Oliver Wendell Halstead
Birth: Sep. 15, 1910, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Death: May 24, 2004, Hurricane, Putnam County, West Virginia, USA
Burial: Cunningham Memorial Park, Saint Albans, Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA
Oliver W. "Shanty Boat" Halstead, 93, of St. Albans died Monday, May 24, 2004, at the Teays Center, Hurricane, W.Va. He was retired from L.T. Halstead Co., a lifelong member of Charleston Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He was a member for 65 years of IBE Local 466 - Electrical Union, Charleston. He was preceded in death by his parents, A.T. Halstead and Kitty Trowbridge Halstead; six sisters; four brothers and two grandchildren. Surviving are his wife of 60 years, Minta Ruth Halstead of St. Albans; daughters, Gwendolyn Sue Halstead of Dayton, Ohio, Minta Carol Robertson and her husband, Gerald, of Lyles, Tenn., Beverly Ruth Kimble and husband, Douglas, of St. Albans; son, Dennis Wendell Halstead of Commerce, Texas; sister, Mildred McNealy and husband, Bill, of Portland, Ore.; granddaughters, Heather Vence, Erin Halstead, Cheri Robertson; grandsons, Troy Hillebert, Eric Hillebert, Greg McRae, Mark Hillebert, Daniel Halstead, Ben Halstead, Gerald Robertson Jr.; great-granddaughter, Rebekah Vence.
-- Charleston WV Gazette, 5/26/2004
Parents: Albert Thomas Halstead (1872 - 1962), Kitty May Trowbridge Halstead (1880 - 1951)
Spouse: Minta Ruth Davis Halstead (1921 - 2008)
Siblings: Michael Albert Halstead (1901 - 1991)
Byron Halstead (1903 - 1988)*
Katherine Prudence Halstead Andrews (1907 - 2000)*
Pearl Ruth Halstead Atkins (1907 - 1957)*
Fred Edison Halstead (1913 - 1993)*
Lotus Tennyson Halstead (1915 - 1997)*
Marguerite Agnes Halstead Cunnington (1922 - 2003)*
Minnie Louise Halstead (1923 - 1924)*
