This is the mother of Peter Yopp's wife, Also, mother of 14 children.
Lucy Ann Stewart Yopp
March 17, 1953
YOPP, Mrs. Lucy Ann
ElLLISTON--Mrs. Lucy Ann Yopp, 98, died here yesterday. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. D. C. Beckner, Callaway; Mrs. H. D. Palmer, Mrs. E. H. Martin, Mrs. O. S. McDaniels, all of Elliston; Mrs. Leitha Blankenship, Salem; Mrs. Noah Akers, Cambria; five sons, S. W. Yopp, Troutville; L. W. Yopp, Ironto; O. W. Yopp, Roanoke; James Yopp, Elliston; Emmett Yopp, Radford; 114 grandchildren; 215 great-grandchildren; 19 great-great-grandchildren. Funeral will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Galilee Church. Interment will be in the Church cemetery.
Lucy Ann Yopp was the widow of Harvey Yopp.
This is the Alice you were talking about. Step-sister to your grandmother.
Alice Lucille (Dowdy) Mills Richmond, 92, went to be with the Lord, Feb. 6, 2004, at her home on Grace Walker Mountain.
Born Oct. 2, 1911, in Richlands, Tazewell Co., Va. She was the daughter of William Robert Dowdy and Laura Victoria Melvin Dowdy Yopp, and stepfather who raised her, Peter Yopp.
She moved to the farm in Summers County in 1951, where she enjoyed raising cattle and growing large gardens and beautiful flowers. She also enjoyed helping to raise her her grandchildren, cooking and crocheting. She was a member of Elk Knob Church.
She was preceded in death by her second husband, Clifford Mills; her third husband John Harvey Richmond; three sons, William Walter Mills, Bobby Howard Mills and Kelly Ray Mills; a daughter Mary Alice Mills Lilly; four brothers, George Melvin Dowdy, William Walter Dowdy, Robert Franklin Dowdy and Ermel P. Yopp; a sister Mary Elizabeth (Dowdy) Bailey; two great-grandsons, infant Mills and Augustus Mills; a great-grant-grandson David Matthew Jones; nephews, Howard Bailey, Jack Bailey and Roger Lee Yopp, nieces, Josephine (Bailey) Jones and Evelyn Bailey; sons-in-laws Leslie Dallis Lilly and Joseph Printess Melvin; ex-sons-in-laws, Don Richard Willey and Adolphus Seldon "Sonny" Adkins; a daughter-in-law, Stella Mae (Bragg) Mills; half brothers,
Robert Dowdy, Jr., Albert Dowdy, Leroy Dowdy and Buford Dowdy; stepbrothers Alfred Yopp and Fred Yopp; stepsisters Ethel Yopp Derringer and Laura Yopp
Suvivors include a daughter Laura Frances (Moses Melvin of Tazewell; two stepdaughters, Rachel Gilpin and husband, Gary, and Virginia Angell and husband, Bobby, all of Covington, Va.; a daughter-in-law Shirley Mills of Hinton; 16 grandchildren, Carolyn, Dennis, Aden, Darlene, Debbie, Jack, Dale, Arreta, Ray, Bobby, Connie, Sue Patty, Lisa, Vicki and Becki; 42 great-grandchildren; a very special great-grandson Jesse Shane Wickline; 11 great-grandchildren; four stepgreat-grandchildren and very special daughter-in-law, Jean Carol (Wheeler) Mills, who came and helped care for her when she could.
Service were held at 1 p.m. Monday, February 9 at Pivont Funeral Home Chapel, Hinton, with Pastor Cecil Cox officiating. Burial followed in Upland Cemetery.
Friends called 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, February 8 at the funeral home.
Pallbearers were Jessie Wickline, Donnie Melvin, Ray Mills, Matthew Mills, Bobby Mills and Jacob Barnes.
Arrangements by Pivont Funeral Home, Hinton.
If you can email me I can pass on more information.
Emma Funk
ejfunk@yahoo.com