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Lillie Mae Long
May 30, 2015
Lillie Mae Long, age 95, of Glen Wood Retirement Village, formerly of Maybeury, WV died on Saturday, May 30, 2015 at Glen Wood. Born on January 5, 1920, in Maybeury, she was a daughter of the late Joe and Sarah Avery Long. She had lived in Maybeury most of her life and was a member of Mount Moriah Baptist Church...
Rev. George Johnston
May 29, 2015
SANDLICK- On May 29, 2015, Rev. George H. Johnston was wrapped in the arms of the Angels and carried to Heaven to receive his Heavenly wings. George was born to the late George Andrew and Martha (O'Donnell) Johnston in Duhring, WV. In 1951, George met and later married the love of his life in 1955, Emma (Barnette) Johnston. He was...
Jackie Lee Shrader
May 25, 2015
Jackie Lee Shrader, 60, of Packing Plant Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Monday, May 25, 2015 at his residence. Jackie was born on October 16, 1954 in Bluefield, WV to Edward F. “Shog” Shrader and the late Helen Howard Shrader. Jackie had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield. He was a graduate of Beaver High School and was...
Ellen "Janie" Akers
May 24, 2015
Ellen Jane “Janie” Akers, 80 of Bluefield WV, died May 24, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Ellen was born February 10, 1935 in Bluefield, to the late Orville Denver Sutphin and Lector Mae Goforth Sutphin. She is preceded in death by her husband Raymon Harless Akers Jr. Janie was a lifelong resident of the area working at many area...
Edith Margaret Gills
May 23, 2015
Edith Margaret Gills, 87, of Lorton Lick Road, Bluefield, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, May 23, 2015 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on April 2, 1928 in Tralee, WV, she was a daughter of the late Roy L and Edith Henderson Albert. She was a charter member of the Voice of Praise Worship Center where she was...
Wayland Steven Gills
May 21, 2015
Wayland Steven Gills, 60, of New Hope Road, Hinton and formerly of Duhring, WV passed away on Thursday May 21, 2015 at his home. Born October 10, 1954 in Bluefield he was the son of the late Randolph Dayton and Katherine Leona Gills. Wayland was a continuous mine operator in the coal industry, attended the Church of Christ in Duhring...
Virginia "Jig" Ellen Gullett
May 20, 2015
Virginia Ellen “Jig” Johnson Gullett, 68, of Foy Bypass (Duhring), Bluefield, passed away on Wednesday, May 20, 2015 at her home. Born on February 7, 1947 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late John W. and Gracie Adkins Johnson. She had been a resident of Montcalm for 40 years and was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church....
Mary Elizabeth Bryant
May 18, 2015
Mary Elizabeth Goins Bryant, 94, of Clove Lane Statesville, NC and formerly of Gary, WV, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2015 at the Maple Leaf Health Care in Statesville, NC. Born on October 15, 1920 in Wilcoe, WV, she was a daughter of the late Muncy and Alpha Goins. She had been a resident of NC for 3 years...
John Edgar Levitt, Jr.
May 16, 2015
John Edgar Levitt, Jr., 83, of Fellowship Street (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Saturday, May 16, 2015 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on August 22, 1931 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late John Edgar Levitt, Sr. and Lorna Doone Levitt. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Bluewell and had been a resident...
James Edward Lowman
May 14, 2015
James Edward (Jimmy) Lowman, 90, of Bluewell, passed away peacefully on Thursday, May 14, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on December 8, 1924 in Betsy Layne, KY, he was the last surviving son of the late Roger and Florence Belcher Lowman. He was a retired conductor from Norfolk & Western Railways with 30 years of service. He was a...
Billy Ray Phillips
May 13, 2015
Billy Ray Phillips, age 63, of Pinnacle Lake Road, Bluefield, WV, died on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at his home. Born on February 20, 1953 in Raleigh County, he was a son of Sylvia Marie Jarrell Bailey of Oakvale Road, Princeton, WV and the late Richard F. Bailey. He had lived in Bluewell for the past 6 years and was...
Joseph Hamer
May 11, 2015
Jacksonville Florida - Joseph Hamer, 99 of Jacksonville Florida, formerly of Sandlick, Bluefield WV and Burk Mountain, Keystone WV, passed away May 11, 2015. He was born December 6, 1915 in Lancashire County, Kearsley England. He was born to the late James Hamer and Nellie Stockton Hamer. Joe and his family migrated from England to America when he was 6...
Mary Lillian Jennings
May 10, 2015
Mary Lillian Patrick Jennings, age 93, of Dogwood Village Nursing Home in Orange, VA died on Sunday, May 10, 2015 at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville, VA. Born in Coopers, WV, she was a daughter of the late Charles G. and Nannie E. Fowler Patrick. She was the fourth of eight children. She was married on December 7, 1942 to...
Cloy Dewayne Price
May 9, 2015
Cloy Dewayne “C.D.” Price, age 70, of Lakeland Drive, Bluefield, WV died on Saturday, May 9, 2015 at Christian Hands Adult Care in Princeton, WV. Born on July 27, 1944 in Weston, WV, he was a son of the late Rev. Haywood C. and Muriel L. Turner Price. He had lived in Bluefield since 1964 and was a retired salesman...
David Mac Bogle
May 8, 2015
David Mac Bogle, 58, of Bluefield, VA, died suddenly on Friday, May 8, 2015 at the Wake Forest Cancer Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Mac was born on November 20, 1956 in Bluefield; he was a son of Mary Frances Johnson Havens of Bland, VA. He had lived in Bluefield for the past 30 years and had worked for AEP for...
Rae Berneze Lester
May 7, 2015
Rae Berneze Shrader Lester, "Mamaw B", 95, of Sandlick, WV passed away May 7, 2015. She has joined her heavenly father, her beloved Earnest, and her friends. Berneze was born August 10, 1919 in Bluefield to K.B. and Forest Fielder Shrader. Berneze was a lifelong resident of Sandlick and a homemaker. She was a member of Sandlick United Methodist Church...
Paula Marie Booth
May 6, 2015
Bluefield- Paula Marie Booth, 34, of Bluefield, WV, passed away Wednesday May 6, 2015. Born December 27, 1980 in Bluefield, WV, she was the daughter of the late John William Woody, Sr. and Peggy Smith Woody Wright of Princeton, WV. Mrs. Booth was a lifelong member of the First Church of the Nazarene of Bluefield, WV where she was a...
Carline Woods
May 5, 2015
Carline Woods, age 73, of Gyro Road, Matoaka, WV died on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at his home. Born on August 10, 1941 in Freeman, WV, he was a son of the late Cletus E. and Mable L. Bailey Woods. He had lived in Matoaka for the past 27 years and was a member of the Deliverance Temple Church at...
William Joseph Hart
May 5, 2015
William Joseph Hart, 86, of Old Bramwell Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at the Princeton Health Care in Princeton. Born on February 19, 1929 in Horsepen, VA, he was a son of the late Wayne and Mary Graham Hart. He had been a resident of Bluefield since 1964 and was a retired truck driver and...
John H. Rodrian
May 5, 2015
John H. Rodrian, age 91 of Westerville, OH passed away Tuesday, May 5, 2015 in Bluffton, SC. Mr. Rodrian was born on August 14, 1923 in Pittsburgh, PA, the son of the late John Dunnun Rodrian and Jane Harris Rodrian. He was a veteran of the United States Army Air Force during WWII. He received his formal education from Carnegie...
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