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Earl Milton Bailey
Mar 3, 2015
BLUEFIELD – Earl Milton Bailey, 62, of Falls Mills, VA passed away on Tuesday, March 03, 2015 at Beckley VA Medical Center. Born on January 22, 1953 in Bluefield he was the son of the late Kenneth A. Bailey and Ruby L. Coeburn Bailey. Earl loved to fish and was an avid NASCAR fan; he operated an auto body shop....
Lilly Belle Griffith
Feb 28, 2015
Lilly Belle Griffith, 81, of Idle Acres Road, Bluefield, passed away on Saturday, February 28, 2015 at her home. Born on February 19, 1934 in Coalwood, she was a daughter of the late Hubert and Rhoda Muncy Roland. She had been a resident of Bluefield since 1978 and formerly worked at Flowers Bakery and the Pinnacle Restaurant. In addition to...
Terrance Edward Kade
Feb 27, 2015
Terrance Edward Kade, 37, of Prosperity Road, Beckley, WV, passed away on Friday, February 27, 2015 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on October 10, 1977 in Princeton he was a son of Teresa Munsey Saunders of Beckley and Donald Ray Kade of Telford, TN. He had been a lifelong resident of Mercer County. He was preceded in death by his...
Bernard William Gills
Feb 27, 2015
Bernard William Gills, Sr., 80, of Lorton Lick Road, Bluefield, WV, went to be with the Lord on Friday, February 27, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born October 26, 1934 on Belcher Mountain in Crystal, he was a son of the late Stuart and Callie Scott Gills. Bernard served in the US Army and was deployed in the Korean...
William "Chuck" Charles Blizzard
Feb 27, 2015
William Charles “Chuck” Blizzard, 50, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Friday, February 27, 2015 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Chuck was born on November 27, 1964 in Bluefield, West Virginia to Martha Faye Norton Blizzard and the late Charles Nathan “Butch” Blizzard. Chuck was a graduate of Bluefield High School and attended Concord...
Mary Lou Meadows
Feb 24, 2015
Mary Lou Meadows, 79, of Princeton Health Care, Princeton and formerly of Brushfork, passed away on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at the Princeton Health Care Center in Princeton. Born on June 22, 1935 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Charles Franklin Oiler and Carrie Lee Perkins Oiler. She attended the Bluewell Church of God and was a...
James E. Moore, Sr.
Feb 23, 2015
James E. “Peanut” Moore, Sr., age 73 of Pocahontas, VA, formerly of Green Valley (Ceres Hollow) went to be with the LORD on Monday, February 23, 2015 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on April 14, 1941, in Boissevain, VA, he was a son of the late John Henry Moore, Sr. and Cleavie Jane Phipps Moore. He was the owner...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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