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Junior Thurmond Taylor
Jan 9, 2012
Rev. Junior Thurmond Taylor 87 of Bluefield, West Virginia (Sandlick) went to be with Jesus on Monday, January 09, 2012 at his home in Sandlick. Mr. Taylor was born on Sunday, May 25, 1924 in McComas, West Virginia to the late Allen Taylor and Bertha Mae Lusk and Stepfather Robert Poore. He was a wonderful husband and a great father...
Geneva Ann Kowaleski
Jan 6, 2012
Geneva Ann (Suski) Kowaleski, age 89, of Switchback WV died Friday January 6, 2012 at Open Arms Hospice in Greenville SC. Born on July 8, 1922 in Gary WV, she was the daughter of the late Tony and Anne Suski. She lived in Switchback most of her life, spending the last 5 years with her son John and daughter Patricia...
Margaret June Hodges
Jan 6, 2012
Margaret June Hodges, age 88, of Route 3 Box 720, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, January 6, 2012 at the Ridge Care Nursing Home in Princeton. Born on February 14, 1923 in Crystal, she was a daughter of the late Allen and Minnie Bryant Hicks. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 82 years and was a member...
Barbara Ann Hubble
Jan 5, 2012
Barbara Ann Hodges Hubble, age 69, of 1203 Augusta Street, Bluefield, WV, and formerly of Lorton Lick Road, passed away on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on April 24, 1942 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of Doris Hodges and was a graduate of McComas High School. She had been a lifelong resident of the...
Martha Sue Sanders
Jan 5, 2012
Martha Sue Sanders, age 71, of Route 4 Box 73, Bluefield, WV, passed away peacefully on Thursday, January 5, 2012 at her home. Born on April 25, 1940 in Superior, she was a daughter of the late Walter and Hazel Kell Belcher. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 4 years and was a member of the Melrose Presbyterian...
Francesco Rasi
Dec 31, 2011
Bluefield, WV- Francesco (Pops) Rasi, 88, of Rt.4 Box 123, Bluefield, WV, passed away December 31, 2011 at the Loving Hands Assisted Living in Green Valley. Born January 13, 1923 in Montagnareale, Sicily, he was a son of the late Antonio and Francesca Buzzanta Rasi. He had been a lifelong resident of Brushfork for 52 years and was a lifelong...
Christine Virginia Spinella
Dec 30, 2011
Christine Virginia Spinella, age 84, of Bluefield, VA went to be with the LORD on Friday December 30, 2011 at Welch Community Hospital, in Welch, WV. Born on February 6, 1927 in Freeman, WV, she was a daughter of the late Joseph and Nellie Miller Call. She had lived in Bluefield, VA for the past 44 years and attended the...
William Hezekiah Hensley
Dec 29, 2011
William Hezekiah “Bill” Hensley, age 91, of Montcalm, WV died on Thursday December 29, 2011 at his residence with his family at his side. Born on April 10, 1920 in Greene County Tennessee, he was a son of the late Charles H. and Flora M. Riddle Hensley. He was a veteran of WWII, having served in the US Navy. He...
Hazel Francis Miller
Dec 29, 2011
Hazel Francis Nunley Miller, age 85, of Abbs Valley, VA passed from this life into Eternity with her Heavenly Father on Thursday December 29, 2011 with her family gathered around her at her home. She was the last surviving member of her immediate family. Born on February 1, 1926 in Leckie, WV, she was a daughter of the late Sam...
Freelin Boyd "Tinker" Southern
Dec 28, 2011
PRINCETON, WV---Freelin Boyd “Tinker” Southern, age 41, of 315 McKinley Ave. Princeton, WV passed away Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born March 10, 1970 in McDowell County, WV he was the son of the late Brenda Tedder McClanahan and Emmitt Southern. Mr. Southern was a lifelong resident of the Princeton area and had worked as a...
Linda Carol Gardner
Dec 26, 2011
Linda Carol Gardner 59, of 1121 Hilltop Drive Cleveland, Tennessee passed away on Monday, December 26, 2011 at Memorial Hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Linda was born on Sunday, February 17, 1952 in Bluefield, West Virginia to the late Harold and Carol Jean Hurst Gardner. Left to cherish her memory One Brother: John Gardner and wife Aurora of Georgetown, Tennessee One...
Joyce Ann Stamper
Dec 25, 2011
ANAWALT, WV---Joyce Ann Stamper, age 57, of P.O. Box 302 Anawalt, WV went to celebrate Christmas with her Daughter, Granddaughter, and Mother on December 25, 2011 at Welch Community Hospital. Born August 9, 1954 in Welch, WV she was the daughter of the late Luther and Hazel Anders Ellis. Mrs. Stamper was a beloved Wife, Mother, and Grandmother. She was...
Carol Jean Gardner
Dec 24, 2011
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — Carol Jean Gardner, 77, of 1121 Hilltop Drive, Cleveland, Tenn., formerly of Bluewell, W.Va., died at Memorial Hospital Chattanooga, Tenn. on Saturday, December 24. Carol was born January 22, 1934 in Duhring, W.Va. She was the daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Wall Hurst. She was a resident of Cleveland, Tenn. for the past ten years,...
Sadie Mullins Reeves Sexton
Dec 24, 2011
WASHINGTON, MD---Sadie Mullins Reeves Sexton, age 102, of Ft. Washington, MD formerly of Roderfield, Havaco, and Bluewell, WV passed away Saturday, December 24, 2011 in Ft. Washington, MD Born September 27, 1909 in Wyoming Co. WV, She was a daughter of the late Matilda Wyatt Belcher Mullins and Solomon Mullins. Mrs. Sexton was a resident of Maryland since 1975 and...
Mary Lou Green
Dec 23, 2011
Mary Low Green, age 66, of Welch, died on Friday December 23, 2011 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on March 14, 1945 in Mohegan, WV, she was a daughter of the late Jesse and Stella Williams Bishop. She had lived in Bluefield for the past 6 years and was of the Baptist Faith. She was a devoted...
Sarah Gay Williams-Thomas
Dec 22, 2011
Sarah Gay Williams-Thomas, 52, of Rt.1 Box 8 Bramwell WV formerly of Lasley St. Lebanon VA, entered into Heaven on Thursday, December 22,2011 with her family surrrounding her, after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. Born July 19, 1959 in Frankfort, KY to parents Ella Dotson Williams and the late Edward L. Williams Jr. She graduated from Bramwell High...
Lois Jean Lambert
Dec 20, 2011
Lois Jean Lambert, age 86, of 404 Kee Street, Princeton, passed away on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on June 4, 1925 in Bluefield, she was a son of the late Jim and Ida Mae Linkous. She was of the Baptist faith and was a homemaker. Survivors include a son, Larry Rye of...
Ray Gene Phillips, Jr.
Dec 19, 2011
Ray Gene Phillips, Jr., age 62, of Bluefield, VA, died December 19 after fighting a courageous battle with a rare cancer. Ray died at Johns Hopkins Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, surrounded by his loving family. Ray was born May 9, 1949 to Ray Gene & Edna Phillips, now deceased. He was raised in Pineville, West Virginia and was a...
Donnie Anderson, Sr.
Dec 17, 2011
BLUEFIELD, Va. — Donnie Monroe Anderson Sr., age 68, of 5691 Abbs Valley Road, Bluefield, Va., passed away on Saturday, December 17, 2011 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital with his family by his side. Born on February 14, 1943 in Boissevain, Va., he was a son of the late Ralph and Virginia Anderson. In addition to his parents, he was preceded...
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