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Funeral services set for Underwood
West Virginia Gov. Cecil Underwood hands out state Department of Transportation and Historic Preservation Development grants at Clarksburg's historical Glen Elk Train Station, Wednesday, June 30, 1999. The governor awarded grants of about $4.5 million to state projects. (AP Photo/Clarksburg Exponent, Steven Wayne Rotsch)
Purchase this photoCHARLESTON -- A public funeral service for former West Virginia Gov. Cecil H. Underwood will be today, Dec. 1.
The services will be at 11 a.m. at Christ Church United Methodist, 1221 Quarrier St. in Charleston.
The former governor died Nov. 24 at CAMC Memorial Hospital in Charleston.
The two-term Republican governor suffered a minor stroke in March 2006 and was hospitalized several times since then. His wife, former first lady Hovah Underwood, died in 2004. She had suffered a stroke.
Underwood was the state's youngest governor when he was elected in 1956 at the age of 34. He became the state's oldest governor 40 years later when he won another term in 1996 at the age of 74.
The Underwoods hold a special place in Huntington. Between stays in the Governor's Mansion, the couple lived in Huntington for extended periods -- from 1961 to 1972 and from 1978 until his second term in 1996. They moved back to Huntington after leaving office, then returned to Charleston in 2001.
Manchin has ordered all national and state flags displayed at state facilities lowered to half-staff through Tuesday, Dec. 2, in honor of Underwood.
