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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Louise Parker
Dec 22, 2010
Louise A. Parker, age 86, of Route 4 Box 532 (Warden Avenue), Bluefield, passed away on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on February 22, 1924 in Mercer County, she was a daughter of the late Robert and Nancy Lefler Tyree. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 65 years and was a...
Blonnie Kyle Mitchem
Dec 20, 2010
Blonnie Kyle Mitchem, age 77, of Kirby Addition Road, Princeton, WV, formerly of Crumpler, passed away on Monday, December 20, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital surrounded by his family. Born on January 21, 1933 in Beartown, WV, he was a son of the late Samuel Preston and Cloah Annie Bailey Mitchem. Blonnie was a retired coal miner with 43 years...
Everett Lee Beggs
Dec 20, 2010
Everett Lee Beggs, age 76, of Princeton went home to be with the Lord on Monday, December 20, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital. He was born on July 16, 1934 in Windmill Gap, WV to the late William James Beggs and Sebina Walker Beggs as the youngest son of eighteen children. He was employed as a coal miner at Ashland...
Audra Blanche Combs
Dec 19, 2010
Audra Blanche Combs, age 92, of 1005 ½ College Avenue, Bluefield, passed away on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at The Maples in Bluefield. Born on November 9, 1918 in Meadowview, VA, she was a daughter of the late Stuart and Garnett lee Terry McCormick. She was a graduate of Gary High School and the WV Business College. She was a...
Geneva Fay Stuart
Dec 19, 2010
Geneva Fay Hicks Stuart, age 82, of 186 Pollard Avenue, Bluefield, passed away on Sunday, December 19, 2010 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on April 1, 1928 in Whitby, she was a daughter of the late Clarence W. Hicks and Maggie Rollins Hicks. She went to Little French Beauty Academy on Cumberland Road. After her graduation on January 20, 1972,...
Frank Carl Davis, Jr.
Dec 18, 2010
Frank Carl Davis, Jr., age 65, of 103 Gypsum Street, Bluefield, passed away on Saturday, December 18, 2010 at his residence. Born on March 20, 1945 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Frank C. Davis, Sr. and Martha Little Davis. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield and was a graduate of Bluefield High School. He...
Geraldine Pruitt
Dec 17, 2010
Geraldine “Gerry” Anderson Pruitt, of Route 1 Box 415 (Littlesburg Road), Bluefield, passed away on Friday, December 17, 2010 at a Princeton hospital. Born on October 21, 1934 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Stewart and Anna Wilson Dotson. She was of the Baptist faith and was a retired manager of H&S Green Stamps. She was a...
Margaret McKinney Liddle
Dec 17, 2010
MYRTLE BEACH, SC---Margaret McKinney Liddle, age 92, of 1470 Fox Hollow Way Myrtle Beach, SC, formerly of Roanoke, VA , went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, December 17, 2010 at her residence. Born July 15, 1918 in Algoma, WV, Mrs. Liddle was a homemaker and a devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She was preceded in death by...
Jimmy Joe Simons
Dec 13, 2010
Jimmy Joe Simons, age 74, of 1019 ½ Old Bramwell Road, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, December 13, 2010 at his home. Born on February 6, 1936 in Clearfork, VA, and was preceded in death by his parents, Wiley and Elizabeth Neal Simons; a daughter, Diana O’Quinn; a brother, and two sisters. He retired after 22 years of service...
Lena Belle Stroupe
Dec 13, 2010
Lena Belle Isom Stroupe, age 100, of 475 Christian Fork Loop, Princeton, WV, and formerly of Bluewell, passed from this mortal life into the loving arms of her savior on Monday, December 13, 2010 at her residence. Born on January 20, 1910 in Ivanhoe, VA, she was a daughter of the late Rev. Emette E. and Bessie Madana Cline Isom....
Kathy Elizabeth Hill
Dec 11, 2010
Kathy Elizabeth Miles Hill 55, of Rt. 3 Box 475 Bluefield, WV passed away on Saturday, December 11, 2010 at the home of her sister in Princeton, WV. Kathy was born on March 13, 1955 in Bluefield, WV to the late Fred and Doreen Riggs Miles. She had been a resident of Bluefield for the past 20 years, where she...
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