M. Gladys Hockett
May 15, 2012
M. Gladys Hockett, age 90, passed away Tuesday, May 15, 2012 after an extended illness. Gladys was a faithful Christian and a member of High Point Baptist Church in Meadowview where she attended faithfully until her health began to fail. She was born on July 8, 1921, and lived in Meadowview all her life. She is preceded in death by...
Jimmy D. Thompson Sr.
May 11, 2012
Jimmy D. Thompson, Sr., age 82, passed away on Friday, May 11, 2012 at Bristol Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born to the late James Vernon Thompson and Bessie Crenshaw Thompson on November 28, 1929. Having driven for Super Service and Time DC he was a proud recipient of the Million Mile Safe Driving Award. He was a member...
Marquerette Emmering
May 8, 2012
Marguerette Emmering, age 87, passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at Johnson City Medical Center. She is preceded in death by her adoptive father, John Farner. She is also preceded in death by her husband of 39 years, John Henry Emmering; and one daughter, Carole Untinen. She is survived by one son, John Emmering and wife Chyrl of Sugar...
Edwin Johnston McCauley
May 8, 2012
Edwin Johnston McCauley, 74, passed away May 8, 2012 at Johnston Memorial Hospital. Mr. McCauley was born March 19, 1938 to the late Samuel Howard and Ethel Johnston McCauley in Rochester, PA. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Edwin settled in Santa Barbara County, CA where he retired as a detective from the Santa Barbara County Sherriff's Office. In...
Janet Kaye Hamilton Runyon McKinney
May 6, 2012
Janet Kaye Hamilton Runyon McKinney, age 59, passed away Sunday, May 6, 2012 at her home. She was a loving mother, grandmother, and sister. Janet was a "larger than life" figure, living life as if having an endless capacity for love, caring, tolerance and forgiveness. She touched lives in ways not always understood or known by others. Never critical, she...
Dale Echols Winship
May 6, 2012
Dale Echols Winship, age 94, of Bristol, VA, died Sunday, May 6, 2012 in Abingdon, VA. Dale was born in Staunton, VA on July 27, 1917, the daughter of Lemuel and Mattie Echols. Dale met her husband, Pat Winship, at the University of North Carolina in 1940. She served as an officer in the United States Navy during World War...
Frances E. Diviak Price
May 4, 2012
Frances E. Diviak Price, 81, went to be with her heavenly father, whom she loved and served all her life, on Friday, May 4, 2012, after a brief illness. Heaven now has a beautiful new angel in it's choir. She was an inspiration to everyone who knew her and she will be greatly missed. Frances was born November 24, 1930...
Betty Jane Barker Pannell
May 4, 2012
Betty Jane Barker Pannell, age 87, passed away Friday, May 4, 2012 at her home. She was born in Granite City, Illinois to the late Loomis Culver Barker and Marie Antoinette Strunge Barker on July 1, 1924. Betty grew up in Alton, Illinois and graduated from Alton High School. She attended Urseline Academy and Shurtleff College. Betty was very involved...
H. Russell Miller
May 2, 2012
H. Russell Miller, 86, passed away on Wednesday, May 2, 2012 at Grace Healthcare in Abingdon. Russell was a life-long resident of the Wyndale community in Washington County, Va. Later he was a resident of Abingdon Manor, Country Meadows Assisted Living, Baldwin's Rest Home and Grace Healthcare. He attended Three Springs Baptist in Bristol and Fellowship Baptist in Meadowview. Mr....
Audrey H. Holmes Black
May 2, 2012
Audrey H. Holmes Black, age 92, passed away Wednesday morning, May 2, 2012 at Johnston Memorial Hospital. She was a loving mother and grandmother. She never met a stranger and always had a smile for everyone. She was a lifelong resident of Washington County and grew up in the Poor Valley area. She was saved at Greendale United Methodist Church...
