RAINELLE
-- Beulah Harrah Bobbitt, 91, died Tuesday, Oct. 27, 1998, in a Fairlea
medical center following an extended illness.
Born Sept. 7, 1907, at Cornstalk,
she was the daughter of the late George M. and Hettie Campbell Hutsenpiller
Harrah.
Mrs. Bobbitt was a homemaker, a member
of the First Baptist Church of Rainelle, the Bethany Bible Class, Mission
Circle No. 2, Pythian Sisters, Rebbeccas, Degree of Honor and the Daughters
of America.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Tilden Hill Bobbitt; a son, Charles E. Bobbitt Sr.; two grandsons,
Robert and Timothy Bobbitt; a great-granddaughter, Mandy Kessler; a son-in-law,
William E. Cox; threesisters, Violet Winter, Catherine Kincaid, and Julia
Sheppard; a brother, Gilmer Harrah; six halfsisters, BerthaHutsenpiller,
Irene White, Marian Harrah, Cora Harrah, Lillian Jefferies, and Ada Wheeler;
and seven
halfbrothers, Elmer Hutsenpiller,
C.L. Harrah, Walter, Georgie, Howard, Roy, and Ray Harrah. Survivors include
two daughters, Shirley Blankenship and her husband, Paul, of Rainelle,
and Dolores Cox of Harlem, Ga.; a son, Tom Bobbitt
and his wife, Nancy, of Williamstown; a brother, Dr. D.D. Harrah of Detroit,
Mich.; a daughter-in-law, Val-Gene Bobbitt of Cabin Creek; two granddaughters,
Christina Prettyman of Budd Lake, N.J., and Shawn Cooper of Charleston;
seven grandsons, Charles Bobbitt Jr. of Scottsdale, Ariz., Larry Bobbitt
of Phoenix, Ariz., William "Porky" Cox of Dallas, Texas, Stephen Cox of
Harlem, Ga., Paul "Corky" Blankenship of Laurel, Md., Tommy Blankenship
of Matthews, N.C., and Dr. T. Dean Bobbitt of New Castle, Del.; 15 great-grandchildren;
and five great-great-grandchildren. Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at
the First Baptist Church of Rainelle, with the Revs. Dana Gatewood and
Keith Shumaker officiating. Burial will follow in Wallace Memorial Cemetery,
Clintonville. Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. today at Smathers Funeral Home
Chapel, Rainelle. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Arrangements by Smathers Funeral Home, Rainelle.
Oct 30, 1998, Friday, The Register-Herald, Beckley, WV