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Janet Ellen Hamby
Apr 11, 2012
Janet Ellen Hamby, age 65, of Bluefield, WV died on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on August 26, 1946 in Welch, WV she was a daughter of the late Andrew M. George, Jr. and Edna Browder George. She had lived in Bluefield her entire life and was retired from the Aramark Company in...
Ashley Renee Croy
Apr 11, 2012
Ashley Renee Saddler Croy, age 28, of Route 5 Box 739, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on March 3, 1984 in Kingston, WV, she was a daughter of Willard and Dorothy Ohlendorf Saddler of Route 5, Bluefield. She had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a member of...
Rebecca Harry
Apr 10, 2012
Bluefield- Rebecca Harry 72 of Route 5 (Bulltail Hollow), Bluefield, passed away on April 10th, 2012 at Hospice House of Palm Bay, Florida, following a lengthy Illness. Born on August 9th 1939 in Bluefield, she was the daughter of late Walter C. Brewster & Bertha Brewster. She was a long time resident of Bluefield until 3 1/2 years ago moving...
Wesley Perkins, Jr.
Apr 8, 2012
Wesley Perkins, Jr., age 65, of 110 Brook Lane, Princeton, WV, passed away of Sunday, April 8, 2012 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on March 30, 1947 in Asco, he was the son of James and Bertha Bishop Perkins. He had been a resident of Princeton for 3 ½ years and attended the Harbor Light Baptist Church in Glenwood. He...
Thomas Calvin Blevins
Apr 8, 2012
Thomas Calvin Blevins, Jr., age 83, of Princeton and formerly of Switchback, passed away on Easter Sunday, April 8, 2012 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital with his family by his side. Born on June 4, 1928 in Rock, he was a son of Thomas and Inez Johnson Blevins. He had been a resident of Princeton for one year and was a...
Ricky D. "Toby" Poore
Apr 5, 2012
Ricky D. (Toby) Poore, Jr. 42, of Brushfork passed away Thursday, April 5, 2012 at CAMC due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Toby was born October 10, 1969 in Bluefield, and was the son of Connie Kirby Poore and the late Ricky Poore Sr. He was a member of Deliverance Temple Church and was loved by everyone. He...
Bessie Rae Severt
Apr 1, 2012
Bessie Rae Severt, 78, of Glenwood, WVa. peacefully went home to be the Lord, Sunday evening, April 1, 2012 at Burke Health and Rehabilitation Hospital after an extended illness. She was born October 22, 1933 in Eckman, WVa., the daughter of the late John and Viney Comer. She retired from Rockwell International in Princeton and was a member of Fellowship...
Virginia Hundley
Mar 31, 2012
I am now at home in Heaven; All’s so happy, all so bright! There is perfect joy and beauty in this everlasting light. Virginia Maxine Hundley, age 82, of 109 12th Street, Princeton, passed away on Saturday, March 31, 2012 at her home. Born on March 7, 1930 in Jenkinjones, she was a daughter of the late William Harrison Hundley,...
Valerie Casey
Mar 30, 2012
Valerie Marie Casey, age 65, of 149 Sweet Tea Court, Princeton, passed away on Friday, March 30, 2012 at Charleston Area Medical Center Memorial Division. Born on March 13, 1947 in Windmill Gap, she was a daughter of the late Paul E. and Marie Ball Sexton. She had been a resident of Princeton for 10 years and was a member...
Myrtle Jean East
Mar 29, 2012
Myrtle Jean East, age 92, of Rt. 2, Box 139, Rock, WV (Windmill Gap) died on Thursday, March 29, 2012 at her home. Born on March 15, 1920 in Goodwill, she was a daughter of the late Emmet and Cordelia Jenkins McMillan. She had lived in Windmill Gap for the past 83 years and was a member of the Methodist...
Lonnie Darrell Perkins
Mar 27, 2012
Lonnie Darrell Perkins, age 26, of Montcalm, West Virginia, left his earthly home Tuesday, March 27th, 2012. He was greatly loved by everyone who knew him. Born December 15th, 1985 in Bluefield, West Virginia to Lonnie Herrell Perkins and Leeta Quillian Collins; he had a lifetime battle with juvenile diabetes. He had a love of football, pit-bulls, and fast cars...
Hattie Maude Day
Mar 25, 2012
Hattie Maude Day, age 75, of 133 Indian Grave Road, Leckie, WV, passed away on Sunday, March 25, 2012 at the residence of her daughter in Anawalt. Born on June 16, 1936, she was a daughter of Ellis and Katie Brown Anders. She had been a resident of the Anawalt and Leckie areas for most of her life and was...
Albert Lee Martin
Mar 21, 2012
Albert Lee “Kise” Martin, age 82, of Kirk Street, Princeton, passed away on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on October 10, 1929 in Maybeury, he was a son of the late John and Ethel Griffith Martin. He had been a resident of Princeton for over 10 years, worked in the coal industry for 30 years and...
Ben E. Burnette, Jr.
Mar 19, 2012
Ben Edwin Burnette Jr., of Route 4 Box 54-C, Bluefield, WV, born on April 14,1949, finally went to the one place he'd been longing to go, home to be with the Lord, on Monday, March 19 , 2012. Ben was a God loving man who loved his wife of 44 years, Brenda Burnette, his children and grandkids. He had been...
Beatrice Lorraine Gearheart
Mar 18, 2012
Beatrice Lorraine Gearheart, age 88, of Route 4 Box 174, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, March 18, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on March 24, 1923 in Keystone, she was a daughter of the late Roland and Katherine Harman Collins. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 12 years, was of the Christian faith and was...
Irvin Vernon Lusk
Mar 17, 2012
Bluefield- Irvin Vernon Lusk, 90, of Sedgewood Townhouses, Bluefield, VA, went to be with his Lord and savior on Saturday March 17, 2012 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born January 2, 1922 in McComas, WV he was the son of the late Rufus and Nora Harmon Lusk. He was a veteran of World War II having served in the U.S....
William David Stevenson
Mar 12, 2012
William David (Skip) Stevenson, Jr., age 30, of Pocahontas, VA, went to be with the Lord on Monday, March 12, 2012 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital after a year-long battle with cancer. Born on July 11, 1981, he was a son of William David Stevenson of Springville and the late Kathy Earls Flint. He had been a resident of Pocahontas for...
Allen Berton Dale
Mar 12, 2012
Allen Berton Dale of Duhring, WV died March 12, 2012, in Asheboro, NC at the age of 81. Allen was born in Switchback, WV to the late Mary Marchant Dale and the late Samuel Dale. He had retired from the N & W Railway after 43 years of service. He was a member of Duhring Church of Christ. In addition...
Cartha Adeline Crabtree
Mar 10, 2012
Cartha Adeline Dunford Crabtree, 90, of Rt. 3 Box 620 Bluefield, West Virginia went home to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 10, 2012 at the home of her daughter where she had made her home for the past two years while surrounded by her loving family. Cartha was born on Friday, July 29, 1921 in McComas, West Virginia...
Wanda Yon
Mar 3, 2012
Wanda Lucille (Thompson) Yon, 90, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away peacefully on March 3, 2012 at Sayre Christian Village in Lexington, Kentucky. Wanda was born on December 4, 1921 in Indian Prairie Township, Illinois, the daughter of the late William Hobert Thompson and Berta Mae (Weems) Thompson, and the sister of the late Wildra Moore and Louis Thompson. She was...
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