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Franklin Pierce Young
Sep 5, 2009
Franklin Pierce Young, 59, of 3821 Airport Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, September 05, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Mr. Young was born on November 04, 1949 in Welch, West Virginia to the late Roscoe Young and Martha McCarty Young. He had been a resident of Bluefield, West Virginia since 1972. He...
William Franklin Parks
Sep 4, 2009
William Franklin Parks, age 76, of PO Box 97, Jenkinjones, WV, passed away on Friday, September 4, 2009 at his residence. Born on May 11, 1933 in Squire, he was a son of the late Lillian Parks. He had been a lifelong resident of Jenkinjones and was retired from Cole’s Bakery in Bluefield. In addition to his mother, he was...
Mike John Grahovac
Aug 31, 2009
Mike John Grahovac, age 81, of Conklintown, WV, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on August 13, 1928, in Thorpe, he was a son of the late Eli and Clara Grahovac. He had been a resident of Anawalt for 60 years and was a member of the Jenkinjones Methodist Church. He was the...
Oliver M. Knouff, Jr.
Aug 27, 2009
Oliver M. Knouff, Jr., age 93, of Elkhorn, WV passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at his residence. Born on April 10, 1916 in Welch, he was a son of the late Oliver M. and Lestelle L. Baker Knouff. He had been a resident of Mercer and McDowell counties for his entire life and was of the Methodist faith....
George Law
Aug 25, 2009
George Law, age 88, of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born on August 24, 1921 in Rocky Mount, VA, he was a son of the late John and Beulah Hodge Law. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 50 years and was a faithful member in the church...
Alma Spinella
Aug 22, 2009
Alma Shrader Spinella, of Bedford, VA, and formerly of 201 Springdale Avenue, Princeton, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at the Bedford County Nursing Home in Bedford, VA. She was born in McComas and was a daughter of the late Ralph and Florence Tabor Shrader. She had been a resident of Princeton for 28 years and was a graduate...
Dorothy Irene Wright
Aug 20, 2009
Dorothy Irene Wright, 80, of Rt. 5 Box 451-C Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield, West Virginia. Dorothy was born on September 29, 1928 in West Virginia to the late Joseph Shepherd and Eva McGhee Shepherd. She was a member of the Mowels Chapel Church and had been a...
Margaret D. Robinette
Aug 19, 2009
Margaret D. Robinette, age 87, of the Heritage Hall, formerly of Pocahontas, VA, died on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at Heritage Hall in Tazewell, VA. Born on March 28, 1922, in Pocahontas, VA, she was the daughter of the late James and Maude Harris Kemp. She had retired as a bookkeeper and secretary for the Pocahontas Fuel Company with 48...
Alice Darlene Cleary Rotenberry
Aug 18, 2009
BLUEFIELD, WV--- Alice Darlene Cleary Rotenberry, age 50, of PO Box 581 Bluefield, WV, formerly of Kimball, WV passed away Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born October 28, 1958 at Welch, WV she was the daughter of the late Clyde and Lennie Rose Cleary. Mrs. Rotenberry was a homemaker and of the Holiness Faith. In addition...
Mildred Hurley
Aug 17, 2009
Mildred Mills Hurley, 83, formerly of Surprise, AZ, died August 17th, 2009 at her home in Bluefield,W.VA., while on comfort care after a stroke. Mrs. Hurley was born October 14th, 1926 in W.VA., and lived in Kentucky, Minnesota, California,Nevada, Iowa, Colorado and Arizona before coming home to W.VA. in 2007. She was a coal miner’s daughter, master gardener, award wining...
Peggy Jane Clark
Aug 14, 2009
Peggy Jane Clark, age 82, of 205 Jackson Street, Bluefield, WV, died on Friday, August 14, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Hospital. Born on March 3, 1927, in ripplemead, VA, she was a daughter of the late James Marshal Bowles and Pearl Florence Bowles. She had lived in Bluefield, WV for the past 74 years and was a devoted wife, mother,...
Arlene Galkin Pannell
Aug 14, 2009
Arlene Galkin Pannell, 70, of 842 Big Branch Road Falls Mills, Virginia passed away on Friday, August 14, 2009 at her home. She was born on August 30, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York to the late David Galkin and Lillian Harrison Galkin. Arlene attended the Brushfork Baptist Church and had been a resident of Falls Mills for the past 35...
Donna L. Christian
Aug 8, 2009
Donna L. Belcher Christian, 59, of Tobaccoville, North Carolina passed away on August 08, 2009 at Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Born on April 13, 1950 in Superior, West Virginia she was the daughter of the late Riley and Minerva Milam Belcher and the Biological daughter of the late Sadie Belcher Felts. In addition to her...
Peggy Ann Johnson
Aug 7, 2009
Peggy Ann Johnson, age 59, of 6 Breezewood Drive, Hampton, GA and formerly of Maybeury, passed away on Friday, August 7, 2009 at a Stockbridge, GA hospital. Born on September 8, 1949 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Nancy Scott. She had been a resident of Georgia for 17 years and attended the Liberty Hill Baptist Church....
Donald Daniel Henderson
Aug 6, 2009
Donald Daniel “Jake” Henderson, age 78, of Keystone (PO Box 793, Northfork), passed away on Thursday, August 6, 2009 at the Westwood Center in Bluefield, VA. Born on October 17, 1930 in Keystone, he was a son of the late Thomas E. and Kathelen Shanks Henderson. He had been a lifelong resident of Keystone and was of the Methodist faith....
Edith A. Lewis
Jul 31, 2009
Rev. Edith A. Groseclose Lewis, age 88, of Bluefield, WV, went to be with her Lord on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at The Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on February 11, 1921 in Boissevain, VA, she was a daughter of the late James Burton and Sarah Smith Groseclose. She had been a resident of Mercer County for most of...
Sarah Ruth Barbery
Jul 31, 2009
Sarah Ruth Davis Barbery, age 71, of 481 Bay Harbour Road, Mooresville, NC, passed away on Friday, July 31, 2009 at a Huntersville, NC nursing home. Born on December 6, 1937 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Martha Little Davis. She had been a resident of Mooresville for 12 years and was a member of...
Douglas Monroe Glass
Jul 28, 2009
MONTCALM, WV---- Mr. Douglas “Doug” Monroe Glass, age, 68, of PO Box 154 Montcalm, WV went to Heaven on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 after a long battle with cancer. Born August 30, 1940 he was the son of the late Mr. Dwight and Lorraine Riggs Glass. Doug proudly served our Country in the US Army, serving two tours in Vietnam,...
Iona Bell Simon
Jul 28, 2009
GARY, WV--- Iona Bell Simon age 84, of PO Box 220 Gary, WV formerly of Maybeury, WV passed away Tuesday, July 28, 2009 at McDowell Nursing and Rehab Center in Gary, WV. Born September 28, 1924 in WV, she was the daughter of the late Arthur and Susie Proffitt Day. Ms. Simon was a resident of the Maybeury area most...
Nancy Ann Elizabeth Brown
Jul 26, 2009
BREMERTON, WA --- Nancy Ann Elizabeth Brown, age 97, of 8935 Kari Lane NW Bremerton, WA formerly of Bramwell, WV passed away Sunday, July 26, 2009 at the Bremerton Health and Rehab in Bremerton, WA. Born December 5, 1911 in Bramwell, WV she was the daughter of the late Joseph Addison and Jennie Isabel Reed Dunagan. Mrs. Brown was a...
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