Local obituaries for the Gate City, Virginia area
Shelby Thacker
May 13, 2015
Shelby Joyce Thacker – Kingsport, TN Shelby Joyce Thacker, 68, Kingsport, TN entered into rest at Holston Valley Medical Center May 13, 2015. She was born in Virginia May 19, 1946 and was the daughter of Fritz and Effie Cox McAmis. She was a homemaker. In addition to her parents; a sister, Betty Sue McAmis and a brother, Richard Frank...
Alice Powres
May 12, 2015
Alice Sue (Hobbs) Powers, 74, of Santa Clarita, California, passed away peacefully Tuesday, May 12, 2015. She was born on Oct. 3, 1940, to John and Letha (Starnes) Hobbs in Scott County, Virginia. She was a former resident of Franklin, Indiana. Sue is preceded in death by her parents; husband Omar Powers; son Timothy Powers; and brothers Edgar Hobbs, Eugene...
Harlan Kyle "H.K." Templeton
May 6, 2015
Harlan Kyle Templeton, 79, of Maryville TN, formerly of Kingsport, TN passed away Wednesday May 6th at home. Born and raised in the Copper Creek community in Gate City, Va. H.K., as his friends and family called him, will be remembered as a loving father, husband and a great friend to many. He is preceded in death by his wife...
Patricia Hubble
May 3, 2015
Patricia Dorton Hubble – Salem, VA Patricia Dorton Hubble, 74 of Salem, VA passed away, Sunday, May 3, 2015.Born in Scott County, VA; she was the daughter of the late Lester and Margaret Dorton. Along with her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Homer “Pete” Hubble, brothers, Lester Dorton, Johnnie Dorton and Jackie Lynn Dorton; and a...
Cline Cecil Strong
May 2, 2015
Cline Strong – Nickelsville, VA Cline Cecil Strong, 77, Nickelsville, VA passed away, Saturday, May 02, 2015 at his residence after a lengthy illness. Mr. Strong was born in Scott County, VA on March 30, 1938. He was the son of the late Charlie Issac and Gladys Salyers Strong. He retired from Pilot Oil Company in 2001 and loved to...
Elizabeth Falin
May 2, 2015
Frances Falin – Kingsport, TN Elizabeth Frances Falin, 73, Kingsport, TN entered into rest, Saturday, May 2, 2015. Mrs. Falin was born in Sullivan County, TN on November 27, 1941. She was the daughter of the Henry Jerome and Gladys Legge Farmer. Frances loved working in her flower garden and baking and cooking for family. She loved her family and...
William Edwin Herron
Apr 30, 2015
William Edwin Herron – Gate City, VA William Edwin Herron, 82, Gate City, VA passed away, Thursday, April 30, 2015 at Indian Path Medical Center. Mr. Herron was born in Scott County, VA on November 18, 1932. He was a son of the late Kelly and Martha Herron. He was a veteran of the United States Army serving in the...
Patsy Franklin
Apr 29, 2015
Patsy Franklin – Gate City, VA Patsy Carol Franklin, 66, Gate City, VA entered Heaven, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at Indian Path Medical Center, Kingsport, TN. Pasty was born in Scott County, VA on September 23, 1948. She was the daughter of the late Ralph and Vernie Gibson Smith. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. Her...
Martha Roberts
Apr 28, 2015
Martha Lynn Minnich Roberts – Johnson City, TN Martha Lynn Minnich Roberts, 74, of Johnson City, Tennessee, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, at the Johnson City Medical Center, after a long illness. She was born in Gate City, Virginia, and the daughter of the late Robert L. Minnich, Sr. and Reba Bellamy Minnich of Gate City, Virginia....
Cecil Williams
Apr 19, 2015
Cecil Williams – Dryden, VA Cecil Williams, 88, passed away, Sunday, April 19, 2015 at the Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN. Mr. Williams was born in Scott County, VA on July 24, 1926 to the late Kelly and Della Sloan Williams. In addition to his parents; his brothers, Kermit Williams, Cleo Williams and sister, Mozella Williams preceded him...
James Edward Francisco Jr.
