Wanda Gail Jones
Apr 19, 2021
Wanda Gail Jones, 70 of Cana, passed away on Monday, April 19, 2021. Ms. Jones was born in Radford, Virginia to the late Floyd Albert and Annie Neil Tickle Dickens. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by brothers, John "Jay" Dickens and Bruce Dickens; grandson, Matt Jones; and great-grandson, Dominic Jones.
Survivors...
Martin Leo Caudill
Apr 17, 2021
Martin Leo Caudill, 56 of Dobson, NC and formerly of Hillsville, passed away on Saturday, April 17, 2021. Marty was born in Sparta, NC to Robert Leo Caudill and Wanda Lee Sturgill Goad. In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his brother, Michael Hal Caudill.
Marty was a kind sweet soul who...
Donald Edward Hensley
Apr 16, 2021
Donald Edward Hensley 66 of Galax passed away at his home on Friday, April 16, 2021. He was preceded in death by his parents, Leonard and Wanda Wills Hensley; wife, Lora Hensley; brother, David Hensley.
Survivors include his children, Amanda Phillips, and William Matthew Blevins; three granddaughters, Kylie Hensley, Makenzie Hill, and Emma Blevins; siblings, Leonard Hensley,...
Carol Ann Mcewen
Apr 15, 2021
Carol Ann McEwen, 74 of Fancy Gap, passed away on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Mrs. McEwen was born in New York to the late Chester and Marian Stachura Banas.
Survivors include her children and their spouses, Gary and Maureen Ziemba and Maureen and Tom Mack; and grandchildren, Bethany Mack and Brock Mack, Nick Ziemba, Lauren Ziemba, Ben...
Michael Benton Cochran
Apr 14, 2021
Michael Benton Cochran, 51 of Hillsville, passed away on Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at UVA Medical Center. Mr. Cochran was born in Radford, Virginia on June 1, 1969. He was preceded in death by his father, Benton Rush Cochran.
Survivors include his mother, Elsie Webb Cochran; sister and brother-in-law, Kimberly and Jeff Bunn; and nephew, Bo Bunn....
Barry Wayne Flowers
Apr 13, 2021
Barry Wayne Flowers, 59 of Ashburn, passed away on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at The Sunrise at Reston Town Center due to frontotemporal dementia. Mr. Flowers was born in Winston Salem, NC on March 26, 1962. He was preceded in death by his father, Daryl Reid Flowers, Sr. and a brother, Daryl Reid Flowers, Jr.
Survivors include...
Jerry Nelson Sowers
Apr 12, 2021
I have fought a good fight. I have finished my course. I have kept the faith.
Master Trooper Jerry Nelson Sowers, 53 of Woodlawn, VA formerly of Ridgeway, VA passed away peacefully at the Joan and Howard Woltz Hospice Home in Dobson, NC on April 12, 2021 after a four-year battle with cancer.
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Harden Branscome
Apr 12, 2021
Harden Branscome, formerly of Hillsville and Mount Airy, passed away April 12, 2021.
Bebee Branscome, age 46, his son, of Ormond Beach, Florida and formerly of Mount Airy, North Carolina, passed away April 1, 2021.
Inurnment and burial will be held at Mountain Plains Cemetery at a later date.
There will be no...
Marie H. Lewis
Apr 12, 2021
Marie H. Lewis, 84 of Woodlawn, passed away on Monday, April 12, 2021 at her home. Mrs. Lewis was born in Carroll County, Virginia to the late Elmer and Hattie Whitt Hall. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husbands, Clyde Monroe Tate and Nelson Lewis; son, Gary Clyde Tate; brothers, Doug Whitt,...
Vada Irleen Largen
Apr 9, 2021
Vada Irleen Largen, 94, passed away Friday, April 9, 2021 at Heritage Hall Laurel Meadows.
Mrs. Largen was born August 26, 1926 in Carroll County to the late James Edgar and Alta Pearl Quesinberry Semones. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband Charlie Bolden Largen, and siblings Elizabeth Smythers, Christine Patton,...
