Peyton I. Browning, 8 ½ months, son of Bobby J. and Savanna Hardwick Browning, passed away on Monday, January 14, 2013, at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, after an extended illness.

Peyton was born on April 19, 2012, in Morgantown, West Virginia, and is survived by his parents, Bobby and Savanna Browning of Leon, West Virginia; his grandparents, Bob and JoAnn Browning of Bidwell, Lenora (Joe Crum) Saxon of Gallipolis, Tamara Bell of Charleston, W.Va., Dale and Joanna Hardwick of Nitro, W.Va.; great-grandparents, Rex and Pauline Unroe of Gallipolis, Nancy Barlow of Winfield, W.Va., Grant and Jodi Bell of Florida, and JoAnn and Brice Keifer of Virginia; aunts and uncles, Ann Saxon, Courtney and Anthony O’Dell, both of Gallipolis, Ashley Unroe of Bidwell, Dwight Saxon of Gallipolis, Haylee Bell of Charleston, W.Va., Brooklynn Hardwick of Nitro, Loretta Justice of Nitro, Angel and Casey Hayes of Red House, W.Va., and Seth Hardwick. Several other family members also survive.

Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, January 18, 2013, at Willis Funeral Home with Pastors Harold Tracewell and Homer Wiseman officiating. Burial will follow in the Neal Cemetery. Friends may call from noon until the time of services at the funeral home on Friday.

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