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Thomas Neal Williams 80 of Chester Virginia entered eternal rest on January 8 2026 at Journeys Way Hospice Center at the HunterHolmes McGuire VA Medical Center in Richmond Virginia following an extended period of declining health. Thomas was a 1963 graduate of Peabody High School. After graduating h...

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...

Capron Rubie Everett Drake 89 passed away December 15 2025 in her home. Born and raised in Southampton County she was a daughter of the late Harvey Drewry Everett Sr. and Alice Avent Everett. She was also predeceased by her brother Harvey HD Drewry Everett Jr. Rubie was a retired business manager f...

Linda Gail Nichols 83 of Caldwell Street Athens died peacefully Wednesday January 7 2026 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown with her loving family at her side. Born October 26 1942 in Anderson SC she was the daughter of the late Charles Andrews Morgan Ollie Carroll Morgan. Linda was a devoted ...

Edith Louise Foley Darrah 91 of Fairview passed away Sunday December 21 2025. She was born in Fairview WV on March 13 1934 a daughter of the late Elza and Nellie Foley of Fairview. Edith was a devoted wife mother grandmother and great grandmother. Her family was her greatest gift and passion. Christ...

David Allen Hale age 77 of Tazewell VA passed away Saturday January 3 2026 at Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital in Tazewell VA. Born on November 8 1948 he was a beloved son of the late David Hale and Flossie Hicks Hale. After graduating from Big Creek High School he proudly served his country in ...

Ronald K. "Ron" Bork 83 yrs. old of Sandusky passed away peacefully late Sunday afternoon December 28 2025 in the Stein Hospice Care Center. Sandusky. Born on August 24 1942 in Sandusky OH the son of Kenneth Bland and Wilma Christinna Minnie Bretz Bork. Ron had been a proud laborer for the Laborer U...

She was preceded in death by her parents John J. Waller and Mona Faye Brown Waller maternal grandmother Hattie Mae Brown. Dee is survived by her sons Michael David Hamm Echols of Roanoke Va. And Derek Keith Hamm Sarah of Marion Va. sister Elizabeth Medeiros sisterinlove Pam Wagoner brothers Jimmy Wa...

Joseph Z. “Joe” Martin, age 52, of Fredonia, passed away on Friday, December 26, 2025, at Baptist Health of Paducah. He was born in Marion, Kentucky, on May 22, 1973, to the late Kenneth Martin and Peggy Bland.Joe began working as a teenager and continued throughout his whole life. He retired from t...

Warnell Smith was born to McKinley Smith and Elizabeth Mack on September 41943 in Cumberland Virginia. He attended the public schools in Cumberland Virginia. He was employed at Buffalo Shook and later Capitol Mason Construction Company as a Bricklayer Foreman until he retired. He helped build John P...

   Darlene Douglas, 62, of Taylorsville passed away October 2, 2025. She was a former employee at Phillip Morris Tobacco Co. and Zimmer Medical. She loved quilting and sewing.   She was preceded in death by her parents, Mary and James Cambron.   She is survived by her l...

Gale Franklin Strother, age 91, of Crystal City, Missouri, passed away Wednesday, December 10, 2025, at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Festus, Missouri. He was born September 1, 1934, near California, Missouri, the eldest son of the late Blanche (nee Wood) and George Hamilton Strother.He is survived by...