Absher, Virginia Price

Virginia Price (Sis) Absher, 91, of Blacksburg, Va., died on Tuesday, December 1, 2009, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. She was born in Montgomery County, Va., on October 26, 1918, to the late Cloyd Palmer and Maude Beulah Morehead Price. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John Creed Absher Sr.

“Sis” was a devoted member of the McDonald’s Mill United Methodist Church for 65 years.

She is survived by her three daughters and sons-in-law, Hope A. Kilgore, of Birmingham, Ala., Virginia A. and James Barker, of Stuarts Draft, Va., and Bonnie A. and William Widner, of Franklin, Va.; four sons and daughters-in-law, J.C. and Kathleen Absher, of Christiansburg, Charles and Diane Absher, of Mechanicsville, Va., Carl and Becky Absher, of Harrison, Tenn., and Richard and Angie Absher, of Blacksburg; sister, Margaret Smith, of Radford; 15 grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren.

The family would like to thank the nurses and staff at Heritage Hall for their loving care of their mother.

Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. on Friday, December 4, 2009, in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dewey O. Weaver Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in the Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg.

For those that desire, memorial contributions may be made to the McDonald’s Mill United Methodist Church, c/o Nina Davis, Treasurer, 121 Woodman Avenue, New Castle, Va. 24127.

Friends may call any time after 1 p.m. on Thursday, December 3, 2009, and the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday evening at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive, SW, Blacksburg, Va.