MARK ANTHONY KEEN, 35 years of age, of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, June 26, 2009, Clinch Valley Medical Center , Richlands, VA following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Thomas Glen and Ruby Vandyke Keen.  He was...     MORE

STELLA MARIE HURLEY MURPHY, 80 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Peyton...   MORE

WILLIAM OLIVER GRIZZLE, 70 years of age of Mouth Card, KY, passed away Sunday, June 14, 2009 at the Mt. View Health Care Center, Elkhorn City, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late William Bill and Lydia Taylor...    MORE

INEZ (TINY) MATNEY RIFE, 59 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, June 14, 2009 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Lula Blankenship Matney...  MORE

ANN CAROLINE NICHOLS SHORTT, 70 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Saturday, June 13, 2009 at her home surrounded by her loving family and friends following an extended illness.  Born in Tazewell County, she was the daughter of Ruth Montgomery...    MORE

RUBY JEAN DAWSON CHURCH, 86 years of age of Wytheville, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, June 8, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Elijah and Lillie Anne Dales...     MORE

HUBBERT SCARBERRY, 81 years of age of Paw Paw, KY, passed away Sunday, June 7, 2009 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Hollie and Grace Pruitt Scarberry. He was a lifelong resident of Pike County, KY, and...     MORE

MILES BLANKENSHIP, 87 years of age of the Davis Fork section of Hurley, VA, passed away Monday, June 1, 2009 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Linco and Nancy Cooper Blankenship. He was a lifelong...   MORE

TONY COMPTON, 62 years of age of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, May 31, 2009 at his home following a short illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Hosea and Polly Jane Deel Compton. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

LAURA RUBY HALE KEEN, 81 years of age of Vansant, VA, formerly of Waynesburg, KY, passed away Thursday, May 28, 2009 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

KIMBERLY RENEE JUSTUS, 39 years of age of Pikeville, KY, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away May 28, 2009. Born in Richlands, VA, November 9, 1969, she was the daughter of Christine Blankenship Justus of Wolford, VA, and the late Eugene Justus. Kim was...   MORE

CHRISTOPHER BRIAN CHAFFINS, 37 years of age of Mouth Card, KY, passed away Friday, May 22, 2009 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Acie Thompson and Nellie Jean...    MORE

JEAN ELLEN NICKLES STILTNER VARNEY, 62 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Bill and Margie Ratliff Nickels. She was a loving...     MORE

CHARLES LEE ELSWICK, 67 years of age, of Vansant, VA passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009 at his home at Deel, VA following a lengthy illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Edd and Gladys Woodson Elswick.  He was a life-long resident of...    MORE

CLOYIE MAE WHITE MATNEY, 79 years of age of the Garden Creek section of Oakwood, VA, passed away Saturday, May 16, 2009 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following a brief illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, she was the daughter of the...    MORE

RUTH MCCLANAHAN OWENS, 79 years of age of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away Friday, May 15, 2009 at the Mayfair Retirement Home at Claypool Hill, Virginia following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of...   MORE

FAYETTA DEEL PHILLIPS, 59 years of age of the Knox Creek Section of Hurley, VA, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Edgar...  MORE

MARGIE KEEN HORNE, 72 years of age of the Upper Big Branch Section of Oakwood, VA, passed away Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter...   MORE

ARTHUR LEE WHITT, 65 years of age of Pilgrims Knob, VA, passed away Wednesday April 29, 2009 at Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Henry Terry and Mildred Delong...    MORE

SHIRLEY JEAN RALEIGH BLANKENSHIP, 62 years of age of the Lynn Camp Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at her home following a brief illness. Born in Sullivan County, TN, she was the daughter of the late Clarence and Mabel Short Raleigh...    MORE

MABEL SCARBERRY MULLINS, 86 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at the Wellmont-Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in David, WV, she was the daughter of the late William and Jane Prater...    MORE

EURA CLEO VANDYKE RATLIFF, 80 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Bennie and Rosie Street Vandyke. She was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

REABLE ADKINS COLEMAN, 86 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Chris and Frankie Mullins...    MORE

FRANKLIN D. VANDYKE, 75 years of age of Raven, VA, passed away Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Joshua and Edna Keen Vandyke. He was a lifelong resident of...   MORE

SHARON (FON) OWENS SEXTON, 70 years of age of Oakwood, VA, passed away Monday, April 13, 2009 at the Bristol Select Specialty Hospital, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, she was a daughter of the late Donald Douglas and...    MORE

ROCKY ALEX BLANKENSHIP, 47 years of age of Hurley, VA, formerly of Pike County, KY, passed away Monday, April 13, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Williamson, WV, he was the son of the late James and Maudie...     MORE

DAVID WILLIAM SLONE, 54 years of age of Breaks, Virginia, passed away Monday, April 13, 2009 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of William R. Slone, Breaks, VA, and the late Brenda Thelma Clevinger Slone. He was a lifelong...    MORE

BRANDON RYAN HURLEY, 17 years of age of Hurley, Virginia, passed away Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at the St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.  Born October 1, 1991, in Tazewell County, Virginia, he was the son...    MORE

EDITH LEONA CLINE CLEVINGER, 90 years of age of the Leemaster Section of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, April 6, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born January 2, 1919, in Wharncliffe, WV, she was the daughter of the late...   MORE

KENNETH E. FOSTER, 78 years of age of the Poplar Creek section of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Saturday, April 4, 2009 at the Sandra Owens Home, Birchleaf, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Charlie and...    MORE

ORA MAE RAMEY BELCHER, 90 years of age of the Lee Town Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, March 30, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Richard Wyatt and Lucy...    MORE

GARY WAYNE EPLING, 52 years of age of the Buckeye Section of Big Rock, VA, passed away Saturday, March 28, 2009 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Elster and Mavis Jerlene Ramey Epling. He was a...     MORE

EVA CHARLES WARD, 82 years of age of the Little Prater Section of Grundy, VA    passed away Friday, March 20, 2009 at her home. Born in Buchanan County she was the daughter of the late David Crockett Bowman and Susan Charles Bowman. She was one of   Jehovah’s...    MORE

CHARLES W. BEACH, 73 years of age of Oakwood, Virginia, passed away at his home on March 18, 2009 following an extended illness.  Born in Baltimore, MD, on October 5, 1935, he was the son of the late William Beach and Etta Beach.  He was self employed for several...    MORE

MARGARET LEE HATFIELD RIFE, 78 years of age of New Port Richey, FL, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, March 16, 2009 at the Hernando Pasco Hospice in New Port Richey, FL, following a short illness. Born March 13, 1931, in Ameagle, WV, she...   MORE

JOHN MARK ELSWICK, 42 years of age of Rowe, VA, passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Edd F. and Dorothy Deloris Stiltner Elswick. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan...    MORE

ROBERT ALLEN OWENS, 52 years of age of Feds Creek, KY, passed away Sunday, March 15, 2009 at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Juanita Marie Coleman...    MORE

JESSE GREENE RAMEY, 78 years old of Cedar Bluff, Virginia, passed away Saturday, March 14, 2009 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Carl and Helen Virginia Roberts Ramey.  He was...    MORE

PATTY SUE JACKSON LESTER, 52 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Iaeger, WV, she was the daughter of Pearl Ann Dotson Jackson, Lafayette, TN, and the late Scott Jackson, March 6...    MORE

DENNIS McCOY, 90 years of age of the Slate Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, March 9, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Rome and Margaret Blankenship McCoy...    MORE

HAROLD BENTON “JAKE” STILTNER, 33 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, March 7, 2009. Born in Tazewell County, he was the son of Harold Stiltner, St. Charles, VA, and the late Edith Miller Stiltner. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and...    MORE

DANNY GLEN ADKINS, 52 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, February 21, 2009 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Thelma Prater Adkins, Hurley, VA, and the late Estil Adkins. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

CHLOE WINIFRED HURLEY JUSTUS, 88 years of age of Cedar Bluff, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Friday, February 20, 2009 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the...    MORE

TIMOTHY PAUL BALDWIN, 30 years of age of Marion, Virginia, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away at his home Monday, February 16, 2009 following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Lawrence Baldwin and Freda Bowman...    MORE

ESTA MAE WOLFORD HURLEY, 68 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, February 14, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Jessie and Sophia Robinette Wolford. She was a resident of...    MORE

WILLIAM SHAYLOR MUTTER, 72 years of age of Grundy, VA., passed away Thursday, February 12, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Roy Clair Mutter and Bessie Mae Jackson Mutter...   MORE

ZULEIMA RUTH HARMON “GRANNY RUTH” OWENS, 95 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, she was the daughter of the late Burrell Blair Jr...     MORE

MABLE MEADE HURLEY, 83 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2009 in Ashville, NC. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late David Washington “Pink” and Mellie Justice Meade. She was a resident of Buchanan County most...    MORE

ETHEL HUNT PRATER, 97 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late John and Melinda Miller Hunt. She was a...   MORE

ETHEL MABLE BURDEN HAGY, 89 years of age of Claypool Hill, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Mayfair House, Claypool Hill, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Morehead, KY, she was the daughter of the late Leonard...    MORE

JAMES McCLANAHAN, 73 years of age of the Poplar Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, February 9, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Doc and Flora McClanahan. He was...    MORE

ARTHUR MAY, 81 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, February 8, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late James Basil and Daisie Dotson May. He was a lifelong resident of...     MORE

RANDLE PAUL JACKSON, 61 years of age of Cedar Bluff, Virginia, formerly of Hurley, Va., passed away Saturday, February 7, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Omar (Bobby) and Nuval...    MORE

ESTIL “DOC” STILTNER, 69 years of age of Maxie, VA, went to be with the Lord, Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at the Welmont-Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late James Dewey...   MORE

AMOS SPENCER, 87 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Friday, January 30, 2009 in Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN following an extended illness.  Born in West Virginia, he was a son of the late Paris and Ocie Cline Spencer.  He had been a...     MORE

MICHAEL EDWARD FLETCHER, 48 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Patty Whitt Fletcher, Grundy...    MORE

BELINDA SWINEY COLEMAN, 54 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 27, 2009 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Viola Hurley Swiney, Maxie, VA, and...    MORE

STELLA MAE MOUNTS BLANKENSHIP, 82 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, January 23, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Alex Bud and Sarah Etta Rife...     MORE

ROY LESTER HUMBERT, 76 years of age of Mavisdale, VA, passed away Thursday, January 22, 2009 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Somerset, PA, he was the son of the late Earl and Mary Donaldson Humbert. He was a resident of Buchanan County...   MORE

AMY LYNN DEEL, 23 years of age of Haysi, VA, departed this life Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN after a prolonged illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Manis and Linda Kay Stiltner Deel, Haysi, VA...    MORE

