Perfater, Edith Ellen Linkous

Edith Ellen Linkous Perfater, 89, of Blacksburg, Va., died Friday, October 30, 2009, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. She was born in Merrimac, Va. on August 26, 1920, to the late John T. and Flora Pugh Linkous. She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Lee Perfater; and a daughter, Vera Perfater McLeod.

She is survived by her three grandchildren, Donnie McLeod, of Blacksburg, Annette McLeod, of Blacksburg, Carolyn and Ben Hanneman, of Riner; three great-grandchildren, Peter McLeod, Joy and Caleb Hanneman.

Funeral services will be conducted Monday, November 2, 2009, at 11 a.m. in the Merrimac Pentecostal Holiness Church with the the Rev. Jerry Sloss officiating. Interment will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Christiansburg. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday evening at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive, Blacksburg.