Ray Newton Chestnut

Ray Newton Chestnut, 83, a retired farmer of Warm Springs, died Monday afternoon, May 23, 1988 in Bath County Community Hospital. 

He was born June 7,1904, in Highland County, a son of Bessie Chestnut. On January 1, 1929, he married the former Helen G. Hamilton of Warm Springs, who survives. 

 Also surviving are five daughters, Lois Cauley, Caroline Pritt, and Virginia Martin, all of Warm Springs, and Nora Simmons and Emmie Gillespie, both of Hot Springs; five sons, Nelson Chestnut of Staunton, Rodney, Berlie, David and Carl Chestnut, ail of Hot Springs; a half-sister, Mary Betty Terry of Rittman, Ohio; a half-brother, Bedford Chestnut of Marlinton, W.Va.; 18 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. 

He was preceded in death by two daughters, Chloe Miller in 1971 and Dorothy Gay Chestnut in 1938. 

A funeral service will be conducted 2 p.m. Friday, May 27 in the chapel of Obaugh Funeral Home in McDowell by the Rev. Morris Bennett. Burial will be in the Mountain Grove Cemetery in Bath County. 

Active pallbearers will be Junie, Darrell, Richard and Ralph Chestnut, Irvin Miller, Scott and Bruiser Ryder, and Edward Cook. Honorary pallbearers will be friends attending the service and Lynn Townsend, Albert Shultz, Ned Madison, Earl Blackwell, and granddaughters. 

The family will receive friends Thursday evening 7-8:30 p.m. at the funeral home. 

Memorial contributions may be made to the Mountain Grove Cemetery, in care of Mrs. B. C. Bonner, Warm Springs, Va 24484 or to the Hot Springs Rescue Squad in care of John Hart, Hot Springs, Va. 24445