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Mildred Bonnie Poe

Mildred Bonnie Poe

Oct 30, 2011

Mildred Bonnie Liddle Poe, age 90, of Princeton, WV, passed away on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at Westwood Health Care in Bluefield, Virginia. Born on March 26, 1921 in Crumpler, she was a daughter of the late James and Blanche Edwards Liddle. She was a resident of Crumpler before residing in Green Valley. Mildred graduated from Northfork High School and...

Carter W. Wilson Sr.

Carter W. Wilson Sr.

Oct 29, 2011

Carter W. Wilson, Jr., age 67, of 245 Park Street, Olanta, SC and formerly of Iaeger, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at the Carolina Hospital in Florence, SC. Carter was born on Wednesday, February 16, 1944 in Iaeger, West Virginia to the late Carter W. Wilson Sr. and Stella Pertee Wilson. Mr. Wilson had been a...

Martha Lou Hoback

Martha Lou Hoback

Oct 29, 2011

Pearisburg, VA- Martha Lou Hoback, 55, of 900 Locust Dr. , Pearisburg, VA, passed away Saturday October 29, 2011 at a Princeton Community Hospital. Born November 20, 1955 in Bluefield, WV, she was a daughter of Lila Clower Aker of Bluefield and the late Finley Hager Eldridge. Martha had been a resident of Pearisburg for the last five years and...

Richard Lee Pugh

Richard Lee Pugh

Oct 29, 2011

Richard Lee Pugh, age 77, of Thorn Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Saturday, October 29, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on January 25, 1934 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Charlie and Bessie Lyons Pugh. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a graduate of Beaver High School. He was of...

Douglas Franklin Lewis

Douglas Franklin Lewis

Oct 27, 2011

Douglas Franklin Lewis 69 of 126 Lynn Street Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Douglas was born on Monday, July 13, 1942 in Washington County, Virginia to late William and Mary Frances Lester Lewis. Douglas had lived in Bluefield for his entire life and was a retired...

Bascum "Leslie" Morgan

Bascum "Leslie" Morgan

Oct 26, 2011

Bascum “Leslie” Morgan 72 of Rt. 1 Box 253-B Bluefield, West Virginia (Sandlick) formerly of Gary, West Virginia passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. Leslie was born on Friday, July 07, 1939 in Wilcoe, West Virginia to the late Bascum John and Ollie Finley Morgan. He had been a...

Brenda Gay Blevins Goodwin

Brenda Gay Blevins Goodwin

Oct 25, 2011

Brenda Gay Blevins Goodwin 66 of Rt. 2 Box 430 Rock, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at Princeton Community Hospital following a short illness. Brenda was born on Sunday, May 13, 1945 in Rolfe, West Virginia (McDowell County) to the late Oscar and Serilda Taylor Blevins. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death...

Brenda G. Lawrence

Brenda G. Lawrence

Oct 24, 2011

Brenda G. Lawrence, age 64, of 231 Hickory Point Drive (White Oak MHP), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, October 24, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on May 27, 1947 in Huntington, she was a daughter of Emma Hanchock Lawrence of the home and the late Ralph J. Lawrence. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 10...

Calvin Lambert

Calvin Lambert

Oct 24, 2011

Calvin Lambert 52 of Box 142 Andrews Street Maybeury, West Virginia passed way on Monday, October 24, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Mr. Lambert was born on Monday, February 16, 1959 to the late Kerry and Audrey Lambert. Survivors Include: His wife: Alene Caskey Lambert of Northfork, West Virginia One Son: Bruce Lambert and “Daughter...

Thelma Marie Huffman

Thelma Marie Huffman

Oct 23, 2011

Thelma Marie Huffman of Box 499 Perdue Hollow Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, October 23, 2011 at Glenwood Retirement Village in Glenwood, West Virginia. Thelma was born on February 27, 1919 in Bluefield, West Virginia to the late Giles Perdue and Sally Givens Perdue. She had been a resident of Perdue Hollow Road all of her life...

