Mr. Clinton Dale Dye, age 69, of the Kent’s Ridge section of Swords Creek, Virginia, passed away Thursday (June 28, 2018) at Bristol Regional Medical Center. Born June 27, 1949 in Mill Creek, Virginia, he was a son of the late Clarence William Dye and Hazel Miller Dye Perkins. He was a 1967 graduate of Honaker High School and went on to further his education at East Tennessee State University, where he graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor’s Degree. Clint entered the United States Army as an ROTC 1st Lieutenant, a trained paratrooper with 81st battalion in Germany, he and Nancy and did a tour of duty in the Europe Division of the US Army, stationed in Frankfort, Germany during the Vietnam era, where he proudly served as a Race Relations Facilitator. He left the military as Captain in December 1975. Upon his return to Southwest Virginia he worked as a mental health counselor and as a juvenile counselor at the Blackford Correctional Center. He then worked in the quality control department of E. Dillon and Company and helped with the Allan Block Development. He had also been employed as a salesperson for the Clinch Valley Limestone Quarry. Clint served the Raven, Cedar Bluff and Swords Creek communities as a postal mail carrier from 1989-2014 and made many lasting friendships during that time. He was employed by the US Employment Commission from 1988-2004. He was a beekeeper and farmer since his retirement. He was a distributor of the Appalachian Voices newspaper in Russell and Tazewell counties. Clint was a volunteer promoter for Kevin Locke of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, promoting diversity and multiculturalism. He had been a member of the Baha’i faith for thirty-six years and was a human rights advocate. He strived to bring awareness to social injustice. Being a global citizen was his passion. He lived by the motto: one human family, one land, one God, one people. He served his faith several years as an administrative assistant. In 1994, Clint survived a very serious farm tractor accident and God blessed his family to be able to share twenty-four additional years of his love and devotion. He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, brother and friend and shared a very special bond with his eight grandchildren.
In addition to is parents, he was preceded in death by one sister-in-law, Imogene Huffman Dye.
Survivors include his wife of forty-nine years, Nancy Herndon Dye of the home; three children, Valerie Christian and husband, Kevin of Honaker, Matthew Dye and wife, Courtney of Abingdon, and Ashley Price and husband, Kelvin of Lebanon; eight grandchildren, Hunter, Dalton, Colt, and Amber Christian, Keenan and Jaxon Dye, Gabriel Price, and Isaiah Leaman, whom he loved as one of his own; two brothers, Douglas Dye of Castlewood and Kevin Dye and wife, Lisa of Swords Creek; one sister, Brenda Dye and husband, Lynn of Bristol, Tennessee. Several nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins also survive.
A Baha’i ceremony and preparation for burial was conducted by Alfred Fox and Marcus Potts.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11:00 AM Sunday in the Honaker Funeral Home Chapel, Honaker, Virginia, with Rev. David Perkins and Rev. Edward Tiller officiating. Interment will follow in the Family Cemetery on Kent’s Ridge, Virginia.
Pallbearers will be Bobby Dye, Clark Dye, John Dye, Gordon Dye, Aaron Herndon, Cody Herndon and Josh Herndon.
The family will receive friends at the Honaker Funeral Home on Sunday from 10 AM until the funeral hour.
Contributions may be made in Clinton’s memory to one of his favorite charity organizations CARE, a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty; or please select a charity of your choice whose mission is to feed the hungry. Donations may be made by mail to: CARE Gift Center, P.O. Box 1870, Merrifield, Virginia 22116-8070; by phone at 1-800-521-CARE; or on the web at www.CARE.org.
Online condolences may be made at www.honakerfuneralhome.net.

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