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Peggy Hill
Aug 24, 2018
Peggy Syres Hill, age 83, of Rock, WV, died Friday, August 24, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Hospital.Born on February 2, 1935, in Rock, WV, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Beulah Vance Syres. She had been a Mercer County Resident her entire life and was retired from the Mercer County Board of Education. She was of the...
Larry Kent Taylor, Sr.
Aug 24, 2018
Larry Kent Taylor, Sr., age 76, of Montcalm, WV, passed away Friday, August 24, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on June 28, 1942 in Thornhill, WV, he was a son of the late Arthur and Ella Gray Hodges Taylor. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Joanna Taylor. He had worked as...
Elizabeth Louise Lilly
Aug 22, 2018
Elizabeth Louise Lilly, 87, of Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at Princeton Health Care. Elizabeth was born on December 02, 1930 in McComas, West Virginia to the late Lionel and Sallie Barlow Shrewsbury. She had been a resident of Princeton since 1992 and was of the Methodist faith. In addition to her parents she was...
Blanche "Tootsie" Gertrude Hurst
Aug 22, 2018
Blanche Gertrude “Tootsie” Hurst, 89, of Lorton Lick Rd., Bluefield, WV, passed away Wednesday August 22, 2018 at the Glenwood Park Retirement Village.Born April 19, 1929 in Mercer County, WV she was a daughter of the late William and Lettie Gillenwater Repass. Ms. Hurst was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith and was a devoted homemaker. In addition to her parents...
Edward Carlton Proffitt
Aug 20, 2018
Edward “Eddie” Carlton Proffitt, 72, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed onto his Heavenly home on Monday, August 20, 2018. Eddie was formally a resident of McDowell County Nursing Home in Gary, West Virginia. Eddie was born on April 16, 1946 in Bluefield, West Virginia to the late Estill Carlton and Martha Ellen Roten Proffitt. Eddie was an avid listener and...
Jackie Lee Rash
Aug 16, 2018
Jackie Lee Rash, 76, of Ridgecrest Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on February 13, 1942 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Thurman and Laura Dooley Rash. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield. He was a member of the Brushfork First Church of God where he...
Sandra Rae Williams
Aug 13, 2018
Sandra Rae Bailey Williams, age 69, of Harley Drive, Princeton, WV died on Monday, August 13, 2018 at her home.Born on October 13, 1948, in Pageton, she was a daughter of the late Morris and Helen Shumate Bailey. She had lived in Anawalt for many years and was a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. In addition to her parents, she...
John E. Harris
Aug 10, 2018
John E. “Johnny” Harris, 45, of Pinnacle Lake Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday August 10, 2018.Born on December 26, 1972 in Bluefield, he was a son of Magdalene Akers Harris of Bluefield, WV and the late John Harris. He had been a lifelong resident of Nemours and had worked 23 years in the mining belt industry.In addition to...
Courtney Danielle Conley
Aug 10, 2018
On Friday, August 10, 2018, God called another sweet Angel home. Courtney Danielle Conley, 17, of Montcalm, West Virginia was killed tragically in a car accident.Courtney was born on March 08, 2001 in Bluefield, West Virginia, she was the daughter of Danny and Teressa Duncan Conley. Courtney was a senior at Montcalm High School, where she was a member of...
Michael Anthony Watkins
Aug 9, 2018
Michael Anthony Watkins, 58, of Littlesburg Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away at his home, suddenly in his sleep, on Thursday, August 9, 2018.Born on February 5, 1960 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Calvin Watkins and Betty Spence Shrader. He was a 1978 graduate of Bluefield High School and was employed by Cole’s Truck Parts in Bluefield....
Foster Lewis Tilley
Aug 7, 2018
Foster Lewis Tilley, 82, of Oakland Drive, Princeton, and formerly of Anawalt, passed away on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on August 13, 1935 in McDowell County, he was a son of the late Robert and Della Wyatt Tilley. He had been a resident of Princeton since 1999 but formerly lived in Anawalt. He was a...
James E. Clark, Sr.
Aug 7, 2018
James E. Clark, Sr., 68, of Airport Road, Bluefield, and formerly of Ada, passed away on Tuesday, August 7, 2018 at his home following a long illness surrounded by his family and friends.Born on October 25, 1949 in Stotsbury, WV, but had lived in Maryland until 1980 and then moved to Bluefield. He was a son of the late Lake...
Dorothy J. (Dot) Hale
Aug 6, 2018
Dorothy J. (Dot) Beard Hale, 93, of Bluewell, WV, passed away on August 6, 2018, following a lengthy illness. Dot was born October 21, 1924, in Bluefield, VA. She was the daughter of the late Lindsay L. and Ruby B. Beard. She married R. S. (Ruck) Hale on July 14, 1945 and was married 45 years until Ruck's death in...
Rev. Donald Randolph Bowles
Aug 2, 2018
Bowles, Rev. Donald Randolph (Don), 83, of the Welch-Pineville Road, passed away on Thursday, August 2, 2018. He was reunited in heaven with his son Duke who had passed on February 8, 1976. Donald, an evangelist and coal miner, retired from U.S. Steel number 50 mines in 1997, where he worked as a Roof Bolter. He ministered over the airwaves...
Douglas Eugene Blankenship
Aug 2, 2018
Douglas Eugene Blankenship, 74, of Pocahontas, VA, passed away on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital.Born on April 3, 1944 in Crystal, WV, he was a son of the late Pearl Gilmore. He had been a resident of Tazewell County for 22 years and was a retired truck driver and barber. He was also the co-owner, along with...
Frank Thomas Sexton
Aug 2, 2018
Frank Thomas Sexton, 94, of Freeman (Bramwell), West Virginia, passed away Thursday, August 2, 2018 at Veterans Care Center in Salem, Virginia. Born February 23, 1924 in Bluefield, West Virginia, Frank was the son of the late Mason and Bertha Harman Sexton. He had been a resident of Freeman/Bramwell for forty-five years and was of the Baptist faith. Frank served...
Hazel Pendleton
Aug 2, 2018
Hazel Pendleton, 85, of Bluefield, passed away on Thursday, August 2, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV.Born on August 6, 1932 in Pulaski, VA, she was a daughter of the late Charles C. and Blanch Vest Parsell. Hazel worked for the State of WV with the Department of Employment Security and retired after 35 years of service....
Judy Faye Hill
Aug 1, 2018
Judy Faye Hill, age 60, of Pinnacle View, Bluefield, WV died on Wednesday, August 1, 2018 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on December 23, 1957, in Bluefield, she was the daughter of the late James and Elizabeth Mary Lowe. .She had lived in Bluefield her entire life and was a devoted mother and grandmother. In addition to her parents,...
Mary Slovak
Jul 30, 2018
Mary Elizabeth Slovak, 69, of West Lafayette, OH, passed away Monday, July 30, 2018.She was the wife of the late David Slovak and was also preceded in death by her parents, Orin and Helen Whyde; a son, David, Jr.; a daughter, Christy Slovak; and one brother, David Whyde; and one sister, Myrna Whyde.Survivors include: 2 daughters, Pamela (Keith) Smith of...
Billie Ann Short
Jul 29, 2018
Our beautiful mother, grandmother and wife Billie Ann Hayton Short of Falls Mills, Virginia passed away Sunday, July 29, 2018, after a long battle with kidney cancer. She was born on August 10, 1942 to the late Bill and Annie (Jennings) Hayton in Pocahontas, Virginia, where Billie would spend her childhood and attend the high school “on the hill”. In...
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