Obituaries in Rural Retreat, VA

In loving memory of James Edward Mills Jr. He went to live in Heaven on January 9 2026. James was preceeded in death by his late Wife Eva L. Mills Pat and Son James Edward Mills III Eddie. Jim was survived by Daughter Robin and her husband Shane. Son David and Wife Teresa Nelson Step Daughter Brenda...

Nancy is survived by her children Mark Morgan and wife Reba Jack R. Morgan and wife Lora Grandchildren Josh Morgan Misty MorganPalmer and husband Jason Keagan Morgan and wife Anna and Jayla Morgan Kennedy and husband Samual greatgranddaughter MorganPalmer sister Jeanie Cantrell and brother Jake Park...

Teresa Marie Blankenship Woods age 62 of Rural Retreat VA passed away Friday December 12 2025. She was born December 4 1963 in Grundy VA daughter of the late Larry and Evelue Coleman Blankenship. She was also preceded in death by two sons Joey Henderson and Larry Henderson husband James Powell and b...

Garnett Buck Ray Sheets 81 of Wytheville VA passed away Thursday December 18 2025. Born May 18 1944 in Wythe County VA he was the son of the late Henry and Lottie Umberger Sheets. Buck was an avid outdoorsman He loved hunting and fishing and horses and always enjoyed hunting trips out west. He was a...

Randall McNabb Dunford 79 went to meet Jesus on December 23 2025 at Mountain Laurel Nursing Home in Rural Retreat. He knew where he was going and was ready to meet the Lord. Randall was born on August 11 1946 and was a member of the Rural Retreat Baptist Church. He was easygoing hardworking and forg...

Verna Leedy Worley age 100 of Rural Retreat VA passed away Wednesday January 14 2026. She was born in Bluefield WV on November 13 1925 the daughter of the late Ernest Montgomery Leedy and Mary Time Foglesong Leedy. She was a member of the Rural Retreat United Methodist Church and was preceded in dea...

Betty Mae ODell Surratt age 83 of Bristol VA passed away Saturday January 10 2026. She was born March 8 1942 in Pulaski County daughter of the late Willie ODell and Bessie Mae Finn ODell. She was also preceded in death by a sister Peggy White and a brother Willie ODell Jr. Survivors include her husb...

Edward Bibb Andrew Thompson age 94 of Max Meadows VA passed away Friday December 12 2025. He was born November 22 1931 in Wythe County son of the late William Gardner Thompson and Hazel McCandless Thompson. He was also preceded in death by a daughter Denise Lunsford and his son Denny Thompson. Survi...

Verna Louise Sult Fisher of Rural Retreat Va. passed away on January 5 2026 surrounded by her family. She was born in Wythe County Va on September 3 1933 to the late L. Straley Sult and Hallie Miller Sult. She is preceded in death by her parents former husband Dewey Bayne Buddy Fisher Sr. and brothe...

Barbara Humphrey Garland age 89 of Max Meadows Va. passed away Wednesday December 24 2025. She was born in Wythe County Va. on April 22 1936 to the late Chess Humphrey and Julia Hudson Humphrey. She is preceded in death by her husband Spencer Garland son Steven Garland and brother James Humphrey. Gr...

Judith Alberta Umberger Jones age 87 of Austinville Va. passed away December 20 2025. She was born on March 10 1938 in Wythe County Va. to the late Thomas Jackson Umberger Jr. and Dorothy Kathleen Davis Umberger. She was preceded in death by her husband Edward Lee Riley Jones son William Luther Bill...

Majorie "Sue" Stacy peacefully passed away at the age of 88 in her home in Franklin Pennsylvania on January 15 2026after a short illness. Sue was a New Years Eve baby born Dec 31 1937 in the coal town of Bonny Blue Virginia to Samuel and Elizabeth Brown. Sue lived in Wytheville Max Meadows VA from 1...