Garland H. Deel, 67, of Green Cove Springs , FL , passed away Friday, November 28, 2008. He was born on September 7, 1941 in Grundy , VA to parents, John and Mary Deel. Although he moved to Florida in 1961, he kept close ties to Buchanan County , maintaining...     MORE

DONNIE RAY STACY, 54 years old of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away at his home Saturday, January 10, 2009.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Simon and Myrtle Blankenship Stacy.  He was a avid Miami Dolphins Fan, Hunter...    MORE

DOLLIE MAE SHORTRIDGE RATLIFF, 71 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Andy and Cora Keen...    MORE

STEVE JUNIOR LANE, 49 years of age of Hoot Owl Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, January 5, 2009 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Willie Mae Beavers Lane Akers, Abingdon, VA, and the...   MORE

NANCY ETHEL BOYD LESTER, 84 years of age of the Stonecoal Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, January 4, 2009 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Joe and Elizabeth Grizzle Boyd. She was...    MORE

ARTIE AGNES KEEN, 82 years of age of the Slate Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Mack and...    MORE

GREGORY MARK (BOOMER) DOTSON II, 17 years of age of the Lester’s Fork Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital from injuries sustained in an Automobile Accident. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the...    MORE

BARBARA JEAN JUSTUS LING, 56 years of age of the Brushy Fork Section of Hurley, Virginia, passed away Monday, December 29, 2008.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Bertha Charles of Grundy, Virginia and the late Clayton Waldon Justus.  She was...    MORE

MADELINE JACKSON HURLEY, 85 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Monday, December 29, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Joe and Myrtie Hurley Jackson. She...    MORE

MATTHEW ALLEN HOLMAN, 31 years of age of Taylorsville, NC, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, December 25, 2008 at the North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem, NC. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Michael Lee and Wanda June...    MORE

GLADYS FAYE LOONEY PRICE, 85 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Saturday, December 27, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Mary Keen Looney. She...  MORE

CLYDE GAINER PRICE, 78 years of age of Rowe, VA, passed away Friday, December 26, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the son of the late Charlie and Ada Durham Price. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

JAMES A. “RAS” FLETCHER, 76 years of age of Vansant, VA, went to be with the Lord Sunday, December 21, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Richlands, VA, he was the son of the late A.L. “Red” and Daisy Scott Fletcher. He was...   MORE

VIRGINIA B. SHORTRIDGE YATES, 92 years of age of Liberty, NC, formerly of Grundy, VA, went home to be with the Lord, Monday, December 15, 2008 in Randolph, NC, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John W. and...    MORE

KEITH SALMONS, 27 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, December 13, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Sandra Kay Gibson Salmons, White Sulphur Springs, WV, and the late James Dennis...    MORE

ETTIE MAE HILL, 62 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away at the Clinch Valley Medical Center Saturday, December 13, 2008 after an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Ira Lee and Gladys Catherine Coleman Jackson.  She...    MORE

JIMMY CHRISTIAN 50 years of age of Wolford, VA passed away Saturday, December 6, 2008, at Buchanan General Hospital Grundy, VA follow an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Alfred C. and Ethel Stacy Christian.  He was a life...    MORE

LINDA MAE RAINES HESS, 61 years of age of the Looney’s Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, December 5, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late John Arvil and...     MORE

LARRIE DEEL, 57 years of age of Haysi, VA, passed away Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Virgil Deel, Haysi, VA, and the late Elmira Deel. He was a resident of...    MORE

GOLDIE MAGGIE REYNOLDS, 75 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Floyd County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Tremble and Virgie Lee Works Reynolds...    MORE

IDA VICTORIA BOYD FLETCHER, 88 years of age of Council, VA, formerly of Hurley, VA, departed this life, Friday, November 28, 2008 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center in Richlands, Virginia. Born on May 28, 1920, at Davenport, VA, she was the daughter of the late Isaac...    MORE

ROBERT (BOBBY) RATLIFF, 62 years of age Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, November 27, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Hassell and Grace Lester Ratliff...  MORE

GLADESIE PROFFITT WHITED, 57 years of age of Raven, VA, passed away Sunday, November 23, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Herman and Della Keen Proffitt. She was a resident of...    MORE

MACK ARTHER (PICKLE MAN) JUSTUS, 57 years of age of the Davis Fork area of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, November 23, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Ellis Henry and...    MORE

WILMA ANN CRAFT RATLIFF, 66 years of age of the Enoch Branch section of Slate Creek, Grundy, VA passed away Saturday, November 22, 2008 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, following a short illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Ollie...   MORE

RUTHIE MAE DEEL COLEMAN, 48 years of age of the Homecreek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, November 16, 2008 at the Wellmont-Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter...   MORE

PAUL SCARBERRY, JR., 58  years of age of Traphill, North Carolina, formerly of Buchanan County passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem, North Carolina following an extended illness.  He was the son of  Liza Mullins...    MORE

MARSHA ANN VIERS, 56 years of age of Maxie, Virginia, passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, Virginia following a short illness.  Born in Tazewell County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Ernest H. and Lolita Jordan Viers...    MORE

CLARK FRANCIS KENNEDY, SR., 70 years of age of Paynesville, WV, passed away Tuesday, November 11, 2008 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, VA, following a brief illness. Born February, 13, 1938, in McDowell County, he was the son of the late James...    MORE

PAUL JOSEPH PENNINGTON, 42 years of age, of the Slate Creek Area of Grundy, VA passed away Monday, November 10, 2008 at Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN following a short illness.  Born in Massachusetts, he was a son of Lenora Keen Pennington...    MORE

ROSCOE ELSWICK, 95 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Monday, November 10, 2008 at his home. Born February 9, 1913, in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Anderson and Clementine Ramey Elswick. He was a commissioned Kentucky Colonel...    MORE

BASIL (PEANUT) LESTER, 61 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Friday, November 7, 2008 following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Jack and Estella Wright Lester. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and attended the...    MORE

RUTH HELEN BROWN, 74 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, November 7, 2008 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Wiley and Lovis Osborne Brown...    MORE

NADINE THOMAS, 66 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, November 5, 2008, at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Riley and Virgie Boyd Thomas. She was a lifelong...    MORE

BERTINA WHITE DESKINS, 61 years of age of North Tazewell, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Sunday, November 2, 2008 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of...    MORE

JAMES MORRIS JUSTUS, 68 years of age of the Slate Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, November 1, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Steward C. and...    MORE

LEAH BROOKE OWENS, infant daughter of Billy Joe and Amanda Brooke Hughes Owens of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, October 31, 2008 at the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Knoxville, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Bristol, TN, she was the daughter of...    MORE

DELLA VIRGINIA SHELL RATLIFF, 80 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 29, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Sarah Osborne Shell. She was a lifelong...    MORE

BUFORD KADLE (DUKE) HACKNEY, 68 years old of the Home Creek section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away Wednesday, October 29, 2009 at the Holsten Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, TN following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late...    MORE

RUTH BALL McCLANAHAN, 69 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, October 27, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Defiance, OH, she was the daughter of the late George Foster and Jessie Morris Ball. She was...    MORE

DANNY LEE RAMEY, 67 years of age of Rural Retreat, VA, passed away Saturday, October 25, 2008 at Wytheville, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Albert C. and Winnie Hill Ramey. He was a resident of Buchanan...    MORE

JOSEPHINE COMPTON RIFE, 87 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, October 23, 2008, at her home following a courageous two year battle with cancer. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Hibbert L. and Effie Jane Clevinger Compton...    MORE

UDELL RATLIFF DARNELL, 77 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 21, 2008, at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Jim and Pricey Jane Stiltner...    MORE

BETTY MARGARET STANLEY LEE, 70 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 21, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Richlands, VA, she was the daughter of the late Coy and Anna Stanley...    MORE

BEVERLY LYNN STACY SMITH, 43 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, October 20, 2008 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Phyllis Baker Stacy, Hurley, VA, and...    MORE

MARY DUTY LOONEY, 65 years of age of Breaks, VA, passed away Sunday, October 19, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Arthur Edward Duty, Vansant, VA, and the late Stella Smith Duty. She was a lifelong...    MORE

TONYA MARIE HARRISON LOONEY, 32 years of age, of Rogersville, TN., formerly of Buchanan County passed away Wednesday, October 15, 2008 at the Wellmont Hawkins County Memorial Hospital, Rogersville, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Pikeville, KY., she...    MORE

ALTA MAE KEEN HONAKER, 83 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, October 6, 2008 at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John Arthur and Mahaley...    MORE

BRAXTON GAGE JUSTUS, 2 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, October 3, 2008, from injuries sustained in an Automobile Accident on State Route 641. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the son of Johnny Ray Justus and Tonya Lynn Blankenship of...    MORE

VIVIAN GEORGIA BLANKENSHIP, 39 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, October 3, 2008, from injuries sustained in an Automobile Accident on State Route 641. Born in Baltimore, MD, she was the daughter of James Blankenship, Hurley, VA, and the...    MORE

REV. JOHN TAYLOR ALLEN, 81 years of age of Phelps, KY, passed away Friday, October 3, 2008 at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, South Williamson, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late John and Lassie Estep...     MORE

GRADY ESTIL CLEVINGER, 76 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Lewis A. and Gracie Stiltner Clevinger. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and was a veteran in the United...    MORE

SHIRLEY LORRAINE DEEL THOMAS, 72 years of age of Pilgrim Knob, VA, went to be with the Lord, Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John Burl Deel and...    MORE

OPAL C. McCLANAHAN SLONE, 72 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, October 2, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Garfield and Dorothy Scarberry...     MORE

BOBBY ALLEN NICKELS, 37 years of age of the Slate Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Tommy and Betty Quinley Nickels, Grundy, VA. He was...    MORE

FRANK THOMAS, 60 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Riley and Virgie Boyd Thomas.  He was the Co-Owner..    MORE

CHARLES RONALD “RON” FLEMING, 66 years old of the Little Prater section of Grundy , Virginia , passed away Saturday, September 27, 2008 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County , he was the son of the late Cubert...    MORE

EDNA MAE DANIELS KELLY, 89 years of age, of Pilgrim Knob, VA passed away Saturday, Sept. 27, 2008 in Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late James Garfield and Alcie Osborne Daniels...    MORE

ROSIE MARIE JUSTUS DOTSON, 90 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Australia and Winnie Collins Justus..   MORE

JOHN E. STILTNER, 90 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Monday, September 22, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late George and Matilda Stiltner. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

BASIL BANE DAVIS, 94 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in West Virginia, he was the son of the late J R and Laura Davis.  He was a member of the...     MORE

BENNY YATES, 49 years of age, of Vansant, VA passed away Thursday, September 18, 2008, at Wellmont Hospice House, Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late David and Trula Osborne... MORE

