Obituaries
Garland Denver Graybeal
Feb 22, 2022
Abingdon, VA – Garland Denver “Rooster” Graybeal, age 90, passed on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at his home. Mr. Graybeal worked at Abingdon Glass Company for over 30 years and was a charter member of the Green Springs Fire Department. He was also a member of Spoon Gap Freewill Baptist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Arthur...
Dan E. Wilburn, Sr.
Feb 21, 2022
Abingdon, VA – Dan Ema Wilburn, Sr. 98, of Abingdon, Virginia died on February 21, 2022, at his home. He was born on September 25, 1923, in Thessalia, Virginia to William Andrew Wilburn and Lama Virginia Link Wilburn Harrell. He was raised by his grandparents Jacob and Sarah Victoria Link and had five brothers and one sister. He graduated from...
Col. Thomas C. Phillips, Jr. (USAR)
Feb 20, 2022
Col. Thomas C. Phillips, Jr. (USAR), was born September 25, 1929, and died February 20, 2022. His parents, Senator Thomas C. and Lucile F. Phillips; sister, Rosaline Phillips Lynch; and wife, Eugenia Summers Phillips predeceased him. He is survived by his four children, their spouses, and nine grandchildren. Thomas was born and raised in Abingdon, Virginia. After graduation from William...
Matthew Shawn Justus
Feb 20, 2022
Matthew Shawn Justus, of Bristol, Va., passed away unexpectedly February 20, 2022, at Johnson City Medical Center, he was 32 years old. He was a Pharmacist at CVS for the Southwestern region. Matthew was born November 18, 1989, he was a 2008 graduate of Hurley High School where he graduated in top five of his class. He proudly wore the...
Brandon Heath
Feb 20, 2022
Brandon Heath, age 34, of Meadowview, Va., drove into the sunset on Sunday, February 20, 2022. He was born June 12, 1987, to Donald Neal Heath and Rita Creasy Heath. He was an over-the-road trucker for 17 years. The joy of his life was his wife, Crystal Bolon Heath; two daughters, Riley and Taylor Heath, of the home; three stepsons,...
Alvin Widner
Feb 17, 2022
Bristol, VA – Alvin Widner, 91 years of age, is now walking the streets of gold in Heaven where he was welcomed by his Lord, Jesus Christ, and family and friends gone on before him. Alvin retired from Westinghouse Corporation and was of the Baptist faith. He served his country in the U.S. Air Force and was a Mason. Alvin...
Shirley Ann Stout
Feb 16, 2022
Shirley Ann Stout, age 77, of Meadowview, Va., passed away on Wednesday, February 16, 2022. She was born on May 25, 1944, to the late Frank Stout and Carrie Edwards Stout in Oakwood, Va. She attended Garden High School. Shirley relocated to Meadowview, Va. in 1976. She was a member of Macedonia Church of Christ. In addition to her parents,...
Jason Nathaniel Gilmer
Feb 16, 2022
Bristol, VA – Jason Nathaniel Gilmer, age 42, passed on Wednesday, February 16, 2022. Jason was a 1997 graduate of John Battle High School and was a very accomplished welder. He enjoyed fishing, motorcycles, playing guitar, fishing, hunting, being in Nature. Jason took much pride in being a simple man. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Billy...
Christopher Alan Miller
Feb 15, 2022
Christopher Alan Miller, age 54, of Abingdon, Va., passed away on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, at Johnston Memorial Hospital. He was a former employee of Bristol Regional Medical Center where his coworkers will be missing “Mill Mill.” Christopher was also an avid gun collector. He was preceded in death by his mother, Sharron Rose Zielberg Miller; and maternal grandparents, Louis...
Mary Elizabeth Blackwell Holley
Feb 15, 2022
Meadowview, VA- Mary Elizabeth Blackwell Holley, age 100, passed on Tuesday, February 15, 2022, in Valley Rehabilitation and Nursing Center. Mrs. Holley was born in Spotsylvania County, VA and moved to Washington County as a young adult after meeting her late husband, Dallas Earl Holley. She was a school teacher for Washington County, VA and a member of Blackwell Chapel...
