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Betty Mae Poff
Oct 27, 2009
Betty Mae Poff of Reese Harmon Ridge my loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and friend died on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 after a brief illness. Betty was born in Bluefield, West Virginia on May 12, 1938 to the late Bradley and Mary Ferguson. Maw as she was fondly called by her family lived a full life by loving,...
Geraldine C. LaFon
Oct 24, 2009
Geraldine C. (Deanie) LaFon, 84, of 142 Wedgewood Ave. Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at her residence. Deanie was born on August 06, 1925 in O’Toole, West Virginia to the late NC Guess, Sr. and Louise McGhee Guess. She had been a resident of Princeton, West Virginia for the past 32 years. She was a...
Angie M. Gillespie
Oct 22, 2009
Angie M. Gillespie, age 35, of 165 Sperry Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on September 27, 1974 in Welch, she was a daughter of Douglas and Martha West Muncy of Roderfield. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 11 years and was a member of the Deliverance Temple Church...
George Saunders Davis
Oct 19, 2009
George Saunders “Sandy” Davis, age 70, of Route 5 Box 370-B (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, October 19, 2009 at Mercer Nursing and Rehab in Bluefield. Born on January 14, 1939 in Coalwood, he was a son of the late Edgar “Bud” and Margaret Kelley Davis. He had been a resident of Rt. 5, Bluefield for years and...
Theodore F. Baker
Oct 16, 2009
Theodore F. Baker, age 77, of 816 Melrose Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away after a long battle of Leukemia on Friday, October 16, 2009 at home. Born on April 1, 1932 in Rocky Gap, VA, he was a son of the late Robert and Virginia Wiley Baker. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 34 years and was a...
Bobby Ray Brummett, III
Oct 16, 2009
Bobby Ray Brummett, III, age 24, of 380 Jones Hill Road, Freeman, WV, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2009 at his residence. Born on December 13, 1984 in Bluefield, he was a son of Bobby Ray Brummett, Jr. of Freeman and the late Carrie Jane Sizemore Brummett Batton. He had been a lifelong resident of Freeman and was a...
Duane Fitzhugh Proffitt
Oct 13, 2009
NORTH TAZWEWELL, VA--- Duane Fitzhugh Proffitt “Sniper” age 37, of 759 Mundy Town Road North Tazewell, VA went home to his Savior where he will have no more pain or tears on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at Tazewell Community Hospital. Born November 6, 1971 at Bluefield, WV he was the son of Timmy and Iris Tabor Proffitt. He was a...
Jack H. Dillon
Oct 11, 2009
Jack H. Dillon, 74, of 104 Carter Dr. Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at his home. Jack was born on August 03, 1935 in Freeman, West Virginia to the late Raymond E. Dillon and Pearl Hopstock Patterson. Jack had been a resident of Princeton for the past eight years. He was a veteran of the...
Darkis Ann Poe
Oct 10, 2009
Darkis Ann Poe, 69, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Darkis was born on June 27, 1940 in Goodwill, West Virginia to the late Ficer Taylor and Treecie Settle Taylor. She was the previous owner of Hair Styles by Darkis and was later employed by Wal-Mart...
Stephen Gregory Whitlow
Oct 10, 2009
Stephen Gregory Whitlow, age 54, of C-4 Leatherwood Apartments, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on July 14, 1955 in Bluefield, he was a son of Doris Feazell Whitlow of Princeton and the late Sidney R. Whitlow. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 20 years and was of the Methodist...
Carl Rudolph Coeburn
Oct 9, 2009
Carl Rudolph Coeburn, age 73, of 1002 29th Street, Vienna, WV, and formerly of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, October 9, 2009 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Parkersburg. Born on July 12, 1936 in Mercer County, he was a son of the late Carl Lee and Bessie L. Brown Coeburn. He had been a resident of Vienna for 20...
Anthony George Willien
Oct 8, 2009
Anthony George “Tony” Willien, 64 of 125 Reiana Lane, Easley SC died Thursday October 8, 2009. Born January 21, 1945 in Williamson WV, he was the son of the late Raymond J. Willien and Hazel Moore Heinbuch. He was formerly employed by Barbecue King of Greenville SC and self employed in heating and air-conditioning. He was affiliated with the Pentecostal...
Thelma F. Morgan
Oct 7, 2009
Thelma F. Morgan, 80, a resident of Cleveland, TN, formerly of the Welch area, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2009, in a local hospital. She was a homemaker and retired teacher. She was a member of the Church of God. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Lillian Frasher, as well as her husband, Eugene B. Morgan,...
Willard B. "B.J." Riffe
Oct 5, 2009
Willard B. “B.J.” Riffe, Jr. BLUEFIELD, Va. — Willard B. “B.J.” Riffe, Jr., age 30, of 405 Woodspoint Drive, Bluefield, Va., died on Monday, October 5, 2009 at Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell, Va. Born on April 27, 1979, in Bluefield, he was a son of Willard B. Riffe, Sr. of Bluefield, Va. and Sandra O'Neal of Princeton, W.Va. He...
Junior Clarence Gills
Oct 3, 2009
BLUEFIELD, WV--- Junior Clarence Gills, age 87, of Freight Station Place Princeton, West Virginia passed away Saturday, October 3, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born September 5, 1919 at Montcalm, WV he was the son of the late Stewart Thomas and Callie Scott Gills. Mr. Gills had been a resident of Bluefield and Princeton for the past ten years. He...
Thursday Cantrell
Oct 3, 2009
Bluefield, WV – Thursday Newcomb Cantrell of Rt. 1 Box 211-D Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 03, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, West Virginia. Born on August 15, 1928 in Huff Creek, she was a daughter of the late James and Barbara Ann Rose Newcomb. She had been a resident of Princeton since 1998 and...
Dorothy Ann Musolin
Sep 29, 2009
Dorothy Ann Musolin, age 67, of Route 5 Box 429-C, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at a Princeton hospital. Born on December 8, 1941 in Boone, NC, she was a daughter of the late Angus Johnson and Viola Gillenwater Woody. She had been a resident of Montcalm for most of her life. She managed area movie...
Douglas Campbell
Sep 29, 2009
Bluefield, WV – Douglas Campbell, 81, passed away on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 at the Mercer Nursing and Rehab. Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Douglas was born on November 23, 1927 in Cassel, Virginia. He as careers as both a coal miner and logger at points in his life. An avid walker, not allowing moss to grow under his feet,...
Roger Lee O'Donell
Sep 28, 2009
Roger Lee O’Donell, age 68, of 6037 Rock River Road, Rock, WV, passed away on Monday, September 28, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center surrounded by his family. Born on October 18, 1940 at Montcalm, he was a son of Goldie Wagner O’Donell of Rock and the late G. Wesley O’Donell. He had been a resident of Rock for all...
Edith Courtney Holt
Sep 24, 2009
Edith Courtney Holt, age 92, of 114 North Lane, Bluefield, VA, died on Thursday, September 24, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on November 14, 1916, in McDowell County, she was a daughter of the late Fred F. and Ella Bourne Courtney. She was a graduate of Concord College and was a retired school teacher who taught for 39 years...
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