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Local obituaries for Oak Hill, Mt. Hope and Fayette County, WV
Jo Ann Stevenson
Mar 24, 2016
Jo Ann Deeds Stevenson, 72, of Oak Hill passed away on Thursday, March 24, 2016. Born August 17, 1943 at Beckley, WV, she was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Willia Mae Farley Deeds. JoAnn graduated from Concord College with a Bachelors Degree in Music and while in college she also did modeling. She went on to teach...
Delma Hunley Skaggs
Mar 21, 2016
Delma June Hunley Skaggs , 82, of Lochgelly, WV formerly of Kilsyth, WV died on Monday, March 21, 2016 at Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, WV. Born October 07, 1933 at Elton, WV she was the daughter of the late Belfer Weston and Chlora Duncan Hunley. She was a Homemaker for Own Home. Mrs. Skaggs was a member of the...
Cynthia Lynn Campbell
Mar 20, 2016
Cynthia Lynn Watters Campbell, 56, of Fayetteville passed away March 20, 2016 at Plateau Medical Center Oak Hill, WV. She was born November 11, 1959 in Raleigh County and was the daughter of the late Patrick Dewey and Bonnie Ruth Davis Watters. She worked in the Fayette County school system for thirty-two and a half years. Those left to cherish...
Freda Rae Mcallister
Mar 18, 2016
Freda Rae Hutcheson McAllister, 80, passed away on March 18, 2016 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV. She was born in Lisbon, OH and was the daughter of the late Samuel Wesley and Anna Letha “Barber” Hutcheson. Freda was homemaker and was affiliated with many churches over the years. Along with her parents she is also preceded in death...
Robert Shane Watkins
Mar 14, 2016
Robert Shane Watkins , 46, of Fayetteville, WV died on Monday, March 14, 2016 at Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, WV. Born May 02, 1969 at Hollywood, FL he was the son of Kenneth Watkins of Texas and Deborah Blandenburg Brown of Ohio. He was a light & sound technician. Robert was a member of the Gatewood Baptist Church....
Randy Ray Smith
Mar 12, 2016
Randy Ray Smith, 36, of Glen Jean passed Saturday March 12, 2016 after a long illness. Born November 28, 1979, in Beckley, WV, he is the son of Ray and Christine Smith. He was disabled, but had worked in construction. Those left to cherish his memory are his parents, his children, daughter, Kaylee Smith, and son Hunter Smith, two sisters,...
James Houston "Jim" Wills
Mar 11, 2016
James Houston Wills ("Jim”), 74, of Glen Jean, Fayette County, “broke the shackles of sickness” and went home to be with the Lord on Friday, March 11, 2016, following a long illness. He was a retired chief of health/ federal mine inspector with the Mine Safety & Health Administration, loving husband & father, avid bass fisherman, and one the best...
Elizabeth Kincaid Lewis
Mar 10, 2016
Elizabeth Ann Kincaid Lewis , 67, of Scarbro, WV died on Thursday, March 10, 2016 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Born August 08, 1948 at Oak Hill, WV she was the daughter of the late Alvin Edgar and Beulah Ellen Gilkerson Kincaid. She was a homemaker. A sister, Sarah Barbara Wills preceded her in death. Left to...
Bobby Lee Conner
Mar 9, 2016
Bobby Lee Conner, 65, of Oak Hill passed away on March 9, 2016 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV. He was born in Boomer, WV and was the son of the late Robert Lee Conner and Verna Frances Toney. Bobby work for Alloy as a furnace operator. Those left to cherish his memories include three close cousins - Adam...
Billie Patton Burk
Mar 7, 2016
Billie Dee Patton Burk , 51, of Oak Hill, WV died on Monday, March 07, 2016 at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV. Born August 13, 1964 at Morehead, KY she was the daughter of the late William and Barbara Wilson Patton. She was a Customer Service Rep for U-Haul. Billie was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ...
Anna Treadway Davis
Mar 7, 2016
I know your life on earth was troubled; And only you could know the pain. You weren't afraid to face the devil, You were no stranger to the rain. Go rest high on that mountain Son, your work on earth is done. Go to heaven a-shoutin'; Love for the Father and the Son. Oh, how we cried the day you...
Howard Edgar Pearson
Mar 6, 2016
Howard Edgar Pearson , 78, of Oak Hill, WV died on Sunday, March 06, 2016 at his home. Born September 03, 1937 at Georgetown, IL he was the son of the late Dean and Irene Jackson Pearson. Howard was a CPA. He was retired as assistant secretary/treasurer for New River Company and had been a regional manager for the North...
Cora Osburn Withers
Mar 6, 2016
Our precious mother and grandmother, Cora Alice Osburn Withers, 79, of Fayetteville, WV - having believed the words of Philippians 1:21 “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” - died on Sunday, March 06, 2016 at her home. Born October 09, 1936 at Logan, WV she was the daughter of the late Wayne and Zell...
Rebecca Johnston Stowers
Mar 2, 2016
Death is nothing at all.I have only slipped away to the next room. I am I and you are you. Whatever we were to each other, That, we still are. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity...
Robetta Bragg Caldwell
Mar 1, 2016
Robetta Bragg Caldwell , 91, of Carlisle, WV died on Tuesday, March 01, 2016 at her home. Born July 24, 1924 at Wyco, WV she was the daughter of the late Robert Lee Bragg and Virginia Myrtle Darlington Bragg Bailey. Robetta was a homemaker and former employee of Beckley Manufacturing and Katie's Dress Shop. She was a member of the...
Agnes Burgess Ransom
Feb 24, 2016
Agnes Inez Burgess Ransom , 88, of Oak Hill, WV died on Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at Plateau Medical Center in Oak Hill, WV. Born October 27, 1927 at Minden, WV she was the daughter of the late Fred Herman and Dottie Ann Pittsenbarger Burgess. She was a retired nursing assistant having worked for Oak Hill Hospital and Plateau Medical...
Louis Joe Kania, Sr.
Feb 24, 2016
Louis Joe Kania, Sr., age 88, of Gauley Bridge, WV passed away Wednesday, February 24, 2016 at Carolina’s Medical Center, Charlotte, NC. Born February 17, 1928 in Oak Hill, WV to the late Walter J. Kania, Sr. and Valeria Pieprzyk Kania. He was the adoring husband of the late Betty Spicer Kania. Joe is survived by son, Louis Joe Kania,...
Juanita Stewart Rakes
Feb 23, 2016
Juanita Stewart Rakes , 79, of Oak Hill, WV died on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 at Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, WV. Born October 04, 1936 at Oak Hill, WV she was the daughter of the late Fred and Dessie Parrish Stewart. Juanita was a homemaker. She was of the Baptist faith - attending Cranberry and Bethel Baptist Churches. She...
Donald Franklin Adkins
Feb 19, 2016
Donald Franklin Adkins , 77, of Thayer, WV died on Friday, February 19, 2016 at Bowers Hospice House in Beckley, WV. Born March 30, 1938 at Thayer, WV he was the son of the late Oswald and Delphia Berry Adkins. His wife, Nadean Alice Todd Adkins preceded him in death. Left to cherish his memory are his sons, Dwayne Adkins...
Alma Sedlock Brash
Feb 18, 2016
Alma Ruth Sedlock Brash, 61, of Oak Hill, WV passed away quietly in her home on Thursday, February 18, 2016. Born November 02, 1954 at Montgomery, WV she was the daughter of the late Carl Woodrow Sedlock and Dorothy Ella Parrish Sedlock Painter. She was a 1973 graduate of Collins High School in Oak Hill. Alma raised two of her...
