Counts, Edsel Fordson

Passed: 1979-10-05

Age: 48 y

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Death Notice: 1979-10-10

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Information:                                                       Counts Death Ruled of Natural Causes     Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at Parsons Funeral Home, Ripley, for Edsel Fordson Counts, 48, of Kentuck, who was found dead Friday evening near his truck on Kentuck Road.   Due to the circumstances of his death, an autopsy was performed in Charleston.  Dr. Irvin Sopher, of the state medical examiner's office, informed the Jackson Herald, Monday, that death was due to a lower intestine hemorrhage.  He ruled out foul play but said further tests were being completed.   Mr. Counts was born in Jackson County, a son of Thomas H. Counts of Kentuck and the late Mary Adalina Garrett Counts.  He was retired from the U. S. Army after 20 years service.  He was a member of the VFW.   Other survivors include, three sons, Thomas and Dennis, both of Baltimore. Md., and Clay of Sissonville; one daughter, Mary Susan Counts of Sissonville; two brothers, Zane G. Counts of St. Albans and Huey A. Counts of Salina, Kan.; six sisters, Mrs. Izetta Biancaniello of Ripley, Mrs. Phyllis Conaway and Mrs. Gwendolyn Lewis, both of Charleston.  Mrs. Claudette Beegle of Evans, Mrs. Zalithea Walters of Ripley, and Mrs. Sandra Perkey of Riverdale, Md.   Burial was in the family cemetery with the Rev. Orville Walker officiating.