 July is going to be hotter than ever because you get up to $50 off any smartphone at Appalachian Wireless to your agreement required. Better service, bigger savings, that's today's Appalachian Wireless and East Kentucky Network Company. Pike County Board of Education member Kenneth C. B. Billiter served as the representative for the Phelps area since 2013. He died at Pikeville Medical Center Tuesday, July 4th after suffering an apparent medical condition earlier in the day. Billiter and current Pike County Board Chairman Justin Maynard began serving at the same time. Now Maynard is remembering Billiter as not only a colleague, but as a friend whose heart was in the right place. Mr. Billiter was more than a board member. He was my friend and he always wanted to do the right thing. I never questioned that in him. He made it fun to be here and it's going to be hard coming into a board meeting and not seeing him there. Billiter had previously worked for the Pike County School District, serving separately as food service director and as transportation director. During his time on the board, he and Maynard pushed for years for a forensic audit of the school district. Maynard said Billiter was constantly motivated by a desire to do what he thought was right, not for himself, but for the school district he served. That included the difficult decision to close Majestic Knox Creek Elementary School, a school to which Billiter had very close ties. He would always ask how many people are for the right thing and he said, you know, everybody will raise their hand. He said, now how many people are here for the right thing as long as it doesn't affect me? He said, that's when it matters. Those votes don't come easy. You know, it's not easy to set up here and make a vote like that. Particularly to make a motion such as that in your own area and he did it and that's just tough and that's the quality I'm talking about. It's just, he did what he thought was right and he always did what he thought was right. Kenneth C.B. Billiter leaves behind a brother, a sister and his mother, Bobby. He was 57. In Pike County, Chris Anderson, EKB News.