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Debra Dee Balser

Debra Dee Balser

Oct 16, 2010

Debra S. Balser STAUNTON: Debra Dee (Sirk) Balser, 44, wife of Joseph Joe W. Balser, Jr. of 506 Austin Avenue passed away unexpectedly Saturday, October 16, 2010 at her residence. Mrs. Balser was born September 27, 1966 in Staunton, a daughter of Elmer Leroy Sirk of Verona and Minnie Jane (Campbell) Reed of Staunton. Debra was a homemaker, she love...

Mary Wallace Rudin

Mary Wallace Rudin

Oct 15, 2010

Mary R. Rudin STAUNTON Mary Wallace (Ratcliff) Rudin, 79, wife of James E. Rudin, of 210 Orchard Road, passed away Friday, October 15, 2010 in Augusta Health. Mrs. Rudin was born August 27, 1931 in Highland County, VA., a daughter of the late William Wallace and Mary Virginia (Hise) Ratcliff. Mary was retired form Western State Hospital in 1985 after...

Alice Rita Hockel

Alice Rita Hockel

Oct 15, 2010

Alice R. Hockel WAYNESBORO Alice Rita (Welner) Hockel, 64, of 140 South Charlotte Ave. in Waynesboro, passed away Friday, October 15, 2010 at her residence. Ms. Hockel was born June 11, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York, a daughter of the late Joseph and Grace (Goetz) Welner. Alice was self-employed, running her own cleaning service. She was an avid artist who...

Howard Laverne Schutz, Jr.

Howard Laverne Schutz, Jr.

Oct 14, 2010

Howard Laverne Howie Schutz, Jr., 68, husband of Mary Schutz of 3991 Walkers Creek Road, Middlebrook, passed away Thursday, October 14, 2010 in the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Mr. Schutz was born February 22, 1942 in Naples, New York, a son of the late Howard L. Schutz, Sr. and Jane Ellen (Powers) Schutz. Howard was a retired...

Ellen M. Harlow Mcclintock

Ellen M. Harlow Mcclintock

Oct 8, 2010

Ellen May (Hatter) Harlow McClintock, 77, formerly of Crummett Lane, Stuarts Draft passed away Friday, October 8, 2010 in the Kings Daughters Nursing and Rehabilitation. Mrs. McClintock was born January 23, 1933 in Lexington, Virginia a daughter of the late Carl B., Sr. and Lucy (Fitzgerald) Hatter. Ellen was a member of the Church on the Hill in Fishersville, she...

Col Arthur Joseph Liedel, Usmc

Col Arthur Joseph Liedel, Usmc

Oct 8, 2010

Colonel Arthur J. Liedel, 77, of Churchville, Virginia passed away October 8, 2010. Art was born in Monroe, Michigan on April 12, 1933, a son of the late Leonard Sebastian \u0026 Amilda Specht Liedel. He graduated from Monroe Catholic Central High in 1951 and from the University of Toledo in 1955. He married his high school sweetheart, Pauline Rorke on...

Helen Barbara Dobzeniecki

Helen Barbara Dobzeniecki

Oct 6, 2010

Helen G. Dobzeniecki STAUNTON: Helen Barbara (Gurney) Dobzeniecki, 78, widow of Adam Paul Dobzeniecki, Sr. of 905 Reaper Road, passed away Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at her residence. Mrs. Dobzeniecki was born October 25, 1931 in Long Island, N.Y., a daughter of the late Fred and Helen (Lefferts) Gurney. Helen worked fifteen years as a cashier for CVS Pharmacy and...

Donnie Lee Smith

Donnie Lee Smith

Sep 29, 2010

February 29, 1948 Augusta County, Virginia September 29, 2010 Augusta Health ~ Fishersville, Virginia Farming He enjoyed farming, loved his animals, loved to hunt, fish and build race cars. St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Churchville.

Margaret (Beach) Hevener Wikel

Margaret (Beach) Hevener Wikel

Sep 28, 2010

Margaret B. Wikel STAUNTON Margaret Hevener (Beach) Wikel, 62, wife of James Robert Bobby Wikel, Jr. of Staunton died Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at Augusta Health surrounded by her family. She was born December 13, 1947, in Staunton, the daughter of the late Mary Jones Beach and Dabney Snead Beach. She retired in 2001 after 25 years as office manager...

Alexander L. 'A.L.' Garrison, Jr.

Alexander L. 'A.L.' Garrison, Jr.

Sep 16, 2010

Alexander L. A.L. Garrison, Jr., 85, widower of Margaret Elizabeth (Mitts) Garrison of 1705 Knightly Mill Road, Fort Defiance, passed away Thursday, September 16, 2010 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Garrison was born June 30, 1925 in Browns Cove, VA, a son of the late Alexander L., Sr. and Florence (Miller) Garrison. Mr. Garrison was a veteran of the...

