Joyce Solomon

Joyce Hiner Solomon passed away at her home, Shady Lane Farm, Sunday, June 15, 2003 after a long, courage battle with cancer.

Mrs. Solomon was born in Monterey on the Hiner Family Farm on July 16, 1925, a daughter of the late Gideon Jesse and Eunice Brown Lightner Hiner.

Mrs. Solomon grew up in Monterey and attended school there. She was a member of the Monterey High School Debate Team and won the state debating championship in 1940, which prepared her for motherhood. After graduating from Madison College, Mrs. Soloman began her teaching career in Bath County. She boarded at Widow’s Nob, where she met her husband, the late Erwin S. “Shad” Solomon, who was a lifelong teacher, a coach, and later a prominent attorney and member of the Virginia General Assembly.

Mrs. Soloman taught at the old Valley High School, Craigsville Elementary and Mitchelltown School. She left teaching to work in her husband’s law office in Hot Springs. After rearing her family, Mrs. Soloman operated the Village Craft Shop in Hot Springs. As a strong advocate of public education, she served as chairman of the Bath County School Board. In addition, she managed farms in Bath and Highland counties.

She was a member of the Ashwood United Methodist Church and w3as a 50-year member of the Monday and Wednesday afternoon bridge club.

She was preceded In death by a sister, Elsie Terry.

Mrs. Soloman said the best thing she ever did was have four children.

She is survived by her son Michael Hiner Soloman and his wife, Sarah of Houston, Tex.; three daughters, Deborah Powell and her husband, Harold od Ashburn, , Eve Solomon of Charlottesville and Hope Young and her husband James of Charlotte, NC; three grandchildren, Harrison Solomon, Grace Hamilton Powell and Rose Soloman Young; a sister Elizabeth Hiner Hefner of Monterey, a sister-in-law, Doris Henoch of New York, N.Y. and numerous nieces and nephews.

The Rev. Bass Mitchell of the Ashwood United Methodist Church will conduct a graveside service at 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 17, 2003 at the Monterey Cemetery.

The family will receive visitors at the Solomon residence in Hot Springs Monday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. Friends are invited to a reception at the Hiner Family Farm in Monterey following the service.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Hot Springs Rescue Squad, PO Box N, Hot Springs or Bath Community Hospital, PO Drawer Z, Hot Springs, VA 24445 or any local charity.