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Kenneth Ray Miller, Sr.
Oct 5, 2015
Kenneth Ray Miller, Sr., 72, of Sigmon Road, Camp Creek, WV, passed away on Monday, October 5, 2015 at his home. Born on March 4, 1943 in Jenkinjones, he was a son of the late Howard Joseph and Violet Pearl Miller Miller. He had been previously been a resident of Anawalt for 37 years and was a retired coal miner...
Ida Mae Clay
Oct 4, 2015
Ida Mae Clay, 81, of Jake Street, Montcalm, passed away on Sunday, October 4, 2015 at her home. Born on May 6, 1934 in Montcalm, she was a daughter of the late Samuel and Ellie Hamblin Sublett. She had been a lifelong resident of Montcalm and was retired from the housekeeping department at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. She was a...
June D. Walker
Oct 3, 2015
June D. Walker, age 71, of Grand Central Avenue, Ripley, WV died on Saturday, October 3, 2015 at Jackson General Hospital in Ripley. Born in Jenkinjones West Virginia on December 21, 1943 passed away on October 3, 2015 at 1pm. He was preceded in death by his father, John Ivory Walker, mother Della Lockey Walker, twin brother Raymond Walker, sister-in-law...
Richard Small Sr.
Oct 1, 2015
Richard Small, Sr., 92, of Leonard Avenue, Newton, NC and formerly of Pageton, passed away on Thursday, October 1, 2015 at a Hickory, NC hospital. Born on June 8, 1923 in Inez, KY, he was a son of the late Frank and Sadie Preece Small. He had been a resident of NC for 5 years and was a member of...
Eddie Charles Fowler
Sep 19, 2015
Eddie Charles Fowler, age 35, of Armory Road, Bluefield, WV (Brushfork) died on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at the Emogene Dolin Jones Hospice House in Huntington, WV. Born on May 18, 1950 in Bluefield, he was a son of Elizabeth May Fowler of Bluefield, WV and the late Everette Charles Brown. He had formerly lived in Coaldale and Bramwell. He...
Girlie Ramsey
Sep 18, 2015
Girlie Ramsey, age 93, of Bluefield, West Virginia, made her transition on Friday night, September 18, 2015 at Mercer Nursing & Rehab Center in Bluefield. Girlie was born on May 19, 1922 in Boyd, Alabama to the late Nettie Bell Clements. She grew up in Boyd and was educated in the Boyd public school system. Girlie accepted Christ at an...
Duane L. Davis
Sep 15, 2015
Duane L. Davis, 78, of Fincastle Lane, Bluefield, Virginia died Tuesday September 15, 2015 at the Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, West Virginia. Born May 10, 1937 in Peterstown, West Virginia, he was the son of John J. Davis and Evelyn Bower Davis. Duane was a graduate of West Virginia Business College and the West Virginia School of Banking. He...
Mary Jewell Hall
Sep 13, 2015
Mary Jewell Hall, 68, of Airport Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, September 13, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on December 29, 1946 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Woodrow Wilson and Rachel Rose Broomfield. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 10 years and attended the Church of God. She was a...
Ricky Allan Dillon
Sep 12, 2015
Ricky Allan Dillon 56 of Princeton, WV formerly of Welch, WV and Mt. Airy, NC passed away on Saturday, September 12, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Ricky was born on April 30, 1959 in Welch, WV to Frankie Hall Dillon and the late Claude "Poss" Dillon. Ricky had been a resident of Princeton for the past two months and served...
Roger Dale Hensley
Sep 11, 2015
Roger Dale Hensley of Fern St. Princeton, WV passed away peacefully on the morning of Friday, September 11, 2015 at 3:30 am of a terminal illness. Roger was comforted by family and friends at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. At the time of his passing, Roger was 48 years old. Roger was born in Gallipolis, Ohio on December...
Barbara Ann Williams Dunn
Sep 7, 2015
Barbara Ann Williams Dunn, 60, of Tabernacle Hill, Montcalm, died Monday, September 7, 2015 at her home. Barbara was born June 19, 1955 and was the daughter of the late Dorothy P. Williams Graham and Harry R. Williams. She was also preceded in death by brothers, Randy and David Williams; sisters, Kathy Faulkner, Tonya Williams and Rhonda Sue Graham and...
Virginia "Nanny" Mae Buckner
Sep 3, 2015
Virginia Mae “Nanny” Buckner 92 of Bluewell, WV passed away on Thursday, September 03, 2015 at her residence surrounded by her family. Virginia was born on September 04, 1922 in Bramwell, WV to the late Booker Jones Hill and Mary Wasco Hill. Virginia had been a resident of Bluewell for the past 40 years. She was of the Pentecostal Holiness...
Stephen Michael Ashley
Sep 2, 2015
Stephen Michael Ashley 49 of Pleasant Valley Drive Princeton, WV passed away on Wednesday, September 02, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Stephen was born on April 16, 1966 in Welch, WV to Ruby Muncy Ashley Craft of Princeton, WV and the late Joe Ashley, Jr. He was a graduate of Mt. View High School in Welch, WV as was of...
Lee Grat Butt
Sep 1, 2015
Lee Grat Butt, 90, of Longview Avenue, Bluefield, WV, passed away Tuesday, September 1, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 24, 1925 in Nemours, he was son of the late Grat W. and Pearlie Odell Phillips Butt. He had been a resident of Bluefield since 1979 and was a member of the Mt. Herman Baptist Church in...
James Everette Wimmer
Aug 31, 2015
James Everette Wimmer, 81, of Prater Hollow Road, Falls Mills, VA, passed away Monday, August 31, 2015 at his home. Born on August 24, 1934 in Falls Mills, VA, he was a son of late Arthur and Stacy Christine Danley Wimmer. He had been a resident of Falls Mills his entire life and was a member of the Voice of...
Samantha Nicole Harris
Aug 31, 2015
Samantha Nicole Harris, 21, of Huntington, WV, formerly of Montcalm, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2015 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital from results sustained in an ATV accident. Born on September 25, 1993 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of Michael Harris of Raven, VA and Jennifer Miller Harris of Huntington. She had lived in Mercer County most of her...
Sarah "Jane" Shrader
Aug 28, 2015
Sarah Jane Holbrook Shrader, 67, of Nemours Valley Road, Bluefield, WV, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Friday, August 28, 2015 at the UVA Medical Center in Charlottesville, VA. Jane was born on August 8, 1948 in Bluefield, to the late Curtis Madison Holbrook, Sr. and Mary Belle Brewer Holbrook. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and friend....
Frankie Rocchetti
Aug 25, 2015
Francesco (Frankie) Rocchetti, age 85, of Crumpler, WV, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on September 21, 1929 at Crumpler, he was the son of the late Mariano and Maria Giuliani Rocchetti. He was a lifelong member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Powhatan. He was a disabled coal miner and inventor to...
John Delida
Aug 23, 2015
John Richard Delida, 88, of Duck Pond Road (Bluewell), Bluefield, passed away Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. He had most recently been a resident of the Mercer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center for the last 5 years. Born on April 17, 1927 in Elkhorn, he was a son of the late Luke and Mary Semonco Delida. He...
Rosa Ellen Hendrick
Aug 23, 2015
Proverbs 31:28, “Her children arise up and call her blessed.” Rosa Ellen Hendrick, 85, of Pinnacle lake Road, Bluefield, WV, peacefully departed this life on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at Princeton Health Care with her family by her bedside. Rosa was born in Horsepen, VA on May 7, 1930 to the late Charles and Jenny Matthews Myers. She had lived...
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