TIMOTHY CLIFTON, 23 years of age of the Deel area of Vansant, VA passed away Sunday, September 14, 2008.  Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was a son of Lisa Stiltner of Cumming, GA and the late Timothy T. Clifton.  He had been a resident of Buchanan County most...    MORE

CHRISTOPHER HOUSTON RAMEY, 36 years old of Conaway, Virginia, passed away Friday, September 12, 2008 from injuries occurred in an industrial accident.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Houston and Helen Deel Ramey of Conaway, Virginia.  He was a...    MORE

WILLIAM STANFORD (RED) COOK, 78 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Thursday, September 11, 2008. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Emory Cook and Maggie Smith Cook Rife. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and was 1 of...    MORE

PAULINE LOONEY LOVELL, of Staunton, VA, formerly of Richlands, VA, passed away Monday, September 1, 2008 at the Page Memorial Hospital in Luray, VA, following an extended illness. Ms. Lovell was born in (Roseann, VA) Buchanan County on September 8, 1927...    MORE

JAMES L. DEEL, 65 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, September 1, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late James Willard Lane and Vicey Deel. He was a lifelong resident...  MORE

ISAAC LEMMEY LEE BARTON, infant son of Ricky Lee and Ruby Lynn Peak Barton passed away Thursday, August 28, 2008, in Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN. Infant Barton is survived by his parents: Ricky Lee and Ruby Lynn Peak Barton, Grundy, VA...    MORE

ALICE RUTH STILTNER BLANKENSHIP YATES, 70 years of age of the Harman Section of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Saturday, August 30, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the...     MORE

EDITH T. MULLINS CRAFT, 78 years of age of Mouthcard, KY passed away Wednesday, August 27, 2008, in Mountain View Health Care Center, Elkhorn City, KY.  following an extended illness, Born in Buchanan County, VA she was a daughter of the late Marion and...    MORE

ORPHA COLEMAN BROWN, 73 years of age of Oakwood, VA passed away Sunday, August 24, 2008, at Sarasota Hospice House, Sarasota, FL following an extended illness.  Born in Wise County, she was a daughter of the late Tie Nelson and Stella Coleman Coleman and...    MORE

FRED C. VIERS, 74 years of age, of Haysi, VA passed away Tuesday, August 26, 2008, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Haysi, VA.  Born in Dickenson County he was a son of the late Jesse and Sarah Alice Viers.  He was a life-long resident of Buchanan...  MORE

HAZEL SCARBERRY DOTSON, 88 years of age, of Paw Paw Creek, Phelps, KY passed away Friday August 22, 2008, in Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness, Born in Pike County, KY she was a daughter of the late James and Jane Slone...    MORE

JERRY ALLEN LOONEY, 59 years of age Richmond, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, August 21, 2008 at the Chippenham Medical Center following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, he was the son of Lois Ruth Skeens Looney...    MORE

EARL RAMEY, 80 years of age of San Antonio, TX, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, August 14, 2008 in San Antonio, TX, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Charles “Taw” and Pearl McClanahan Ramey. He...    MORE

KIMBERLY RENEE JUSTUS, 36 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, August 18, 2008 at her home. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of James E. Justus, Grundy, VA, and the late Texie Charles Justus. She was a lifelong resident of Buchanan...    MORE

JAMES LEON ESTEP, 55 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, August 17, 2008 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Phyllis Mclemore, Hulbert, MI, and the late...    MORE

BERTIE LEE HAYES STILTNER, 88 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Sunday, August 17, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John Lewis and Eliza J...    MORE

ETHEL BELCHER JUSTUS, 84 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, August 16, 2008 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Ray and Kate Justus Belcher. She was....  MORE

ORBIE HELEN COCHRAN OWENS, 84 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, August 15, 2008 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, she was the daughter of the late George F. and Josie Deel...    MORE

MARLIN COLEMAN, 79 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Thursday, August 14, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, he was the son of the late Tyrus (Tie) N. and Stella Wealthy Coleman. He...    MORE

JOHNNY YATES SR., 60 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Milton and Stella Faye Yates. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

CHARLIE RICE, 87 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late William Isaac Rice and Dicie Deel Rice McClanahan. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

ALVERNA MADGE VENCILL NISWANDER, 89 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Monday, August 11, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Tazewell County, she was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and...    MORE

MARTHA “SUSIE” WYATT FIELDS, 66 years of age, of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, August 9, 2008 at Wellmont’s Hospice House, Bristol, TN following a brief illness.  She was a lifelong resident of Grundy, VA, and she was the daughter of the late Robert Fred...    MORE

MARIE STILTNER WOOD, 81 years of age, of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, August 4, 2008 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Jonah T. and Virginia...    MORE

ROSA VIOLA ELSWICK McGLOTHLIN NORMAN, 88 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Friday, July 25, 2008 at the Tazewell Community Hospital, Tazewell, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late M.B...    MORE

SIERRA LOUISE MEADOWS, 23 days old, passed away Thursday, July 24, 2008 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Tazewell County, VA, she was the daughter of Francis Heath and Laura Clemons Meadows of Mavisdale, VA...    MORE

JEREMIAH RANDALL (BIG BUBBY) WILLIAMS, 34 months of age, infant son of Terry Randall (Nanny Goat) and Christine (Penny) Charles Williams, Big Rock, VA passed away Tuesday, July 22, 2008, in Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN following a brief...    MORE

BOYD STACY, 71 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, July 21, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Adam and Sally Stacy. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

TARLTON ONEIL LANGELE, 68 years of age, of Chunchula, ALA passed away Friday July 18, 2008 at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Mobile, Ala, he was a son of the late Edward Oscar and Myrtle Davis Langele and was of the Baptist Faith.  He served in the...    MORE

DALLAS RICHARD STACY, 67 years of age of the Greenbrier section of Vansant, Virginia passed away Thursday, July 17, 2008, at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late William...    MORE

RONALD WAYNE COMPTON, 63 years of age, of Harman, Virginia passed away Thursday, July 17, 2008, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Lonzo and Bercha Blankenship Compton.  He was...    MORE

JONNIE C. MABE, 69 years old of Richlands, Virginia, passed away Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at Clinch Valley Medical Center.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John and Marcella Sanders Compton.  She attended the Church of Christ, and she...  MORE

GEORGIA MULLINS EVANS, 83 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, July 7, 2008 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in West Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Edom and Edgar (Curley) Matney Mullins...    MORE

TIMOTHY DWAYNE BOWMAN, 42 years of age of the Convict Hollow section of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, June 26, 2008.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Herman K and Maudene Williamson Bowman, Grundy, VA. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

CHARLES SHERMAN HAGERMAN, 52 years of age of Pilgrims Knob, VA, passed away Thursday, June 19, 2008 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Jolo, WV, he was the son of the late William and Zola Woods Hagerman. He was a resident of Buchanan County most...  MORE

FRANK TYLER YATES, 76 years of age of the Leemaster Section of Vansant, VA, went to be with the Lord, Friday, June 20, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County he was the son of the late Joseph and Rosa Hagy Yates. He was a lifelong...    MORE

RONALD LEE JACKSON, 50 years of age of Pilgrims Knob, VA, passed away Tuesday, June 17, 2008 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Orrville, OH, he was the son of Lorraine Horne Jackson, Pilgrims...    MORE

MATTHEW JOHN JACKSON, 27 years of age of Mavisdale, VA, passed away Monday, June 16, 2008 at the Russell County Medical Center, Lebanon, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Earl Willie Jackson, Mavisdale, VA, and Margie...    MORE

MARY LOUISE THACKER DEEL, 75 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, June 14, 2008 at the Wellmont-Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Tom and Alice...   MORE

MARY M. HURLEY HICKS, 84 years of age of Hurley, VA, went to sleep in “Jesus” Wednesday morning, June 11, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Doffie and Martha...    MORE

EARL THOMAS MULLINS, 62 years of age of Paynesville, WV, passed away Saturday, June 7, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, he was the son of the late Dave Columbus and Mae McGuire Mullins. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

EDNA MAE CHILDRESS BREEDING, 79 years of age of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, June 5, 2008 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the...    MORE

BESSIE PEARL MATNEY SANSON, 89 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, June 5, 2008 at the Mountain View Nursing Home, Elkhorn City, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Dave and Cora Perkins...    MORE

BILL (ME) (PAW) ELSWICK, 81 years of age of Maxie, VA, went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, June 3, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Lookout, KY, in 1927, raised and lived at Harman, VA. A kind and gentle man, loved by everyone he met. Always...    MORE

GEORGIA BLANKENSHIP STILTNER, 74 years of age of the Poplar Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, June 1, 2008 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter...   MORE

BENNY D. SCARBERRY, 54 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, May 31, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Phillip and Ellen Opal Lester Scarberry. He was a lifelong...    MORE

MARCELLA JEAN BROWN MAY, 40 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, May 31, 2008 at her home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Dempsy and Ruby Brown. She was a lifelong resident of Buchanan Count...   MORE

ANNABELLE GOFF CHANEY, 84 years of age of Abingdon, VA, passed away Friday, May 30, 2008 at the Johnson Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Marquis L. and Mary Trula...     MORE

ELCIE VIOLET STILTNER JUSTICE, 78 years of age of Oakwood, VA, passed away Sunday, May 25, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Russell County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Bryant and Georgie Hess Stiltner...    MORE

ROOSEVELT LOCKHART, 75 years of age of North Tazewell, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Sunday, May 25, 2008 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Abe...   MORE

DONNIE LEE MITCHUM DUTY, 65 years of age of the Lynn Camp Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, May 24, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Roy and Lexie Toler Mitchum. She was a...    MORE

ALVERY WALLACE TILLER, 59 years of age of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Friday, May 23, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Muncie Rell and Carrie Wright Tiller. He was a...    MORE

DEWEY LEE, 76 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Arvil and Lillian Williams Lee. He was a resident...    MORE

HAVEN HANSEL STILTNER, 70 years of age of the Home Creek section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away Friday, May 16, 2008 at the Select Speciality Hospital of Wellmont Bristol Regional in Bristol, Virginia.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Corbit and...    MORE

MICHELLE SUE HARDIN, 6 days old of Haysi, VA, passed away Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at the Dickenson County Medical Center, Clintwood, VA. Born at Norton Community Hospital she was the daughter of Timothy Paul and Melissa Sue Rose Hardin, Haysi, VA...    MORE

SHERRY LESTER JACKSON, 46 years of age of Wolford, VA, passed away Sunday, May 11, 2008 at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Roscoe and Mary...    MORE

OMIE McCLANAHAN HUTCHINSON, 89 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, May 8, 2008, at the Wexford House, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Isaac and Polly Coleman McClanahan...    MORE

ARVIL QUINLEY, JR., 60 years of age of Rural Retreat, VA, formerly of Buchanan County passed away Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Lennie Viola Ratliff Quinley, Rt. 4, Grundy, Virginia and...    MORE

