Obituaries

Carolyn Howard Defevers

Carolyn Howard Defevers

Mar 18, 2020

Carolyn Howard Defevers, 78, of Pineville, passed away on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at Middlesboro Appalachian Regional Hospital. She was born at Straight Creek on July 5, 1941 a daughter of the late Samuel Ralph and Ida Goins Howard. She was a member of Old Straight Creek Missionary Baptist Church. Carolyn had worked at both Middlesboro ARH and Pineville...

Marcia Gayle Lowe

Marcia Gayle Lowe

Mar 16, 2020

Marcia Gayle Lowe, 62 of Nicholasville, Kentucky, passed away on Monday, March 16, 2020 in the Hospice Care Unit at Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. She was born on October 20, 1957 in Jellico, Tennessee and was the daughter of the late Silas and Geneva Towe Grey. Gayle believed in the Baptist faith and had worked as a...

Bill Hembree

Bill Hembree

Mar 16, 2020

Bill Hembree. 60 of Pineville, Kentucky passed away on Monday, March 16, 2020 at the Saint Joseph Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. He was born in Middletown, Ohio on June 9, 1959, and was the son of Billy Don and Shelby Jean Greene Hembree. Bill was a member of Centers Branch Baptist Church and the Bell Masonic Lodge #691. He...

Elwood Sheridan Combs

Elwood Sheridan Combs

Mar 15, 2020

Elwood Sheridan Combs, 90 of Pineville, Kentucky passed away on Sunday, March 15, 2020 at his home. He was born on December 21, 1929 in Harlan, Kentucky and was the son of the late Owen T. Sarah Asher Combs. Elwood served his country in the United States Army during the Korean War, then received his master's degree from the...

Johnnie Lawson

Johnnie Lawson

Mar 13, 2020

Johnnie Lawson, 58, of Middlesboro, passed away on Friday, March 13, 2020 at Corbin Health and Rehab Center, Corbin, KY. He was born in Pineville on November 20,1961 a son of Lucy Blevins Lawson and the late Charles Lawson. He had been a handyman. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by brother, Michael and Charles...

Gladys Baker

Gladys Baker

Mar 12, 2020

Gladys Baker, 87, of Stoney Fork, passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at Pineville Community Health Care, Pineville, KY. She was born in Beverly, KY on February 23, 1933 a daughter of the late William M. and Susie Lawson Baker. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by brothers and sisters, Leon Baker, Earl Baker,...

Pauline Roark Collett

Pauline Roark Collett

Mar 12, 2020

Pauline Roark Collett, 89, of Arjay went home to with the Lord on Thursday, March 12,2020 at Corbin Baptist Hospital. She was born in Red Bird on August 19, 1930, a daughter of the late Lawrence Roark and Berniece Smith Roark. She was a member of Victory Missionary Baptist Church. In addition to her husband Walden Collett, she was...

Edna Mae Mills

Edna Mae Mills

Mar 12, 2020

Edna Mae Mills, 79 of the Calloway Community went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the Middlesboro Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility. She was born in Evarts, Kentucky on May 11, 1940 and was the daughter of the late Fred and Edith Lockhart Huckleby. Edna was a mother and homemaker and believed in the...

Jill K. Simpson

Jill K. Simpson

Mar 11, 2020

Jill K. Simpson, 54, of Pineville passed away on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at the Pineville Community Health Care. She was born in Sydney, Ohio on February 2, 1966 a daughter of the late Ed and Janice Hatton Thornberry. She was a member of Centennial Missionary Baptist Church and had been a homemaker. In addition to her parents, she...

Roxie Ann Brock

Roxie Ann Brock

Mar 10, 2020

Roxie Ann Brock, 57, of Pineville, passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at the Pineville Community Health Care. She was born in Middlesboro, KY on March 1, 1962, a daughter of the late Elmer and Carrie Phillips. She was a member of Stoney Fork United Methodist Church and had retired from CRS in Barbourville, KY. Roxie had owned...

