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Clara Ruth Dinger
Apr 30, 2017
Clara Ruth Bailey Dinger, 92, of Goodwill Hollow Road (Duhring), Rock, WV, died from injuries sustained in a fall at her home in Duhring WV, on April 30, 2017 at 12:45pm. Born April 28, 1925 in Buckeye WV, she was the daughter of the late Cletus E. Bailey and Lora J. Duncan Bailey. She had been a resident of Mercer...
Carolyn L. Neal
Apr 28, 2017
Carolyn L. Neal, 62, of Bluefield (Green Valley), West Virginia passed away Friday, April 28, 2017 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, West Virginia. Carolyn was born on March 27, 1955 in Bluefield, West Virginia to the late Clifford Bailey and Clara May Cornett Bailey Sells. She had been a resident of Bluefield for the past 25 years and was...
Frances Priscilla Presley
Apr 28, 2017
Frances Priscilla Presley, age 89, of Ball Field Road, Anawalt, WV died on Friday, April 28, 2017 at her home. Born on July 7, 1927, in Thorpe, she was a daughter of the late Tom and Fannie Adams Dinkins. She had lived in Anawalt for the past 66 years and was of the Methodist faith. She was a devoted wife,...
John Priestly Rose, Jr.
Apr 26, 2017
John Priestly Rose, Jr., 83, of Tank Hollow Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at his residence. John was born on December 27, 1933 in St. Charles, Virginia to the late John P. Rose, Jr. and Eva Whitt Rose. He had been a resident of Mercer County since 2001. He attended Southview Church and served...
Clarence Cataline
Apr 26, 2017
Clarence Cataline, 60, of Brushfork Road, Falls Mills, VA, passed away on Wednesday, April 26, 2017 at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Born on May 17, 1956 in Belle, CA, he was a son of Jesse Cataline of Cleveland, OH and Helen Gail Burnopp of Princeton. He had been a resident of Falls Mills for 30...
Rosa Compaleo
Apr 26, 2017
Rosa Mary Compaleo 80, passed away Wednesday April 26th at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. She was born in Wilco WV on September 7th, 1936 the daughter of the late Patsy and Carmella Compaleo. She worked for 20 years at Kroger's in Bluefield and Patsy's place in Keystone. She was a faithful member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Powhatan...
Pansy Marie Vest
Apr 24, 2017
Pansy Marie Vest, 70, of Matoaka Road, Rock, WV, passed away on Monday, April 24, 2017 at the Westwood Center in Bluefield, VA. Born on January 5, 1947 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late Wesley and Violet Marie Roark Taylor. She had been a resident of Rock for 8 years and was a former employee of Frankie’s...
Martha Williams
Apr 24, 2017
Martha Johnson Williams, widow of Thomas Theodore (Ted) Williams, Sr., of Abbs Valley departed this life April 24, 2017. She was born August 27, 1922, in Jenkinjones, West Virginia, and was the lone survivor of the eight children of Bertie and Willie Johnson. She is survived by son Thomas T. (Sonny) Williams, Jr. and wife Patricia of Richmond, VA. daughter...
Curtis Spinella
Apr 24, 2017
Curtis Ellwood Spinella, 80, of Flat Top, WV, passed away on Monday, April 24, 2017 after an extended stay at the VA Medical Center in Beckley.Born on March 22, 1937 in Switchback, he was a son of the late Joseph and Mary Martin Spinella. He had been a resident of Flat Top since 2005 and was a member of the...
Sue Smith
Apr 23, 2017
Evangelist Sue G. Baber-Bohin-Gray-Smith, 90, of Bluefield, WV passed away Sunday, April 23, 2017 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Sue was born on December 06, 1926 in Banner, VA to the late Silas Baber and Eliza Compton Baber. She was an Evangelist for many years and the Pastor of Good News Chapel for three years. She was...
