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Kenneth "Boonie" Ray Fowler
May 28, 2016
Kenneth “Boonie” Ray Fowler, Jr., 42, of Leckie, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at his residence. He was the son of Kenneth Fowler Sr. and step mother Cricket of Pageton, West Virginia and his mother Shirley Woolridge and Step father Pete of Skygusty, West Virginia he was born on Thursday, December 06, 1973 in Welch, West...
Sherry Lynn Butt
May 28, 2016
Sherry Lynn Butt, 61, of John Butt Road Bluefield (Bluewell), West Virginia passed away on Saturday, May 28, 2016 at her residence. Sherry was born on December 11, 1954 in Bluefield, West Virginia to Doris Addison Butt and the late John Butt Jr. She was a graduate of Bramwell High School and attended Bramwell Presbyterian Church in Bramwell, West Virginia....
Anna Louise "Sally" Miller
May 26, 2016
Anna Louise Miller, 92, of New Hope Road (The Havens), Princeton and formerly of Lorton Lick Road, Bluewell, passed away on Thursday, May 26, 2016 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on July 21, 1923 in Welch, West Virginia, she was a daughter of the late William Isaac and Jinny Bell Spangler Harman. She had been a resident of Princeton for...
Melissa Price
May 25, 2016
Melissa F. Price, 50, of College Avenue, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA. Born on July 13, 1965 in Princeton, she was a daughter of the late Clinton Edward and Frances Lawson Witt. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 5 months and formerly of Falls Mills, VA...
Sandra Gail Barnes
May 21, 2016
Sandra Gail Barnes, 66, of Chicken Farm Road Bluefield, WV passed away on Saturday, May 21, 2016 at her residence. Sandra was born on October 07, 1949 in Anawalt, WV to the late George Rose Jr. and Sophia Mikels Rose. She had been a resident of Bluefield, WV for the past 19 years and attended Bluewell Church of God. In...
Fannie Tagnessi Rose
May 20, 2016
Fannie Tagnesi Rose, 83, of Vinton, VA formerly of Anawalt, WV passed away on Friday, May 20, 2016 at the Runk and Pratt Senior Living Communities in Hardy, VA. Born July 11, 1932 in McDowell, WV, she was a daughter of the late Joe and Katie Tagnesi. She retired from the McDowell County Courthouse in Welch and later from Fallen...
Ruth Gearheart
May 19, 2016
On May 19, 2016, God called an angel home. Ruth Magdelene Murray Gearheart, 66, of Grant St. Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Thursday at Princeton Community Hospital. Ruth was born on May 03, 1950 in Pearisburg, Virginia to the late John E. Murray and Elizabeth Ann Murray McGuire. She had been a resident of Bluefield, Virginia since 1997 and was...
Ella "Mae" Tabor
May 18, 2016
Ella “Mae” Tabor, 93, of Gallipolis, Ohio formerly of Coaldale, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at Holzer Senior Care in Gallipolis, Ohio. Mae was born on April 19, 1923 in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late Ervin and Wancy Sells Lambert. Mae loved to quilt and spend time at the beach. She was blessed in...
Joseph "Bennie" Hodges
May 17, 2016
Joseph “Bennie” Hodges lovingly known as PaPa, 74, of Laurel St. Bluefield, WV formerly of Crumpler, WV passed away on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Joseph was born on March 04, 1942 in McComas, WV to the late Andrew and Inez Hedrick Hodges. He was a retired coal miner and a member of the UMWA for...
Myrtle Ruth Hanshaw
May 17, 2016
Myrtle Ruth Hanshaw, 91, of Cassel's Board and Care in Princeton, West Virginia formerly of Bluewell, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, May 17, 2016 in Princeton, West Virginia at Castle Board and Care. Myrtle was born on February 19, 1925 to the late John W. Evans and Mollie Belle Smith Evans. She attended Mt. Herman Baptist Church and had...
