Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
David Sartin
May 14, 2018
David Sledge Sartin, Sr., 84, of Providence passed away Monday, May 14, 2018. Born August 28, 1933, in Caswell County. He was the son of the late David Henry Sartin and Mary Ema Sledge Sartin. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Betty English Motley Sartin, a son David Sledge Sartin, Jr. and wife Jane, two grandsons, David...
James Smith
May 13, 2018
James Ernest (Jimmy) Smith, Jr., 96, of Danville, passed away on Sunday, May 13, 2018 at Bright Leaf Place. A memorial service will be held Wednesday, May 16, 2018, at 2:00 p.m. at Townes Funeral Home at 215 West Main Street, Danville. The family will receive visitors for an hour before and also after the service. Jimmy was born on...
Charles Easley
May 10, 2018
Top of Form Charles Allen Easley, III, 72, of Danville, Virginia died Friday, October 5, 2018. Charles was born March 23, 1946 and was the son of Dr. Charles Allen Easley, Jr. and Elizabeth Fitzgerald Easley. He is survived by his loving wife, Claudia Carter Easley; his son, Charles Allen Easley, IV and his fiancé Kristen Fowler; his son Rawleigh...
Lucy Bendall
May 9, 2018
Lucy Charles Jones Bendall, 94, of Benbrook Farm in the Purley Community of Caswell County, North Carolina, passed away peacefully after two comfortable years in assisted living at Commonwealth Stratford House of Danville. She was admired by her fellow residents there for her positive outlook on life and her exercise walks of the halls and grounds of what was her...
Pamela Ayuso
May 8, 2018
Pamela Bernard Ayuso, age 66, of 143 Canterbury Road, died Sunday, August 5, 2018 in the Duke Hock Family Pavilion, Durham, NC. She was born on March 19, 1952 in Danville, VA, a daughter of James Clifton Bernard, Jr. and Doris Cress Bernard. She had lived all but 3 years of her life in Danville, when she lived in Madrid,...
Linda Cook
May 5, 2018
Linda Gail Hoskins Cook left this world bound for Heaven after well-lived life, filled with travel, adventure, compassion, and love, but tragically capped by a courageous battle with Alzheimer’s, at age 69. She passed away at her home of 39 years, surrounded by the love of her closest family members. Linda was born August 26th, 1948 in Danville, Virginia. She...
Linda Polhamus
May 4, 2018
Linda Holden Polhamus, 71, lost her valiant battle with cancer on April 5, 2018. She was the younger child of Edith and Leroy Holden of Mansfield, OH, born May 19, 1946. She was predeceased by both parents and by her brother Ron. Linda was a proud graduate of Malibar High School and Kent State University, after which she began her...
Mae Allen
May 4, 2018
Mae Humphrey Allen, 99, was reunited in heaven with her beloved husband, James “Jimmie” Lee Allen, on April 5, 2018. A daughter of Alpha Mae Leonard Humphrey and Henry Hilliard Humphrey, she was born in Inman, SC on May 5, 1918. Orphaned at the age of 10, she was raised by her cousins, Mellie and Dudley Golightly. She was the...
William Greene
May 3, 2018
William (Bill) Witcher Greene, 84, of Parsonsburg, Maryland, formally of Danville, Virginia, passed away on Monday March 5, 2018 at his residence. He was born in Washington DC on December 11, 1933 to the late Ann Smith and James Francis Greene. His brother, James Francis Greene, Jr., predeceased him. Mr. Greene grew up in Chevy Chase, Maryland. He graduated from...
Roger Hawkins
Apr 24, 2018
Roger Wayne Hawkins, 59, passed away on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at Sovah Health in Danville, Virginia. He was born November 6, 1958. Wayne was predeceased by his parents J.W. "Bill” Hawkins, Jr. and Myrene N. Hawkins and one sister Evelyn H. Bryant. He is survived by his wife of 40 years Vicky Hawkins, son Mike Hawkins, daughter Kelly H....
