January 28, 2026
Verna Crisp Hall Kitchen, 80, of Sandy Hook, Ky, formerly Boyd County, Ky passed away Saturday, January 24, 2026 at Kings Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, surrounded by her family. Verna was born November 10, 1945 in Ashland, Ky a daughter of the late Edgar and Millie Walker Crisp. She was a retired School Teacher with Boyd County School System and a homemaker. She enjoyed participating in various activities with her two boys when they were in school. She was a previous President of the Booster’s Club for Boyd County High School and she also previously served as President of the Little League. She enjoyed hosting and attending Garden Parties and the Retired Teacher Luncheon’s. Verna was a woman strong in her faith, she attended Watson Enterprise Baptist Church every time the door’s were open and she was able to get there. She was a very active member of the women’s bible group Sister’s in Faith. She was a strong and courageous Wife, Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Sister, Aunt, and Friend who loved her family deeply. She was preceded in death in addition to her parents by her first husband Bobby Edward Hall who passed in 2018, two sisters Lynn Zornes and Kathie Meadows, and a step-daughter Susie Miller. She is survived by her husband Donald Kitchen, two sons Bobby Owen (Tina) Hall of Catlettsburg, Ky and James Edward Hall of Boyd County, Ky, three step-children Kim Powers of Sandy Hook, Ky, Tracy (Sandra) Kitchen of Sandy Hook, Ky, and Jamie (Lisa) Kitchen of Paintsville, Ky, two sisters Velma Crisp and Shirley Panchot, two brothers Larry Crisp and Gerald (Stephanie) Crisp, several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and a host of extended family and friends. Services for Verna will be conducted Friday, January 30, 2026 at the Lazear Funeral Home Chapel in Ashland, Ky at 2:00 P.M. by Pastor Larry Dale Ison. Friends may call at the funeral home from 12 noon until service time Friday. Due to weather burial will follow at a later date in Rose Hill Burial Park. Lazear Funeral Home is both honored and privileged to have been entrusted with the care of Mrs. Kitchen
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