Obituaries
Madeline Peggy Diggs
Mar 12, 2012
Madeline 'Peggy' Diggs, 84, passed away Monday, March 12, 2012, at Avalon by Otterbein Nursing Home in Maineville, Ohio. Born December 6, 1927, at Stover, WV, she was the daughter of the late Charles and Chloe Edwards. She was a retired nurse, last working at the VA Medical Center in Beckley and Hospice. Peggy was a devoted mother, grandmother, and...
Franklin Delano Scott
Mar 1, 2012
Franklin Delano Scott, 71, of Piney View, passed away Thursday, March 1, 2012. Born December 27, 1940 at Grandview, WV, he was the son of the late Harold and Mae Redden Scott. Franklin was a retired electrician for Kings Mill Energy. He loved to hunt, tinker with cars and small engines and spending time with his kids and grandkids. In...
Lillian Elleen Ward
Feb 24, 2012
Lillian Elleen Ward died on February 24, 2012 following a long illness. She was born on March 15, 1924 in Montgomery County, Virginia. Her parents were the late Carl James and Minnie Sue Hughes Elliott. She grew up in Prices Fork, Virginia where she met her husband the late William K. Ward Sr. She was employed by the Radford Arsenal...
Irene Pigg
Feb 24, 2012
Irene StClair Pigg, 92, of Jacksonville Beach, FL, passed away Friday, February 24, 2012. Born October 2,1919 at Epperly Hill, WV, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Della Gray StClair. Irene was preceded in death by her husband, Cletus Pigg and siblings, Ray StClair, Elsie Saunders, Cecil StClair,Roy StClair, Mary Hall, Garnet Deweese, Irene was the granddaughter,...
Barbara Ann Booker
Feb 19, 2012
Barbara Ann Francis Booker, 71, of Beckley, passed away at Bowers Hospice House following a long illness. Born January 19, 1941 at Slab Fork, WV, she was the daughter of Charles Francis and the late Dorothy Winston Francis. Barbara was a member of the United Apostolic Faith Church. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Charles Francis, Jr. and...
Nancy Jean Rickards
Feb 19, 2012
Nancy Jean Rickards, 66, of Oak Hill, passed away Sunday, February 19, 2012 at Bowers Hospice House. Graveside services and burial will be 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at Palm Memorial Gardens in Matheny, WV. . Arrangements by Calfee Funeral Home, Beckley.
Nancy Carolyn Brierley
Feb 16, 2012
On February 16, 2012 at 7:10 p.m. at Bowers Hospice House, Nancy Carolyn Buckland Brierley won her battle with cancer and Alzheimer’s as she entered into heaven to be with her Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Born march 29, 1934 in Beckley, she was the daughter of the Carl and Lucille Finch Buckland. She was a 1952 graduate of Woodrow...
Anthony Sokola
Feb 15, 2012
Anthony Sokola, 80, of Beckley, passed away Wednesday, February 15, 2012 in the Beckley VA Medical Center. Born December 28, 1931 at Sun, WV, he was the son of the late Andrew Stephen and Hattie Teresa Musial Sokola. Anthony was a retired mechanic having last worked for Lewis Terminal Garage. He was a member of Price Hill Freewill Baptist Church...
Arthur Henson Dunlap
Feb 14, 2012
Arthur Henson Dunlap, 87, of Crab Orchard, passed away, Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at his residence surrounded by his family. Born July 19, 1924 at Train, WV, he was the son of the late Percy E. and Amy Pricilla Pauley Dunlap. Henson was a retired railway mail carrier for the United States Postal Service. He was a member of the...
David Allen Daniel
Jan 26, 2012
David Allen Daniel, 57, of Glen Daniel, passed away Thursday, January 26, 2012 at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital. Born January 22, 1955 in Saxon, WV, he was the son of the late Winford and Anna Belle Moore Daniel. David was a former coal miner having worked for Kopperston Coal. He was an avid gardener and outdoorsman. He enjoyed spending time...
