DORA CONLEY
1878–1958
Mrs. Dora Meade Conley, 79, a member of one of Johnson
County’s most prominent families, died suddenly at 9:30 A.M.
Thursday, January 30, 1958, at her home on Drake’s Fork of
Laurel Creek near Flat Gap.
She was a daughter of the late Henry and Zina Davis Meade of
this county and was the widow of Ben F. Conley, well-known
school teacher, who passed away in 1932. She was born on
October 20, 1878, and had been a resident of Flat Gap for
the past 57 years where she reared eleven surviving
children.
She became a member of the Regular Baptist Church 50 years
ago, and she followed the teachings of Jesus, setting an
example in her community for her strength of character and
fine womanhood.
Surviving are four sons; Herschel Conley of Red Bush, Ray
Conley, Guidance Counselor of Johnson County Schools, Conrad
Conley, a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, stationed in Georgia,
and Byron Conley, Flat Gap; seven daughters, Mrs. Lexie
Dixon and Mrs. Anna Jewel Beculheimer, both of Paintsville,
Mrs. Fern Lyons, Martha, KY., Mrs. Hazel Johnson,
Elliottsville, KY., Mrs. Ruth McKenzie, Volga, Mrs. Myrtle
Fairchild, Oil Springs and Mrs. Florence Meade, South
Portsmouth, KY.; and three sisters and one brother, Mrs.
Elizabeth Butcher, Thealka, Mrs. Vina Riley, Huntington,
W.Va., Mrs. May Best, Williamsport, and Dr. Joe D. Meade,
Inez.
Mrs. Conley was the sister of the late Dr. Lloyd Meade,
Paintsville dentist.
Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, February
1, at the Flat Gap Enterprise Baptist Church with the Rev.
Emerson Collier and Rev. J. W. Beculheimer officiating.
Music was by the Toms Creek Singers.
Burial was made in the family cemetery at Flat Gap.
PAINTSVILLE HERALD
Wednesday
February 5, 1958
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