Joseph Henry Sawyers
1909 - 1989 (79 years)-
Name Joseph Henry Sawyers Birth 30 Oct 1909 Smoot, Greenbrier County, West Virginia 
Gender Male Death 24 Sep 1989 Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia Burial Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes, Kanawha County, West Virginia Person ID I4060 Hedges Last Modified 24 Oct 2021
Father James Lewis Sawyers, b. 16 May 1879, Greenbrier County, West Virginia d. 1960 (Age 80 years) Mother Maude Lenora Samples, b. 12 Aug 1886, Greenbrier County, West Virginia d. 8 Jan 1942, Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia (Age 55 years) Marriage 22 Aug 1905 Greenbrier County, West Virginia Family ID F1618 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edythe I. Beane, b. 20 Feb 1908, Sissonville, Kanawha County, West Virginia d. 12 Jan 1980, Kanawha County, West Virginia (Age 71 years) Family ID F1797 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Oct 2021
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Birth - 30 Oct 1909 - Smoot, Greenbrier County, West Virginia 
Death - 24 Sep 1989 - Charleston, Kanawha County, West Virginia 
Burial - - Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes, Kanawha County, West Virginia = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Notes - Joseph H. Sawyers, well-known and respected former teacher and coach at Sissonville High School, died Sunday in CAMC, General Division, after a long illness. He was 79. Sawyers, of 7012 Sissonville Drive, retired from the school after 36 years of service. The first coach at Sissonville, Sawyers started football at the school in 1935. In later years, Sawyers recalled the Indians' first football game. "I remember that I got them out early on the Ripley field to make sure they knew how to line up on a football field," he said. "Only two players (27of Sissonville's 90 male students were on the squad) had ever seen a football field." Sissonville's first team lost its opening game 20-0. But many wins were to follow Sawyers' teams won 155 contests before he retired 1970. His 1953 team posted a record of 10 wins and no losses and was considered the best in the state by some sportswriters. Sawyers' team went 9-0. Sawyers coached Sissonville's basketball teams from 1935 to 1965
He was born at Smoot, Greenbrier County, and graduated from Oak Hill High School. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1934, maintaining a four-year scholarship in all sports and as captain of the variety
basketball team in 1933-34.
He was a member of Pi Kappa Alpha. Sawyers studied nine weeks at Schrivenham He was a member of the West Virginia Education Association. He served four years as combat engineer in the European Theater of World. War II. He was a charter member of Aldersgate United Methodist Church at Sissonville and a charter member of the Bank of Sissonville. He served as bank director from 1976 to 1986. SURVIVING: WIFE, ERNA; STEPSON, GARY SAWYERS OF SMOOT; brothers, Burl Sawyers of Charleston, Ray Sawyers of Hinton; one grandson; three nieces and one nephew of Charleston. Service will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church with the Rev. Robert Hill and the Rev. Larry Crawford officiating. Burial with military rites will be in Tyler Mountain Memory Gardens, Cross Lanes.
Joe Sawyers also taught History class at
Sissonville High School. [1]
- Joseph H. Sawyers, well-known and respected former teacher and coach at Sissonville High School, died Sunday in CAMC, General Division, after a long illness. He was 79. Sawyers, of 7012 Sissonville Drive, retired from the school after 36 years of service. The first coach at Sissonville, Sawyers started football at the school in 1935. In later years, Sawyers recalled the Indians' first football game. "I remember that I got them out early on the Ripley field to make sure they knew how to line up on a football field," he said. "Only two players (27of Sissonville's 90 male students were on the squad) had ever seen a football field." Sissonville's first team lost its opening game 20-0. But many wins were to follow Sawyers' teams won 155 contests before he retired 1970. His 1953 team posted a record of 10 wins and no losses and was considered the best in the state by some sportswriters. Sawyers' team went 9-0. Sawyers coached Sissonville's basketball teams from 1935 to 1965
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Sources - [S6] Find a Grave.
- [S6] Find a Grave.