt. Hope, West Virginia and then finally in Scarbro, West Virginia. She lived much of her adult life in Scarbro, which is a small coal mining village in Fayette County, WV. By the time they settled here only the daughter Geraldine was still at home with Dillie and Richard. This was after her husband, Richard, took a job with the New River Company working in the coal mines there in Scarbro.
After all the children had become adults and left home, Dillie and Richard came to an agreement that they should live separately. Richard moved out of the old home and Dillie stayed there as an anchor for the family. Granny Dillie's granddaughter, Margaret Lowe would spend many long weeks with her Granny there in Scarbro after they had moved to Oak Hill, and then later to Florida. Margaret thought that along with her collie named Prince, Granny was her best friend and the memories of those times are always a cheery joy to mentally revisit.
She always maintained a garden and would 'put-up' by canning the produce from that endeavor for the coming winters, which she shared with all of the family and her neighbors. A Memory from her niece, Norma Lee Homesley, was that when she was a little girl in Beckley her mother (Dillie's baby sister, Mary Lee) would go out to Scarbro at apple picking time. They would spend all day cooking up apple butter in a big iron 'wash' pot out in Dillie's yard and then put that up in jars to share with the whole family.
One of her great joys (along with her sisters, Lura Deen Everman and Mary Lee Miller) was to have a pet Hill Myna. All three sisters named their Myna Birds "Joe" and they all were great talkers. They often provided many topics of conversation between the sisters as well as with much of the rest of the family. One tale regarding Dillie's 'Joe' was the time when a meter-reading man came by the house to do his monthly gas meter reading. Dillie was outside and the reader went into the small area where the meter was and just then 'Joe' spoke out, "Praise the Lord, your home!", in Dillies voice. Everyone who was around that day remembers that man beating a hasty retreat…
She was a devout Christian attending the Holiness Church at the bottom of the hill below her house. Her daughter Faye Lived next door. Near the end of her life, Dillie moved in to live with her daughter Zula who lived in Centreville, Virginia. When she knew her time was growing short, she wanted to return to her long time roots in Fayette County, WV. She was first moved back to Scarbro to live with her daughter Faye for a short time. Soon she had to be moved to the Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Her life in these beloved West Virginia hills ended there on November 22, 1982 at age 88 years, 2 months and 14 days.
At age 17 (on May 1, 1912) Dillie married Howard Richard Garvin of Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia and they made their early home in Greenville.
She became the Mother of 6 children (one, a boy named James only lived for 3 days); the other 5, were 3 girls and two boys, that grew to adulthood. Her children, after the baby James, were Faye Elizabeth, Richard Clay, Homer Mason, Zula Mahala, and Geraldine Gray. She was Granny to 14 grandchildren. These grandchildren were, Margaret Lowe, John Clay, Mary Angela, Linda Jane, Suzanne Diane, Pamela Kay, Barbara Lee, Brenda Lou, Tommy Ann, Terry Lynn, Dallas Gene, Rita Jo, Nancy Jo and Sammy Lynn. Later in this recounting it was discovered that she also had another grandson who was born out of wedlock.
During Dillie's married life she lived 1st in Greenville, then next in Turkey Knob, West Virginia, a very short time in Mt. Hope, West Virginia and then finally in Scarbro, West Virginia. She lived much of her adult life in Scarbro, which is a small coal mining village in Fayette County, WV. By the time they settled here only the daughter Geraldine was still at home with Dillie and Richard. This was after her husband, Richard, took a job with the New River Company working in the coal mines there in Scarbro.
After all the children had become adults and left home, Dillie and Richard came to an agreement that they should live separately. Richard moved out of the old home and Dillie stayed there as an anchor for the family. Granny Dillie's granddaughter, Margaret Lowe would spend many long weeks with her Granny there in Scarbro after they had moved to Oak Hill, and then later to Florida. Margaret thought that along with her collie named Prince, Granny was her best friend and the memories of those times are always a cheery joy to mentally revisit.
