Henry Combs and Polly Roark
Henry Combs b 4 Dec 1875 KY d 12 Jan 1945 s/o
George A Combs and Millie
Maggard. Henry Combs m. Polly Roark b 26 Mar 1883 d 30 Apr 1966. Children of
Henry Combs and Polly Roark;I. Viola Combs b about 1912
Rockhouse, KY d 22 Aug 2007 buried Green Acres Cemetery, Ermine, Letcher Co KY;
m. 1934 to Ferdinand Moore (former mayor of Whitesburg, KY). They were owners of
the Moore & Craft Funeral Home. Children of Viola Combs and Ferdinand Moore;
1. Kaye Combs Moore
2. Frieda Moore m. Male Howard
3. Vicki Moore m. Bill Receveur
Obituary - Moore, Viola Combs:

Viola Combs Moore |
Funeral services for Viola Combs Moore, 95, of Whitesburg, KY,
were held August 25, 2007 at Everidge Funeral Home. Burial was in Green Acres
Cemetery at Ermine, KY. A daughter of the late Henry and Pollie Roark Combs, she
was born at Rockhouse, KY. She died August 22, 2007. She was a sister of the
late Eunice Combs Taylor and Lincoln Combs, and the grandmother of the late
Deborah Kaye Romine and John Allen Romine. Mrs. Moore was an elementary school
teacher for 26 years in Letcher County, Kentucky prior to becoming a social
worker for the Kentucky Public Assistance Office. Her teaching career began at
Marlowe School, operated by Marlowe Coal Company for the children of the coal
miners living in the coal camp. Her teaching contract required her to not marry,
and she and her sweetheart since childhood eloped in 1934. She and her husband,
the late Ferdinand Moore, a former Mayor of Whitesburg, KY, were owners of the
Moore & Craft Funeral Home. Mrs. Moore taught Sunday School in the junior
department and the special needs class at the First Baptist Church for many
years. She had been a member of the WMU, Young at Heart and Adult II class. When
in Louisville, she attended St. Francis in the Fields Episcopal Church. She was
active in the Pine Mountain Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
Whitesburg Lions Club, Whitesburg Woman's Club, and Eastern Star Hester Chapter
No. 54, and served on committees for the Kentucky River Area Development
District in Hazard, KY. Surviving are three daughters, Kaye Combs Moore,
Lexington, KY; Frieda Moore Howard, Peewee Valley, KY; and Vicki Receveur and
husband Bill, Louisville, KY; a grandson, Rich Banks and wife Beth, Louisville,
KY; step-grandchildren Meredith Hernandez, Louisville, KY, and John Receveur,
Washington, D.C.; great-grandchildren Grace and Austin Banks, Lauryn and Natalie
Hernandez; nephews Robert Taylor, Bowie, Md., and Michael Combs Vorhees,
Atlanta, Ga.; and the family of Mary Combs and husband Lincoln, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
The family suggests gifts to her memory be made to First Baptist Church Family
Life Center, 170 Madison Ave., Whitesburg, KY 41858. Posted in the Mountain
Eagle Newspaper, Whitesburg, Kentucky, August 29, 2007
II. Eunice Combs m. Male Taylor
III. Lincoln Combs

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