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Florence Blissett Looper, 92, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Monday, June 30, 2008, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. She was born in Georgia and resided in Jacksonville, Fla., since 1924. She visited […]

Reba Ann Bailey Linkous, 70, of Sunnyside, died Sunday, June 29, 2008. Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in the Sunnyside Pentecostal Holiness Church. Arrangements […]

Loving husband and father, Walter J. (Apple Pie) Smith, 84, of Rich Creek, Va., passed away Monday, June 30, 2008, at his home. He was born June 11, 1924, to […]

Rev. Jerry Clisby Gregory, Sr., age 66 was lifted by Angels and carried into the waiting loving arms of his Savior Jesus Christ whom Jerry had served all his life. […]

Juanita Fay Burton Goad, 78, of 3043 Hawks Nest Lane, Draper, Va., died early Monday morning, June 30, 2008, in the Beulah House, Dublin, Va. She was born in Pulaski, […]

Edith Alta Pendleton Dillon, 96, of Floyd, passed away Sunday, June 29, 2008. She was preceded in death by her husband of 75 years, Harman E. Dillon; parents, John Ellis […]

Ronald Dean Combs, 67, of Narrows passed away Sunday, June 29th, 2008 at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital after a long illness. He was born in Bluefield, West Virginia on January […]

Steven Randolph Caldwell, of Radford, went to his Heavenly home on Sunday, June 29, 2008, after a long battle with cancer at the New River Medical Center in Radford. Steve […]

Lucy Mae Wood Royal Bishop, 94, of Blacksburg, died Sunday, June 29, 2008, at South Roanoke Nursing Home, Roanoke. She was born in Walkertown, N.C., on August 12, 1913, to […]

Ayesha Kathleen Wintersdorff, 16, of Blacksburg. In loving memory of Ayesha, who left us unexpectedly on June 28, 2008. She lives on in the hearts of her loving mother, Christine; […]

Herman Donald (Don) Smithers, 78, of Christiansburg, passed away Sunday, June 29, 2008, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. He was born November 22, 1929, in Charleston, W.Va., one of 14 children […]

John Thomas McNeil, 90, of Check, Va., passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 28, 2008. He was the youngest child of Thomas Benton and Florence Aldridge McNeil. He was born […]

Garnet Earl Martin, 81, of Pearisburg, Va., passed away Sunday, June 29, 2008, at Carilion Giles Memorial Hospital in Pearisburg. Mr. Martin was born on July 21, 1926, in Gap […]

Harry Preston Hodge, 89, of Blacksburg, passed from this life on June 29, 2008 at his home. He was born in Eggleston, Va. on December 26, 1918 to the late […]

Izora White, 91, of Tazewell, Va., formerly of Carroll Co., passed away Thursday, June 26, 2008. Private family burial Sunday, June 29, 2008.

John E. (Buddy) Vest, Jr., 88, passed away Saturday, June 28, 2008 at his home in Radford. He was a member of Grove United Methodist Church and was a retired […]

Mr. James Aquila (Buzz) McMickle Sr., 57, of Pulaski, Va., died Friday, June 27, 2008, in the Pulaski Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born in Pulaski on July 12, […]