Obituaries

Local obituaries for the Gate City, Virginia area

Ofa M. Sloan

Ofa M. Sloan

Dec 25, 2010

Ofa M. Sloan Kingsport, TN | December 25, 2010 Ofa M. Sloan – Kingsport, TN Mrs. Ofa M. Sloan, 88, Kingsport, TN passed away, Saturday, December 25, 2010 at the Elmcroft Assisted Living, Kingsport, TN. Mrs. Sloan was born in Appalachia, VA on March 10, 1922, the daughter of the late Charlie and Callie Bryant. In addition to her parents,...

Roy G. Hall

Roy G. Hall

Dec 23, 2010

Roy G. Hall Ft. Blackmore, VA | December 23, 2010 Roy Geames Hall – Ft. Blackmore, VA Mr. Roy G. Hall, 72, Ft. Blackmore, VA passed away, Thursday, December 23, 2010 at his residence. Mr. Hall was born in Scott County, VA on August 10, 1938, son of the late Goman Andrew and Estille Avie Kerns Hall. In addition to...

Russell E. Frazier

Russell E. Frazier

Dec 21, 2010

Russell E. Frazier Hiltons, VA | December 21, 2010 Russell E. Frazier – Hiltons, VA Mr. Russell E. Frazier, 87, Hiltons, VA passed away, Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at his residence. Mr. Frazier was born in Scott County, VA on November 4, 1923, son of the late George and Joann Ringley Frazier. He was a veteran of the United States...

Maggie S. Pierson

Maggie S. Pierson

Dec 15, 2010

Maggie S. Pierson Gate City, VA | December 15, 2010 Maggie S. Pierson – Gate City, VA Mrs. Maggie Lee Strong Pierson, 89, Daniel Boone community of Scott County, VA passed away, Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Mrs. Pierson was born in Scott County, VA on April 2, 1921. She was the daughter of the...

Emmett Isaac "Cub" Lane

Emmett Isaac "Cub" Lane

Dec 9, 2010

Emmett Isaac "Cub" Lane Ft. Blackmore, VA | December 09, 2010 Emmett Isaac "Cub" Lane – Ft. Blackmore, VA Mr. Emmett Isaac Lane, 83, Gate City, VA passed away, Thursday, December 9, 2010 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Mr. Lane was born in Scott County, VA on July 8, 1927. He was a son of the late Johnny Lloyd...

Shirley Ann Nufio

Shirley Ann Nufio

Dec 4, 2010

Shirley Ann Nufio Elizabethton, TN | December 04, 2010 Shirley Ann Nufio – Elizabethton, TN Shirley Ann Nufio, 58, Elizabethton, TN passed away, Saturday, December 4, 2010 in Elizabethton, TN. Mrs. Nufio was born in Scott County on August 25, 1952 to Doyle Ray and Myrtle Cleo Gilliam Vaughn. She was preceded in death by her husband, Hector Nufio, and...

Mary Frances Starnes

Mary Frances Starnes

Dec 3, 2010

Mary Frances Starnes Gate City, VA | December 03, 2010 Mary Frances Starnes – Gate City, VA Mary Frances Starnes, 83, Gate City, VA passed away, Friday, December 3, 2010 at Indian Path Medical Center. Mrs. Starnes was born in Scott County, VA on May 4, 1927 to the late Everett Bruce and Lydia Helen McClellan Williams. In addition to...

Joan Francisco

Joan Francisco

Dec 3, 2010

Joan Francisco Nickelsville, VA | December 03, 2010 Joan Francisco – Nickelsville, VA Margaret Joan Francisco, 89, Nickelsville, VA passed away Friday, December 3, 2010 at her residence. Mrs. Francisco was born in Scott County, VA on December 26, 1920 to the late Lloyd and Lois Addington Gilley. She was a member of the New Hope United Methodist Church and...

Dorothy Maxfield

Dorothy Maxfield

Nov 23, 2010

Dorothy Maxfield Nickelsville, VA | November 23, 2010 Mrs. Dorothy M. Maxfield – Nickelsville, VA Mrs. Dorothy M. Maxfield, 88, Nickelsville, VA went to be with the Lord, Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at the Wellmont Hospice House, Bristol, TN. Mrs. Maxfield was born in Russell County, VA on April 2, 1922 to the late Joseph Samuel Rubin Scott Lell and...

