Sayre, Stewart Eugene
Passed: 2001-06-26
Age: 81
Source: Charleston Gazette
Death Notice:
Obituary Date: 2001-06-27
Information: Stewart Eugene Sayre, 81, of Evans, Jackson County, W. Va., departed this life June 26, 2001, at CAMC Memorial Division, following a brief illness. He was born June 22, 1920, at Evans, the son of the late Elmer and Mary Jane Stewart Sayre. He was a former truck driver for Vanadium and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation and retired from the West Virginia Department of Highways with 23 years of service. He was a farmer and a cattleman and served on the board of directors of Agriculture Soil Conservation Service. He attended Mt. Moriah Church of Evans, where he taught Sunday school. Mr. Sayre was preceded in death by three brothers, Wilmer, Clayton and Woodrow Sayre; three sisters, Willard Casto, Josephine Hartley and Opal Reynolds. He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Virginia Casto Sayre; sons and daughters-in-law, Stewart Reynolds and Judy Boggess Sayre of Ravenswood, David Eugene and Carolyn Moday Sayre of St. Paris, Ohio, Stephen Thomas and Liz Taylor Sayre of Evans; daughters and sons-in-law, Judith Ann and Charles Bunner of Ripley, Valeria Jeanette and Ray McVay of Ripley, Clara Jane and Dale Carney of Kenna, Letitia Gayle ""Tuts"" and Woodrow Parsons of Ravenswood; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. Service will be 11 a.m. Friday, June 29, at Casto Funeral Home, Evans, with Rev. Gerald Sayre officiating. Burial will follow in Otterbein Cemetery, Evans. Visitation is from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.