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Angie Mae Biggs
Sep 17, 2009
Angie Mae Foster Biggs, age 95, of the Maples, Bluefield, departed this life on Thursday, September 17, 2009. She was born on November 10, 1913 in Chattaroy, WV, to Charles E. and fanny R. Foster. She was a beautician in Bedford, VA for 41 years. She moved to Bramwell in 1983 where she was a member of the Bramwell Presbyterian...
Patricia (Patty) Coe Johnson
Sep 15, 2009
Patricia (Patty) Coe Johnson, 51, of Box 323 Anawalt, West Virginia went to be with Jesus and her many friends and relatives who have preceded her, and especially her “Granny Coe” on Tuesday, September 15, 2009. Born October 07, 1957 in Tazewell, Virginia she was the daughter of Herman L. Coe of Anawalt, WV and Shirley William Coe Blush of...
Shaun W. Haney
Sep 15, 2009
Shaun W. Haney, age 25, of 670 Old Mtn. Road, Pocahontas, VA, passed away on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at a Tazewell, VA hospital. Born on July 3, 1984 in Evanston, IL, he was a son of Aaron Wayne Haney of Buchanan, MI and Deborah Ogle Gillespie of Bluefield, VA. He had been a lifelong resident of Bluefield, VA and...
Joyce Lee Musick
Sep 12, 2009
Joyce Lee Maxey Musick, age 75, of PO Box 1176, Bramwell, passed away on Saturday, September 12, 2009 at Princeton Health Care in Princeton. Born on May 8, 1934 in Wolfe, she was a daughter of the late Earl B. and Hattie Gray Handshaw Maxey. She had been a resident of Bramwell since 1983 and was a member of the...
Dennis Westley Harmon
Sep 12, 2009
Dennis "Den-Den" Westley Harmon, 55, of HC 76, Box 890 (Crumpler), Northfork, West Virginia, peacefully departed this life on Saturday, September 12, 2009, at Bowers Hospice House in Beckley with his family by his side. Born on April 27, 1954, in Grundy, Virginia, he was the son of the late William "Bob" and Rosie Harmon of Gary, West Virginia. Dennis...
William Arthur Mitchem
Sep 11, 2009
William Arthur Mitchem, age 59, of Methodist Hill (PO Box 411), Montcalm, WV, died on Friday, September 11, 2009 at his home. Born on March 10, 1950 in Hampton, VA, he was a son of the late Juanita Hendrick Mitchem. He had been a resident of Montcalm for 25 years and attended the Memorial Church of Christ. In addition to...
William E. R. Whitt
Sep 7, 2009
William E.R. (Pete) Whitt, age 96, of 165 Osprey Place (Quail Valley), Princeton, WV, died peacefully Monday morning, September 7, 2009, at his residence where he had lived for seventeen years after moving from Ft. Myers, FL. Born July 25, 1913 at Gary, WV, he was a son of the late Albert Patton and Sylvia Maxfield Whitt. He was preceded...
Donald Rockford Pollard
Sep 6, 2009
BLUEFIELD — Donald Rockford Pollard was born March 7, 1938 in Elkhorn, W.Va. and passed away on September 6, 2009 at his house with family by his side. He was the son of the late Willard G. and Faye E. Pollard. Don attended school in Berwind, W.Va. and joined the United States Navy in 1955-1964 Patrol Squadron # 42 at...
Franklin Pierce Young
Sep 5, 2009
Franklin Pierce Young, 59, of 3821 Airport Road Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Saturday, September 05, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia. Mr. Young was born on November 04, 1949 in Welch, West Virginia to the late Roscoe Young and Martha McCarty Young. He had been a resident of Bluefield, West Virginia since 1972. He...
William Franklin Parks
Sep 4, 2009
William Franklin Parks, age 76, of PO Box 97, Jenkinjones, WV, passed away on Friday, September 4, 2009 at his residence. Born on May 11, 1933 in Squire, he was a son of the late Lillian Parks. He had been a lifelong resident of Jenkinjones and was retired from Cole’s Bakery in Bluefield. In addition to his mother, he was...
