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Donald Eugene Helmondollar
Jun 28, 2018
Donald Eugene Helmondollar, 86, of Lorton Lick Road, Bluefield, WV passed away on Thursday, June 28, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital. He was born November 18, 1931 at Squire, WV, the son of the late Jim Ed and Ruby Grace Helmondollar.Don worked for Coppinger Machinery Service for 28.5 years as a purchasing agent and EimCo Coal for 12 years, both...
Melanie Scott Proffitt
Jun 27, 2018
Melanie Scott Proffitt, 45, of Bluefield, passed away on Wednesday, June 27, 2018. Born on May 29, 1973 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of Jimmy and Connie Scott of Bluefield. She worked at the Maples Nursing Home. She enjoyed reading and had a love for cats. She loved family get-togethers and will be greatly missed by all.She was preceded...
James (Jimmy) Brown, Jr.
Jun 26, 2018
James “Jimmy” Brown, Jr., 55 of Athens, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital. Jimmy was born on March 21, 1963 in Welch, West Virginia to the late James Frank Brown Sr. and Thelma Day Brown. Jimmy was a graduate of Montcalm High School and was of the Baptist faith. He had been a...
Jean Ann Wilmer
Jun 25, 2018
Jean Ann Wilmer, 85, went to be with her Lord and Savior on June 25, 2018. She joined her husband in Heaven while at home surrounded by her family.Mrs. Wilmer was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1932. She was the child of Nora Lee Hager and James Robert Hager. She married the love of her life, Edward Sandidge Wilmer,...
Marvin Byrd, Jr.
Jun 20, 2018
Born November 27, 1941 in Pocahontas, VaDied June 20, 2018 at home in Lerona, WVParents : Marvin Byrd and Lottie ByrdHe was the last surviving member of his family. He has gone on to rejoin all of his friends and family. He is survived by : Two sons, Cory Byrd of Princeton, Wv and Larry Baker of Delbarton, Wv. Two...
Raymond Eugene Knuckles, Sr.
Jun 18, 2018
Raymond Eugene Knuckles, Sr., 69, of Old Simmons Road, Maybeury, WV, passed away on Monday, June 18, 2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.Born on June 16, 1949 in McDowell County, he was a son of the late Dewey and Opal Cochran Knuckles. He had been a resident of Maybeury for 40 years and was a member of the Old Regular Baptist...
Deborah Faye Stacy
Jun 16, 2018
Deborah Faye Stacy 58 of Tazewell, Virginia passed away suddenly at Bristol Regional Medical Center on Saturday, June 16, 2018.Deborah was born on January 5, 1960 in Tazewell, Virginia at the Jeffersonville Sanatorium to Roy Leon Watson of Bluefield, WV and Shirley Ann Flanagin Horne of Tazewell, VA. Deborah was a lifelong resident of Tazewell, County Virginia. She was a...
Trudy Elizabeth Brewer
Jun 16, 2018
Trudy Elizabeth Brewer, 71, of Princeton, WV, passed away on Saturday, June 16, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born on May 1, 1947 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late James Mason Meadows and Crystal Blanche Meadows. She had been a resident of Princeton for 7 years and was of the Baptist faith. She was a homemaker.In addition to...
Elizabeth Mae Fowler
Jun 15, 2018
Elizabeth Mae Fowler, 54, of Armory Road, Bluefield, formerly of Bramwell, passed away on Friday, June 15, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on March 24, 1964 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of Frankie Lane and Helen Fowler. She had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Carol Jean Cartwright
Jun 15, 2018
Carol Jean Cartwright, 85, of Hemlock Hill, Bluefield, passed away on Friday, June 15, 2018 at her home,Born on October 7, 1932 in Pocahontas, VA, she was a daughter of the late Duff and Evelyn Thompson Slagle. She had formerly lived in Leckie but had lived the past 11 years in Bluefield. She was a member of the Leckie Pentecostal...
Frances Junette Dinger
Jun 14, 2018
Frances Junette Stacy Dinger, of 900 Holston Rd., Carrington Place, Wytheville, VA departed this earth Thursday, June 14, 2018 to be with her Lord Jesus Christ.
Born February 16, 1931 in Bland VA, she was a daughter of the late E.H. (Jack) Stacy and Minnie Pauley Stacy. She lived on Littlesburg Rd. from the age of 5 until the passing...
Julius Zigman Kish
Jun 12, 2018
Julius Zigman Kish, 98, of Bluefield, passed away on Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at Radford Health and Rehab. Born on May 2, 1920 in Thorpe, he was a son of the late Andrew and Helen Kinder Kish. He was a former resident of Thorpe before moving to Bluefield. He was a former coal miner having worked for 23 years and...
Nellie Lee Powers
Jun 11, 2018
As the sun shone bright through the clouds and the birds sang outside her window, our precious, brave, beautiful mother and grandmother Nellie Lee Powers grew her wings and flew from this world bound for her heavenly home on Monday, June 11, 2018 surrounded by the ones she loved the most at her son’s home in Berwind, West Virginia. Nellie...
Ernest Alvin Combs
Jun 7, 2018
Ernest Alvin “Ernie” Combs, 63, of Sandlick Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, June 7, 2018 at his home. Born on February 14, 1955 in Princeton, he was a son of the late Charles Edward and Juanita Ball Combs. He had been a lifelong resident of Sandlick and was a “jack of all trades”. He was a truck driver,...
Patricia Ruth Church
Jun 3, 2018
Patricia Ruth Church, 68, of Tank Hollow Road, Bluefield, passed away on Sunday, June 3, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born on August 27, 1949 in Herndon, WV, she was a daughter of the late Eulas and Hazel Taylor Michem Asbury. She had been a resident of Bluefield since 2001 and was the former owner of Pat’s Video Store in Northfork.In...
Dorothy Louise Calfee
Jun 2, 2018
Dorothy Louise Calfee, 88, of Nichols Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, June 02, 2018 at her residence. Dorothy was born on February 24, 1930 in Pageton, West Virginia to the late James Glenn Steelman and Mattie Osborne Steelman. Dorothy had been a resident of Bluefield, West Virginia for the past 66 years. She was a former member...
Wendell Kent Russell, Jr.
Jun 1, 2018
Wendell Kent Russell, Jr., 33, of Jerico Lane, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, June 1, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on July 27, 1984 in Bluefield. He had been a lifelong resident of McDowell County and was a welder and fabricator by trade.He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, John Russell.Survivors include:Parents: Tim and Robin Reed...
Gertrude Emma Smith
Jun 1, 2018
Gertrude Emma Smith, 82, of Falls Mills, VA, passed away June 01, 2018. Born in Matoaka, WV, she was the daughter of the late Jules and Fannie Pennington Stassin. She was a Homemaker and her special love was the two grandchildren she helped raise, Taylor Ruble and Tanner Pensula.In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her,...
Phyllis Gail Gibson
Jun 1, 2018
Phyllis Gail Gibson, 79, of Coal Heritage Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Friday, June 01, 2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. Phyllis was born on Monday, September 05, 1938 in McComas, West Virginia to the late Avron V. “A.V.” Gibson and Marguerite Wagner Gibson. Phyllis had been a resident of Bluefield since 1958 and was a...
Lillis Ashbrook
May 29, 2018
TITUSVILLE, FL- Lillis L. Sadler (Jarvis) Ashbrook, 84 of Titusville, FL passed away at her daughter's home on Tuesday, May 29, 2018 following a long battle with Parkinson’s.
Lillis was born Sept 19, 1933 and was the daughter of the late Talmage and Ida Sadler of Leckie, WV. She was a member of Gist Creek Baptist Church, Sevierville,...
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