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Virginia "Gini" (Dudley) Ridge
Jul 6, 2020
Virginia "Gini" (Dudley) Ridge, 87, widow of Francis O'Neil Ridge of Cardinal Street, Staunton passed away Monday, July 6, 2020 at her residence. Mrs. Ridge was born in Carbondale, Colorado on February 14, 1933 the daughter of the late Arthur B. and Flora Belle (Chrisman) Dudley. She retired from Mary Baldwin College in 2007. Gini loved golf, gourmet cooking and...
Mildred (Price) "Millie" Logan
Jul 4, 2020
Mildred "Millie" (Price) Logan, 85, of Staunton, and widow of John William "Bill" Logan, Sr., passed away Saturday, July 4, 2020 at her residence. Mrs. Logan was born on November 21, 1934 in Jonesville, Virginia, a daughter of the late Charles B. and Inus (Martin) Price. Millie was a lifelong member of Linden Heights Baptist Church where she served in...
James Howard "Jimmy" Lotts
Jul 2, 2020
James Howard "Jimmy" Lotts, 73, of 208 Stuarts Knob Lane, Augusta Springs, passed away Thursday, July 2, 2020 at his residence. Mr. Lotts was born in Augusta County, Virginia on October 7, 1946, a son of the late Jess and Lila Seale (Wolfe) Lotts. Jimmy was retired from Valley Block as a supervisor, he enjoyed hunting fishing, and gardening. In...
Judy (Eavey) Roberts
Jul 2, 2020
Judy (Eavey) Roberts, 75, widow of Robert Hardy "Bobby" Roberts, Jr. of Staunton, passed peacefully at her home on Thursday, July 2, 2020. Mrs. Roberts was born in Augusta County, Virginia on September 6, 1944, a daughter of the late Raymond Archie and Mary Clay (Simmons) Eavey. Judy was a member of Barren Ridge Church of the Brethren, she retired...
Beverly Jean (Michael) Dunkum
Jul 1, 2020
Beverly Jean (Michael) Dunkum, 75, wife of James Ford "Jim" Dunkum of 11 Sky Manor Road, Staunton, Virginia, passed away Wednesday, July 1, 2020 at her residence. Mrs. Dunkum was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia on February 21, 1945, the daughter of the late James and Jean (Malcolm) Michael. Beverly was a life member of the Parnassus United Methodist Church and...
Mary Lee (Burgess) Sims
Jun 30, 2020
Mary Lee (Burgess) Sims, 90, widow of Donald S. Sims, Sr. of Mt. Torrey Road, Lyndhurst, passed away Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mrs. Sims was born in Maybeury, West Virginia on November 29, 1929 a daughter of the late George H. and Ida (Woods) Burgess. Mary was a member of the Waynesboro Mennonite Church. In...
Ruby Scott (Clemmer) Rhodes
Jun 28, 2020
Ruby Scott "Scottie" Rhodes, 93, widow of James Hubbard Rhodes of Staunton, passed away Sunday, June 28, 2020 at King Daughters Community Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Rhodes was born in Newport, Virginia on May 18, 1927, a daughter of the late John Cyrus and Ann Adair Clemmer. In addition to her parents and husband, Mrs. Rhodes was preceded in...
Everette Oscar Craighead
Jun 24, 2020
Everette Oscar Craighead, 75, husband of Patricia (Sahms) Craighead of Verona, passed away Wednesday, June 24, 2020 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Craighead was born on December 13, 1944 in Franklin County, Virginia, a son of the late Ralph C. and Trudy (Conner) Craighead. Everette was a faithful member of Laurel Hill Baptist Church. He was a top salesman...
John Wylie Davenport
Jun 23, 2020
John Wylie Davenport, 88, of Staunton passed away on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital in Charlottesville. Mr. Davenport was born in Gordonsville, VA on September 20, 1931, a son of the late Wallace L. and Agnes (Dempsey) Davenport. In addition to his parents, John was preceded in death by a sister, Agnes Vivian Davenport, and two...
Christie Ann (Peters) Crookshanks
Jun 23, 2020
Christie Ann (Peters) Crookshanks, 64, wife of Douglas H. Crookshanks of Verona, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mrs. Crookshanks was born in Norton, Virginia on December 19, 1955 a daughter of the late Clay "Bill" and Ruby Irene (Dickey) Peters. Christie was a homemaker, loving wife, mother, and grandmother....
