Local obituaries for the Gate City, Virginia area
James Lonnie Dockery
Dec 27, 2020
James L. Dockery – Ft. Blackmore, VA James Lonnie Dockery, 83, Ft. Blackmore, VA passed away, Sunday, December 27, 2020 at his residence surrounded by his family. James was born in Scott County, VA on March 4, 1937 and was the son of the late Brownie Logan and Mattie Ann (Hensley) Dockery. In addition to his parents, his wife, Maxie...
Gertrude Addington (Smith)
Dec 26, 2020
Gertrude S. Addington – Gate City, VA Gertrude (Smith) Addington, 97, Gate City, VA passed away, Saturday, December 26, 2020 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Born in Scott County, VA on March 22, 1923, she was the daughter of the late Emmett M. and Kate (Addington) Smith. Mrs. Addington was a member of Addington Frame Primitive Baptist Church. In...
H.L. McConnell
Dec 26, 2020
H. L. McConnell – Gate City, VA H.L. McConnell, 93, Gate City, VA passed away, Saturday, December 26, 2020 at his residence. H.L. was born in Scott County, VA on January 15, 1927 and was the son of the late Lawrence and Oshia (Davidson) McConnell. He was a veteran of the United States Navy and was retired from A &...
Truman L. Casteel
Dec 25, 2020
Truman Lee Casteel “We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord” 2 Cor. 5:8 Truman Lee Casteel, 82, from the Hiltons community, went to be with the Lord on Christmas morning, December 25, 2020. Truman was a resident of Scott County, VA most of his life. He...
Alma Bowen (Bledsoe)
Dec 24, 2020
Alma B Bowen Alma Bernice Bledsoe Bowen, 92, of Duffield, Virginia born on July 16, 1928, passed away Thursday, December 24, 2020. Born in 1928, Alma graduated from Fairview High School as a premier member of the basketball team before attending Radford College and later the University of Virginia, where she graduated at the top of her class while pioneering...
Georgia Myrtle Baldwin
Dec 22, 2020
Georgia M. Baldwin – Gate City, VA Georgia Myrtle Baldwin, 82, Gate City, VA strolled into Heaven, Tuesday, December 22, 2020 with her family by her side. Her testimony can be best described by the words from her favorite song “I Just Want to Thank You Lord”. Georgia was a loving mother, granny, caregiver, and foster mother to so many...
Huey Shirell Hass
Dec 20, 2020
Huey Shirell Hass- Rye Cove, VA “To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” 2 Cor. 5:8 Huey Shirell Hass, 77, Rye Cove Community, went to Heaven cradled in the arms of Jesus and surrounded by family on Sunday, December 20, 2020. Shirell was born November 24, 1943 to the late Clifford H. Hass and...
Ted Wilson Ross
Dec 20, 2020
Ted Ross – Dungannon, VA Ted Wilson Ross, 78, Dungannon, VA passed away, Sunday, December 20, 2020 at NOVA Health and Rehab, Weber City, VA. Ted was born in Scott County, VA on June 10, 1942, and was the son of the late Wilson and Lakie (Presley) Ross. He was a 1961 graduate of Dungannon High School. He retired from...
Lynn "Granny" Thacker
Dec 19, 2020
Emma Lillian Thacker, Gate City, VA Emma Lillian (Lynn) “Granny” Thacker, 74, of Gate City, VA, passed away on Saturday, December 19, 2020 at her residence. Emma was born in Hill Station, VA on May 26, 1946 to the late Clinton Cumbo and Evelyn (Ramey) Cumbo. In addition to her parents, her first husband, Billy Ray Gibson; grandparents who raised...
Phil "Wishbone" Bishop
Dec 18, 2020
Phil Bishop, Duffield, VA Phil (Wishbone) Bishop, 71, of Duffield, VA passed away on Friday, December 18, 2020 at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital. He was born in Sullivan county, TN on May 31, 1949 to the late Dewey Clint and Lula Mae (Stacy) Bishop. He worked at Eastman Chemical Company for 32 years before retiring in 2001. He worked as...
