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Martha Ellen David
May 23, 2012
Martha Ellen David, age 93, of Route 103 Box 232, Thorpe, WV, passed away on Wednesday, May 23, 2012 at Welch Community Hospital in Welch, WV. She will be sorely missed and was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Born on November 7, 1919 in Shale Creek, Tennessee she was a daughter of the late Brownlow and Rosie...
Charles Ray Davis, Sr.
May 22, 2012
Charles Ray Davis, Sr., age 72, of 249 Hockman Pike, Bluefield, VA passed away on Tuesday, May 22, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on February 20, 1940 in Welch, he was a son of the late Walter E. and Hattie B. Lambert Davis. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 40 years and was of the Baptist...
Edmond LaCour
May 19, 2012
Edmond LaCour, age 74, of 244 Orange Lane, Princeton, WV, passed away on Saturday, May 19, 2012 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on February 16, 1938 in Louisiana, he was a son of the late Louis and Annie Couty LaCour. Edmond was a kind spirited man with a witty sense of humor. He was a loving father and husband and...
May Elizabeth Bridgeman
May 18, 2012
May Elizabeth "Nitsy" Bridgeman, age 63, of 6th Hollow Road, Jenkinjones, WV died on Friday, May 18, 2012 at Welch Community Hospital. She had “fought the good fight, she had finished her course, and she had kept the faith.” Born on May 22, 1948 in Anawalt, she was a daughter of the late Coy and Hazel Walters Richardson. She had...
Elsie Irene Taylor
May 16, 2012
Elsie Irene Taylor, age 85, of Montcalm, WV went to be with her LORD on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 while in Mercer Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Born on February 15, 1927 in Crystal, WV to the late Ettie Smith O’Donnell and Shannon O’Donnell, she was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith. In addition...
Regina Shires Wikle
May 12, 2012
Regina Shires Wikle, 77, of 3371 Coal Heritage Road, Bluefield, WV (Bluewell) and formerly of Welch, WV, finished her earthly journey at Westwood Center, Bluefield, VA and entered into her eternal heavenly home Saturday, May 12, 2012. She was born May 8, 1935 in Peterstown, WV to Ruth Davis Whitt and William E.R. Whitt. While still a teenager, she married...
Joyce Ann French
May 11, 2012
Joyce Ann French 52, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Friday, May 11, 2012. Born Tuesday, October 04, 1960 in Florida to the late Norma Jean Vanover Roberts and Jimmy Roberts. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Ivan G. Justice, two sisters Judy Roberts and Sally Chaffins, one brother Bill Roberts and...
Thelma Ann Rose
May 11, 2012
Thelma Ann Rose, age 73, of Rt 5 Box 380, Bluefield, WV passed away on Friday, May 11, 2012 at her home. Born on May 2, 1939 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Rufus and Mary Lane Milam. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 15 years and was of the Pentecostal faith. She was a...
Michael David Copley
May 11, 2012
Michael David “Mike” Copley, age 45, of Route 5 Box 386-C, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 25, 1967 in Wytheville, he was a son of Bob Copley of Gray, TN and the late Phyllis Copley. He had been a resident of Bluefield,WV for 20 years and was a...
Ellen E. Huffman
May 10, 2012
Ellen E. Miller Huffman, 82, of Gloucester, VA, formerly of Bluefield, WV and Rock, WV went to meet her Savior on May 10, 2012. She was born on August 27, 1929 in Montcalm, WV to the late Troy and Hazel Miller. She was a loving wife and mother and was preceded in death in by the love of her life,...
Wanda Lee Wright
May 8, 2012
Wanda Lee Chinault Wright 75 of 1210 Old Bramwell Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, May 08, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Wanda was born on Wednesday, July 29, 1936 in Rainelle, West Virginia to the late Lester Ransom and Bennie Mae Sheppard Chinault. She had been a resident of Bluefield, West Virginia...
Lucy Spinella
May 8, 2012
My journey has ended and all is “Well with my Soul” and I’m at peace with God. Lucy Spinella of P.O. Box 29 Maybeury, West Virginia (Switchback) lived a life of 96 years and was born in Wise, Virginia on Sunday, January 23, 1916 to the late Joseph and Mary Martin Spinella she was raised in a family of twelve....
Sarah "Sue" Jane Coburn
May 6, 2012
Sarah Jane “Sue” Coburn 72 of 18790 Lloyd Drive Apt. 114 Dallas, Texas formerly of Bluewell, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, May 06, 2012 at her residence. Sue was born on Wednesday, May 24, 1939 in Wide Mouth, West Virginia to the late Jules Stassin and Fannie Spencer Stassin. Sue had been a resident of Dallas, Texas since 2008...
Keith Stanley Parker
May 5, 2012
Keith Stanley Parker, 87, flew into the heavens May 5, 2012 to be with his Lord and Savior. He was born in Rock, West Virginia on March 9, 1925 and was the son of the late Edgar Parker and Gwen Lusk Parker of Browning Lambert Mountain in Montcalm, West Virginia. He attended school in Matoka, West Virginia and a graduate...
Thori "Katie" VanHoose
May 3, 2012
Thori “Katie” VanHoose, age 90, of Princeton, WV, surrounded by her family, went to be with her LORD on Thursday, May 3, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center after a short illness. Born on April 17, 1922 at Elkhorn, WV, she was a daughter of the late Edgar D. Sheets and Bertha Sage Sheets. Katie lived in McDowell County (Keystone...
Freida Marie Brant
Apr 27, 2012
Freida Marie Brant, age 63, of 346 Gypsum Street, Bluefield, W.Va., died on Friday, April 27, 2012 at her home. Born on June 28, 1948 in Williamson, W.Va., she was a daughter of the late Raymond and Edna New. She had lived in Bluewell for the past seven years after being a former resident of Garland, W.Va. She was a...
Dallas Fred Wimmer
Apr 23, 2012
Dallas Fred Wimmer, age 72, of 200 Victory Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, April 23, 2012 at his residence. Born on March 24, 1940 in Mercer County, he was a son of the late French and Callie Thornton Wimmer. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield since 1967 and was a retired coal miner. In addition to...
Lee Roy Underwood
Apr 23, 2012
Lee Roy Underwood, age 75, of Route 1 Box 54, Matoaka, WV, passed away on Monday, April 23, 2012 at the VA Medical Center in Beckley. Born on June 20, 1936 in Springton, he was a son of the late William Ordy and Madeline Bowling Underwood. He had been a lifelong resident of Rock and was an electrician and electrician...
Jesse F. Ball, Jr.
Apr 23, 2012
Bluefield, WV Jesse F. Ball, Jr., 92, went to be with the Lord on April 23, 2012 following a brief illness. He was a well-known dairy farmer and writer, loved and admired by his family, neighbors and friends from far and wide. His inquisitive mind, ready grin, bright blue eyes and insightful quips entertained his visitors while his stories about...
John Karl Johnson, Sr.
Apr 22, 2012
John Karl Johnson, Sr., age 60, of Route 2 Box 45, Rock, passed away on Sunday, April 22, 2012 at the Bower’s Hospice House in Beckley. He was born July 2, 1951 in Spokane, WA where his father was stationed in the USAF. John was preceded in death by his mother, Crystal Heidi Weaver; his father, John William Johnson; and...
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