John T. Briscoe
Apr 29, 2012
John T. Briscoe, age 75, passed away Sunday, April 29, 2012 at his home. He was a former employee of Raytheon Missile Plant in Bristol, TN, was employed as a truck driver for Mason-Dixon Truck Lines in Kingsport, TN, and farmed tobacco. He was a lifelong member of the Green Spring community. He was born to the late Charles Cooper...
Mary Ann Jones
Apr 28, 2012
Mary Ann Jones, age 60, passed away on Saturday, April 28, 2012 at Smyth County Hospital in Marion, VA. She was born in Washington County, VA on August 29, 1951 to the late David Jones and Nancy Bellamy Jones. She was a life-long resident of Abingdon and a former employee of Harwood Manufacturing. Survivors include her fianc�©e, Curtis Musick of...
Ralph Eugene Marbury Jr.
Apr 27, 2012
Ralph Eugene Marbury, Jr., 88, passed away Friday, April 27, 2012, at the Cambridge House in Bristol, TN. Mr. Marbury was born December 5, 1923 in Edgewood, PA to the late Ralph Eugene and Ruth Catherine Burt Marbury. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his first wife, Marveen Nora (Coleman) Marbury; sisters, Nancy Lee...
Martha E. Belcher
Apr 27, 2012
Martha E. Belcher, age 58, passed away Friday, April 27, 2012 at Holston Valley Medical Center in Kingsport, Tennessee. She is preceded in death by her husband, Clarence E. Belcher; her mother, Ellen Wyatt and her sister, Anna Widener. She is survived by her father, Floyd Wyatt, Sr.; one daughter, Karen S. Belcher and her husband, Matthew of Kingsport, TN;...
Oscar Tipton
Apr 25, 2012
Oscar Tipton, age 88, formerly of Dickenson County, Virginia, passed away Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at Blumenthal Jewish Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was born to the late John & Elizabeth Tipton. He is also preceded in death by his wife of 56 years, Norma Tipton, siblings E.B. Tipton, Cody Tipton, Nannie Colley, Hassie Deel, and...
Helen Starnes Bartee
Apr 24, 2012
Helen Starnes Bartee, age 89, passed away on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 at Johnston Memorial Hospital. She was a charter member and past Matron of Counts Chapter 180 Order of the Eastern Star, and a member of Pleasant View United Methodist Church. She was born to the late John and Eva Starnes. She is also preceded in death by her...
James Christopher Hayden
Apr 24, 2012
James Christopher "Beetle Juice" Hayden, 48, passed away April 24, 2012. Mr. Hayden was preceded in death by his father, John Hayden, and several aunts and uncles. He is survived by his wife, Lillian Joyce Hayden; mother, Barbara Hayden; sister, Anita Hayden; brothers, Mark Hayden and Troy Hayden; two nephews and one niece; several special aunts and uncles. Memorial Services...
Jimmy D. Widener Sr.
Apr 23, 2012
Jimmy D. Widener, Sr., age 69, went into the open arms of Jesus on Monday, April 23, 2012 at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, surrounded by his family. He was preceded in death by his parents, Herman M. and Lillie Haga Widener; and brother, Harry M. Widener. Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 46 years,...
Mary Reynolds Branson
Apr 17, 2012
Mary Reynolds Branson, age 95, passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at James River Convalescent Home in Newport News, Virginia. She was a member of Shady Grove Pentecostal Church and an employ of Harwood. She was born to the late Everett and Annie Johnson Reynolds. She is also preceded in death by her husband, Joseph A. Branson; and two...
Rosa Lee Lewis
Apr 17, 2012
Rosa "Rosie" Lee Lewis passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at her home. Rosa was born April 18 1919 in Washington, Co., VA to the late Elihue Neal and Susie Dunn Neal. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Lewis; her daughter Charlene Byars; grandson, Billy Haworth; two brothers, Hubert Neal and Sherman Neal; four sisters, Lucille...
