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Rosa Alluria Jones
Feb 14, 2017
Rosa Alluria Jones age 93 of Fries, Virginia passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at her home. Mrs. Jones was born in the Brush Creek community of Grayson County, Virginia on September 17, 1923 to Marlie Fielder and Malinda Catherine Bowers Jones. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband J.C. Swanson Jones. She is...
Dewey Phipps Moore
Feb 14, 2017
Dewey Phipps Moore age 90 of Fries, Virginia passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2017 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Mr. Moore was born in Grayson County, Virginia on November 1, 1926 to Dwight T. and Topsy Moss Moore. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Virginia Ellen Anders Moore. He proudly served his...
Crystal C. Nelson
Feb 12, 2017
Crystal C. Nelson age 56 of Elk Creek, Virginia passed away Sunday, February 12, 2017 in Independence, Virginia. Crystal was born in Wythe County, Virginia on June 17, 1960 to Fred McKinley and Frances Ann Grinnell Crigger. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Ashley and Charles Nester of Elk Creek, Virginia; son and his companion Nicholas Edward Nelson...
Linda Hudson
Feb 10, 2017
Linda Messersmith Hudson of Woodlawn, VA passed away Friday February 10th. She is survived by her daughter Lee Anne Davis & family in San Diego, CA and her brother John David Messersmith & his wife Eliza in Edisto Island, SC, son John Messersmith in La Quinta, CA & son Champion Edmunds in Atlanta, GA. Also cousin Rexene Spraker in Galax,...
Norma Claudine Lowe
Feb 8, 2017
Norma Claudine Rector Lowe age 97 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday February 8, 2017 in the Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center. Mrs. Lowe was born on October 15, 1919 in Carroll County, Virginia to Bennett C. and Izora Stoneman Rector. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Quillon Jack Lowe. She is survived...
Georgia Almaira Lineberry
Feb 7, 2017
Georgia Almaira Isom Lineberry age 94 of Galax, Virginia passed away Tuesday morning at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lineberry was born in Galax, Virginia on September 5, 1922 to Lonnie Creed and Mae Sawyers Catron Isom. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Clarence Bernard Lineberry and grandchildren Michael McBride and Sonya...
Bonita Claudine Osborne Reedy
Feb 1, 2017
Bonita Claudine Osborne Reedy age 76 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday, February 1, 2017 in the Forsyth Medical Center. Mrs. Reedy was born in Grayson County, Virginia on August 15, 1940 to Robert Woodrow and Georgia Plummer Osborne. She is survived by her husband William K. (Bill) Reedy; son and daughter-in-law Brian and Kim Reedy all of Galax, Virginia;...
Elizabeth Lynch Hill
Jan 30, 2017
Elizabeth Lynch Hill age 86 of Galax, Virginia passed away Monday, January 30, 2017 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Mrs. Hill was born in North Carolina on November 21, 1930 to the Rev. Aaron and Mary Martin Lynch. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband James Hardin Hill and a sister Martha Lowman....
Lucian Ted Lineberry
Jan 29, 2017
Lucian Ted Lineberry age 62 of Woodlawn, Virginia passed away Sunday, January 29, 2017 in the Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, North Carolina. Lucian was born on November 29, 1954 in Galax, Virginia to Warren Coolidge and Doris Fowler Lineberry. In addition to his father he was preceded in death by his brother-in-law Gary Wilson. He is survived by his...
Thelma Ruth Hampton
Jan 29, 2017
Thelma Ruth Hash Hampton age 99 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday in the Galax Health and Rehab Center. Mrs. Hampton was born on June 6,1917 in Grayson County, Virginia to Robert Lewis and Beulah Clyde Phipps Hash. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Robert Odell Hampton. She is survived by her son...
Lillian Pauline Burnett
Jan 28, 2017
Lillian Pauline Dillon Burnett age 82 of Galax, Virginia passed away Saturday, January 28, 2017 in the Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center. Mrs. Burnett was born on February 13, 1934 to Otey and Nettie Tilson Dillon. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Clarence Burnett and two sisters Evelyn Kirby and Shirley Fender. She...
Mary Louise Luper Fitzgerald
Jan 25, 2017
Louise Luper Fitzgerald age 79 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday January 25, 2017 in the Waddell Nursing & Rehab Center. Mrs. Fitzgerald was born on March 26, 1937 in Grayson County, Virginia to Robert and Martha Wells Luper. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Clarence E. Fitzgerald. She is survived by her...
Fredrick Alan Saal
Jan 23, 2017
Frederick Alan Saal of Grayson County and formerly of Monmouth County, New Jersey passed away Monday, January 23 2017 at his home. He was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1931, in Camden, N.J. to Louise Ruth Shuhart Saal and Clarence Frank (Fred) Saal. As a child, he was active in the Boy Scouts of America achieving the Star Scout...
William Ray Sumner, Jr.
Jan 23, 2017
William Ray Sumner, Jr. age 48 of Galax, Virginia passed away Monday, January 23, 2017 in the Forsyth Medical Center. Ray was born in Galax, Virginia on February 12, 1968 to William Ray Sumner, Sr. and Shirley Porter Sumner. He is survived by his wife Connie Lynn Burris Sumner of Galax, Virginia; daughter Haley Dawn Sumner; son Brandon Sumner both...
Elwood Herman Bartlett
Jan 22, 2017
Elwood Herman Bartlett age 76 of Yorktown, VA passed away peacefully on January 22, 2017 on the Caribbean Island of St Maarten. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have been spending the month of January in St Maarten for the past 14 years and have made many close friends who have become family to them. Mr. Bartlett was born on June 4,...
Patricia Bernice Porter
Jan 22, 2017
Patricia Bernice Geberth Porter age 76 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday, January 22, 2017 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Mrs. Porter was born in New York on December 30, 1940 to Lloyd and Alice Geberth. She is survived by her husband J.D. Porter; children and spouse Terry Locklear; Christina and Tommy Webb; John Porter, Jr.; Steven Wayne Porter...
Hazel Virgie Mckenzie
Jan 18, 2017
Hazel Virgie McKenzie age 80 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in the Waddell Nursing and Rehab Center. Mrs. McKenzie was born in Carroll County, Virginia on October 14, 1936 to Ellis and Virgie Lundy Melton. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a sister Wilma Worrell and brothers Samuel Melton and Elmer...
Agnes Roberta Lineberry
Jan 18, 2017
Agnes Roberta Lineberry age 86 of Woodlawn, Virginia passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mrs. Lineberry was born in Galax, Virginia on August 4, 1930 to Fred and Mary (Polly) Dixon Lineberry. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Elwood Lineberry; son Robert...
Jason David Ratliff
Jan 18, 2017
Jason David Ratliff age 39 of King, North Carolina passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2017 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Jason was born on May 8, 1977 in High Point, North Carolina. He was preceded in death by his grandfather Alvin G Ratliff, Sr. in 1991. Jason was a hard worker and was also a handyman. He was a good provider...
Sherman Roy Delp
Jan 17, 2017
Sherman Roy Delp age 74 of Galax, Virginia passed away Tuesday January 17, 2017 in the VA Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Mr. Delp was born on February 25, 1942 in Galax, Virginia to James Sherman and Hattie Coleman Delp. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his sister Mildred Mosley. He proudly served his...
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