Obituaries
Oak Hill & Mt. Hope Obituaries
Local obituaries for Oak Hill, Mt. Hope and Fayette County, WV
Emma Watters
Nov 26, 2006
Emma Virginia Shaloski Watters, 73, of Oak Hill, passed away Sunday, November 26, 2006 at her home after a lengthy illness. She was born August 1, 1933 at Pulaski, Virginia, a daughter of the late Felix and Gertrude Phillips Shaloski. Emma retired as a teller from Bank One after 22 1/2 years. She was a member of the Oak Hill...
Gregory L. Blair
Nov 23, 2006
Gregory L. "Big'n" Blair, 32, of Oak Hill, WV passed away Thursday, November 23, 2006, at CAMC Memorial Division, Charleston, WV. Born April 5, 1974 at Paintsville, KY, he was the son of Ernie L. Blair of Mount Hope, WV and the late Minnie L. Haney Blair. Gregory was a driller/blaster with Beckley Drilling and Blasting. Additional survivors include his...
Mary K. Prather
Nov 21, 2006
Mary Katherine Lively Prather, 81, of Carlisle, WV died on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at Nicholas County Health Center in Richwood, WV. Born May 27, 1925 at Scarbro, WV she was the daughter of the late Clinton Oscar Lively and Nellie Vivian Roop Lively Crouch. She was a homemaker. Mary was a member of the First Church of God, Carlisle,...
Norma Jean Mckinney
Nov 19, 2006
Norma Jean Hickman McKinney, 55, of Oak Hill, WV died on Sunday, November 19, 2006 at her in Oak Hill, WV. Born August 14, 1951 at Fayette County, she was the daughter of the late Carl Hickman and Evelyn Williams Yoney. Survivors include two daughters, Tabitha Turley and Amanda McKinney both of Oak Hill, WV; three sisters, Kathy Young of...
Philip A. Mcclung
Nov 17, 2006
Philip A. McClung, 79, of Hilltop, WV, died Friday, November 17, 2006, at Danville Regional Medical Center, Danville, VA after a long illness. Born October 25, 1927 at Red Star, WV, he was a son of the late Allen and Clara Argabright McClung. Mr. McClung was retired from CSX Railroad with 47 years of service. He was a member of...
John A. Bodnar, Jr.
Nov 17, 2006
John Anthony Bodnar, Jr., 97, of Centennial, CO formerly of Oak Hill, WV and Florida died on Friday, November 17, 2006 at his home. Born November 01, 1909 at Ruskov, Czechoslovakia, he was the son of the late John Anthony Bodnar, Sr. and Mary Grandetti Bodnar. Mr. Bodnar was a retired coal miner. He also retired from Kropp Forge, Cicero,...
Margarett Marie Ruff
Nov 17, 2006
Margarett Marie Olds Ruff, 53, of Beckley died Friday, November 17, 2006, at Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, WV. Born December 2, 1952 at Montgomery, WV, she was a daughter of the late George Franklin Olds and Dolly Mattie Evans Olds. She was a homemaker. Survivors include two daughters, Ann Ruff of West Raleigh and Jennifer Stone of Beckley; one grandson,...
Jesse Bane, Jr.
Nov 16, 2006
Jesse Bane, Jr., 83, of Oak Hill, WV died on Thursday, November 16, 2006 at his home. Born October 05, 1923 at Sun, WV he was the son of the late Jesse Bane, Sr. and Amelia Hinte Bane. Mr. Bane was retired from the Fayette County Courthouse. He was the retired owner of Jess & Theresa's Place in Oak Hill....
Linda Jo Chambers
Nov 15, 2006
Linda Jo Smith Chambers, 58, of Watha, NC died on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at her home. Born October 16, 1948 at Jefferson County, AL she was the daughter of the late Rufus and Josie Mae Bogus Smith. Mrs. Chambers served her country honorably in the US Navy during the Vietnam Era. She was a registered nurse and worked with...
Ruby Kinser May
Nov 15, 2006
Ruby Kinser May, 82, of Oak Hill, WV died on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at Summersville Memorial Hospital Extended Care in Summersville, WV. Born March 01, 1924 at Kincaid, WV she was the daughter of the late G.S. Kinser, Sr. and Julia Belle Kincaid Kinser. Ruby retired after 23 years services as Credit Office Manager for Lowe's. She was a...