Larry Curtis Helmick
Jun 22, 2020
Larry Curtis Helmick, 75, widower of Agnes Lou (Boyd) Helmick of 720 Bull Run, Staunton, passed away Monday, June 22, 2020 at his residence. Mr. Helmick was born in Staunton, Virginia on June 2, 1945, a son of the late Edward and Kathleen (Chandler) Helmick. Larry was retired with twenty-nine years of service from A.S.R. He enjoyed buying and selling...
James Calvin "Jimmy" Mason
Jun 17, 2020
James Calvin "Jimmy" Mason, 67, husband of Mary Kay Mason of Staunton, passed away Wednesday, June 17, 2020 in the Center for Acute Hospice Care in Charlottesville. Mr. Mason was born in Staunton, Virginia on June 22, 1952, a son of the late John Randolph and Rubye Austen (Coffey) Mason. Jimmy was a member of Raphine Christian Church and was...
Roy Eugene Guffey
Jun 14, 2020
Roy Eugene Guffey, 68, widower of Mary Sue Guffey of Staunton passed away Sunday, June 14, 2020 at the Augusta Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville. Mr. Guffey was born in Staunton, Virginia on June 6, 1952, a son of Clara Lillian (Halterman) Guffey and the late Basil Guffey, Sr. Roy served his country in the United States Marines Corps...
Sidney Davis Kyger, Sr.
Jun 14, 2020
Sidney Davis Kyger, Sr., 69, husband of Vickie Kyger of 60 Branch Lane, Stuarts Draft, passed away Sunday, June 14, 2020 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Kyger was born in Staunton, Virginia on July 27, 1950, a son of the late Lyle Harding and Audrey Ann (Davis) Kyger. Sidney was a member of Mt. Carmel Presbyterian Church and was...
Lois Jane (Wood) Hanger
Jun 14, 2020
Lois Jane (Wood) Hanger, 82, wife of John Edward Hanger, of Waynesboro passed away Sunday June 14, 2020 at Accordius Health in Waynesboro. Mrs. Hanger was born in the District of Columbia on May 13, 1938, a daughter of the late Cecil and Cornelia (Morris) Wood. Lois was a member of the White Hill Church of the Brethren, where she...
Frank Claude Blackwell
Jun 12, 2020
Frank Claude Blackwell, 64, of Churchville passed away Friday, June 12, 2020 at his residence, after battling lung cancer since August 2018. Mr. Blackwell was born in Staunton, Virginia on November 23, 1955, a son of the late Homer Thomas, Sr. and Mary Alice (Weaver) Blackwell. Frank was a former employee of Staunton Frozen foods and Crosby Trucking before becoming...
Rose Loreine (Martin) Wilson
Jun 11, 2020
Rose Loreine (Martin) Wilson, 90, of 217 Buffalo Branch Lane, Swoope, Virginia, passed away on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at the residence of her son and daughter-in-law where she had resided for the past fourteen years. Mrs. Wilson was born in Fordwick, Virginia on May 30, 1930 a daughter of the late Samuel Houston Martin and Effie (Beverly) Martin Johnson....
Thelma Juanita Brown
Jun 8, 2020
Thelma Juanita Brown, the fourth of eight children born to the union of the late Deacon Noah D. and Deaconess Mary Ella Spears Brown, was born February 20, 1925 in Staunton, Virginia and went to be with her Lord and Savior, June 8, 2020. Sister Brown was preceded in death by five siblings: Charles T. Brown, Sr., Ester B. Williams,...
Judith Sharon Ghidoni
Jun 7, 2020
Judith Sharon Ghidoni, of Lebanon Church Road, Staunton, Virginia, passed away at the Shenandoah House of Augusta Health on Sunday, June 7, 2020, due to complications from a stroke. She was born September 16, 1944, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, to Louis and Myrtle Feci. After graduation from Plymouth High School in 1962, she worked for many years at Butner's Department Store...
Glenn Edwin Brooks
Jun 7, 2020
Glenn Edwin Brooks, 80, husband of Martha (Chittum) Brooks, of 163 Newport Road, Spottswood, passed away Sunday, June 7, 2020 in the Shenandoah Nursing and Rehab. Mr. Brooks was born on July 11, 1939 in Augusta County, a son of the late Charles Howard and Frances (Lotts) Brooks. Mr. Brooks was an active member of Old Providence ARP Church where...
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