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Paul Michael Quesenberry, 51, died Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1998, at Carilion Radford Community Hospital. He was a tool and die maker for Inland Motors with 27 years of service. He was a U. S. Army veteran, having served in Vietnam. Survivors include his wife, Dianna Quesenberry, Radford; father and mother, Leslie Vance and Helen Dishon […]

Hattie Wilmer McCoy Bruce, 91, died Tuesday, Sept. 30, 1997, in Wheatland Hills Retirement Center. She was the widow of Harold R. Bruce. Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Robert R. and June Bruce, Rural Hall, NC; John E. and Hilda Bruce, Parrott; two brothers, Harry McCoy, Radford; Eugene McCoy, Rural Hall, NC; three grandchildren; […]

Russell Martin Varner, Sr., 82, of Radford, Va., died Thursday, October 29, 1992 at 9:40 p.m. in the Radford Community Hospital. He had been in declining health for the past four weeks. He was born May 16, 1910, at Red Creek, Tucker County, a son of the late Harvey Varner and Ada Roy Varner. His […]

Homer Earl McCoy of Belspring, age 74, died Sunday, May 6, 1984, in Radford Community Hospital. Surviving are his wife. Evelyn Ford McCoy of Belspring; one son. Kenneth McCoy of Fairfield, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs Al (Joann) Behling of Goshen, Ind., Mrs Ronnie (Daisy) Flinchum af Belspring. Mrs. Patrick (June) Stephens of Riverside, Ga.; four […]

Mrs Macie McCoy Pannell, 96, died Tuesday in Pulaski hospital July 11, 1978. She was the widow of the late Robert Lee Pannell She is survived by three daughters. Mrs Margaret Pannell Farmer of Covington, Mrs Maleita Minniik. and Miss Marie Pannell both of Radford. two sons. Arnold Pannell. R. J. Pannell both of Radford; […]

Stella Mae Sowers Shelor, died May 9, 1977 Parents: George Thomas & Martha Ellen (Bower) Sowers. 1909 Birth: 12-15-1909 VA. 1930 Residence: Montgomery Co., VA, Radford Independent City with husband Samuel L. Shelor. 1940 Residence: Pulaski Co., VA with husband Samuel L. Shelor. 1977 Death: 5-9-1977 Radford Community Hospital, Radford, VA but of Rt 1, […]

Martha Ellen Bower Sowers, 88, of Pulaski, widow of George Thomas Sowers, died Sunday, November 21, 1971, in Richmond. She was born in Floyd County. Surviving are three sons, George Sowers, Cambria, Er­nest Sowers, Richmond, Wal­ter Sowers, Dublin; four dau­ghters, Mrs. Virgie Swain, Pulaski, Mrs. Stella Shelor, Radford, Mrs. Murelle King, Mrs. Ada Rhodes, Richmond. […]

Samuel Lee Shelor, 60 year-old married rock quarry foreman b. Sept 25, 1905 Pulaski Co., VA. Died 11-27-1965 Snowville, Pulaski Co., VA. Spouse: Stella Sowers Shelor. Father: Henry David Shelor. Mother: Flora Nelson Shelor. Informant: Mrs. Sam L. Shelor. COD: myocardial infarction. Burial: Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, VA.

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for a 45-year-old father of three who wounded his wife after an argument early Sunday then apparently took his own life. Glenwood Thomas (Johnny) Sowers was found dead in the bedroom of his Miller Lane home shortly after midnight, by Deputies Sheriff Jimmy Quesenberry and Frank Conner. The dead […]

Agnes Naomi Shelor Marion Parents: Samuel L. & Stella (Sowers) Shelor. 1927 Birth: 10-13-1927 VA. 1930 Residence: Montgomery Co., VA, Radford Independent City with parents. 1940 Residence: Pulaski Co., VA with parents. Marriage #1: Robert Henry Marion, 1952-2002, s/o Arnold Sebastian Marion. 1964 Death: 6-22-1964 caused by peritonitis from gunshot to abdomen. 1964 Burial: Highland […]

George Thomas Sowers, 82, of Route 2, Pulaski died Sunday morning, June 12, 1960, at his home following an extended illness. A retired farmer, Mr. Sowers was born in Floyd county August 10. 1877, the son of the late George Wesley and Elizabeth Mitchell Sowers and was a life-long member of the Methodist church and a […]

Mrs. Rosa Evelyn Sowers Myers, 58, died Wednesday night, March 9, 1960 in Radford Hospital. Surviving are one son, Delmon S. Myers, Ramey Air Force Base. Puerto Rico. Two daughters Mrs. Donald Vaughn, Pulaski, Mrs. Harry McDonald, Bristol, Va.; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Sowers, Rt. 2, Pulaski. Four brothers, George Sowers, Cambria, […]

Annie Wilmer Sifford McCoy, born July 28, 1879 died January 19, 1953 Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Sifford McCoy, 73, of Parrott; mother of Hallett E. McCoy, of Dublin, were held this afternoon from DeVilbiss funeral home in Radford with the Rev. H. N. Horton and the Rev. Virgil Anderson in charge. Burial was in […]

Services for Harold F. McCoy, who died at his home at Belspring unexpectedly Saturday, were held Monday afternoon from the Belspring Methodist church with the Rev. J. L. Crabtree, pastor, in charge. Burial was in Sunrise cemetery. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. P. A. McCoy, of Parrott; his wife; four sons, Harold, of […]

Pulaski county claimed its eighth traffic victim this year early yesterday morning when Everett Maynard Sowers, 38, Dublin, was killed in a non-collision accident on route 100 between Burlington Mills Corp. and Farris Bros. dairy. According to State Trooper Carroll Tiller, the car of Sowers, who was driving alone, left the road, hit a telephone […]