Georgia Boyer Anders
Jun 27, 2012
Georgia Boyer Anders age 91 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday, June 27, 2012 in the Waddell Nursing Home. Mrs. Anders was born on November 19, 1920 in Grayson County, Virginia to John and Lona Sexton Boyer. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Cosby Anders; sister Elizabeth Fender; brothers Fields Boyer, Paul Boyer...
Eunice Alverta Dyke
Jun 26, 2012
Eunice Alverta Dyke age 86 of Independence, Virginia passed away Tuesday, June 26, 2012 in the Grayson Nursing and Rehab Center. Mrs. Dyke was born on February 28, 1926 in Richlands, Virginia to Turman and Maude Osborne Baldwin. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Charles Norman Dyke and daughter Cheryl Yates. She is...
John Bassett Vaughan
Jun 25, 2012
John Bassett Vaughan, 81, of Galax passed away on Monday, June 25, 2012, at Twin County Regional Hospital. Mr. Vaughan is survived by his wife, Anne Butler Vaughan, sons and daughters-in-law, William Bunyan & Jennifer Vaughan and John David & Elizabeth Vaughan, Sr., daughters and sons-in-law, Karen Hundley Vaughan & Michael Stevens and Amy Clark Vaughan & Dr. Michael Russell,...
Tony Ray Alley
Jun 21, 2012
CW3 Tony Ray Alley, U.S. Navy (Retired) age 63 of Fries, Virginia passed away Thursday, June 21, 2012 in the Forsyth Medical Center. Tony was born on September 1, 1948 in Pulaski, Virginia to Charlie R. and Alice Vaughan Alley. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a granddaughter T.J. Alley. He is survived by his...
Charlie Junior Osborne
Jun 20, 2012
Charlie Junior Osborne age 78 of Galax, Virginia passed away Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at his home. Mr. Osborne was born on July 22, 1933 in Grayson County, Virginia to Charlie Marshall and Ora Anders Osborne. He is survived by his wife Eula Faye Moxley Osborne of Galax, Virginia; daughter and son-in-law Sheila and Kenny Poston of Chilhowie, Virginia; sons...
Jessie Lee Lovell
Jun 20, 2012
Jessie Lee Lovell age 77 of Fries, Virginia passed away Wednesday, June 20, 2012 in the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Mr. Lovell was born in Hillsville, Virginia on April 26, 1935 to Charles and Alverta Smith Lovell. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Mary June Moore Lovell. He is survived by his daughter and...
Gleason Arlie Eastridge
Jun 19, 2012
Gleason Arlie Eastridge age 88 of Woodlawn, Virginia passed away Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at his home. Mr. Eastridge was born in Carroll County, Virginia on June 2, 1924 to Joseph and Rina Edwards Eastridge. He is survived by his wife Ilean Sizemore Eastridge of Woodlawn, Virginia; daughter Linda Goad of Hillsville, Virginia; son and daughter-in-law Carroll and Phyllis Eastridge...
Carl Carlos Cox
Jun 18, 2012
Carl Carlos Cox age 71 of Galax, Virginia passed away Monday, June 18, 2012 at his home. Mr. Cox was born in Fieldale, Virginia on March 31, 1941 to Ray French and Clarice Adline Alderman Cox. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law Carla and Clark Higgins; grandson Cameron Higgins all of Galax, Virignia; sister Betty Jean Cook of...
Howard Morgan Bobbitt
Jun 18, 2012
Howard Morgan Bobbitt age 75 of Lambsburg, Virginia passed away Monday, June 18, 2012 in the Forsyth Medical Center. Mr. Bobbitt was born in Galax, Virginia on February 18, 1937 to William and Lela Hawks Bobbitt. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister Maude Hash; brothers Rufus Bobbitt; Edgar Bobbitt; Kyle Bobbitt; Ernest Bobbitt...
Clarence Douglas Copeland
Jun 16, 2012
Clarence Douglas Copeland, 69, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2012 at Twin County Regional Hospital, Galax, VA. Douglas was born July 27, 1942 in Wythe County, Virginia to Herbert Cecil and Frances Annalee Simmons Copeland. He was preceded in death by his wife of fifty years Vera Moore Copeland, his father, one brother, one sister and one great grandson. He...
