Local Obituaries for Tharp Funeral Home

William Lee Sligh, 72, of Lynchburg died Friday, February 19, 2010.Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory, Lynchburg, is assisting the family, 434-237-9424.

Evelyn Howland Burnop, 92, of Smith Mountain Lake, passed away Friday, February 7, 2014 at the Runk & Pratt Smith Mountain Lake Retirement Village.  She was predeceased by her loving husband of 71 years, George T. Burnop, on September 22, 2013. Born in Utica, NY on December 27, 1921, she was the daughter of the late Frank O. and Eloise...

Janice Irene Shively Tait, 75, of Vinton, passed away on Tuesday, August 23, 2011 at her residence. Born in Akron, Ohio, on September 21, 1935, a daughter of the late Stanley David Shively and Ethel Romaine Shuler Shively. Janice was a member of Lynn Haven Baptist Church in Vinton. She loved bowling, she was a great cook, and had a...

Vivian Burch Reynolds, 92, of Big Island died Tuesday, October 23, 2012 at Bedford County Nursing Home after a short illness. Vivian was a lifelong Virginian, and a retiree of Big Island Elementary School. She was a member of the Sedalia Baptist Church.She was born on July 25, 1920 in Amherst County, Virginia to Minnie and Myers Burch. She married...

Moultrie Miller, 94, passed away on January 8, 2012. Mr. Miller was born June 3, 1917, in Columbia, SC.He patriotically served his country in WWII for four years after which he was employed by the Long Island Railroad until his retirement in 1971. He raised his family in Yonkers, NY prior to his retirement and moved to Vero Beach, FL...

Mary Vallastro Stamps, 86, of Forest died Saturday July 6, 2013.Tharp Funeral Home Lynchburg is serving the family 434-237-9424

Patricia Griffith Rinker at the age of 74 lost her battle with cancer on Friday, May 28 in Lynchburg. She was the wife of Dennis B. Rinker D.D.S. for fifty years.Born, in Charlottesville, Pat was the daughter of the late Ardilla Maupin Griffith and Wilton A. Griffith.In addition to her husband, Pat is survived by her children, Bonnie Rinker, of...

Raymond Rollie Cress, 79 died May 2, 2013 at the Medical Care Center in Lynchburg, VA. Raymond was born in Hamilton, OH on February 8, 1934. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Janet Ash Cress. Raymond and Janet were married April 3, 1954 in Lake Charles, LA. Raymond proudly served in the US Air Force in the...

Melanie Louise Dudash , 64, of Moneta, VA, died Thursday, August 19, 2010 at her residence.  Born Monday, February 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, OH, she was a daughter of the late Cory Virgil Christian and Helen J. DeLarbre Christian.She was a member of The Women of the Moose, Lodge # 1951 Smith Mountain Lake who will miss her dearly. She...

Sandra McCraw Lewis, 77, of 369 Thames Street, Hagerstown, Maryland, passed away Wednesday, August 29, 2012. Born in Lynchburg, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Ernest Lyle McCraw and Bertha Lawhorne McCraw of Madison Heights, Virginia. Her husband, Charlie Daniel (Dan) Lewis preceded her in death in 1989.She was a 1952 graduate of Madison Heights High School and...

Ronald Wayne Parks, 65, of Evington, VA. Entered the Gates of Heaven on April 22, 2012 He was the loving husband of Patricia Miller Parks for 46 years. Ronald was born December 28, 1946 in Altoona, PA., son of the late George Leonard Parks and Clara Mae Carner Parks. In addition to his wife, Ronald is survived by a son,...

Betty Knight Wagner, 70, of Goode, passed away Monday, October 17, 2011, quietly at her home surrounded by her family. She was born July 1, 1941 in Staunton, VA.She is preceded in death by her mother, Archie Phillips Knight and her father Oren Knight of Staunton, and brothers Jimmy Knight of Covington and Charles Knight of Phoenix, Arizona.In addition to...

Roger \"Chipper\" Hartwell Hotchkiss Hanning, 64, of Bedford, passed away Monday, March 5, 2012. He will join his father Fred Hanning and brother-in-law, Tom Pettit in Heaven. He is survived by his mother, Betsy Hanning; sister, Mary Hanning Pettit; nieces and nephew, George and Margaret Yanchak, and Rebecca Pettit; grandniece and nephews, Joseph, Thomas, and Mary Jane; and many cousins....

Isabelle Horton Scruggs, 94, of Lynchburg died Wednesday, January 26, 2011, following a period of declining health. She was the wife of the late Frederick Thornton Scruggs. She was born November 11, 1916, in Lynchburg, Virginia.She graduated from Randolph Macon Women\"™s College in 1937 and started her teaching career in Campbell County and later in Fairfax, Virginia.  She returned to...

Gary \"Wayne\" Yarbrough, Jr., died on Saturday, February 2, 2013, at his residence. He is the son of Gary Wayne Yarbrough Sr. and his wife Florine of TN and the late Debra Carol Yarbrough. In addition to his father and step-mother, \"Wayne\" is survived by a half-sister:  Heather Throne of Bedford, step-sister: Laurie Bane and step-brothers:  Michael Bane and Chad...

Mackie Ann Spinner, 87, of Lynchburg died Monday November 19, 2012.Mackie was born February 23, 1925 in Charlotte County a daughter of the late George Allen Boyd and the late Gladys Bolden Boyd. Mackie was retired from the Internal Revenue Service and was a member of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church.She is survived by her children: Jesse R. Spinner of Lynchburg;...

Thelma Coleman Porter, 77, of Bedford went to be with her Lord on Saturday, December 4, 2010. She was born in Bedford County on December 7, 1932 a daughter of the late Grover Cleveland Coleman and Delilah Ester Woodford Coleman. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd Burks \"Buck\" Porter and her half-sisters,...

Ethel Waugh Garbee, 93, of Moneta, passed away Sunday, May 20, 2012 at Campbell Rest Home in Bedford. Born April 7, 1919 in Gloucester, NJ; she was the daughter of the late Aubrey Cleveland Waugh and Esta Duffield Waugh, and the widow of Henry Clifton Garbee.Ethel graduated in 1935, at the age of 16, from E.C. Glass High School, Lynchburg,...

Elizabeth \"Libba\" Dickens Newton Hughes, 94, of Lynchburg, died on Sunday, April 11, 2010.  She was twice married, first to the late Orson Benjamin Newton, Jr. and second to the late George Taylor Hughes.Libba was born on October 23, 1915 in Lynchburg, a daughter of the late Dr. Clem Luck Dickens and the late Vera Taylor Dickens.  After her mother...

Ruth Mackenstedt Smith died on January 4, 2013. She was born in Newport, KY on February 27, 1923, the daughter of Juanita and Will Mackenstedt and grew up in Ft. Thomas, KY. She is survived by her daughters Kathy Barton and husband Jeff of Roanoke , VA and Susan Culpepper and husband Robert of Columbus, GA, four grandsons, Tyler Shelton,...