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Mildred Pauline Dale

Mildred Pauline Dale

Aug 19, 2013

Mildred Pauline Kennedy Dale, 80, of Packing Plant Road (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, August 19, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on December 24, 1932 in Iaeger, she was a daughter of the late Henry and Sarah Marie Blankenship Kennedy. She had lived in Bluewell since 1989 and was of the Church of God faith. She...

Katharine Hewitt Barringer

Katharine Hewitt Barringer

Aug 17, 2013

Katharine Hewitt Barringer of Bramwell was born August 2, 1916, and died August 17, 2013, at age 97. She was the mother of two children: Katharine Barringer Dean of Gladys, Va., and John William (Jay) Barringer of Bluefield. Katharine was devoted to the Town of Bramwell, where she was born and raised. She was a 1933 graduate of Bramwell High...

Walter Lee Estep

Walter Lee Estep

Aug 17, 2013

Bluefield- Walter Lee Estep, Sr., 72 of, 432 Vest Hollow Rd, Bluefield, WV, passed away Saturday August 17, 2013. Born January 30, 1941 in Raysal, WV, he was a son of the late John Thomas and Pricey Christian Estep. Mr. Estep was a disabled coal miner and had been a resident of Bluefield since 1986. Survivors include; his wife of...

Janet Marie Powers

Janet Marie Powers

Aug 16, 2013

Janet Marie Powers, 74, of 181 Harvey Avenue, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on March 4, 1939 in Montcalm, she was a daughter of the late Clinton E. and Louise Robertson Clyburn. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 44 years and had been a member of Pine Grove Church...

Leonard Reed

Leonard Reed

Aug 16, 2013

Leonard Shirty Reed, age 76, of Montcalm, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 11, 1937 in WV, he was a son of the late Kertis and Mary Shrewsberry Reed. He had been a resident of Montcalm for most of his life and worked in the concrete industry for United Trans-Mix in...

Naomi Ellen Foster

Naomi Ellen Foster

Aug 16, 2013

Naomi Ellen Foster, 91, of 688 Village Green Circle, Princeton, WV, passed away on Friday, August 16, 2013 at Summers County Hospital in Hinton. Born on August 16, 1922 in Glenwhite, she was a daughter of the late Oscar Brown and Nannie Ellen Fortner Kelley. She had been a resident of Princeton since 1985 and was of the Methodist faith....

Judi Wright

Judi Wright

Aug 14, 2013

Judi Anne Glass Wright 69 of Skyline Drive Bluefield, VA formerly of Brushfork, WV passed away on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 at the residence of her beloved granddaughter Amanda. Judi was born on Friday, December 03, 1943 in Pageton, WV to the late James and Effie Smith Glass. She was a former member of the Moose Lodge and had been...

Elizabeth Belle Belcher

Elizabeth Belle Belcher

Aug 14, 2013

Princeton - Elizabeth Belle George Belcher, 86, of Princeton, formerly of Belcher Mountain, died Wednesday, August 14, 2013, at her home following a long illness. Born November 24, 1926, she was the daughter of the late Alex and Edith Horne George. Mrs. Belcher was a homemaker and was a member of the Little Vine Regular Baptist Church. She was a...

Bobby Lee Lewis

Bobby Lee Lewis

Aug 12, 2013

Bobby Lee Lewis, 66 of Freeman, WV passed away August 12, 2013 due to a house fire. Bob was a life long resident of Freeman, WV and he graduated from Bramwell High School. He was a veteran of the US Army in the Vietnam Era. Bob was a loving son and caregiver to his mother, father, and brother. He was...

Helen Marie Lester

Helen Marie Lester

Aug 11, 2013

Helen Marie Lester, 93 years of age of Montcalm, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, August 11, 2013 at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, where she had resided at 306 Rhododendron Lane, Bluefield, WV for the past eleven months with Cathy and Sam. Helen was born on April 27, 1920 on Belcher Mountain in Anawalt, WV....

