John Frank (June) Reedy, Jr.

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1930 Census

Name: John F Reedy
Birth Year: abt 1919
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: Virginia
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Home in 1930: New Garden, Russell, Virginia
Street address: Lewis Creek Drill Road
Lives on Farm: Yes
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read and Write: Yes
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia
Able to Speak English: Yes
Household Members:
Name Age
John F Reedy 46
Carrie E Reedy 38
Irine E Reedy 18
Lorine F Reedy 16
Laferna E Reedy 14
Charles H Reedy 12
John F Reedy 11
Maretta E Reedy 9
Marjie A Reedy 7
Dorothy G Reedy 5
Ralph A Reedy 1 year 1 month

OBITUARY

Mr. J. Frank Reedy, Jr. "June", age 92 of the Big A Mountain section of Honaker, Virginia was taken to his eternal home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 17, 2011. He was the sixth of nine children born, January 31, 1919 to J. Frank Reedy, Sr. and Carrie McGlothlin Reedy.

Frank was born and raised in Drill, Virginia. He was a wonderful father and friend to all who knew him. He was a member of Lebanon Freewill Baptist Church. Frank was known for his love and generosity to his family and anyone he felt had a need. He had a great memory of the area's people and history. He was often called upon to share his memories of family members, locations, cemeteries, etc. He loved to work in his garden and can the harvest, and he gave glory to God for the provisions. Frank was an avid reader, whittler and loved to work puzzles. Frank had traveled to all 50 states with his wife Mona. He worked as a coal miner, carpenter and brick mason. Above all he will be remembered for his abounding generosity and love.

Preceding him in death are his wife, Mona Ball Reedy, his parents, Frank & Carrie Reedy, two brothers: Ralph Reedy, Charles Reedy, five sisters: Irene Wilson, Fern Honaker, Lorene Brown, Margie Sawyer and Marietta Davis.

Survivors include four daughters, Janice Church and husband, Jim of Fredericksburg, VA, Carolyn Scott of Martinsville, VA, Cheryl Kincaid and husband, Mark of Yorktown, VA, Dawn Burks and husband, Doug of Cedar Bluff and one son, Lynn Reedy and wife, Janis of Oak Ridge, TN; thirteen grandchildren, Trina Church Cole of Fredericksburg, Michael Church of Fayetteville, NC, Bradley Church of Fredericksburg, VA, Sheri Scott Lawrence of Ridgeway, VA, B.J. Scott of Jacksonville, FL, Chris and Carrie Reedy of Oak Ridge, TN, Lisa and Travis Kincaid of Yorktown, VA, Andy Burks of Johnson City, TN, Kelly Burks Webb of Gate City, VA, Jenny Burks Pruitt of Lebanon, VA and Hannah Burks, Belfast, VA.; twelve great-grandchildren; one sister, Dorothy Smith of Ohio and numerous nieces and nephews and extended family also survive.

A Celebration of Life service will be conducted at 2 PM Sunday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Larry Robinson officiating. Interment will follow in the Greenhills Memory Gardens in Claypool Hill, Virginia.

Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.

Friends may call at the Honaker Funeral Home after 6 PM Saturday.

Online condolences may be sent to www.honakerfuneralhome.net


Birth:
Virginia, Births, 1864-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.
Name: J Franklin Reedy
Birth Date: 31 Jan 1919
Birth Place: Russell Co. VA

Buried:
Grave location and obituary:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67092564&ref=acom

Died:
Virginia, Deaths, 1912-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.
Name: J Frank Reedy
Death Date: 17 Mar 2011
Death Place: Tazewell Co. VA

Social Security Death Index
Name: J. Frank Reedy
Last Residence: 24260 Honaker, Russell, Virginia
BORN: 31 Jan 1919
Died: 17 Mar 2011
State (Year) SSN issued: Virginia (Before 1951)

John married Mona Ann Ball. Mona was born 17 Apr 1917, Russell Co. VA; died 13 Nov 2006, Honaker, Russell Co. VA; was buried , Greenhills Memory Gardens, Claypool Hill, Tazewell Co. VA. [Group Sheet]