Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
M. Randolph G. Bradshaw
Jan 24, 2019
Randolph Graham Bradshaw entered the Church Triumphant on January 24, 2019. He was born June 29, 1924, in Clifton Forge, VA, son of the late Harry Cleveland Bradshaw and Rose Higginbotham Bradshaw. He was educated in the public schools of Bluefield, WVA, and in 1942 entered the University of Virginia where he was a member of the Raven Society. He...
William Haraway
Jan 21, 2019
William David “Bill” Haraway, 66, passed away Monday, January 21, 2019 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was born on November 7, 1952 in Danville, Va. a son of Basil C. Haraway, Jr. and the late Mary Lou Frizzell Haraway. Bill was a 1971 graduate of GWHS and served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War Era. He was a...
Nola Scearce
Jan 17, 2019
Nola Irby Scearce formally of 1336 Halifax Road, Danville, Virginia passed away Thursday January 17, 2019 at Roman Eagle Nursing Home where she had resided for 13 months. Born August 16, 1925 she was the oldest of the 10 children of William Nathaniel Irby and Mary Doss Irby. She is survived by a son Lawrence Gene Wilson and wife Judy...
Virginia Ireson
Jan 16, 2019
Virginia “Iris” Martin Ireson, age 93 died on January 16, 2019, after a brief illness. She was born in Pittsylvania County, the daughter of Charlie and Reaves Dalton Martin. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, Harry Denton “Shine” Ireson, two brothers, Dalton Martin, Clyde E.” Jimmy” Martin, a sister Shirley M. Essa, and her grandson Matthew. Survivors include...
Nell Coates
Jan 15, 2019
Nell Griffin Caldwell Coates was called home to our Lord on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Born September 25, 1925, to Horace and Lena Caldwell, she was the sixth child of the eight siblings who all predeceased her. Maggie Carter, Arlene Morris, Frances Moorefield, Helen Almond, Nancy Caldwell, William Caldwell and James Caldwell. The last of her generation a giving individual...
Betty Sartin
Jan 12, 2019
Betty English Motley Sartin, age 82 of Providence, N.C. passed away Sunday, December 1, 2019 at her home Ole Oak Farms. She was born January 23, 1937 in Danville, Va. to Myrtle English Motley and Sumpter G. Motley. She was married to David Sledge Sartin, Sr. on December 12, 1959 for 59 years who predeceased her. She attended Danville Public...
John Allen
Jan 9, 2019
Mr. John William Allen of Danville, passed away on Sunday, September 1, 2019 after a decline in health. Mr. Allen was born in Danville on September 26, 1929, the son of the late James William Allen and Pearl Hundley Allen. Even though he contracted Polio at the age of three, and lost his father at the age of eleven, he...
Ralph Hess
Jan 8, 2019
Ralph Samuel Hess, Jr. passed away peacefully at Commonwealth Senior Living on Thursday, August 1, 2019. He was born on March 24, 1922 in Danville, Va. He was a graduate G.W. High School and then went to VPI (VT) where he graduated in 1944 with a degree in aeronautical engineering. While at VPI he was captain of the cadet corps....
Effie Oskey
Jan 7, 2019
Effie Jean Williamson Oskey, age 74 died July 1, 2019 at Sovah Health of Danville after a decline in health. Mrs. Oskey was born in Goldstone, NC on April 13, 1945. She was the daughter of the late Herbert Baxter Williamson and Clora Maness Williamson. She was married to the late John Russell “Rusty” Oskey III. Mrs. Oskey retired from...
Mary Hardy
Dec 31, 2018
Mary Crittendon Hardy, age 100, went to be with the Lord on Monday morning, December 31, 2018 at her residence. She was born in Pittsylvania County, Va. on August 26, 1918, a daughter of the late Henry T. Crittendon and Sallie Chilton Crittendon. Mary was married to Garnett G. Hardy who passed away on September 6, 1979. She was a...
Robert Mills
Dec 28, 2018
Robert Lee Mills, 77, of Danville, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, December 28, 2018 in Danville after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was born in Danville on February 18, 1941 a son of the late Posey Arthur Mills and Cora Lee Scarce Mills. Robert was married to Mildred Lou Harris Mills who predeceased him...
Carolyn Shelhorse
Dec 28, 2018
Carolyn Lucille Shelhorse, 73, passed away Friday afternoon, December 28, 2018 in Stratford House, Danville. She was born on April 6, 1945, in Culpeper, Va. a daughter of the late Carroll H. Shelhorse and Lucille Taylor Shelhorse. Carolyn was a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville where she majored in history and philosophy. She received a Master’s degree...
Nancy Williamson
Dec 26, 2018
Nancy Elizabeth Williamson, 74, of Alton, passed away on Wednesday, December 26, 2018 in Danville after a courageous battle with cancer. During this time, she had always held firmly to her faith saying, “God will take care of me!” Nancy was born on May 4, 1944 in Danville, a daughter of the late William Washington Williamson and Anita Jordan Williamson....
Elizabeth Leggett
Dec 25, 2018
The weather on January 9, 1944 was cold and snowy as a young mother and dad struggled for a young baby girl, Elizabeth Herndon Wright, to have life. Our Lord Jesus looked over the situation and intervened to give life to this young baby who would come to be known as Elizabeth Wright Leggett. She married the late Thomas William...
Mary Carter
Dec 24, 2018
Mrs. Mary (Ellen) Wells Carter, age 92 died Monday, December 24, 2018 at SOVAH Danville after a decline in health. She was born in Martinsville on April 21, 1926, a daughter of the late John T. Wells and Ruby Wells. Mrs. Carter was a graduate of Martinsville High School. She was a member of Mount Vernon United Methodist Church, Danville...
Jane Carter
Dec 21, 2018
Alice Jane Terry Carter, age 92, formerly of Marshall Terrace died Friday, December 21, 2018 at Roman Eagle Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center after a decline in health. She was born in Danville on September 22, 1926, a daughter of the late Adrian Lafayette Terry and Bernice Alley Terry. Mrs. Carter was married to the late Eugene Vivian “Buddy” Carter, Jr. ...
Russell Gregory
Dec 12, 2018
Russell Austin Gregory entered into rest on Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at SOVAH Health Center Danville. He was born on July 22, 1943 in Hampton, VA to the late Clinton Lewis Gregory and Dorothy Austin Gregory; he proudly served his country in the U. S. Navy. He owned and operated Gregory Electric Company. He is survived by one brother Kenneth...
Stephen Wyatt
Dec 12, 2018
Stephen Anthony Wyatt, 48, of Danville, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday, December 12, 2018. A native and lifelong resident of Danville, he was born on September 1, 1970 to Hugh Carlyle Wyatt and the late Patricia Anne Porter Wyatt. Stephen graduated with honors in 1989 from George Washington High School and is an alumnus of Radford...
Mamie Martin
Nov 20, 2018
Mamie Love Martin, 93, of Danville, passed away November 20, 2018 at Riverside Health and Rehab Center after a brief illness. She was born July 6, 1925 in Person County, NC to the late Joseph Hugh and Mary Owen Allen. Love was also predeceased by her husband John Green Martin, Jr., her daughter Peggy Love M. Farrar, her grandson Jonas...
Violet Thigpen
Nov 15, 2018
Violet Hobgood Thigpen, 92, widow of Alwood Hayes Thigpen, Sr., of Danville, went home to be with her Lord on Thursday, November 15, 2018. Born on April 9, 1926 in Oxford, NC, she was a daughter of the late Thomas N. Hobgood and Josephine Daniel Hobgood. Violet graduated from Berea High School in Oxford, NC and attended East Carolina University,...
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