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Anita Kay Dickerson, 57, of Christiansburg, passed away Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Services will be held privately. Arrangements by McCoy Funeral Home, Blacksburg, Va., 540-552-3211.

Dr. Grant Heaton Turnwald, age 71, of Christiansburg passed away on Saturday, September 27th at Lewis Gale Hospital-Montgomery. Grant was born, grew up on a farm, and was educated in […]

Prominent Pulaski attorney, and one of Virginia’s most distinguished trial attorneys, Robert Jett (Bob) Ingram, of Radford, Virginia, died Wednesday, September 29, 2014, at age 84. Born October 5, 1929, […]

Carl Junior Hodge, 73, of Christiansburg, VA, passed away on September 29, 2014 at Lewis-Gale Montgomery. He was the last of the 12 children born to the late Joseph Hundley […]

Barbara Ann Kennedy Sutphin, age 70 of Pulaski, died Thursday, September 25, 2014 at University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. She was born on July 19, 1944 in Pulaski, and […]

Clay Patrick Ferguson, 49 of Narrows passed away Sunday, September 28th, 2014. He was born in Princeton, West Virginia on January 28th, 1965, and was the son of Charles Robert […]

Ricky Dean Howery, of Floyd, chose to leave his life on September 27, 2014. He was born in Roanoke, Virginia on August 2, 1963 to Jimmy and Dot Howery. Ricky […]

Wanda Louise Smith Jones, age 82 of Pulaski passed away Sunday, September 28, 2014 in the Pulaski Health Care Center. Born August 8, 1932 in Draper (Delton community), she was […]

Dr. Patricia Moffitt Harris, 73, passed away Saturday, September 27, 2014 at her home in Radford. She received her doctorate from UNC-Chapel Hill and was retired from Radford University. She […]

Curtis Dale “Chuck” Steele, 55, of Pulaski, died on Friday afternoon, September 26, 2014, at his home. He was born on March 27, 1959 and was the son of the […]

Patricia Saul Phillips, 72, of Riner, passed away on September 28, 2014. She was preceded in death by her mother, Jenny Kingrea. Patricia is survived by her husband, John Phillips; […]

Ruby Jane Meade, 97, of Pulaski, died Friday night, September 26, 2014, in the Pulaski Health and Rehab Center. She was born in Virginia on May 10, 1917, and was […]

Bobby Berkley Dickerson, age 77, of Christiansburg died, Friday, Sept. 26, 2014, at his home. Memorial services will be conducted Saturday, October 4, 2014 at 1:00 pm in the First […]

Henly Clarence Davis, age 90, of Woodlawn, Virginia passed away Friday, September 26, 2014 at his home. Mr. Davis was born in Carroll County, Virginia on September 18, 1924 to […]

Robert T. (Bob) Williams, 88, of Narrows, passed away Saturday, September 27th, 2014. Arrangements by Riffe’s Funeral Service in Narrows are incomplete.