Reba Nell Kilgore (Culbertson)
Dec 18, 2020
Reba Nell Kilgore. – Weber City, VA Reba Nell Kilgore, 90, entered into rest on Friday, December, 18, 2020 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Reba was born in Scott County, VA on January 8, 1930 to the late Onza Scott and Lillian Mae (Harris) Culbertson. In addition to her parents, her husband James A. Kilgore, Sr. preceded her in...
Mark Anthony Gilreath
Dec 17, 2020
Mark Anthony Gilreath – Gate City, VA Mark A. Gilreath, 54, Gate City, VA went to be with the Lord unexpectedly at his home early in the morning Thursday, December 17, 2020. Mark was born in Scott County, VA on February 26, 1966, the youngest of 12 children to the late Howard and Ethel Gilreath. In additions to his parents;...
Gerald Ray Lane
Dec 10, 2020
Gerald R. Lane, 82, Gate City, VA passed away, Thursday, December 10, 2020, at Nova Health and Rehab in Weber City, VA. Born in Scott County, VA on August 27, 1938, he was the son of the late Andrew and Lola Jennings Lane. As a young man he left from Scott County to work in Haymarket, VA as well as...
Loretta Jewell Damon (Blankenbeckler)
Dec 7, 2020
Loretta Jewell (Blankenbeckler) Damon Loretta Jewell (Blankenbeckler) Damon, 78, Gate City, VA passed away, Monday, December 7, 2020, at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, TN. Born in Scott County, VA on January 21, 1942, she was the daughter of the late Annis Blankenbeckler. Loretta graduated from Gate City High School in 1960. She met and married her husband,...
Sarah Belle Sanders (Pierson)
Dec 6, 2020
Sarah Belle Sanders – Weber City, VA Sarah Belle Sanders, 96, Weber City, VA flew away to be with the Lord on Sunday, December 6, 2020. Sarah was born in Scott County, VA on April 9, 1924, to the late Clark and Ida Viola (Barnette) Pierson. In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Oral...
Robert Clyde "R.C." Greear
Dec 5, 2020
R.C. Greear – Nickelsville, VA Robert Clyde “R.C.” Greear, 57, Nickelsville, VA passed away, Saturday, December 5, 2020 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. R.C. was born in Sullivan County, TN on June 5, 1963 and was the son of Shelby (Brickey) Greear and the late Robert Napoleon Greear. He retired from Portolla Packaging, Kingsport, TN. An avid musician, he...
Margaret Nancy Owens
Dec 4, 2020
Margaret Nancy Owens, Gate City, VA Margaret Nancy Owens, 69, Gate City, VA went home to be with the Lord on Friday, December 4, 2020 after a brief illness with cancer at Nova Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mom left her testimony so many times of her being ready to go home. She loved to sing for the Lord and went...
Clyde Emma Rhoton (Tipton)
Dec 3, 2020
Mrs. Clyde Emma Rhoton, Kingsport, TN Mrs. Clyde Emma Rhoton, 78, of Kingsport, TN passed away on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at Life Care Center of Gray. She was born on January 5, 1942 in Scott County, VA to the late George Washington and Ida Mae (Darnell) Rhoton. In addition to her parents, her husband, Bobby Lee Rhoton; sons, Rickey...
Cartelene Gillenwater
Dec 1, 2020
Cartelene Gillenwater – Kingsport, TN Cartelene Gillenwater, 83, Kingsport, TN, passed away Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at the Wexford House, Kingsport TN. She was born in Indiana on March 5, 1937 to the late Stephen Carter Moneymaker and Mary Italy Gray. In addition to her parents; her husband, Christopher Gillenwater; her sister, Kelsey Moneymaker Clark preceded her in death. She...
Wilbur Carl Craft
Nov 30, 2020
Wilbur Carl Craft Sr., Gate City, VA Wilbur Craft, 92, of Gate City, VA passed away on Monday November 30, 2020. Wilbur was born in Scott County, VA on May 4, 1928 to the late Emmett Milton and Maxie Lillian Carter Craft. In addition to his parents; his granddaughter, Dina Sherie Craft ; first wife, Jessie Addington Craft preceded him...
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