Services are held for Archie Potter

Archie Vincent Potter, 80, died March 28, 2009 at his home in Shelby Gap, Pike County, Kentucky.

Born at Pound, Va., he was a son of the late Creed Flannery Potter and Sarah Rose Robinson, a stepson of the late Ida Fuller Potter, and the widower of Vera Edith Mullins Potter.

He was the father of the late David Matthew Potter, John Mark Potter, Terry Wayne Potter and Archie Potter Jr.; a grandfather of the late Michael Vincent Potter Jr., and a brother of the late Ralph Potter, Fred Webb Potter and Marty Potter.

He was a retired coal miner and a member of the United Mine Workers of America, a U.S. Army veteran who served during the Korean War, and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Masonic Lodge, the Order of the Easter Star, the White Shrine and the International Order of Odd Fellows.

Surviving are two daughters, Candy Potter of Alexandria and Claudette Potter of Shelby Gap; Kentucky, three sons, Michael Potter and Thomas Kern Potter, both of Shelby Gap, and Mitchell Potter of Ash Camp; three sisters, Annette Potter, Carlene Burkland and Billie Jaynes, all of Houston, Tex.; three brothers, Dan Morgan Potter of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Clark Potter and David Potter, both of Houston, Tex.; three grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held April 1, 2009. Burial was in the Potter Cemetery (aka Reynolds Family Cemetery) at Seco, Kentucky.