Ernest Lee Green
Jan 19, 2012
Ernest Lee Green, 62, of Beckley, passed away Thursday, January 19, 2012 at his residence. Born April 4, 1949 in Wyoming County, he was the son of the late Charles and Zelva Blankenship Roach. Ernest was a retired coal miner for Beckley Coal Co. He was a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Glen Daniel and the UMWA. He enjoyed...
Rita Sue Bowling Tennant
Jan 17, 2012
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Reta Sue Bowling Tennant of Parkersburg, WV,...
Marsha Ann Walters
Jan 13, 2012
Marsha Walters, 35, of Midway, passed away Friday, January 13, 2012. Born November 28, 1976 in Beckley, she was the daughter of Nollie Hatfield and the late Ronald Atvill Hatfield. Marsha was an LPN at Raleigh General Hospital. Survivors include her two daughters, Brooklyn Walters and Kayden Brown of Midway; two sisters, Teresa Adkins of Saulsville and Toni Gibson of...
Marguerite Word St. Clair
Jan 10, 2012
Marguerite Word St Clair went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, January 10, 2011. Marguerite was born in Winding Gulf, West Virginia on April 18, 1920. She was the daughter of James Walker Word and Dora Tolley Word. Marguerite was raised on Oakwood Avenue in Beckley, West Virginia. She was a graduate of Beckley College, Marshall University and Florida...
Glen Dale Tabor, Sr.
Jan 10, 2012
Glen Dale Tabor, Sr., 88, of Naoma, passed away Tuesday at Bowers Hospice House after a long illness. Born April 15, 1923 at Saxon, WV, he was the son of the late C.W. and Arizona Massey Tabor. Glen was the owner/operator of the former Tabor Supermarket. He was a member of Masonic Lodge # 62 in Whitesville, member of the...
Mildred Kathleen Cox
Jan 9, 2012
Psalm 116:15 “Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints.” Mildred Kathleen Cox, 86, of Beckley, passed away Monday, January 9, 2012 at Bowers Hospice House. Born April 14, 1925 at Lillybrook, WV, she was the daughter of the late James and Lois Griffith Whitely. Mildred was a member of Memorial Baptist Church where she...
Arless Ward Cozart
Jan 8, 2012
Arless Ward Cozart, 90, of Fairdale, WV, passed away Sunday, January 8, 2012 at Bowers Hospice House. Born April 21, 1921 at Tipple, WV, he was the son of the late Robert T. and Sarah Evelyn Poke Cozart. Arless was a former coal miner retiring from Slab Fork Coal Co. He had been a member of the Akers Baptist Church...
Robert J. Williams
Jan 7, 2012
Robert J. Williams, 82, of Beckley, died Saturday, January 7, 2012 at Raleigh General Hospital after a short illness. Born October 2, 1929 in Wilkes-Barre, PA, he was the son of the late William G. and Margaret Smith Williams. He was a resident of Beckley since 1970. Mr. Williams was a retired Senior Master Sergeant (USAF) with over 23 years...
Ina Lucille Maples
Jan 2, 2012
Ina Lucille Eye Maples, 85, of Beckley, passed away Monday, January 2, 2012 at a local hospital following a short illness. Born August 11, 1926 in Beckley, she was the daughter of the late John W. and Gertrude Richmond Eye. Ina was a former secretary for the president of the Raleigh County National Bank and secretary at the John W....
Robert Ronald Sexton
Jan 2, 2012
Robert Ronald “Red” Sexton, 65, of Marion, VA, passed away at his residence. Monday, January 2, 2012. He was born in Fireco, WV to the late Stanley Edward and Dora Marie Adkins Sexton. He was preceded in death by one daughter, Ginger Marie Johnson of Chatsworth, GA, a brother, Roy Lee Sexton, a niece as he called her Robin “Bird”...
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