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Charles Thomas Arnold Jr.

Charles Thomas Arnold Jr.

Jan 21, 2011

“Chuck Arnold” Bluefield - Charles Thomas Arnold, Jr. 54 of 110 Westmoreland Ave. Bluefield, WV passed away on Friday, January 21, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Chuck was born on February 06, 1956 in Bluefield, WV to Charles Thomas Arnold Sr. and Nellie Dale Arnold. He was a graduate of Bluefield High School and was a...

Lakewood Cox

Lakewood Cox

Jan 19, 2011

Lakewood Cox, age 79, of Falls Mills, VA, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at his home surrounded by his family. Born on April 21, 1931 in Floyd, VA, he was the son of the late Don Lee and Velma Phillips Cox. While a resident of Falls Mills, Lakewood was the owner and operator...

Ovella C. Mariotti

Ovella C. Mariotti

Jan 17, 2011

Bluewell, WVa. - Ovella Christeen (Ganoe) Mariotti, of Route 4, Box 505, Bluewell, WV, died Monday, January 17, 2011 following a short illness at Princeton Community Hospital. She was born in Giles County, VA on September 22, 1925 and was a daughter of the late William Ganoe and Pantha Walker Ganoe of Rich Creek, Va. In addition to her parents,...

Sharon Yvonne Punturi

Sharon Yvonne Punturi

Jan 16, 2011

Sharon Yvonne Punturi 66, of Box 285 (Freedom Road) Montcalm, WV passed away on Sunday, January 16, 2011 at her residence. Sharon was born on June 13, 1944 in McDowell County, West Virginia to the late Roy Thomas Faulkner and Dorothy Wilson Faulkner. She had been a resident to Montcalm for most of her life and attended the Church of...

Sylvia May Anderson

Sylvia May Anderson

Jan 14, 2011

Sylvia Mae Anderson, age 80, of Route 3, Bluefield, passed away on Friday, January 14, 2011 at a Tazewell, VA hospital. Born on May 5, 1930 in Gary, she was a daughter of the late John and Etta Bennington Mitchem. She had been a resident of Rt. 3, Bluefield for 43 years and was a member of Pilgrim’s Holiness Church...

Larry Wayne Belcher, Sr.

Larry Wayne Belcher, Sr.

Jan 12, 2011

Larry W. Belcher Sr., 62 of Montcalm, WV passed away on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at his home. Larry was born on December 26, 1948 in Montcalm, WV to the late Coy Oscar and Elfie Hawks Belcher. He had lived in Tuggle Holler all of his life and was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith. In addition to his parents he...

David Shawn Hale

David Shawn Hale

Jan 9, 2011

David Shawn Hale, 51, of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, January 9, 2011, after a brief battle with cancer. David was born on February 25, 1959, and he grew up in Berwind, WV. He was a letterman on the 1976 Big Creek Owls state runner-up football team, and he was a member of the National Honor Society, the Key...

Pauline Honaker

Pauline Honaker

Jan 7, 2011

Pauline Honaker, age 80, of Montcalm, passed away on Friday, January 7, 2011 in Abingdon, VA. Pauline was born in Montcalm on November 7, 1930 to the late Lacy Lee and Pearl Martin Honaker. She resided all of her life there until moving to Abingdon five years ago. She was a member of the Bramwell Church of Christ. She was...

Hattie Marie Lacy

Hattie Marie Lacy

Jan 6, 2011

Bluefield, WV- Hattie Marie Lacy, 89, of Rt. 3 Box 682 (Lorton Lick Rd)., Bluefield, WV, passed away Thursday January 6, 2011 at Glenwood Park Retirement Village at Glenwood, WV. Mrs. Lacy was born January 13, 1921 in McComas, WV ,she was a daughter of the late Jim and Trula Perkins Davidson. Mrs. Lacy had been a resident of Bluefield...

Joan Mann

Joan Mann

Jan 6, 2011

Joan Quesenberry Mann, age 65, of 120 Restwood Place, Brushfork, passed away suddenly on Thursday, January 6, 2011 at her home. Born on May 7, 1945 in Switchback, she was a daughter of the late Rev. William and Catherine Osborne Quesenberry. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 43 years and attended the Maybeury Church of God. She was...

