Margaret Letisha Roach
Aug 27, 2010
Margaret Letisha "Peggy" Roach, 74, of Pearisburg, departed this life Friday morning, August 27, 2010 at Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, WV. Born in Narrows on May 20, 1936 she was a daughter of the late Powhatan and Isabelle Perkins Martin. Peggy was employed as a Nursing Assistant at Riverview Nursing Home in Rich Creek for forty-five years and...
Harvey Lee Higgs
Aug 26, 2010
Harvey Lee Higgs, 74, of Christiansburg and formerly of Pearisburg departed this life at his home Thursday morning, August 26, 2010. Born in Pearisburg on April 30, 1936, he was a son of the late James Harvey and Nellie Mae Griggs Higgs. He had been employed at Lynchburg Foundry in Radford and was a member of the Moose Lodge...
James William Gravley
Aug 25, 2010
James William "JW" Gravley, 67, of Parrott in Pulaski County, departed this life Wednesday, August 25, 2010 in Vinton. Born in Radford on April 12, 1943 he was a son of Mary Cressel Gravley and the late William David Gravley. JW was an auto mechanic always willing to help his neighbors out with a repair job. He was preceded...
Wayne Elliott Lucado
Aug 22, 2010
Wayne Elliott Lucado, 54, of the Burton Community, Pearisburg, departed this life Sunday afternoon, August 22, 2010 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 7, 1956 he was a son of Thelma Anderson Lucado of Burton and the late Eugene Joseph Lucado. He was, for many year, employed as a tractor trailer...
Luke Hopkins
Aug 20, 2010
Luke Hopkins, 86, of Pearisburg departed this life Friday morning, August 20, 2010 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born at Greasy Creek in Pike County, Kentucky on August 29, 1923, he was a son of the late Luther and Florence Ramsey Hopkins. He was preceded in death by his wife Mary Ann Collins Hopkins, two infant children, a...
Larry Dale Ratcliffe
Aug 18, 2010
Larry Dale Ratcliffe, 59, formerly of Pearisburg died Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Ocala, Florida at the home of his daughter and in the care of his family. Born in Pearisburg on June 27, 1951 he was a son of the late Luther Jackson and Naomi Lovell Ratcliffe. He had been employed at Shelor Automotive and was an avid...
Nina Ada Akers
Aug 18, 2010
Nina Ada Akers, 92, of Pearisburg, departed this life Wednesday August 18, 2010 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born in Carrie, WV on July 7, 1918, she was a daughter of the late Mont Browning and Lula Ellen Powers Kiser. She was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved husband Frank Evans Akers, and several brothers and...
Emma Jane Blankenship
Aug 18, 2010
Emma Jane Blankenship, 69, of Pearisburg departed this life Wednesday, August 18, 2010 peacefully at her home. Born in Giles County on August 17, 1941, she was a daughter of the late Lillian Janney and Manuel Garcia.
She leaves to cherish her memory her son William L. "Bill" Blankenship of the home; her daughter Debra J.Lang of...
David Griffith
Aug 17, 2010
David Griffith, 53, of Peterstown, WV died Tuesday, August 17, 2010 in Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, WV. Born in Pearisburg on May 7, 1957 he was a son of the late Edd Junior and Greta Louise Fitzgerald Griffith. He had been employed as a carpenter. David was preceded in death by his parents and his older brother "Buddy"...
Dolly Virginia Dowdy Weiss
Aug 14, 2010
Dolly Virginia Dowdy Weiss, 78, of Pembroke, departed this life Saturday morning, August 14, 2010 in the loving care of her family at home. Born in Giles County on March 23, 1932 she was a daughter of the late Andy and Maggie Sue Williams Lang. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands Billy Dowdy, Roy Dunford,...
Gilbert William "Lou" King, Jr.
Aug 12, 2010
Gilbert William "Lou" King, Jr., 42, of Pearisburg, died Thursday, August 12, 2010 after a long illness. Born in Radford, Virginia he was a son of the late Lottie Pearman Jones and Gilbert W. King, Sr. of Radford.
He is survived by his father G. W. King, Sr; his brother Earnest Lee King of Florida; his sisters...
Eugene Roy Shuff, Jr.
Aug 12, 2010
Eugene Roy Shuff, Jr. ,62, of Pembroke, departed this life Thursday evening, August 12, 2010 at Giles Community Hospital after a long illness. Born in Princeton, WV on November 25, 1947 he was a son of the late Eugene Shuff, Sr. and Omelia Price Shuff. "Gene" was a heavy equipment mechanic at A& L Construction , had worked with...
Mary Katherine Morris
Aug 4, 2010
Mary Katherine Morris, 84, formerly of Ripplemead and currently of Warm Hearth in Blacksburg departed this life Wednesday evening, August 4, 2010 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Giles County on March 26, 1926, she was a daughter of the late Burke Banks and Annie Niece Stafford. She had been employed as a CNA at several nursing...
Inez Outland Marshall
Jul 31, 2010
Inez Outland Marshall, 93, of Narrows passed from this life to her Heavenly Home on Saturday morning, July 31, 2010 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg, having lived a wonderful Christian life in the mountains of Virginia that she so dearly loved. Born in Conway, NC on February 22, 1917, she was a daughter of the late Thomas Elwood...
Elizabeth Ellen Dowdy
Jul 30, 2010
Elizabeth Ellen Dowdy, 82, of Pembroke, departed this life Friday morning, July 30, 2010 at Riverview Nursing Home in Rich Creek. Born in Bland County on June 9, 1928, she was a daughter of the late John and Alice Mustard Gordon. "Lib" had been employed at the library department of VPI. She was preceded in death by her husband...
John William Thompson
Jul 29, 2010
John William Thompson, 101, of Pembroke departed this life Thursday, July 29, 2010 at Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born in Burkes Garden, Tazewell Co. on October 8, 1908, he was a son of the late John M. and Lucy Asbury Thompson. Mr. Thompson had been employed as a coal miner at Boissevain and was retired from National Gypsum...
Walter Wiley Pace
Jul 22, 2010
St. Augustine: Walter Pace, 52, previously from Newport News, Va, died peacefully in the arms of his wife Jan, of Newport News, VA, on Thursday, July 22 at the Anne and Donald McGraw Center for Caring, in Jacksonville.
Walter is survived by his parents Nathaniel and Sylvia Vaught Pace of Newport News, brother Jeff Pace and fiance...
Irene Hamblin O'Dell
Jul 17, 2010
Irene Hamblin O'Dell, 82, of Pembroke departed this life Saturday evening, July 17, 2010 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Berton, Giles County, on May 5, 1928, she was a daughter of the late Easley Edmond and Gladys DeWeese Hamblin. Irene was a 1945 graduate of the Pembroke High School "Corn Cutters", had served as Treasurer of...
Richard Dale Rose
Jul 12, 2010
Richard "Rosebud" Rose, 50, of Pembroke departed this life Monday evening, July 12, 2010, at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Lynchburg on September 19, 1959, he was a son of the late Addie Belle Carter Rose and Waldo R. Rose. He was employed in the masonry trade and was a 1976 graduate of Giles High School.
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Ronald Wayne Waldron
Jun 28, 2010
Ronald Wayne Waldron, 68, of Pearisburg died Monday, June 28, 2010 at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born on Bent Mountain in Roanoke County on December 21, 1941 he was a son of Marie Franklin Waldron of Pembroke and the late Goode Sears Waldron. He was a veteran of the U S Army and was a retired tractor-trailer...
