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Virginia Mae Faw
Dec 1, 2009
Virginia Mae Kanode Faw, age 89, of Montcalm, WV, passed away on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at her residence. Born on June 28, 1920 in Raleigh, WV, she was a daughter of the late Walter James and Lucy Jane Dudley Kanode. She had been a resident of Montcalm for most of her life and was a member of the Montcalm...
Ronnie C. Thomas
Nov 29, 2009
Ronnie C. Thomas, age 65, of Route 2 Box 473 (Durhing), Rock, WV, passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on April 13, 1944 in Princeton, he was a son of the late Donald C. and Myrtle Blevins Thomas. He had been a resident of Durhing for 45 years and was a 1962 graduate of...
Jack N. Gilmore
Nov 28, 2009
Jack N. Gilmore, 85 of Maple Acres, Princeton WV went to be with the Lord on Saturday, November 28th at his home. He was born on March 15, 1924 in Freeman, WV, and was a son of the late Charles Wesley and Laura Newman Gilmore. Jack graduated from Pocahontas High School and Exxon Retail School. He owned and operated the...
Loretta Marie Bowman
Nov 26, 2009
Loretta Marie Bowman, age 41, of 128 Hill St. Lot 21, Tazewell, VA passed away on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at a Tazewell, VA hospital. Born on July 16, 1968 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late George and Betty Tibbs McGrady. She had been a resident of Tazewell for 4 years and was an assembly line worker...
Ernie Ray Belcher
Nov 26, 2009
Ernie Ray Belcher, Age 62 of Rock, WV passed away on Thursday, November 26, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital after a short battle with cancer. Three weeks ago, Ernie accepted the Lord and Savior into his heart. His prayers were answered and he is now on his heavenly journey home. Born on March 17, 1947, in Thornhill, WV, he was...
June K. Naggie
Nov 23, 2009
June Keyser Naggie, age 81, of Bluefield, passed away on Monday, November 23, 2009 at the Westwood Center in Bluefield, VA. Born on April 8, 1928 in Yukon, she was a daughter of the late George and Bessie Vest Keyser. She had been a resident of McDowell and Mercer counties for all of her life and was a retired postmaster...
Willard Lee Hicks
Nov 19, 2009
Willard Lee Hicks, 67, of Rt. 584 Box 433 Anawalt, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. Mr. Hicks was born on June 18, 1942 in Wilcoe, West Virginia to the late Glen Hicks and Grace Cleary Hicks. He had been a resident of McDowell County for life and had been...
Joseph Lee Shaffer
Nov 18, 2009
Joseph Lee Shaffer, 88, of 229 Virginia Avenue, Bluefield, Virginia, passed away in Bluefield Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, after a short illness. He was born on October 10, 1921, in Mount Lookout, WV. He was the son of the late Russell and Maunie Shaffer of Mount Lookout, WV. He was preceded in death by his beloved...
Howard Clinton Sturges
Nov 17, 2009
Howard Clinton Sturges, 87, of 2033 Virginia Ave. Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at his residence. Mr. Sturges was born on July 24, 1922 in Falls Mills, Virginia to the late Stanley Sturges and Edna Tabor Sturges. Mr. Sturges had been a resident of Bluefield, Virginia for the past 13 years. He served his country in...
Geneva Ellen Ayers
Nov 17, 2009
Our heavenly Father came on November 17, 2009 and took his child, Geneva Ellen Ayers, home with him at the age of 88. She was born in Northfork, West Virginia on August 26, 1921 the daughter of the late Lloyd Austin and Elizabeth Sue Lunsford Yates. She attended Northfork schools and was a telephone operator before moving with her family...
Margaret Whitehead
Nov 16, 2009
Margaret Whitehead, 86, of Rt. 4 Box 436 (Duck Pond Road) Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Monday, November 16, 2009 at Westwood Health Care in Bluefield, Virginia. Mrs. Whitehead was born on November 10, 1923 to the late Charles Lambert and Mattie Patrick Lambert. She had been a resident of Bluewell for all of her life was a former...
Margaret C. Mathena
Nov 16, 2009
Margaret C. Mathena, 88, of 611 Quail Drive Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Monday, November 16, 2009 at her residence. She was born on December 20, 1920 in Hurley, Virginia to the late Howard Justus and Damaris Justus. Margaret had lived in Bluefield, VA for 12 years, was a member of the War Pentecostal Holiness Church for 68 years and...
Barbara Ann Lilly
Nov 15, 2009
Barbara Ann Lilly, age 65, of Route 4 Box 87-A, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, November 15, 2009 at her residence. Born on June 24, 1944 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late William H. and Edith Bowling Davis. She had been a lifelong resident of Mercer County and was retired from the Mercer County Board of...
Robert F. Day
Nov 13, 2009
Robert F. Day Sr., age 86, of 285 Springwood Drive, Bean Station, TN and formerly of Skygusty and Oak Hill, Florida, passed away on Friday, November 13, 2009 at his residence. Born on November 16, 1922 in Eccles, WV, he was a son of the late Frank Day and Susie Mitchem Day Spence. He had been a resident of Bean...
Nannie Varalli
Nov 11, 2009
BRAMWELL — Nannie, 96, passed away at her home in Bramwell on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 with her loving daughters by her side.Born on November 3, 1913 in Thacker Mines, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Grace and Mike Vinciguerra. Nannie was the oldest living member of St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Pocahontas, Va. She was a homemaker...
Jeannette D. Doss
Nov 10, 2009
Jeanette D. Doss, age 79, of Elkhorn, WV, passed away on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at a Welch hospital. Born on February 27, 1930 in Bluefield, VA, she was a son of the late John D. Sherman and Leola Devor Peters. She had been a resident of Elkhorn for most of her life and was a member of the Elkhorn...
Theodore R. Mills, Jr.
Nov 9, 2009
Theodore R. Mills, Jr., age 65 of 7578 Abbs Valley Road, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Monday, November 9, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on July 21, 1944 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Theodore R. Mills, Sr. and Vivian Laws Mills. He had been a lifelong resident of the Bluefield area and was of the...
Keith E. Honaker
Nov 9, 2009
Keith E. Honaker, age 43, of 2603 Grassy Branch Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, November 9, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on January 12, 1966 in Princeton,WV he was a son of Curtis Honaker, Sr. and Betty Thomas Honaker of Bluefield. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield. He was a member of the Family Worship...
Jesse S Scott, Jr.
Nov 8, 2009
Jesse S. Scott, Jr. age 55, of Route 5 Box 447-B (Stoney Ridge), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, November 8, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on February 7, 1954 in Roanoke, VA, he was a son of the late and the late Jesse S. Scott, Sr. and Margaret I. Linkous Scott Sturdevant. He had been a resident of...
Eldon O. Munsey
Nov 7, 2009
Eldon O. Munsey, age 70, of Rt. 2, Box 138 C, Bluefield, WV, died on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at Lewis Gale Hospital in Salem, Virginia. Born on January 19, 1939, in Bluefield, WV, he was the son of the late Oran Hershel and Juanita Vivian Meadows Munsey. He had lived in Bluefield his entire life and worked for 39...
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