Shelba Maddrey Tabor

Shelba Maddrey Tabor

Jan 5, 2011

Shelba Maddrey Tabor, age 54, of 319 Union Drive, Princeton, WV, passed away on Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at a Princeton hospital. Born on April 4, 1956 in Suffolk, VA, she was a daughter of the late Jay Gerald and Rosa Pippin Maddrey. Shelba was a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in...

Pauline Blaylock

Pauline Blaylock

Jan 2, 2011

Pauline Blaylock, age 77, of 78 Penn Street, Bridgeton, NJ, passed away on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born on December 5, 1933 in Harlan County, KY, she was a daughter of the late Larrie and Ethel Garrett Blaylock. She had been a resident of Bridgeton, NJ for 54 years was a retiree of Owens Illionos Glass...

Lucy Mae Roark

Lucy Mae Roark

Jan 1, 2011

Lucy Mae Roark, age 75, of Route 1 Box 258 (Tabor Road), Bluefield ,WV, passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at her residence. Born on December 21, 1935 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of teh late Howard Freeman Shrader and Martha Francis Ayers Hawkins. She had been a resident of Bluewell for her entire live and attended...

Dr. Donald Lee Fogus

Dr. Donald Lee Fogus

Dec 31, 2010

Dr. Donald Lee Fogus of 237 Sunny Drive, Princeton, WV passed away died on Friday, December 31, 2010 at 4:10 PM at Princeton Community Hospital. He was born on January 25, 1931 in White Sulphur Springs to the late Henry Kay and Mary Madeline Bennett Fogus. He was the oldest of 10 children. He graduated from White Sulphur High School...

Tom Mix Pickett, Jr.

Tom Mix Pickett, Jr.

Dec 31, 2010

Tom Mix “Bubby” Pickett, Jr., age 51, of Rt. 4 Box 360, Bluefield, WV died on Friday, December 31, 2010 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on December 28, 1959 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Tom Pickett, Sr. and Helen Pressley Pickett. He was a graduate of Northfork High School. He had been a resident of...

Nancy Lee Fowler

Nancy Lee Fowler

Dec 31, 2010

Nancy Lee Riffe Fowler, age 75 of Leckie, WV, formerly of Draper, VA, passed away on Friday December 31, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on October 3, 1936 in McDowell County, she was the daughter of the late Albert Richard and Elsie Hanks Riffe. She was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church of Allisonia, VA and Leckie, WV....

Samuel K. Fain

Samuel K. Fain

Dec 30, 2010

Samuel K. Fain, age 52, of Bluefield, WV, formerly of Roderfield, passed away on December 30, 2010 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, VA after battling a severe lung disease. Born on September 25, 1958, he was a son of Virginia Dalton Fain Potter of Statesville, NC and the late Samuel E. Fain. Samuel worked as a coal...

Lacy Fox

Lacy Fox

Dec 30, 2010

Lacy Fox, age 73, of PO Box 624, Pocahontas, VA passed away on Thursday, December 30, 2010 at a Tazewell hospital. Born on November 18, 1937 in Pocahontas, VA, he was a son of the late Sonny Lail and Lovey Ann Fox. He had been a lifelong resident of Pocahontas and formerly worked at Maple Hill Cemetery for the Town...

David Lee Blankenship

David Lee Blankenship

Dec 22, 2010

David Lee Blankenship, 46 of 1119 Old Bramwell Rd, passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at his home. Born in Bluefield WV on May 9, 1964, he was a son of Ernest Blankenship and Stepmother Brenda Blankenship of Bluefield, and son of Shirley Harless Leffel of Scottsville Va. He had been a resident of Bluefield for the last 12...

Bonnie Bell Hodge

Bonnie Bell Hodge

Dec 22, 2010

Bonnie Bell Bailey Hodge, 87, of Rocky Gap, VA died Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010, in Princeton,WV following a long period of declining health. Born at Windmill Gap, on May 19, 1923, to Grover Cleveland and Mabel O'Brien Bailey, Bonnie Bell was the 9th of 17 children and the third daughter. She was a graduate of McComas High School and earned...

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