She always maintained a garden and would 'put-up' by canning the produce from that endeavor for the coming winters, which she shared with all of the family and her neighbors. A Memory from her niece, Norma Lee Homesley, was that when she was a little girl in Beckley her mother (Dillie's baby sister, Mary Lee) would go out to Scarbro at apple picking time. They would spend all day cooking up apple butter in a big iron 'wash' pot out in Dillie's yard and then put that up in jars to share with the whole family.
One of her great joys (along with her sisters, Lura Deen Everman and Mary Lee Miller) was to have a pet Hill Myna. All three sisters named their Myna Birds "Joe" and they all were great talkers. They often provided many topics of conversation between the sisters as well as with much of the rest of the family. One tale regarding Dillie's 'Joe' was the time when a meter-reading man came by the house to do his monthly gas meter reading. Dillie was outside and the reader went into the small area where the meter was and just then 'Joe' spoke out, "Praise the Lord, your home!", in Dillies voice. Everyone who was around that day remembers that man beating a hasty retreat…
She was a devout Christian attending the Holiness Church at the bottom of the hill below her house. Her daughter Faye Lived next door. Near the end of her life, Dillie moved in to live with her daughter Zula who lived in Centreville, Virginia. When she knew her time was growing short, she wanted to return to her long time roots in Fayette County, WV. She was first moved back to Scarbro to live with her daughter Faye for a short time. Soon she had to be moved to the Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Her life in these beloved West Virginia hills ended there on November 22, 1982 at age 88 years, 2 months and 14 days.
Dillie Mae Akers was born on a rural farm near Lindside, Monroe County, West Virginia on September 8, 1894. She was the third child of James Clay Akers and Mahala Adaline 'Biggs' Akers.
At age 17 (on May 1, 1912) Dillie married Howard Richard Garvin of Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia and they made their early home in Greenville.
She became the Mother of 6 children (one, a boy named James only lived for 3 days); the other 5, were 3 girls and two boys, that grew to adulthood. Her children, after the baby James, were Faye Elizabeth, Richard Clay, Homer Mason, Zula Mahala, and Geraldine Gray. She was Granny to 14 grandchildren. These grandchildren were, Margaret Lowe, John Clay, Mary Angela, Linda Jane, Suzanne Diane, Pamela Kay, Barbara Lee, Brenda Lou, Tommy Ann, Terry Lynn, Dallas Gene, Rita Jo, Nancy Jo and Sammy Lynn. Later in this recounting it was discovered that she also had another grandson who was born out of wedlock.
During Dillie's married life she lived 1st in Greenville, then next in Turkey Knob, West Virginia, a very short time in Mt. Hope, West Virginia and then finally in Scarbro, West Virginia. She lived much of her adult life in Scarbro, which is a small coal mining village in Fayette County, WV. By the time they settled here only the daughter Geraldine was still at home with Dillie and Richard. This was after her husband, Richard, took a job with the New River Company working in the coal mines there in Scarbro.
After all the children had become adults and left home, Dillie and Richard came to an agreement that they should live separately. Richard moved out of the old home and Dillie stayed there as an anchor for the family. Granny Dillie's granddaughter, Margaret Lowe would spend many long weeks with her Granny there in Scarbro after they had moved to Oak Hill, and then later to Florida. Margaret thought that along with her collie named Prince, Granny was her best friend and the memories of those times are always a cheery joy to mentally revisit.
She always maintained a garden and would 'put-up' by canning the produce from that endeavor for the coming winters, which she shared with all of the family and her neighbors. A Memory from her niece, Norma Lee Homesley, was that when she was a little girl in Beckley her mother (Dillie's baby sister, Mary Lee) would go out to Scarbro at apple picking time. They would spend all day cooking up apple butter in a big iron 'wash' pot out in Dillie's yard and then put that up in jars to share with the whole family.
