Local obituaries for Danville, Virginia.
Ray Southard
Jul 28, 2013
Ray Giles Southard, of 330 Starmont Drive, died Sunday, July 28, 2013 at his residence. Born on March 21, 1927, in Danville, VA, he was a son of the late Jasper Southard and Bessie Ware Southard. He was married to Mary Frances Dodd Southard who predeceased him in 1997. Mr. Southard graduated from Schoolfield High School and was retired from...
Sidney Carlton
Jul 26, 2013
Mr. Sidney Leroy Carlton of 72 Parrish Road died Friday, July 26 at his daughter's residence in Providence, NC. He had been in declining heath for the past two years. Mr. Carlton was born in Durham, NC on March 19, 1926 a son of the late Sidney F. Carlton and Florence Ellington Carlton. Mr. Carlton was a member of Trinity...
Patricia Rogers
Jul 24, 2013
Pat was born on August 18, 1955 in Danville, Virginia. She was the daughter of Frank J. Roark and Janey Hamlett Roark. She graduated from George Washington High School and Elon College where she was a member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority. After college she was a primary education teacher. Her calling was sales and she went to work for...
Jimmy Mann
Jul 23, 2013
Jimmy Ather Mann, 84, of 271 Starmont Blvd, Danville, died Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at Beacon Place Hospice in Greensboro, NC. Born on November 29, 1928, he was a son of Burford A. (Bert) Mann and Lillian Lucille Martin Mann. He was married to Joan Hoke Mann who survives of the home. He was a graduate of Schoolfield High School....
Ruth Koplen
Jul 23, 2013
Ruth Abrams Koplen of 430 Linden Place, died at her home in the presence of her children and two of her grandchildren. Born in Carteret, N.J on May 27, 1921 to Harry and Mary Abrams, she moved at age 16 with her family to Greenville, SC. There she earned her R.N. degree and worked at the Greenville General Hospital. A...
Lois Paxton
Jul 10, 2013
Lois C. Paxton passed away, mid-morning on Monday, October 7, 2013, at her home in Cary, NC with family by her side. She was born the middle daughter to the late Lester Ezra Clingenpeel and Ada Blanche Young in Roanoke, VA. on February 27, 1926. She was preceded in death by her sister Mary Elizabeth "Bibby" Hodges; son Ronald Dewey...
Mary Young
Jul 6, 2013
Mary Magdalene Haythe Young, 91, formerly of Danville, Virginia, died on Friday, June 7, 2013, in Winchester, Virginia. Magdalene was born on April 16, 1922, in Danville, Virginia. She was the daughter of the late Martin Lee Haythe and Lottie Haley Haythe. On May 1, 1946, Magdalene began her career as Corporate Secretary-Treasurer of F. W. Townes and Son Funeral...
Lucille Shelhorse
Jul 3, 2013
Lucille Taylor Shelhorse, age 100, of 125 Arnett Blvd., Danville, Virginia, died in her sleep on March 7, 2013, at Roman Eagle Memorial Home. She was born on September 19, 1912, in Culpeper, Virginia, the daughter of the late Oliver C. and Sarah Clarke Taylor. She was preceded in death by her husband Carroll H. Shelhorse, who died on may...
Mason Dix
Jul 2, 2013
Mason Anthony Dix passed peacefully in the arms of family on February 7, 2013 at 1:30 PM. Mason was born January 31, 2013 to parents Shawn and Emily Dix. Mason experienced much love from parents, grandparents, aunts , and uncles, and so much of the community in his short time here. Survived by parents Shawn and Emily Dix, paternal grandparents...
William Anderson
Jun 20, 2013
WILLIAM ELBERT ANDERSON United States Bankruptcy Judge William E. Anderson died at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC on June 20, 2013. He was 83. Judge Anderson, or "Bill," as he was known to his family and friends, was a life-long resident of Danville, Virginia. He was honored nationally for his distinguished service to the federal judiciary and to...
Cecile Hutcherson
Jun 17, 2013
Cecile Yeatts Hutcherson, 83, died Monday, June 17, 2013 in Roman Eagle Memorial Home where she had been a resident for the past 11 months. She was born in Gretna, VA on April 8, 1930, the daughter of the late Jimmy Yeatts and Bessie Worsham Yeatts. Cecile was married for 61 years to Jesse M. Hutcherson, Jr. who predeceased her...
Frances Barker
Jun 17, 2013
Frances Marion Triplett Barker, 82, of Courtland Street, died Monday, June 17, 2013 at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center. Born on October 15, 1930 in Danville, she was a daughter of the late Walter M. Triplett and Lucy Boyd Triplett. In addition to her parents she was predeceased by her sister, Betty Triplett Powell. She was educated in Danville and...
Frank Jordan
Jun 15, 2013
Frank Schoolfield Jordan of Danville, VA and Cashiers, NC passed away peacefully on June 15, 2013. She was the beloved wife of the late Matthew Pate Jordan and the daughter of the late John Harrell Schoolfield and Frank Hanes Schoolfield. Her sisters, Lizora Schoolfield Miller and Jane Schoolfield Tappero, also predeceased her. Frank was born in Danville, VA on December...
Clara Oakes
Jun 13, 2013
Clara Goad Oakes passed away on Thursday, June 13, 2013 after 88 years of enjoyable life. She was born on April 21, 1925 in Sycamore, Va., a daughter of the late Perry and Haddie Goad. She was married to the late Aubrey A. Oakes for 54 years. Clara spent most of her life in the Danville and surrounding area and...
James Carson
May 20, 2013
James Russell Carson, 89, formerly of 5140 Golf Club Road, died Monday, May 20, 2013 in Danville Regional Medical Center. He was born on July 2, 1923 in Wallace, West Virginia, a son of the late Okey W. Carson and Lillie M. Haught Carson. Mr. Carson was a veteran of World War II and served in the United States Army...
Marian Obye
May 13, 2013
Mrs. Marian (Peggy) Obye, 89, of 1111 Main Street, Apt. 214, passed away peacefully at Danville Regional Medical Center on May 13, 2013 of complications from a fall at her home two months earlier. Peggy was born July 29, 1923 in Storm Lake, IA to the late Vera and Bert Cunningham. She graduated in June, 1945, from Iowa State College...
Thelma Thompson
May 8, 2013
Thelma Lorene Huffman Thompson died Monday, August 5, 2013 in Riverside Healthcare Center. Born on December 29, 1927 in Nashville, TN, she was a daughter of the late Hugh Lawson Huffman, Sr., and Daisy Gladys Greene Huffman. In November 1948 she married Reverend Davis H. Thompson who predeceased her on May 1, 1967. She graduated from Florence State Teachers' College...
Irma Carter
May 6, 2013
Irma East Carter, age 93, passed away Wednesday evening, June 5, 2013 at her residence, 8625 Spring Garden Road, Blairs, VA surrounded by her family. She was born on July 16, 1919 in the Shockoe Community of Pittsylvania County, VA a daughter of the late Willie T. East and Annie Graves East. On December 21, 1941 she married William Fredrick...
Lois Mengel
May 6, 2013
Lois Scott Mengel, 84, of Danville, departed this earth in the company of loved ones at her vacation home in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, on June 5, 2013, after a lengthy illness. She was preceded in death by her husband of sixty years, Paul W. Mengel, Jr. and a sister, Ann Farrar Willett of Lexington, Va. Mrs. Mengel was the...
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