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Joyce Bell Surber
Oct 30, 2013
Joyce Bell Surber, 71, of Reynold Road, Winston-Salem, NC, passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at Forysth Medical Center in Winston-Salem. Born on February 12, 1942 in McDowell County, WV, she was a daughter of the late Gilbert and Annie Mitchem Rose. She had been a resident of Winston-Salem for 3 years and was formerly of Bluefield. She was...
Howard Douglas Rose
Oct 30, 2013
Howard Douglas Rose, age 67, of Pinnacle View Road, Bluefield, passed away on Wednesday, October 30, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 29, 1946 in Gary, he was a son of the late Drewery and Carrie Hart Rose. He was retired from McDowell County Schools where he worked as a custodian at the Welch Vocational-Technical Center. In...
Margaret Katie Sorah
Oct 29, 2013
Margaret Katie Sorah, age 90, of Rt. 1 Box 149, Bluefield, WV, and formerly of Superior, passed away on Tuesday, October 29, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on October 4, 1923 in Carswell, she was a daughter of the late Stephen and Marcella Jose Berta. She had been a resident of Bluefield since 2010 and was a member of...
Kelly Lucinda Byrd
Oct 28, 2013
Kelly Lucinda Byrd, age 51, of Pocahontas Avenue, Bramwell, passed away on Monday, October 28, 2013 at her home. Born on April 5, 1962 in Galax, VA, she was a daughter of the late Gene and Mary Ann Jones Austin. She was raised by her grandmother, Hettie Austin. She had been a resident of Bramwell since 1986 and was a...
Anne Jeanne Kincaid
Oct 28, 2013
Anne Jeanne Sutherland Bliss Kincaid, 80, of School Street, Bramwell Rd., Bluefield, WV, went to be with the Lord on Monday, October 28, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. She was born in Cowen, WV, on January 1, 1933 and was a daughter of the late “Shay” and Blanche Gross Sutherland. She had lived in Cleveland for 19 years where...
Wanda Francis Jones
Oct 27, 2013
Wanda Francis Jones, age 66, of Wedgewood Avenue, Princeton, WV, passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2013 at her home. Born on July 9, 1947 in Anawalt, she was a daughter of the late George and Sophia Mikels Rose. She had been a resident of Princeton for 9 years and was a member of the Willowbrook Baptist Church. She was...
Jack C. Fitzko
Oct 26, 2013
Jack C. Fitzko age 66 of Rock went home to be with The Lord on Saturday, October 26, 2013. Born on August 13, 1947 in Mercer County, he was the son of the late Mike Fitzko Sr. And the late Helen Knight Fitzko. He was a loving husband and father. He was a member of the Mt. Grove Community Church....
Mamie Scott
Oct 26, 2013
Mamie Robertson Scott, age 96, of Ft. Mill, SC and formerly of Montcalm, passed away on Saturday, October 26, 2013 at the Harbor Chase Assisted Living in Rock Hill, SC. Born on July 10, 1917 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late William P. and Bessie Dudley Robertson. She had been a resident of Montcalm for 65 years...
Edith Virginia Creasy
Oct 22, 2013
Edith Virginia Creasy 91 of Abbs Valley, Virginia passed away Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at her home surrounded by her family. She was born on January 26, 1922 in Jenkinjones, West Virginia to the late James Richard Sayers and Lilly Jane Hess Sayers. Edith was a member of the Abbs Valley Baptist Church. She was the owner of Creasy’s Supermarket...
Donald Lee Lambert
Oct 20, 2013
Donald Lee Lambert, age 76, of Hassam Drive (Village Green), Princeton, WV, went to be with his Lord on Sunday, October 20, 2013 at his residence with his family by his side. Born on August 26, 1937 in Tazewell, VA, he was a son of the late Roy D. and Ethel Lambert. He was a retired truck driver with Joy...
Earnest Earl Shoemaker
Oct 19, 2013
Earnest Earl “Erie” Shoemaker, age 86, of 877 Camellia Drive, Bluewell, WV went to be with The LORD and his loving wife on Saturday, October 19, 2013, a day that he would call “a beautiful, beautiful day.” Born on February 21, 1927, he was the son of the late James and Beulah Hodges Shoemaker. He was a coal miner having...
Nellie Mary Coeburn
Oct 19, 2013
Nellie Mary Coeburn 76 of Giatto Road Rock (McComas), West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 19, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Nellie was born on Sunday, July 25, 1937 in McComas, West Virginia to the late Lewis Jackson and Estolia Mae Lusk. She had been a resident of McComas for her whole life and...
Priscilla Ellen Morgan
Oct 18, 2013
Priscilla Ellen Morgan, age 71, of 264 Switchback Road, Bluefield, WV died on Friday, October 18, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on August 4, 1942 in McDowell County, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Sarah Roberts Rakes. She was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She had lived in Bluefield since 1977 having moved from...
Ryland Tracy French
Oct 16, 2013
Ryland Tracy French 72 of Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. Tracy was born on Saturday, September 06, 1941 in Bluefield, Virginia to the late Ivan French and Ethel Rutherford French. He was a 1959 graduate of Graham High School in Bluefield, Virginia. He was a retired manufacturing engineer and...
James Douglas Keller
Oct 16, 2013
James Douglas Keller 72 of Jacksonville, Florida formerly of West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, October 16, 2013 at St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Jacksonville, Florida, where he resided at the home of a special sister-in-law, Cathy Keller for the past twenty years. James was born on May 31, 1941 in Eckman, West Virginia to the late William James Coleman...
Kathleen Spinella
Oct 15, 2013
Kathleen Spinella, age 84, of Maybeury, WV, died on Tuesday, October 15, 2013 at her residence. Born on November 14, 1928, in Switchback, WV, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Mary Martin Spinella. She was a member of the Maybeury Church of God and was a homemaker. She had lived in Switchback her entire life. In addition...
Lillian Beckner Thompson
Oct 14, 2013
Lillian Beckner Thompson, age 83, of Salisbury, NC, formerly of Bluefield, WV, died on Monday, October 14, 2013 at the Kiser Hospice in Salisbury. Born on March 20, 1930, on Browning Lambert Mountain, she was a daughter of the late John Boyd and Cora Perkins Beckner. She had worked as a receptionist for the Princeton Senior Center and attended the...
Regina Mae Hedrick
Oct 10, 2013
Regina Mae Farmer Hedrick, age 59, of 156 Cannon Street, Princeton, WV took her Heavenly Flight on her birthday, Thursday, October 10, 2013 with her loved ones gathered around her after a short battle with cancer. Born on October 10, 1954, in Anawalt, she was the daughter of Eloise (Lois) Farmer of Pageton and the late James G. Farmer. She...
Claude Allen Musick, Jr.
Oct 10, 2013
Claude Allen “Jimmy” Musick, Jr., age 60, of 135 Ramey Street, Bramwell, WV died on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on March 25, 1953, in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Claude Allen “Dab” and Joyce Lee Maxey Musick. He had lived in Bramwell since 1983 and had formerly lived in Coaldale. Survivors:...
Teresa Renee Butler
Oct 10, 2013
Teresa Renee Fowler Butler, 43, of Nemours, passed away on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on October 22, 1969 in Welch, she was a daughter of Tommy R. and Brenda L. Hodge Fowler of Thorpe. She had been a resident of Nemours for 11 years and was of the Pentecostal Holiness faith. She was a...
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