Aberdeen – Lelia Ann Hardy Payne, 85, of Aberdeen, Ohio passed away on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at her residence. Mrs. Payne was the widow of Roland Payne who passed in 2015. She formerly was employed at US Shoe and Magee's Bakery and Lelia and Roland co-managed the Daniel Boone Motel for twenty-one years and later they co-managed Brown's Motel. Lelia was a member of the Central United Methodist Church and a graduate of Bracken County High School. She was born in Gertrude in Bracken County, Kentucky on May 30, 1936 the daughter of the late Samuel Kelsie Hardy and Alice Louise Marshall Hardy.

She is survived by her four children, Cheryl Ann (Bob) Clarke, Sandra Kay (Pat) Kimble, Barry Keith (Roxane) Payne and Lyndon Bryan Payne; eight  grandchildren, Michael Kimble, Jamin Payne, Alison Hancock, Kelsey Niedert, Andy Clarke, Jordan Payne, Brianna Payne and Haley Schroer; seven great grandchildren, Ansleigh, Kara, Andrew, Chloe, Wesley, Annie and Hazel and her sister-in-law, Mary Edith Griffith. Besides her husband and her parents, she was preceded in death by her two sisters, Irene Aulick and Wanda Ginn, her half-sister, Helen Hopkins and her half-brother, Roscoe Hardy.

Funeral services for Lelia Payne will be held at the Central United Methodist Church at 1:00 PM Friday, May 6, 2022 with Rev. Michael Sweeney and Rev. David Green officiating. Burial will follow in the Charter Oak Cemetery, Aberdeen, Ohio. Pallbearers will be Michael Kimble, Andy Clarke, Jordan Payne, Mark Schwenk, Chad Niedert, John Michael Schroer, Greg Owens and Joey Braughton. Visitation will be held at the church on Friday from 11:00 AM until the hour of the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Washington-Central United Methodist Church or to Hospice of Hope. Arrangements are entrusted to the Knox and Brothers Funeral Home. Condolences at knoxbrothersfuneralhome.com