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Zina Mae Miller
Nov 15, 2016
Zina Mae Miller, 73, of Lombardy Road, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on February 22, 1943 in Pageton, she was a daughter of the late Fred Lee and Hazel Dean Parks. She had been a resident of Springville for 56 years and was a member of the Tip Top Church...
Larry M. Kinzer
Nov 9, 2016
Larry M. Kinzer, 74 of Bluewell, WV passed away Wednesday, November 9, 2016, at The Maples Nursing Home. He had lived at 262 Bluewell Ave. with his wife, Mary, for 43 years. Born April 6, 1942, in Montcalm, WV, he was the son of Ezra Kinzer and Nellie Riggs Kinzer. Larry was educated in McDowell County Schools. He was of...
Rosa "Biboo" Corte
Nov 7, 2016
Rosa “Biboo” Corte, 92, of Fawn Circle, Bluefield, VA, formerly of Kimball, passed away on Monday, November 7, 2016. Born on October 19, 1924 in Kimball, she was a daughter of the late Nick and Anna Toman Strock. She had been a resident of Bluefield, VA since 1996 and was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bluefield,...
Lillian Richardson Bourne
Nov 7, 2016
Lillian Richardson Bourne, of Bluefield, WV, passed away Monday, November 7, 2016, at Princeton Community Hospital. Born October 2, 1932, in Bluefield, WV, she was the daughter of the late Alexander and Ella Richardson. In addition to her parents, she also was preceded in death by husband Steve Bourne, Sr., granddaughter Jamie R. Bourne, brother Jack Richardson, sisters Virginia Wysor...
Beatrice Murle Cardwell
Nov 6, 2016
Beatrice Murle Cardwell, 45, of Rock Road Montcalm passed away on Sunday, November 06, 2016 at her residence. Beatrice was born on August 06, 1971 in Charleston to Ottie and Shirley Tyler. Beatrice had been formerly employed as a CNA. Survivors include: her parents Ottie Lee and Shirley Jean Spears Tyler of Beckley; daughter Nicole Sumrall of Montcalm; grandson Jesse...
Roxie Helen Marrs
Nov 6, 2016
Roxie Helen Marrs, age 77, of Boissevain, VA, died on Sunday, November 6, 2016 at Mercer Nursing and Rehab Center.Born on April 5, 1939 in Brewsterdale, WV, she was the daughter of the late Davis and Rosie Nunley Bowman. She had lived in Boissevain since 1971 and was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith. In addition to her parents, she was...
Vickie Jane Lunsford
Oct 29, 2016
Vickie Jane Lunsford, 65, of Coal Heritage Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia. Vickie was born on Friday, November 24, 1950 in Ennis, West Virginia to the late Isaiah and Evelyn Lambert Knight. Vickie had been a lifelong resident of the Bluefield area and was of the...
Wendy Ann Booth
Oct 29, 2016
Wendy Ann Booth, age 36, of Bluefield, WV, died on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on August 10, 1980, in Bluefield, WV, she was a daughter of Herbert and Venus Mullins Justice. She had lived in Bluefield her entire life and was a member of the Roderfield Pentecostal Holiness Church. Survivors: Sons: Barry Booth, Jr....
Alice Virginia Lockhart
Oct 29, 2016
Alice Virginia Nester Lockhart, 92, of Gastonia, North Carolina and formerly of Welch and Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2016 at Brookdale New Hope Assisted Living in Gastonia, North Carolina. She was born on March 22, 1924 in Coaldale, West Virginia and was the daughter of the late Kelse and Hattie Mahaffey Nester. Alice attended Elkhorn...
Eugene Garland Lavender
Oct 22, 2016
Eugene Garland Lavender, age 88, of Bramwell Hill Road, Bramwell, WV died on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on June 14, 1928, in Upland, WV, he was a son of the late Albert E. and Reytha Hutton Lavender. He had lived in Bramwell for the past 65 years and was a member of the Bramwell...
Mona Elizabeth Taylor
Oct 20, 2016
Mona Elizabeth Owrey Taylor, age 65, of Glenwood Park Road, Princeton, WV expired at Princeton Community Hospital on October 20, 2016, after an extended illness. Born April 2, 1951 in Elkhorn, West Virginia, she was the daughter of Charles Henry Owrey and Mona Elizabeth Moreton Owrey. Mona was a graduate of Northfork High School, Concord College and West Virginia University,...
Lewis Henry Simons
Oct 19, 2016
Lewis Henry Simons, 93, of Kade Hollow Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on February 5, 1923 in Crozier, VA, he was a son of the late Fred and Margaret Blevins Simons. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 30 years and was a member of the Montcalm Church of...
Richard Eugene Roark, Sr.
Oct 17, 2016
Richard Eugene Roark, Sr., 52, of Princeton, WV, passed away on Monday, October 17, 2016 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on December 28, 1963 in Bluefield, he was a son of Irene Pruitt Roark of Marion, OH and the late Billy E. Roark. He had been a resident of Princeton for 18 years and loved fishing, his family and his...
Donna Gail Calabro
Oct 13, 2016
Donna Gail Calabro, 74, of Wilson St. Yadkinville, North Carolina formerly of Welch, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, October 13, 2016 at her residence. Donna had been a resident of North Carolina since 1997 and was a retired LPN. Donna was born on August 19, 1942 in Iaeger, West Virginia to the late James and Lenora Roberts Caskey. In...
Barbara Jean Parish
Oct 12, 2016
Barbara Jean Parish, 67, of, Dublin, VA, passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at her home. Born on July 7, 1949 in Bridgeton, NJ, she was a daughter of Thelma Dooley of New Jersey and the late Fletcher Dooley. She been a resident of Dublin for 6 years and attended the Max Creek Baptist Church in Draper. She was...
Patricia Gail Thomas
Oct 11, 2016
Patricia (Teresa) Gail Thomas, 58, of Woody Mobile Home Park Green Valley (Bluefield), WV. passed away on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at her residence. Momma T was born on October 22, 1957 in Bluefield, WV to the late Clarence Hiland Ford and Minnie Ulden Dishman Ford. Momma T had been a resident of Green Valley for the past ten years...
Katherine Lorraine Horvath
Oct 11, 2016
Katherine Lorraine Perdue Horvath, age 55, of Boissevain, VA, formerly of Bramwell, WV, passed away Thursday, October 11, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on April 13, 1961, in Wilmington, Delaware, she was a daughter of the late Maurice Kermit and Frances Lorraine Perry Perdue. She was a homemaker most of her life and was a very dedicated wife,...
Betty Ann Tiller
Oct 10, 2016
Betty Ann Tiller, 67, of Airy Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, October 10, 2016 at the GlenWood Park Retirement Village in Princeton. Born on December 16, 1948 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of the late Henry Leonard and Annie Elizabeth Hall. She had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a homemaker. She attended Edgemont...
William O. "Billy" Tabor, Jr.
Oct 6, 2016
William Oscar “Billy” Tabor, Jr., 43, of Stoney Ridge Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, October 6, 2016 at his home. Born on January 14, 1973 in Aurora, IL, he was a son of William O. “Bill” Tabor, Sr. and Louise Privett Tabor. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and attended the Mowles Chapel Church. He was...
Doris June Pigg
Oct 4, 2016
Doris June Pigg, 89, of Sandlick, passed away on Tuesday, October 4, 2016 at Cassells’s Board and Care in Princeton. Born on May 3, 1927 in Sandlick, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Eva Elizabeth Poe Surface. She had been resident of Sandlick for most of her life and was a homemaker. She was a member of...
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