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Marie Webb

Marie Webb

Nov 2, 2009

Princeton- Marie Webb of Princeton WV went to be with our Lord on Monday, November 2, 2009. Born in Welch, she was the daughter of the late Domenic and Concetta Castrodale. Mrs. Webb attended McDowell County schools until the fourth grade. She then attended Catholic boarding schools in Virginia, Ohio, and Illinois. Upon graduating high school, she attended the DePaul...

Garnett W. Hale

Garnett W. Hale

Oct 31, 2009

Garnett W. “G. W.” Hale, Jr., age 83, of Route 5 Box 424-B, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Saturday, October 31, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on January 18, 1926 in Elkhorn, he was a son of the late Garnett W. hale, Sr. and Lila Hounchell Hale. He had been a resident of Bluewell for 60 years and was...

Clifford F. Davidson

Clifford F. Davidson

Oct 30, 2009

Clifford F. Davidson, age 85, of 160 Winterhaven Avenue, Princeton, WV, passed away on Friday, October 30, 2009 at a Princeton hospital. Born on September 20, 1924 he was a son of the late Jim and Trula Perkins Davidson. He had been a resident of Princeton since 1975 and was a member of the Princeton Presbyterian Church. He was a...

Frances Elizabeth Goins

Frances Elizabeth Goins

Oct 30, 2009

Frances Elizabeth Jones Goins, 92, of Roanoke, VA went to be with her lord on Friday, October 30, 2009. Frances was a long time member of the Bramwell Methodist Church, Bramwell, W.Va. She was retired from the Mercer County School system with many years of service at the Bramwell Schools. Mrs. Goins made her home with her daughter Ellen Bailey...

Rickey Lee Culp

Rickey Lee Culp

Oct 28, 2009

Rickey Lee Culp, age 51, of Route 5 Box 370-B, Bluefield, WV, the only son of Evelyn Culp Davis and the late George “Sandy” Davis of Bluewell, passed away on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at a Charleston hospital after a battle with liver cancer. He was born on July 12, 1958 in Iaeger and was a drywall worker. He will...

Everett Samuel Harris

Everett Samuel Harris

Oct 27, 2009

Everett Samuel Harris, 86, of 101 Lakeland Park Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at his residence. Mr. Harris was born on January 05, 1923 in Twin Branch, West Virginia to the late Hewitt Samuel Harris and Mattie Lee Johnson Harris. He had been resident of Mercer County for the past 21 years. Everett was a...

Ralph O. Strouth

Ralph O. Strouth

Oct 27, 2009

Ralph Oden Strouth, age 85, of PO Box 16, Nemours, passed away on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at his residence. Born on May 15, 1924 in VA, he was a son of the late James B. and Margaret Perkins Strouth. He had been a resident of Nemours for most of his life and was a member of the Ashlar Masonic...

Betty Mae Poff

Betty Mae Poff

Oct 27, 2009

Betty Mae Poff of Reese Harmon Ridge my loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and friend died on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 after a brief illness. Betty was born in Bluefield, West Virginia on May 12, 1938 to the late Bradley and Mary Ferguson. Maw as she was fondly called by her family lived a full life by loving,...

Geraldine C. LaFon

Geraldine C. LaFon

Oct 24, 2009

Geraldine C. (Deanie) LaFon, 84, of 142 Wedgewood Ave. Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at her residence. Deanie was born on August 06, 1925 in O’Toole, West Virginia to the late NC Guess, Sr. and Louise McGhee Guess. She had been a resident of Princeton, West Virginia for the past 32 years. She was a...

Angie M. Gillespie

Angie M. Gillespie

Oct 22, 2009

Angie M. Gillespie, age 35, of 165 Sperry Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at Princeton Community Hospital. Born on September 27, 1974 in Welch, she was a daughter of Douglas and Martha West Muncy of Roderfield. She had been a resident of Bluefield for 11 years and was a member of the Deliverance Temple Church...