Lonnie R. Gentry
Apr 23, 2017
Lonnie R. Gentry, 71, of Crumpler, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, April 23, 2017 at his residence. Lonnie was born on October 11, 1945 in Crumpler, West Virginia to the late Roby S. Gentry and Daphna Reed Gentry. He was a former coal miner and a member of Local Union #6033. He was of the Baptist faith. In addition...
Virgie Charlotte Riffe
Apr 21, 2017
Virgie Charlotte Riffe, 94, of Bluefield, WV, and formerly of Falls Mills, VA, entered eternal life on Friday, April 21, 2017 and rests in the arms of God. Born on March 31, 1923 in Wyoming County, she was a daughter of the late Arthur and Elsie Lester Riffe. Charlotte was a devoted wife, mother, sister, daughter, and grandmother. She was...
William Foster Farley
Apr 20, 2017
William Foster Farley, age 42, of Haynes Road, Bramwell, WV died on Thursday, April 20, 2017 at his home. Born on May 9, 1974, in Bluefield, he was a son of Mary Jane Akers Farley of Princeton, WV and the late Billy P. Farley. He had been a resident of Bramwell for the past 14 years and was a truck...
Walter Edward Oiler, Sr.
Apr 18, 2017
Walter Edward Oiler, Sr., 74, of Montcalm, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at Princeton Community Hospital. Walter was born on July 10, 1942 in Goodwill, West Virginia to the late Charles and Carrie Perkins Oiler. He had been a resident of Montcalm for the past 45 years and had been employed by Lusk Deposal as a...
Leonard "Shep" Monroe Thomason
Apr 16, 2017
Leonard Monroe “Shep” Thomason, Sr., 72, of Captain St. Bluefield, WV passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2017 at his residence. Shep was born on December 02, 1944 in Crumpler, West Virginia to the late Robert Lee Thomason and Willie Mae Simons Thomason. He had been a resident of Bluefield, WV for the past 29 years and was a retired...
Kenneth Wayne Powers
Apr 15, 2017
Kenneth Wayne Powers, 64, of Collinsville, Illinois passed away on Saturday, April 15, 2017 at his residence. Kenneth was born on June 23, 1952 in Warrior Mines, West Virginia to Nellie Powers. He was a 1970 graduate of Big Creek High School. After high school Kenneth served his county in the United States Air force. Kenneth was employed as a...
Ernest Chizmar
Apr 14, 2017
Ernest Chizmar, 86, of Camilla Drive (Bluewell), (6/15/30 – 4/14/17) passed away Friday, April 14, 2017 at Bluefield Regional Hospital. He was the son of John Andrew and Bertha Horvath Chizmar. He was a graduate of Elkhorn High School and a veteran of the US Marines. He was a member of the Princeton Elks. He enjoyed his career with Consolidation...
Shirley Louise Harman
Apr 14, 2017
Shirley Louise Harman of White Birch Lane, Bluefield WV passed away April 14, 2017 in St Joseph, MO surrounded by her children. Born April 22, 1940, she was a daughter of John and Cora Beckner. She was preceded in death her husband David M. Harman. Shirley was a homemaker and a loving Mother. She was employed by the Mercer County...
Archie "Jr" Amos Thompson
Apr 14, 2017
Archie 'Jr' Amos Thompson, Jr, 58 of Ingleside Road, Bluefield, WV passed away Friday April 14, 2017. Born in Bluefield, WV on May 4, 1958, he was the son of the late Archie Amos Thompson, Sr. and the late Minnie Abbatiello Taylor Thompson. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Frankie Taylor; one sister,...
Lillian Mae Dollinger
Apr 10, 2017
Lillian Mae Dollinger, 84, of Wedgewood Drive, Princeton, and formerly of Jenkinjones, passed away on Monday, April 10, 2017 at her home. Born on July 11, 1932 in Anawalt, she was a daughter of the late Hush and Rebecca Whittacre Hughes. She had been a resident of Princeton for 5 years and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church. ...
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