Lois E. Shook

Lois E. Shook

Nov 23, 2010

Lois E. Shook Kingsport, TN | November 23, 2010 Lois Elizabeth Shook Lois Elizabeth Gillenwater Addington Shook, 79, Big Stone Gap, VA passed away November 23, 2010 at the Wexford House, Kingsport, TN. She was born in Scott County, VA on July 16, 1931. Mrs. Shook was preceded in death by her parents Claude Scott and Charity Elizabeth Gillenwater; first...

Melvin "Duke" Summey

Melvin "Duke" Summey

Nov 22, 2010

Melvin "Duke" Summey Dungannon, VA | November 22, 2010 Melvin "Duke" Summey – Dungannon, VA Melvin "Duke" Summey, 55, Dungannon, VA went to be with his Lord and Savior, Monday, November 22, 2010 at Holston Valley Medical Center after a courageous battle with cancer. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, and brother. Duke loved being outdoors with his family...

Charles E. Jones

Charles E. Jones

Nov 19, 2010

Charles E. Jones Gate City, VA | November 19, 2010 Charles E. Jones – Gate City, VA Charles Edward Jones, 84, Gate City, VA passed away Friday, November 19, 2010 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Mr. Jones was born in Scott County, VA on September 11, 1926.to the late Ross and Ila Carter Jones. He was retired from Holston...

William G. Bell

William G. Bell

Nov 16, 2010

William G. Bell Pontiac, MI | November 16, 2010 William G. Bell – Pontiac, MI Mr. William G. Bell, 70, Pontiac, MI passes away, Tuesday, November 16, 2010 in Pontiac. Mr. Bell was born in Pontiac, MI on May 28, 1940, son of the late William and Madeline Lincoln Bell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death...

Mary E. Berry Taylor

Mary E. Berry Taylor

Nov 16, 2010

Mary E. Berry Taylor Clinchport, VA | November 16, 2010 Mary E. Berry Taylor – Clinchport, VA Mrs. Mary E. Berry Taylor, 66, Clinchport VA. passed away Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at the Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Mrs. Taylor was born in Scott County, VA on May 18, 1944, daughter of the late Patrick H. and Lillian Hunley Berry....

Billy Joe Powers

Billy Joe Powers

Nov 15, 2010

Billy Joe Powers Duffield, VA | November 15, 2010 Billy Joe Powers– Duffield, VA Billy Joe Powers of Duffield, VA went home to be with his Lord and loved ones, Nov. 15, 2010. He was born April 25, 1947 to James Charlie Powers and Mary Ruth Sensabaugh. Billy was an avid truck driver. He is preceded in death by his...

Helen Jean Dean

Helen Jean Dean

Nov 12, 2010

Helen Jean Dean Ft. Blackmore, VA | November 12, 2010 Helen Jean Dean – Ft. Blackmore, VA Mrs. Helen Jean Dean, 76, Ft. Blackmore, VA passed away Friday, November 12, 2010 at Lonesome Pine Hospital, Big Stone Gap, VA. Mrs. Dean was born in Scott County, VA on June 2, 1934, the daughter of the late Earnest Marion Carter and...

Paul David Somerville

Paul David Somerville

Nov 10, 2010

Paul David Somerville Weber City, VA | November 10, 2010 Paul David Somerville Paul David Somerville, 60 Weber City, Va. entered into rest Wednesday November 10, 2010 at Wellmont Hospice House. Paul was born in New York, November, 28 1950 to the late Samuel Clark and Norma Vanderbeck Somerville. Along with his parents he was preceded in death by a...

Lester Kyle Lawson

Lester Kyle Lawson

Nov 9, 2010

Lester Kyle Lawson November 09, 2010 Lester Kyle Lawson – Duffield, VA Lester Kyle Lawson, 94, Duffield, VA passed away Tuesday, November 9, 2010 at the Holston Valley Medical Center. Mr. Lawson was born in Scott County, VA on November 13, 1915. He was the son of the late John Lawson and the late Stella Neely. He retired as an...

Charles C. "Charlie" Starnes

Charles C. "Charlie" Starnes

Nov 7, 2010

Charles C. "Charlie" Starnes Gate City, VA | November 07, 2010 "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I have been fully known. But now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:...

Ralph J. Bowman

Ralph J. Bowman

Nov 2, 2010

Ralph J. Bowman Gate City, VA | November 02, 2010 Ralph J. Bowman – Gate City, VA Ralph J. Bowman, 89, Gate City, VA passed away Tuesday, November 2, 2010 at the James H. Quillen V.A. Medical Center. Mr. Bowman was born in Scott County, VA on July 3, 1921. He was the son of the late Charlie Oscar and...