One of her great joys (along with her sisters, Lura Deen Everman and Mary Lee Miller) was to have a pet Hill Myna. All three sisters named their Myna Birds "Joe" and they all were great talkers. They often provided many topics of conversation between the sisters as well as with much of the rest of the family. One tale regarding Dillie's 'Joe' was the time when a meter-reading man came by the house to do his monthly gas meter reading. Dillie was outside and the reader went into the small area where the meter was and just then 'Joe' spoke out, "Praise the Lord, your home!", in Dillies voice. Everyone who was around that day remembers that man beating a hasty retreat…
She was a devout Christian attending the Holiness Church at the bottom of the hill below her house. Her daughter Faye Lived next door. Near the end of her life, Dillie moved in to live with her daughter Zula who lived in Centreville, Virginia. When she knew her time was growing short, she wanted to return to her long time roots in Fayette County, WV. She was first moved back to Scarbro to live with her daughter Faye for a short time. Soon she had to be moved to the Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Her life in these beloved West Virginia hills ended there on November 22, 1982 at age 88 years, 2 months and 14 days.
At age 17 (on May 1, 1912) Dillie married Howard Richard Garvin of Greenville, Monroe County, West Virginia and they made their early home in Greenville.
She became the Mother of 6 children (one, a boy named James only lived for 3 days); the other 5, were 3 girls and two boys, that grew to adulthood. Her children, after the baby James, were Faye Elizabeth, Richard Clay, Homer Mason, Zula Mahala, and Geraldine Gray. She was Granny to 14 grandchildren. These grandchildren were, Margaret Lowe, John Clay, Mary Angela, Linda Jane, Suzanne Diane, Pamela Kay, Barbara Lee, Brenda Lou, Tommy Ann, Terry Lynn, Dallas Gene, Rita Jo, Nancy Jo and Sammy Lynn. Later in this recounting it was discovered that she also had another grandson who was born out of wedlock.
During Dillie's married life she lived 1st in Greenville, then next in Turkey Knob, West Virginia, a very short time in Mt. Hope, West Virginia and then finally in Scarbro, West Virginia. She lived much of her adult life in Scarbro, which is a small coal mining village in Fayette County, WV. By the time they settled here only the daughter Geraldine was still at home with Dillie and Richard. This was after her husband, Richard, took a job with the New River Company working in the coal mines there in Scarbro.
After all the children had become adults and left home, Dillie and Richard came to an agreement that they should live separately. Richard moved out of the old home and Dillie stayed there as an anchor for the family. Granny Dillie's granddaughter, Margaret Lowe would spend many long weeks with her Granny there in Scarbro after they had moved to Oak Hill, and then later to Florida. Margaret thought that along with her collie named Prince, Granny was her best friend and the memories of those times are always a cheery joy to mentally revisit.
She always maintained a garden and would 'put-up' by canning the produce from that endeavor for the coming winters, which she shared with all of the family and her neighbors. A Memory from her niece, Norma Lee Homesley, was that when she was a little girl in Beckley her mother (Dillie's baby sister, Mary Lee) would go out to Scarbro at apple picking time. They would spend all day cooking up apple butter in a big iron 'wash' pot out in Dillie's yard and then put that up in jars to share with the whole family.
One of her great joys (along with her sisters, Lura Deen Everman and Mary Lee Miller) was to have a pet Hill Myna. All three sisters named their Myna Birds "Joe" and they all were great talkers. They often provided many topics of conversation between the sisters as well as with much of the rest of the family. One tale regarding Dillie's 'Joe' was the time when a meter-reading man came by the house to do his monthly gas meter reading. Dillie was outside and the reader went into the small area where the meter was and just then 'Joe' spoke out, "Praise the Lord, your home!", in Dillies voice. Everyone who was around that day remembers that man beating a hasty retreat…
She was a devout Christian attending the Holiness Church at the bottom of the hill below her house. Her daughter Faye Lived next door. Near the end of her life, Dillie moved in to live with her daughter Zula who lived in Centreville, Virginia. When she knew her time was growing short, she wanted to return to her long time roots in Fayette County, WV. She was first moved back to Scarbro to live with her daughter Faye for a short time. Soon she had to be moved to the Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Her life in these beloved West Virginia hills ended there on November 22, 1982 at age 88 years, 2 months and 14 days.
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