Sandra Jean Montgomery
Sep 24, 2017
SANDRA JEAN RATLIFF MONTGOMERY, age 72, of Christiansburg, departed this life peacefully to be with her Heavenly Father, Sunday morning, September 24, 2017, at Carilion New River Valley Medical Center in Montgomery County. After years of battling COPD and several other recent health problems she left all that behind when she joined her heavenly home with no pain or...
Charles Chapman, Jr.
Sep 18, 2017
Charles Chapman, Jr. (Doodle Bug), 77, of Cascade Drive in Pembroke departed this life Monday evening, September 18, 2017, in the emergency department at Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born in Giles County on May 7, 1940 he was a son of the late Elizabeth Chapman. He was retired from The National Gypsum Company at Goldbond after a...
Johnny Sanford Blair
Sep 17, 2017
Johnny Sanford Blair, 62, of Rich Creek (Heritage Hall) and formerly of Hoges Chapel departed this life Sunday morning, September 17, 2017 at Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. He was born in Tennessee on December 3, 1954, a son of the late Sanford and Marie Blair. He is survived by several siblings and cousins. He had been employed...
Howard Andrew Lucas
Sep 17, 2017
Howard Andrew Lucas, 87, of Northside Road, Newport, Craig County, VA departed this life Sunday morning, September 17, 2017, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born in Giles County on February 24, 1930, he was a son of the late Gilbert Augusta Lucas and Kate Elizabeth Dowdy Lucas. He was at a young age a member of...
Charlotte Mae Mcmahan
Sep 11, 2017
CHARLOTTE MAE McMAHAN, 77, of Newport, departed this life Monday afternoon, September 11, 2017, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. Born in Pearisburg on November 4, 1939, she was a daughter of the late William Haven Porterfield and Mabel Hutchinson Porterfield of Mt Lake Road, Newport. She was a graduate of Newport High School, 1957 and National...
William Daniel Moye "Danny"
Sep 6, 2017
William Daniel Moye, Sr., "Danny", 77, of Pearisburg departed this life Wednesday morning, September 6, 2017 at Carilion New River Medical Center in Radford. Born in Staffordsville, on March 16, 1940, he was a son of the late James Walter Moye and Helen Croy Moye. He was a 1958, graduate of Pearisburg High School (Red Devils), and before his...
Mary Ann Townley
Sep 4, 2017
Mary Ann Townley, 84, of Ripplemead, departed this life Monday morning, September 4, 2017 at her home in the loving care of her family, hospice, and caregivers. Born at Hoges Store on October 9, 1932, she was a daughter of the late Oakley H and Roxie Williams Dowdy. She was retired from the Celanese plant at Narrows with 34...
Sam Junior Lucas
Sep 3, 2017
SAM JUNIOR LUCAS, 75, of Pembroke departed this life Sunday evening, September 3, 2017, at the home of his daughter in Rich Creek. Born at Interior in Giles County on October, 20, 1941, he was a son of the late Bessie Lucas Short and Samuel Chapman Tawney. He had been employed with the Montgomery County Schools prior to his...
Donnie Wayne Shrader
Aug 30, 2017
Donnie Wayne Shrader, 63, of Rich Creek, VA departed this life Wednesday morning, August 30, 2017 in the care of Heritage Hall Rich Creek. He was born in Bluefield, WV on September 12, 1953 a son of Mary Ann Dunford Burton and the late Guy Shrader. He had been a truck driver for all of his adult life, working...
Russell Lee Link
Aug 25, 2017
"Say not in grief he is no more - but live in thankfulness that he was"
Russell Lee Link, 88, of Newport departed this life on Friday, August 25, 2017 in Blacksburg, VA surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Loudoun, TN on April 17, 1929 a son of the late Ernest L. and Etta...