Apr 16, 2015
James Francisco – Nickelsville, VA James Edward Francisco, Jr., 79, passed away, Thursday, April 16, 2015 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center, Kingsport, TN. Mr. Francisco was born in Scott County, VA on September 20, 1935. He was the son of the late James Edward, Sr. and Ethel Fugate Francisco. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, was...
Betty Williams
Apr 15, 2015
Betty Jo Williams – Gate City, VA Betty Jo Williams, 76, Yuma community of Gate City, VA passed away, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at her residence with her family by her side. Born in Russell County, VA on May 17, 1938, she was a daughter of the late Clarence and Bertha Hess Morrison. Betty was retired from Tri-City Linen and...
Marquita Yvonne Graham (Bays)
Apr 11, 2015
Marquita Bays Graham – Kingsport, TN Marquita Yvonne Bays Graham, 45, Kingsport, TN passed away, Saturday, April 11, 2015 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Marquita was born in Sullivan County, Tennessee on August 29, 1969, the daughter of Larry Junior Bays and Patricia Blair Bays Gosnell. Her maternal grandparents, Robert Edward Blair and Willie Ruth Frazier Blair Quillen and...
Douglas Junior "Junior" Graham
Apr 11, 2015
Junior Graham – Gate City, VA Douglas Junior Graham, 46, Gate City, VA passed away, Saturday, April 11, 2015 at his residence. Junior was born in Sullivan County, VA on December 17, 1969. In addition to his grandparents, his brothers, Thomas and Jessie Graham preceded him in death. He is survived by his daughter, Tracy Ann Graham, Gate City, VA;...
Pauline Bumbalough
Apr 10, 2015
Pauline Bumbalough – Duffield, VA Pauline Fritz Bumbalough, 77, Duffield, VA passed away, Friday, April 10, 2015 at her residence. Mrs. Bumbalough was born in Scott County, VA on January 24, 1938; daughter of the late Will and Gracie Lane Fritz. In addition to her parents, her husband, Edward Bumbalough; her first husband and father of her children, William “Hubert”...
Earl Fugate Palmer
Apr 10, 2015
Earl Palmer – Duffield, VA Earl Fugate Palmer, 78, Duffield, VA passed away, Friday, April 10, 2015 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical Center. Mr. Palmer was born in Scott County, VA on May 20, 1936 the son of the late Roy Stephenson Palmer, Sr. and the late Eliza Jenkins Palmer. Earl was retired from B&B Manufacturing and was a member...
Robert Glenmore "Buck" Jennings
Apr 9, 2015
Buck Jennings – Gate City, VA Robert Glenmore “Buck” Jennings, 57, Gate City, VA passed away, Thursday, April 9, 2015 at Wellmont Holston Valley Medical after a brief illness. Buck was born in Scott County, VA on November 16, 1957 to the late Robert “Bob” and Betty Craft Jennings. Surviving is his wife, Caroline Frank Jennings, Gate City, VA; daughter,...
Nannie Hash
Apr 9, 2015
Nannie Elizabeth Hash – Duffield, VA Nannie Elizabeth Hash, 83, Duffield, VA passed away, Thursday, April 9, 2015 at her residence with her family by her side. Nannie was born in Scott County, VA on September 8, 1931; the daughter of the late Ernest and Emmer Bowen. Her first husband, Ray Calton, second husband, Raymond Hash; grandsons, Robbie Jones and...
James Kelly "Rudy" Tipton
Apr 8, 2015
Rudy Tipton – Weber City, VA James Kelly “Rudy” Tipton, 77, Weber City, VA passed away, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at Indian Path Medical Center. Rudy was born in Scott County, VA on February 6, 1938 to the late Kelly Doctor and Lillie Mae Kinkead Tipton. In addition to his parents, his brothers, Fred, Charles, Junior Lee, and Edward “Doc”...
James Elmer Dorton
Apr 4, 2015
“For I am meek and lowly in heart” Matthew 11:29 James Elmer Dorton went home to be with his Savior on April 4, 2015. He was born on April 3, 1922, as the son of Laura Fletcher and George Dorton, and he died the child of a King. Although Elmer was uneducated in the eyes of man, he was wise...
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