Geraldine Gosney
Apr 20, 2018
Geraldine Crowder Gosney, 92, of 8900 Old Richmond Road, Keeling, passed away Friday, April 20, 2018, surrounded by her family at SOVA Health in Danville. Born November 16, 1925, in the Chestnut Level community of Pittsylvania County, she was the daughter of the late George Hunter Crowder and Minnie Motley Crowder. She graduated from Dan River High School as Valedictorian...
Andrew Williams
Apr 18, 2018
Andrew Lane Williams, lifelong resident of Ringgold, VA, passed away on April 18, 2018, in Davie, FL. He was born on May 22, 1983 at Danville Memorial Hospital, to his parents Danny and Jean Williams. Andrew attended Hargrave Military Academy and was a member of The Tabernacle. He had a love of motocross which spanned thirty years. He worked as...
Rachel Dowdy
Apr 8, 2018
Rachel Frances Dalton Dowdy of Danville, VA passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 4, 2018 with her family by her side. She was born June 3, 1942 in Chatham, VA to Reuben and Betty Neal Dalton, who predeceased her. She was married to Augustus Dowdy, Jr., the love of her life, September 28, 1968. He predeceased her last year, but...
Emma Talbott
Apr 5, 2018
Emma Jane Reynolds Talbott awoke to the full measure of God’s mercy on May 4, 2018, in Danville, Virginia. Born October 14, 1924 in Atlanta, Georgia, she was the only child of Victor Oliver Reynolds and Emma Lucy Motley Reynolds, who died five days later. EJ was lovingly reared by “parents” Wesley Carlton Raper and Grace Motley Raper, maternal aunt,...
Catherine Newell
Apr 5, 2018
Catherine “Kitty” Waters Newell, 77, passed away peacefully Friday May 4, 2018 surrounded by the love of her family. She was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina on September 14, 1940 at her grandmother’s house. She was the second daughter of the late Virgil and Lois Smoak Waters. She was married to James L. Newell (Jim), who died on December 27,...
Marilyn East
Apr 5, 2018
Marilyn Gentry East, 66, of Halifax County and Danville, Virginia, passed away on May 4, 2018, after an extended illness. Marilyn was predeceased by her parents, Bruce Gentry and Pauline Giebner, her brother, Bruce Gentry, Jr., and beloved Basset Hound Daisy. She is survived by her daughter Jordan East Sater, son-in-law Jason, grandsons Harrison and Leyton, sister Pam Dunn, brother...
Hazel Seamster
Apr 2, 2018
Hazel D. Seamster of Rocky Mount, NC (originally from Danville, VA), daughter of the late Charles Olen & Minnie Kate Davis, went to be with her Lord on February 4, 2018. Hazel was preceded in death by the love of her life, Nelson Maloy Seamster in 2011, her two brothers, Wallace Lee Davis (Louise Davis) and Melvin Sager Davis (Lorraine...
Roy Holly
Mar 29, 2018
Roy Clemon Holly, III, died Thursday, March 29, 2018 at Duke University Hospital. He was born January 24, 1941. Funeral services will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to the Danville Area Humane Society, 996 South Boston Road, Danville, VA 24540.
Louis Stroud
Mar 28, 2018
Louis Ricci Stroud, age 78, went home to be with his Lord Jesus on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at Kindred Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina, after nearly a year of declining health. He was born to the late Stanley Stroud and Clara Stroud Cumbo on January 20, 1940, a Danville resident his entire life. On June 6, 1959, he married...
Howard Butler
Mar 26, 2018
Howard Oliver “Jack” Butler, age 89, of Danville, VA, passed away on Monday, March 26, 2018 at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Butler was born in Halifax County, Virginia, to the late Frank D. Butler and Vera Robertson Butler. He was a 1946 graduate of Turbeville High School, and served as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces during...
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