Marlena Leigh Thomas
Feb 14, 2022
Marlena Leigh Thomas, age 43, of Dallas, N.C. and formerly of Glade Spring, Va., went to be with the Lord on Monday, February 14, 2022, at CaroMont Regional Medical Center in Gastonia, N.C. She was a 21-year employee of the Scholle Corporation in Chilhowie, Va. and was a member of Trinity Full Gospel Church in Stanley, N.C. She was preceded...
Marilyn Marie (Joyner) Miller
Feb 14, 2022
Marilyn Marie (Joyner) Miller born February 26, 1950, passed away peacefully February 14, 2022. Marilyn lived a full life of experiences starting in humble beginnings of economic and social disadvantage living in a rural farm area of eastern North Carolina, rising from there through sheer drive and determination to a respectable level of societal participation and affluence. From the very...
Dorothy Geraldine Long Reiff
Feb 13, 2022
Gerry Long Reiff Dorothy Geraldine Long Reiff (Geraldine, Gerry), daughter of Joseph Thurman Long, Sr., and Freda Ramsey Long, died February 13, 2022, in Abingdon, Virginia. Born October 7, 1928, in Houston, Texas, she graduated from San Jacinto High School in 1945. After two years at Texas State College for Women (now TWU), she transferred to Southern Methodist University, where...
James Richard Barnette
Feb 13, 2022
James Richard Barnette, age 86, of Abingdon, Va., went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 13, 2022, at English Meadows Abingdon Campus. He was born November 15, 1935, in Richlands, Va., a son of the late Richard Kermit Barnette and Mary Alma Taylor Barnette. Richard was also a beloved member of the First Christian Church of Abingdon. He...
Carl Eugene Foran, Jr.
Feb 12, 2022
Bristol, VA – Carl Eugene Foran, Jr., age 62, passed on Saturday, February 12, 2022, in Bristol Regional Medical Center. Mr. Foran attended Abingdon High School and was a resident of the Sun House in Bristol, VA. “Junebug” never met a stranger and brought joy to the lives of those who knew him. He was preceded in death by his...
Rev. Paul Eugene Stanley
Feb 9, 2022
Abingdon, VA – Rev. Paul Eugene Stanley, age 85, went to be with Jesus on Wednesday, February 9, 2022, in Bristol Regional Medical Center. He was the beloved husband of 68 years to the belated Loma Waycaster Stanley. Rev. Stanley, a pastor, prayer warrior, friend to all, servant of God, and pioneer in the Holiness movement. “I have fought a...
Thelma Miller Mock
Feb 8, 2022
Thelma Miller Mock was born in Washington County, Va. on February 12, 1925. She peacefully passed from this world and into the arms of Jesus on February 8, 2022. The daughter of the late Dewey and Anna Miller; widow of Albert T. Mock; and sister of the late, Horace Miller. She spent much of her life in Hollywood, Fla., moving...
Pamela Sue Gibson
Feb 8, 2022
Bristol, VA – Pamela Sue Hibbits Gibson, age 51, passed on February 8, 2022, in Holston Valley Medical Center. Pam was a graduate of Clintwood High School and Mountain Empire Community College. She worked as a phlebotomist for several years. Pam was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, Ernest and Evon Branham, and Beulah and Everett Hibbits. She is...
Richard Roy Rogers
Feb 7, 2022
For Tomorrow’s Children By Richard Rogers What I seek may not be freer, But I’ll go. Pour me a dixie cup of wine, And I’ll smile. And should a tear bless a cheek, I’ll crawl back. To live another day, love another night; And try again. But today is the present’s only hope, So till then: Find the time to...
Dorothy R. Hagy
Feb 5, 2022
Dorothy R. Hagy, age 93, of Abingdon, Va., went to be with her Lord on Saturday, February 5, 2022, at her residence. She was born to the late David William Reed and Nellie Glenn Ramsey Reed on June 8, 1928, in the Bethel Community of Washington County. She was a 1946 graduate of Bethel High School and attended Mary Dalton...
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