RAYMOND FAIRCHILD
1923-1955
    
Father of Six Is Killed by Lightning Bolt
Services Today For Raymond Fairchild
   
Raymond Fairchild, 32, of Wittensville, father of six children,
was killed by a bolt of lightning Monday afternoon on Barnett's
Creek, near the mouth of Big Mud Lick Creek. Fairchild and one of
his brothers had been on a fishing trip during the day, and the
victim decided to go to the brother's home to procure a young
hunting dog. When he failed to return, the brother started a
search and found the dead man lying in a foot path leading to his
home.
    
He was born April 23, 1923 in Johnson County, a son of Levi and
Lucy Hitchcock Fairchild and he was a veteran of World War II. He
followed the occupation of mining, but at the time of his death,
was employed by the L.O. Brayton Construction Company, in building
rural telephone lines in this locality.
  
Surviving besides his parents are his wife, Mary Blair Fairchild
and the following children, Charles, Donald, Paul, Ernest, Robert,
and Judy, all at home, also four sisters, and six bothers, Mrs.
John Conley, Staffordsville, Mrs. Ray Preston, Minford, Ohio, Mrs.
Joe Henson, Mt. Sterling, Ky., Mrs. Charles Pelphrey of
Paintsville, Arthur and Son Fairchild, both of Wittensville,
Walter, Volga, Russell, Virgil and Espic, all of Staffordsville.
  
Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. today at the Freewill
Baptist Church at Rock House by the Reverend Scott Griffith.
  
Burial was made in the family cemetery under the direction of the
Paintsville Funeral Home.
      
Paintsville Herald
August 25, 1955      

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