Nancy Cochran Wilson
Jun 16, 2012
Nancy Cochran Wilson, age 85, of Galax, Virginia, died peacefully on Saturday, June 16, 2012, at the Woltz Hospice Home, Dobson, North Carolina. She was born in the Castleton Community of Wythe County, Virginia to the late Fitzhugh Lee "Boy" Cochran and Blanche Allen Cochran. After the Cochran family moved to Galax in 1946, she met and married the late...
Ray Daniel Mabe
Jun 16, 2012
Ray Daniel Mabe, age 79, of Galax, Virginia died Saturday, June 16, 2012 at the Golden Living-Blue Ridge Nursing Home, Galax, VA. Mr. Mabe was born April 9, 1933 to Isaac Manuel and Bessie Shepherd Mabe. He was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Christine Mabe and brothers, Walter Mabe, Billy Mabe, James Mabe, John Mabe and sister, Pauline...
Mary Hanks Combs
Jun 15, 2012
Mary Hanks Combs, age 85 formerly of Martinsville, VA passed away Friday, June 15, 2012 in Lawrenceville, GA where she has resided for the past two years. Mary was born on July 10, 1926 in Carroll County, VA to Lloyd M. Hanks and Edna Calloway Hanks. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond...
James Edward Reavis
Jun 14, 2012
James Edward Reavis, 90, went home to his Lord Jesus Thursday June 14,2012 in the comfort of his home in Galax. He was born on March 22,1922 in Reavistown to the late Edd and Zella Reavis. He was preceded in death by sisters Mary Emma Patton , Ima Ruth Reeves and brothers Paul Higgins Reavis and Elmer Ray Reavis. James...
Clara Beatrice Littreal
Jun 11, 2012
THIS IS A COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENT Clara Beatrice Akers Littreal, age 93, of Madisonville, TN, was called home to be with her Lord,1:17 P.M. Monday, June 11, 2012 at her home with her daughter & son at her side. Born in Wythe County, VA in June of 1918, one of nine children to the late Erasmus Andrew & Tabitha Gravely Akers....
Annie Faye Tate
Jun 10, 2012
Annie Faye Tate age 72 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 at her home. Ms. Tate was born in Iowa on January 7, 1940 to Charles T.and Donna Lee Lyons Christman. She is survived by her daughters Chochee Nickels and Kimberly Iroler; sons and daughter-in-law Ray Tate; Emmett and Erika Tate; sisters and brother-in-law Glenda and Carl...
Boyd Irvin Lowe
Jun 10, 2012
Boyd Irvin Lowe age 87 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 in the Blue Ridge Nursing & Rehab Center/ Golden Living. Mr. Lowe was born in Carroll County, Virginia on August 3, 1924 to Grover Cleveland and Della Cox Lowe. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his son Ronald Boyd Lowe; sisters...
Pearl I. Roberts
Jun 10, 2012
Pearl I. Roberts age 87 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 in the Golden Living/Blue Ridge Health & Rehab Center. Mrs. Roberts was born in Virginia on September 25, 1924 to James and Linnie Carr Wilson. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Louise and Clifford Leonard; grandson Terry Leonard; great-grandson Zachary Leonard; several nieces. The...
Barbara Ann Poole
Jun 10, 2012
Barbara Ann Stroupe Poole age 59 of Ennice, North Carolina passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 at her home. Barbara was born in Surry County, North Carolina on February 17, 1953 to William "Bill" and Iva Jean Todd Stroupe. In addition to her father William "Bill" Stroupe of Galax, Virginia she is survived by her husband Ronnie Lee Poole of...
Pauline Ward Robinson
Jun 10, 2012
Pauline Ward Robinson age 97 of Salem, Virginia passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012. Mrs. Robinson was born on December 19, 1914 to Joseph K. and Rosaline Ward. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Albert L. Robinson; sons Edward T. Robinson and Donald W. Robinson; great-grandchild Aiden Robinson; brother Charles K. Ward and...
