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Ted Gordon Black
Mar 6, 2018
Ted Gordon Black, 77 of Bland, VA, passed away on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 at his home. Born on June 5, 1940 in McComas, he was a son of the late John Sylvester and Mary Addie Dunford Black. He had been a resident of Bland for 18 years and was a retired foreman for New River Casting Company and was...
Barbara Jean Kenley
Mar 5, 2018
Barbara Jean Kenley, 80, of Dry Fork Road, Rocky Gap, VA, passed away on Monday, March 5, 2018 at her home.
Born on April 30, 1937 in McComas, she was a daughter of the late Theodore R. and Thelma Gay Eller. She had been a resident of Rocky Gap for 36 years and was a retired bus driver for Tazewell...
Antonette (Toni) Simplicio
Mar 3, 2018
George Curletto, an Internationally renowned musician and prolific composer, residing in Northwest Washington, D.C. since 1969, life member of both the New York Local 802 and the Washington, D.C. Local 161-710 of the International Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, is with great sorrow announcing to the entire family, all relatives and friends, as well as to...
Mildred Lucille Mitchell
Mar 3, 2018
Bluefield- Mildred Lucille “Lucy” Barrett Mitchell, 79, of 142 Broyles Cemetery Road, Bluefield, WV, departed her earthly home and transitioned to her heavenly one on March 3, 2018, at Bowers Hospice House, Beckley, WV after a brief but courageous battle with cancer. She was born on a snowy Monday morning, February 6, 1939 in Nemours, WV, to the late George...
Zenith Chilco
Mar 2, 2018
Zenith Chilco, age 98, of Bluewell WV went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 2, 2018 at the Christian Care in Princeton, WV.
She was born on March 25, 1919 in War, WV, she was a daughter of Oscar and Rosa Caves Byrd. She was a loving housewife and mother. She had been a resident of...
Ellen Jane Glovier
Feb 27, 2018
Ellen Jane Glovier, 72, of Northfork, WV, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital after a long illness. Born on January 14, 1946 in Bramwell, WV, she was a daughter of the late Dewey and Thelma Taylor Hess. She had been a lifelong resident of Northfork, WV and was of the Christian...
Linda Juanita Davis
Feb 26, 2018
Princeton- Linda Juanita Farmer Davis, 70, of Princeton, WV passed away Monday February 26, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born February 8, 1948 in Welch she was a daughter of the late Vernal “Preacher” Farmer and Virginia “Jenny” Davis Farmer.Linda was a member of the Immanuel Baptist Church in Princeton and had retired from Eddie Asbury Coal Co. as a Bookkeeper...
Tony Lesly Hicks
Feb 26, 2018
Tony Lesly Hicks, 60, of Black Oak Road Princeton, West Virginia passed away on Monday, February 26, 2018 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Tony was born on May 06, 1957 in Bluefield, WV to the late Sherman and Ruth Spicer Hicks. He was a retired truck driver; In addition to his father he was preceded in death by one brother Joseph...
Angelia Dawn Casey
Feb 25, 2018
Angelia Dawn Casey, 41, of Bluefield, West Virginia passed away on Sunday, February 25, 2018.Angelia was born Wednesday, December 29, 1976 in Bluefield, West Virginia to Darlene Frost Casey Newton and the late Clyde Casey, Sr. She attended Bluewell Baptist Church and a hardworking single mother whom always did her best for her family. She was preceded in death by...
Eva Ann Perkins
Feb 24, 2018
Eva Ann Perkins, 84 of Princeton, WV passed away peacefully on Saturday February 24, 2018 at the home of her daughter after a long illness. Born in Abney, WV and raised in Montcalm, she was the daughter of the late James Matthew and Arlie Eureka Beggs and was the youngest of 11 children. She was retired from A&P Foods in...
Dana Lynn Wolford
Feb 24, 2018
Dana Lynn Wolford, 43, of Bluefield, West Virginia lost her fight to cancer on Saturday, February 24, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Dana was born on September 01, 1974 in Warren, MI to Dana Ray Wolford of Princeton, WV and the late Kathie Oma Ratliff. Dana was a loving Mother, Grandmother, Daughter, Sister and Wife. She was a former member of...
Arnold Harry Parker
Feb 23, 2018
Arnold Harry Parker, age 78, of Browning-Lambert Road, Rock, WV died on Friday, February 23, 2018 at Princeton Community Hospital.Born on December 1, 1939 in Rock, WV, he was the son of the late Edgar and Gwen Lusk Parker. He was a retired salesman for a coffee company, a mining machine company, and enjoyed farming as well. In addition to...
Delmer Franklin Jones
Feb 23, 2018
Delmer Franklin Jones, age 86, of Golden Harvest Nursing Home, Welch, WV died on Friday, February 23, 2018 at Golden Harvest.Born on May 23, 1931 in Vivian, WV, he was a son of the late Milburn and Clara Patrick Jones. He had worked in grocery sales and as a caretaker. He had last attended the Bluewell Baptist Church and had...
Ernestine Ann Wirt
Feb 22, 2018
Ernestine Ann Wirt, age 85, of The Maples Nursing Home, died on Thursday, February 22, 2018 at The Maples.Born on June 30, 1932 in McComas, WV, she was a daughter of the late Renes and Hazel Beavers Wirt. She was a member of the Ceres Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters, Frances...
Rita Deloris Doyle
Feb 18, 2018
Rita Deloris Doyle, 68, of Louden Street, Bluefield, WV, passed away on Sunday, February 18, 2018 at Charleston Area Medical Center. Born on June 12, 1949 in Bluefield, she was a daughter of the late Gordon and Grace Carr Summers. She had been a resident of Bluefield for most of her life and was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness...
Stella Alberta Poff
Feb 17, 2018
Stella Alberta Miles Poff, age 99, died Saturday, February17, 2018 at the Bluefield Regional Hospital. Stella was preceded in death by her parents Asa and Sarah Miles of Keystone, West Virginia, husband Edward B. Poff of Bluewell, and most recently her sister Elva Miles Lockhart of Bluefield, Virginia. All of her other siblings passed in prior years. Surviving is her...
Bobby Joe Powell, Sr.
Feb 17, 2018
Bobby Joe Powell, Sr., age 74, of Perdue Hollow Road, Bluefield, WV died on Saturday, February 17, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on May 23, 1943 in McDowell, WV, he was a son of the late Elbert and Lydia Pearl Conn Powell. He had lived in Bluefield for the past 25 years and was a retired coal miner with...
Billy Eugene Gullett
Feb 16, 2018
Billy Eugene Gullett, Sr., age 78, of Foy Bypass, Bluefield, WV died on Friday, February 16, 2018 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center.Born on December 5, 1939 in Baileysville, WV, he was a son of Garnet Rose Gullett of Welch, WV and the late Clyde Samuel Gullett. He had lived in Montcalm since 1979 and was of the Pentecostal Holiness Faith....
Shirley M. Eller
Feb 14, 2018
Shirley M. Eller, age 83, of Beltsville, MD, formerly of Bluewell, died on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at Laurel Regional Hospital.Born on April 17, 1934 in McComas, WV, she was a daughter of the late Thomas J. and Annie L. Gillenwater Eller. She had lived in Beltsville for the past 60 years and was retired from Bell-Atlantic and Frontier Telephone...
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