Long-time Creston resident and historian Seward Lynch, 96, has died.
Lynch passed away at Roane General Hospital on September 24, 2003.
He may be best known to Hur Herald readers for his collection of old river boat
pictures that have appeared under Norma Knotts Shaffer's Photo of the Day, some
of which are on the original archives CD.
Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Matheney-Pomroy
Funeral Home in Elizabeth with the Rev. David Morris officiating. Burial will be in the
Pleasant Hill Cemetery on Ground Hog.
Friends will be received at the funeral home from 6-9 p.m. Saturday and from 9 a.m.
until time of service Sunday.
He was retired from Weaver Oil Company and was a welder and pipe fitter for local
#565 of Parkersburg.
Surviving, sons, Robert and Rodney Lynch of Creston; eight grandchildren and 15
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife Mary Emma Blankenship; son, Randall, three
brothers and two grandsons.
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