Gary Alan Wimmer
May 15, 2016
Gary Alan Wimmer, 53, of Old Princeton Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, May 15, 2016 at his home. Born on August 10, 1962 in Bluefield, WV, he was a son of Donald Wimmer, Sr., of Bluefield, VA and the late Jane Ellen Meadows Wimmer. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 17 years and was a welder...
Keith Bradford Parks
May 14, 2016
Keith Bradford Parks, 63, of Cook Street, Mullens, passed away on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at his home. Born on December 25, 1952 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Margaret Davis Compton. He was a member of the Hotckiss Church of God. He was a graduate of Gary High School and received his BS in Education from...
Linda Sue Taylor
May 14, 2016
Linda Sue Taylor, 69, of Littlesburg Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Saturday, May 14, 2016 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on December 4, 1946 in Charleston, WV, she was the daughter of the late William Anderson “Doc” Parrish and Myrtle Parrish. She had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield for 9 years, attended the Church of God, and was...
Heather Nicole Meadows
May 12, 2016
Heather Nicole Meadows, 29, of Glenwood Haven Road Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, May 12, 2016 at Hialeah Hospital in Hialeah, Florida. Heather was born on Monday, June 02, 1986 in Princeton, West Virginia to Reginald and Tammy Robertson Meadows. Heather had been a lifelong resident of Mercer County and had resided in Glenwood for the past ten...
Edward Wayne Pugh
May 10, 2016
Edward Wayne Pugh, 54, of Jenkinjones Mtn. Road, Anawalt, passed away on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at Princeton Community Hospital. “I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the Faith” II Tim 4:7 Born on January 21, 1962 in Welch, he was a son of Rosie Holifield Pugh of Anawalt and the late Robert...
Sadie Ethel Bailey
May 6, 2016
Sadie Ethel Bailey, 90, of Post Road, Falls Mills, VA, passed away on Friday, May 6, 2016 at Heritage Hall in Tazewell, VA. Born on August 3, 1925 in Algoma, WV, she was a daughter of the late John and Mary Lambert Workman. She had been a resident of Falls Mills for 16 years and was a member of the...
Evelyn "Doopie" Arnetta Hopkins
May 1, 2016
Evelyn Arnetta “Doopie” Hopkins, 98, of Roanoke, Virginia formerly of Bluewell, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, May 01, 2016 at Raleigh Court Health & Rehabilitation Center in Roanoke, Virginia. Evelyn was born on October 14, 1917 at Fall River in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late Vent Elbert Hopkins and Jessie Grant Hopkins. She was a graduate of...
Angela Marie Baker Stanley Gillispie
Apr 27, 2016
Angela Marie Baker Stanley Gillispie, 40, of Lashmeet, WV went to be with her dad Moury Owen Baker, granddaughter Joshlynn Brook Lester, step granddaughter Kimberly Gillispie as well as her Uncles, Aunts and cousins on Wednesday, April 27, 2016 to live out her name Angel. Angela was born on Thursday, December 11, 1975 in Bluefield, WV to Billie Robertson Baker...
Mary Bell Tabor
Apr 24, 2016
Mary Bell Bowman Tabor, 83, of Idle Acres Drive (Brushfork), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, April 24, 2016 at Cassell’s Board and Care in Princeton. Born on August 3, 1932 in Tazewell, VA, she was a daughter of the late Howard Lane and Mary Leo Hash Bowman. She had been a resident of Brushfork for 62 years and was...
Kimberly Marie Frazier
Apr 21, 2016
Kimberly Marie Frazier, age 51, of Meadow Lane Loop, Bluefield, WV, formerly of Northfork, died on Thursday, April 21, 2016 at Lewis-Gale Medical Center in Salem, VA. Kimberly was born on February 08, 1965 in Bluefield, WV to Norma Perkins Shrader of Montcalm, West Virginia and the late Jimmie Shrader. She had been a resident of Bluefield for the past...
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