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Edna Frances Ratcliff
Mar 22, 2011
Edna Frances Ratcliff, age 87, of 1912 Tazewell Avenue, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on January 2, 1924 in Boissevain, VA, she was a daughter of the late Russell and Mary Yates Spangler. She had been a resident of Bluefield, VA for 11 years and was of the Baptist faith. She...
Betty Jean Underwood
Mar 22, 2011
Betty Jean Underwood, age 78, of 225 Royal Oak Road, North Tazewell, VA, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on March 18, 1933 in McDowell County, she was a daughter of the late Herbert and Hazel Marie Osborne Carrington. She had been a resident of North Tazewell for 8 years and attended the Ada...
Julia Barrett
Mar 22, 2011
Julia Sheppet Barrett, age 87, of Bluewell, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at the Maples in Bluefield. Born on June 16, 1923 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late Techlo (Tilly) and Peter Sheppet. She was preceded in death by her sisters, Ann Steele and Helen Vrable; and a brother, Andrew Sheppet. She was a...
Vaughn Vincent Farmer
Mar 22, 2011
Vaughn Vincent Farmer, age 88, of Route 4 Box 43 (Old Bramwell Road), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at Castle’s Board and Care in Princeton. Born on January 16, 1923 in Anawalt, he was a son of the late Roscoe and Virdie Steelman Farmer. He had been a resident of Brushfork for 50 years and was...
Gracie Compton
Mar 20, 2011
Gracie E. Compton, age 79, of Route 3 Box 577, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at a Beckley nursing home. Born on February 3, 1932 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Duffie Bonds Compton. She had been a resident of Bluefield for most of her life and was of...
Alice Elizabeth Barnette
Mar 20, 2011
Mrs. Alice “Betty” Elizabeth Barnette 78, of South Charleston, WV departed this earth to return home to the Lord on Sunday, March 20, 2011 at the Hubbard Hospice House of Charleston after a short illness. Her beloved family was by her side throughout. Betty was born in Sandlick, Mercer County, West Virginia on August 24, 1932. She was baptized at...
Nancy L. Patton
Mar 17, 2011
NARROWS, Va. — Nancy L. Patton, age 72, of 205 Roma Road, North Tazewell, Va., passed away on Thursday, March 17, 2011 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on November 23, 1938 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Fred and Rosa Ellen Lambert. She had been a resident of North Tazewell for most of her life and...
Christopher Greg Shulock
Mar 16, 2011
Christopher Greg Shulock, age 38, of Treemont Circle (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at his residence. Born on September 19, 1972 in Welch, he was a son of Andrew “Andy” Shulock, Jr. of Bluefield and Jane Ellen Thomas of Bluefield. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 2 years and was a graduate of...
Hubert Wilson Workman
Mar 16, 2011
Hubert Wilson Workman, age 37, of 595 Hinton Road, Athens, WV, passed away on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 at 1:00 PM at his home. Born on April 13, 1973 in Bluefield, he was a son of Virginia Workman Lawrence of Athens. He worked for Tri-State Sealing. Those who knew Hubert know that he always had a big smile on his...
Vaynette Vera Vaselaros
Mar 15, 2011
Vaynette Vera Vaselaros, age 89, of 5831 Airport Road, Bluefield, WV passed away on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Tazewell, VA. Born on January 20, 1922 in Blackberry City, WV, she was a daughter of the late Sam McFarland and Cora McCoy McFarland. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She was a...
Geneva Mildred Butt
Mar 13, 2011
Geneva Mildred Butt, age 89, of PO Box 25, Nemours, WV, passed away Sunday, March 13, 2011 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on April 22, 1921 in Jenkinjones, she as a daughter of the late Roy and Gracie Williams Jessee. She was a member of the Jenkinjones Methodist Church and formerly worked in the offices for Pocahontas Fuel. She was...
Doris Jean Martin
Mar 13, 2011
Doris Jean O’Brien Martin, age 75, of Sedgewood Townhouse #63, Bluefield, VA, went to be with her Heavenly Father on Sunday, March 13, 2011 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on April 23, 1934 at Little Creek near Anawalt, she was a daughter of the late Lacy Patrick and Cleo Webb O’Brien. She had been a resident of Bluefield, VA for...
Kathleen Tabor Gawthrop
Mar 12, 2011
Kathleen Tabor Gawthrop, 103 of Bluefield, WV, passed away Saturday, March 12, 2011 of natural causes. She was currently a resident of Princeton Health Care in Princeton, WV. Born in Bluefield, WV to parents, James Tabor and Ada Vernon Tabor, she is also preceeded in death by her husband, Tom Gawthrop, two brothers, James Tabor and Paul Tabor, one sister,...
Mazie Lee Burks
Mar 12, 2011
BLUEFIELD, WV--- Mazie Lee Burks, age 91, of Bluefield, WV Passed away Saturday, March 12, 2011 at her residence. Romans 10:13, For whosever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Born February 28, 1920 at North Wilkesboro, NC she was the daughter of the late Wint and Maude Shumate Hall. She had been a resident of...
Othelia "Phoebe" Esters
Mar 10, 2011
Othelia P. “Phoebe” Watkins, Esters of Mount Carbon, West Virginia and Niagara Falls, New York formerly of Elkhorn, WV entered into eternal rest on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at CAMC in Charleston, West Virginia. Othelia P. “Phoebe” Esters was born on January 21, 1941 in Welch, West Virginia to the late Mr. Robert H. Watkins and Mrs. Minnie B. Bogle,...
Della M. Shinault
Mar 10, 2011
Della M. Robinette Shinault, 95, of Rt. 5 Bluefield, WV passed away on Wednesday, March 10, 2011 to be with her Heavenly Father at The Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield, WV. Born on September 12, 1915 in Bluefield, WV she was the daughter of the late Mason Joe and Millie Davis Robinette. She was a lifelong resident of Bluefield, WV...
Marvin Edward Moore
Mar 9, 2011
Marvin Edward Moore, age 75, of PO Box 167 (Carswell Hollow), Kimball, WV passed away on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at his residence. Born on March 30, 1935 in Maitland, he was a son of the late Woodson and Rachel Arnold Moore. He had been a resident of Kimball for 40 years and was a retired coal miner for...
Carolyn Sue Harmon
Mar 9, 2011
Carolyn Sue Harmon, age 61, of Rt. 2, Box 258, Rock, WV died on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at her residence.Born on September 21, 1949 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she was a daughter of the late Ernest and Mary Perdue Lewis . She had been a resident of Rock for the past 8 months and was a retired dietician. She...
Nicholas Paul Perriello
Mar 7, 2011
Nicholas Paul Perriello, age 58, of Route 4 Box 224-N (Nemours), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, March 7, 2011 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on December 13, 1952 in Newark, NJ, he was a son of Vincent Perriello of Rt. 4 Bluefield, WV with whom Nicholas made his home, and the late Elva Yates Perriello. He had been a...
Lucille Kroski Pinter
Mar 7, 2011
Lucille Kroski Pinter (Lucia Ann Czajkowski) age 88, of 2701 Yellow Warbler Lane, Richmond, VA and formerly of Gary, went to be with the Lord on March 7th, 2011 at her daughter’s home in Richmond, VA after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Lucille was born on November 23, 1922 at #10 in Gary, WVA. She is preceded in death by...
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