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Richard Lee Shrader
Aug 11, 2017
Richard Lee Shrader, age 85, of Countryside Road, Princeton, WV (Maple Acres) died on Friday, August 11, 2017 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on October 17, 1931 in Bluewell, he was a son of the late Howard Freeman and Martha Ayers Shrader. He was resident of Mercer County his entire life and was a faithful member of New Salem United...
Barbara Ann Rorrer Hylton
Aug 11, 2017
Barbara Ann Rorrer Hylton, 77, of City View Heights Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Friday, August 11, 2017 at her residence. Barbara was born on July 9, 1940 in Crumpler, West Virginia to the late Homer and Bertha Cochran Rorrer. She had been a resident of Princeton, West Virginia for the past twenty one years. In addition to her...
Delana Sutphin Gibson
Aug 11, 2017
Delana Sutphin Gibson of Brushfork School Road, Bluefield, WV, died peacefully at her home on Friday, August 11, 2017. She was born August 4, 1943, in Bluefield, WV, to the late James Harold and Eva Goforth Sutphin and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. She was a graduate of Bluefield High School, Bluefield Business College, and...
Alton Warren Callahan, Jr.
Aug 8, 2017
Alton Warren Callahan, Jr., 61, of Premier, WV, passed away on August 8, 2017. Born on July 8, 1956 in Bluefield, WV, he was a son of the late Alton Callahan, Sr. and Hazel McCormick Callahan. He had lived in McDowell county his entire life and was a retired coal miner. Private funeral services will be conducted and burial will...
John Anderson Presley
Aug 7, 2017
John Anderson Presley, 89, Ball Field Road Anawalt, West Virginia passed away August 07, 2017 in McDowell Continuous Care in Gary, West Virginia. John was born December 25, 1927 in Jenkinjones, West Virginia to the late Alex Presley and Clida Mae Dillon Presley. He had been a lifelong resident of Anawalt, West Virginia. He was an avid gun collector and...
Sharon Ethel Musick
Aug 7, 2017
Sharon Ethel Musick, 53, of Maybeury, West Virginia passed away on Monday, August 07, 2017 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia.Sharon was born on May 18, 1964 in Bluefield, West Virginia to the late Aubrey and Wanda Burnopp Seay. She had been a lifelong resident of Maybeury and was a member of the Maybeury Church of God....
Alvin Eugene Chilco
Aug 6, 2017
Alvin Eugene Chilco, 75, of Eleanor, West Virginia formerly of Bluewell, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, August 06, 2017 at his residence. Alvin was born on June 20, 1942 in Freeman, West Virginia to Zenith Byrd Chilco of Bluewell, WV and the late Andrew “Chic” Chilco. Alvin was a member of the Bluewell United Methodist Church and a former...
Wanda Hoback Ferguson
Aug 6, 2017
Wanda Hoback Ferguson, 71, of Wright Road Thomasville, North Carolina formerly of Anawalt, West Virginia passed away Sunday, August 06, 2017 at Forsythe Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Wanda was born on May 27, 1946 in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late William Hoback and Mildred Rose Wooldridge. She had been a resident of North Carolina for the...
Bonnie Lee Caudill
Aug 4, 2017
Bonnie Lee Caudill, 68, of Willowbrook Road Princeton, West Virginia departed this life following an extended illness on Friday, August 04, 2017. She was born on February 23, 1949 in Hazard, Kentucky to Gerri Smith Reynolds and the late Fred Reynolds. In addition to her father she was preceded in death by her former husband and father to their three...
Juanita Amos
Jul 29, 2017
BLUEFIELD, WV – Juanita Amos, 91, passed away July 29, 2017 at Mercer Nursing Home. Mrs. Amos was born to the late Preston and Vivian Simpkins on May 29, 1926. She was also preceded in death by husbands Charles A. Farley, Cecil E. Amos and twelve brothers and sisters. She attended the Bluefield Church of Christ and was retired from...
Earnest Walter Mitchell
Jul 28, 2017
Earnest Walter Mitchell, 75, of Packing Plant Road Bluefield, WV passed away on Friday, July 28, 2017 at his residence. Earnest was born on February 28, 1942 in Mercer County West Virginia to the late Howard W. Mitchell and Bessie Shrader Mitchell. Earnest had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield, West Virginia and was a self-employed jack of all trades. ...
Anne Lambert
Jul 27, 2017
On Thursday, July 27, 2017 our dear mother, Anne Mae Lambert, of Bramwell, left the earth to be with the LORD. She will be greatly missed. A private service was held on Monday, July 31, 2017 to honor her memory.
Richard Eugene Bailey
Jul 26, 2017
Richard Eugene (Gene) Bailey, of Holden Beach, NC formerly of Pageton, WV died peacefully on Wednesday, July 26, 2017 surrounded by his loving family. Affectionately known as Beetle he was born February 26, 1929 in Goodwill, West Virginia in Mercer County the son of the late Mary Bane Arrington Bailey and Hector Bryan Bailey. He worked in the coal mining...
Carl Junior Sayers
Jul 25, 2017
Carl Junior Sayers, 60, of Lashmeet, West Virginia passed on Tuesday, July 25, 2017 from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident. Carl was born on March 17, 1957 in Michigan to the late Carl Wycliff Sayers and Marie Moore Sayers. He had been a resident of Lashmeet for the past ten years and attended the Church of God. Carl was...
Rosemarie Therese Giles
Jul 22, 2017
ROSEMARIE THERESE GILES, 87 passed away July 22, 2017. She was born on November 23, 1929 in Defiance, IA, to parents, Arnold Mengwasser and Margaret (Luecke) Mengwasser of Jefferson City, Mo., and Rich Fountain, MO. She was married on November 22, 1958 in Chicago, IL to MSGT Richard Eugene Giles (divorced 1972). She leaves her daughter, Debra Leigh (Giles) Bisaha...
Lucille Riddle
Jul 22, 2017
May your right hand always be stretched out for giving and friendship and never in want. --An Irish Blessing Lucille Bryant Riddle, age 95, of Bluewell, died peacefully on July 22, 2017 surrounded by her loving family. She was born June 7, 1922 near Montcalm, the daughter of Oliver Taylor and Martha Scott Taylor. In addition to her parents, she...
Bonita Ann Searle
Jul 18, 2017
Bonita Ann Searle, 52 of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, July 18, 2017 at The Maples Nursing Home after an extended illness. Bonita was born on December 08, 1964 in Harrisonburg, Pennsylvania. She had been a resident of Bluefield, West Virginia for the past six years. She was a member of the Salvation Army Citadel in Bluefield, West...
Mildred Kincaid Cornett
Jul 16, 2017
Mildred Kincaid Cornett, age 92, of Falls Mills, VA, passed away peacefully Sunday July 16, 2017 at her daughter's home in Pounding Mill, VA. She was born in Beckley, WV on December 13, 1924. She married Calvin Mack Cornett of Crumpler, WV in 1944. She was a member of the Northfork Baptist Church in Northfork WV and was also a...
Marvin Eugene Edwards
Jul 15, 2017
Marvin Eugene Edwards, 85, of Derby Lane, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Saturday, July 15, 2017 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on February 11, 1932 in Gap Mills, VA, he was a son of the late Fulton and Pearl Mae Hunnel Edwards. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 28 years and was a retired veteran of the US...
Willie David Havens
Jul 13, 2017
Willie David Havens, 37, of Sandlick Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, July 13, 2017 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on February 27, 1980 in Princeton, he was a son of David Havens of Rock and Rhonda Harding of Old Fort, NC. He had been a lifelong resident of Sandlick and was a graduate of Montcalm High School....
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