EDNA VANOVER CLEVINGER, 93 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, May 4, 2008 at the home of her daughter following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late David L. and Florence Ester Vanover. She was a lifelong...   MORE

LINDA ADKINS LING HAGER, 52 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, May 4, 2008 at the home of her mother following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Thelma Prater Adkins, Hurley, VA, and the late Estil Adkins. She... MORE

LEISHA BETH SALYER CHARLES, age 26, born September 15, 1981, passed away Friday, May 2, 2008, in Columbus, OH. Leisha is the daughter of William (Bill) and Mary Rife Salyer of Grundy, VA. Leisha is a graduate of Whitewood High School and attended Bluefield...    MORE

BESSIE IRENE KEENE VANDYKE, 70 years of age of the Contrary Section of Raven, VA, passed away Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Squire William and Lillie C. Horn Keene...    MORE

HAROLD R. RATLIFF, 79 years of age of North Tazewell, VA, passed away Sunday, April 27, 2008 at the Tazewell Community Hospital, Tazewell, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, Kentucky, he was the son of the late Ray Thomas and Olba Ratliff...     MORE

EARNEST EDWARD FLETCHER, 76 years of age of the Watkins Branch area of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, April 26, 2008 at his home following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Ishmael and Pearl Clevinger Fletcher. He was a...    MORE

SIDNEY ARTHUR CLEVINGER, 79 years of age of the Harman Area of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, April 20, 2008 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Lewis and Gracie...    MORE

RALPH D. (HARRY) STILTNER, 71 years of age, of Maxie, VA passed away Saturday, April 19, 2008 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County he was a son of the late James Dewey and Flora Daugherty Stiltner.  He...   MORE

POLLY ANN YATES O’QUINN McCLANAHAN, 72 years of age of Painter Lick Branch, near Haysi, VA, went to be with the Lord, Thursday, April 17, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of...    MORE

NORMA JEAN OQUINN GILBERT, 65 years of age, of the Slate Creek area of Grundy, VA passed away Wednesday, April 16, 2008, at her home following an extended illness.  Born in Wyoming County, WV, she was a daughter of the late Ola Walter and Margaret Bishop...    MORE

VELVIA HURLEY COLEMAN, 81 years of age, of Mohawk, WV passed away Monday, April 7, 2008, in Welch Community Hospital, WV following a short illness. Born in Kentucky, she was a daughter of the late Harrison and Febie Blankenship Hurley.  She had been a...    MORE

NATHANIEL LEE MARRS, 25 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Saturday, April 5, 2008, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.  Born in Buchanan County he was a son of Tony and Vonda Duty Marrs. Hurley, VA  He was a life-long resident of Buchanan... MORE

JAMES LARRY (BUFFY) DUTY, 45 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Saturday, April 5, 2008 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Blanche Rakes Duty, Grundy, VA and the late Clell Duty.  He was a life-long...    MORE

MAE RATLIFF McCOWAN, 82 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late William and Wincey Boyd Ratliff. She was a lifelong resident of Buchanan...   MORE

TERRY LUTHER DAVIS, 52 years of age of Cedar Bluff, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at the Tazewell Community Hospital, Tazewell, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Ted Gene...    MORE

MARY MAGDALENE LESTER JUSTUS ADKINS, 84 years of age of the Lester’s Fork Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, March 24, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Joe...   MORE

WILLIAM RAY (BUTCH) STACY, 45 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, March 23, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Elkton, MD, he was the son of Jeanette Michael Stacy, Hurley, VA and the late William Clifford Stacy...   MORE

ELIZABETH GRIFFITH McCLANAHAN, 75 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with our Heavenly Father Sunday, March 23, 2008 at her home following a brief illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, she was the daughter of the late Wiley B. and Christina Day Griffith...   MORE

JANE MIDKIFF CHANEY, 100 years of age of Abingdon, VA, passed away Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at her home following an extended illness. She was a former resident of Buchanan County. She was of the Christian faith, a homemaker, a loving mother and grandmother... MORE

IMOGENE MULLINS, 63 years of age of Keen Mountain, VA, passed away Monday, March 17, 2008 at the Tazewell Community Hospital, Tazewell, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Dickenson County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Kemper and Ollie Mullins...    MORE

LUCY BALL CARVER, 99 years of age of Patterson, VA, passed away Saturday, March 15, 2008 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Russell County, VA she was the daughter of the late John Adams and Cora Boyd Ball.  She...    MORE

OCIE TAYLOR LESTER, 91 years of age of Big Rock, Virginia, passed away Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Garfield and Melissa Lester...    MORE

RALPH JAMES DAUGHERTY, 70 years of age of the Poplar Creek section of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Monday, March 10, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Hise and Ada Justus Daugherty. He...    MORE

VIRGIL CLYDE LAYNE passed away on March 9, 2008, at the age of 97.  He was a well- known and respected retired merchant who lived on Dismal River Road, near Patterson Virginia.  Clyde was born on August 21, 1910 on Hurricane Creek of Johns Creek in Pike County...    MORE

SANDFORD CLIFTON (SANDY) BLANKENSHIP, 50 years of age of the Stone Coal section of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, March 8, 2008, at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Sanford (Sampie) Blankenship of...    MORE

DAVID ELMER WARD, 69 years of age of the Slate Creek area of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, March 7, 2008 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late John W. and Ollie Blankenship Ward. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

ARTHUR CARLOS WHITT, 89 years of age of the Deskins Section of Vansant, VA, passed away Saturday, March 8, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late John Terry and Mary Ellen Stiltner Whitt. He...    MORE

SCOTT JACKSON, 80 years of age of Lafayette, TN, formerly of Buchanan County, went to be with the Lord, Thursday, March 6, 2008 at the Sumner Regional Medical Center, Gallatin, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Joseph...    MORE

EZRA E. HAMON, 76 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN. following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, he was the son of the late Ezra L. and Cora Holbrook Hamon. He was...    MORE

BILLY RAY MULLINS, 50 years of age of State Line Ridge #2, near Jolo, WV, passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2008 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, VA, following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, he was the son of the late Manuel...    MORE

LYDIA MAE FOSTER PRATER, 64 years of age of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at her home. Born September 9, 1943 in Grundy, VA, she was the daughter of Marie Stiltner Foster Wood, Abingdon, VA, and...    MORE

EARSEL HARDIN, 87 years of age of Stopover, KY, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at the South Williamson Appalachian Regional Hospital, South Williamson, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Argo, KY, he was the son of the late Melvin...    MORE

PLENNA AUTRY RAMEY, 71 years of age of Mouth Card, KY, passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2008 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Van and Vicy Hackney Ramey. He was a lifelong resident of Pike...    MORE

ELVIA BEATRICE LESTER BLANKENSHIP, 75 years of age of Rural Retreat, VA, formerly of Mohawk, WV, passed away Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Wythe County Hospital, Wytheville, VA, following a brief illness. Born March 18, 1932, she was the daughter of...    MORE

SONNY DEWEY RATLIFF, 64 years of age of Vansant, VA, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, February 24, 2008 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Tom and...    MORE

LEON HACKNEY, 64 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Landon and Dida Deel Hackney. He...    MORE

BETTY LOUISE BOND ARRINGTON, 47 years of age of Elkton, MD, passed away Monday, February 18, 2008 at the Christiana Hospital in Newark, DE, following a brief illness. Born in Elkton, MD, she was the daughter of the late Jesse Amos and Emogene Day Bond...    MORE

BONNIE (AUNT BONNIE) DEEL WOODS, 86 years of age of Prater, VA, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, February 17, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin Franklin Pierce...    MORE

RAYMOND ELLIS IRON, 87 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord, Friday, February 15, 2008, at his home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Robert McCoy and Myrtle Smith Iron. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

WILLIAM (BILLY) McARTHUR MULLINS, 36 years of age of Paynesville, WV, passed away Thursday, February 7, 2008 at his home following a brief illness. Born in Maryland, he was the son of Earl Thomas and Harriett Anita Hurd Mullins, Paynesville, WV. He was a resident...   MORE

ANTHONY STEVEN MATNEY, 29 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, February 3, 2008. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Beulah Nickels Matney, Grundy, VA, and the late Delford Matney. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and was a...    MORE

ROBERT VIRLO GRIFFITH, 34 years of age of Miami Beach, FL, formerly of Buchanan County, went to be with the Lord, Sunday, February 3, 2008 at the home of his parents following a lengthy battle with cancer. Born at an Army Hospital in Nuremburg, Germany, on November... MORE

MAE MATNEY RATLIFF, 77 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Sunday, February 3, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Miles and Jane Cantrell Matney. She was a lifelong resident...    MORE

TRESEA ANN CHURCH LEE, 46 years of age of Rt. 1, Vansant, VA, went to be with the Lord, Saturday, February 2, 2008 at the Bristol Wellmont Hospice House, Bristol, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County she was the daughter of Martha Ann Duty...    MORE

JERRY WAYNE LANE, 44 years of age of Rt. 2, Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, January 31, 2008 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Estil Foundy and Kathleen Mullins Lane. He was a lifelong...    MORE

KEISTER LOCKHART, 47 years of age of North Tazewell, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Roosevelt and...     MORE

JERRY (WHIZ) BLANKENSHIP, 59 years of age of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Nicodemus and Virginia Lester Blankenship...    MORE

AVON F. PHIPPS, 90 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Dickenson County, VA, he was the son of the late Teamous and Grace Kelly Phipps. He was a resident of Buchanan...    MORE

LEAH RACHEL YATES KEENE, 87 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Friday, January 18, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Rev. Joseph and Rosa Ellen Hagy Yates...    MORE

JESSEE DEAN “DENO” HASH II, 46 years of age of Gardendale, AL, formerly of Tazewell County, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at the University of Alabama Hospital in Birmingham, AL, following a brief illness. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the son of...    MORE

STEVE HORN, 58 years of age of Sandy Huff Branch Road, Iaeger, WV, passed away Friday, January 11, 2008 at his home following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, he was the son of Maggi Wagner Horn, Paynesville, WV, and the late Luther Horn...   MORE

GEORGIA MARCELLA SPRADLIN HACKNEY, 58 years of age of the left hand fork of Home Creek, Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 9, 2008 at her home following a brief illness. Born in Floyd County, Kentucky, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

PEARLEY JEANETTE STILTNER, 71 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at the Wellmont Hospice House at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the...    MORE

ROSE LAURA DEEL CHILDRESS, 88 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Sunday, January 6, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Fullen and Caroline Perkins Deel. She was...    MORE

ERIC STUART KYLE, 35 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2008.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Lawrence “Jug” Kyle of Newbugh, TN and the late Sharon Anderson Kyle.  He was a member of the Vansant Church of Christ...    MORE

