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Benny Salpini
Mar 20, 2017
BELARIDINO (BENNY) SALPINI, 91, of McLean, VA and formerly of Welch, died peacefully in a group home care facility in McLean, VA on March 20, 2017 following an extended period of health issues related to severe Dementia. Born in Welch, WVA on January 29, 1926. Benny was a devoted Father and Husband for over 50 years. He will be remembered...
Betty Marie Pruett
Mar 19, 2017
Betty Marie Jennings Pruett, 48, of Happy Hollow Road Montcalm, WV passed away on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at her residence due to heart failure. Betty was born on June 29, 1968 in Bluefield, WV to Verney “Ray” Jennings of Montcalm and the late Phyllis Dunn Jennings. She had been a lifelong resident of Montcalm and was a member of...
Crystal Gail Thomas
Mar 17, 2017
Crystal Gail Thomas, 37, of Goodwins Chapel Road, Princeton, passed away on March 17, 2017. Born on December 17, 1979 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Jerry Lee and Patricia Gail Ford Thomas. She had been a resident of Princeton for 16 years and was a stay at home mom and wife. She had a special bond...
Seldon Edward French
Mar 10, 2017
Seldon Edward “Pelon” French, 49, of Radford, VA, passed away on Friday, March 10, 2017. Born on September 19, 1967 in Columbus, OH, he was a son of the late Martha Lynne Peery French of Bluefield and the late Cheaster Blaine Griffith of Bland, VA and step-father John French of Bland, VA. Seldon was always a self-employed hustler and hardworking...
Helen (Ginny) Virginia Goode
Mar 7, 2017
Helen Virginia (Ginny) Goode died Tuesday, March 07, 2017 at Glenwood Park Retirement Village in Princeton, WV. She moved to Glenwood Park Retirement Village in Princeton, May 31, 1995 from St. Albans, WV. Helen was born April 30, 1926 in Mount Hope, WV, moved to Norfolk, VA in 1944 and returned to West Virginia where she became affiliated with National...
Amber Reneé Terry
Mar 7, 2017
Amber Reneé Terry, 33, of Joppa Lane (Green Valley), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at Cabell Huntington Hospital from injuries sustained in a house fire. Born on March 25, 1983 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of Sandra Harless Mooney of Princeton and Daniel Albert Terry of Bluefield. She had been a resident of Green Valley...
Joyce Lee Martin
Mar 6, 2017
Joyce Lee Martin, 77, of Red Oak Ridge Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, March 6, 2017 at her home. Born on June 11, 1939, she was a daughter of the late Jake and Grace Gillespie Strong. She had been a resident of Red Oak Ridge for 60 years and was of the Holiness faith. She was a loving...
Olivia "Libby" Miller
Mar 5, 2017
Olivia (Libby) Miller, 71 of Falls Mills, VA died Sunday, March 5, 2017, at her residence. Born December 21, 1945 in Caretta, WV, she was the daughter of the late Clyde and Ida Conley. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt, and friend. In additions to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband...
Janice Lee Littleton
Mar 3, 2017
Janice Lee Littleton, 75, of Princeton, formerly of Rock, went home to rest from this earth on March 3, 2017. She was born on January 10, 1942 in Bluefield to the late John Carl and Sylvania Belcher Mays. She loved to watch Bob Smallwood on TV and enjoyed spending time with her family. In addition to her parents, she was...
Debbie Darlene Epperson
Feb 28, 2017
Debbie Darlene Epperson, age 59, of Mannering Road, Rock, WV (McComas) died on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on February 25, 1958, in Bluefield, WV, she was a daughter of the late Robert Junior and Lula Jane Dickerson Epperson. She had lived at McComas for the past 30 years and attended the Pentecostal Holiness Church....
Frances Alice Bowman
Feb 27, 2017
Frances Alice Bowman, 82, of Tuggle Hollow Road, Montcalm, passed away on Monday, February 27, 2017 at her home. Born on December 25, 1934 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Lona Poore Church. She had been a lifelong resident of Montcalm and was a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death...
Jackie "Tre" Michael Whitehead, III
Feb 27, 2017
Jackie “Treʹ” Michael Whitehead, III went to be with his Lord on Monday, February 27, 2017 after succumbing to the injuries he sustained in a car accident. He was born, Tuesday, January 19, 1999 in Mercer County, WV, a son of Samantha Whitehead Pruett and Jackie M. Whitehead, Jr. of Bluefield, VA. Tre’ was kind, thoughtful, funny, cheerful, energetic, athletic,...
Gabriel Elijah Hagerman
Feb 23, 2017
Gabriel Elijah Hagerman, 10, of Lonesome Pine Road, Rock, WV, passed away from injuries sustained in a UTV accident. Born on August 9, 2006 in Princeton, he was a son of Glenn David Hagerman, II of Rock and Kerri Dillon Hodges of Charleston. He had been a resident of Rock for all of his life and was a fifth grade...
Hubert Fred Stepp
Feb 21, 2017
Hubert Fred Stepp, 89 of 152 Don Minnix Lane (Bluewell) Bluefield, WV died on Tuesday February 21st with his loving son Benjamin Timothy Stepp. Born November 1st, 1927 in Louisa KY, he was the son of the late Benjamin Harrison Stepp and Effie Wooten Stepp Wilbur. Mr. Stepp was a caring husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, and friend. He served...
Benjamin Timothy Stepp
Feb 21, 2017
Benjamin Timothy Stepp,54 of 152 Don Minnix Lane (Bluewell) Bluefield, WV died on Tuesday February 21 at home with his loving father Hubert Fred Stepp. Born April 12, 1962 in Bluefield WV, he was the son of Hubert Fred Stepp and the late Audrey "Bobbie" Tabor Stepp. Mr. Stepp was a graduate of Bluefield High School and attended Bluefield State...
Ardith Smith
Feb 21, 2017
Ardith Smith, 88, of Cola Avenue (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, went to be with her Lord and Master on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on May 23, 1928 in Rock, she was a daughter of the late Edgar and Gwen Lusk Parker. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bluewell and was a...
Janice L. Stevens Burress
Feb 19, 2017
Janice L. Stevens Burress, age 72 of Prophetstown, IL formerly of Montcalm, WV passed away Sunday, February 19, 2017. Janice was born on August 13, 1944 in Montcalm, West Virginia, the daughter of Frank and Mamie Stevens. She married Edward Kenneth Burress on October 30, 1960 in Bluefield, Virginia. Janice was a homemaker all her life In addition to her...
Verlie Maynard Beckner
Feb 18, 2017
Verlie Maynard Beckner, 67, of Bluefield, WV passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2017 at Glenwood Park Nursing and Rehabilitation after a long illness. Verlie was born on July 13, 1949 in Bluefield, WV to Elsie Harless Beckner and the late Verlie Beckner. He had been a resident of Bluefield for the past ten years. He is preceded in death...
Troy Wilson Poff
Feb 15, 2017
Troy Wilson “T Roy” Poff, 95, of Terrie Haute, IN, and formerly of Bramwell, passed away on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 in Indiana. Born on June 1, 1921 in the Godfrey area of McComas, he was a son of the late Robert Bob and Mary E. Dalton Poff. He had lived in Indiana for 5 years but had lived in...
Leonard Junious Mitchell
Feb 14, 2017
Leonard Junious Mitchell, 83, of Bluefield, WV passed away on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, WV. Leonard was born on March 20, 1933 in Bramwell, WV to the late Sallie Jenkins Mitchell. He had been a resident of Mercer County for most of his life and a retired coal miner with US Steel in Gary,...
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