Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
Jack Alexander
Feb 19, 2017
Jack Leslie Alexander, Sr. passed away Sunday, February 19, 2017 at the Danville Regional Hospital, Danville, VA. He was born on June 1, 1922, in Atlanta, GA, a son of the late Greer Alexander and Mary Horn Alexander. Jack was retired from AC Corporation in Greensboro, NC as a Vice President and was a member of Moseley Memorial United Methodist...
Emma Adkins
Feb 19, 2017
Emma Emerson Adkins of 242 Arch Cook Road, Pelham, NC went to be with her Lord on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, NC. She had been in declining health for several years.               Mrs. Adkins was born in Pittsylvania County, VA to the late James Aubrey Emerson and Pearl Mitchell Emerson. Besides her parents she was...
Helen Solomon
Feb 17, 2017
Helen L. Solomon, age 96, formerly of 607 Southampton Avenue died on Friday, February 17, 2017 in Roman Eagle Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.               Born June 24, 1920, she is predeceased by her husband, Garland Lee Solomon and son, Jerry Lee Solomon.               Helen, a life-long resident of Danville, will be buried at Mountain View Cemetery.               Townes Funeral Home and Crematory,...
Henry Lowe
Feb 14, 2017
Henry Rosco Lowe, 76, passed away Tuesday, February 14, 2017, at the Golden Senior Living in Martinsville, Va.     He was born in Danville on October 6, 1940, a son of the late Jesse Anderson Lowe, Jr. and Ruby Paxton Lowe.     Henry was a veteran of Vietnam War and served in the United States Army. In addition to his parents, he...
Jack Sater
Feb 14, 2017
Jack S Sater, age 94, passed away February 14, 2017 at. Danville Regional Medical Center. Born in Memphis, TN on September 4, 1922 to Hyman Sater and Fanny Jaffa Sater, he is predeceased by his wife, Velma Hamlett Sater, four brothers and two sisters. Â Â Jack was a 1st Lieutenant in the Army Air Corps during WWII. Following the war he...
John Bailey
Feb 13, 2017
John Mason Bailey, age 85, former Captain of the Danville Police Department, passed away on Monday, February 13, 2017, after a brief illness. He is survived by his wife Bessie Mae Freeman Bailey; his loving wife of 66 years. He was the son of the late William D. Bailey and Minnie Stephens Bailey.               John Bailey served on the police department...
James Mcgee
Feb 13, 2017
James (Jimmy) Howard McGee, age 68, of 348 Gwynn’s Chapel Road, Pelham, NC died on Monday, February 13, 2017 at the Hospice of Rockingham County in Reidsville, NC. He had been in declining health for the past two years.               Jimmy was born in Danville on December 10, 1948, a son of the late Johnny Neal McGee, Sr. and Frances Helen...
Joann Lewis
Feb 5, 2017
Joann Catherine Hellman Lewis 84 of Danville, VA, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at Transitions Life Care Hospice in Raleigh, NC. She was born on December 1, 1932 in Danville to Joseph A. Hellman and Hilda Seiler Hellman. She was married to the love of her life, L. Langston Lewis on March 1, 1954. They resided for...
Rachel Key
Feb 5, 2017
Rachel Ann Ward Key, age 84 of 116 Larchmont Way died Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at Danville Regional Medical Center after a short decline in health. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â She was born in Winston-Salem, NC on January 18, 1933, a daughter of the late John Waldo Ward and Era Mae Clinard Ward. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rachel was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and was...
Clifford Price
Feb 2, 2017
Clifford Leon Price, 94, passed away Thursday afternoon, February 2, 2017 in the Danville Regional Medical Center.    He was born on January 19, 1923 in Danville, VA a son of the late Henry Seldon Price and Marjorie Fearn Price.    Cliff was a graduate of Schoolfield High School. He was a Veteran of World War II and served in the United...
Anne Banks
Feb 1, 2017
Anne Myers Banks, 83, died peacefully at Riverside Nursing Home, Danville, VA, on Jan.2, 2017. Born in Danville, she attended Salem College, and lived in Greensboro, NC, Raleigh, NC, and Danville. She enjoyed a lifelong love of music, and sang for many church, civic, and social events, as well as teaching voice lessons. She was married to the late Robert...
Patricia Hill
Jan 31, 2017
Patricia Anne Clark Hill, age 72 departed this world after several months of declining health to claim her heavenly reward on January 31, 2017.               She was born in Danville on May 15, 1944, a daughter of the late James Leslie Clark and Frances Haraway Clark.               Mrs. Hill attended Central Boulevard Church of God. She was a 1962 graduate of George...
Walter Owen
Jan 30, 2017
Walter Terry Owen, age 74 of Vernon Hill, died on Monday, January 30, 2017 at Roman Eagle Memorial Home after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Mr. Owen was born on June 27, 1942, in Pittsylvania County, a son of the late Walter Nowlin Owen and Clara Terry Owen. He was a graduate of Spring Garden High School and a...
Barry Wells
Jan 30, 2017
Mr. Barry L. Wells, age 80, of Danville passed away at home on Monday, January 30, 2017. He was born February 26, 1936 in Farmville, VA to the late Robert Oakes Wells and May Page Wells. Mr. Wells was a member of the Farmville Baptist Church and a veteran of The United States Air Force. He came to Danville with...
Mary Payne
Jan 30, 2017
Mary Hawkins Payne died on January 30, 2017 at Riverside Health and Rehab of complications following a fall in November 2016. She was born February 7, 1930 in Pittsylvania County to the late Lillie Burnette and John Dickerson Hawkins. She was married to the late Luther Hill Payne, who preceded her in death. Mary was a member of the St....
William Oliver
Jan 29, 2017
William (Bill) T. Oliver, Sr Bill Oliver, 90, passed away on Sunday January 29, 2017 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Bill was born on September 18th 1926 in Greensboro, NC to the late Samuel T. Oliver, Sr. and Fannie Ruth Hamm Oliver. He was a graduate of Curry High School in Greensboro, the Naval Engineering School in Gulfport Mississippi, and Guilford...
Gordon Reynolds
Jan 28, 2017
Gordon Francis Reynolds of 217 Hampton Drive passed away January 24, 2017 at his residence. Born in Danville October 17, 1942, he was the son of the late Luke and Myrtle Francis Reynolds. He was a member of Keen Street Baptist Church. Â Â Previously married to Gerri Reynolds Wade, they had three children, who survive: daughter, Hope Reynolds McKay (Doug) of...
Barbara Cannon
Jan 19, 2017
Barbara Motley Cannon, age 98 formerly of 681 Lee Street and now of 600 Main Street died on Thursday, January 19, 2017 at Duke Raleigh Hospital after a decline in health of a few days. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â She was born in Danville on May 3, 1918, a daughter of the late Ocris Benjamin Motley and Eva Osborne Motley. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Barbara lived in Danville...
Patricia Bolt
Jan 17, 2017
Mrs. Patricia Collins Bolt (Pat), of Danville VA, passed away after a short battle with ALS on January 16, 2017 at the age of 73.   Pat was born to parents Buck and Pauline Collins on September 5, 1943 in Greenville, SC. She grew up in Piedmont, SC. and graduated from Carolina High School in 1961. Pat went on to earn...
Gordon Mccubbins
Jan 1, 2017
It is with joy and sadness that we mourn the passing of Gordon Elwell McCubbins (January 1, 2017)-joy that he is with Christ and those who have gone before and sadness for those who loved and mourn him.               He was born in Danville on March 6, 1927 to parents Claude Thomas McCubbins and Berla Royal McCubbins, who predeceased him. Besides...
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