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Maria Vigh Szakacs

Maria Vigh Szakacs

Dec 20, 2009

Maria Vigh Szakacs, age 81, of 1600 Bland Street, Bluefield, WV, formerly of Davidson Mobile Home Village, ended her journey and flew away with the angels on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield. Born on January 16, 1928 in Gunope, Hungary, she was a daughter of the late Anna Vigh. She had been a resident...

Clara B. Norton

Clara B. Norton

Dec 20, 2009

Clara B. Norton, age 94, of Route 5 (Red Oak Ridge), Bluewell, WV, passed away on Sunday, December 20, 2009 at her residence. Born on October 18, 1915 in Limestone, TN, she was a daughter of the late Rev. Vestal and Louie Hammer Broyles. She had been a resident of Bluewell for 40 years and was a member of the...

Richard Donald Underwood

Richard Donald Underwood

Dec 18, 2009

BLUEFIELD — Richard Donald Underwood, Sr. age 72 of RT 1, Box 414 (Littlesburg Road), Bluefield, W.Va., passed away Friday, December 18, 2009 at his residence. Born December 12, 1937 at Premier, WV he was the son of the late Jesse and Daisy Mae Duncan Underwood. Mr. Underwood was raised to work on cars since his teenage years. Richard developed...

Velcie Walsh

Velcie Walsh

Dec 18, 2009

Mr. Velcie Walsh, age 93, of Edisto Island, SC and formerly of Bluefield, passed away on Friday, December 18, 2009 at the Veterans Victory Home of natural causes. He was born on October 26, 1916 in Bluefield. After serving as a marine in World War II, he moved to the Washington, DC area where he worked until he retired from...

Alice Pearl Henderson

Alice Pearl Henderson

Dec 18, 2009

Alice Pearl Henderson, age 89, of Route 3 Box 532, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, December 18, 2009 at the GlenWood Park Retirement Village in Princeton. Born on August 28, 1920 in Crystal, she was a daughter of the late Loman and Della Sue O’Donnell Smith. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 20 years and attended the...

Vera M. Keys

Vera M. Keys

Dec 18, 2009

BLUEFIELD — Vera M. Keys, age 92, of Rt. 3, Box 337, Bluefield, W.Va., died on Friday, December 18, 2009 at her residence.Born on June 22, 1917 in Duhring, W.Va., she was the daughter of the late Chester B. and Kate Arrington Mullin. She had lived in Duhring her entire life and was a member of the Duhring Church of...

Anna Mae Barlow

Anna Mae Barlow

Dec 16, 2009

Anna Mae Barlow, age 89, of Route 5 (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at her home following a short illness. Born on March 30, 1920 in Kentucky, she was a daughter of the late Dave and Maggie Shrewsbury King. She loved her flowers and animals and would never leave an animal in need of food...

Cynthia Josephine Matusevich

Cynthia Josephine Matusevich

Dec 14, 2009

Cynthia Jolene "Jo" Matusevich, 75, of 1238 West Cumberland Road, Bluefield, West Virginia, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, December 14, 2009, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. She was born December 18, 1933 in Boissevain, Virginia. She retired as a dental assistant from Dr. William L. Baker's office in Bluefield, WV. She attended...

Mason Gordon Carl, Sr.

Mason Gordon Carl, Sr.

Dec 12, 2009

Mason Gordon Carl Sr. ,48, of Bluefield, WV, died in his home Saturday evening, December 12, 2009. Mason was born in Bluefield West Virginia on September 17, 1961. He lived all over West Virginia till 1986 when he moved to Westerville Ohio and started working for the Westerville City schools as an H.V.A.C. Technician. Mason and his wife and children...

Caroline E. Lewis

Caroline E. Lewis

Dec 12, 2009

Caroline E. Lewis, 100, of P.O. Box 381 Bramwell, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, December 12, 2009 at her residence. Born on February 27, 1909 in Bramwell, West Virginia to the late Charles C. Lambert and Mattie Patrick Lambert. She had been a resident of Bramwell for the entirety of her life and was of the Methodist faith. She...

