Margaret Eskew

Margaret Catherine Eskew - 1923 - 2008
Margaret C. Eskew, 84, of Westwood, went home to be with the Lord with her family by her side, Thursday morning, Nov. 27, 2008, at Kings Daughters Medical Center following an extended illness.
Margaret was born Dec. 11, 1923 at Boyd County, a daughter of the late Alonzo and Sarah Caudill Blair. She was faithful member of Fairview Baptist Church and enjoyed the fellowship with her church friends. Margaret always loved the time with her family, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death in 1995 after 54 years of marriage to her husband, Ira Corporal Eskew, whom she married May 2, 1942. She was also preceded by a son, the Rev. Donald Ira Eskew in 1996, two half brothers, Bill and Herschel Blair, and two half sisters, Myrtle Hale and Mildred Crace.
Surviving include: one son, Frank Eskew and wife Garnet; two daughters, Nancy and husband Jack Perkins, and Debbie and husband Will Cannoy, all of Westwood; a brother, Homer Blair and wife Erline of Ashland; three sisters, Virginia Heinz of Alabama, Betty Gallaher of Vanceburg, and Dorothy and husband Ben Jones of Medway, Ohio; six grandchildren, Kim (Billy) Evans, Frankie (Pam) Eskew, Kelly (Chris) Queen, Grant (Michelle) Cannoy, Allen (Telisa) Perkins, and Ann (Sean) Hutchison; 12 great-grandchildren, Tyler and Rachel Evans, Jared and Shelby Eskew, Courtnet, Kristen-Brooke, and Kendall Queen, Caleb and Micah Cannoy, Connor and Katherine (Katie) Hutchison, Alexis Perkins, and another due in the summer.
Funeral services will be Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at 3 p.m. by the Rev. Grant Cannoy and the Rev. Michael Rice at Preston Family Funeral Home in Ashland. Burial will be in the Rose Hill Burial Park. Visitation is Sunday from 1 p.m. until service time. Condolences may be sent to the family at prestonfamilyfuneralhome.com.