KATHERINE VIRGINIA FLEINO GIBSON, 92 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, January 4, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Tom and Betty Fleino...   MORE

CARL LESTER, 64 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 2, 2008 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Basil and Katherine Blair Lester. He was a lifelong...    MORE

RUBY SUTHERLAND VIERS, 87 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2007 in Woodbridge, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Holiday and Hettie Owens Sutherland. She was a...    MORE

DELFORD JUNIOR MATNEY, 62 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, December 29, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Elzie Matney, Stacy, VA, and the late Alice Endicott Matney. He was a lifelong...    MORE

ELMA OWENS DEEL, 77 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at the Mountain View Health Care Center, Elkhorn City, KY, following a lengthy illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Charlie M. and Nancy Deel...    MORE

BUDDY DEEL, 75 years of age of the Poplar Creek section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away Sunday, December 23, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Joe and Nancy Stiltner Deel.  He was...    MORE

PHILLIP RAY BOYD, 61 years of age of Richlands, VA, passed away Saturday, December 22, 2007 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingpsort, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Tivis Simmie and Estelle Deel...    MORE

Iris Elizabeth Hobbs Looney, age 91, died Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at Legacy Heights Assisted Living Center in Charlotte, NC. Iris was born April 4, 1916 in Rose Hill, VA to the late Joseph Henry and Emma Bayliss Hobbs.  She was preceded in death by her...     MORE

LEON STILTNER SPAHR, 81 years of age of the Poplar Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late David C. and...    MORE

GOLDIE MCCOY HANKINS, 77 years of age, of Big Rock, VA passed away Friday, December 14, 2007 in Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late George Smallwood and...    MORE

JUDY CAROL OSBORNE CHURCH, 65 years of age, of Vansant, VA passed away Friday, December 14, 2007, in Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN following an extended illness.  Born in McDowell County, WV, she was a daughter of the late John Larkin...    MORE

RICHARD LEE COLEMAN, 67 years of age of the Leemaster section of Vansant, VA, passed away at his home Wednesday Dec. 12, 2007 following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Ferlie Marcus and Rosa Blankenship Coleman...    MORE

CLINTON SWANSON, 86 years of age, of Oracle, Arizona passed away Monday, December 10, 2007 in the Odyssey Hospice, Tucson, AZ following an extended illness.  Born in Hayesville, NC he was a son of the late Charles and Mae Green Swanson.  He was a resident...    MORE

VERLIN A. LOCKHART, 71 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Sunday, December 9, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Abe and Mary Osborne Lockhart. He was a lifelong resident...  MORE

SONJA GRAY LITTLE BILLITER, 63 years of age of Big Rock, VA, went to be with the Lord, Monday, November 26, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of Barbara, Adam and...    MORE

NANCY LOU PRUITT BELCHER,  59 years of age, of Maxie, VA passed away Sunday, November 25, 2007 in Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Dock, Jr., and Fannie Boyd Pruitt...    MORE

JASPER HARDIN, 90 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Lewis and Emily Stanley Hardin.  He was a life-long resident of Buchanan...   MORE

BALLARD DUKE DALTON, 76 years of age of Patterson, VA, passed away Friday, November 23, 2007 at his daughter’s home in Lenoir, NC, following a brief illness. Born in Giles County, VA, he was the son of the late Eli and Mary Viers Dalton. He was a resident of...    MORE

DRUEY MOUNTS, 72 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Melvin and Vida Belcher Mounts. He was a resident of...    MORE

ELDRIDGE EDWARD THOMAS, 77 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at the Greystone Health Care Center, Blountville, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Princeton, WV, he was the son of the late Clarence and Thelma Thomas...  MORE

PHYLLIS ANN McVAY RAINES, 63 years of age of Oakwood, VA, passed away Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Coshocton, OH, she was the daughter of the late Herman and...    MORE

BILL JUNIOR STACY, 58 years of age of Wolford, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Troy and Susie Blankenship Stacy. He was a...    MORE

PHYLLIS SUE ST. CLAIR WORLEY, 57 years of age of Keen Mountain, VA, passed away Friday, November 2, 2007 at her home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Clyde and Lillie Mae McClanahan St. Clair. She was a lifelong...    MORE

ARTHUR M. (SMILEY) RATLIFF, JR., age 83, of Tazewell, Virginia, died Wednesday, October 31, 2007, in a Kingsport Hospital. A Buchanan County native, he was born June 18, 1924, the son of the late Arthur M. Ratliff, Sr., and Ida Woosley Ratliff, and was the last surviving...   MORE

LENA ALPHA RASNICK RAINES, 90 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Dickenson County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Joseph and Ida...    MORE

KERMIT OWENS, 58 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, October 29, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an apparent heart attack. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Edna M. Keen Owens, Vansant, VA, and the late Tolby Owens...    MORE

Lillian Fern Justus Whited, faithful wife, loving mother and servant of Christ, rests peaceful now in the arms of her Savior, following her passing Saturday October 27, 2007, surrounded by family at Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center. Mrs. Whited was 83 years...    MORE

CECIL THOMAS, 81 years of age of Vansant , VA , passed away Thursday, October 25, 2007 at the Mountain View Health Care, Elkhorn City , Kentucky following as extended illness. Born in Murphy Virginia , he was the son of the late Riley and Virgie Boyd Thomas. He was...    MORE

JIMMY ROGER DOTSON, 62 years of age of Grundy , VA , was received into Heaven on Thursday, October 25, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital , Grundy , Virginia following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County , he was the son of the late Frank Dotson and Oriha...    MORE

ELLIS STORIA RIFE, 79 years of age of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, Virginia went home to be with the Lord Thursday, October 25, 2007 at Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy Virginia after a lengthy illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son  of the late...    MORE

DAVID WAYNE BLANKENSHIP, 31 years of age of Keen Mountain, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, Tennessee from injuries sustained in a automobile accident. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of...    MORE

KELSIE POTTER ENDICOTT, 91 years of age of Tazewell, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Tuesday, October 23, 2007 at the Tazewell Community Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Dewey and...    MORE

JOHN MARK BELCHER, 45 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Monday, October 22, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Jay and Minnie Jane Belcher...    MORE

JOHNNY DWAYNE BLACKBURN, 42 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Aileen Farmer Blackburn, Grundy, VA, and the late Charles...    MORE

JIMMY MICHAEL BOSTIC, 50 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, October 14, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Jim and Carrie Ratliff Bostic. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

RONALD CHARLES STACY, 58 years of age of Tazewell, VA, formerly of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, October 11, 2007 at the Tazewell Community Hospital following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, he was the son...    MORE

STELLA PARSONS ASHBY, 87 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, October 7, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Lee County, VA, she was the daughter of the late Alonzo and Mary Elizabeth...    MORE

ELMER FRANKLIN YATES, 51 years of age of Oakwood, VA, passed away Sunday, October 7, 2007 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Lottie J. White Yates, Oakwood, VA, and the...    MORE

JERRY RANDALL DAVIS II, 28 years of age, of the Lester’s Fork Road area of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, October 5, 2007.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Jerry Randall and Carol Baker Davis, Hurley, VA  He was a life-long resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

RAY EDWARD BRIGHT, SR., 58 years of age, of Princeton, WV, passed away Thursday, October 4, 2007, in Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, VA following an extended illness.  Born in McDowell County, WV he was a son of the late Ernest A. and Lucille...    MORE

LUCY ANN STEWART DANIELS, 89 years of age of the Compton Mountain section of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 2, 2007 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Jolo, WV, she was the daughter of the late Monroe and Louise Rife Stewart. She was...   MORE

ZELDA MARIE BLAIR THOMAS, 37 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, September 30, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Eugene and Edith Bailey...    MORE

WILLIAM A. (BILL) LESTER, 87 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, September 21, 2007 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late James Crockett and Sara Lester...    MORE

BETTY SUE ROBINSON, 49 years of age of Bristol, TN, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the...    MORE

ADELE SNOW IRON, 81 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, September 17, 2007 at her home with her family by her side following a brief illness. Born October 20, 1925 at Big Four, WV, she was the daughter of the late Harmon and Arvie Robertson...    MORE

MINNIE ISABEL (DOT) MEALING MATNEY, 84 years of age of Patterson, VA, passed away Monday, September 10, 2007 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Harwich, England, she was the daughter of the late Alfred...    MORE

EDD HANSFORD LOONEY, 85 years of age of Vansant, VA, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, September 7, 2007 at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Daniel P. and Rosa...    MORE

ROBERT JAMES REYNOLDS, 82 years of age of Bristol, TN, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at the Greystone Health Care Center, Blountville, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late...    MORE

ELLA JUSTUS LESTER, 73 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Monday, September 3, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Minion and Maggie Matney...    MORE

FRANKLIN KEITH PRITCHARD, 59 years of age of Vansant, VA, went home to be with the Lord September 2, 2007 at the Bristol Memorial Hospital following a long illness. Born March 19, 1948, in Greenbrier County, WV, he was the son of the late Wallace and...    MORE

GEORGE EUGENE RIFE, 46 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, August 31, 2007. Born in Chicago, IL, he was the son of Earnest R. Rife, Grundy, VA, and the late Myrtle Louella Spangler Rundlex. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County, graduated from...    MORE

ELIZABETH SPARKS KINDER, 87 years of age of the Watkins Branch section of Grundy, Virginia, passed away Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at the Kings Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, Kentucky following a brief illness.  Born in Bandy, Virginia, she was the daughter...    MORE

ELIZABETH JANE LESTER OWENS, 68 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Monday, August 27, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Basil and Katherine Blair Lester...    MORE

LAURA CHARLES, 62 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Lundy and Artile Taylor Charles. She was...    MORE

KENNITH STACY, 68 years of age of the Upper Mill Branch section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, August 20, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Giles Anthony and Hazel Smith Stacy. He was...    MORE

SHAD JUSTUS, 31 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, August 19, 2007 at his home. Born in Richlands, VA, he was the son of L.C. Justus, Hurley, VA, and Karen Hurley Justice, Mohawk, WV. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County and was a...    MORE

ELLEN OPAL SCARBERRY, 71 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, August 17, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Kennis and Pearly Lester. She was a lifelong...    MORE

MARGARET ROSE COLLINS, 83 years of age, of Cedar Bluff, VA passed from this life August 9, 2007 and into Heaven while her grand-daughter, Veronica, held her in her arms. Born in Bluefield, WV on August 3, 1924, she was the daughter of C. W. Ferguson and...    MORE

TIMOTHY DALE BLANKENSHIP, 47 years of age, of the Elkins Branch section of Slate Creek, Grundy, VA passed away Monday, August 6, 2007 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following a brief illness.  Born in Tazewell County, he was a son of Joe Litz...    MORE

