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Johnny Lane DeQuino
Oct 25, 2018
Johnny Lane DeQuino, 81, of Simmons River Road, Bluefield, passed away on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at his home.Born on November 6, 1936 in McDowell County, he was a son of the late Louis and Maudie Shrader DeQuino. He had been a resident of Duhring for 69 years and was a veteran of the US Army. He was a member...
Sheila Punturi
Oct 23, 2018
Sheila Mozingo Punturi 62 of Princeton, passed away on Tuesday October 23,2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital following a short ilness.Born on March 11, 1956 in Richmond Va, She was the daughter of the late Hubert an Hilma Mozingo. She has been a resident of Princeton WV for 38 years.In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a...
Betty Jane DeQuino
Oct 21, 2018
Betty Jane DeQuino, 72, of Cola Avenue (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, October 21, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on December 28, 1945 in Coopers, she was a daughter of the late Watt McKinley Carter and Edith E.J. Brown DeQuino. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 12 years and was a homemaker.In addition to her...
Roscoe Brown
Oct 21, 2018
Roscoe “Elmer” Brown, 95, of Garland Avenue, Princeton, died Sunday, October 21, 2018 at Mercer Nursing & Rehab.Born on June 16, 1923 in Clenchville, VA, he was a son of the late Lillie Mae Hicks Brown and Lonnie Brown. He was retired from Bally Manufacturing Company in Chicago, IL. He retired in 1990 and moved to Princeton. In addition to...
Robert "Bob" Franklin Bailey
Oct 20, 2018
Robert "Bob" Franklin Bailey, 58, of Bluefield (Green Valley), WV passed away on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at his residence. Bob was born on January 13, 1960 in Welch, WV to the late Franklin and Testie Blankenship Bailey. He has been a resident of Bluefield for the past twenty years. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death...
Mildred Carol Pigg
Oct 18, 2018
Mildred Carol Pigg, 78, of Browning Lambert Mountain, Rock, WV, passed away Thursday, October 18, 2018.Mildred had been a resident of Mercer County for seventy-eight years and was of the Baptist faith. She worked for the West Virginia Extension Service for twenty years.Mildred was preceded in death by her mother, Helen Crigger.Those left to cherish her memory are her husband...
Dakota Ray Brewster
Oct 14, 2018
Dakota Ray Brewster, 20, of Falls Mills VA passed away Sunday, October 14, 2018. Dakota was born in Bluefield WV on February 17, 1998 to Jamie and Kimberly Brewster. He was a 2016 Graham High School graduate and a volunteer firefighter with the Bluewell Fire Department. He also worked at Minova as a line operator.He was preceded in death by...
Raymond Douglas Oiler
Oct 13, 2018
Raymond Douglas Oiler, 73, of Montcalm, passed away on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at his home.Born on August 11, 1945 in Welch, he was a son of the late Charles F. and Carrie Leigh Perkins Oiler. He had been a resident of Montcalm for 2 years and was a member of the Church of God. He was a retired construction...
Carolyn Ruth Stewart
Oct 13, 2018
Carolyn Ruth Stewart, 68, of Glenwood Park Road, Princeton, WV, formerly of Bluewell, WV and Dublin, VA passed away on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at GlenWood Park Retirement Village. Born on June 20, 1950 in Matheny, West Virginia, she was a daughter of the late Rev. D. Homer and Zelma Jewell Stewart.Carolyn was a member of the Bluewell United Methodist...
Brooke Elizabeth Helmandollar
Oct 11, 2018
Brooke Elizabeth Helmandollar, 25, of Lee Street, Princeton, passed away on Thursday, October 11, 2018 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.Born on September 20, 1993 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of Cindy Wright Backus of Princeton and Mark Helmandollar of Brushfork. She was employed by Outback Steakhouse in Princeton. She was preceded in death by grandparents, Dean &...
Leonard Elmer Shrewsbury
Oct 9, 2018
Leonard Elmer Shrewsbury, 80, of Rock Road, Bluefield, passed away on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at his home.Born on July 24, 1938 in Rock, he was a son of the late Artie and Thelma Renn Shrewsbury. He had been a resident of Mercer County since 1972 and was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church. He was a veteran of...
Ricky Lee Kirby
Oct 9, 2018
Ricky Lee Kirby, 60, of Noble Circle, Princeton, WV, and formerly of Bramwell, passed away on Tuesday, October 9, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on March 1, 1958 in Bluefield, he was a son of Lucille Woods Kirby of Rock and the late Daniel Edward Kirby. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and attended church at Deliverance...
Karen Christine Morse Pennington
Oct 7, 2018
Karen Christine Morse Pennington, passed away early Sunday morning, October 7, 2018. Born on April 15, 1952 in Richmond, VA, she was a daughter of the late Richard Hylton Lee Morse and Laura Jean Barlow Morse. She grew up and graduated from Bramwell High School. Those left to cherish her memory and love given to all are her:Son: Joshua Eli...
Melvin Bompus
Oct 6, 2018
Melvin Bompus, 54, of Crystal, WV passed away on Saturday, October 06, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Melvin was born on June 12, 1964 in Welch, WV to the late Pearl Bompus and was a lifelong resident of Crystal, WV. Melvin was a 1983 graduate of Bramwell High School; he was a fun loving guy who...
Delores Ann Lacy
Oct 5, 2018
Delores Ann Belcher Lacy, 77, of Bluewell, passed away on Friday, October 5, 2018.Born on December 30, 1940 in Montcalm, she was a daughter of the late David and Alice Conley Belcher. She was a member of the Coaldale Freewill Baptist Church and Montcalm Pentecostal Holiness Church. She had been a lifelong resident of Montcalm and Bluewell and was a...
Lillian Grace Weinberg
Oct 3, 2018
Lillian Grace Weinberg, 95, of Albemarle St., Bluefield, WV 24701, died October 3, 2018 at Bluefield Regional medical Center after a short illness.Born September 7, 1923 at Fairs Hill, West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Archie and Verna Lewis Hanna. Mrs. Weinberg was employed for 44 years as an executive secretary of Pocahontas Land Corporation, a subsidiary...
Matoka Love Dempsey
Oct 1, 2018
On October 1,2018 Matoka Love Crane Demspey of Bluefield WV. passed on to be with God.She had been suffering with Cancer for a while.She was a Loving Daughter,Sister,Mom,wife and Aunt to so many nieces and nephews that she cherished.She was born January 23,1983 at Bluefield community Hospital to Woodrow and Ella Crane.She attended Summers county high school.She married Robert Demspey...
William "Uncle Bill" A. Brown
Sep 30, 2018
William A. “Uncle Bill” Brown, 89, of Pleasant View Drive, Bluefield, Virginia passed away on Sunday, September 30, 2018 at his residence. William was born on November 03, 1928 in Washington D.C. to the late William A. Brown Sr. and Elizabeth Brown. William had been a resident of Bluefield, Virginia for the past two and half years and attended the...
Ronald Blake Bailey
Sep 30, 2018
Ronald Blake Bailey, 78, of Camilla Drive, Bluefield passed away on Sunday, September 30, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born on November 18, 1939 in Welch, he was a son of the late Garney and Hazel Bailey. He was formerly of McDowell County and had lived in Bluefield for 5 years. He was a retired coal miner with 30 years of...
Doris Jean Burnopp
Sep 28, 2018
Doris Jean Burnopp, 77, of Packing Plant Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, September 28, 2018 at her home.Born on September 27, 1941 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of the late Elmer and Mae Wimmer Tabor. She had been a lifelong resident of Brushfork and was a member of the Sandlick Baptist Church. She was a homemaker.In...
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