Price, Louise Dowdy

Louise D. Price, 74, of Blacksburg, Va., died on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Pulaski Community Hospital. She was born in Montgomery County, Va., on May 11, 1935, to the late Jessie and Sadie Cooper Dowdy. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Ira E. Price.

She is survived by her two daughters and son-in-law, Phyllis and Kenneth Collins, and Kathy Price and boyfriend, Dallas Burleson, all of Blacksburg; three sons, Doug Price and girlfriend, Faye Keene, of Dublin, Jimmy Price and girlfriend, Valerie Hupp, and Jerry Price, all of Blacksburg; eight grandchildren, Chris, Shawn, Matthew, Brandon, Daniel, Braxton, Zach, and Cory; and five great-grandchildren, Eli, Abby, Melanie, Carnell, and Nevaeh.

Graveside services will be conducted 11 a.m. on Friday, June 12, 2009, in the Dowdy Family Cemetery with the Rev. Shake Smith officiating. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday evening, June 11, 2009, at the McCoy Funeral Home, 150 Country Club Drive, S.W., Blacksburg, Va.