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Martha Jane Kinder
Sep 2, 2013
Martha Jane Kinder 85 of Jewell Ridge, Virginia passed away on Monday, September 02, 2013 at Westwood Health Care in Bluefield, Virginia. Martha was born on Sunday, February 12, 1928 in Pickshin, West Virginia to the late Lee Bascom and Dillie F. Cressell Lyons. Martha had been a lifelong resident of Jewell Ridge, Virginia and was of the Pentecostal Holiness...
Gloria Ann Clower
Sep 1, 2013
Gloria Ann Clower, 72, of Tabernacle Hill, Montcalm, passed away on Sunday, September 1, 2013 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital with a beautiful smile on her face from this life into the loving arms of her Savior Jesus, surrounded by family that love and will miss her so very much. Born on September 7, 1940 in Piedmont, WV, she was a...
Mable Louise Allen Sorah
Aug 28, 2013
Kingsport – Mable Louise Allen Sorah of Kingsport, Tennessee formerly of Coopers, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at her home. Mable was born on April 21, 1920 in Bluestone, West Virginia to the late Noel Tarney Adams and Gertrude Byrd Adams. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her first husband, William...
Jeffrey Clark Watkins
Aug 25, 2013
On August 25, 2013, Jeffrey Clark Watkins, of Duck Pond Road (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, went to be with the Lord. After a 2 year battle with cancer, he will suffer no more. Born on August 2, 1963 in Bluefield, he was a son of Frances Burks Watkins of Bluefield and the late Nathaniel Watkins. He attended the Deliverance Temple Church...
Burnie Fletcher Wyatt
Aug 25, 2013
Burnie Fletcher Wyatt, 71, of Beauty Lane (Montcalm), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield. Born on February 28, 1942 in Trailee, he was a son of the late Granville and Mae Fair Wyatt. He had been a resident of Montcalm for 17 years and attended the Cornerstone Family Church. He...
Rita Jo Taylor
Aug 24, 2013
Rita Jo Taylor 73 of Dinger Road Bluefield, WV passed away on Saturday, August 24, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Rita was born on September 06, 1939 in Lorain, Ohio to the late Albert Thompson and Lillian Vanessa Fernier Thompson. She had been a resident of Bluefield for the past 23 years. In addition to her...
Madeline Margaret Hart
Aug 24, 2013
Madeline Margaret Hart 87 of Windmill Gap Road (Windmill Gap) Rock, WV. passed away on Saturday, August 24, 2013 at Princeton Health Care Center in Princeton, WV. Madeline was born on June 11, 1926 in Bristol, VA to the late William and Martha Paige Bevins. She had been a resident of Windmill Gap, WV for the past 50 years and...
James Edward Woods
Aug 23, 2013
James Edward Woods 73 of Brushfork Road Bluefield, WV passed away on Friday, August 23, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, WV. James was born on November 12, 1939 in Kyle, WV to the late Henry Stewart and Leona Mutter Woods. He was retired having worked at R&T Electric, Smith Services and National Coil. James had been a resident...
Mildred Pauline Dale
Aug 19, 2013
Mildred Pauline Kennedy Dale, 80, of Packing Plant Road (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, August 19, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on December 24, 1932 in Iaeger, she was a daughter of the late Henry and Sarah Marie Blankenship Kennedy. She had lived in Bluewell since 1989 and was of the Church of God faith. She...
Mary Belcher
Aug 19, 2013
Mary Adaline Taylor Belcher passed away on August 19, 2013 at the South Roanoke Nursing Home, Roanoke, Virginia. She was born in Craig County, Virginia, on February 19, 1919 to the late Egbert Minar and Texanna Lugar Taylor. She was the niece of the late Cordelia Lugar Estes. She was a graduate of the 1939 Registered Nursing Program of the...
Katharine Hewitt Barringer
Aug 17, 2013
Katharine Hewitt Barringer of Bramwell was born August 2, 1916, and died August 17, 2013, at age 97. She was the mother of two children: Katharine Barringer Dean of Gladys, Va., and John William (Jay) Barringer of Bluefield. Katharine was devoted to the Town of Bramwell, where she was born and raised. She was a 1933 graduate of Bramwell High...
Walter Lee Estep
Aug 17, 2013
Bluefield- Walter Lee Estep, Sr., 72 of, 432 Vest Hollow Rd, Bluefield, WV, passed away Saturday August 17, 2013. Born January 30, 1941 in Raysal, WV, he was a son of the late John Thomas and Pricey Christian Estep. Mr. Estep was a disabled coal miner and had been a resident of Bluefield since 1986. Survivors include; his wife of...
Naomi Ellen Foster
Aug 16, 2013
Naomi Ellen Foster, 91, of 688 Village Green Circle, Princeton, WV, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Summers County Hospital in Hinton. Born on August 16, 1922 in Glenwhite, she was a daughter of the late Oscar Brown and Nannie Ellen Fortner Kelley. She had been a resident of Princeton since 1985 and was of the Methodist faith....
Janet Marie Powers
Aug 16, 2013
Janet Marie Powers, 74, of 181 Harvey Avenue, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on March 4, 1939 in Montcalm, she was a daughter of the late Clinton E. and Louise Robertson Clyburn. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 44 years and had been a member of Pine Grove Church...
Leonard Reed
Aug 16, 2013
Leonard Shirty Reed, age 76, of Montcalm, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 11, 1937 in WV, he was a son of the late Kertis and Mary Shrewsberry Reed. He had been a resident of Montcalm for most of his life and worked in the concrete industry for United Trans-Mix in...
Judi Wright
Aug 14, 2013
Judi Anne Glass Wright 69 of Skyline Drive Bluefield, VA formerly of Brushfork, WV passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at the residence of her beloved granddaughter Amanda. Judi was born on Friday, December 03, 1943 in Pageton, WV to the late James and Effie Smith Glass. She was a former member of the Moose Lodge and had been...
Elizabeth Belle Belcher
Aug 14, 2013
Princeton - Elizabeth Belle George Belcher, 86, of Princeton, formerly of Belcher Mountain, died Wednesday, August 14, 2013, at her home following a long illness. Born November 24, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Alex and Edith Horne George. Mrs. Belcher was a homemaker and was a member of the Little Vine Regular Baptist Church. She was a...
Bobby Lee Lewis
Aug 12, 2013
Bobby Lee Lewis, 66 of Freeman, WV passed away August 12, 2013 due to a house fire. Bob was a life long resident of Freeman, WV and he graduated from Bramwell High School. He was a veteran of the US Army in the Vietnam Era. Bob was a loving son and caregiver to his mother, father, and brother. He was...
Helen Marie Lester
Aug 11, 2013
Helen Marie Lester, 93 years of age of Montcalm, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, where she had resided at 306 Rhododendron Lane, Bluefield, WV for the past eleven months with Cathy and Sam. Helen was born on April 27, 1920 on Belcher Mountain in Anawalt, WV....
Shirley Turner
Aug 10, 2013
Shirley Gaynell Taylor, age 73, of Quinwood, WV, passed away on Saturday, August 10, 2013 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on January 23, 1940 in Norfolk, VA, she was a son of the late Hubert and Margaret Howlett. She had been a resident of Quinwood for 5 years and was a homemaker. She was of the Baptist faith. Survivors...
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