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Edward Preston Sizemore, Jr.
Mar 31, 2018
Edward Preston Sizemore, Jr., 92, went to his heavenly home on March 31, 2018 in the presence of his loving family.Born on May 14, 1925, he was a son of the late Edward Preston and Peggy Jane Green Sizemore. He was an active member of the Pen Ridge Baptist Church as long as health permitted. He was an avid hunter...
Penelope "Penny" Athena Shrewsbury
Mar 28, 2018
Penelope Athena “Penny” Shrewsbury, 75, of Montcalm, passed away on Wednesday, March 28, 2018 at her home.
Born on December 24, 1942 in Washington, DC, she was a daughter of the late Harry and Emma Virginia Liptrap Fardoulis. She had been a resident of Montcalm for 45 years and was a member of the Montcalm Pentecostal Holiness Church. She...
Brandon Kirk Athey
Mar 23, 2018
Brandon Kirk Athey, age 33 from Princeton, WV passed away on March 23, 2018 in Charleston, WV. Born February 12, 1985 in Beckley WV, he was the son of Debra Milam Taylor of Princeton, WV and Kirk Athey of Martinsville VA. He was a Princeton High School graduate class of 2004. Brandon was an avid fisherman and loved selling cars...
Douglas W. Miller, Sr.
Mar 23, 2018
Douglas W. Miller, Sr., 78, of French Street (Bluewell), passed away on Friday, March 23, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on June 10, 1939 in Mercer County, he was a son of the late Tom Miller, Sr. and Pearl Helmandollar Miller. He had been a resident of Bluewell for 17 years and was an US Army Veteran serving...
Teddy Ray Rose
Mar 19, 2018
Teddy Ray Rose, 77, of Princeton, West Virginia (Glenwood) entered into heaven on Monday, March 19, 2018 in Charleston, WV. Teddy was born on March 29, 1940 in Davy, West Virginia to the late Jeston Corbett and Viola Bell Walker Rose. On March 18, 1963 he married the love of his life Ruby Carol Blankenship in Lebanon, Virginia. Teddy graduated...
Thomas Dewey Matney
Mar 17, 2018
Thomas "Tommy" Dewey Matney, age 69 of Princeton WV, passed away on March 17th in Bristol TN. Tommy was born in Ieager, WV to Kennis and Lou Jane Matney on 10/31/1948. He was married to Dinah Lynn Matney (Bailey) on March 31st 1973 in Grundy VA. He was a Vietnam Veteran with the US Army and earned medals in National...
Douglas Mason Bailey
Mar 17, 2018
Bluefield- Douglas Mason Bailey, 76, of Bluefield, WV passed away Saturday March 17, 2018 at Westwood Nursing Home. Born June 3, 1941 in Bluefield, WV he was a son of the late Ernest and Virginia Coeburn Bailey. Doug was of the Baptist faith and a proud veteran of the Vietnam War and was an accomplished Butcher. Survivors include his brother;...
Elizabeth Shrader Jones
Mar 15, 2018
Elizabeth Shrader Jones, 93, of Duhring, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, March 15, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia.Elizabeth was born December 31, 1924 in Mercer County, West Virginia to the late Luther Shrader and Lila Arrington Shrader. She had been a resident of Duhring for most of her life. Elizabeth had been a member...
William Lee "Bill" Willis
Mar 14, 2018
William (Bill) Lee Willis, age 80 passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at Bluefield Regional Hospital in Bluefield.He was born on August 11th 1937, in Ashland, WV to Charlie and Julia Willis. He graduated from Andrew Lewis High School in Roanoke, Virginia. On June 27, 1962 he married Christina Ameli Willis where they resided in Bluewell, WV raising...
Joyce Sue Brock
Mar 11, 2018
Bluefield- Joyce Sue Brock, 61, of Bluefield, WV and formerly of Princeton, WV, passed away Sunday March 11, 2018 at the Maples Nursing Home.Born July 4, 1956 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Everett Erie and Ruthe Davis Harman. Joyce was a formerly employed by SBR Corporation and Dish Network.In addition to her parents; she was preceded...
Kathleen Marie Bowman
Mar 7, 2018
Kathleen Marie Bowman, 89, of Lorton Lick Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, March 07, 2018 at Westwood Health Care in Bluefield, Virginia. Kathleen was born on June 24, 1928 in Mercer County, West Virginia to the late Roby and Maudie Riggs Helmandollar. She was a member of the Montcalm Pentecostal Holiness Church in Montcalm, West Virginia. She...
Ted Gordon Black
Mar 6, 2018
Ted Gordon Black, 77 of Bland, VA, passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at his home. Born on June 5, 1940 in McComas, he was a son of the late John Sylvester and Mary Addie Dunford Black. He had been a resident of Bland for 18 years and was a retired foreman for New River Casting Company and was...
Barbara Jean Kenley
Mar 5, 2018
Barbara Jean Kenley, 80, of Dry Fork Road, Rocky Gap, VA, passed away on Monday, March 5, 2018 at her home.
Born on April 30, 1937 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late Theodore R. and Thelma Gay Eller. She had been a resident of Rocky Gap for 36 years and was a retired bus driver for Tazewell...
Mildred Lucille Mitchell
Mar 3, 2018
Bluefield- Mildred Lucille “Lucy” Barrett Mitchell, 79, of 142 Broyles Cemetery Road, Bluefield, WV, departed her earthly home and transitioned to her heavenly one on March 3, 2018, at Bowers Hospice House, Beckley, WV after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. She was born on a snowy Monday morning, February 6, 1939 in Nemours, WV, to the late George...
Antonette (Toni) Simplicio
Mar 3, 2018
George Curletto, an Internationally renowned musician and prolific composer, residing in Northwest Washington, D.C. since 1969, life member of both the New York Local 802 and the Washington, D.C. Local 161-710 of the International Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, is with great sorrow announcing to the entire family, all relatives and friends, as well as to...
Zenith Chilco
Mar 2, 2018
Zenith Chilco, age 98, of Bluewell WV went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 2, 2018 at the Christian Care in Princeton, WV.
She was born on March 25, 1919 in War, WV, she was a daughter of Oscar and Rosa Caves Byrd. She was a loving housewife and mother. She had been a resident of...
Ellen Jane Glovier
Feb 27, 2018
Ellen Jane Glovier, 72, of Northfork, WV, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital after a long illness. Born on January 14, 1946 in Bramwell, WV, she was a daughter of the late Dewey and Thelma Taylor Hess. She had been a lifelong resident of Northfork, WV and was of the Christian...
Tony Lesly Hicks
Feb 26, 2018
Tony Lesly Hicks, 60, of Black Oak Road Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Monday, February 26, 2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Tony was born on May 06, 1957 in Bluefield, WV to the late Sherman and Ruth Spicer Hicks. He was a retired truck driver; In addition to his father he was preceded in death by one brother Joseph...
Linda Juanita Davis
Feb 26, 2018
Princeton- Linda Juanita Farmer Davis, 70, of Princeton, WV passed away Monday February 26, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born February 8, 1948 in Welch she was a daughter of the late Vernal “Preacher” Farmer and Virginia “Jenny” Davis Farmer.Linda was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Princeton and had retired from Eddie Asbury Coal Co. as a Bookkeeper...
Angelia Dawn Casey
Feb 25, 2018
Angelia Dawn Casey, 41, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, February 25, 2018.Angelia was born Wednesday, December 29, 1976 in Bluefield, West Virginia to Darlene Frost Casey Newton and the late Clyde Casey, Sr. She attended Bluewell Baptist Church and a hardworking single mother whom always did her best for her family. She was preceded in death by...
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