EUGENE  STERLING  DEAL,  86 of Prosperity passed away Monday May 9,2022 in the Raleigh General Hospital with his beloved wife Mary and children by his side.  The youngest of eight children Eugene was the son of the late Berry and Gertrude Hamrick Deal and was born at Summersville May 13, 1935. He attended the Skelton Freewill Baptist Church in Beckley for many years.

As a young man Eugene served in the US Marine Corp in hydraulics. Afterwards he worked in Florida and later in Beckley at two different newspapers as a printer in the composing room. Eugene held an associate degree from Beckley College in Business Administration and worked at Rural Acres Community Health Systems as a maintenance supervisor for 18 years. Being a "Jack of all Trades", Eugene enjoyed tinkering with machines to see how they worked and to repair them. His other hobbies included playing his homemade Banjo, listening to Jerry Clower records, hunting, fishing and watching WVU basketball and football games.

He was also preceded in death by daughters Tina Watkins and Susan Deal, siblings: Sherman, Genevieve, Lucretia, Tiny, Nina, Dorothy and Alice.

Surviving:

Wife                Mary Louise Gauldin Deal

Sons               Ernie (Dinah) Deal

William Clayton (Belinda) Deal                  all of Summersville

Daughter       Dianna (Johnny) Callaway                         Prosperity

Step-Son       Carl Hutcheson                                            Florida

Step Daughters        Paula Balas                                      Florida

Janie (David) Morris                        Daniels

22 Grandchildren

43 Great Grandchildren

Funeral services will be conducted 1 p.m. Thursday May 12 ^th in the Waters Funeral Chapel at Summersville.  Burial will follow in the Walker Memorial Park at Summersville.  Friends may call at the funeral chapel one hour prior to the service on Thursday.

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