Mike John Grahovac
Aug 31, 2009
Mike John Grahovac, age 81, of Conklintown, WV, passed away on Monday, August 31, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born on August 13, 1928, in Thorpe, he was a son of the late Eli and Clara Grahovac. He had been a resident of Anawalt for 60 years and was a member of the Jenkinjones Methodist Church. He was the...
Oliver M. Knouff, Jr.
Aug 27, 2009
Oliver M. Knouff, Jr., age 93, of Elkhorn, WV passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2009 at his residence. Born on April 10, 1916 in Welch, he was a son of the late Oliver M. and Lestelle L. Baker Knouff. He had been a resident of Mercer and McDowell counties for his entire life and was of the Methodist faith....
George Law
Aug 25, 2009
George Law, age 88, of Bluefield, WV, passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born on August 24, 1921 in Rocky Mount, VA, he was a son of the late John and Beulah Hodge Law. He had been a resident of Bluefield for 50 years and was a faithful member in the church...
Alma Spinella
Aug 22, 2009
Alma Shrader Spinella, of Bedford, VA, and formerly of 201 Springdale Avenue, Princeton, passed away on Saturday, August 22, 2009 at the Bedford County Nursing Home in Bedford, VA. She was born in McComas and was a daughter of the late Ralph and Florence Tabor Shrader. She had been a resident of Princeton for 28 years and was a graduate...
Dorothy Irene Wright
Aug 20, 2009
Dorothy Irene Wright, 80, of Rt. 5 Box 451-C Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at the Maples Nursing Home in Bluefield, West Virginia. Dorothy was born on September 29, 1928 in West Virginia to the late Joseph Shepherd and Eva McGhee Shepherd. She was a member of the Mowels Chapel Church and had been a...
Margaret D. Robinette
Aug 19, 2009
Margaret D. Robinette, age 87, of the Heritage Hall, formerly of Pocahontas, VA, died on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 at Heritage Hall in Tazewell, VA. Born on March 28, 1922, in Pocahontas, VA, she was the daughter of the late James and Maude Harris Kemp. She had retired as a bookkeeper and secretary for the Pocahontas Fuel Company with 48...
Alice Darlene Cleary Rotenberry
Aug 18, 2009
BLUEFIELD, WV--- Alice Darlene Cleary Rotenberry, age 50, of PO Box 581 Bluefield, WV, formerly of Kimball, WV passed away Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center. Born October 28, 1958 at Welch, WV she was the daughter of the late Clyde and Lennie Rose Cleary. Mrs. Rotenberry was a homemaker and of the Holiness Faith. In addition...
Mildred Hurley
Aug 17, 2009
Mildred Mills Hurley, 83, formerly of Surprise, AZ, died August 17th, 2009 at her home in Bluefield,W.VA., while on comfort care after a stroke. Mrs. Hurley was born October 14th, 1926 in W.VA., and lived in Kentucky, Minnesota, California,Nevada, Iowa, Colorado and Arizona before coming home to W.VA. in 2007. She was a coal miner’s daughter, master gardener, award wining...
Peggy Jane Clark
Aug 14, 2009
Peggy Jane Clark, age 82, of 205 Jackson Street, Bluefield, WV, died on Friday, August 14, 2009 at Bluefield Regional Hospital. Born on March 3, 1927, in ripplemead, VA, she was a daughter of the late James Marshal Bowles and Pearl Florence Bowles. She had lived in Bluefield, WV for the past 74 years and was a devoted wife, mother,...
Arlene Galkin Pannell
Aug 14, 2009
Arlene Galkin Pannell, 70, of 842 Big Branch Road Falls Mills, Virginia passed away on Friday, August 14, 2009 at her home. She was born on August 30, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York to the late David Galkin and Lillian Harrison Galkin. Arlene attended the Brushfork Baptist Church and had been a resident of Falls Mills for the past 35...
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