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Phyllis Jean Fiedler
Jul 8, 2012
Phyllis Jean Fiedler age 58 of Galax, Virginia passed away Sunday, July 8, 2012 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Phyllis was born in Grayson County, Virginia on September 1, 1953 to John Wayne and Helen Isom Leath. In addition to her mother Helen Marshall of Galax, Virginia she is survived by her daughter Sherry Ann Fiedler of Anderson, South...
Gary Allen Freeman
Jul 8, 2012
Gary Allen Freeman age 70 of Fries, Virginia passed away Sunday, July 8, 2012 at his home. Mr. Freeman was born in Grayson County, Virginia on December 22, 1941 to Elmer Luther and Barbara Susan Shupe Freeman. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by a sister Vickie Funk. He is survived by his daughter Susie Elaine...
Billy David Jones
Jul 7, 2012
Billy David Jones age 88 of Fries, Virginia passed away Saturday, July 7, 2012 in the Waddell Nursing Home. Mr. Jones was born in Wythe County, Virginia on July 10, 1923 to Josiah Showalter and Arena Duncan Jones. He is survived by his wife Ruth L. Jones of Fries, Virginia; children and spouses Diane & Duane Brown; Mary Lee &...
William John Trimble
Jul 6, 2012
William John Trimble better known as Bill Trimble age 89 of Galax, Virginia passed away Friday, July 6, 2012 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Mr. Trimble was born on March 30, 1923 in Fries, Virginia to Captain John and Mildred Davis Trimble. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife Beulah G. Trimble. He...
Lula Hooven Semones
Jul 4, 2012
Lula Hooven Semones age 76 of Trenton, North Carolina passed away Wednesday, July 4, 2012 at the home of her daughter in Kinston, North Carolina. Mrs. Semones was born in West Virginia on January 9, 1936 to William E. and Fredith Louise Price Hooven. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband James Nelson Semones;...
Noah (N. H.) Hershel Johnson
Jun 29, 2012
Noah Hershel Johnson, also known as N. H. Johnson, age 77, passed away Friday, June 30, 2012 at his residence in Independence. Noah was born July 21, 1934 in Baywood Virginia to Hershel & Leota Snow Johnson. In addition to his parents, his wife Mary Lou Pugh Johnson preceded him in death. Noah is survived by three sons & daughters-in-law:...
Ardith Etta Stanley Nuckles
Jun 29, 2012
Ardith Etta Stanley Nuckles, 89, passed away at her home on June 29, 2012. Born in Carroll County, Saturday, February 3, 1923 to James Estel and Mary Etta Stanley. She is survived by her loving husband of 69 years Forest E. Nuckles, her children, daughter and son-in-law Judie & Sheldon Gauvreau of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, son and daughter-in-law Jerry &...
Pauline Ardean Hawks
Jun 28, 2012
Pauline Ardean Hawks age 90 of Galax, Virginia passed away Thursday, June 28, 2012 in the Twin County Regional Hospital. Mrs. Hawks was born in Carroll County, Virginia on May 21, 1922 to Troy Calvin and Ada Leona Lowe Rippey. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband Lonnie B. Hawks. She is survived by...
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...
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