Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
Nancy Bryant
May 22, 2023
Nancy Gray Bryant, 79, passed away on May 22, 2023, after a decline in health. Nancy was born on June 8, 1943, in Danville, VA, a daughter of the late Melvin Gray and Frances Reaves Taylor Gray. She worked as an LPN at the Danville Hospital for 10 years and spent the rest of her life as a homemaker. She...
Wade Moorefield
May 21, 2023
Wade Delane Moorefield, 84, of 138 Alpine Dr, Danville, VA, went Home with the Lord, on Sunday, May 21, 2023. Mr. Moorefield was born on April 9, 1939, in Mt. Airy, NC, he was the son of the late Tom Moorefield and Irene Bowman. He spent all of his life in the Danville area where he worked for Dan River...
Marjorie Gauthier
May 21, 2023
Marjorie Louise Gauthier, 75, of 31 Harper Lane, Blairs, VA, went to her Heavenly Home on Sunday, May 21, 2023, after a brief decline in health. Mrs. Gauthier was born on May 28, 1947, in Pensacola, FL, a daughter of the late James Howard Paulsen and the late Marjorie Louise Durant Paulsen. She spent part of her life in New...
Tommy Tankersley
May 20, 2023
Tommy Gale Tankersley, 72, of Danville, Virginia passed away at his home on Saturday, May 20, 2023, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was born on September 17, 1950, in Kingsport, TN to the late Elige & Eula Tankersley. Tommy and his family moved to Danville when he was a young child. Tommy is survived by his loving and...
Earl Willis
May 18, 2023
Earl Waymoth Willis was born on November 6, 1929, and died May 18, 2023. He was the son of William Earl Willis and Agnes Shelton Willis. He was predeceased by his parents and wife, Annie Laurie Motley. He was of the Baptist Faith. Earl attended Danville Public Schools and graduated from Schoolfield High School. He enlisted in the US Air...
Gordon Jones
May 17, 2023
Gordon S. Jones, 88, of Danville, VA, passed away peacefully with his family by his side at SOVAH Health on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Gordon was born on March 22, 1935, to William Jones and Winona Gordon Jones. He had one brother, Roy Jones, and two sisters, Margie Jones Mclean, and Edith Jones Rector (all deceased). He is survived by...
Dorothy Mcfarland
May 14, 2023
Dorothy Jane (Brock) McFarland (“Dottie”), aged 98, a resident of Pamlico Plantation Community, Washington, North Carolina, and Commonwealth Senior Living at Stratford House, Danville, Virginia, passed away peacefully at her residence on Sunday, May 14, 2023. Dottie was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on February 13, 1925 to parents William Everette Brock and Florence Roach Brock and had one brother, William...
James Lindley
May 14, 2023
James Clifford Lindley, 85, of Danville, Virginia, passed away on May 14, 2023. James was born on January 7, 1938, a son of the late John Willis Lindley and Georganna Mae Woodruff Lindley. James attended Cecil High School in Cecil, PA. He served in the United States Navy and attended Sacred Heart Catholic Church. James worked as a plant manager...
Pamela Bond
May 14, 2023
Pamela Murphy Bond, 67, of 601 Jenny Ln, Danville, VA, passed away on Sunday, May 14, 2023, at SOVAH Health Danville. Pamela was born on November 12, 1955, in Danville, VA, a daughter of the late Albert Alton Murphy and the late Violet Hazelwood Murphy. She was instrumental in the operation and success of Murphy Motor Company for many years....
June Terry
May 13, 2023
June Lewis Terry, 87, passed away on Saturday morning, May 13, 2023 at her residence. She was born in Danville on August 6, 1935, a daughter of the late James Oakley Lewis and Hattie Rush Lewis. June was a graduate of Schoolfield High School and was employed with Dan River, Inc. for over 47 years until her retirement. She was...