Joe Willard Midkiff
Apr 9, 2021
Joe Willard Midkiff 83 of Galax passed away on Friday, April 9, 2021 at his home. He was preceded in death by his parents, Raymond and Maggie Midkiff; grandparents, Joseph and Mallie Midkiff, and Guy and Mary Ellen Nelson; sibling's, Opal Jones, Guida Midkiff, Nancy Carol Reece, Sandra Gunter, Lonnie Midkiff, Johnny Midkiff, Jerry Midkiff, and Jimmy Midkiff.
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Clifford " Cliff" Wayne Smith
Apr 9, 2021
Clifford "Cliff" Wayne Smith 57 of Hillsville passed away on Friday, April 9, 2021 at his home.
Survivors include his father and step mother, Willie (Bo) and Jenny Smith of Galax; mother, Ruth Watson; sister, Kelly Sanders and husband of Florida; brother, Randy Dorr and wife of Arizona; special friend, Jerri Lynn Crain of Woodlawn.
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Dustin Ray Cassell
Apr 8, 2021
Dustin Ray Cassell 37 of Hillsville passed away unexpectedly at home on Thursday, April 8, 2021.
He was preceded in death by his great-grandparents, Cecil and Evelyn Bruce, Ellis and Icy Cassell, and Lonnie and Zula Nester.
Dustin graduated Carroll County High School in 2001 and Wytheville Community College in 2005.
He is...
Anna Ruth White Sharpe
Apr 8, 2021
Anna Ruth White Sharpe, 93 of Fancy Gap, passed away on Thursday, April 8, 2021 at her home. Mrs. Sharpe was born in Carroll County to the late Homer and Carrie Beasley White. In addition to her parents, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Junior Carlos Sharpe; and daughter, Patricia D. Jackson.
Anna was...
Otoki "Penny" Mabry
Apr 7, 2021
Otoki "Penny" Mabry passed away April 7, 2021. She came to this country as a military bride with only a small vocabulary in English. She learned to read and write the language on her own. For Penny, family was the most important thing. She raised 7 children by working in a sewing factory teaching her children hard work and...
Alvin Thomas
Apr 1, 2021
Alvin Thomas, 95 of Hillsville, passed away on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at Heritage Hall Laurel Meadows. Mr. Thomas was born in Carroll County, Virginia to the late Frank and Bertha Worrell Thomas.
Survivors include his wife, Violet Juanita Thomas; son and daughter-in-law, Journel Thomas and Caryl Brt; brother, Branson Thomas; sister, Gwen Kurtz; and two grandchildren....
Bebee Branscome
Apr 1, 2021
Bebee Branscome, age 46, of Ormond Beach, Florida and formerly of Mount Airy, North Carolina, passed away April 1, 2021.
His father, Harden Branscome, formerly of Hillsville and Mount Airy, passed away April 12, 2021.
Inurnment and burial will be held at Mountain Plains Cemetery at a later date.
There will be no...
Warren Ray Clontz
Mar 30, 2021
Warren (Baby Doll) Ray Clontz, 67 of Hillsville, passed away on Tuesday, March 30, 2021. Warren was born in Pulaski to the late Willie James and Margie Eloise Clontz.
Survivors include his brothers, James Clontz, Wayne Clontz and Kim, and William Clontz and Melissa; sisters, Debra Clontz Bolen and Ben, Linda Clontz Gibson and Jimmy, and Sandi...
Duane Lynn Piatt
Mar 30, 2021
Duane Lynn Piatt, 58 of Fancy Gap, passed away on Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at his home. Mr. Piatt was born in Ohio to the late Melvin Eugene Piatt and Carolyn Jean Hartshorne Kindale.
Survivors include his wife, Patricia Hall Piatt; son Carson Lynn Piatt; step-daughters, Brandy Dalton and Deirdra Michelle Shupe; and siblings, Christine Baker and...
Edgar R. Farmer
Mar 29, 2021
Edgar R. Farmer, 82, of Mansfield, Ohio passed away on Monday, March 29, 2021 at Winchester Terrace Nursing Home. He was born in Hillsville, Virginia on December 7, 1938 to the late Willie and Beryl Farmer.
Edgar received a Masters Degree of Divinity at Asbury Theological Seminary. Having dedicated his life to the Lord,...
