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Leon Robert Garvin, Jr.
Jul 22, 2015
Leon Robert Garvin, Jr., age 69, of Alvis Road, Princeton, WV died on Wednesday July 22, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on September 26, 1945 in Abilene, Texas, he was a son of the late Leon Robert Garvin, Sr. and Lessie Blackerby Garvin. He was a veteran of the Vietnam Conflict having served in the US Navy. He had...
Anthony Ray Amborn
Jul 16, 2015
Anthony Ray Amborn, 58, of Browning Lambert Mountain Road, Rock, WV, passed away on Thursday, July 16, 2015 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. Born on May 7, 1957 in Rock, he was a son of Theron and Yvonne Pigg Amborn of Michigan City, In. He had been a lifelong resident of Rock and was a member of the Mt....
Laura Joan Griffith
Jul 16, 2015
Laura Joan Griffith 53 of Idle Acres Road Bluefield, WV passed away on Thursday, July 16, 2015 in Tybee Island, GA. Laura was born on January 29, 1962 in Gouverneur, New York to the late David F. and Lilly Roland Griffith. She had been a resident of Bluefield since 1978 and was a member of the Catholic Church. She is...
Jacob DeWayne Davidson
Jul 14, 2015
Jacob DeWayne Davidson, 34, of Wilderness Road, Bland, VA, passed away on Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at his home. Born on July 3, 1981 in Hinesville, GA, he was a son of Mark Anthony Davidson, Sr. and Katrina Ann Linkous Davidson. He had been a resident of Bland for 2 years and was self-employed. He was preceded in death by...
Adele Wright
Jul 11, 2015
Adele Mara Wright, 66, of Rock, passed away on Saturday, July 11, 2015 at her home. Born on January 15, 1949 in Bramwell, she was a daughter of the late Cletus E. and Mable L. Bailey Woods. She had been a resident of Rock for 15 years and was a member of the Deliverance Temple Church. She was a homemaker....
Helen "Libbie" Angles
Jul 11, 2015
Helen “Libbie” Angles, age 51, of Price Street, Bluefield, VA joined GOD’S Angels on Saturday, July 11, 2015. Born on December 8, 1963 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Bertha Horne Honaker. She worked at Joy Global Corporation in Bluefield, VA and had attended the Midway Church of Christ. She was a loving and devoted...
Lesly "Toejoe" Joe Hicks
Jul 10, 2015
Lesly “Toejoe” Joe Hicks 38 of Montcalm, WV passed away on July 10, 2015. Lesly was born on October 10, 1976 in Bluefield, WV to Tony and Tammy McNaught Hicks. Lesly had been a resident of Montcalm for the past 11 years. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents Sherman and Ruth Hicks and maternal grandparents Al and...
Joseph Dean Hicks
Jul 10, 2015
Joseph Dean Hicks 52 of Montcalm passed away on July 10, 2015 at a residence in Montcalm. Joseph was born on March 25, 1963 in Chicago, IL to the late Sherman and Ruth Spicer Hicks. He was a former employee of Georgia Pacific as an equipment operator. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife...
Gwyneth Green
Jul 10, 2015
Gwyneth Mae Green, 48, of Union Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, July 10, 2015 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on May 19, 1967 in Inglewood, NJ, she was a daughter of Hershell Eugene Key of Anawalt and Betty A. Akers Hawkins of Bluefield. She had been a resident of Bluefield since 1989 and was a homemaker. She...
Eppie Mae Steele Sullivan
Jul 9, 2015
Eppie Mae Cook Steele Sullivan, 57, of Edgewood Road Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Thursday, July 09, 2015 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg, Virginia. Eppie was born on April 07, 1958 in Pontiac, Michigan to the late Lewis (L.B.) and Irma Stacy Cook. She was a longtime resident of Bluefield, Virginia moving here in 1971. She had also be...
James Reece Asbury, Sr.
Jul 8, 2015
James Reece “Greek” Asbury, Sr., 88, of Clovis Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at the Bowers Hospice House in Beckley. Born on July 7, 1927 in Tazewell, VA, he was a son of the late Charles and Emma Lou Waddell Asbury. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 35 years and was a member...
Johnny Ray Helmandollar
Jul 7, 2015
Johnny Ray Helmandollar 69, of New Hope Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at Glenwood Retirement Village in Glenwood, West Virginia. Johnny was born on June 28, 1946 in Pageton, West Virginia to the late Ray R. and Virginia Conlee Helmandollar. Johnny worked as a Carpenter, Truck driver and coal miner in his life. He...
Dorothy Irene McCartney
Jul 6, 2015
Dorothy Irene McCartney, 80, of Carswell Hollow Kimball, West Virginia passed away on July 06, 2015 at her home. Dorothy was born on July 09, 1934 in Ieager, West Virginia to the late Henry and Gladys Wickey Howard. She was of the Pentecostal faith and had been a resident of Kimball for the past 22 years. In addition to her...
Steven Gregory Privett
Jul 5, 2015
Steven Gregory Privett, 17, lifelong resident of Sandlick Road, Glenwood, went home with Jesus Tuesday, July 5, 2015. He was welcomed by his grandfathers, Charles Junior Privett and Michael Dean Lopinsky, his aunt, Barbara Ann Waddell, and his uncle, Charles David Privett. Continuing his legacy are his parents Steven Wayne Privett and Anne Lopinsky; sisters, Kimberly Privett and Karissa Dunn;...
Sally Ellen Overbaugh
Jul 5, 2015
ROCK — Sally Ellen Overbaugh, 89, of Black Oak Road, Rock, WV, passed away on Sunday, July 5, 2015 at her home. Born on September 5, 1925 in Thorpe, she was a daughter of the late Crockett and Louella Jarrett Presley. She had been a resident of Rock for 68 years and was a member of the Rock United Methodist...
Lois E. Cumby Brown
Jul 2, 2015
Lois E. Cumby Brown, 84, went to her heavenly home with her family by her side in her home after a long illness on Thursday, July 02, 2015. She was born on December 22, 1930 in Falls Mills, VA to the late Arthur and Christine Wimmer. She was a dedicated wife and mother. Lois retired from BRMC in 1995 where...
William Thomas Vernon
Jun 29, 2015
William T. “Tommy” Vernon, Jr., age 77, of Valley Dale Street, Bluefield, VA died on Monday, June 29, 2015 at his home. Born on December 5, 1937 in Marion, VA, he was a son of the late William T. Vernon, Sr. and Essie Anderson Vernon. He was a graduate of Wytheville Community College and was retired from the US Air...
Harry Nathan Short
Jun 29, 2015
Harry Nathan Short 87, of Woodbridge, VA formerly of McComas, WV passed away on Monday, June 29, 2015 at Sentara Hospital in Woodbridge, VA. Harry was born on March 07, 1928 in McComas, WV to the late George and Mary Gregory Short. Harry has been a resident of Woodbridge since around 1960 and worked for 40 years as route driver...
Kathleen Carrier Bell
Jun 28, 2015
Kathleen Carrier Bell, 90, of South Upshur St. Bluefield, WV passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Kathleen was born on December 21, 1925 in Pocahontas, Virginia to the late Frank and Pearl Carrier. Kathleen was a waitress and a homemaker. She was a member of the Brushfork Church of God. In...
Barbara Alice Belcher
Jun 27, 2015
Barbara Alice Belcher, 75, of Welch, West Virginia went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, June 27, 2015 at her residence after a long illness. She was born on February 17, 1940 in Eureka Hollow, Eckman, WV, a daughter of the late Joseph "Simon" and Femie Mitchem. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Gladys Turpin, Virginia...
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