Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
Irene Yeatts
Nov 8, 2013
Mrs. Irene Owen Yeatts of 811 Kristen Lane, died Sunday, August 11, 2013 at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC . She had been a patient at Duke University Hospital. Mrs. Yeatts was born in Pittsylvania County, VA, March 31, 1923. She was a daughter of the late James T. Owen and Georgianna Crane Owen. She was married to...
Margaret Poteat
Nov 4, 2013
Margaret Murphy Poteat, of Providence, North Carolina died Thursday, April 11, 2013 at Duke University Medical Center after a brief illness. She left this world as graciously as she lived, surrounded by her family. Margaret was born in Caswell County on December 8, 1929, a daughter of the late Lonnie and Nettie Murphy. She spent her entire life in the...
Myrtle Staples
Nov 4, 2013
Myrtle Rigney Staples "Miss Myrtle", 92, of 138 Kemper Road, earned her heavenly reward on April 11, 2013 at Piney Forest Health and Rehabilitation Center where she had been a resident for the past 18 months. She was born October 9, 1920 in Danville, VA to the late Levi P. Rigney. Sr. and Otha Gentry Rigney. She lived all of...
Charles Williams
Nov 2, 2013
Dr Charles Bruce Williams, Jr., 85, passed at his residence of 435 Linden Place, on Monday, February 11, 2013. Born on August 29, 1927 in Danville, he was the son of the late Dr C. Bruce Williams and Laura Holland Williams. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with B.Sc., and Medical College of Virginia Dental School with a D.D.S in...
James Fulton
Nov 1, 2013
Mr. James Hall Fulton, age 93, died Friday, January 11, 2013 at Danville Regional Medical Center. He was born in Danville, October 5, 1919; he was a son of the late Claude Kelly Fulton and Beulah Fitzgerald Hall Fulton. Mr. Fulton attended Averett College and retired from the Computer Department at Dan River, Inc. He was a member of the...
Mildred Burton
Oct 30, 2013
Mildred Collins Burton, 89 of Axton, died peacefully at her home, Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Mildred was born July 8, 1924 in Pittsylvania County to the late Charlie Cleveland, and Annie Warren Collins. She grew up on the Ferry Road in Danville. She graduate from Schoolfield High School in 1941. She married Thomas Dee Burton of Milton, NC December 21,...
Patricia Alwood
Oct 27, 2013
Patricia (Pat) Alwood died peacefully with her husband at her side on October 27, 2013 at Roman Eagle Rehab and Health Care Center. Pat was born in Harrisburg, PA on January 10, 1930, the only child of Karl and Constance Gillett Patterson. She was raised in Baltimore and graduated from Eastern High School. She attended Union Memorial Nursing School in...
Elnora Joyce
Oct 27, 2013
Elnora Earp Joyce, 97, of 58 Stokesdale Avenue, died Sunday, October 27, 2013 at Piney Forest Healthcare Center. Born on October 9, 1916 in Danville, she was a daughter of the late William Henry Earp and Gertrude Howard Earp. She was married to John Frank Joyce who predeceased her in 2001. She was retired, having worked at Dan River Mills...
Richard Taylor
Oct 27, 2013
Richard Lewis Taylor died October 27, 2013. He was born May 1, 1963, in Hampton, Virginia, and was the son of Daniel L. Taylor and Linda F. Taylor, of Danville, Virginia. He moved back to Caswell County after a serious car accident in South Carolina in May 2013. Afterwards he went to live with a good friend and mentor Larry...
Samuel Adams
Oct 25, 2013
Born August 17, 1929 in Danville, Va. Prior to his high school years, he lived in the Mt. Hermon community on his father's tobacco farm. After moving into Danville, he graduated from George Washington High School in 1948. He was active in Boy Scouts, obtaining Eagle rank, and highlighted by a two-man canoe trip down the Dan from Danville to...
Mary Boaze
Oct 23, 2013
Mary Glen Cowan Boaze, 100, formerly of Danville, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 23, 2013. She was the daughter of the late Grace and Matthew Keesee. In addition to her parents she was predeceased by her first husband, Howard V. Cowan and her second husband, Randolph Boaze; and her siblings, Ryland Kessee, Baxter Keesee, Evelyn Gardner and M L Keesee....
Michael Potojecki
Oct 23, 2013
On October 23, 2013, while surrounded by his family and friends who were graciously sharing their love and stories, Michael Potojecki, or better known as Pop-Pop passed away after a short, but intense battle with leukemia. 77 years to some may seem like forever, to some it may seem like a blink of an eye, but to Pop-Pop, 77 years...
Myrtle Dehart
Oct 23, 2013
Myrtle A. DeHart, age 96, formerly of 3524 Highway 29 North, Danville, VA, died October 23, 2013 at Blue Ridge Rehabilation Center in Martinsville, VA. She was a seamstress and was retired from Dan River Mills She is survived by a son, Ronald Taylor of Collinsville, VA; a daughter-in-law, Margaret Inman; and her nieces and nephews, to whom a special...
Pauletta Franks
Oct 21, 2013
Pauletta Trent Franks of 630 Parker Road, Danville, died Monday, October 21, 2013 at the home of her brother and sister-in-law, Perry and Jami Franks, who cared for her during her brief illness. Born in Danville, VA on December 3, 1944, she was the daughter of the late Earl and Barbara Franks. She lived in Danville her entire life and...
Carole Stephens
Oct 19, 2013
Carole Lowrance Stephens of 80 Lake Heron Drive died Saturday, October 19, 2013 at her residence after a decline in health. She was born in Columbus, GA on December 29, 1943, a daughter of the late Roy Malcolm Stephens, Sr. and Lucile Balkcom Stephens. Miss Stephens lived in Richmond until 1998 and returned to Danville to help take care of...
Katherine Grumbles
Oct 17, 2013
Katherine Virginia Eley Grumbles, passed away, Thursday, October 17, 2013 at Roman Eagle Rehabilitation and Health Care Center. Katherine was born in Victoria, Virginia on June 11, 1924, a daughter of the late George Fenton Eley and Mary Bradshaw Eley. She graduated from Thomas Dale High School in 1942 and Mars Hill College in 1944 with an Associate Degree in...
Miriam Gregory
Oct 13, 2013
Miriam Doub Gregory of Java, VA went to her heavenly reward Sunday, October 13, 2013. Born April 10, 1919 in Raleigh, NC, she was the daughter of the late Ruth Poole Doub and former municipal judge Albert Doub, Sr. She was an alumnus of both Peace College and Meredith College in Raleigh. Miriam was first married to Fred Wellborn, Sr.,...
Howard Ranson
Oct 9, 2013
Mr. Howard Winn Ranson, age 90 died Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at Riverside Health and Rehab Center. Mr. Ranson was born in Bremo Bluff, VA on July 28, 1923, a son of the late William Howard Ranson and Hazel Ancell Ranson. Mr. Ranson was married to the late Sally Rue Justis Ranson. A veteran of the Korean War serving in...
Nancy Adams
Oct 3, 2013
Nancy Foster Adams, 89, of Richmond, Va, died Sunday, March 10, 2013, at Brandermill Woods Retirement Home, Richmond, Va., after a decline in health of two months. Born March 10, 1924, in Danville, Va., she was the daughter of William Berkley Foster and Elnora Booker Foster. She was married to Stuart Selden Adams, who died in April, 1993. A former...
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