GEORGE H. YATES, 57 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, August 06, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Finis and Vertie Stiltner Yates.  He was a graduate of Grundy...    MORE

JEWELL HORN COOK ACKLEY, 69 years of age, of Paynesville, WV passed away Wednesday, August 1, 2007, at the home of her Mother, Maggie Wagner Horn, following an extended illness.  Born in McDowell County, WV, she was a daughter of Maggie Wagner Horn...    MORE

ELZIE BLAIR ROWE, 64 years of age, of Grundy, VA passed away Sunday, July 29, 2007 in Richmond, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Albert and Estel McGennies Rowe.  He was a life-long resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

ARTHUR ANDERSON CROUSE, 81 years of age, of the Smith Branch section of Slate Creek, near Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, July 29, 2007 at the Golden Age Retirement Home, Claypool Hill, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the...    MORE

EILEEN FRANKIE HALL DOTSON, 76 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, July 26, 2007 at the Select Specialty Hospital at Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the...    MORE

RISSIE JANE NEECE, 77 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Wednesday, July 25, 2007, at the Wellmont Holston Valley Hospital, Kingsport, TN  following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, she was the daughter of the late John and Louemma Adkins...    MORE

LOLA W. DEEL, 93 years of age of Staunton, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, July 23, 2007 at the Ruxton Health Center, Staunton, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Benjamin and...    MORE

GARY CARTER, 56 years of age of the Poplar Creek section of Buchanan County passed away Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, Virginia following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Eugene and...    MORE

BOBBY L. SHORTRIDGE, 69 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, July 12, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Giles and Nickety Vandyke Shortridge. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

JEANNETTE STEPP SUTHERLAND AKERS, 63 years of age, of Big Rock, VA passed away Thursday, July 12, 2007 following an extended illness. Born in McDowell, KY, she was a daughter of the late Vollie and Josephine Moore Stepp.  She had been a resident of...    MORE

OPAL I. HAMILTON WHITT, 85 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, July 5, 2007 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Oakley H. Hamilton and Mimie Ward Hamilton Coleman. She was a...    MORE

WILLIAM ALVIE JAY BLANKENSHIP, 6 week old son of William Eric Blankenship and Pamela Lee Ann Charles of Hurley, VA, passed away at his home on Saturday, June 30, 2007. William was survived by his parents, William Eric Blankenship and Pamela Lee Ann Charles...    MORE

PHILLIP LEE AKERS, 48 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, June 29, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Johnny Frank and Dorothy Newberry Akers of Grundy, VA. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

BEVERLY GAIL HORN BOWMAN, 63 years of age of the Little Prater Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, VA, she was the daughter of...    MORE

SILAS A. RASNICK, 84 years of age of the Wolford area of Rt. 3, Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, June 18, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, he was the son of the late George W. and Mary Bell Barton...    MORE

J.D. STILTNER, 74 years of age of the Little Prater section of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, June 17, 2007 at the Mountain View Health Care Center, Elkhorn City, KY following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Johnie Stiltner...    MORE

JIMMIE DEAN HOUCK, 68 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2007 at the Holston Valley Medical Center following a brief illness. Born in Sophia, WV, he was the son of the late Ellis and Hazel Wilcox Houck. He was a resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

SCHULER ALONZO STILTNER, 82 years of age, of Big Rock, VA passed away Saturday, June 9, 2007 at Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Hospice Center, following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Claude and May Stiltner...    MORE

SCOTTY LESTER, 51 years of age of Lindside, WV, passed away Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Welch, WV, he was the son of the late Mart and Louise Hunt Lester. He was a lifelong resident of McDowell County, WV, and...    MORE

JAMES RANDOLPH (RANDY) STILTNER, 43 years of age of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2007. Born in South Carolina, he was the son of the late Evelyn Joan Stiltner. He was a resident of Buchanan County most of his life and was a Coal ...    MORE

NORA MARIE POTTER BENTLEY, 82 years of age of Brookneal, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, May 31, 2007 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Brookneal, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter...    MORE

KATHERINE MARIE COLE ADKINS, 40 years of age of Kingsport, TN, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Saturday, May 26, 2007 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Richmond, VA, she was the daughter of Grady...    MORE

DONALD RAY BENTLEY, 77 years of age of the Home Creek Section of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, May 26, 2007 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Jim and...    MORE

FREDDIE EDWARD LESTER, 47 years of age, of Big Rock, VA passed away Thursday, May 24, 2007, at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Roscoe and Onia Belcher Lester, Big Rock, VA.  He was a life-long resident of...    MORE

OLLIE MAE SHORTRIDGE CASEY, 80 years of age of Grundy, VA, went to be with the Lord Monday, May 14, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Born in Buchanan County, she was the...    MORE

AMY LEAH MULLINS STEWART, 91-years of age of Rt. 2, Grundy, Virginia, passed away Monday, May 14, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Jesse and Gracie Owens Mullins...    MORE

BELINDA JONES THOMAS, 55 years of age of Rt. 2, Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, May 10, 2007 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of John F. Jones, Abingdon, VA, and the late Layuna Stiltner Jones...    MORE

GLADYS RUBY KEENE REED, 84 years of age of Mavisdale, VA, went to be with the Lord, May 7, 2007 at her home suffering from an extended and courageous battle with Bipolarism and Dementia. Born April 3, 1923 in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

WILLIAM BURTON CLEVINGER, 76 years of age of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, May 3, 2007 at the Johnston Memorial Hospital, Abingdon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late...    MORE

THOMAS JASON CHURCH, 28 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Monday, April 30, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital from injuries sustained in an Automobile Accident. Born in Tazewell County, VA, he was the son of the late Thomas Ray and Marie M. Deel...    MORE

LOAMA DODGE HUNT, 81 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Monday, April 30, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, he was the son of the late Jessie and Lucy Hurley Hunt. He was a resident...    MORE

JAMES (MONK) STILTNER, JR., 53 years of age of Breaks, VA, went to be with his savior Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at the Frye Regional Medical Center, Hickory, NC. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of James R. Stiltner, Breaks, VA, and the late Mildred...    MORE

LOUIE ALLEN LOONEY, 67 years of age of Airport Road, Vansant, VA, passed away Saturday, April 21, 2007 at the Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Faye Deel Looney, Vansant, VA, and the late...    MORE

EDD F. ELSWICK, 92 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Friday, April 20, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late M.B. and Kansas Vanover Elswick. He was a lifelong resident of...   MORE

FRED M. STILTNER, 67 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Thursday, April 19, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late David C. and Chloe Slone Stiltner. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

HAZEL DEEL BOYD KELLEY, 85 years of age, of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, April 16, 2007 at the Welmont-Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Rufus and Laura...    MORE

W. PAULINE (POLLY) RAINES TYLENDA KENNEDY, 83 years of age of Carlisle, PA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Saturday, April 14, 2007 at the Thornwald Nursing Facility, Carlisle, PA, following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, Virginia...    MORE

DENNIS WOODRUN GEARHART, 63 years of age of Feds Creek, KY, passed away Sunday, April 15, 2007 at the St. Joseph’s Hospital, Lexington, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Christiansburg, VA, he was the son of the late Massie and Leila Reed Gearhart...    MORE

ELDER ERVIN FORTNER, 91 years of age of Wolford, VA, passed away Monday, April 16, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Wayne County, WV, he was the son of the late Jink and Flora Watts Fortner. He was a resident of Buchanan County most of...    MORE

MARGARET ANN SHORTRIDGE ROARK, 42 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, April 12, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County she was the daughter of Hearl and Ilene Ratliff Shortridge. She was...    MORE

MONA MCCLANAHAN LOONEY, 89 years of age, of the Lynn Camp Section of Rt. #1, Grundy, VA passed away Saturday, April 7, 2007 at Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Harve and Nannie...    MORE

BERT McKINLEY BOWMAN, 40 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Monday, April 2, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Inez Yates Endicott, Grundy, VA, and the late Bert...    MORE

LOIS MARIE STILTNER SMITHERS, 64 years of age of Mavisdale, VA, passed away Wednesday, March 28, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Margie lee Rowe Stiltner, Mavisdale, VA...    MORE

EARNEST C. “TAB” LAYNE, 64 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, March 29, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Harve Charles and Burchie Layne. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan...    MORE

JIMMY SMITH, 72 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, March 26, 2007 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center, Richlands, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Stella Robinson Smith, Grundy, VA, and the late Ezra...    MORE

BILLY RAY DOTSON, 51 years of age of Pikeville, KY, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Sunday, March 25, 2007 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County he was the son of the late...    MORE

BILL MONROE SMITH, 56 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Sunday, March 25, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Dewey Hassell and Mary Jane Blankenship Smith. He was a lifelong...    MORE

LOUISE WEBB CONLEY, 84 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, March 24, 2007 at the Cambridge House Nursing Home, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Betsy Lane, KY, she was the daughter of the late E.J. and Flora Wiley Webb...    MORE

NOBIE CLAREL LOONEY MCCLANAHAN, 90 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, March 23, 2007 at the home of her daughter Vicki Van Meter following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late William and Louisa...    MORE

PAULINE EMOJEAN WOLFORD GOFF, 86 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, March 23, 2007 at the Altamont Manor, Lebanon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Henry and Myrtle Stacy Wolford...    MORE

SHIRLEY PAULINE CHURCH LAYNE, 68 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, March 22, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in McDowell County, WV, she was the daughter of the late Neute and...    MORE

TEXIE CHARLES JUSTUS, 58 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Friday, March 23, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Rosie Stacy Charles. She was a lifelong...    MORE

DONNIE LEE OWENS, 56 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, March 21, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County he was the son of Elijhu Owens Jr., Bristol, TN, and the late...    MORE

JERRY KEITH LESTER, 59 years of age of Fayetteville, NC, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Thursday, March 15, 2007 in Raleigh, NC, following an brief illness. Born in Buchanan County he was a son of Spicy Keen Lester, Claypool Hill, VA, and the late Burb...    MORE

LILLIE RAMEY STILTNER, 90 years of age of the Stiltner’s Creek section of Grundy, Virginia passed away Friday, March 16, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Joe and Cora...    MORE

RUBY JANE SCARBERRY ESTEP, 79 years of age of Hurley, VA departed from this life Thursday, March 15, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, following an extended illness. Born October 21, 1927 at Paw Paw, KY, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

WESLEY RYAN TAYLOR 19, years of age of Hurley, VA passed away Saturday, March 10, 2007 at Buchanan General Hospital.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Kerry Russell and Elizabeth Ann McClanahan Taylor, Hurley, VA. He was a life-long resident...    MORE

KENNETH RONALD (RONNIE) CHAMBERS, 68 years of age of Maxie, VA, passed away Saturday, March 10, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Earnest (Wag) and Bea Viola Wyatt...    MORE

