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Bobby Ray Burgess
Nov 28, 2011
Bobby Ray Burgess, age 48, of 540 Pleasant Valley Drive, Princeton, WV, passed away on Monday, November 28, 2011 at Charleston Area Medical Center in Charleston. Born on September 8, 1963 in Bethesda, MD, he was a son of Roy Burgess of Bluefield and Susan Sigmon Windle of Princeton. He had been a resident for Princeton for three years and...
Charlotte Ann Underwood
Nov 26, 2011
Charlotte Ann Underwood, 65 years old, of Rock West Virginia, went home to be with Jesus and her late husband, Thomas Underwood. She passed peacefully, with her loving family by her side, on November 26, 2011. Born on April 12, 1946 in Mary Branch, West Virginia. She was the daughter of the late Harrison & Ethel Farmer. Charlotte was retired...
David Dwayne King
Nov 24, 2011
David Dwayne “Midge” King, age 44, of P.O. Box 91, Bluefield, WV died on Thursday, November 24, 2011 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on July 6, 1967 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Beulah Hampton. He had lived in Bluefield his entire life and was a construction worker. In addition to his mother, a brother, Jeffery...
Carole Ann Marshall
Nov 23, 2011
Carole Ann Marshall 54 of Box 156 Pageton, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at her residence. Carole had been a resident of Pageton for the past 25 years and was Catholic. Carole was born September 26, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to George Newson and Delores Rays Newson both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Carole was preceded in death...
Veda Margaret Sexton
Nov 22, 2011
On November 22, 2011, Veda Margaret Avancini Sexton, of Bluefield was called home after a very long journey in this life at the age of 98. She was born on April 13, 1913 in Fayette County West Virginia, was raised in the mountains, and spent her entire life here. There was no place in this world more beautiful to her...
Edsel Wayman Taylor
Nov 17, 2011
Edsel Wayman Taylor, age 83, of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, November 17, 2011 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on May 6, 1928 in Springton, WV, he was a son of the late Philip and Belle Blanche Basham Taylor. He had been a resident of the Bluefield area for 78 years and attended the Deliverance Temple Church. He was...
Sheila Wimmer
Nov 15, 2011
Sheila Quesinberry Wimmer, age 72, of 973 Cress School Road, Salisbury, NC and formerly of Bramwell, passed away on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at her home. Born in Bramwell, WV, to Arthur Levi and Virginia Bell Quesinberry. She was retired from Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Proceeded in death by both parents, husband Albert Swindle, brothers Richard Quesinberry of Elkhart, Indiana,...
Edward B. Poff
Nov 13, 2011
Edward Basil Poff, age 94, of 171 Sheppet Street (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, November 13, 2011 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on May 19, 1917 in Floyd County, VA, he was a son of the late Charles and Ollie Poff Poff. He had been a resident of Bluewell for 35 years and was a...
April Davenport Finley
Nov 11, 2011
April Davenport Finley, age 70, of 303 Powerhouse Road, Switchback, WV died on Friday, November 11, 2011 at her home. Born on April 26, 1941 in Switchback, she was a daughter of the late Fred Hill Rouse Sr. and Margaret G. Earl Rouse. She had lived in Switchback her entire life and was a member of the Church of God....
Nellie Jane Doss
Nov 11, 2011
Nellie Jane Murdock Doss, age 73, beloved wife, mother and grandmother, of Bluefield, WV, died at her residence on Friday, November 11, 2011. Born on January 11, 1938 in Gratton, VA, she was the daughter of the late James Fulton Murdock and Minnie Marie Cochran Murdock. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Mary...
Thomas Clifton Coeburn
Nov 11, 2011
Thomas Clifton “Sonny” Coeburn, Sr., age 62, of Bluefield WV died on Friday, November 11, 2011 at his home. Born in January 28, 1949 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Robert Clifton and Bessie Hicks Coeburn. He had lived in Bluewell for the past 16 years and attended the Church of Christ. He was a veteran of...
Hosten James David
Nov 10, 2011
Hoston James David, age 90, of Route 103 Box 232, Thorpe, WV, passed away on Thursday, November 10, 2011 at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley. He will be sorely missed and was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Born on March 2, 1921 in Blackwolfe, WV he was a son of the late Robert and Nannie May David....
R. G. Johnson
Nov 8, 2011
R.G. Johnson, age 79, of Route 5 Box 370, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, November 8, 2011 at his home. Born on March 10, 1932 in Jonesville, VA, he was a son of the late Martha Johnson. He had been a resident of Mercer County for 42 years and was of the Baptist faith. He was retired from and...
Helen Mae Johnson
Nov 4, 2011
Helen Mae Johnson, age 81 of Maybeury, W.Va. died Friday Nov. 4, 2011 following a long illness. She was born March 6, 1930 to Hobert and Artie Scott at Leckie, West Virginia. She was a faithful member of 66 yrs of the Maybeury Church of God in Maybeury, W.Va. which she was the second oldest member of the church. She...
Kathy Diane Faulkner
Nov 3, 2011
Kathy Diane Williams Faulkner, age 51, of Lorton Lick Road, Bluewell, WV died peacefully on Thursday, November 3, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Hospital just 5 days from her 52nd birthday. Born on November 8, 1959 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Harry “Buck” Williams and Dorothy P. Graham. Kathy was raised in Bramwell and attended Bramwell High...
Nadine Foley
Nov 2, 2011
Nadine O’Donnell Foley, age 75, of 34 Pine Tree Loop, Stuart, VA and formerly of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at her residence. Born on March 29, 1936 in Crystal, she was a daughter of the late Adam B. and Alma Gardner O’Donnell. She had been a resident of Stuart for 44 years and was a...
Violet Enda Goins
Nov 1, 2011
Violet Edna Goins 75 of P.O. Box 373 Bramwell, West Virginia passed away at Bluefield Regional Medical Center on Monday, November 01, 2011; an Angel on Earth spread her wings and entered through the Pearly Gates to meet her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Violet was born on Thursday, November 28, 1935 in Mercer County, West Virginia to the late...
Mildred Bonnie Poe
Oct 30, 2011
Mildred Bonnie Liddle Poe, age 90, of Princeton, WV, passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at Westwood Health Care in Bluefield, Virginia. Born on March 26, 1921 in Crumpler, she was a daughter of the late James and Blanche Edwards Liddle. She was a resident of Crumpler before residing in Green Valley. Mildred graduated from Northfork High School and...
Martha Lou Hoback
Oct 29, 2011
Pearisburg, VA- Martha Lou Hoback, 55, of 900 Locust Dr. , Pearisburg, VA, passed away Saturday October 29, 2011 at a Princeton Community Hospital. Born November 20, 1955 in Bluefield, WV, she was a daughter of Lila Clower Aker of Bluefield and the late Finley Hager Eldridge. Martha had been a resident of Pearisburg for the last five years and...
Carter W. Wilson Sr.
Oct 29, 2011
Carter W. Wilson, Jr., age 67, of 245 Park Street, Olanta, SC and formerly of Iaeger, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Carolina Hospital in Florence, SC. Carter was born on Wednesday, February 16, 1944 in Iaeger, West Virginia to the late Carter W. Wilson Sr. and Stella Pertee Wilson. Mr. Wilson had been a...
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