Gary Melvin Chandler

Gary Melvin Chandler

Sep 11, 2010

Gary Melvin Chandler, 63 of 3059 Parkersburg Turnpike passed away Saturday, September 11, 2010 at his residence. Mr. Chandler was born June 8, 1947 in Staunton a son of the late Hugh Chandler and Mary E. (Michael) Chandler Milstead. Gary was a veteran of the US Army serving during the Vietnam War. He was employed with Ray Carr Tire in...

Hinman Strange

Hinman Strange

Sep 10, 2010

Hinman Mason Mort Strange, 63, husband of Hazel (Motley) Strange, of 156 Center Avenue, Craigsville, passed away Friday, September 10, 2010 at the University of Virginia Medical Center. He was born April 11, 1947 in Staunton, Va. to the late Edwin Bruton Strange, III and Edith Norene (Doyle) Strange, who resides in Craigsville. Mort retired August 2007 from the Augusta...

Maria Rosa Ruebush

Maria Rosa Ruebush

Sep 10, 2010

Maria Rosa (Angele) Ruebush, 76, widow of Marvin Eugene Ruebush of Berry Farm Road, Staunton passed away Friday, September 10, 2010 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mrs. Ruebush was born March 25, 1934 in Biberach, Germany, a daughter of the late Johan and Josephine (Landtaler) Angele. Maria was a military wife for thirty years and was retired from AMP where...

Louise Virginia Swink

Louise Virginia Swink

Sep 10, 2010

Louise Virginia (Rowe) Swink, 83, widow of Elmer Thomas Swink formerly of Gypsy Hill Apartments, passed away Friday morning, September 10, 2010 in Kings Daughters Community Health and Rehabilitation Center where she resided for the past three years. Mrs. Swink was born December 4, 1926 in Augusta County a daughter of the late Thomas Franklin and Lula Rebecca (Callison) Rowe....

Bobby N. Cline

Bobby N. Cline

Sep 7, 2010

September 29, 1933 Augusta County, Virginia September 7, 2010 Augusta Health Hospital ~ Fishersville, VA Retired from A.S.R. with 36 years of service. Farming with his son

Benjamin Gideon Legg

Benjamin Gideon Legg

Sep 6, 2010

Benjamin Gideon Legg, 75, widower of Janet Gail (Cavendish) Legg of 396 Linden Drive, passed away Monday, September 6, 2010 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Legg was born March 3, 1935 in Leander, West Virginia, a son of the late Cranston Howard and Ruth Irene (Snodgrass) Legg. Mr. Legg was a member of Linden Heights Baptist Church and was...

Wanda June Crawford

Wanda June Crawford

Sep 2, 2010

Wanda June (Martin) Crawford, 57, of 171 East Avenue passed away Thursday, September 2, 2010 at her residence. Mrs. Crawford was born February 15, 1953 in Staunton, a daughter of the late Hobert Hazel Martin and Peggy (Stoner) Martin. Mrs. Crawford was a wonderful mother who took care of her children and family and was employed by Kroger as the...

Dorothy Englatine Chaplin

Dorothy Englatine Chaplin

Aug 18, 2010

Dorothy Englatine (Chaplin) Chaplin, 90, widow of Edward W. Chaplin of 102 Norwood Road passed away, Wednesday, August 18, 2010 in Avante at Waynesboro. Mrs. Chaplin was born in Rockbridge County on June 4, 1920, a daughter of the late Boyd Burnett and Myrtle Virginia (Berry) Chaplin. Dorothy was a member of the Cherryvale United Methodist Church, she was a...

James Isaac Fridley

James Isaac Fridley

Aug 17, 2010

James Isaac Billy Fridley, 75, husband of Mrs. Elinor Fridley of 88 Esteline Valley Road, Augusta Springs passed away, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 in the McGuire Hospital in Richmond. Mr. Fridley was born October 9, 1934 in Augusta Springs a son of the late Marshall Floyd and Martha Victoria (Martin) Fridley. Mr. Fridley was a member of Miller Memorial Baptist...

Margie Tillie Zawhorodny

Margie Tillie Zawhorodny

Aug 16, 2010

Margie C. Zawhorodny STAUNTON- Margie Tillie (Clark) Zawhorodny, 75, widow of Borys Zawhorodny passed away Monday, August 16, 2010. Mrs. Zawhorodny was born in Rockbridge County, on April 17, 1935, a daughter of the late Wilridge A. and Rosa Mayberry (Wood) Clark. Margie was a member of the Free Pentecostal Holiness Church in Waynesboro. She attended Montevideo School in Penn...

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