LUTHER (JUNIOR) BLACKBURN, 79 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, March 6, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Matewan, WV, he was the son of the late Elder John Henry and Marah Marie Wolford Blackburn. He was a resident...    MORE

MAGGIE MULLINS HURLEY, 60 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, March 1, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late William Mullins and Tillie Whitt Mullins Jones...    MORE

JANIS ADEAN MARRS JUSTICE, 65 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, February 27, 2007 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Dewey and...    MORE

GRANVILLE BURNS STILTNER, 77 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, February 26, 2007 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late William Cecil and Hettie E. Stiltner. He was a lifelong resident of...    MORE

EDITH BREEDING YATES, 79 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Monday, February 19, 2007 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home in Grundy, VA, following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Walter and Lydia O’Quinn...    MORE

CONSTANCE (CONNIE) ELAINE MCKINNEY CHILDRESS, 58 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, February 14, 2007 at her home following an extended bout with Alzheimer’s Disease. Born in Charleston, WV, she was the daughter of the late William Algia...    MORE

SARAH ARLENE DIXON, 71, of Green Cove Springs, FL, passed away Wednesday, February 14, 2007. She was born September 17, 1935 in Haysi, VA to parents John and Mary Deel. Mrs. Dixon was a homemaker and a member of Little Ruth Old Regular Baptist Church...    MORE

VELMA LOWE GRIZZLE, 77 years of age, of Rowe, VA, passed away Monday, February 12, 2007 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Prill and Mellie Spears Lowe. She was a resident of Buchanan County...    MORE

BERTHA ELLEN (MA MA) HELTON COLEMAN, 92 years of age of the Pilgrim’s Knob section of Oakwood, VA, was called by God to come home, Friday, February 9, 2007 at her home. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late William and Ella Hess...    MORE

RICKY ALLEN LEE, 52 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, February 6, 2007 in Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, he was the son of Blake and Joann Childress Lee, of Grundy, VA. He was a lifelong...    MORE

FERRELL SCARBERRY, 79 years of age, of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, February 6, 2007, in Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Eli and Orpha Hardin Scarberry. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

ANNA FARMER CHANEY, 84 years of age, of Pounding Mill, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, February 5, 2007 in the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Johnson County, KY, she was the daughter...    MORE

PAUL C. HACKNEY, 67 years of age, of the Home Creek Section of Rt. #1, Grundy, VA passed away Monday, February 5, 2007, in Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Lundy and Hettie Deel Hackney...    MORE

IVA NELL COLLEY DALTON, 65 years of age, of Dobson, NC, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007, in Forsyth Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Bishop...    MORE

FRANK ALMOND WITT, JR., 94 years of age of Grundy, Virginia, passed away at his home Friday, February 2, 2007 following a brief illness.  Born in Bramwell, WV, he was the son of the late Frank Almond and Lydia Haynes Witt.  He had been a resident of Buchanan...    MORE

LEONARD FRANCIS MATNEY, 75 years of age, of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, February 2, 2007, at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Dave and Jane Vandyke Matney.  He was a life-long resident of...    MORE

MARY LEE ADAMS RILEY, 62 years of age of Big Rock, VA, passed away Friday, January 26, 2007 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA. Born in Pike County, KY, she was the daughter of the late Elick and Hazel Morgan Adams. She was a resident of Buchanan...    MORE

ESTIL GREENBERRY VANDYKE, 80 years of age of the Dry Fork Section of Vansant, VA, passed away Thursday, January 25, 2007 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Arthur...    MORE

PAUL SKEENS, 73 years of age of the Rt. 5 section of Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, January 22, 2007 at his home. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Cecil and Eva Mae Vandyke Skeens. He was a lifelong resident of Buchanan County, served in...    MORE

NANCY JANE PAYNE SMITH, 69 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, January 19, 2007 at the Wellmont Hospice House, Bristol, TN following an short illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Susie Blankenship Payne, Tazewell, VA, and the...    MORE

ADELE AMMAR CECIL, 78 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, January 18, 2007, at the home of her daughter Diane Holland, following an extended illness. Born in Williamson, WV, she was the daughter of the late K.A. Sr. and Lydia Radwan Ammar...    MORE

ROSCOE LESTER, 81 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 17, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late James and Mary Meadows Lester. He was a lifelong resident...    MORE

RALPH EDWARD KING, 87 years of age of the Wolford Section of Hurley, VA, passed away Tuesday, January 16, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born at Blackey, VA, he was the son of the late Andrew and Mae Davis King. He...    MORE

MEMPHIS T. “SHORTY” VANDYKE, 80 years of age of Rt. 2, Vansant, VA, passed away Thursday, January 11, 2007 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Bennie and Rosie Street Vandyke...    MORE

WILMA BLONNIE NEW PACK, 61 years of age of Rt.1, Roseann section of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, January 10, 2007 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late John Delbert New and Lula M. Young...    MORE

JERRY PAUL CONN, 58 years of age of Hurley, VA, passed away Saturday, January 6, 2007 at the Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Joe Junior and Mary Ruth Estep Conn of Hurley, VA...    MORE

SHAUN BRADLEY BALDWIN, 27 years of age, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, formerly of Vansant, VA passed away Friday, January 5, 2007, from a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Bradley Baldwin, Vansant, VA and Belva (Joy) Baldwin Mitchell...    MORE

RICHARD S. (DEE) HIBBITTS, 66 years of age, of the Lower Mill Branch section of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, January 5, 2007 at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Joseph Henry and Minnie Collins Hibbitts...    MORE

RICKY EDWARD VANDYKE, 42 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, January 4, 2007 at the Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Hazel Owens Vandyke Ratliff, Grundy, VA, and the late...    MORE

VIRGIL SMITH JR., 50 years of age of Wytheville, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Wednesday, January 3, 2007 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Virgil Sr. and...    MORE

MARGIE IRENE BROWN CLEVINGER, 77 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, December 30, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Garland and Inez Phipps Brown. She...    MORE

PATTY MARIE KEEN COLE, 47 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, December 29, 2006 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late William David Keen and...    MORE

HELEN JUNE COMPTON RAMEY, 71 years of age of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, December 28, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Maryland, she was the daughter of the late Willard Compton and...    MORE

THERMAN E. BOYD, 86 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, December 26, 2006 at the Wellmont Bristol Regional Medical Center following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County he was the son of the late Starlin and Maude Lester Boyd...    MORE

ESTIL EMERSON ASHBY, JR., 39 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Tuesday, December 26, 2006 in Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Anna Lou Hurley Ashby, Hurley, VA and the late...    MORE

JIMMIE RONALD RATLIFF, 66 years of age of Rt. 3, Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, December 24, 2006 at the Church Hill Health Care, Church Hill, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Ester Ford Mays Johnson...    MORE

BRIAN KEASTER COX, 37 years of age, of the Dismal Section of Oakwood, VA, passed away Sunday, December 24, 2006 at his home following an extended illness. Born August 12, 1969 in Buchanan County, he was the son of Phyllis Helen Stacy Cox of Oakwood...    MORE

MAUDE D. OWENS MAYS, 91 years of age, of Vansant, VA passed away Saturday, December 23, 2006, in the Angel Haven Rest Home, Roanoke, VA following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, VA she was a daughter of the late Floyd and Victoria...    MORE

JOSEPH SCAMMELL, JR., 80 years of age, of the Poplar Creek Area of Route #2, Grundy, VA passed away Tuesday, December 19, 2006, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in West Virginia, he was a son of the late Joseph Scammell, Sr. and...    MORE

DAVID CHAPMAN, 51 years of age, of Rowe, VA passed away Sunday, December 10, 2006, at his home.  Born in Pike County, KY he was a son of Chester Chapman, Rowe, VA and Ethel Slone Collins, Pike County, KY.  He had been a resident of Buchanan County several...    MORE

GARY PAUL AKERS, 50 years of age, of the Slate Creek Area of Grundy, VA departed this life Sunday December 10, 2006 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Joan Massey, North Tazewell, VA and the late Lawson...    MORE

ORPHA JUSTUS GIBBS, 86 years of age, of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, December 10, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Burbage and Amanda Lester Justus...    MORE

LEON TROY LOONEY, 71 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Friday, December 8, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following a brief illness. Born in Ohio, he was the son of the late Dewey E. and Rosa J. Yates Looney. He had been a resident of Buchanan...    MORE

ROY WILLIAM JACKSON, 68 years of age, of Vansant, VA, passed away Sunday, December 3, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Elbert and Bertha Coleman Jackson. He was...    MORE

ADRES J. VIERS, 82 years of age, of Tazewell, Virginia, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Sunday, December 3, 2006 at Tazewell Community Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Dickenson County, VA, he was the son of the late Burl and Blanche...    MORE

EARL WAYNE JACKSON, 25 years of age, of Bristol, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Saturday, December 2, 2006 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Earl Willie...    MORE

KERMIT CLYDE STILTNER, 73 years of age, of North Port, Florida, formerly of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Coy and Estus Faye Clevinger Stiltner...    MORE

CATHERN MADELINE HURT KEEN, 68 years of age, of Raven, Virginia, passed away Sunday, November 26, 2006 in Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, she was the daughter of the late Floyd and Gracie Davis Hurt...    MORE

STELLA FAYE CLEVINGER YATES COOK, 82 years of age, of the Deskins Area of Vansant, VA passed away Tuesday, November 21, 2006, in Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late John...    MORE

HAROLD RAY STACY, 33 years of age of the Lester’s Fork Area of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Monday, November 20, 2006, at his home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Boyd and Victoria Stacy Stacy, Grundy, VA. He was...    MORE

JOAN RAINES BUCHANAN, 80 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, November 19, 2006 at the Colonial Hills Nursing Center in Maryville, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County Virginia, she was the daughter of the late William P and...   MORE

EDNA OPAL COMPTON, 88 years of age of Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born October 27, 1918, in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Dallas Compton and...    MORE

GRACIE DAVIS BLANKENSHIP, 88 years of age, of Rt. 3, Grundy, VA, passed away Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Garfield and Nancy Reed Davis...    MORE

MILDRED BALDWIN BARRETT, 68 years of age, of Telford, TN formerly of Buchanan County, VA passed away Tuesday, November 14, 2006, at Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, TN following a short illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the...    MORE

SHIRLEY ANN POTTER, 59 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Friday, November 10, 2006 at the Bristol Wellmont Hospital following a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Don and Lockie Stiltner Young.  She was a member of...     MORE

JAMES “JAMIE” LANDO LESTER, 34 years of age, of Lapine, Oregon, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Monday, October 30, 2006, in Lapine, Oregon, from injuries sustained in a two vehicle accident.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Melba...    MORE

PERSHING CROCKETT HAGERMAN, JR., 65 years of age, of Avondale, WV, went home to be with the Lord, Friday, November 3, 2006 at the Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN, following a brief illness. Born in Three Forks, WV, on May 26, 1941, he was...    MORE