Margie Rose Dovie Partin

Margie Rose Dovie Partin

Mar 5, 2020

Margie Rose Dovie Coots Partin, 86, went to be with the Lord on Thursday, March 5, 2020 surrounded by family and friends. She was born in Dorton Branch on August 11, 1933, a daughter of the late Andrew and Ollie Williams Coots. She was a member of Tazewell Church of God and had been a prayer warrior. In addition...

Jimmie Ray Partin

Jimmie Ray Partin

Mar 1, 2020

Jimmie Ray Partin, 76 of Pineville passed away on Sunday, March 1, 2020 at the Tri-State Manor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Harrogate. He was born in Davisburg, Kentucky on September 12, 1943 and was a son of the late Jim and Alphenia Head Partin. Jimmie faithfully attended Old Yellow Creek #2 Missionary Baptist Church in Middlesboro and was...

Robert Arthur Gibson

Robert Arthur Gibson

Feb 28, 2020

Robert Arthur Gibson, 76 of Port Charlotte, Florida formerly of Pineville, Kentucky passed away on Friday, February 28, 2020 at Baymont Hospital in Port Charlotte, Florida. He was born on April 15, 1943 in Pineville, Kentucky to the late Hollifield and Mary Mason Gibson. Robert had been a Drywall Hanger for many years. In addition to his parents, he...

Wesley Lynn Saylor

Wesley Lynn Saylor

Feb 28, 2020

Wesley Lynn Saylor, 59 of Stoney Fork passed away on Friday, February 28, 2020 at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center in Lexington. He was born in Red Bird, Kentucky on October 15, 1960 and was the son of Denver Saylor, who survives, and the late Ethel Blanton Saylor. Wesley enjoyed being an auto mechanic and had worked...

Robert Roscoe Lee

Robert Roscoe Lee

Feb 22, 2020

Robert Roscoe Lee, 79, of Calvin, passed away on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at home surrounded by family. He was born in Arjay, KY on August 22, 1940 a son of the late George Washington and Jenny Blanton Lee. Roscoe had been a heavy equipment operator in strip coal mines. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in...

Charles B. "Pap" Griffin

Charles B. "Pap" Griffin

Feb 22, 2020

Charles B. "Pap" Griffin, 81, of Pineville, passed away on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at St. Joseph London Healthcare. He was born in Clay County, KY on March 27, 1938 a son of the late Joe and Florence Smith Griffin. Charles believed in the Christian Faith and had been a brick mason. In addition to his parents, he was...

Imogene Brittain Rose

Imogene Brittain Rose

Feb 21, 2020

Bonnie Imogene Brittain Rose, age 91, passed away February 21, 2020, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  A longtime resident of Middlesboro, Kentucky, Imogene had been under medical care for several months prior to her death.  She was born in Shawanee, Tennessee, on August 10, 1928, the daughter of Ross Thomas Brittain and Ollie Kate Lynch Brittain.

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Mr. John Kent Mcgaffee

Mr. John Kent Mcgaffee

Feb 20, 2020

John Kent McGaffee, 62 of Pineville passed away on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at the University of Kentucky's Good Samaritan Hospital in Lexington. He was born in Pineville on May 17, 1957 and was a son of the late Estil Martin "Dick" and Leah Dean McGaffee. John was a member of the Hosman Baptist Church and had retired from...

Dr. John Brock

Dr. John Brock

Feb 16, 2020

Dr. John H. Brock, age 82, of Morehead, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 16, 2020, at Ridgeway Nursing and Rehab in Owingsville. Born December 2, 1937, in Pineville, John was one of nine children born to the late Perl V. and Florence Brock. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, JoAnne...

Lou H. Croley

Lou H. Croley

Feb 15, 2020

Lou issurvived by her two children James E. Croley III,M.D., Jennifer Lou Croley, her two grandchildren, James E. Croley IV and Amanda Caroline Kamphouse,and her five great-grandchildren Garry III, Caroline , Grady Kamphouse, Kelsy , and James E.Croley V. She was born in Liberty Missouri the daughter of Dwight and Nannie House. Lou grew up in Kansas City, Missouri...

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