Shirley Turner

Shirley Turner

Aug 10, 2013

Shirley Gaynell Taylor, age 73, of Quinwood, WV, passed away on Saturday, August 10, 2013 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on January 23, 1940 in Norfolk, VA, she was a son of the late Hubert and Margaret Howlett. She had been a resident of Quinwood for 5 years and was a homemaker. She was of the Baptist faith. Survivors...

Carrie Mary Beggs

Carrie Mary Beggs

Aug 3, 2013

Carrie Mary Beggs 86 of Prosperity School Road (Windmill Gap) Rock, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, August 03, 2013 at her residence. Carrie was born on Friday, November 25, 1926 in Caretta, West Virginia to the late Dixie and Rachel Bolen Barie. She was a graduate of McComas High School in 1945 and was a Member of Prosperity United...

Christopher Bell

Christopher Bell

Aug 1, 2013

BECKLEY-Christopher Paul Bell 44 formerly of Elkhorn, WV went to be with the Lord on August 1, 2013 at his home in Beckley, WV Born September 7,1969 in Bluefield WV he was the son of Paul and Dana Bell of Bluewell, WV and Don and Cynthia Chastain of Taccoa, Ga. He was preceded in death by his great grandmother Leola...

John Edward Spicer, II

John Edward Spicer, II

Aug 1, 2013

John Edward Spicer, II, age 44, of 1713 White Head Court, Chesapeake, VA, formerly of Bluefield, died on Thursday, August 1, 2013 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. Born on January 17, 1969, in Bluefield, he was the son of John Edward Spicer and Pamela Brewster Wilhite of Bluefield. He worked as a Floor Tech in Environmental Services at Sentara Virginia Beach...

Randall "Jake" Poff

Randall "Jake" Poff

Aug 1, 2013

On Thursday August 1, 2013 we lost the guiding light and love of our lives, our hero, our father, our grandfather, and our brother Mr. Randall William “Jake” Poff, 76, of 2245 Reese Harmon Ridge Road, Rock when he went to spend eternity with the love of his life; Betty Mae Poff. Jake was born on August 2, 1937 a...

Patricia Arlene Snapp

Patricia Arlene Snapp

Jul 30, 2013

Patricia Arlene Jarrells Snapp, age 52, of White Oak Valley, Princeton, WV, passed away on Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Born on June 19, 1961 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Frank and Dorothy Marie Presley Jarrells. She had been a resident of Princeton for 15 years and was a formerly worked for Hills Department Store for 16...

Ivory Alberta Curran

Ivory Alberta Curran

Jul 24, 2013

Ivory Alberta Curran, age 76, of Methodist Hill Road, Montcalm, WV, passed away on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 at her home. Born on March 20, 1937 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Leonard and Annie Workman Harman. She had been a resident of Montcalm for 55 years and was a member of the Pine Grove Church of...

Robert Vance Auton

Robert Vance Auton

Jul 24, 2013

Robert Vance Auton, 66, of Bluewell passed away Wednesday, July 24, 2013, after battling cancer since October 2012. He was the third child born to James H. Auton and Ellen Osborn Auton of Coaldale, WV. Robert was a Bramwell High School graduate of the Class of 1965. He was a retired coal miner, having followed in the footsteps of both...

James Owen Lusk

James Owen Lusk

Jul 23, 2013

James Owen Lusk, age 72, of Vista Road, Bluefield, WV died on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at his home. Born on May 12, 1941 in Algoma, WV, he was a son of the late Emmer Theodore and Irene Zelma Hall Lusk. He worked as a mine foreman and later as a mine security guard. He had been a resident of...

Joseph Warren Willien

Joseph Warren Willien

Jul 23, 2013

Joseph Warren Willien, of Bluefield, WV, formerly of McLeansville went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, July 23, 2013 while at NC Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Following a service in Greensboro, NC, funeral will be 10:00 am Saturday, July 27, 2013 at Cavens-Shires Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow at Woodlawn Cemetery. Joseph was born in Northfork,...

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