John
 Hitchcock, a 77-year-old retired farmer from Lucasville, Ohio died 
December 29 in a Portsmouth, Ohio, hospital. He was born in Johnson 
County to the late George and Elizabeth Blanton Hitchcock and was 
married to Mollie Coldiron Hitchcock, who survives him. Other survivors 
include a son in Lucasville, Donald Hitchcock; three daughters, Pauline 
Bayes of Lucasville, Thelma Cantrell of Beaver, Ohio, and Roberta Crech 
of Stockdale, Ohio; two brothers, Estill Hitchcock of Oil Springs and 
Willie Hitchcock of Beaver, Ohio, and two sisters, Mattie Colvin of 
Beaver and Hattie McKenzie of Waverly, Ohio. Services were held December
 31 in the chapel of the Paintsville Funeral Home with Elders Lonza 
Reed, Arnold Reed and Basil Blair officiating, Burial followed in the 
Blanton Branch Cemetery, under the direction of the Paintsville Funeral 
Home. <br>Paintsville Herald <br>6 January 1971