Dove, Claudine Gertrude

Claudine Gertrude Dove, 92 , of Blacksburg, died Saturday, May 24, 2008, at Montgomery Regional Hospital.

She was born in Mill Creek Valley, Va. on May 26, 1916 to the late John William Jackson and Della Maude Doss Dove. She was also preceded in death by her husband, John Howard Dove and a son, Howard MacArthur Dove.

She is survived by her daughter, Carolyn Dove and special friend, Michael Mullins, of Wytheville; two sons and daughter-in-law, Carl E. and Ellen Dove, of Floyd, Ronald J. Dove; and special friend Betty Ratcliffe, of Blacksburg; two sisters and brother-in-law, Juanita and June Dove, of Blacksburg, Blanche Bates, of Arkansas; ten grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 at 2 p.m. in the McCoy Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jimmy Kittinger officiating. Interment will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens Christiansburg. Friends may call anytime after 12 noon Monday, and the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday evening at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive SW., Blacksburg.