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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...
Jacob "Tyler" Ramsey Pugh
Sep 27, 2018
How to define a life? By how many people love and cherish you? By the impacts you make at work, school, or at home? By the kind and intelligent manner you approach life?"Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then...
Vicky Ann Sizemore
Sep 25, 2018
Vicky Ann Sizemore, 56, of Bluefield, passed away on Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at her home.Born on June 17, 1962 in Idaho, she was a daughter of the late Ace and Maxine Bryant Sizemore and had been a resident of Bluefield for 30 years. She was preceded in death by 5 brothers.Survivors include her daughter, Jessica Sizemore Bailey and Aaron...
Patricia Bowles
Sep 23, 2018
Patricia Bowles lost her battle with cancer on September 22, 2018. She was 71 years old. Patricia was born October 12, 1946, in Bluefield, West Virginia. She was a graduate of North Fork High School, Class of 1964, and Concord College, Class of 1970. She was resident of Elkhorn for most of her life and spent nearly 40 years teaching...
Robert Lee Hurley
Sep 22, 2018
Robert Lee Hurley, 38 of Bluefield, passed away on September 22, 2018.Robert was survived by parents, Sandra Hurley of Brushfork and John Hurley of Sandlick; sisters, Tonya Watkins and husband; Katlyn Hurley, Alex Hurley; Grandparents are the late Bessie and Woodrow Hurley; Faye and Kenneth Gilley of Glenwood; several aunts and uncles; two nephews, Jacob Hurley and wife; Paul Watkins;...
Danny Norman Ferguson
Sep 21, 2018
Danny Norman Ferguson, 76, of Fairview Street, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Friday, September 21, 2018 at his home.Born on April 15, 1942 in Bluefield, WV, he was a son of the late Claude Gilbert and Gladys Blanche Ramey Ferguson. He had been a resident of Bluefield, VA since 1964 and attended the Church of God. He was retired from...
Robert Tuell
Sep 19, 2018
Robert A. Tuell, 71, passed into eternal rest on Wednesday, September 19, 2018 from complications of Alzheimer's disease, at Hubbard House West, S. Charleston.Born and raised in McDowell County, where he taught school until retiring in 2008 and moved to Kanawha County.He was preceded in death by his parents Robert E. and Erlene Tuell, also educators.Surviving to cherish his memory...
Alvin Lee Grose
Sep 18, 2018
Alvin Lee Grose, 66, of New Hope Road, Bluefield, went to his heavenly home unexpectedly September 18th 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, WV. Alvin was born in Worth, WV on February 10th 1952. Alvin was a devoted, loving and faithful husband and best friend to his wife of 44 years. His sons Matthew, Andrew and Daughter-In-Law Krystal were...
Lacy Lee Brooks
Sep 18, 2018
Lacy Lee Brooks, Bluefield, WV, went to be with the Lord on September 18, 2018. He was born May 10, 1947 to Lacy H. and Ila Louise Cook Brooks. A 1965 graduate of Glen Rogers High School, he gave up playing basketball in high school in order to sing in a quartet. Having accepted Christ as his Savior at a...
Roy Mitchell Jones
Sep 15, 2018
Roy Mitchell Jones, age 95, of Radford, VA, formerly of Coalwood, WV, died on Saturday, September 15, 2018 at his home.Born on July 11, 1923, in Coalwood, WV, he was a son of the late Cleve and Sarah Dalton Jones. He had lived in Coalwood for 94 years of his life and was a retired coal miner with 45 years...
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