Winter, Howard M.

Passed: 1959-09-20

Age: 51

Source: Jackson Herald

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1959-09-25

Information:      FAIRPLAIN MERCHANT HEART ATTACK VICTIM-Howard M. Winter, 51-year old Fairplain merchant and trucking executive died suddenly of a heart attack at his home Sunday morning.  Members of the family could not arouse him and called a physician but he was dead when the doctor arrived and the belief was expressed that he had died sometime during the morning hours.  He had been in failing health for the past two, or three years and had been bothered with a heart condition but his death came as a distinct shock to the members of his family, and the many friends and business associates.  He was born at Fairplain on September 14, 1908 and was a son of the late Hereford A. and Mrs. Myrtle Stewart Winter.  He was a member of the Methodist church, the A.F. & A.M. Lodge of Ripley, the I.O.O.F. of Ripley, was a Shriner, a Knights Templar and a member of the Jackson County Shrine Club.  He was also an active member of the West Virginia Truckers Association and headed a company which owns a fleet of large trucks used in trucking commodities and good to and from Florida and the Great Lakes region.  Survivors include his wife, Sybil Skeen Winter, whom he married in 1931; a son, Virgil Allen Winter; two daughters, Mrs. Mary Spano of Ravenswood and Miss Lenora Winter, who is a student at West Virginia University; a step-daughter, Mrs. llene Ackley of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; eight brothers, Rev. Vairl Winter of Elizabeth,  George W. Winter of Atwater, Ohio, (Fo......), Glen, Ward, Chris, Harl and Arthur Winter, all of Ripley; his mother Mrs. Myrtle Winter of Fairplain, and two grandchildren.  The body remained at the Parsons funeral home in Ripley until Tuesday afternoon when it was taken to the Goshen Baptist church at Kentuck were services were held and the burial was in the church cemetery there.  Rev. Homer Hicks officiated.   He lived in Akron at the time of his marriage but a few years returned to Kentuck where he owned and operated a general store quite successfully.  He sold that business and moved to Fairplain where he soon developed one of the largest retail outlets in this section of the state for general merchandise, farm machinery and supplies, a filling station, a restaurant and a trucking terminal.  After his health began to fail he closed out some of the lines, consolidated others, leased some of the businesses and at the time of his death was only operating the food market and the trucking line.