Shelby Jean Hall

Shelby Jean Hall

Oct 22, 2011

Shelby Jean Hall 68 of P.O. Box 37 Gary, West Virginia (Gary Bottom) passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at Wake Forest Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Shelby was born on December 06, 1942 in Elkhorn City, Kentucky to the late Alvin Rose and Daisy Clevenger. Shelby Graduated from Gary High School where she worked as secretary for...

Fred Walter Poff

Fred Walter Poff

Oct 22, 2011

Fred Walter Poff 82 of Bluewell, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 22, 2011 at The Maples Nursing and Rehab Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Fred was born on October 21, 1929 in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late Charles Hugh Poff and Ollie Poff Poff. Mr. Poff had lived in Bluewell since 1954 and was a member...

Ella Virginia Sizemore

Ella Virginia Sizemore

Oct 20, 2011

Ella Virginia Sizemore, of Princeton, passed away resting in the arms of God, surrounded by all those who loved her deeply on October 20,2011. Ella was born on March 3, 1957 in McDowell County, and for the last three years was fighting a battle for her life due to cancer. Her family especially her two grandsons were her reason for...

Howard Junior Burgess

Howard Junior Burgess

Oct 20, 2011

Howard Junior Burgess, age 81, of Gary, and formerly of Bluefield, passed away on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at the McDowell County Nursing and Rehab Center in Gary after battling a long illness. Born on May 27, 1930 in Keystone, he was a son of Wornie and Edna Gullion Burgess. He had been a lifelong resident of Mercer and McDowell...

Thomas "Tommy" Lee White

Thomas "Tommy" Lee White

Oct 18, 2011

Thomas Lee “Tommy” White, age 65, of Route 3 Box 206, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on March 30, 1946 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Robert Lee and Frances Cook White. He had been a resident of Route 3, Bluefield for 11 years and was of the...

Herbert Porter Murphy

Herbert Porter Murphy

Oct 17, 2011

Herbert Porter Murphy, age 67, of Tazewell, VA and formerly from Abbs Valley, VA passed away on Monday, October 17, 2011. Born on February 25, 1944 in Tazewell Co., VA, he was a son of the late James Edgar Murphy and Grace Dove Murphy. Porter was a proud veteran of the US Air Force. In addition to his parents, he...

Carl William Thomas, Sr.

Carl William Thomas, Sr.

Oct 16, 2011

Carl William Thomas, Sr., age 57, of 1806 Virginia Avenue, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Sunday, October 16, 2011 following a long illness. Born on June 15, 1954 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Herbert and Viola Jane Baker Thomas. He had been a resident of Bluefield for his entire life and was of the Pentecostal Holiness...

Matthew Thomas Garrett

Matthew Thomas Garrett

Oct 13, 2011

Matthew Thomas Garrett, age 33, of 218 Meadow Lane Loop Lot #3, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at his residence. Born on August 12, 1978 in Bluefield, he was a son of Larry R. and Arleen Hinegar Garrett of Route 5, Bluefield. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a member of the...

Vernon "Pete" Reed

Vernon "Pete" Reed

Oct 12, 2011

Vernon “Pete” Reed, age 93, of Route 3 Box 482 (Lorton Lick Road), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at the Mercer Nursing and Rehab Center in Bluefield. Born on August 27, 1918 in Oakvale, he was a son of the late James and Bertie Ratcliff Reed. He had been a lifelong resident of Mercer County and...

Mary Elizabeth Short

Mary Elizabeth Short

Oct 10, 2011

Mary Elizabeth White Short, age 82, of Old Bramwell Road, Bluefield, WV died on Monday, October 10, 2011 at Mercer Nursing and Rehab Center in Bluefield. Born on October 23, 1928 in Giatto, WV she was a daughter of the late Walter and Mae Davis White. She had lived in Mercer County for the past 30 years and was a...

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