Obituary Listing

Oct 16, 2016

JOANN MARTIN DARNELL, 78, of Darnell Mt. Rd., in Ripplemead, departed this life Sunday morning, October 16, 2016, at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke after a long illness. Born in Pembroke on August 1, 1938, she was a daughter of the late Vivian Albert Martin and Vivian Merrix Martin Collins and step-daughter of the late John Collins. She...

Sep 29, 2016

JERRY DAVID FRAZIER, 74, of Brickyard Road, Pembroke, departed this life Thursday morning, September 29, 2016, at his home in the loving care of his family. Born in Bluff City on February 10, 1942, he was a son of the late Josiah David Frazier and Gertrude Blankenship Frazier. Jerry had been employed as a heavy equipment operator on construction...

Sep 21, 2016

IRENE MULLINS WILBURN, 88, of Magnolia Drive in Ripplemead, departed this life Wednesday morning, September 21, 2016 at Carilion Giles Community Hospital in Pearisburg. Born in Fremont, Virginia, Dickinson County on December 17, 1927 she was a daughter of the late Ira and Hattie Fleming Mullins. Irene was an LPN with over 45 years service retiring from Giles Memorial...

Sep 19, 2016

MORRIS FLOYD GARRISON, JR., 66, of Woodcrafter Lane, Newport, departed this life Monday morning, September 19, 2016 at his home in the care of dear friends. Born in Richmond on July 7, 1950 he was a son of the late Morris Floyd Garrison,Sr and Della Poindexter Garrison. Morris was always a student in many fields at Virginia Tech, a...

Sep 19, 2016

BOBBY GEAN HUFFMAN. 80 of Hoges Chapel at Pembroke departed this life Monday morning, September 19, 2016 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC. Born in Giles County on April 7, 1936, he was a son of the late Carl and Nancy Meredith Huffman. Bobby was a skilled tile setter and worked on many construction sites through...

Sep 16, 2016

DAVID DOUGLAS MERRIX, 57, of Ripplemead, departed this life Friday morning, September 16, 2016 in the loving care of his family. Born on June 30, 1959 in Pearisburg he was a son of Naomi Sanders Merrix of Ripplemead and the late William Douglas Merrix. He had been employed as an iron worker for Local 5 in Washington, DC and...

Sep 15, 2016

ROGER NEAL FARMER, 68, of Radford and formerly of Eggleston, departed this life to be with his Lord Thursday evening, September 15, 2016 in Radford. Born in Giles County on May 30, 1948, he was a son of the late Ethelbert and Mary Lucas Farmer. Roger was retired from the Celanese Plant in Narrows, enjoyed fishing and attended the...

Sep 3, 2016

RANDY DEWAINE MARTIN, 50, of Narrows, departed this life Saturday morning, September 3, 2016 at his parents home in Ripplemead (Goldbond). Born in Pearisburg on October 28, 1965 he was a son of Jimmy Lowe and Dolly Carter Martin of Goldbond. He was preceded in death by his wife Lisa Stafford Martin.

He leaves to cherish his...

Aug 28, 2016

Jewel Miller Radford, 78, of Big Stoney Creek passed away suddenly on Sunday, August 28, 2016 at his home. Born May 26, 1938, he was the son of the late Kemper Radford and Edna Mae Williams Radford Reece of Pembroke. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by infant sister, Edna Azell Radford, and brother, William...

Aug 25, 2016

Judy Meredith, 74, of Narrows, departed this life Thursday evening, August 25, 2016 in the care of her family. Born on March 5, 1942 at Narrows, Virginia. she was a daughter of the late James Lee and Mary Edith Crabtree Johnston. She was preceded in death by her parents, two children, Tammy Meredith Quesenberry and Johnny R. Meredith, Jr....

Aug 23, 2016

MELVIN DONALD LINKOUS "Pops", 88, of Rich Creek, departed this life Tuesday afternoon, August 23, 2016, in the care of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salem. Born on December 26, 1927 in Pulaski County, he was a son of the late Richard Elliott and Josie Ann Duncan Linkous. He was a Christian by faith, a veteran of the...

Aug 20, 2016

"BUCK" ULYSSES LEE QUESENBERRY, 86, of Glen Lyn and Salem, departed this life Saturday morning, August 20, 2016 in the care of the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Salem. Born on October 9, 1929 at Coaldale, WV, he was a son of the late Joseph Edward and Laura Rogers Quesenberry. Buck was a veteran of the U S Army,...

Aug 7, 2016

Dr. Herman Brooks Fullen, Jr. of Mt Lake Estates in Newport, departed this life Sunday morning, August 7, 2016 at his home in the loving care of his family and hospice. Born in Beaumont, Texas on February 18, 1933, he was the son of the late Herman Brooks ,Sr, and Katherine Frances Hugus Fullen. He was a veteran of...

Aug 6, 2016

FRANKLIN D. BLANKENSHIP, 71, of Ed B Drive on Blankenship Mt at Narrows, departed this life Saturday morning, August 6, 2016 at his home. Born at home on September 5, 1944, he was a son on the late Clarence William and Amy Davis Blankenship. He was a 1964 graduate of Narrows High School and earned his living as a...

Jul 26, 2016

LINDA SUE DOVE, 55, of Pembroke, departed this life Tuesday morning, July 26, 2016at her home in the care of her family and hospice. Born in Lexington, VA on October 23, 1960, she was a daughter if the late Homer and Stella Howard Covey.

She leaves to cherish her memory her sons James Ray Covey of Christiansburg,...

Jul 25, 2016

MICHAEL EUGENE WOOLWINE "Wooley", 54, of Bland departed this life Monday, July 25, 2016 in the care of Heritage Hall in Blacksburg. Born in Bland on July 29, 1961 he was a son of the late McCarthy and Harriet Opal Dillman Woolwine. For over thirty years Michael was a referee for high school athletics, was employed as a school...

Jul 24, 2016

CARL ALEXANDER GUSLER, 83, of Hidden Hills Lane, Newport, departed this life Sunday morning, July 24, 2016 at Lewis Gale Montgomery hospital in Blacksburg. Born in Pearisburg on June 6, 1933, he was a son of the late Henry Buchanan and Lula Belle Carper Gusler. He was first of all a farmer, and then a carpenter, and a school...

Jul 23, 2016

MARGARET GERTRUDE WILLIAMS, 91, of Cascade Drive, Pembroke, departed this life Saturday evening, July 23, 2016 at Heritage Hall Rich Creek. Born in Pembroke on February 26, 1925, she was a daughter of the late Grover Glenn and Margaret Ann (Maggie) Givens Snidow. She was a member of Pembroke First United Methodist Church, was retired from VPI and had...

Jul 13, 2016

ELIZABETH PARCELL MASTERS, 82, of Westview Street in Narrows departed this life Wednesday morning, July 13, 2016 in Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. Born at Fairfield, VA on May 3, 1934, she was a daughter of the late Samuel Hubert "SH" and Bertha Lee Perdue Parcell. She was retired from the Beaming Dept at the Celanese Plant in...

Jul 9, 2016

ELLA RHEA HAMBLIN, 74, formerly of Pembroke and lately of Wytheville departed this life Saturday evening, July 9, 2016 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke. Born in Pembroke on August 31, 1941, she was a daughter of the late Robert Bernard, Sr. and Louvenia Carter Hamblin. Ella Rhea was a 1960 graduate of Pembroke High School, was retired...