Maeola Blevins Gardner
Nov 12, 2006
Maeola Blevins Gardner, 72, of Oak Hill, WV died on Friday morning , November 10, 2006 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV following a brief illness. Born July 22, 1934 at Killarney, WV she was the daughter of the late John Harvey Blevins and Nellie Viola (Blevins) Blevins Coleman. Maeloa was a 1952 graduate of Fayetteville High School....
Helen M. Bickford
Nov 11, 2006
Helen M. King Bickford, 83, of Page, WV died on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at her home. Born September 21, 1923 at Robson, WV she was the daughter of the late M.E. and Myrtle McNeely King. Mrs. Bickford was a member of the Robson Church of Christ and a homemaker. The family would like to extend a special thanks to...
Clara K. Stegel
Nov 11, 2006
Clara Kate Zink Stegel, 87, of Oak Hill, WV died Saturday,November 11, 2006 at her home. Born November 26, 1918 at War Ridge, WV, she was the daughter of the late Harry Bernard and Sue Brown Zink. Clara was the last surviving member of her family. She enjoyed painting and talking on the phone with friends. Her husband, Jacob Jack...
Walter "Herkey" Stark, Sr.
Nov 10, 2006
Walter "Herkey" Edd Stark, Sr., 70, of Fayette County, WV died on Friday, November 10, 2006 at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, WV. Born February 25, 1936 at Minden, WV he was the son of the late Willard Earl and Nora Lee Treadway Stark. He was a retired carpenter. Mr. Stark was a US Air Force veteran. Two brothers, Willard...
Lucy M. Stewart
Nov 10, 2006
Lucy Mae Adkins Stewart, 84, of Scarbro, WV died on Friday, November 10, 2006 at SunBridge Pine Lodge Care & Rehab in Beckley, WV. Born December 01, 1921 at Garden Ground, WV she was the daughter of the late Aaron and Estle Martin Adkins. Born December 01, 1921 at Garden Ground, WV she was the daughter of the late Aaron...
H. Thomas "Tom" Toney
Nov 8, 2006
Harold Thomas "Tom" Toney, 97, of Oak Hill, WV died on Wednesday, November 08, 2006 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Born December 26, 1908 at Dothan, WV he was the son of the late John Pad and Alice S. Kessler Toney. He was a retired guard for the Virginia Railroad. Three brothers, Huey, F. Toney, Charles Ronald...
Charles E. Ellison
Nov 6, 2006
Charles E. Ellison, 58, of Oak Hill, WV passed away suddenly on Monday, November 06, 2006 at Raleigh General Hospital in Beckley, WV. Born October 05, 1948 at Oak Hill, WV he was the son of the late Alvin Harrison Ellison, Sr. and Ethel Marie Campbell Ellison. A lifelong resident of Oak Hill, Charles was a self employed automobile mechanic....
Beulah Mae Porterfield
Nov 5, 2006
A life punctuated by Christian love, integrity, and generosity ended Thursday night with the passing of Beulah Mae (Morgan) Porterfield, 86, of Price Hill, W.Va., who died in a Beckley nursing home after an extended illness. A Greenbrier County, WV native, she was born September 14, 1920, in the community of Hoseshoe Bend, near Ronceverte, WV the daughter of the...
Edith Burdette
Nov 4, 2006
Mrs. Edith Irene Jarrett Burdette, 87, of Edmond, WV died Saturday, November 4, 2006 at Beckley Appalachian Regional Hospital. She was born December 24, 1918, at Greenview, Boone Co., WV, a daughter of the late Abraham Lincoln Jarrett and Clara Ann Kirk Jarrett. Mrs. Burdette was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ. She was preceded in...
William "Raz" Rodgers
Nov 2, 2006
William "Raz" Rodgers, 92, died Thursday, November 2, 2006 long illness in the Fayette Nursing and Rehab Center in Fayetteville, West Virginia. He was born on May 2, 1914 in Camp Hill, Alabama and as a very young child with his family moved to Amherstdale, West Virginia, where his father was employed in the underground coal mines of Amherst Coal...