BEATRICE (NANA BEA) COMPTON MUSICK, 82 years of age, of the Elkins Branch Section, Grundy, VA, passed away Friday, November 3, 2006 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center, Bristol, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the...    MORE

MARGIE LILLIAN CARTER NICEWANDER, 82 years of age, of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Wednesday, November 1, 2006, at the Russell County Medical Center, Lebanon, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Coeburn, VA...    MORE

WOODROW CORNELIUS "CORN" SUTHERLAND, Blountville, TN, formerly of Grundy, VA, died Oct 28, 2006.  Born April 2, 1916, he was the son of Richard Sidney and Aily Counts Sutherland.  He is preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Coleman Sutherland, infant...    MORE

KARL BURTON COLEMAN , 85 years of age of Charlottesville, Virginia, passed away on Wednesday, October 26, 2006 at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville following a brief illness.  He was born on February 24, 1921 in Williamson, West Virginia. Mr. Coleman...    MORE

FRANCIE HAGER, 28 years of age, of Maxie, VA, passed away Thursday, October 26, 2006 at Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following a brief illness. Born in Logan, WV, she was the daughter of Riley Hack Hager, West Virginia, and the late...    MORE

VERNON OWENS, 69 years of age, of the Rt. 2 Section of Vansant, VA, passed away Tuesday, October 24, 2006 after sustaining injuries in an automobile accident on Rt. 83 near Prater, VA. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late John Kilby...    MORE

KERMIT MCCLANAHAN,  85 years of age, of the Slate Creek area of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, October 20, 2006, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Charlie Walther and...    MORE

FRANKIE DEAN CHURCH, 44 years of age of Vansant, VA, passed away Friday, October 20, 2006 at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of Gervis Church of Pontiac, Michigan and the...     MORE

VIRGINIA RUTH COLLINS CRUM, 74 years of age of Roanoke, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 18, 2006at the home of her daughter, following a year-long courageous battle with cancer.  Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late John D...    MORE

CLIFFORD RAY ESTEP, 64 years of age, of Wolford, VA, passed away Monday, October 16, 2006 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital, Roanoke, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Drewey and Sara Ashby Estep...    MORE

NANCY CAROLYN McFALL BAXTER, 75 years old of  Bristol, VA, passed away Saturday, October 14, 2006 at the Wellmont Hospice House in Bristol, following an extended illness.  Born in Bedford, VA, she was the daughter of the late Parker and Maude Looney McFall...    MORE

MINNIE MARIE RIFE ASHBY, 79 years of age, of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, October 12, 2006 at the Holston Valley Memorial Hospital, Kingsport, TN, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

SAUNDRA M. BEVINS GREENE 58 years of age, of Route #3, Grundy, VA passed away Thursday, October 12, 2006 in Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Williamson, WV, she was a daughter of the late P. F. (Frank)...    MORE

ROXIE LESTER SKEENS, 84 years of age, of Abingdon, VA, formerly of Buchanan County, passed away Sunday, October 8, 2006 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the...    MORE

BONNIE JEAN HAMILTON CHILDRESS, 72 years of age, of Grundy, VA passed away Friday, October 6, 2006 at the Ridgecrest Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Duffield, VA following an extended illness. Born in Pike County, KY she was a daughter of...    MORE

PATTY BLANKENSHIP, 59 years of age, of the Lester’s Fork area of Route #1, Grundy, VA passed away Thursday, October 5, 2006 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of...    MORE

HOWARD LEE DANIELS, (SANDMAN) 84 years of age, of the Home Creek Section of Rt. #1, Grundy, VA departed this life Thursday,
October 5, 2006 at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Mingo County, WV. He was a son of the late Plez Sr....    MORE

BIRCHIE SHORTRIDGE GOFF, 79 years of age, of Richmond, VA formerly of Grundy, VA passed away Monday, October 2, 2006, in Medical College of Virginia,  Richmond, VA from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.  Born in Buchanan County, VA, she was a...    MORE

CHARLENE HURLEY ESTEP, 68 years of age, of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, September 28, 2006, at the Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Arthur Lambert and Nora Hurley...    MORE

DOROTHY LOU BENTLEY BLANKENSHIP, 51 years of age, of Grundy, VA, passed away Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at the Heritage Hall Nursing Home, Grundy, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late...    MORE

JEAN ENDICOTT HARDIN, 58 years of age, of the Lower Mill Branch section of Slate Creek, Grundy, VA went to be with the Lord, Wednesday, September 27, 2006, following an extended illness.  Born in Pike County, KY, she was a daughter of the late Roy...    MORE

LAURA VIRGINIA HENSLEY RASH, 75 years of age, of Rt. 1, Grundy, VA, passed away Sunday, September 24, 2006 at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Lester and Ella Lester Hensley. She was a...    MORE

DELPHINE LANE STILTNER, 70 years of age, of the Poplar Creek Section of Rt. #2, Grundy, VA surrounded by her family went to be with the Lord Sunday, September 24, 2006 at her home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of...    MORE

THELMA LING WARD PUGH, 89 years of age, of the Slate Creek Area of Grundy, VA passed away Thursday, September 14, 2006, at her home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late George W. and Sindesta...    MORE

EARL E. CHILDRESS, 86 years of age of Vansant, Virginia, passed away Monday, September 11, 2006 at the Bristol Regional Medical Center after a brief illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Elijah and Burgie Harris Childress...    MORE

LYDIA LEE COMPTON, 93 years of age, of Vansant, VA, passed away Wednesday, September 6, 2006, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of Edward and Clarinda Stacy Compton...    MORE

CHARLES EDDIE BLANKENSHIP, 60 years of age, of Hurley, VA passed away Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Ed and Bessie Tudor Blankenship.  He was a...     MORE

TRUBY DAUGHERTY BAKER, 77 years of age, of Rt. 2, Grundy, VA, passed away Saturday, August 26, 2006, at Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Burley and Edna Stiltner...    MORE

JOHNNY T. BELCHER, 62 years of age, of  the Belcher’s Fork area  Rt. #2, of Grundy, VA passed away Thursday, August 24, 2006, at Wellmont Hospice House, Bristol, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Bart...    MORE

TERRY LEE MATNEY, 60 years of age of the Slate Creek section of Grundy, VA, passed away Thursday, August 17, 2006 following an apparent heart attack.  Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Richard and Magdalene Layne Matney J...    MORE

GEORGE P. LOCKHART, 76 years of age, of the Prater Section of Vansant, VA., passed away Wednesday, August 16, 2006, at his home following a brief illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of the late Tom and Bertha OQuinn Lockhart...    MORE

TOMMY LESTER, 68 years of age, of Big Rock, VA., passed away Saturday, August 5, 2006 in Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son the late George and Elizabeth Hackney Lester...     MORE 

HATTIE MAE  PRICE, 67 years of age, of Welch, WV, formerly of Grundy, VA and Bristol, TN passed away Monday, July 31, 2006 at Welch Community Hospital following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of Pearl Carton Graybeal...    MORE

CRECIE WALLACE BAKER, 77 years of age, of the Home Creek area of Rt. 1 Grundy, VA passed away Friday, July 28, 2006 at Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born at Pike County, KY, she was a daughter of the late John L...    MORE

STEVE JUSTUS, 72 years of age, of the Home Creek Section of Route #1, Grundy, VA passed away Saturday, July 22, 2006, at his home following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, he was a son of Nellie Justice Justus, Rt. #1, Grundy, VA and...     MORE

BOYD KEEN, 61 years of age, of  the Slate Creek area of Grundy, VA passed away Thursday, July 20, 2006, at Bristol Regional Medical Center following a courageous battle with cancer.  Born in Buchanan County, VA he was a son of the late Giles and Martha...    MORE

JOHN R. (JACK) LARK, 75 years of age, of Apopka, FL., formerly of Grundy, VA passed away Monday, July 18, 2006, following an extended illness.   Born at Williamson, WV, he was a son of the late Robert and Flora Yates Lark  He was a resident of Grundy...    MORE

WOODY HOMER SLONE, 66 years of age, of the State Line area of Mouthcard, KY passed away, Tuesday, July 18, 2006 at Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.  Born in Pike County, KY, he was a son of the late...    MORE

SHIRLEY JEAN BOYD MATNEY, 62 years of age of Abingdon, VA formerly of Vansant, VA passed away Monday July 17, 2006 in North Carolina Baptist Hospital, Winston Salem, NC following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter...    MORE

ALTA CHARLES MATNEY, 54 years of age, of the Slate Creek area of Rt. 3 Grundy, VA passed away Friday, July 14, 2006, at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County she was a daughter of the...    MORE

AMANDA JEAN WHITED, 20 years of age of Buford, GA, passed away Saturday, July 8, 2006 at Joan Glancy Memorial Hospital, Duluth, GA, following a brief illness.  Born in Hollywood, FL she was the daughter of Fayne Clark Whited of Buford, GA, and Leslie Jean...   MORE

VIRGINIA PAULINE BROWN RAMEY, 68 years of age, of Mouth Card, KY passed away Sunday, July 9, 2006 in Pikeville Medical Center, Pikeville, KY following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late Edward Kelly and...    MORE

VIRGINIA F. JENNY ELSWICK, 89 years of age, of the Deskins area of Vansant, VA passed away Monday, June 26, 2006, in the Pikeville Methodist Hospital, Pikeville, KY following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late...    MORE

FAY FIELDS BLANKENSHIP, 83 years of age, of Grundy, VA passed away Saturday, June 24, 2006, in Buchanan General Hospital, Grundy, VA following an extended illness.  Born in Buchanan County, she was a daughter of the late George W. and Gracie...     MORE

CARRIE ELIZABETH WRIGHT TILLER, 83 years of age, of Vansant, VA, passed away Thursday, June 22, 2006, at her home following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late Grover Cleveland and Mahalia Kansas Stiltner...    MORE

VIRGIE MAY YOUNG, 87 years of age, of Hurley, VA, passed away Thursday, June 22, 2006, at Buchanan General Hospital following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, she was the daughter of the late James Basil and Daisy Dotson May...    MORE

ARLET LEON LOONEY, 83 years of age, of Maxie, VA, passed away Sunday, June 18, 2006 at the Pikeville Methodist Hospital, Pikeville, KY, following an extended illness. Born in Buchanan County, he was the son of the late Burl H. and Hattie Looney Looney. He...     MORE

PATRICK “BUB” NEAL SMITH, 33 years of age, of Rowe, VA, passed away Sunday, June 18, 2006 at the University of Virginia Hospital, Charlottesville, VA, following an extended illness. Born in Tazewell County, he was a son of Jerry Lee and Jackie Lee Rasnick...    MORE