Sylvia Belle Williams
Aug 23, 2017
Sylvia Belle Weiss Williams, 94, of the Maybrook Community, Pembroke, departed this life quietly and at peace, Wednesday morning, August 23, 2017 at the home of her daughter in Pearisburg. Born on November 23, 1922 she was a daughter of the late Leonard and Sadie Stiff Weiss of Bellsprings. She was a graduate of Bellsprings High School, helped her...
Mildred Pauline Quesenberry
Aug 22, 2017
Mildred Pauline Quesenberry, 80, of New Castle and formerly of Glen Lyn and Pembroke departed this life Tuesday evening, August 22, 2017 at Lewis-Gale Montgomery Hospital in Blacksburg. Born in Itmann, WV on May 8, 1937, she was a daughter of the late Herbert Lee Blankenship, Sr and Ora Edna Richardson Blankenship. She was raised in the faith of...
Melvin Wayne Wilson (Buckshot)
Aug 21, 2017
Melvin Wayne Wilson (Buckshot), 78, of the Hoges Chapel area of Pembroke, departed this life Monday afternoon, August 21, 2017 at his home in the loving care of his family. Born in Hoges Store on July 17, 1939, he was a son of the late Bill and Muriel Tinsley Wilson.
He leaves to cherish his memory his...
Elsie Barnett Stephens
Aug 11, 2017
Elsie Barnett Stephens, 90, of Pearisburg, passed away peacefully into the arms of the Lord on August 11, 2017 while in the care of Warm Hearth Village (Kroontje Health Care Unit) in Blacksburg, VA after a courageous battle with dementia. Elsie was born in Pembroke, VA on July 21, 1927. She was the daughter if the late George and...
Rhoda Mabe Hutchison
Aug 10, 2017
Rhoda Mabe Hutchison, 70, of Newport, Craig County, departed this life Thursday, August 10, 2017 at Lewis Gale Montgomery Hospital in Blacksburg. Born in Saltville, Smyth County, VA, on October 14, 1946, she was a daughter of the late Carl and Ollie Poston Mabe. Rhoda was retired from Virginia Tech as a chef, was a 1965 graduate of Giles...
Mason William Rice
Aug 10, 2017
Mason William Rice, 90, of Dublin and formerly of Pearisburg, departed this life Thursday morning, August 10, 2017 at Lewis-Gale Pulaski Hospital in Pulaski, VA. Born in Clendennin, Giles County, on July 4, 1927, he was a son of the late Henry Cecil Rice and Nellie Janney Rice and step-son of Bertha Lawson Rice. He was a veteran of...
George Richard Kirk
Aug 2, 2017
George Richard Kirk, 48, of Beller St. in Narrows, VA, departed this life Tuesday, August 2, 2017, while working in Warren County, Ohio. Born in Pearisburg on May 27, 1969 he was a son of the late James Kirk and Beatrice Lucille Saunders Dalton.. He was employed as a finisher laying Stonehard, and a graduate of Giles High School....
George Richard Kirk
Aug 2, 2017
George Richard Kirk, 48, of Beller St. in Narrows, VA, departed this life Tuesday, August 2, 2017, while working in Warren County, Ohio. Born in Pearisburg on May 27, 1969 he was a son of the late James Kirk and Beatrice Lucille Saunders Dalton.. He was employed as a finisher laying Stonehard, and a graduate of Giles High School....
Allen Dale Williams
Aug 1, 2017
Allen Dale Williams, 67, of Brickyard Road, Pembroke, departed this life Tuesday morning, August 1, 2017 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, VA. after a long and courageous battle with cancer. His faith and trust in the Lord was remarkable in the face of his sufferings and he inspired others to more faith. Born in Christiansburg on December...
Jo Ann Vaught
Jul 31, 2017
Jo Ann Vaught, 83, of Ripplemead, departed this life Monday morning, July 31, 2017 at Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born in Glen Lyn on February 4, 1934, she was a daughter of the late Fred and Audessa White Thompson. She was a member of First Christian Church in Pearisburg and also attended Edgewood United Methodist Church in...
