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Esther Finley
Jul 3, 2013
Esther Mezaros Finley, 99, of Coppola Mobile Home Park (Brushfork), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, July 7, 2013 at Mercer Nursing and Rehab in Bluefield. Born on August 8, 1913, she was a daughter of the late Steve and Esther Wind Mezaros. She had been a longtime resident of Bluefield and was formerly of Thorpe. She was looking forward...
Bernice "June" B. Brown
Jul 2, 2013
Bernice B. “June” Brown, 84, of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at Bluefield Regional Medical Center following a brief illness. She was born on May 13, 1929, in Castlewood, VA, where she received her education before moving to Bluefield, WV. She was a devoted member of First AME Zion Church where over the years she served...
Ricky Allen Lewis
Jul 1, 2013
Ricky Allen Lewis 50 of Maple Acres Road Bluefield, WV went to heaven to be with his father the late Floyd Davis Lewis and Brother Brian Keith Lewis on Monday, July 01, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Ricky worked many years for DCI in the construction field. He was also a heavy equipment operator and mechanic....
Michael "Mike" Wayne Brewster
Jun 29, 2013
Michael Wayne “Mike” Brewster, age 61, of 247 Warden Avenue (Bluewell) Bluefield, WV died on Saturday, June 29, 2013 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on January 15, 1952, in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Mack and Mollie Proffitt Brewster. He had lived in Bluewell for the past 9 years and was a retired painter. He was a...
Dorothy Susan Lambert
Jun 29, 2013
Dorothy Susan Stiltner Lambert went home to be with Lord on June 29, 2013 at her home. She was born on July 01, 1954 in Welch, WV. She was the daughter of the late Lewis F. Stiltner Jr. and Othea Alburta Stiltner. She was a member of the Eastern Star and was a homemaker. In addition to her parents she...
James Harrison Gentry
Jun 28, 2013
James Harrison Gentry, age 81, of Gentry Street, Princeton, WV, passed away on Friday, June 28, 2013 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on April 12, 1932 in Crumpler, he was a son of the late Roby S. and Daphna Dale Reed Gentry. He had lived in Princeton for most of his life and was of the Baptist faith. He was...
William Neal Perdue
Jun 28, 2013
William Neal “Rusty” Perdue, age 61, of Manassas Way (Perdue Hollow Road), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, June 28, 2013 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on August 5, 1951 in Boissevain, VA, he was a son of William A. Perdue and the late Mary Lee Gullion Perdue. He had been a resident of Bluefield for most of his life...
Donnie Wayne Gresby
Jun 27, 2013
Cross Lanes, WV – Donnie Wayne Gresby, age 58 of Cross Lanes, WV passed away Thursday, June 27, 2013 at his home in Cross Lanes, WV. He was born March 27, 1955 in Darby, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Kelly D. Gresby, Jr. and Elizabeth O. Bland Gresby. He received his early schooling through Prince Edward County School System...
Clara Lee Georgeff
Jun 27, 2013
Clara Lee Georgeff (Sutphin) of St. Clair Shores, Michigan, passed away on Thursday, June 27, 2013 at the age of 88. Born in Hillsville, Virginia, she was the last of 10 children born to James L. Sutphin and Cora Lee Sutphin (Marshall) Married for 46 years to George Georgeff (deceased) of Maybeury, West Virginia. Survivors include Son George (Chris) Georgeff...
Glenn (Bo) Allen Lilly, Sr.
Jun 26, 2013
Glenn Allen (Bo) Lilly Sr. 69, of Mim Lane Bluefield (Brushfork), West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Bo was born on December 04, 1943 in Bluefield, WV to the late Lewis Huston Lilly and Rebecca Ellen Bailey Lilly. Bo had been a resident of Brushfork for the past...
Richard William Yearout
Jun 25, 2013
Richard “Rick” William Yearout, age 53, of North Tazewell, VA, died on Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at Clinch Valley Medical Center in Richlands, VA. Born on September 12, 1959, in Bluefield, he was a son of Naomi “Gerry” Belcher Ball of Bluefield, WV, and the late William Ezra Yearout. He had lived in North Tazewell for the past 2 years...
Laura E. "Liz" Henry
Jun 24, 2013
Laura Elizabeth “Liz” (Maxey) Henry, 67, of Lashmeet, WV passed away on Monday, June 24, 2013. Liz is survived by Darryl, her husband of 42 years, their children, Chad of Virginia, Travis of New York and Chism of Alaska, and by their grandchildren, Cailin and Carson. Liz graduated from Spanishburg High School and Concord College before earning an advanced degree...
Lloyd Wayne McMillan
Jun 23, 2013
Lloyd Wayne McMillan, age 63, of 145 Riffe Street, Falls Mills, VA died on Sunday, June 23, 2013 at Westwood Medical Center in Bluefield, VA. Born on February 2, 1950, he was a son of the late Lloyd McMillan, Jerry Mae Moody Jenkins and James Homer Jenkins. He had lived in Falls Mills for the past 10 years and was...
Adena Ruth Brady
Jun 22, 2013
Bluefield, WV- Adena Ruth Stevens Brady, 86, of 279 Fellowship Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away Saturday June 22, 2013 in a Bluefield hospital after a brief illness. Born December 29, 1926 in McComas, WV she was a daughter of the late Charles William “Bill” and Ocie Graham Stevens. Mrs. Stevens was a member of the Montcalm Pentecostal Holiness Church and...
James Edward Gibberson
Jun 21, 2013
James Edward Gibberson, age 77, of 463 Perdue Hollow Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, June 21, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on June 1, 1936 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Frank and Ruth Perdue Gibberson. He was a retired salesman for Wallace hardware and Bluefield Supply. He was a veteran of the...
Bobby Lee Keaton
Jun 21, 2013
Bobby Lee Keaton, age 85, of 829 Perdue Hollow Road, Bluefield, WV died on Friday, June 21, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on February 28, 1928 in Pipestem, WV, he was a son of the late Oran Homer and Carrie Farley Keaton. He had lived in Bluefield most of his life and was retired from the Foremost Dairy...
Darrell R. Belcher
Jun 20, 2013
Darrell R. Belcher 71, of Bantam Road, Bluefield, WV completed his earthly journey and went to join his heavenly father on June 20, 2013 at The Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, WV with family by his side. He was a life long resident of Mercer County, and as he would say “Born in a small little red house in Crystal,...
Pauline Ann Coleman
Jun 18, 2013
RODERFIELD —Pauline Ann Coleman, 63, Wall Street, Roderfield, W.Va., passed away on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at Cabell Huntington Hospital. Born on June 18, 1950 in Welch, she was a daughter of the late Acie William McCoy, Sr. and Leona Mae Lester McCoy. She had been a resident of McDowell County all of her life and was a devoted homemaker....
Gregory Paul Sanders
Jun 18, 2013
Gregory Paul Sanders 63 of Charcoal Street Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Gregory was born on March 11, 1950 in Houston, Texas to the late James Hollis Sanders and Pauline Hudspeth Sanders. He had been a resident of Bluefield for the past six years and was...
Donnie Eugene Rider
Jun 13, 2013
Donnie Eugene “Tinker” Rider, Jr., age 42, of Raven, VA passed away on Thursday, June 13, 2013 at Buchanan General Hospital in Grundy, VA from injuries sustained in a tree accident in Hurley, VA. Born on February 10, 1971 in Bluefield, he was a son of Sandra Jean Farmer Mash and Donnie Eugene Rider, Sr. He had been a resident...
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