Funeral services are scheduled Saturday for a 16-year-old Roane County High School sophomore, Lindsey Ryan Mann.
Mann died May 28, 2005, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Spencer.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Roane County High School, with the eulogy being delivered by Bob and Anita Ashley and Jean Melarvie. Burial will follow in Spencer Memorial Cemetery with graveside rites delivered by Rev. Randy Whited.
Visiting hours are from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the high school. Taylor-Vandale Funeral Home, Spencer, is in charge of arrangements.
She was born January 2, 1989, in Huntington, a daughter of Melinda and Donald Sampson of Spencer and Charles and Sharon Mann of Huntington.
Lindsey was a sophomore at Roane County High School, was a midget league, junior high and high school cheerleader, and a member of the Future Business Leaders of America and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at Roane County High School.
She was a member of 4-H where she served as president, vice-president and treasurer, did the County Roundup and was a 4-H Livestock Showperson. She was a former middle school and high school wrestling matmaid, a manager for the RCHS football team, a member of Hi-Y and the National Junior Honor Society, a member of the Honor Roll and was a Youth Government lobbyist in Charleston.
She was a member of the RCHS track team where she was a pole vaulter, enjoyed playing the piano and gymnastics, was a West Virginia Pre Teen Finalist and was named Miss Photogenic at the Junior Miss Black Walnut Festival Pageant.
She formerly attended the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in Huntington. Lindsey was going to go to Australia this summer to represent West Virginia and the United States in the Down Under Olympics as a pole-vaulter.
In addition to her parents, she is survived by four sisters, Cassie Mann, and Kelly, Kristen and Traci Sampson; one brother, Chase Mann; her paternal grandparents, Charles and Patricia Mann of Huntington; and her maternal grandparents, Roy G. and Irene Hildreth of Spencer.
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