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- Harry R. 'Poppy' Hale, 80, left this earth on Wednesday,
October 6, 2010. He was born February 18, 1930, in
LaFollette, TN, the son of Claude and Mae (Maples) Hale.
He shared 56 years of his life with his loving wife Janice
(Jones) Hale.
Harry served in the United States Army and was a veteran
of the Korean War. He was retired from Kentucky Central
Life Insurance Company where he worked more than 30 years.
Harry was an avid fisherman, he loved listening to gospel
and country music and watching his grandchildren play sports.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Claude and Mae
Hale; and by his father-in-law and mother-in-law, Guy and
Frankie Jones.
He is survived by his wife Janice; a daughter, Melissa
Newberry and husband Louis; grandchildren, Meredith and
Taylor Newberry; sisters, Jo Hale of UT, and Kathy Graham
of CO; a brother, Steve Hale, of Rockford; sisters-in-law,
June Hudson and husband Jim, Jeannette Babb and husband
Jim, Judy Slack and husband Charles, and Jackie Maston and
husband Dwight, all of Coalfield, VA; brother-in-law, Joe
Jones and wife Judy, of Kingston; special friends, Don and
Evelyn Jones, of Trenton, MI, Joyce and Leo Rutherford,
Pauline and Luther Walton, and Carolyn Pipkin of Coalfield,
VA; a host of loving nieces and nephews; grandnieces and
grandnephews; and extended family members and friends.
The family will receive friends and celebrate Harry's life
from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m., on Thursday, October 7, 2010,
with funeral services following at 4 p.m., in the chapel
of Sharp Funeral Home, with James Foster officiating.
Burial and graveside services will follow at the Estes
Cemetery in Coalfield, VA, at 6:30 p.m.
Sharp Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
An online guest book is available at
http://www.sharpfh.comhttp://www.sharpfh.com
Published in Knoxville News Sentinel on October 7, 2010
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