George Saunders Davis

George Saunders Davis

Oct 19, 2009

George Saunders “Sandy” Davis, age 70, of Route 5 Box 370-B (Bluewell), Bluefield, WV, passed away on Monday, October 19, 2009 at Mercer Nursing and Rehab in Bluefield. Born on January 14, 1939 in Coalwood, he was a son of the late Edgar “Bud” and Margaret Kelley Davis. He had been a resident of Rt. 5, Bluefield for years and...

Bobby Ray Brummett, III

Bobby Ray Brummett, III

Oct 16, 2009

Bobby Ray Brummett, III, age 24, of 380 Jones Hill Road, Freeman, WV, passed away on Friday, October 16, 2009 at his residence. Born on December 13, 1984 in Bluefield, he was a son of Bobby Ray Brummett, Jr. of Freeman and the late Carrie Jane Sizemore Brummett Batton. He had been a lifelong resident of Freeman and was a...

Theodore F. Baker

Theodore F. Baker

Oct 16, 2009

Theodore F. Baker, age 77, of 816 Melrose Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away after a long battle of Leukemia on Friday, October 16, 2009 at home. Born on April 1, 1932 in Rocky Gap, VA, he was a son of the late Robert and Virginia Wiley Baker. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 34 years and was a...

Duane Fitzhugh Proffitt

Duane Fitzhugh Proffitt

Oct 13, 2009

NORTH TAZWEWELL, VA--- Duane Fitzhugh Proffitt “Sniper” age 37, of 759 Mundy Town Road North Tazewell, VA went home to his Savior where he will have no more pain or tears on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at Tazewell Community Hospital. Born November 6, 1971 at Bluefield, WV he was the son of Timmy and Iris Tabor Proffitt. He was a...

Jack H. Dillon

Jack H. Dillon

Oct 11, 2009

Jack H. Dillon, 74, of 104 Carter Dr. Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at his home. Jack was born on August 03, 1935 in Freeman, West Virginia to the late Raymond E. Dillon and Pearl Hopstock Patterson. Jack had been a resident of Princeton for the past eight years. He was a veteran of the...

Stephen Gregory Whitlow

Stephen Gregory Whitlow

Oct 10, 2009

Stephen Gregory Whitlow, age 54, of C-4 Leatherwood Apartments, Bluefield, VA, passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at a Bluefield hospital. Born on July 14, 1955 in Bluefield, he was a son of Doris Feazell Whitlow of Princeton and the late Sidney R. Whitlow. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 20 years and was of the Methodist...

Darkis Ann Poe

Darkis Ann Poe

Oct 10, 2009

Darkis Ann Poe, 69, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Darkis was born on June 27, 1940 in Goodwill, West Virginia to the late Ficer Taylor and Treecie Settle Taylor. She was the previous owner of Hair Styles by Darkis and was later employed by Wal-Mart...

Carl Rudolph Coeburn

Carl Rudolph Coeburn

Oct 9, 2009

Carl Rudolph Coeburn, age 73, of 1002 29th Street, Vienna, WV, and formerly of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Friday, October 9, 2009 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Parkersburg. Born on July 12, 1936 in Mercer County, he was a son of the late Carl Lee and Bessie L. Brown Coeburn. He had been a resident of Vienna for 20...

Anthony George Willien

Anthony George Willien

Oct 8, 2009

Anthony George “Tony” Willien, 64 of 125 Reiana Lane, Easley SC died Thursday October 8, 2009. Born January 21, 1945 in Williamson WV, he was the son of the late Raymond J. Willien and Hazel Moore Heinbuch. He was formerly employed by Barbecue King of Greenville SC and self employed in heating and air-conditioning. He was affiliated with the Pentecostal...

Thelma F. Morgan

Thelma F. Morgan

Oct 7, 2009

Thelma F. Morgan, 80, a resident of Cleveland, TN, formerly of the Welch area, passed away Thursday, October 7, 2009, in a local hospital. She was a homemaker and retired teacher. She was a member of the Church of God. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Lillian Frasher, as well as her husband, Eugene B. Morgan,...

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