Katherine O. Patrick

Katherine O. Patrick

Dec 7, 2009

Katherine O. Patrick, 91, of PO Box 277 Yards, Virginia passed away on Monday, December 07, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Born on October 16, 1918 in Yards, Virginia she was the daughter of the late Robert and Lena Compton Shrader. She had been a resident of Yards for all of her life and a...

L. Arnolene Snapp

L. Arnolene Snapp

Dec 6, 2009

L. Arnolene Snapp, age 73, of 55 Sedgewood Townhouse, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2009, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born on July 2, 1936, in Montcalm, WV, she was the daughter of the late Everett Johnson and Verlie Meadows Hicks. She was a graduate of Bluefield High School where she was a star majorette...

Evelyn Katherine Johnson

Evelyn Katherine Johnson

Dec 6, 2009

Evelyn Katherine Bowling Johnson, age 81, of 1116 College Avenue, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, December 6, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on March 16, 1928 in North Tazewell, VA, she was a daughter of the late Melvin C. Julia N. Boothe Bowling. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 60 years and was of the Baptist...

Mary Austen McVicker Gilbert Fudge

Mary Austen McVicker Gilbert Fudge

Dec 5, 2009

Mary Austen McVicker Gilbert Fudge, 78, of Bluefield, West Virginia formerly of Akron, Ohio passed away on December 05, 2009 following a lengthy illness. She was born July 04, 1931 in Manheim, West Virginia to the late Truman and Nell Teter McVicker. She was preceded in death by her first husband John A. Gilbert III and by her second husband...

Charles F. Carter

Charles F. Carter

Dec 4, 2009

Charles F. Carter, age 56, of Edgemont Drive (PO Box 551), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, December 4, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on August 18, 1953 in Bluefield, he was a son of the late Alfred S. and Phyllis M. Smith Carter. He had been a resident of Bluefield for most of his life and attended the...

Eula L. Pennington

Eula L. Pennington

Dec 4, 2009

Eula L. Pennington, age 79, of 673 Glenwood Park Road Princeton, West Virginia went to be with her LORD and Savior on Friday morning, December 04, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, West Virginia. Born on October 31, 1930, in Newhall, WV, she was the daughter of the late Paul and Lottie Hogston. She was a beautiful servant of...

Harold Edward Ingraham

Harold Edward Ingraham

Dec 3, 2009

Harold Edward Ingraham, Jr. 41 of Rt. 2 Box 286, Rock, WV died Thursday, December 3rd in Dover Tennessee. He was preceded in death by his father, Brady Smith, his nephew Bryan Dehart and his grandparents Ishmael and Madalin Milam and Eva Smith. He was survived by his loving family, mother, Geraldine Smith of Dover, TN. His loving wife of...

Faye Sturms

Faye Sturms

Dec 2, 2009

Faye Sturms, age 72, of 315 Freedom Road (PO Box 254) Montcalm, WV, passed away on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at a Princeton hospital. Born on July 24, 1937 in Maidsville, WV, she was a daughter of the late Tom and Mable Preston. She had been a resident of Montcalm for most of her life and attended the Montcalm Church...

Virginia Mae Faw

Virginia Mae Faw

Dec 1, 2009

Virginia Mae Kanode Faw, age 89, of Montcalm, WV, passed away on Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at her residence. Born on June 28, 1920 in Raleigh, WV, she was a daughter of the late Walter James and Lucy Jane Dudley Kanode. She had been a resident of Montcalm for most of her life and was a member of the Montcalm...

Ronnie C. Thomas

Ronnie C. Thomas

Nov 29, 2009

Ronnie C. Thomas, age 65, of Route 2 Box 473 (Durhing), Rock, WV, passed away on Sunday, November 29, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on April 13, 1944 in Princeton, he was a son of the late Donald C. and Myrtle Blevins Thomas. He had been a resident of Durhing for 45 years and was a 1962 graduate of...

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