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Nancy E. O'Dell
Feb 21, 2015
ROANOKE, VA - On Saturday, February 21, 2015, Nancy E. O'Dell, (Nant), 72, of Roanoke, Virginia went home to be with her Lord and Savior. She was surrounded by her family as she passed peacefully. She put up a strong fight for many years but never once lost her faith or the compassion she felt toward others. Nancy was a...
Samuel Turner Lane, Jr.
Feb 20, 2015
Samuel Turner Lane, Jr. 46, of Shop Street, Princeton, passed away on February 20, 2015 at his home from injuries sustained in a house fire. Born on August 20, 1968 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Samuel Lane, Sr. and Faye Lester Lane. He had been a resident of Princeton for 20 years and was a graduate...
Ronnie E. Gibberson
Feb 19, 2015
Ronnie E. Gibberson, 73, of Perdue Hollow Road (Brushfork), Bluefield, passed away on Thursday, February 19, 2015 at his home. Born on January 26, 1942 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Frank and Ruth Perdue Gibberson. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a member of the Brushfork Baptist Church. He was a retired...
Deliah Joyce Wooldridge
Feb 18, 2015
Deliah “ Joyce” Sheets Wooldridge, age 81, of Horizon Street, Bluefield, WV died on Wednesday, February 18, 2015 at her home. Born on January 19, 1934 in North Carolina, she was a daughter of the late Ellis and Inis Wallace Sheets. She was a graduate of Gary High School, was a member of Conklintown Church of God most of her...
John Marion Harman, III
Feb 16, 2015
John Marion Harman, III, 67, of Anderson Drive, Princeton, WV, passed away on Monday, February 16, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center with his family by his side. Born on July 10, 1947 in Bluefield, he was a son of Dorothy Hazeltine Bogle Harman of Bluefield and the late John Marion Harman, Jr. He had been a lifelong resident of...
Nancy Louise Webb
Feb 16, 2015
Pageton, WV- Nancy Louise Webb, 77, of River Road, Pageton, passed away Monday February 16, 2015 at a Bluefield hospital. Born August 4, 1937 in Abbs Valley, VA. She was a daughter of the late George and Pheaby Shultz Shrader. She was of the Church of God faith, a devoted homemaker, and had been a resident of Pageton for over...
Doris Reed
Feb 16, 2015
Doris Sue Reed, 76, of Leatherwood Lane, Bluefield, VA, went home to be with her Savior on Monday, February 16, 2015 at her home. Born on May 15, 1938 in Wytheville, VA, she was a daughter of the late Lacy Lane and Sarah Crigger. She attended Grace United Methodist Church in Bluefield until her health declined. She was a loving...
Gwen "Sis" Williams
Feb 16, 2015
Gwen “Sis” Williams, 71, of Falls Church, VA, and formerly of Windmill Gap, VA, known by family as “Sis” passed away on Monday, February 16th at Fairfax Hospital. She was born and raised in Windmill Gap, WV, but had lived in Falls Church, VA most of her life. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Ozella and...
Mary Lou Wilson
Feb 15, 2015
Mary Lou Wilson, 81, of Grand Prairie, Texas formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio and Canebrake, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, February 15, 2015 at Community Hospice in Burleson Texas. Born on January 11, 1934 in Canebrake, WV, she was a Daughter of Fred H. and Venie Harrison Fowler. She was a member of St. Andrews United Methodist Church in Arlington,...
Jeffrey Whitehead
Feb 13, 2015
Jeffrey Main Whitehead, age 59, known to family and friends as JDUBB was born March 1, 1955 to the late Jack and Ethel Sue Peoples of Bluefield WV. Jeffrey was a native of the area as he was called home to glory on Friday, February 13, 2015 He spent a lifetime building a Legacy of Leading the Way, Providing, Protecting,...
Roy Melvin Kade
Feb 12, 2015
Roy Melvin Kade, 74, of Kade Hollow Road, Bluefield, passed away on Thursday, February 12, 2015 at the Beckley’s Veteran’s Administration Hospital. Born on May 16, 1940 in Montcalm, he was a son of the late Ernest and Chloie Bibey Kade. He was a veteran of the US Army. He is survived by 5 living children: Mrs. Teddy (Melva) Atkins...
William Arnold "Bud" Perdue
Feb 12, 2015
William Arnold “Bud” Perdue, 87, of Airport Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, February 12, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on September 23, 1927 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late W.H. “Bill” and Katherine Burnopp Perdue. He had been a resident of Bluefield all of his life and was retired in 1990 from American Electric...
James David Coeburn
Feb 12, 2015
James David Coeburn, Jr., 61, of Lambert Hollow Road, Montcalm, passed away on Thursday, February 12, 2015 at his home. Born on August 19, 1953 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late James David Coeburn, Sr. and Nellie Mary Lusk Coeburn. He had been a resident of Montcalm his entire life and was of the Pentecostal Holiness faith....
Alan Eugene Underwood
Feb 11, 2015
Alan Eugene Underwood 57 of 4th Street Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Alan was born on September 17, 1957 in Welch, West Virginia to the late Paul and Betty Osborne Underwood. He had been a resident of Bluefield for the past five years. In addition to...
Roland Wayne Tiller
Feb 10, 2015
Roland “Wayne” Tiller, 59, of Old Pisgah Road, Princeton, passed away on Tuesday, February 10, 2015 at his home. Born on April 23, 1955 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late William Roland and Annie Eloise Carver Tiller. He had been a resident of Princeton for 6 years and was disabled. He formerly worked as a general laborer...
Benjamin Hassel Williams, Jr.
Feb 4, 2015
Benjamin Hassel Williams Jr., 48 of Forty Foot Street Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, February 04, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Benjamin was born on March 29, 1966 in Logan, WV to Edna Baisden Ellis and the late Benjamin Hessel Williams Sr. Benjamin was employed by Wal-Mart in Princeton, WV as a Tire Tec. In addition to his...
Russell Everett Lucas, Jr.
Feb 2, 2015
Russell Everett Lucas Jr, 42, of Top Street Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Monday, February 02, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Russell was born on May 16, 1972 in Emporia, Virginia to Ella Pearl Slivers Lucas and the late Russell E. Lucas Sr. Russell has been a resident of Bluefield for the past years and recently started attended...
Margaret Helen Burger
Jan 31, 2015
Margaret Helen Burger, 83, of Crumpler, passed away on Saturday, January 31, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on July 10, 1931 in WV, she was a daughter of the late John and Hazel Prunty. She had been a resident of Crumpler for most of her life and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Midway Shiloh Temple...
Opal Lee Shires
Jan 28, 2015
Opal Lee Persinger Shires, 89, of Mapledale Lane Bluefield (Green Valley), West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at her residence. Opal was born on October 25, 1926 in Gap Mills, West Virginia to the late Mr. & Mrs. Persinger. She was a member of the Greenview United Methodist Church and had been a resident of Green Valley...
Beatrice Howerton
Jan 28, 2015
Beatrice Campbell Howerton, 84, of Rock, WV, passed away on Wednesday, January 28, 2014 at the home of her sister. Born on January 27, 1931 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late John and Barbara Ellen Mosley Harmon. She had been a resident of Rock for 40 years and was a homemaker. She was a member of the...
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