Courtney Jeffery
May 12, 2023
Courtney "Jean" Scot Jeffery passed away on May 12, 2023 from an unknown illness. She was surrounded by her loving family and friends. She was born on March 9, 1988 to the late Scott E Jeffery, Sr. and Charlene Tina Miller of Pelham NC. Her family remembers her as always being the life of the party, a bold and beautiful...
Myra Hereford
May 12, 2023
Her beloved aunt Tip called her “Mida” and, as the treasured only child of Ada Stegner and Myron Conner, she ruled the roost in Grandpa Stegner’s grocery store and the family’s home up the stairs. The Great Depression had the world in its grip, but that home over the store was abundant with grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins and love....
Irene Baggerly
May 10, 2023
Florence Irene Snead Baggerly, 84, passed away Wednesday evening, May 10, 2023, at Roman Eagle Rehabilitation and Health Care Center. She was born on April 18, 1939, in Pittsylvania County, Va., a daughter of the late Arthur William Snead and Rosa Beth Taylor Snead. Irene and her husband lived a number of years in Wytheville, Va. before returning to Danville...
Pauline Humphrey
May 10, 2023
Henrietta Pauline Byrd Humphrey formerly of 280 West Main Street, Danville, VA passed away on Wednesday May 10, 2023, at Sovah Health Danville. “Polly Byrd” as she was affectionately called had been in declining health for several months. Polly was born in Danville on January 25, 1950, to the late Dr. Allen Byrd and Henrietta Pauline Barnes Byrd. She grew...
Joyce Doss
May 10, 2023
Joyce Haynes Doss, 80, of Danville, Virginia, passed away on May 10, 2023, in Danville, Virginia. Joyce was born on January 24, 1943, a daughter of the late Joseph Willard Haynes and Grace Burke Haynes. She attended George Washington High School and Delaware State University. She attended South Hall Baptist Church in her early life. Joyce loved spending time with...
Dovie Ferrell
May 9, 2023
Dovie (Bootsie) Abbott Ferrell went home to her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on May 9, 2023. Bootsie was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 54 years, Aubrey Ferrell; parents Elijah Abbott and Tiller Abbott; brothers, Curtis, Tom, Raymond, Bobby and Billy Abbott; sisters, Doris Tilghman and Mary Frances Fleming. She is survived by one son Ken (Deborah);...
Mary Dean
May 5, 2023
Mary Ellen Donahoe Dean passed away peacefully at Piney Forest Health and Rehab on May 5. She was born on April 9, 1932, in Accomac, Virginia, to the late Paul Riley Kidd and Fannye Rogers Donahoe. She was preceded in death by her husband, Delbert Allen Dean; three brothers, Joseph Stephen, Paul Riley, Jr., and William Rollyson Donahoe; and one...
Olga Floyd
May 3, 2023
Olga Jane Carson Floyd passed away peacefully on May 3, 2023, while residing at Assisted Living at CSL - Stratford, Danville, Va. Born on September 18, 1927, in Ayden, NC, she was the daughter of J. Edwin Carson and Elinor Edwards Carson. Growing up in Danville, Olga graduated from G.W. High School (1945), and Averett Junior College (1947), after which...
Susan Compson
May 1, 2023
Susan Minter Compson passed away on May 1, 2023 in her own home surrounded by her loved ones. Susan was born in Altavista on July 3, 1946, to the late Troy Burton Minter and Virginia Everhart Minter. She was a graduate of Altavista High School where she was the captain of her basketball team. After graduating high school, she attended...
Elizabeth Wilson
Apr 28, 2023
Elizabeth Temple Wilson died on April 28, 2023. Mrs. Wilson was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brooke Temple, and the wife of the late Mr. Lawrence Girard Wilson, Jr. Mr. Wilson died October 25, 2014. Mrs. Wilson was a graduate of Stratford Hall, in Danville, Virginia, and St. Mary’s College, in Raleigh, North Carolina. She was...
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