Please note: after posting obituaries since 2001, our database was running over. To handle those earlier obituaries we have created SWVA Roots.com as a place for geneaology researchers to find recent data. Please look there for any obituaries we’ve posted from June 2014 back. We will move obituaries to the new site at the end of every month.
Lynda Gayle Frith Hawley was born January 25, 1984, in Methuen, MA, and left this world peacefully on August 29, 2026, in Roanoke, Virginia. Lynda […]
Margaret Keene Tollison passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on August 29, 2026. She had just celebrated her 93rd birthday and 75 years […]
Robert D. Breeden, Jr., 62, of Christiansburg, passed away Friday, August 28, 2026, at Carilion New River Valley Medical Center. He retired from Volvo Trucks. […]
William Edward “Eddie” Hill, age 78 of Dublin passed away Wednesday, August 26,2 206 at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital. Born July 18, 1948 in Pulaski […]
It is with the heaviest of hearts we announce the passing of our Cecil William Hickam III, affectionately known as Double. Cecil left us suddenly […]
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Lieutenant Colonel Travis Howard Sheets, United States Air Force (Retired). He was a devoted […]
Harry Dean Radford, 86 of Kingsport, TN, passed away on Thursday, August 27, 2026. He was born on May 13, 1940. He is preceded in […]
Joseph “Joe” Gilbert Tront, 75, of Blacksburg, Virginia, passed away at home on August 10, 2026. A beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, teacher, mentor, and […]
Samuel William Demme Jr. was born on June 19, 1940, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Samuel W. Demme Sr. and Caroline Nelly Demme. Sam was married […]
Donald Wayne Gearhart, Age 82, passed away on August 26, 2026, at home surrounded by his family. He was born on December 25, 1943. Donald […]
Donald Wayne Gregory, age 77 of Clemmons, North Carolina passed away Sunday, August 23, 2026 at the Forsyth-Medical Center in Winston Salem, North Carolina. Born […]
Allen Payton Sumner, 86, of Christiansburg entered Heaven’s gate on August 25, 2026. Allen loved his country and served in the Army National Guard for […]