Hazel Anders Blevins
Mar 13, 2017
Hazel Marie Anders Blevins, age 94 of Rural Retreat, VA (the Cedar Springs community), passed away Monday, March 13, 2017. She was born in Smyth Co., VA on September 9, 1922 the daughter of the late James Monroe Anders and Lockie Marie Jones Anders. Hazel was a loving mother, grandmother and was preceded in death by her...
Ernest Burton Sayers
Mar 12, 2017
Ernest Burton Sayers Jr age 75 of Huddle Road Wytheville VA passed away Sunday March 12, 2017. He was born March 18, 1941 in Wythe County the son of the late Earnest & Laura Jane Childress Sayers SR.
Ernest was a member of the Bakers Chapel...
Archie Gleason Roberts
Mar 12, 2017
Archie Gleason Roberts, age 80, of Rural Retreat, VA passed away Sunday, March 12, 2017 at his home. He was born in Grayson Co., VA on February 8, 1937 the son of the late Archie Maiden Roberts and Cleo Anderson Roberts. Archie was a member of All Nations Church of God and a veteran of the US...
Barbara "Bobbie" Gassaway Rudy
Mar 11, 2017
Barbara "Bobbie" Gassaway Rudy, age 79, retired Library Secretary, passed away on March 11, 2017 in her home surrounded by loved ones, after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was predeceased by her husband, Mahlon Kyle Rudy Sr., sisters Virginia G. Taylor and Joan G. Heywood, and mother and father. Bobbie attended Clover High School in Clover, Virginia where...
Ruby Nester Hall
Mar 11, 2017
Ruby Marie Nester Hall, age 93, of Austinville, VA passed away Saturday, March 11, 2017. She was born December 30, 1923 in Wythe County, daughter of the late Harbert Heath Nester and Essie Mae Thomas Nester. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Argle Hall. Ruby is survived by three daughters, Lois...
Barbara Baxter Gordon
Mar 11, 2017
Barbara Hearn Baxter Gordon
A sweet soul has found a place to rest. Barbara Hearn Baxter Gordon, age 73, of Marion, VA, died peacefully on March 11, 2017, at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, TN, from complications due to vascular disease. She was born on May 28, 1943 in Pulaski County, VA to Naomi...
Melvin Graham Archer
Mar 9, 2017
Melvin Graham Archer passed away at Lewis Gale Pulaski Hospital on Thursday, March 9, 2017 with his sons by his side. He was born May 23, 1940 in Wythe County, the son of the late Garland Archer, Sr. and Emma Reynolds Archer. He was preceded in death by his wife Linda Alley Archer and son Stephen Archer, a brother,...
Virginia H. Waddell
Mar 4, 2017
Virginia H. Waddell, age 91 of Bland, passed away March 4, 2017 at her home. She was born May 10, 1926 in Bland County to the late Clyde and Ruth Harey Hager. She was preceded in death by her husband Earl E. Waddell.
Survivors include a son, Karl C. Waddell of Bland; daughter...
Anne Newton Ayers
Mar 4, 2017
Anne Newton Ayers age 77, of Axton formally of Rocky Gap, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 4, 2017 in Martinsville, VA. She was born September 14, 1939 in Richlands to the late Reverend Rufus T. and Ellen S. Newton of Rocky Gap, VA. She spent many years in banking but focused her life...
Timothy Wayne Wright
Mar 3, 2017
Timothy "Tim" Wayne Wright age 38 of Max Meadows passed Friday morning March 3, 2017, he was born March 27, 1978 in Radford VA. Tim was preceded in death by his father Clarence Alvin Wright.
He is survived by;
Mother and Step father
Wayne...
William Larry Dobbins, Jr.
Mar 2, 2017
William Larry Dobbins, Jr., age 48, of Wytheville, VA passed away Thursday, March 2, 2017. He was born June 8, 1968 and was preceded in death by his mother, Glenda Archer Dobbins.
He is survived by his father, William Larry Dobbins, Sr.; two sisters, Cheryl Maxwell of Max...
Michael Randolph Riggins
Feb 27, 2017
Michael Randolph Riggins age 58 of Austinville VA passed away Monday February 27, 2017. He was born February 8, 1959 in Wytheville VA, the son of the late Malcom Harry & Alma Phillips Riggins. Michael attended the New Hope Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his sister, Judy R Monroe, his brother...
Della Lojean Brooks Pridemore
Feb 26, 2017
Della Lojean Brooks Pridemore, age 89, of Rural Retreat, VA passed away Sunday, February 26, 2017. She was born in Rural Retreat, VA on December 22, 1927 the daughter of the late Robert Tye Lyons and Lola Ethel Wright Lyons. Della was a member of the Crockett Tabernacle Church and was preceded in death by her first...
William Albert Cole, Jr
Feb 26, 2017
William (Bill) Albert Cole, Jr. of Rural Retreat, VA went to be with our Lord Sunday morning February 26, 2017. He was born on July 11, 1928 and was preceded in death by his parents, William A. Cole, Sr. and Christiana E. Cole. He is survived by his wife of 68 years, Mary Simmons Cole, children Michael...
Edith Carole Hughes
Feb 26, 2017
Edith Carole Hughes, age 72, of Deland, FL, formerly of Wytheville, VA passed away Sunday, February 26, 2017. She was born March 19, 1944 to the late Clarence J. and Theresa Messenger Hughes. She was a member of Cedar Hill United Methodist Church. She is survived by two sons, George and Lisa Doyle of Sanford, FL,...
Alice Hudson Dutton
Feb 25, 2017
Alice Mae Hudson Dutton, age 73, of Rocky Gap, VA passed away Saturday, February 25, 2017. She was born November 2, 1943 in Amherst, VA, daughter of the late Ernest Lee Hudson and Mary Coffey Hudson and was preceded in death by one brother, Ernest Lee Hudson, Jr. and a step granddaughter, Michelle. Alice enjoyed spending...
Donnie Jean Peavler
Feb 23, 2017
"Donna" Donnie Jean (Bailey) Peavler, 81, of Rural Retreat passed away Thursday, February 23, 2017 in Wythe County Hospital.
Born July 25, 1935, she was the daughter of the late Dr. Harloe Bailey and Olivia (Huff) Bailey.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Harloe Bailey Jr. and her...
Margaret Beasley Moore
Feb 22, 2017
Margaret Vernett Beasley Moore, age 93, of Wytheville, VA passed away Wednesday, February 22, 2017. She was born February 24, 1923 in Albemarle County, VA, daughter of the late Thomas Lee Beasley and Etta Wood Beasley and was preceded in death by her husband Alfred Hamilton Moore; son, Johnny Moore; granddaughter, April Leigh Slaughter; five brothers...
Joseph Walter Smith
Feb 21, 2017
Joseph Walter Smith, age 58, of Wytheville, VA passed away Tuesday, Februay 21, 2017. He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Olen "Chucky" Martin and is survived by his wife, Betty Lynn Smith and her children Louann Hampton and Tammy Bentley; his children and their spouses, Debra Hyler, Donna Powell and Mark, Diana Cressell and...
Mattie Harden Montgomery
Feb 20, 2017
Mattie Claudine Harden Montgomery, age 84, of Wytheville, VA passed away Monday, February 20, 2017. She was born April 6, 1932 in Wythe County, daughter of the late William Rufus Harden and Roberta Jane Irvin Harden and was preceded in death by her husband, William Edgar Montgomery; two sisters, Nellie Sharitz and Aileen Crigger and an...