Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
Shirley Myers
Feb 5, 2019
Shirley Henley Myers, 91, of Danville, widow of Daniel Martin Myers, passed away on Thursday, May 2, 2019. Born on September 21, 1927 in Bristol, TN, she was a daughter of the late Fred N. Henley and Mae Smith Henley. Shirley was a charter member of Trinity United Methodist Church as well as a member of the 50 Year Club...
Martha Younger
Jan 31, 2019
Mrs. Martha Young Younger, age 86, of 233 Wyndover Drive passed away at her residence on Thursday, January 31, 2019. She was a life time member of Fairview United Methodist Church. Martha was born in Danville on July 17, 1932 to the late Thomas Earl Young and Cary Harris Young. She is survived by her husband, Roy P. Younger. Roy...
Iris Garrett
Jan 31, 2019
Mrs. Iris Hill Garrett, 89, of Danville went to be with her Lord on Thursday, January 31, 2019 after a brief stay at Roman Eagle Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born on June 14, 1929 in Reidsville, N. C. and educated in the Danville Public Schools, Mrs. Garrett was the daughter of Robert Hughes Hill and Florence Powell Hill. On January...
David Palmer
Jan 30, 2019
Dr. David J. Palmer passed from this life into the next in the early morning hours of January 30. A much beloved pastor, friend, and family man, Dr. Palmer served churches in the Illinois and Virginia Conferences in various capacities for over 50 years. A life-long educator, he served as Dean of Student Education Services at West Virginia Institute of...
Lewis Daniel
Jan 28, 2019
Lewis Oscar Daniel, Jr. went to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, January 28, 2019. Born on March 22, 1931, in Blanch, NC, he was the first of four children of the late Lewis Oscar Daniel and Martha Gunn Daniel. He was the devoted husband to the late Nellie Stephens Daniel for 63 years. Mr. Daniel was predeceased...
Cecil Eanes
Jan 25, 2019
Cecil O Eanes, born Nov 19, 1920, in Schoolfield, Virginia, died Jan 25, 2019, in Canton, Georgia. A graduate of Schoolfield High School, he also attended Maryville College in Tennessee and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Cecil was an ordained Presbyterian minister who served at various churches in North Carolina, West Virginia, Ohio, Colorado, California, and Montana before retiring...
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...
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